When it comes to the ancient prince's struggle for power and profit, we will all sigh, there seems to be no real feelings between the royal brothers and sisters, in fact, it is not, the most iron brotherly relationship in history is Yongzheng and the thirteenth brother Yinxiang, how iron is it? Today we will take a look at three things that happened between Yongzheng and his thirteenth brother Yin Xiang after he became emperor.
The first thing was that Yongzheng had a dispute with Yin Xiang and summoned the Civil and Military Officials to let everyone judge. According to the custom at that time, Yongzheng distributed 230,000 taels of silver red envelopes to each brother, and did not favor either one. However, not long after the silver was issued, old thirteen returned one hundred thousand taels. Yongzheng knew that his younger brother was very stubborn, and he would not accept the returned silver and send it back.
So Yongzheng painstakingly thought of a way and issued a will, to the effect that in the future, the expenses of the thirteenth brother's house can be directly reimbursed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is equivalent to saying that the thirteenth brother can spend the public money to do what he wants to do, and if any boss promises the employees like this, the employees can really be regarded as koi buddhas. But the old thirteenth Yin Xiang did not want to take advantage of the public family, and let people bring words to the imperial brother, saying that he did not accept it. So you push me to let go, neither of them obeys the other.
Yongzheng was very helpless, and simply summoned the civil and military officials and asked everyone to evaluate them together. At that time, the thirteenth brother was the poorest of several brothers, and Yongzheng thought that he was doing something wrong with his brother as an older brother, and the old thirteenth did not want it. "If I don't listen to him, it seems that I have refuted his face, but listening to him, I am sad that I have this pass in my heart." Although the ministers knew that the emperor was right, they also knew that old thirteen had the sharpest temper. The ministers persuaded Yongzheng to follow the wishes of the thirteenth brother. Therefore, the final result is "still allow the king to please", that is, to do it according to the meaning of the old thirteenth.
See who dared to do this against the emperor at that time. Looking at the second thing, we all know that Yongzheng became emperor, the first thing was to name The Thirteenth Elder as the Prince of Heshuoyi, one of the most powerful and important ministers besides the Emperor, which was not enough, Yongzheng, who had always been wary of other brothers, only trusted the Elder Thirteen, and also provoked an army for him.
The Qing Dynasty had the rank of Eight Banners, and the emperor served as the flag master of one or two of the Eight Banners in order to let the capable Imperial Brother serve as the flag master of one or two of the Eight Banners, but it was only a fictitious position, and the power of the Eight Banners Army was still firmly in the hands of the Emperor. And Yongzheng gave this team to Old Thirteen, And Old Thirteen had direct leadership, and he could move at will. This is not to mention, Yongzheng then made another will, the title of the old thirteen yi prince can be inherited for generations, that is to say, even if Yongzheng is gone, the old thirteen families will always have prince Yi, and it is also allowed to choose a direct promotion from the descendants who have no right to inherit the prince to be the king of the county, and this position may be unattainable by other royal descendants who may struggle for a lifetime.
And the third thing, the old thirteen because of the physical condition has not been very good, died early. The death of the old thirteenth hit Yongzheng very hard, at that time, he was grieving and could not sleep at night, in order to express his sorrow for his brother, Yongzheng ordered that he wear a month's plain clothes for the old thirteen, and the group of ministers would wear regular clothes, and asked that no entertainment activities should be carried out during this month. You must know that even after the death of his father, Yongzheng only wore his regular clothes for twenty days, and everything returned to normal. In addition, the regulations of the old thirteenth funeral have also been improved, far exceeding the funeral system that the old thirteen should have.
Therefore, from these three things, we can see that Yongzheng's trust in the thirteenth brother Yin Xiang probably has a lot to do with the experience of the two. The old thirteenth child birth mother died, has been raised by the Yongzheng birth mother, the two have been relatively close since childhood, but Yongzheng has been raised by the former empress after birth, and the relationship with the birth mother is not very good, looking at the old thirteen who has not felt the mother's love since childhood, as an old thirteen, as an older brother naturally feel pity. Coupled with the humble status of the birth mother of the old thirteenth, he was always met with the blank eyes of other imperial brothers, and only Yongzheng took good care of him. Therefore, the brotherhood of the two was cultivated from an early age.
In any case, in the royal family with indifferent family affection, whether it is Yongzheng or the elder thirteen, it is a blessing in his life to have a brother who is consistent with himself.