The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty did not cover the issue of reproduction, and Kangxi gave birth to a total of 35 sons in his lifetime.
At the time of his death, Kangxi had not yet elected who would be emperor, and it was not until his death that the will show that the successor to the throne would be the fourth prince, Yin Chan.
It can be said that a stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the time when the nine sons seized the wife was so tragic, but in the end, it was this old fourth who was not a concubine, not a long woman, and had no background and was addicted to buddhism.
So why was Yin Chan able to ascend to the throne?
Before we talk about Yin Chan, let's first understand what the situation of kangxi's other 34 sons is.
Kangxi was 69 years old when he died, but at this time, 5 of his 35 sons were still minors.
In addition, there are 15 who died before they became adults, and the eldest of them is only 10 years old, so there are only 15 princes left.
First of all, let's look at the eldest son of the emperor, Yin Zhen, who was actually the fifth prince of Kangxi, but because the first 4 all died prematurely, Yin Zhen became the de facto eldest son of the emperor.
Yin's mother, Uranara, was only a concubine, so Yinzhen was not comparable to the empress's second son, Yin Rong. Since Yin Rong was a concubine, he was naturally made a prince.
To say how Yin Zhen fell, it is inseparable from the prince Yin Rong.
The emperor's second son, Yin Rong, was only 1 year old when he was made crown prince, so this child had high hopes since he was a child.
Because Kangxi hired the best teacher and spent the most effort on Yin's education, Yin Rong was proficient in riding and shooting at a young age, had his own insights, and was intelligent, and Kangxi was also very satisfied with him.
The crown prince has been shrouded in such an aura since he was a child, and has long been a candidate for the future crown prince, and is deeply respected in the dynasty, so slowly, he has developed an arrogant and arrogant character.
Once Kangxi was sick and bedridden, so he ordered the prince to come to serve the sick, and after the prince received the will, it took more than half a day to come unhurriedly, and looking at his father lying in bed, he did not have any worries on his face.
Maybe yin rong this child is really not very smart, he even bothered to pretend, which made Kangxi very unhappy, thinking that this son is not filial piety.
Soon after, someone sent a secret letter to Kangxi, saying that the crown prince was gathering ministers to plot a rebellion, and Kangxi was still half-convinced.
Soon after, Kangxi took Yin Rong to Dezhou, and on the way to the south, he did find that the crown prince was secretly colluding with the chancellor Suo Etu.
Kangxi was furious and sent Suo Ertu to the big prison to punish him, wanting to teach the prince a lesson, and it was reasonable to say that the wise man should find a way to get himself out at this time.
However, the prince's brain circuitry was relatively strange, not only did he not give up, but he looked indifferent all day long, still secretly enticing the chancellor to try to rebel, and Kangxi was really disappointed in what this son did.
In 1708, the crown prince was deposed and sent to prison.
So how was the Emperor's eldest son, Yin Zhen, involved?
The dynasty of the feudal era paid attention to "establishing a concubine and standing long", and when the concubine fell, the eldest son Yin Zhen saw hope, and when he saw that the deposed prince was disgusted by the emperor, he immediately felt that his opportunity had come.
So he found Kangxi and said bluntly: "If the father and emperor feel that killing the prince has fallen into the tongue, the son can do the work for him."
It is said that the companion is like a companion of the tiger, and this seemingly "intimate" sentence not only did not make Kangxi happy, but made Kangxi feel that this son actually wanted to kill his brother, and he was really not a benevolent and righteous person.
Poor Yin Zhen let himself be excluded from the crown prince forever by Kangxi because of a word.
In addition to the eldest and second eldest, another more promising prince of the battle is the eighth prince Yin Yu, who although he is also a shu out, but he has been loved by Kangxi since childhood.
When Yin Yu was 17 years old, Kangxi gave him a lot of real power, Yin Yu was also more contentious, decent, diligent and enterprising, and praised him from top to bottom, and many old ministers played it many times, praising the eight princes.
However, everything is too late, the problem is here, the Qing Emperor loves to suspect that it is a real inheritance, after the crown prince was deposed, Yin Yu was eager to try, and many courtiers in the DPRK began to strongly recommend it.
Such a flattering courtier's face made Kangxi very unhappy, he looked at the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu were praising the Eight Brothers, and his intuition made him think that the old eight were not simple, so Kangxi vigorously suppressed Yin Yu in order to stabilize the court.
Yin Yu was severely injured, and the Ninth Brother, The Tenth Brother, and the Fourteenth Brother of Yin Yu's party were originally all wall grass, and as soon as the old eight fell, they turned their heads and left.
After the fall of the three most fiercely competitive parties in the entire court, there will still be the third, fourth, and thirteenth parties left.
