When it comes to the Kangxi Emperor as a ming emperor, we understand him the most, in addition to his total reign of sixty-one years, laying a solid foundation for the prosperity of the world, the most presumably is the power struggle between the nine sons and the wife that arose in his later years, right? As we all know, my succession to the throne has been a particularly sensitive and cautious choice for the king throughout the ages, because if I am not careful, it is likely to cause infighting in the court, which will involve countless innocent people. Then the question arises, Kangxi's father, the Shunzhi Emperor, had a total of fourteen daughters and eight sons in his lifetime, so what was the fate of several of his brothers after Kangxi successfully ascended the throne? Next, let's take a look at it with xiaobian!
First of all, we all know that the Shunzhi Emperor's life experience was relatively bumpy, although he had eight sons, but four of them did not survive adulthood and died early, that is, the emperor's eldest son, fourth son, sixth son and eighth son. Among these four princes, including the four princes born to The Shunzhi Emperor's favorite Concubine Dong, who was later posthumously honored as Prince Rong. In addition, the fate of the seventh son of the emperor was also full of twists and turns, when he was fifteen years old, he was named a pure prince, and the relationship between the seventh son of the emperor and Kangxi was not bad, but he finally died of illness at the age of four. It is worth mentioning that when the seventh son of the emperor was crowned king, it happened to be the thirteenth year of Kangxi, which shows that Kangxi's feelings for his seventh brother are very deep. Therefore, when Prince Chun died, the Kangxi Emperor, in his grief, allowed his seventh brother to inherit his father's title. However, despite the fate of heaven, this child eventually failed to survive the first year of age, and unfortunately died. Therefore, this bloodline of the Seventh Son of the Emperor was even broken.
Therefore, counting and counting, among the eight princes of the Shunzhi Emperor, the only three princes who can finally survive to the end are only three princes. For example, the second son of the emperor, Fuquan, is one of them. According to the royal custom at that time, after the death of the eldest son of the emperor, Fuquan, who was the second son of the emperor, was to a certain extent the heir to the throne of the eldest son. So at that time, the Shunzhi Emperor actually wanted to pass the throne to him. However, Empress Xiaozhuang obviously preferred the clever and agile third son, later the Kangxi Emperor; plus the second son of the emperor had shown ambition before, saying that it was enough to say that he only wanted to be a prince when he grew up.
Of course, there was another important reason why Kangxi was able to succeed to the throne, that is, according to historical records, the Shunzhi Emperor died of smallpox, and at that time, the disease of smallpox was a huge hidden danger for the Manchu Qing royal family. But coincidentally, the Kangxi Emperor once had smallpox, but he successfully pulled back from the ghost gate. According to medical common sense, the Kangxi Emperor already had antibodies to smallpox in his body, so he was naturally not afraid of smallpox attacks in the future. Because of this, considering the inheritance of the royal bloodline, this made Kangxi finally pushed to the status of the Ninth Five-Year Emperor.
And Fuquan, the second son of the emperor, who had no intention of competing for the throne, after Kangxi took the throne, he has always been diligent and earnest, and has not been a little bit of prestige, and once made a lot of meritorious achievements in the campaign against Kaldan, which won the weight of the Kangxi Emperor. But despite this, Fuquan never forgot the difference between kings and subjects, so he gained more and more trust from the emperor. Therefore, in the great court, Fuquan still lived to the age of fifty, which was a good death.
The last prince was the fifth prince, Chang Ning. He was made a prince in the tenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, and he also followed Fuquan in his conquest of Gardan, and made many meritorious achievements on the battlefield. However, Chang Ning was different from Fu Quan, and his political talent was not outstanding, which could be regarded as mediocre, so his relationship with Kangxi was not as good as that of Fu Quan. But fortunately, although his political performance was mediocre, at least he did not have any disobedience, so he eventually lived forty-two years, only two months before Fuquan died in the capital.
It can be seen that after the Kangxi Emperor ascended the throne, he did not have the same heart and fierceness towards his brothers as Yongzheng. Of course, first of all, because when Kangxi ascended the throne, the age of the princes was generally not very old, so after he justifiably sat on the emperor's throne, naturally no one would compete with him; secondly, the emperor's second son Fuquan played a very good exemplary role, under his leadership, the princes always maintained a humble posture, and never dared to forget their duty as courtiers, which could end up with a good ending.
Of course, all this is also related to the Kangxi Emperor himself, after all, as a generation of Ming Emperors, his praise is not limited to his ability to handle the government, and his filial piety is also praised by the world.