During the Kangxi dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there was an incident in which the nine sons seized the concubine, and the princes completely disregarded blood kinship for a throne, calculated with each other, and killed each other. It is also through this incident that the person who sits on the throne afterwards never appoints a prince before he dies, but puts the name of the heir behind the Zhengda Guangming Plaque to prevent the recurrence of the previous tragedy.
Many of Kangxi's adult heirs were involved in the Nine Sons Seizure Incident, and everyone wanted to be able to sit on the throne and enjoy higher treatment. However, not everyone had such a thought, and Kangxi's twelfth son, Yin Qi, only wanted to spend his life in peace, completely ignoring his brothers' scramble for the throne and living a comfortable life by himself, even if he had a heavy army, he never had any non-division of the imperial throne.
As the twelfth son of Kangxi, Kangxi did not attach great importance to him until the forty-eighth year of Kangxi was crowned as a beizi, at this time most of his brothers had been made princes or county kings by the emperor, and each held great power. Before him, he had more than a dozen qualified brothers, and the succession to the throne could not be turned on his head.
Not only that, Yin Qi's indifference to the throne also has a lot to do with his adoptive mother, Su Ma Lagu. When he was still young, Kangxi gave Yin To Su Ma Lama to raise. Su Ma's status at that time had a very high status, although she was only a maid, but she was a maid who was deeply favored by the emperor and the empress.
Kangxi was a child brought up by Su Ma Lama since he was a child, and he entrusted Yin Qi to Su Ma Lama to raise him, presumably Kangxi also hoped that Yin Qi could become a useful talent. In the education of Yin Ma, Su Ma Lama never dared to relax, very attentive, since he was a child instilled in Yin Qi's principles of life as a person, but also to lead by example to teach Yin Qi how to do things, under the influence of Su Ma Lagu, Yin Ma also developed a temperament that was indifferent to power.
So much so that when the Nine Sons Seizure Incident broke out, Kangxi really saw his son, and from that time on, he began to reuse Yin Qi, not only giving him military power and sending him to deal with some important matters, but also letting him go to Shengjing instead of himself to worship the Three Tombs. For everything arranged by his father, Yin Qi handled it well, and with his heavy army, he never had the idea of competing for the throne.
Moreover, after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, all the princes who were hostile to him in the Nine Sons' Conquest were all handled by him, either expelled or encircled, and the brothers left behind had been reduced by more than half, and even fewer people could be reused, but Yin Qi was one of these very few people. Yin Qi was not only heavily used during the Yongzheng period, but was still a major minister under Qianlong when his nephew Qianlong succeeded to the throne.
Qianlong, who was elderly and inconvenient, was even more specially approved to let him sit on a palanquin, and his indisputable nature made him the longest-lived of all the sons of Kangxi. The general life expectancy of the ancients is usually only 50-60 years old, and the life expectancy of royals due to the marriage of close relatives and other reasons is usually shorter than that of ordinary people, but Yin Qi is very long-lived, until the age of 70 is still reused by nephews, and the age of 77 is not dead. His life was indifferent to fame and fortune, and he never had too much pursuit of power, and it was his indifference that enabled him to die well.