What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The Yongzheng Emperor was a very vicious emperor in Chinese history, quite mean and unkind. After he became emperor, he not only harmed many ministers, but even his brothers, because many brothers had competed with him for the throne and posed a great threat to him, especially the old eight and nine, who were quickly killed by him. Even his younger brother Old Fourteen, a member of his mother's compatriots, was driven by him to guard the imperial tomb, and if it were not for the intercession of his mother, The Empress Dowager, he would have killed Old Fourteen long ago.
But there is a very strange phenomenon in this, that is, the old ten who once opposed him have been let go by him, and it should be known that the tenth brother and the eighth brother and the ninth brother are completely in the same group, and the three of them have formed an interest group, which has posed a great threat to the throne of Yongzheng. The small group formed by these three people has the strongest ability of the Eight Brothers as the core, and the old nine and the old ten are his core minions. However, when Yongzheng ascended to the throne and began to retaliate, he was quite cruel to Lao Ba and Lao Jiu, and the two people were killed one after another, and they were also named Achina, Seth Hei and other insulting names.
But as their partymate, Old Ten was not much implicated. Because of the different backgrounds, Lao Shi's mother was the granddaughter of The Shunzhi Kangxi Dynasty's important minister Shu Bilong, who was also born into the Niuhulu family. During the hundreds of years of Manchu qing rule, the influence of the Niuhulu family was very large. If you look at the status of the mothers of the major princes of Kangxi, the old ten can be said to be second only to the crown prince Yinrong. Yin Rong's mother was Empress Hesheli, and Yin Rong was soon made crown prince as the eldest son of a concubine, and if it were not for Kangxi's long time as emperor, Yin Rong would not have been deposed.
There is also the fact that although Lao Ten is also one of the important members of the Old Eight Group, he has not played any role. At that time, according to the poisonous snake Old Nine and the Straw Bag Old Ten, the main things of the Old Eight were always discussed with the Old Nine, and the Old Ten was also waving the flag on the side. Although Old Fourteen is also this group, after all, he is Yongzheng's brother, and he himself is also very ambitious, so Old Eight does not trust him. It is precisely because Old Ten did not play much of a role in the Nine Dragon Conquest, coupled with the strength of his mother's family, so Yongzheng was not too difficult for him.
If his threat was great enough, Yongzheng probably wouldn't care about his family's strength, and would definitely kill him just like he did against Lao Ba. The Ronkodo family was also powerful enough, and there were several empresses in that clan, and Ronkodo also made a lot of merit in the process of Yongzheng ascending to the throne, but because of the threat to Yongzheng, Yongzheng quickly killed him. Therefore, Lao Shi was not killed by Yongzheng, to a large extent, in addition to his mother's family's strength, it was also because he was a straw bale with no threat.