If you are slightly interested in history, you must have heard that the "Nine Sons Seizing the Concubine" was a contest between open guns and dark arrows by several sons of Kangxi for the question of who would inherit the throne, and after a contest of deception, it was only after the fourth brother Yongzheng who sat on the throne.
While all the brothers were fighting for the supreme power, there were also people who stayed out of the matter, looked down on fame and fortune, and were not moved by the throne, just like one of the characters we are talking about today, the twelfth son of the Kangxi Emperor, Yin Qi.
Yin Qi's mother was Dingfei, and her mother's family did not have much power, so his status was lower than that of several other brothers in the palace, and In order to protect the safety of her son, Concubine Ding was not willing to let him participate in various struggles in the court, so when the nine brothers conspired to play together, Yin Qi calmly said to the side: You grab it, I will watch.
This unwillingness to compete was appreciated by Kangxi, who was most annoyed to see his sons arguing over the seizure of wives. Kangxi was particularly satisfied to see that Yin Qi was so sensible, and Kangxi made him the chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for fifty-six years.
This position was a particularly powerful errand, and the royal affairs of the Qing Dynasty were under the management of the affairs of the ministry and ordered down. Several other brothers vying for the throne are confused, feeling that our twelve brothers are showing the mountains and not showing water, muffled and making a fortune!
When Empress Renxian, the elder of kangxi, died, Yin Qi was responsible for handling the funeral, and the ceremony was both decent, more frugal, prudent, and well-behaved. However, Yin Qi still maintained his humble and low-key attitude, except for the things that Emperor Ama had given him, other things were neither interfered in nor concerned.
In 1722, Kangxi closed his eyes, and after 61 years in power, the monarch who could say that he had the longest influence on the Qing Dynasty withdrew from the stage of history, and his son finally laughed at the end of the long struggle.
After Yongzheng came to power, for those brothers who had once competed with him for the throne, naturally they would not greet each other with a smile and a smile when they met them before, and immediately launched revenge, the cutting of power, the imprisonment of captivity, and the exiled ones went to the frontier to cool off. Eight brothers, four brothers' fox friends and dog friends for a time to do fish, birds and beasts scattered.
In the face of those brothers who don't care about themselves and hang high, Yongzheng didn't give a good face, who knows when you will give me a lever in the government! They made an excuse and dismissed them.
When Yongzheng was in his second year, probably because there were too many things to manage, his mind could not turn for a while, and Yin Qi, who was in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, mistakenly wrote Yongzheng's wife (who was also Qianlong's birth mother) Niu Cobalt Lushi as Qian when recording the list, this mistake was not a big mistake, but Yongzheng seized it by chance.
Yin Qi was immediately demoted to a knighthood and demoted to the title of Protector of the State, but later Yongzheng found that the affairs of the imperial court were orderly when Yin Qi was there, and the imperial court could not manage it without him! So in the eighth year of Yongzheng, he was allowed to return to the palace. After Yongzheng's death, Qianlong took the throne.
In the face of his uncle, Qianlong knew that he despised the personality of fame and fortune, and admired his efficiency in handling affairs, continued to let him manage the ceremonial department, and was responsible for the funeral of the Yongzheng Emperor, Qianlong also praised him: "The prince of The County, Yunqiu, is the oldest among the uncles, has a solid heart, and intends to be promoted to prince. ”
Not long after, Yin Qi was indeed promoted to the position of Prince of Heshuo, and then Yin Qi worked diligently and continued to assist his nephew, Qianlong was ordered in five years: his uncle Yin Qi was too old, so he could sit on a palanquin to the court, which was enough to reflect the importance he attached to him, and this prince did not die until the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong, which was the longest-lived among the Kangxi princes, and it can also be said that he had one of the best endings among the Kangxi brothers