Among the royal brothers in history, the deep feelings between Yongzheng and Yin Xiang are enough to move the world and compose a song that has been sung for eternity. Many people are more suspicious of Yongzheng's behavior, while he constantly suppresses the brothers who participated in the nine sons' conquest, at the same time, he is too good to Yin Xiang than the sky, why is this?
The relationship between Ming Ming YinXiang and YongZheng is already too good to describe in words, but why swallow the loess when Yin Xiang is about to die? Is there a relationship between this and Yongzheng, or is there another reason?
Yongzheng and Yinxiang have a deep affection for each other
Although Yongzheng and Yinxiang have a very deep affection, in fact, the two are not biological brothers, Yongzheng is born of the Wuya clan, and Yinxiang is born of the Zhang Jia clan, the two are not only not brothers, even the relationship between the birth mother is not so close, but because of a common feature of the two, they came together.
According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, the general birth mother of the low status of the prince, after birth will be handed over to the higher status of the concubine to raise, Yongzheng's birth mother Wu Ya clan and Yin Xiang's birth mother Zhang Jia clan are low status concubines, so after the birth of the prince, can only be in accordance with the ancestral system to the rest of the concubines to raise, just this special opportunity, let Yongzheng and Yin Xiang go to the same concubine, this concubine is Tong Jia.
Tong Jia's status in the Qing Dynasty is quite high, known as "Tong Half Dynasty", relying on a prominent family background, this family has produced many empresses, family style and children's education are relatively successful, Kangxi will Yongzheng and Yin Xiang to Tong Jia clan to raise, enough to show that Yongzheng attaches great importance to Tong Jia.
Thanks to this special experience of the two brothers growing up together, the relationship between Yongzheng and Yinxiang is the same as that of brothers and sisters, and the feelings between the brothers are more similar, on the contrary, Yongzheng's brother Lao Fourteen, because he has been estranged from Yongzheng since childhood, but is closer to the old eight, so the nine sons choose to support the old eighth and not support Yongzheng, which shows that in some cases, the blood relationship is not as good as the deep friendship established day and night.
Of course, if you only rely on the feelings established by getting along day and night in your youth, you may not be able to guarantee the deep feelings of Yongzheng and Yinxiang later, after all, once people grow up, many times the standard of measuring feelings changes, after growing up, what needs to be measured is the relationship of interests, if the interest relationship between Yinxiang and Yongzheng has a divergence, the two will eventually go their separate ways.
Fortunately, the interests between Yin Xiang and Yongzheng have always been the same, Yin Xiang has always been the most staunch supporter of Yongzheng, among the nine sons of Yongzheng, Yinxiang, who was originally loved by Kangxi, was briefly imprisoned by Kangxi many times, and Yongzheng was at peace, and the historical data did not say clearly the reason for Yinxiang's imprisonment at that time, but from the relationship between the two at that time and the historical background, it is likely that Yinxiang helped Yongzheng to bear many crimes, which ensured Yongzheng's advantage in the conquest.
Not only that, Yin Xiang was imprisoned by Kangxi for nearly ten years, after being freed, Yin Xiang was still Yongzheng's staunchest supporter, and in the late period of the Ninth Son's conquest, Yin Xiang unswervingly sided with Yongzheng, and helped Yongzheng solve a lot of troubles with Nian Qianyao, Long Keduo and others, so that Yongzheng could successfully ascend the throne.
It is precisely for these reasons that Yongzheng in the early days of his ascension to the throne was ridiculously good for Nian Qianyao, Long Keduo and Yin Xiang, and to use today's words, he was eager to wear a pair of pants, so why did Nian Qianyao and Long Keduo be picked up by Yong Zheng later, only Yin Xiang never fell?
Yongzheng is good to Yin Xiang
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to seal Yinxiang as the Iron Hat King, to know that the Qing Dynasty began from its establishment, in addition to the early eight Iron Hat Kings, until Yongzheng sealed Yinxiang, no emperor ever dared to crown the new Iron Hat King, Yongzheng can withstand the risk of being scolded to seal Yinxiang as the Iron Hat King, which is enough to show Yongzheng's special feelings for Yinxiang.
After crowning Yin Xiang as the King of the Iron Hat, Yongzheng also promoted Yin Xiang's birth mother Zhang Jiashi to a rank of promotion, posthumously awarding her from an ordinary concubine to an imperial concubine, Zhang Jiashi had been dead for many years, Yongzheng also wanted to get her coffin out and bury it in Kangxi's Jingling, according to the Ancestral System of the Qing Dynasty, only the empress was allowed to accompany the burial of the emperor, Yongzheng did another thing that violated the ancestral precepts.
Every time Yongzheng braved the world to reward Yin Xiang, Yin Xiang would bitterly admonish Yongzheng, or insist on not accepting Yongzheng's reward, but even so, Yinxiang could only obey Yongzheng most of the time, except for some principled things, Yinxiang could only accept Yongzheng's canonization.
