Speaking of the ninth son of the Emperor Yin Yu, he was Yongzheng's half-brother, and his mother was Yifei Guo Luoluoshi, who almost died because of an ear disease, high fever coma, and almost died, just when the Italian missionary saved him, because this missionary was proficient in surgery, so Yin Yu quickly recovered, and since then he has a good feeling for Europeans, and has always been kind to the Portuguese missionaries who served in the Qing court, as a confidant, which may be related to his childhood experience.
Yin Yu is very fond of reading, intelligent temperament, like to invent, once personally designed the chariot style, he is very fond of foreign culture and Western learning, once taught himself a foreign language, Yin Yu is good at making friends, generous, heavy love and righteousness, but because he is a strong supporter of the eighth son of the emperor and the fourteenth son of the emperor, he is jealous of Yongzheng. After the death of the Kangxi Emperor and the death of the fourth son of the Emperor, Yin Chan, became the heir, the hopes of the Yin Yu clique were completely disappointed, and Yin Yu began to have bad luck.
So how did Yongzheng treat Yin Yu?
In 1722, the Kangxi Emperor died, the four princes continued, the blow to Yin Yu was huge, he never thought that the four princes would continue to take the throne, in his mind to continue the throne should be the eighth prince, so he has been on the side of the eight princes, this is the end, all the plans are disappointed, in the years after Yin Chan ascended the throne, Yin Yu slowly turned from shock at the beginning to frustration.
Because Yongzheng began to take revenge on those princes who fought against him, when he inspected the residence of the Ninth Prince, he found his letter with the fourteenth son of the Emperor, which said that "the opportunity has been lost, and there is no regret", which is exactly what Yongzheng hated, when they joined together to exclude Yongzheng, making Yongzheng difficult to stand on, and finally everyone did not expect that the throne was actually passed to Yongzheng, not the Eighth Prince, so after Yongzheng became emperor, he wanted to teach these brothers a harsh lesson, one by one, one by one, they were taken up.
In 1726, the Ninth Prince Yin Yu was stripped of his clan status, and his name was changed to Sai Si Hei by Yongzheng, which is the meaning of annoying, his four sons were also changed their names, and Yin Yu was imprisoned in the heavy guarded cell in the capital, he was a little afraid at the time, because through some people, some people who guarded him, he could dredge up the relationship, but did not refuse, and yin Yu was even more desperate, and later the Yongzheng Emperor issued a holy decree again, except for giving him three meals a day, the rest was not allowed to give him anything. Yin Yu was thus imprisoned in the cell, his hands and feet were chained, and when he was unconscious, he would be awakened by cold water, and finally Yin Yu spent the last three months of his life in despair, of course, some people said that Yin Yu was poisoned, not a normal death.
Ruthless is the imperial family, brothers for the throne and cannibalism, in the end some victories, some defeated, the victory began to kill the failure, and finally the princes who struggled with Yongzheng almost did not have a good end, this is the terrible and fierce power struggle.