In the Kangxi era, because the crown prince Yinrong was deposed, Tong Guowei wrote to Kangxi and asked for a new crown prince, so who was this Tong Guowei? Dare to write a letter asking for another prince when the prince was deposed, and what was his end?
In fact, Tong Guowei was an imperial relative of the Kangxi Dynasty, the younger brother of Empress Xiaokangzhang during the Shunzhi Period, and the biological father of Empress Xiaoyiren of Kangxi. During the reign of Shunzhi, Tong Guowei was made a first-class bodyguard, and in the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Tong Guowei was even made a minister of the interior, and Tong Guowei's younger brother Tong Guogang was the first brave general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately he was killed in the battle with Kaldan.
After the war with Kaldan ended, Tong Guowei remained the uncle of the state for several years, until Kangxi forty-three years of old age, but a few years later, because the crown prince Yin Rong was deposed, Tong Guowei ran out to Kangxi and said: "The crown prince is a very serious matter for the Qing court, the crown prince is the foundation of the imperial court, and now that there is no prince in the Qing Dynasty, please ask the emperor to re-establish another one." ”
Kangxi listened to it and asked the ministers to recommend which prince was suitable to be the prince, and that was it, Tong Guowei led the ministers to write a letter to baoju Eight Brother Yinyu as the prince, but unfortunately, in the next year Kangxi investigated who took the lead in baoju to establish Eight Brother Yinyu as the prince.
Kangxi said to Tong Guowei, "Since you are already old, why do you still have to go out and raise Brother Baba to be crown prince?" Tong Guowei analyzed Kangxi and said: "Since my identity is the uncle of the country, I must shoulder the burden of the uncle of the country, and for the sake of the country's major affairs, I have to stand up and speak." It was in this way that Tong Guowei caused Kangxi to resent him.
Not long after, Yin Rong was again made crown prince, and Kangxi reprimanded Tong Guowei in this way: "The prince was deposed only because he was not in good health, but you were conspiring in private to make another brother of the eighth brother the crown prince." Hearing this, Tong Guowei broke out in a cold sweat and quickly asked Kangxi to absolve himself, and Kangxi did not intend to punish him because he was related to Tong Guowei, but only asked Tong Guowei to appease the ministers.
In the fifty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Tong Guowei died of illness, and such a fate was actually much luckier than his brother who died in Kaldan, and after experiencing so much, it can be regarded as a good ending. In the end, the Kangxi Emperor gave him a sacrifice, and even the Yongzheng Emperor posthumously named him Taifu, gave him the title of Duan Chun, and personally wrote the four words "Ren Xiao Qinke" and ordered people to mount him on his tombstone.
After Tong Guowei died, he could still get such a special honor as Yongzheng, and it can be said that he did not waste this life.