The Yongzheng Emperor was also very optimistic about Qianlong, although qianlong's birth mother's status was not very high, but he had a calm personality and a very imperial demeanor, while Yongzheng's eldest son Hongshi, although he had already formed a family, and his mother's status was also very high. However, Hongshi has an indulgent temperament and acts imprudently, and is not favored by Yongzheng. On the eleventh day of the first month of the first year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng came to the Temple of Heaven for the first time to make a sacrifice, and gave Qianlong a piece of white boiled meat from the sacrifice ceremony, and Qianlong did not think about it, and immediately ate this piece of meat. Yongzheng rewarded Qianlong with a piece of meat, qianlong ate it without saying a word, and then Qianlong successfully ascended the throne!
In fact, both of them knew in their hearts what eating this piece of meat meant, so neither of them needed to say much. This piece of meat is the gizzard meat, that is, the meat that is provided to the gods during the sacrifice, ancient China is very particular about the sacrifice of the gods, and there is generally meat when the gods are sacrificed, and this meat is called the meat. In China, in the pre-Qin Dynasty, there is a record of Zhou Tianzi rewarding the princes with meat. Gizzard meat is generally boiled in white water, and can use pork, lamb, beef, venison, etc. After the sacrifice of the meat to the gods, it is equivalent to having the blessing of the gods, it is blessed meat, and after the sacrifice of the gods, the flesh cannot be wasted, and the main sacrifice is distributed to the people close to them, which is called "dividing the leaves" or "scattering the blessings". And this piece of meat that Yongzheng gave to Qianlong represented the establishment of Qianlong as crown prince.
After a few months, Yongzheng secretly built a reserve and hid the name of the crown prince behind the Zhengda Guangming Plaque, in fact, no matter what was clear-eyed inside and outside the palace, they knew that it was a hongli calendar. After another three months, November was the anniversary of the Kangxi Emperor's death, and Yongzheng did not personally go to the sacrifice, but sent the 13-year-old Hongshi To go. This is also equivalent to announcing to the world: the reigning emperor has sent a special future emperor to pay tribute to the ascended emperor, telling the dynasty that the century-old plan has been decided and the throne has belonged.
Yongzheng inherited the throne at the age of forty-five, and it was only after experiencing the fierce competition between the nine sons and the brothers who fought each other, and Qianlong was just twenty-four years old, in the prime of his life, but the throne came naturally, bright and upright, how could this not make him excited? I have to admit that the god of destiny is really too fond of Qianlong!
The Kangxi Emperor lived to be sixty-nine years old, and at this time, Yongzheng was just fifty-eight years old, and in Hongli's heart, he had already made ideological preparations for succeeding to the throne at the age of forty, but he did not expect that his father died suddenly, and he was honored as a great treasure at the age of twenty-four.