Old San Yin Zhi is an honest and generous person, who has been reading poetry and books since childhood, and is also relatively popular in the DPRK, but Yin Zhi's popularity has stopped at "old good people".
He did not accomplish anything in politics, nor did he lead the army to make meritorious contributions, so he was not suitable to be a prince.
Not to mention the thirteenth brother YinXiang, Yin Xiang is also an unlucky prince, he was originally able to write and martial arts, proficient in riding and shooting, according to the records, Kangxi will take Yin Xiang with him every time he travels south, which is enough to show that Kangxi still looks at him differently.
However, his fate was not good, he lived to 36 and was not yet canonized with a shell or something, and after the fall of the prince, he also fell out of favor, from which it can be concluded that Yin Xiang should have been a party of princes.
After that, until the death of Kangxi, Yin Xiang did not move again, nor did he receive any canonization, until he survived until Yongzheng ascended the throne and was reused again, but he died within a few years.
In the famous "Nine Sons and Concubines" incident, the prince was deposed after two deaths, so why did the prince regain Kangxi's trust?
In fact, at this time, the court was already in chaos, and even Kangxi could not control the situation, so in order to stabilize the situation, he had to release the prince again.
Of course, at this time, the crown prince was only empty and famous, and Kangxi did not intend to give the throne to this contrarian son, so in just half a year, the prince was deposed again.
In the later years of The Kangxi Dynasty, these princes fell one by one, and in addition to the fourth elder, the fourteenth brother miraculously rose again.
The old fourteen Yin Yu and Yongzheng were compatriots, originally he was standing in the ranks of the Eight Brothers, but after the fall of the Eight Brothers, he was also implicated and disappeared for a while.
However, Yin Yu was a very outstanding figure, he had extraordinary military talents, once a war broke out in the northwest, he led the army alone, and he was victorious.
Over the years, because of his many achievements in the battlefield, he was highly valued by Kangxi, although he was later implicated because of the matter of the Eighth Prince, but because he was indeed talented, he soon regained Kangxi's trust.
In the later years of Kangxi's life, the delay in establishing the candidate for the crown prince was also due to the vacillation between Yin Chan and Yin Chan, of course, this is the last word.
When Yin Chan was crown prince, he was so devoted to Buddhism that he had reached the point of obsession.
He not only gave himself the title of "Yuanming Layman", but also had a lot of contacts with monks and discussed buddhism, and if Yin Chan in his youth was just a simple Buddhist believer and could understand what he did, then Yin Chan in his later years was really a bit excessive.
Yin Chan worshipped the Dharma all his life, and in his later years, he even held meetings in the palace, personally accepted disciples, built temples on a large scale, and gave titles to monks, which was simply unbelievable.
So why did such a Yin Chan finally sit on the throne?
In that nine-son conquest, when the other princes were fighting for your life and death, only Yin Chan was calm here and did not participate in the fight at all.
Even later, after Kangxi finally saw the unknown Yin Chan in his eyes, he had the idea of making Yin Chan the crown prince, who knew that Yin Chan actually said with trepidation that he did not dare to take on this heavy responsibility.
To this end, he also specially recommended several of his brothers, and also interceded for the prince, asking his brother to have a way to live, Kangxi saw that this fourth son was really a good prince with feelings and righteousness, and he was immediately relieved.
In addition to Kangxi's feelings of the old four benevolent righteousness, there is another important reason, that is, the Hong calendar.
In Kangxi's later years, the Yuanmingyuan had already built the Changchun Garden, because Kangxi liked peonies, and in order to please Kangxi, Yin Chan made a garden of peony flowers for Kangxi to watch.
It was here that Kangxi met his ten-year-old grandson Hongli.
Hongli was intelligent and astute, had great respect for Kangxi, and when it came to poetry books, he was also the head of the Tao, and at first compared with his own few contrarian sons, Kangxi's heart was extremely warm and gratifying.
From then on, Kangxi personally took Hongli to his side for upbringing, hired the best teacher for him, and raised him completely as a future crown prince.
Kangxi's abacus in his heart was very refined, if He Yinchen was made crown prince, then the future throne could be his own precious emperor' grandson, so with this "god assist" of Hongli, The balance of Kangxi completely fell to Yinchen.
Of course, some people also said that with Yin Chan's heart, the repeated pushing and shoving when the Ninth Son took the concubine was a retreat to advance, and even Hongli's meeting with Kangxi was his premeditation.
But in any case, it is true that Yin Chan laughed to the end, although he was obsessed with Buddhism, but it was impossible to deny that he had brought the prosperity left by Kangxi to the peak.
Yongzheng reigned for 13 years, every day was diligent and earnest for the prosperity of Daqing, he dragged Daqing step by step, in his later years, he was tired at the desk to vomit blood, Yongzheng was indeed a good emperor.
So in your heart, what kind of person is the Yongzheng Emperor?