Of the 24 princes of the Kangxi Emperor, 9 of them invariably coveted the throne after they reached adulthood, and finally the fourth brother Yinchen successfully won the battle from Kowloon and became the fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng.
Yongzheng's mother concubine was the Kangxi Emperor's concubine Wuyashi, and after Yongzheng ascended the throne, he made his biological mother Wuyashi the empress dowager and gave her the honorific title of "Renshou".
However, Uya's performance was very surprising: she did not accept the honorific title of Empress Renshou, nor did she move into the Ningshou Palace where the empress dowager should live, and on the eve of Yongzheng's ascension to the throne, Uya refused to accept Yongzheng's prostration to her—all kinds of actions undoubtedly made the Yongzheng Emperor feel very embarrassed.
His own son inherited the throne and jiangshan, which was a great joy for any harem concubine. But why was Princess De so unsympathetic and uncooperative? Didn't Princess De like her own son Yongzheng?
A dressed palace maid became a harem concubine due to fate
Empress Wu Yashi of the Great Qing Dynasty, the daughter of the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner and the Mighty Warriors of the Guards, came from a humble origin, and when she entered the palace, she was only a wrapper and was summoned in the harem. Later, Uyashi was selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to serve the Kangxi Emperor closely, and the 14-year-old Uyashi became a foreign palace maid.
Wu Ya was born bright and unworldly, and had a soft temperament and a dignified anyi, which was very popular with Kangxi. After a fortuitous encounter, the Uya clan became pregnant, and 10 months later, the 19-year-old palace daughter Uya clan gave birth to a dragon descendant, which was not only the first child of the Uya clan, but also the fourth son of the Kangxi Emperor, Yin Chan, who later became the Yongzheng Emperor.
Since Wu Yashi was only an ordinary palace maid, even if she gave birth to a prince for Kangxi, she was not qualified to raise the prince by her side. Because according to the ancestral laws of the Qing Dynasty, only the masters of the harem who are concubines and above are eligible to personally raise the imperial heirs.
At that time, Tong Jia Guifei, who was very loved by the Kangxi Emperor in the harem, had just experienced the pain of the death of her young daughter, and in order to appease Tong Jia Guifei, the Kangxi Emperor sent Yin Chan, who had just been in the full moon, to her side and asked her to raise her on her behalf.
In this way, Tong Jia Guifei became Yin Chan's adoptive mother, and later, Tong Jia Guifei was promoted to empress, she regarded Yin Chan as her own, and did her best to raise and teach, so Yin Chan was extremely dear to Tong Jia since she understood things.
Yin Chan was adopted by the noble concubine Tong Jia soon after his birth, although he enjoyed a lot of treatment in terms of food, clothing, shelter and transportation, but there were many people in the palace ban, his birth mother was not noble, tong Jia was good but only an adoptive mother,
The gossip about Yin Chan's life and the worship of the palace people must have experienced a lot. The Kangxi Emperor once commented on the young Yin Chan: The fourth brother is moody. Thinking about it, the Yongzheng Emperor must have known his own origins very early, and he also lost the innocent heart of a child very early.
On the other hand, wu yashi, who was born in a coat, was also a mother of zigui, and was crowned as a concubine in the second year after giving birth to Yin Chan. Three years later, De Concubine was crowned Ase Concubine for giving birth to the sixth son of the Emperor, Yin Zuo.
Unfortunately, in the summer when the fourth prince Yin Chan was 6 years old, Empress Tong Jia was seriously ill and died in the Chengqian Palace. Yin Chan only lived under Tong Jia's knee for 6 years before returning to his birth mother, Princess De.
In the early years, Princess De first gave birth to the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, and then gave birth to the sixth son of the emperor, Yin Zuo, but Yin Chan was adopted by Empress Tong Jia, and Yin Zuo died after birth.
Fortunately, Princess De's fertility was excellent, and in 1688, Princess De gave birth to another son for Kangxi, who was for the fourteenth Brother Yinyu. At this time, Princess De was already qualified to raise the crown prince herself, so she put all her maternal love into the care of her young son Yin Yu.
Even if her 6-year-old biological son Yin Chan returned to her side, she still could not get much maternal love from her birth mother, Princess De. Therefore, it is natural for Yin Chan to have a heavy heart and a suspicious disposition after he becomes an adult.
