In ancient China, emperors generally had multiple sons, so it was inevitable that there would be disputes when inheriting the throne, and many people had already heard of the "nine sons and wives", which was also the darkest history, the Kangxi Emperor had more children in his lifetime, reigning for sixty-one years, and in his later years, there were nine sons who wanted to compete for the throne. Therefore, there was a "nine sons and a wife".
Although the Kangxi Emperor had many heirs, there were relatively few who were truly talented and ambitious, and Empress Xiaochengren died in childbirth due to the unfortunate difficulty of giving birth to her second brother, and Kangxi was deeply saddened. Because Yin Rong was a concubine and was also very fond of The Kangxi Emperor, the Empress Xiaochengren, the Kangxi Emperor broke the system of the Qing Dynasty and made his 2-year-old son Er'a Ge the crown prince.
Yin Rong's status was relatively high as soon as he was born, and he was deeply loved by the Kangxi Emperor, because his mother who died was a noble empress, and his grandfather was also an important minister of the imperial court. Therefore, all kinds of conditions show why his status is so high, Yin Rong is similar to the eldest brother, while the third elder is a few years younger, so the competition with the third brother is not strong.
Yin Rong knows very well that he is not the eldest son of the concubine, he knows that he does not have the strength of his two brothers, so he is studying silently, and wants to make up for his shortcomings through learning, in contrast, the mother of the eldest son, Huifei, is very strong, so the eldest brother is also deeply influenced by his mother and has formed a strong personality.
He always thought that he was not worse than the second brother, he thought that it was just that the second brother just occupied the identity advantage of the concubine, because the concubine had other different treatment, so the mentality of the eldest brother gradually distorted, he thought that this was very unfair, and his heart was full of all kinds of dissatisfaction, but because the second brother did not make any mistakes, so everything was at peace.
Even if the eldest brother was dissatisfied in his heart, he did not dare to make a difference, because the second brother had an emperor as a reliable background, but the Kangxi Emperor reigned for a long time, and the undercurrent of the struggle for the reserve began to slowly surge, and Yin Rong was still a prince after more than thirty years. But the human heart is greedy, and during his more than thirty years as crown prince, the throne has not been passed to him, so there are many dissatisfactions in his heart.
Therefore, the crown prince also began to form a party for personal gain, because he had been in the position of prince for too long, and when Kangxi learned that the prince had formed a party, he was very angry, he thought that this was not good for him, he thought that his son wanted to seize his throne, so he issued an edict to abolish the prince, not wanting to leave hidden dangers.
After the crown prince was abolished, the calm situation was broken, and the prelude to the "nine sons and wives" was opened. From this point on, the other sons of the Kangxi Emperor began to stir and want to obtain the throne, because at this time there was no longer a prince, and they all had the possibility of becoming princes.
The first to be impatient was the eldest brother who was very dissatisfied in his heart, he thought that his opportunity had come, at the same time, he also asked the Kangxi Emperor to play, wanting the Kangxi Emperor to execute the deposed crown prince YinRong, because the Kangxi Emperor already knew that the eldest brother was very ambitious, but he never expected that he would be so cruel that he wanted to kill his brother.
So he felt very cold, and the Kangxi Emperor began to be wary of the eldest brother, because he thought that the eldest brother was too ambitious and might also hit his own attention. Later, when the eldest brother wanted to get rid of Yin, he adopted witchcraft, and later when this matter was known to the Kangxi Emperor, Kangxi was furious and ordered his prince to be removed and imprisoned.
Later, unfortunately, the eldest brother was locked up until he died, because the old eight and the big brother were relatively close, so he was also convicted of suspicion, and eventually he was also arrested, but later found out that the old eight did not commit any crime, and finally released him. After experiencing so many things, the Kangxi Emperor had discovered that his sons were killing each other in order to compete for the throne, but it was impossible to do without a prince in the court, so who would be good to make a prince?
After careful consideration, he decided to re-establish Yin Rong as the crown prince. In the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor restored the status of Prince Yin. However, two years later, it was revealed that he had formed a party with the chancellor for personal gain, and Yin Rong was deposed again, and has been imprisoned until his death ever since.
Brother Eight was deeply dissatisfied in his heart, and The Eighth Elder went to the Kangxi Emperor to ask for a performance, and the Kangxi Emperor was furious, because the Eighth Brother was not able to be elected as the crown prince because of the previous alliance, and he was very angry that you did not know that you had repented, and that you still wanted to inherit the throne, which was simply a fantasy, and there was no possibility.
Brother San'a was a wiser man, and he thought that there was no good end in the struggle for the throne, because he also saw the end of several other princes, so he took the initiative to choose to quit. Since then, the prince has been abolished, the third elder has taken the initiative to withdraw, the eighth has no hope, and finally several other brothers have begun to compete.
The fourteenth elder was a brave and warlike man who had made contributions to the defense of peace in Tibet, was thoughtful in his work, was good at listening to the opinions of others, and was both literate and martial, so he was deeply loved by the Kangxi Emperor. The fourth elder was also a very capable prince, he had a calm personality and never showed a posture of wanting to seize imperial power.
Moreover, he was also good at politics and had the ability to govern the country, so he was named the Prince of Yong, because he had handled political affairs with his father since he was a child, and he had certain experience. So the war between the two brothers began, but politically, the old fourteen was no better than the four brothers. However, later, when Kangxi was already very old, he left the fourth elder with him and let the old fourteen go to the northwest.
From this, it can be seen that Kangxi already has a candidate for the throne in his heart, that is, the fourth elder, Kangxi Sixty-one years, the Kangxi Emperor died, Kangxi's will said that Yin Chan inherited the throne, that is, the later Yongzheng Emperor. However, some people later believed that the fourth brother had tampered with the will, believing that the Kangxi Emperor did not pass the throne to him.
If you think about it carefully, kangxi himself still wants to pass the throne to the fourth brother, because in his last time, he recalled the fourth brother instead of the old fourteenth, and there is actually no accurate conclusion about the authenticity of Kangxi's will.