The most ruthless imperial family, any family affection, love, can become a victim of the struggle for power.
As the longest-lived emperor, the Qianlong Emperor had many concubines in the harem, and there were several who were favored and famous, but if it threatened his throne, he could quickly cut through the chaos, but although the Qianlong Emperor had a total of 17 sons and 10 daughters, the early death of the early death was either to die in front of the Qianlong Emperor, and finally only the son of Concubine Ling, Yongyan, was the most normal, so he was made crown prince.
As the longest reigning emperor in China's history, the Kangxi Emperor had 35 sons, although almost half of them died early, but in the later years of the Kangxi Emperor, there was the most fierce brotherly struggle for the throne in the Qing Dynasty, known in history as "nine sons and nine concubines".
Among them, the eldest son of the emperor, Yin Zhen, because he was a concubine, so the second son Yin Rong was made crown prince in the thirteenth year of Kangxi (1674), but unfortunately the Kangxi Emperor was a long-lived emperor and fought a battle, even if Yin Rong was free and intelligent, proficient in the hundred classics of the sons, skilled in Manchurian bow and horse riding, trained and cultivated by the Kangxi Emperor himself, but he did not have enough ability to compete with the Kangxi Emperor, could not pull the Kangxi Emperor off the throne, and even failed to fight those half-brothers who were looking after the tiger.
When Yin Rong was first deposed, the Kangxi Emperor was still willing to give him a chance, but the emperor's eldest son Yin Zhen was very proud, and Yin Zhen was also quite valued by the Kangxi Emperor, and he followed the Kangxi Emperor on expeditions and inspections three times, and in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, Yin Rong was deposed, and the Kangxi Emperor let Yin Zhen monitor Yin Rong.
Yin Zhen thought that the time was ripe, so he spoke to Kangxi and asked to kill Yin Rong, but he did not think about it but angered the Kangxi Emperor, and the three brothers Yin Zhen had a close relationship with Yin Rong on weekdays, and later reported to the Kangxi Emperor that Yin Zhen used the magic to curse the prince, so the Kangxi Emperor scolded Yin Zhen as a "rogue thief", and Yin Zhen completely fell out of favor and took the lead.
Since then, Yin Zhen has been imprisoned, and the Kangxi Emperor even ordered heavy guards and issued a death order to the officers and soldiers who monitored Yin Zhen: "If anyone neglects his duties, he will be destroyed by the Nine Tribes." "The dispute over the concubine has nothing to do with Yin Zhen.
In 1709, the Kangxi Emperor issued an edict: "Yin Rongqian fell ill with madness, and detained him for the sake of the state, and then carefully investigated the place where he was suppressed, and the town was excavated." The matter is clear, and now the conditioning is healed and released...
However, although Yin Rong was once again made crown prince, the power of the princelings had declined, the Eight Brothers Yin Yu came to the fore, the Four Brothers Yin Chan chose to watch the fire from the other side, and in the fifty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1712), Yin Rong was deposed again, and from then on he was imprisoned until death, and the Three Brothers Yin Zhi also took the initiative to withdraw from the competition.
The fact that the prince was deposed again also deeply affected the Eight Brothers Yin Yu, so the Eight Brothers turned to support the Fourteen Brothers, that is, the brothers of the Four Brothers and the half-mother, Yin Yu, at this time the Four Brothers brazenly joined the competition, and finally won and became the Yongzheng Emperor.
After the Yongzheng Emperor took the throne, the brothers who had fought with him were all imprisoned, the ending was not good, and Yin Zhen was never released, inside the high wall, heavily guarded, Yin Zhen had no freedom to speak of, in order to understand the boredom, he married 13 wives successively, and then gave birth to 29 children, in response to the ancient saying "many children and many blessings".
Among them, the fourteenth son of Yin Zhen was born in the tenth year of Yongzheng and lived until the eleventh year of Jiaqing.