The Yin Chan in Princess De's eyes
The Yongzheng Emperor was taken away from his childhood and sent to the palace of the noble concubine to raise, and he was naturally very estranged from The Concubine in terms of emotions, who had never experienced the love of his birth mother.
After returning to his birth mother, Yongzheng saw his birth mother holding his infant brother in her arms, and the little baby enjoyed a thousand kinds of care and pampering, in contrast, Yongzheng, who had limited attention from his mother, must have felt very lost.
A little older, Yongzheng's personality was calm and low-key, and he was cautious in dealing with the world, while the fourteenth brother Yin Yu was cheerful and pleasing, and Yin Yu, who was deeply loved by Kangxi, had accompanied the army several times and had made many achievements in battle.
During the period when the Ninth Son took the throne, the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu had always supported and supported the Eighth Brother, which made Yongzheng, a mother compatriot, deeply sad.
Later, the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu angered Kangxi, and Kangxi wanted to draw his sword in anger, and all the princes knelt down to plead, while Yongzheng, as Yin Yu's brother, stood by and stood by, as if he were just indifferently staying out of the matter.
In the end, the gentle-hearted Fifth Brother Yinqi saved the life of the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu, but after the whole thing was known to Princess De, Princess De refused Yongzheng to come to visit an for several days. In Princess De's view, Yongzheng, as a pro-eldest brother, watched his brother in danger but was indifferent, which was extremely indifferent and disregarded pro-Lun.
The root cause of the gap between Princess De and Yongzheng mother and son, and the awkward relationship
Princess Wuya gave birth to 3 sons and 3 daughters for the Kangxi Emperor in her lifetime, and such a large number of heirs undoubtedly proved the Kangxi Emperor's love and affection for Concubine De.
At the beginning, Princess De was unable to raise the fourth brother by her side because she was a lowly palace girl, which inevitably caused an indescribable trauma in her heart.
The pain caused by this trauma could not be dispelled even after she took the concubine's seat, and whenever Princess De saw Yongzheng, she would unconsciously remember the years of involuntary old days, as if reminding herself of how low her former status as a palace maid was.
After giving birth to the FourteenTh Brother Yinyu, Princess De naturally put most of her energy into her young son, and she also loved Yongzheng, but that kind of love was inevitably in form, not deep, and difficult to start from the heart.
Therefore, there is always an invisible diaphragm between Princess De and her eldest son Yongzheng, which at first only makes the mother and son unable to be intimate, and in the later stage, it makes the mother and son feel suspicious and embarrassed.
When Kangxi was dying, he had already passed the throne to the fourth brother Yinchen, later the Yongzheng Emperor. However, Princess Defei could not accept such a fact, not only did she deeply doubt the ins and outs of Yongzheng's ascension to the throne, but she also refused to accept Yongzheng's kindness to herself--refusing to accept the honorific title of "Renshou" Empress Dowager, and even more refusing to move into the Ningshou Palace where the empress dowager should live.
Princess De's heartfelt disapproval and non-recognition of Yongzheng was also reflected in her refusal to accept the new emperor's prostration. After Yongzheng finished the funeral for the Kangxi Emperor, he prepared to perform the ceremony of ascending the throne, and according to the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, the new emperor would lead his subjects to kneel and worship his mother before ascending the throne.
Princess De was the biological mother of the Yongzheng Emperor, but Princess De, who was very reluctant to accept the prostrations of Yongzheng and his subjects, was resolutely reluctant to accept the prostrations of Yongzheng and his subjects.
Princess De's alienation from Yongzheng made the mother-son relationship between them, which was not much, even more indifferent. Princess De's doing so was very unwise, and her favorite youngest son, Yin Yu, was placed on a distant frontier after Yongzheng ascended the throne.
Later, Yongzheng commanded Yin Yu to return from the frontier, but stripped him of his military power, and then ordered him to guard the mausoleum for the former emperor, and was not allowed to return to the capital for no reason.
It seems that Princess Defei should review her own way of doing things, not willfully, if she knows how to balance and melt the gap between mother and son as soon as possible, I am afraid that his younger son Yin Yu will not be suppressed so seriously by the eldest son Yongzheng, and there will be no happiness in half a life.