Prince Guo's original name was Ai Xin Jue Luo Yin Li, that is, the Prince of Guo who gave birth to a dragon and phoenix fetus with Zhen Huan in the "Biography of Zhen Huan", but in real history, Yin Li did not wear a green hat for Yongzheng, but instead gained the extreme trust of the Yongzheng Emperor and gave him a knighthood. Before the Yongzheng Emperor died, the reason why he specially explained hongli to take care of him had two deep meanings.
The Yongzheng Emperor's throne was more difficult than ascending to heaven, and after the deposing of the crown prince and the struggle with the Eight Ye Party's open guns and dark arrows, and finally on the occasion of Kangxi's death, he finally revealed his last words of "passing on the fourth son of the emperor".
The conquest of the ninth son of the Kangxi Dynasty was too tragic, and Yin Li, as the seventeenth son of the emperor, seemed to be obscure on the throne of Yongzheng, but in fact he was also one of the supporters of the Yongzheng Emperor, which is why Yongzheng reused him after he took the throne.
So let's take a look at how the old seventeen Yinli helped Yongzheng, and under Yongzheng's explanation, how Hongli treated his uncle Yinli.
For Yongzheng, Yin Li is both a supporter and a sustenance of family affection
In fact, the age gap between Yongzheng and Yinli is still quite large, Yongzheng was born in 1678, Yinli was born in 1697, there is a 19-year gap.
In 1708, the crown prince Yin Rong was deposed, and since then, the prince who had ideas for the throne began to sharpen his own sword, and this year the seventeenth was only 11 years old.
An 11-year-old prince, from the age point of view, does not have the conditions to compete for the throne, if you have to fight for it, you must also have a prominent mother's family, but the old seventeen does not have.
The birth mother of the seventeenth elder entered the palace as a palace maid in the thirty-third year of Kangxi, and was a Han Chinese woman, and her father was only a second-class bodyguard by Kangxi's side, with a low status.
His mother did not immediately get promoted after giving birth to him, but did not get a concubine until the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, and from the perspective of Kangxi's treatment of their mother and son, he did not attach much importance to the elder seventeen.
In this context, Old Seventeen himself did not dare to fight for the throne, nor did he dare to easily stand on anyone's team, and a little carelessness would cause their mother and son to fall into a catastrophe, and this muddy water was not something he wanted to wade into.
However, the Kangxi Emperor was an emperor who attached great importance to education, and all the children of the imperial family, regardless of their origin, would be arranged to learn manchu culture, and men would also learn to ride and shoot with bows and arrows
From the age of 9, Old Seventeen was taken by Kangxi to accompany him, and this experience also benefited Old Seventeen a lot in both learning and martial arts.
From the main history, in fact, there is no news about the old seventeen and the Yongzheng Emperor's throne, that is to say, whether the old seventeen really helped Yongzheng is unknown, but there is such a plot in the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty".
When the Kangxi Emperor said that "the fourth son of the emperor" was sent to hexi, the Yongzheng Emperor immediately returned to his prince's palace to see Wu Sidao, wanting to explore the bottom of Wu Sidao.
Just as Wu Sidao and Yongzheng were talking, the next person came to report that the Seventeenth Brother had asked to see him, came to congratulate Yongzheng on his ascension to the throne, and reported on his control of the military camp, but Wu Sidao refused the request for Yongzheng to see him, and implied that the Seventeenth Brother Yongzheng was no longer suitable for meeting privately at this time, and was already an emperor.
Although the seventeenth brother did not appear in this plot, it also revealed two points: one is that the old seventeen knew that Yongzheng was going to be emperor, so he came to Hexi at the first time, and the second is that the old seventeen and the old thirteenThirty Yinxiang, like the old thirteenth Yinxiang, are controlling the army for Yongzheng and helping him ascend to the throne.
In fact, not only did the old seventeenth not show his face in this plot, in the whole "Yongzheng Dynasty", the old seventeen did not show his face, but only conveyed these two messages to the audience through this plot, which also shows that the author February River is also based on the importance of Yin Li after Yongzheng ascended the throne, and speculated that perhaps the old seventeen had helped Yongzheng to fight for the throne.
But no matter in the real history, whether Yin Li has helped Yongzheng, for Yongzheng, it is considered to be help, why?
We must know that fighting for the throne is the same as fighting, either you die or I live, in this kind of battlefield without smoke of gunfire, the more friends the better, the fewer enemies the better, even if the Seventeen Brothers Yinli did not help Yongzheng, but did not help others, nor did they make enemies with Yongzheng, this is already a kind of help, not to add chaos, not to add blockage.
Therefore, from the perspective of these performances of Old Seventeen, Yongzheng was at least assured of him and was not hostile, so after he became emperor, he entrusted many important affairs to Old Seventeen the Prince of Guo, and also crowned him as the King of the County.
On another level, Prince Guo actually served as the object of Yongzheng's affection, and this deep meaning is worth savoring.
