The Yongzheng Emperor's ability to become emperor has always been a historical doubt, and whether the Kangxi Emperor voluntarily gave the throne to the Yongzheng Emperor? Did you leave a clear will? These are all topics of debate among people, even if Kangxi really wants Yongzheng to be his successor, is he really satisfied with him? Or was Kangxi dissatisfied with all his sons and had no choice but to choose someone with fewer problems to come to the emperor? Perhaps in the end, there is only no way to cultivate his heirs in the end, only by virtue of his own feelings.
People who know the history of the Qing Dynasty know that kangxi's initial choice of heir was prince Yinrong, kangxi spent more than ten years to cultivate him, but in the end because the prince's use of witchcraft was abandoned, it was not a simple matter to re-select the heir, and Kangxi himself may not have made much determination.
The crown prince inherits the throne, which is in accordance with the tradition of the Han Dynasty's concubines becoming the heir to the imperial throne, the prince was given high hopes by the Kangxi Emperor from childhood, in case he could smoothly transition the throne after a hundred years, but the prince reigned for thirty-three years, which made him really unable to wait, the people who became crazy, crazy, which also made the prince very depressed Why his father and emperor have not died, when the Kangxi Emperor was still in his old age, the prince was abandoned for the first time, but the Kangxi Emperor still had hope for the prince, In this way, all the princes were restored to the throne, which also proved that Kangxi was still sure of Yin Rong, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and finally the prince was imprisoned.
The royal family has always been a ruthless family, every emperor's desire for power is very large, unless it is his own life expectancy or the time of chaos in the world, otherwise every emperor will not give up his rights, the imperial power to his descendants, even if the Kangxi Emperor's grandson Qianlong Emperor reigned sixty years later, passed his throne to the fifteenth prince, that is, the later Jiaqing Emperor, it was also Qianlong who reigned for three years as emperor Taishang before completely delegating his rights to Jiaqing's hands. During the three years of Qianlong's reign, he still controlled the personnel appointments and political power of the imperial government, and all the Kangxi Emperors could not pass the throne to the next new emperor in their later years.