Among the many princes of Qianlong, in addition to Jiaqing, who later became emperor, the most famous in history should be his fifth prince Yongqi, not only in real history, but even a particularly hot Huan Zhu Gege is based on him to create the male protagonist. Although this fifth prince was born as a concubine, Qianlong attached special importance to his fifth brother, and even once had the intention of making him a crown prince, but unfortunately, this fifth brother was also a poor man with a thin life, and he died at an age when he was in his youth.
Yongqi's mother is not a person with status, but her identity has always been special underground, when Qianlong was still a prince, she was just a gege, and later after Qianlong became emperor, her position was still like that, just a little stronger than promised, so Yongqi's mother could not bring some help to his birth. Everyone generally believes that this Yongqi will not have any good prospects in the future, but Qianlong has a partial eye for this prince of his own, and there are many reasons for this.
First of all, heaven gave Yongqi a particularly good opportunity, at the beginning, Qianlong was bent on letting the grand prince born to Empress Fucha inherit the throne, and finally Qianlong secretly set up this grand prince as the crown prince, but Qianlong did not think that this great prince died before he reached the age of ten. This forced him to put his hopes on the second prince born to the empress, but it seemed that the heavens were going to oppose Qianlong, and this prince also died later, and what was even more sad was that his beloved empress died not long ago.
At the empress's funeral, two princes, because they did not show any sad emotions, were disqualified from becoming crown princes by Qianlong from then on, and one prince was also inherited by Qianlong, so at this time, only the five princes who had a great advantage in age could be considered by Qianlong. In addition to this particularly good opportunity, Yongqi himself is also particularly excellent, not only has he worked his homework since he was a child, but he is also particularly familiar with some other aspects.
In addition to being able to compare with other princes in terms of culture, for the kung fu of horseback archery, he is also the leading technology among many princes, so Yongqi is a particularly conspicuous existence, Qianlong has made a particularly great affirmation of Yongqi's talent, plus Yongqi's character is also outstanding, which makes Qianlong even more firm in the idea of establishing him as the crown prince. In addition to these two reasons, what is more important is that Yongqi saved Qianlong's life, and once Qianlong was staying in the Yuanmingyuan well, and suddenly there was a fire.
This is a very serious threat to Qianlong's personal life, originally Qianlong's side was there, when his brother Hongzhi was in front of him, but for such a situation, he was motionless, and finally Yongqi risked his life to carry Qianlong out of the fire, although Qianlong was his father, this is also a natural and righteous approach, but for the people of the imperial family, this is already a very difficult thing, plus Yongqi's own walking at that time was also very inconvenient. This made Qianlong even more impressed by him.
Later Qianlong paid more and more attention to Yongqi, just when he was ready to make him the crown prince, Yongqi died early, at this time he was only twenty-five years old, his death made Qianlong feel particularly sad, in addition to being able to give him particularly rich funerary goods, Qianlong did not know what to do, the life of this fifth brother is a lucky and pitiful life.