Emperor Akihito reigned for only 10 months, and the October Emperor had a stable personality, a penchant for reading, and a confucian benevolence, so he was deeply loved by Zhu Yuanzhang. However, Zhu Gaozi was obese, had difficulty moving, needed two internal servants to support him to walk, and always stumbled, and it was conceivable that for Zhu Di, who had extraordinary martial skills, this son was not pleasing. Therefore, Zhu Di already had the heart to waste the reserves, but at the critical moment, the minister Xie Jin said three words to Zhu Di: Good Saint Sun! The so-called good saint sun is also the son of Zhu Gaozi, Zhu Zhanji. Unlike Xi Jing's disgusted father, Zhu Zhanji was good at riding and shooting, liked to study the art of war, and worked in power and strategy.
Although Zhu Gaozi was not happy with Zhu Di, but after thinking about it, if Zhu Gaozi was allowed to inherit the throne, then Zhu Zhanji would be the emperor in the future, and Zhu Di finally made up his mind and made Zhu Gaozi crown prince in 1404. The matter of establishing a prince is not trivial, and whether an emperor is wise or not will deeply affect the fate of the country, so li chu should not only consider the prince, but also consider the emperor's grandson. In Jin Yong's novel "Book of Swords and Enmity", Kangxi had not yet decided on the choice of crown prince, and it just so happened that Yongzheng gave birth to a daughter, so he simply exchanged the tanuki cat for the prince and replaced Chen Laoqi's son, that is, Qianlong. After Kangxi saw Hongli in prince Yong's palace, he was quite fond of it, and even with Yongzheng's throne, he was stable.
Although Kangxi was very fond of Hongli, and Yongzheng also took more care of this son who helped him ascend to the throne, but there were naturally more people coveting the emperor's throne, and Hongshi was such a challenger. Born on March 18, 1704, Hongshi was the third son of the Yongzheng Emperor and belonged to Hongli as a half-brother, but in 1727, Hongshi was suddenly punished by the Yongzheng Emperor, who stripped him of his clan on the grounds that He was "young and indulgent and acted imprudently". And that's not all, Yongzheng made Hongshi his political enemy Yun Yu his son and blasted out of the Forbidden City, meaning to break off the love between father and son.
It is conceivable that Yongzheng directly did not even recognize his own son, and Hongshi's political life was completely over, and the more Hongshi thought about it, the more depressed he became, and finally died a year and a half later, at the age of 24. In fact, the relationship between Yongzheng and Hongshi, the three brothers, reflects the fierce conflict between father and son in the imperial family because of the inheritance of the throne in the early days of the secret establishment of the reserve. In many previous Qing Palace film and television works, the plot of the Yongzheng Emperor's killing of his son was over-rendered, leaving a deep impression on the audience. Moreover, many researchers believe that Hongshi's death was not a depressed death, but a death ordered by the defeated Yongzheng Emperor, and it has to be said that it is really a cold and ruthless imperial family.
However, after ascending the throne, the Qianlong Emperor was very sympathetic to his brother. In October 1735, the Newly enthroned Qianlong Emperor issued an edict: The former three brothers were young and ignorant, indulgent in temperament, and did not act cautiously, so the father and emperor severely punished them in order to teach our brothers and other duties. Now that the three brothers have been dead for many years, they still take Hiroshi back to the spectrum for the sake of brotherhood. At this point, Hiroshi, who had been stripped of his clan membership, was finally able to return to the list of clans. In fact, according to common sense, Hongshi should be the first candidate for the Yongzheng Emperor to choose an heir.
Because although Hongshi is the third son of Yongzheng, the two older brothers died prematurely, the eldest brother lived 7 years old, and the second brother lived 3 years old. Therefore, among the sons, Hiroshi was the longest, and he was already an adult, and he was even the heir. However, Hongshi was friendly with his father's political enemy Yun Yu and others, so when Yongzheng secretly built the reserve, of course, he excluded this dissident son, and after 3 months of secretly building the reserve, the news was leaked. When Hiroshi learns that he cannot get the throne, he completely falls to Yoon-woo's side, which eventually leads to the tragedy of father-son cannibalism...