The fierceness of the nine sons' conquest is self-evident, although Yong is the winner who laughs to the end, but it can also be said that he has experienced life and death, every moment may die because of failure, and every moment is licking blood at the tip of the knife.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he liquidated the princes who had opposed him, and also liquidated the courtiers who had originally supported the Eight Ye Party, including Prince Guo's father-in-law.
This kind of retaliatory liquidation is actually a manifestation of fear and fear, and Yongzheng is also afraid that these people will return to their senses and put themselves in danger again, so this kind of liquidation seems to be crazy, but it is also reasonable.
What about after the liquidation? Since ancient times, emperors have called themselves "widows", but in fact, no one will really want to be a lonely person, and as an emperor, a harem concubine, a woman who sleeps in her bed cannot be fully trusted, and those ministers on the courtiers are not trustworthy, and the only one who can be trusted is the brother who fought with himself in the first place.
Yongzheng wanted affection, wanted the brothers of ordinary people to be cold and warm, so he began to reuse his own hardcore fan Thirteen Brother Yinxiang, giving him all the military and political affairs, but he enjoyed the supreme glory, but what Yongzheng did not expect was that thirteen days and nights of hard work, accumulated fatigue, and suddenly died.
At this time, he remembered his seventeenth brother Yin Li again, so more and more government affairs came to the hands of old seventeen, and he handed over government affairs to old seventeen for two purposes, one was to reuse old seventeen, and the other was to be closer to old seventeen through the method of reuse, so as to meet his family wishes and enjoy the joy of ordinary people's brothers supporting each other.
In fact, although the ancient emperor is a son of heaven, but after all, he is just a mortal, he cannot escape the seven passions and six desires, and he cannot avoid becoming a common man, although the royal family has no family affection, but the emperors are also extremely eager for the existence of family affection, after all, the country is too heavy, the emperor is too lonely, if you have the support of family affection and love, you can stand on the top of the peak to live in peace.
When Yongzheng was dying, he specially explained that Qianlong should take good care of Prince Guo, and there were also two meanings, one was to let his son take good care of the brother who had once given me his own warm affection, and the other was to suggest to Qianlong that he should not let the tragedy of the prince take the wife reappear, otherwise he would be like himself, cold and cold for a lifetime, without brother support.
This first layer of meaning is very easy to understand, and this second layer of meaning depends on whether Qianlong himself has penetrated it. Then, after Qianlong, as a nephew, ascended the throne, how did he treat his own pro-emperor Uncle Yinli?
Qianlong followed Yongzheng's will and treated Prince Guo kindly
When Qianlong first ascended the throne, Prince Guo was one of the four auxiliary ministers and ranked first. At that time, Qianlong was in great need of Prince Guo's support to help him stabilize the situation and secure the position of emperor.
Therefore, in the few years when Qianlong had just ascended the throne, he did follow the last wishes of his father Yongzheng, treated his uncle well, let him not perform prostrations when he met himself, and decreed that the prince of Guo would always enjoy double Feng Lu.
At that time, Qianlong was very good at talking, saying that Prince Guo was the son of Emperor Daxing and his own uncle, and it was really not good for him to perform a prostration ceremony, so he was exempted from prince Guo's prostration.
"Prince Zhuang and Prince Guo gave them a prayer when they sat in the temple, and their hearts were deeply disturbed... He was the son of Emperor Zuren and the younger brother of Emperor Daxing, and Yu Shuo was his uncle. The elders are very honorable, how can they always pray before the death..."
In addition to exempting the big gift and increasing the salary, Qianlong also deliberately made it possible for Prince Enzhunguo to work at home and report to the palace every few days, which in the ancient dynasty, indeed non-ordinary people could not enjoy this treatment.
And Prince Guo was also very dedicated, doing everything himself, so in November of the first year of Qianlong, his feet ran out of trouble, laying the root of his illness for himself, and later in the third year of Qianlong, he still could not resist the summons of Prince Yan and went to find his four Yongzheng.
When Prince Guo died, he did not have a son under his knees, so the Qianlong Emperor specially arranged for his sixth brother Hongyao to inherit the title of Prince Guo and become the son of Prince Guo, which is why the TV series said that Zhen Huan's child was the prototype of Prince Guo's son.
In addition to his succession, he also let his eldest son Yong Huang serve as the Prince of Guo to keep filial piety, and also added sacrifices, known as "Yi". At this point, Qianlong completed the task that his father explained to himself, and he did a perfect job.
epilogue
In his life, Ai Xinjue luo Yinli was quite accomplished in his low-key behavior, and wrote works such as "Chunhetang", "Jingyuan Zhai", and "Collected Poems of the Envoy Ji Xing", and the prince who had advanced achievements in literature was certainly not attentive to the matter of the throne, and his mind would not be there.
It is precisely because of this that the evaluation of him by future generations is: "solid for the country", "dedication", "integrity is also very clean".
In fact, there is nothing wrong with being as leisurely and elegant as Prince Guo, although Yongzheng got the throne, he may also have some regrets and regrets when he died, otherwise he would not have specially told Hongli to treat his brother well.