Just as the so-called nine sons of Longsheng are different, this sentence can be best reflected in Kangxi's fifth son Yin Qi and ninth son Yin Yu, Yin Qi and Yin Yu are brothers with their mother, and their mother is Kangxi's favorite concubine, Concubine Guo Luoluo. However, the outcome of the two brothers was very different, Yin Yu supported the old Eight Yin Yu to participate in the struggle for the throne, and was imprisoned and tortured to death after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, while his brother Yin Qi was treated well by Yongzheng, who was obviously very powerful as one of the very few princes who were crowned princes during Kangxi's lifetime, why did he not participate in the struggle for the throne, and why could he still get Yongzheng's kindness when his mother Concubine Yi and Yin Yu both opposed Yongzheng's succession?
His kind-hearted and generous personality made Yin Qi not participate in the battle for the throne
In the history books, Kangxi once commented that his son Yin Qi "had a very good heart and was a generous man", and Yin Qi also had a different personality from his mother Yifei and his younger brother Yin Yu since childhood, and he was very generous and generous, mainly because he had not been raised by his mother Yifei since childhood.
Yin Qi was raised shortly after his birth by Kangxi's mother, Empress Renxian, the Empress Xiaohuizhang of Shunzhi, who was the niece of Kangxi's grandmother Xiaozhuang, who was only chosen by Xiaozhuang to become the successor empress after Shunzhi abolished the first empress, xiaozhuang's niece Shizu.
Empress Xiaohuizhang was extremely gentle and generous, when Shunzhi favored Princess Dong E, she always wanted to find a reason to abolish her empress position, it was precisely because she was gentle and generous in nature, and could respect and tolerate anyone, so the palace up to Dong Efei, down to the palace eunuchs praised her well, so Shunzhi could not find a reason to abolish her, and finally made Dong Efei cry for Shunzhi, saying that if Shunzhi wanted to be abolished, then she would never be an empress, preferring to become a nun, so Empress Xiaohuizhang relied on her own kindness of heart. Gentle and generous retained her position as empress.
Even love enemies can intercede for it, which shows how kind and generous Empress Xiaohuizhang is, so Yin Qi has been raised by her since childhood, and what she hears is naturally inheriting the character of Empress Xiaohuizhang with a kind heart, gentleness and generosity.
Yin Qi after adulthood, treat people very easy-going, even the palace eunuchs he also gave great respect, and Yin Qi is a very thrifty person, he is very good at running the family, the Princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty at that time were compared with each other to show off their wealth, only Yin Qi was diligent and thrifty, not compared with people, due to the Qing Dynasty's demotion to inherit the title system, so many of the rich princes and nobles at that time after several generations of the title is getting lower and lower, only Yin Qi's descendants have been adhering to his thrifty family style, until the late Qing Dynasty, Yin Qi's descendants are still very rich, Therefore, it is recorded in the history books that the princes and nobles did not admire the foresight of Yin Qi's diligent and thrifty blessing family until later.
It is Yin Qi, a person who is diligent and frugal in running his family and can live a life, but he often pays for the poor people out of his own pocket, so whether it is inside or outside the palace, the five princes are kind in heart and easy-going.
Yin Qi is actually a person who retains the innocent and generous character of the Manchu Hanzi, he was sinicized very late, because empress Xiaohuizhang's degree of sinicization is not high, so Yin Qi, who has been raised by her, can not write Chinese characters until the age of 9, and has not received an education in Han culture.
Even though Yin Qi later received a traditional Confucian education, he was different from other brothers, his degree of Sinicization was not as deep as that of other brothers, and after he was Sinicized, he retained the innocence and thickness of Manchu men, but also took into account the humility and gentleness of Han men.
It was precisely these things that made Yin Qi gain the recognition and love of his father Kangxi.
In the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi (1698), when Kangxi first enfeoffed his sons, Yin Qi was given the title of Belle for his military exploits in the conquest of Gardan by Kangxi, and was later promoted to the title of Prince of Heng when Kangxi was the second great consort of the sons in the forty-eighth year of Kangxi (1709).
Yin Qi was able to be made a prince, in addition to following Kangxi's royal conquest of Gardan, it was the gravity and righteousness he showed to his brother that touched Kangxi, so Kangxi was rated as the kindest word of heart.
When Kangxi deposed the crown prince, the old eight Yin Yu was implicated by the elder Yin Yu and was imprisoned by Kangxi, and Yin Yu and Yong Zheng, who were close to Yin Yu, and Yong Zheng,and his mother's brother Yin Yu threatened poison to speak to his father Kangxi and asked for Yin Yu's release.
Yin Yu even confronted Kangxi, saying that if Yin Yu was not released, he and Yin Yu would commit suicide by taking poison, so that Kangxi could taste the pain of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man to lose his son.
The attitude of Yin Yu and Yin Yu infuriated Kangxi, and in a fit of rage, Kangxi drew a long knife from the guard next to him to chop the two rebels to death. This historical incident was adapted into a film and television section by the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", but in order to highlight the character image of Yongzheng in the TV series, it was written that in the end, Yongzheng Fen disregarded his empty hand and took the white blade to set up Kangxi's angry long knife.