Under the trust of Yongzheng, Yin Xiang was already in charge of the financial power, military power and political power and other important powers at that time, and later generations called Yin Xiang "Executive Vice Emperor" in fact, it was completely worthy of the name, in that historical background at that time, Yin Xiang's power was second only to Yongzheng, if Yin Xiang was a little bit second-minded, Yongzheng might be directly forced to abdicate the palace.
Then again, if Yin Xiang really had two hearts, how could Yongzheng trust him so much? If we don't believe that we can look at Nian Qianyao and Long Keduo, who also supported Yongzheng at the beginning, we can understand the essential reason why Yongzheng trusts Yinxiang. Nian Qianyao's sister married Yongzheng to become Nian Concubine, after Yongzheng ascended the throne, he was also quite good to Nian Qianyao, Nian Qianyao served in the Shaanxi-Gansu region, Yongzheng was able to ask people to send lychees from Beijing to nian tangyao to eat, even if Yongzheng had seen that Nian Qianyao had two hearts, he still wrote a letter to persuade Nian Qianyao five times, and also said that he asked Nian Qianyao to be a good example for his descendants.
But when Nian Qianyao was a little self-aware, in time to protect himself, then the end will not be so miserable, in Yongzheng's many persuasions, Nian Qianyao is still going his own way, seeing Yongzheng is not willing to bow down, travel honor guard at any time to imitate the emperor, try to ask such a person, which emperor can bear it?
Nian Qianyao was only a relative of the emperor, and he could be so arrogant, indicating that Yongzheng's endurance was still OK, if he had not been too deadly, he would not have ended up with such a desolate end. On the other hand, Yin Xiang, and Nian Qianyao are completely different people, he is cautious in the face of Every Reward and Reward of Yongzheng, even if he has no choice but to accept it, he will never be pampered and proud, but work hard to repay Yongzheng, such a minister, which emperor does not like?
Before dying, he was still cautious
Perhaps The brilliant achievements made by Yin Xiang in the Yongzheng Dynasty are not enough to convince everyone that Yin Xiang has no ambition, so let's talk about an incident before Yin Xiang's death, and maybe people will be able to understand Yin Xiang more three-dimensionally.
Yongzheng has been rewarding Yin Xiang continuously since he ascended the throne, and around the seventh year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng found that he basically had nothing to reward YinXiang except for the throne, so Yongzheng had a sudden idea and planned to let Yinxiang and himself be buried together, Yinxiang thought that this was contrary to the courtesy of the monarch, and he refused Yongzheng's reward, but Yongzheng did not express his position for a long time, which made Yinxiang a little overwhelmed.
Later, Yongzheng planned to reward Yin Xiang with a piece of land next to his own Tailing Tomb, so that Yin Xiang was buried there, which was still equivalent to a funeral, Yin Xiang still felt inappropriate, Yong Zheng did not express his position for a long time this time, Yin Xiang could not wait. As Yin Xiang's health deteriorated, Yin Xiang had already considered a lot about his posthumous affairs, especially the place where the cemetery after his death was located, and Yin Xiang had thought about it even more.
In order to prevent Yongzheng from really burying himself with him, Yin Xiang could only choose a feng shui treasure land about sixty miles away from Yongzheng Tailing, and asked Yongzheng to give this land to himself, at the very beginning, Yongzheng never expressed his position, after YinXiang's repeated soft grinding and hard bubbles, Yongzheng finally agreed to his request when Yinxiang was dying.
After receiving the reward, Yin Xiang was very excited, and at the same time he was worried that Yongzheng would repent, so he asked people to go to the feng shui treasure land he chose to get a piece of soil, after seeing the color of the soil, Yin Xiang concluded that it was a feng shui treasure land, and then swallowed the soil directly to prove his determination.
Soon after swallowing the soil, Yin Xiang died of a serious illness, after Yin Xiang's death, Yongzheng buried him thickly, and also buried it according to the requirements of Yin Xiang in advance, I have to say that the feelings between the two brothers really moved posterity, not to mention born in the royal family, even if it is the brotherly feelings in ordinary families, it is enough to make people feel relieved.
epilogue
Yin Xiang and YongZheng grew up together, have a deep emotional foundation, and later unswervingly supported Yong Zheng to win the concubine, thus deeply touching Yong Zheng, yong zheng ascended the throne, has been reusing Yin Xiang, the relationship between the two is not brotherly but better than brothers, what is even more valuable is that Yin Xiang can still stay sober when enjoying Yong Zheng's extraordinary love, this is the essential reason why he has always won YongZheng's trust, to say that the act of swallowing the earth before his death is actually Yin Xiang's last insistence, he wants to use this Mingzhi , telling Yongzheng that he has never had ambitions, and at the same time admonishing Yongzheng not to be arrogant and forget principles!
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