Throughout the 268-year history of the Qing Dynasty's rule over the Central Plains, the struggle for the throne has always been a concrete embodiment of the imperial family's political power struggle, and in the process of all the emperors succeeding to the throne, the Yongzheng Emperor Yin Chan's succession was the most tortuous. In the later years of the Kangxi Emperor, the dispute between the brothers reached a white-hot stage, and Yin Chan became the final winner.
Shortly after Yin Chan succeeded to the throne as the Yongzheng Emperor, his nemesis Lao Ba and Lao Jiu died mysteriously in the Zongren Mansion. For a hundred years, the descendants of the royal family have been speculating about this period of old ancestors' contention, but they have never been able to touch the truth. No one expected that the truth would be revealed by a small child in Puyi. What secrets did Puyi discover the royal family? How did the Eight Princes and Nine Princes of the Yongzheng Era die? Today, let's take a look at this unspeakable royal secret.
The nine sons took the wife, and the dark tide surged
If we were to ask who the most successful emperors of the Qing Dynasty were, probably the first answer for many of us was the Kangxi Emperor. Kangxi came to the dynasty at the age of eight, captured Aobai, fixed the Three Domains, and made countless achievements, creating a prosperous situation in the prosperous era of Kangqian and laying a good foundation for the century-old rule of the Qing Dynasty.
However, even if Kangxi was wise and divine, he could not escape the fate of being a mortal who died of old age and illness, so as an emperor, it was very necessary for Kangxi to choose his successor as soon as possible. From the beginning, Kangxi firmly believed that his second son was the perfect candidate for a future emperor.
The second brother was born to Kangxi's beloved empress dowager, and was personally raised by Kangxi from an early age. It can be seen that a bowl of water is impossible to level, especially in the royal family, among so many sons, only this second son has poured the most effort and love into Kangxi, and he has long been established as the prince. Although there is a jun father who teaches himself the way of the king, this prince is not very contentious, he is indulgent and willful, his temperament is strange, he is partial and not intelligent, and he has no inheritance of the political mind of his old son.
This indisputable prince made Kangxi very brain-wrenching, and after experiencing two storms of deposing the crown prince, Kangxi finally disappointed. For the sake of the future of the Qing Dynasty, he gave up his beloved son and wanted to re-examine his sons and choose a successor.
Among the remaining sons, the most prominent are the Four Brothers Yinchen and the Eight Brothers Yinqi, of which the eight brothers seem to have a greater advantage. At that time, Lao Ba had a nickname, called the Eight Sages King, and his prestige among the courtiers was quite high. But the fourth elder was calm and calm, and many times Kangxi felt that he had the wind of a superior.
These two people fought for the throne, first The Old Eight pointed the spearhead at the thirteenth master, the most powerful assistant beside the fourth elder, resulting in him being placed under house arrest for ten years, and then the fourth elder relied on the courtiers' support for the old eighth to fight back, provoking the jealousy of the old eighth in Kangxi's heart. Such struggles have made the contradiction between the Fourth Master Party and the Eighth Master Party very acute, and this dispute over the concubine is an endless game.
The fourth master won, and eight or nine died
The final result of the struggle between The Fourth Elder and the Eighth Elder has been told to us by history, and the Fourth Elder Yin Chan won the victory and succeeded to the throne as the Yongzheng Emperor, becoming the emperor who looked at the world. And a group of people in the Eight Ye Party, as the defeated generals, also became Yongzheng's prisoners.
If Lao Ba and his most powerful assistant, Lao Jiu, have been imprisoned, then there are certainly not so many gossip in history. However, shortly after the Yongzheng Emperor succeeded to the throne, Lao Ba and Lao Jiu died mysteriously in the Zongren Mansion. As for the murderer who caused the death of the two people, many people's first guess is that the Yongzheng Emperor.
Others' speculation is also based on evidence, Yongzheng hated his eighth and ninth brothers to the bone, and after he became emperor, he immediately ordered the royal status of Lao Ba and Lao Jiu to be stripped of their royal status and reduced these two to commoners. Not only that, but he also stripped them of their names and renamed them Akina and Seth. These two names, in the Manchu language, mean pig or dog. It can be seen how much Yongzheng hates these two people.
Because of this, he seemed to have enough reason and ability to send someone to kill Lao Ba and Lao Jiu. However, all this is just people's speculation, there is no direct evidence that the death of the old eight and the old nine is the hand of the old fourth, which has always been a suspicious case.
Young Puyi, uncover the truth
This suspicious case existed for many years, until a hundred years later, there was a relevant clue, and the person who found this clue was actually a child, he was a young Puyi.
Puyi was a child without a child, and when he was very young, his great uncle, the Guangxu Emperor, died. In order to cultivate a puppet emperor who obeyed his own orders, Cixi ordered people to take Puyi, who was still young outside the palace, into the palace and succeed him as emperor. However, this throne that everyone wants is not tempting for Puyi, he only knows that he is not happy.
Puyi boiled up and finally survived to the good news that his younger brother Pujie could enter the palace to be his companion reading. For Puyi, it is not important to accompany or not to read, what is important is that he finally has a playmate, and Pujie can alleviate his loneliness.
After Pu Jie entered the palace, Pu Yi was very excited, and he volunteered to take Pu Jie around the palace, wanting to introduce all the strange things here to his brother. The two children walked to the Yangxin Hall, there were no guards and palace people outside the palace, out of curiosity, the two went in, and also touched a secret place in the temple.
With a snap, the dark grid was opened by Puyi, and he saw that there was a copy of the Holy Will inside, which looked like the secret will left by which old ancestor. The two children didn't care about any secrets, and immediately opened the secret will, which turned out to be the secret will of the Yongzheng Emperor. The content of the secret decree is that Yongzheng wants to secretly execute Akina and Saishei, who are locked up in the Zongren Mansion. And this doubtful case a hundred years ago was actually unveiled by Puyi in childhood.
epilogue
Although the qing dynasty royal family has the supreme status and countless wealth in the world, it is not envied at all. Because, people in the royal family seem to be emotionless power-grabbing machines. In their eyes, there is no father,no filial piety, no brothers, no brothers, no brothers, only open strife and secret struggle, only you die and I die.
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