But in actual history, the person who interceded for Yin Yu and Yin Yu was Yin Qi, the historical Yin Qi did not go to the white blade with his bare hands as Yongzheng in the TV series, and after the historical Yin Qi saw his father Kangxi draw the knife, he immediately stepped forward with an arrow and hugged Kangxi's thigh, while crying for Kangxi for the two younger brothers, on the other hand, he hugged Kangxi's thigh tightly and blocked the long knife with his body to prevent him from rushing over the knife to split Yin Yu and Yin Yu.
This incident also proved that Yin Yu was wronged and was acquitted, and Kangxi believed that Yin Qi was kind to his brothers and valued brotherly affection, and he was very appreciative of him, even if Yin Yu and Yin Yu, who had angered him at that time, he also thought that the two of them had a human touch, knew that they were concerned about brotherhood, and could intercede for Yin Yu.
Therefore, later, when the second great seal of the sons, Kangxi made Yin Qi the Prince of Heng, and also promoted Yin Yu and Yin Yu as beizi.
Therefore, although Yin Qi was already crowned prince of Jin, he was also deeply loved by Kangxi, and had a certain prestige inside and outside the government, but his personality was destined that he would not participate in the struggle for the throne, plus the degree of Sinicization he was not as deep as other brothers, and the Qing Dynasty had been promoting Han culture since entering the customs, advocating the concept of governing the country with Confucian thought, in this case, Yin Qi himself would not be considered by Kangxi as an heir candidate, so Yin Qi's personality and the degree of Sinicization also made him automatically give up participating in the struggle for the throne.
Yin Qi had a close relationship with Yongzheng since childhood, and he showed his submission and recognition of Yongzheng's succession
Although Yin Qi did not participate in the struggle for the throne, his mother Concubine Yi and his half-brother Yin Yu were very dissatisfied with Yongzheng's succession and refused to submit to Yongzheng, which made Yongzheng hate the mother and son very much, but Yongzheng was very good to Yinqi, which meant that Yinqi and his mother and brother did something completely different after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne.
Concubine Yi was very dissatisfied with Yongzheng's succession, and later when paying tribute to Kangxi, Concubine Yi deliberately walked in front of Yongzheng's biological mother, Princess De, to know that Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Princess Defei had theoretically been promoted to empress dowager, and Princess Yi was only a concubine, and she actually dared to walk in front of Princess De, which was disrespectful to Yongzheng and Princess De.
Of course, Concubine Yi was extremely favored before Kangxi's death, and originally had always suppressed Princess De, and Yin Yu had a close relationship with Yin Yu, and the relationship between Concubine Yi and Princess Defei was also relatively good, and Princess Yifei may not be able to be investigated, but this was disrespectful to Yongzheng, after all, Princess Defei was his mother, so although Princess Defei did not bother with Concubine Yi, Yongzheng did not spare, although Yongzheng did not dare to directly reprimand Concubine Yifei, but he sent all the palace women and eunuchs around Concubine Yi to the northeast, but also to beat Princess Yi's face.
Concubine Yi was also dissatisfied with Yongzheng's behavior, so according to the rules of the Qing Palace, after the death of Emperor Daxing, concubines who had already given birth to a prince could move out of the palace to live with their sons, but they must regularly enter the palace to greet the new emperor. After Princess Yi moved out of the palace to live in Yin Qi's Prince Heng's palace, she deliberately joined forces with the eldest Yin Zhen's biological mother Huifei and the old third Yin Zhi's biological mother RongFei not to enter the palace to greet Yongzheng, resulting in folk rumors that Yongzheng treated his mother harshly, so that the mothers were dissatisfied and refused to see him again, which made Yongzheng very embarrassed. Because of these things, yongzheng and Concubine Yi had a great vendetta.
Yin Qi's half-brother Lao Jiu Yin Yu (老九胤禟) needless to say, was a hardcore supporter of Yongzheng's political enemy Lao Ba Yin Yu. After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, in order to divide and disintegrate Yin Yu's party, he deliberately sent Yin Yu to serve in front of the Northwest Army on the grounds of following the ancestral system, called Effectiveness, in fact, he sent his confidant Nian Qianyao, the commander of the Northwest Army, to secretly put Yin Yu under house arrest and surveillance, so Yin Yu was even more annoyed with Yong Zheng, so on the way to the northwest, Yin Yu deliberately spread rumors of the persecution of the new emperor Yongzheng brothers in the people, which had a very bad impact on Yongzheng's reputation in the people.
Therefore, the various things that happened to Concubine Yi and Yin Yu's mother and son added up, making their mother and son and Yongzheng have a deep grudge, but Yongzheng was very separated and did not anger Yinqi because of their mother and son.
This is mainly due to the fact that when Yin Qi succeeded to the throne in Yongzheng, he immediately followed the deposed prince Yin Rong to congratulate Yongzheng on his succession, and expressed his firm support for his father Kangxi's will and support Yongzheng's succession.
