Lv Haifeng
In other words, for the violent death of the Yongzheng Emperor, we say that he died of illness or poisoning by taking the elixir of immortality. But why did a very absurd story of the assassination of Lv Siniang appear later? Let's go and investigate together.
First of all, among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Yong was the most criticized emperor, but at the same time he was a very accomplished generation of emperors. That is to say, there is both a very bright side and a relatively dark side in the Yongzheng Emperor. However, in general, after the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he constantly introduced new ideas, the politics were relatively clear, and the national strength was relatively strong, so the name of the infamy left by the Yongzheng Emperor actually had little to do with himself, but mainly because his political enemies continued to push behind his back, which led to the Yong emperor being criticized many times later.
Even some of the Yongzheng Emperor's political enemies also managed to launch a public opinion war and spread their views, and they vigorously resisted the yongzheng Emperor's political views from their own interests. For example, the Yongzheng Emperor's strategies of rectifying the administration of officials and checking out deficits seriously violated their vital interests, so they jumped up and scolded Yongzheng as a greedy emperor. For another example, the Yongzheng Emperor's policy of integrating the people and the people on duty, because it deprived some gentlemen of their privileges, made these gentlemen violent. There is also the literati who are not accustomed to the work style of the Yongzheng Emperor and sympathize with the so-called "victims" who were suppressed by the Yongzheng Emperor. For example, Yuan Ming, a famous scholar in the Qianlong period, was such a person. Therefore, in Yuan Ming's article, he repeatedly attacked the Yongzheng Emperor.
Of course, we can't say that the Yongzheng Emperor was a perfect person. As an autocratic emperor of a feudal dynasty, he certainly had many repulsive places. For example, the Lü Liuliang case he single-handedly created was a heinous unjust case of the Nine Tribes, so it also caused many ordinary people to be dissatisfied with him. Therefore, under such circumstances, Yongzheng's political enemies naturally would not let go of this opportunity to slander the Yongzheng Emperor. They used various means to win over some Han literati and fabricate some stories of Yongzheng being assassinated by Lü Siniang. But in fact, all kinds of evidence show that the Yongzheng Emperor died of "Dan Yao poisoning", which is irrefutable.
Of course, having said this, we can't help but mention who Lü Siniang really is? She was a folklore figure during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the granddaughter of Lü Liuliang, and some people say that she was his daughter. And this is no longer verifiable. It is precisely because she and Lü Liuliang have this relationship, so there are some people with ulterior motives who have made up the story of his assassination of Yongzheng in many wild histories with a nose and an eye. For example, it is also made up that a little girl of Lü Siniang learned the cornice walking wall and sword martial arts because she happened to meet the high monk Gan Fengchi on the way. Today, even a number of directors have included her in TV series and some movies.
In short, the Yongzheng Emperor died violently, why would there be a story of Lü Siniang's assassination? In fact, it is a kind of utter denigration. (Lv Haifeng)