"Spring and Autumn" has a saying: "Praise in one word, spoil the gift of Hua Gong", "Mencius" has a saying: "Look up to the heavens, do not bow to people", "pitch is not worthy of heaven and earth, praise and depreciation have their own Spring and Autumn", this is the Yongzheng Emperor let you feel a link. It was a glorious and great era, and it was also an era of gossip, and he was worthy of heaven and earth and the people, and he also believed that there would be people in the hereafter who understood his heart and argue for his innocence and justice.
When it comes to the heyday of modern Chinese history, "Kangqian Shengshi" can be described as familiar, and "Kangqian Shengshi" is also known as "Kangyongqian Shengshi". Kang Yongqian refers to the three generations of emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, who ruled for a total of one hundred and thirty-four years, creating the ultimate of the feudal system, but it was the last prosperous era of China's ancient feudal dynasty. Between the pitches, there was Kangxi in the front and Qianlong in the back, and Yongzheng was violent in his youth, leaving behind one mystery after another.
Although there was "slander all over the world" during his reign, if there was no Yongzheng Dynasty, there would be no Qianlong Prosperous Era, and it was Yongzheng who passed on this prosperous era to the four sons of Hongli, which indirectly achieved the final prosperity of the Qing Dynasty. As early as the fifty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1713 AD), the theory of the prosperous world had begun to circulate. Qing Dynasty subjects word of mouth said that "the prosperous world breeds people and never adds endowments", and the meaning of "prosperous world" was generally formed during the Qianlong period.
But the Yongzheng Emperor rarely mentioned it at the same time as the name of this prosperous world, in any case, Yongzheng, as one of the three protagonists of the prosperous world of the Qing Dynasty, did make some achievements with his iron fist. Yongzheng was the fourth son of Kangxi, born in the twenty-fifth year of Kangxi (1686 AD), and his nature was pure and chaste, and he has always been unknown among his brothers, although it is not a mistake but it is not inferior. In the last years of the Kangxi Dynasty, the DPRK and The Chinese Dynasty promoted "benevolent government", and the princes competed to win over high-ranking officials to help themselves.
In the end, Yongzheng became the winner of this battle for the throne. The Yongzheng Emperor reigned from 1723 to 1735 AD, and for 12 years, he only rested for 4 hours a day, and only one day of rest on his birthday every year. He threw himself on the government affairs of the imperial court, did not hesitate to offend everyone for the sake of the world, and finally paid off his heart, reversing the chaos accumulated by Kangxi in the late years. Later generations have said a lot about Yongzheng's succession to the throne, violent death, etc., the father said, the succession said... Bewildering.
There is also a lot of doubt about the death of the third son for the ascension of the fourth son Hongli to the throne, and as a small talk after the tea and dinner of the royal family, the third son Hongshi, who was given death by Yongzheng, was the best candidate for the position of prince when he was young. "Acting quite uninhibited for his brother's life, young and ignorant, and very indulgent in temperament", this is the description of the third brother Hongshi after Qianlong ascended the throne in the "History of the Qing Dynasty".
Ru Hongshi was very unruly in his dealings with people, and his mother was born noble and the oldest among the princes, so he was disorganized. According to the tradition of succession by the eldest son of the imperial concubine, sooner or later he would be made crown prince, but he actually showed the intention of usurping the throne during the reign of Yongzheng, so he was not welcomed by his father. Although Hongshi knew that he was the perfect candidate for the crown prince, he was still worried that the position of prince would fall into the hands of others, and he squeezed Out Hongli everywhere, and all the things he did were passed on to Yongzheng.
Because Yongzheng had also experienced such things as the seizure of power by the crown prince in his early years, he did not like the fight between the princes very much, so his dislike for Hiroshi was a few points more. In 1723, Yongzheng disregarded the tradition of his eldest son succeeding to the throne and made Hongli crown prince. At that time, Hongli was only 9 years old, and Yongzheng insisted on making him a reserve, completely disregarding Hongli's qualifications. Yongzheng did not publicly make Hongli the crown prince, so few people knew about it, but the third brother Hongshi saw from his father's various performances that his father attached importance to the fourth brother.
After that, there was another thing that made Hiroshi see his father's attitude, that is, on the day of the death of the former emperor, he sent Hiroshi himself to worship the emperor's grandfather. Hiroshi saw his father's importance and expectations for his brother, but he was still lawless, and finally made a big mistake in the fifth year of Yongzheng (1727 AD). Yongzheng confined him to the palace and resolutely removed his name from the genealogy. After this heavy blow, Hongshi's mind declined, and after a serious illness, he died at the age of only 24.
Regarding the death of Hongshi, there is another folk saying that Hongshi was not suffering from an incurable disease, but was given death by his father Yongzheng. Whether Hongshi died of illness or was executed by Yongzheng is impossible to verify. It is worth saying that in order to dilute the influence of the Hongshi incident, later emperors sent special personnel to revise the history of the Qing Dynasty. Despite this, later generations still have a lot to say about this, and the Yongzheng Emperor bears the insult of killing his son and gives the throne to his younger son.
Xu is too stubborn to be worthy of the emperor's position, Xu is already interested in Hongli's talent, and it is more secure and reassuring to hand over the throne to him, and history cannot be reproduced. Although it is full of controversy, it turns out that qianlong was emperor for 60 years, continuing the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty. It's just that what is lamentable is that Yongzheng has been working diligently for 12 years, and he has added a lot of tongues at the end of his life.