It should be known that when Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, people's hearts were unstable, and the deposed prince Yin rong and the eldest son Hongchen first congratulated Yongzheng on the succession, expressing their support and approval for Yongzheng's succession, so Yinrong and Hongchen were treated well by Yongzheng, and Yinqi was also very knowledgeable about current affairs and followed Yinrong to Yongzheng on the congratulatory watch, so Yongzheng was also more grateful to Yinqi.
In addition to Yin Qi taking the initiative to give Yongzheng a congratulatory table to express his support for his succession, Yin Qi was able to get Yongzheng's kindness because the relationship between the two was extremely close since childhood.
Yongzheng was raised by the third empress of Kangxi, Empress Xiaoyiren, Andong Jiashi, because Empress Xiaoyiren was very filial and respectful to Empress Xiaohuizhang, she would take Yongzheng to Empress Xiaohuizhang every day to ask for peace, and empress Xiaohuizhang spoke for half a day, and when the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talked, Yin Qi played with Yongzheng.
Moreover, when Yin Qi received Han cultural enlightenment, because his Sinicization enlightenment was relatively late, it was Yongzheng, who was a year older than him who studied very well, to give him Hanhua enlightenment personally, so the brotherly relationship between Yin Qi and Yongzheng was actually very close and good.
In addition, Yin Qi had once blocked the knife for Yin Yu and Yin Yu, was kind and honest, and was very supported among the brothers, and had a certain prestige, even Yong Zheng was very admired for this brother who was only one year younger than himself, so whether Yin Qi had a close relationship with Yong Zheng or he had a high prestige among the brothers, Yong Zheng could not anger him because of Concubine Yi and Yin Yu's mother and son.
Despite this, Yongzheng still disgusted Yin Qi, Yi Fei, and Yin Yu's mother and son at the end. In the fourth year of Yongzheng (1726), Yongzheng began a thorough liquidation of Yin's party, and both Yinyu and Yinyu were stripped of their titles by Yongzheng, stripped of their clan membership, and changed their notorietyes to "Akina" and "Seth Black" respectively.
When changing Yin Yu's notoriety, Yongzheng deliberately gave this errand to Yin Qi, he asked Yin Qi to go to the Zongren Mansion to pass on the will to Yin Yu to change his notoriety to "Seth Hei", and then asked Yin Qi to go to Baoding Directly Subordinate Governor's Palace where Yin Yu was imprisoned to declare his will, Yongzheng's move was obviously to deliberately disgust Concubine Yi and Yin Yu's mother and son, and let his brother Yin Qi change yin Yu's notoriety, how sad Yi Fei felt.
Yongzheng Holy Will, Yin Qi did not dare to shirk this errand at all, he knew that this matter could not be rejected, and at this time it could not anger Yongzheng, so in the end Yin Qi could only take the Holy Will to go to the Governor's Palace to change Yin Yu's name, and Yin Yu was also tortured to death shortly after being imprisoned after being changed to notoriety, at the age of 43.
Yin Qi died of illness in the 10th year of Yongzheng (1732) at the age of 54. When Yin Qi died, Yongzheng was very sad, personally wrote an altar for Yin Qi, and called him "gentle in temperament" in the sacrifice text, and also erected a monument to Commemorate Yin Qi, Yongzheng even thought that Yin Qi was gentle in nature, so he gave him the nickname "Wen", which is a beautiful name in the Fa, which is also in line with Yin Qi's lifelong character.
Yin Yu and Yin Qi died successively, but Yi Fei was miserable in her old age, after the white-haired people sent black haired people, her spirit was greatly damaged, and she hated Yongzheng even more, according to the rules of the Qing Palace, if the son of the concubine died, she could be taken back to the palace by the current emperor to serve the elderly, but Yifei refused to return to the Forbidden City, she finally stayed in the Palace of Prince Heng, and was raised by hongxu, the grandson of the successor Prince Heng, but Yin Qi died more than a year ago, and Yifei could not bear the blow and died at the age of 74.
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Therefore, Yin Qi's failure to participate in the struggle for the throne is related to his own personality and cultural level, he did not compete for the throne because of his generous and easy-going personality, and his degree of Sinicization was not deep enough, and Kangxi would not pass the throne to him.
In the case that his mother Concubine Yi and his younger brother Yin Yu both had a grudge with Yongzheng, Yin Qi was able to die a good death, because he was the first time to claim a vassal to Yongzheng and express his support for Yongzheng's succession, and then he had a close relationship with Yongzheng since childhood, and he had prestige in his brothers, so he was not affected by his mother and brother, Yongzheng was not bad for him, and he could finally die well.
Yin Qi was able to accept the fact that Yongzheng succeeded to the throne with a peaceful attitude, which was the reason why he was different from his mother Yifei and his younger brother Yin Yu, and therefore compared with his mother and brother, Yin Qi's ending was not bad, and he was also one of the better endings among the Kangxi sons.