The thirteenth son, Yin Xiang, had a deep brotherly relationship with the Yongzheng Emperor, and after Yin Chan ascended the throne, Yin Chan announced that Yin Xiang would be crowned the Prince of Yi and the prime minister of government affairs. Yin Chan loved his thirteenth brother too much, loved Wu and Wu, and also raised the title of Yin Xiang's late birth mother for many years, with the original title of "Min Concubine" by two levels, posthumously awarded the title of "Jing min Emperor Noble Concubine", and re-buried.
In the following years, Yongzheng continued to give favors to Yin Xiang, and after Yin Xiang was crowned the Prince of Yi, Yongzheng rewarded 230,000 taels of silver according to the custom. He also deliberately violated the system, and in addition to Yin Xiang's prince title, he added another county prince to Yin Xiang's family. The eight words summarized by the Yongzheng Emperor, "loyalty, respect, sincerity, straightness, diligence, prudence, honesty, and ming", are indeed in line with Yin Xiang's merits and conduct.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were 12 "Iron Hat Kings" who inherited their titles without being demoted, eight of whom were imperial relatives who made military achievements at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and the other four were enthroned in the middle and late Qing Dynasty for governing and stabilizing the country. Yin Xiang's "hereditary resignation" Iron Hat King was mainly awarded the title of "Hereditary Emperor" for his outstanding achievements in assisting Yin Chan to ascend the throne. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were also "hereditary resignation" iron hats such as Prince Gong, Prince Alcohol, and Prince Qing, but their strategies, achievements and contributions were no longer the same as Yin Xiang.1
Yin Xiang only lived for 45 years in his life, and he only had eight years to assist the government, and even today, Yin Xiang is still remembered by people.
However, the hat is iron, the neck is flesh, and once involved in the power struggle, not only the strongest and most glorious title is not guaranteed, but it is also a matter of minutes to lose one's life. The title of Prince of Yi has been passed down for a total of eight generations and nine times, and Yin Xiang's descendants can be said to have a bad fate.
Just after arriving in the Qianlong Dynasty, there was an accident at Prince Yi's house.
Soon after Qianlong ascended the throne, he set out to make a descendant of Prince Yi a knight.
Yin Xiang's first son, Hongchang, and his fourth son, Hongxu, were both embroiled in the aftermath of the dispute over the concubine. The protagonist of this controversy was Honghao, the son of the deposed prince Yin Rong of the Yongzheng Dynasty. Hongyao plotted to seize the throne, and the members of the clan who held the "Li Concubine And Lichang" party attached themselves to it, in an attempt to overthrow Qianlong, and Hongyao himself ascended the throne. The Qianlong Emperor quickly cut through the chaos and quickly closed the case. According to the "Continuation of the Xiaoting Pavilion", the fourth son, Hongxuan, because of his ascension to the throne, Qianlong denounced them as "privately intertwined, and the exchanges were mysterious" and "gradually became a trend that the tail could not be lost". However, he still allowed Hongjiao to keep the lord of the county. Prince Yi's eldest son, Hongchang, was not so lucky, qianlong was dismissed from Baylor for four years, and qianlong remembered the old and did not execute. Hongchang was the only one involved in the Hongchen rebellion case, and he did not receive the gift behind him, which showed Qianlong's anger.
In the genealogy of Prince Yi, due to different political positions, unfortunate encounters have occurred repeatedly.
Yin Xiang's fifth grandson, Zaiyuan the hereditary Prince of Heshuoyi, was a heavy minister of Xianfeng, and the Xianfeng Emperor made him Zuo Zongzheng and Zong Ling in charge of the affairs of the clan, and led the guards to guard the internal ministers, responsible for the emperor's safety. It can be said that he was a close confidant of the Xianfeng Emperor, in order to prevent the phenomenon of the mother's monopoly of power after Xianfeng's death, Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Sushun and others suggested that Xianfeng follow the old things of Emperor Wu of Han and kill the tongzhi emperor's biological mother, Empress Dowager Cixi, and limit the power of the two palace empresses.
A few months later, Cixi colluded with Prince Gong Yixuan to launch a coup d'état against Xin You, killing Sushun. Prince Zaiyuan of Yi was a prince, and there was a system for not imposing capital punishment, and eventually Zaiyuan was suffocated with a wet yellow paper covering his mouth and nose.
Moreover, the title of Prince Yi was abolished, and the title of Prince Yi's descendants was reduced from the first class to the tenth class of the eighth auxiliary duke, and it can be said that there is no prince Yi in the world from here.
Zaiyuan was succeeded by Zaitai , who was deposed by Zaitai in the fifth year of Tongzhi , and was given Heilongjiang by the Tongzhi Emperor , who later died in Heilongjiang.
In July 1864, the Qing court attacked the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Tianjing, and the Qing court rewarded the courtiers, and the title of Prince of Yi was returned, which was inherited by Zai Dun, the fourth grandson of Hongjiao of Ning County, zai dun died, and zi Pujing inherited.
Prince Yi and this reinstatement are actually quite related to the "Devil Six" YiXuan, who fought with Zaiyuan for your life and death, and Fu Jin, the son of Zai Dun, was the daughter of wen Yu, a university scholar, and Wen Yu's ninth daughter was prince Gong's eldest son, Defu Jin. Prince Yi's reinstatement, Prince Gong mediated a lot of strength.
During the Boxer Rebellion, this generation of Prince Pujing and Prince Zhuang Zaixun and other nobles performed a court struggle, using the strength of the Boxers to depose the Guangxu Emperor, the Qing court has always been lenient about this kind of thing, Pujing with "indulging in boxers and bandits to provoke", dismissed from official posts, imprisoned by the Emperor's government, and was later knighted by Cixi.
From the thirteenth master Yin Xiang to his descendants, it is really a generation that is not as good as a generation, they do not have the heroic courage of the thirteenth master, and they do not have the thirteenth master's precise and thoughtful auxiliary national strategy, thinking about the original thirteenth master, I can't help but feel a little helpless.