In the Qing Dynasty, Yin Tai could be described as a strange person. During the Kangxi Dynasty, he entered the career path, initially as a Hanlin Academy penmanship, responsible for copying documents. In the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi, he served as an attendant of the Hanlin Academy, and tossed and turned for most of his life, and when he arrived, he was only the leader of Jinzhou, and he retired from illness in the fifty-second year of Kangxi. However, during the Yongzheng period, he suddenly became popular, like a dead wood in spring, and even served as a scholar of Dongge University and a soldier Shangshu in the first month of the seventh year of Yongzheng. This official position is equivalent to the prime minister as the folk name.
Until Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he also served as the president of Sejong Shilu, and it was because he was too old that he really returned home. Yin Tai was originally just a middle-level official, and suddenly withered wood in the spring, not to spell his father, but to fight his son. His fifth son, Yin Jishan, was the noble man of fate.
In the sixty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, a major event occurred that changed the Yin Tai family. At that time, the old emperor Kangxi was already in poor health, and sent Yin Chan, the Prince of Yong, to Shengjing to visit the ancestral tombs. Yin Chan was a servant all the way, but encountered heavy rain in Jinzhou and had to spend the night at the home of Yin Tai, the retired Leader of Jinzhou.
Yin Tai was naturally very happy to have the prince visit. While chatting, Yin Chan casually asked, "Do you still have a son in your family who is an official?" You can let him come and meet me. At this time, the Yin family was already strange, and there had been no successor since Yin Taizhishi. Yin Tai had to say awkwardly: "There is another son who is taking the township examination, and I don't know if he can become an official." Yin Chan nodded, "There is a chance for him to come and see me." ”
It was also in this year that Yin Jishan, the son of Yin Tai's mouth, won the township examination, and then participated in the examination in the Beijing Division the following year. At this time, Yin Jishan remembered his father's advice and once went to Jingshi to visit Prince Yong. As a result, Yin Jishan had not yet arrived at the palace, Kangxi died, and Yin Chan the Prince of Yong succeeded to the throne and became the Ninth Five-Year Emperor, and this matter was naturally abandoned.
However, in the first year of Yongzheng's meeting, Yin Jishan was still a high school in one fell swoop. When he was introduced to Yongzheng, he suddenly showed extraordinary talent. Yongzheng checked his information, clapped his hands and laughed: "It turns out that you are Yin Tai's son, and you are indeed a great talent!" ”
As a result, Yin Jishan began a popular life and embarked on the career path of soaring yellow Tengda. Yongzheng is a man of love and hatred, treats political enemies fiercely, and when he encounters a confidant, he will pluck out his lungs and promote and reuse in an eclectic manner. Yin Jishan became the governor of Jiangsu in only six years, and in only nine years, he became the governor of Liangjiang, and the speed of promotion was rare in the Qing Dynasty. Even Qianlong exclaimed: Eight years (actually nine years) to the governor, who can walk?
Yongzheng really liked this minister. Once Yin Jishan started to play the river work, because the idea was the same as him, Yongzheng, who had retired from the dynasty, excitedly wrote a letter to Yin Tai:
It is difficult to criticize the pen of Shu Jiayue, and ru father Ji He Desheng ru is such a son! Shu Shi rejoiced for Ru Jun's father, and encouraged him!
Just because of Yin Jishan's outstanding performance, Yin Tai also got help. He had already retired, but it was revived and he became an important official at the beginning of this article. However, Yongzheng was still dissatisfied, and once specifically asked Yin Jishan: "Is your mother canonized?" Yin Jishan was just stunned and ready to speak back. Yongzheng waved his hand again: "Needless to say, Shuo knows, you are shu out, your mother-in-law has been sealed, and your birth mother has not yet, and Shuo will arrange it." ”
We see that in the ancient TV series, concubines often pampered and arrogant, and bullied their wives. In fact, this is very rare. In China, there is a difference between concubines and concubines, the right wife is the hostess of the family, and the concubine room is equivalent to property and maids, which is clear and distinct. Even if the son born of the concubine becomes a high official, the wife is also crowned, and the concubine room does not have any rewards.
The Yin family is a typical bureaucratic family, and Yin Tai attaches great importance to etiquette. Despite Yin Jishan's favor, his mother Xu Shi was still a slave dressed as a servant to serve the lord. When Yin Tai learned of this, he was furious and rebuked Yin Jishan: "You want to honor your birth mother, have you ever asked me for advice, do you want to bully your father with the holy Long En?" ”
Not only that, Yin Tai also raised his crutch and constantly beat Yin Jishan, even knocking the peacock plume on the official hat to the ground. It wasn't until Xu Shi heard the quarrel and rushed out to kneel and beg for forgiveness that the matter was put to rest.
Yin Tai's side was angry, but Yongzheng's side was upset with Yin Jishan. The next day, Yin Tai's home was very lively, and a group of palace girls entered the house first, helped Xu Shi to sit in front of the hall, and sorted out her makeup. Subsequently, the Eight Banners ordered women to gather around the Xu clan and compete for congratulations. Not long after, the cabinet scholar entered the hall with the edict in hand, ordered the Yin father and son to take the order, and read the edict:
The university scholar Yin Tai was not a sage of Jishan, and was not allowed to enter the phase, not the side room Xu clan, how did Jishan come from? He enfeoffed Xu Shi as Lady Yipin, and Yin Tai first sued Lady Xie, and then performed the ritual as an edict.
Yongzheng unceremoniously told Yin Tai, if it wasn't for your son Yin Jishan, how could you be the prime minister? If it wasn't for your concubine Xu Shi, where would your baby Yin Jishan be. Now appoint Xu Shi as a pin to go to the post, Yin Tai, you first kneel down to Pay Homage to Lady Xu, and then perform the ceremony.
For the emperor's orders, where did Yin Tai dare to disobey, but in the past, only his authority, at this moment to kneel a concubine, it was really a bit impossible to do. Just when he hesitated, the palace ladies rushed up and forcibly pressed Yin Tai to kneel, and then the women led, almost letting Yin Tai and Lady Xu worship each other again, just like a newlywed couple. In fact, this is also to determine the status of the heroine in Mrs. Xu's family.
When Yin Jishan saw all this, he was naturally very excited and thanked Yongzheng from the bottom of his heart. Since then, he has been more serious about his work, and he has eventually become a generation of famous courtiers. More coincidentally, in his later years, one of his daughters married Yongxuan, the eighth son of the Emperor, as a concubine. This daughter was also born from Yin Jishan's concubine, and Qianlong also named Yin Jishan's concubine Lady.
When Yin Jishan mentioned to Qianlong that his mother had been named Lady Yipin by Yongzheng, Qianlong was surprised to say that he really did not know about this matter, and lian boasted that this coincidence was really the luck of the Qing family, which was "an honor that has never been seen in eternity".