"The sovereign power is divinely granted, and the divine power is supreme." Such ideas had a huge impact on ancient Chinese society and have even become one of the characteristics of ancient times. Such thinking has created many feudal superstitious phenomena - the theory of the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven is the child of Heaven, and there is no doubt about it.
Under the ideological consolidation of successive generations of emperors, China finally completed the peak of feudal imperialism in the Qing Dynasty. The completion of this system made the Qing Dynasty, which was already backward in science and technology, lag behind the overseas countries at that time in ideological construction, and all these things foreshadowed the decline of the Chinese nation.
When history is touched upon, page after page of examples slowly unfolds, from the beginning to the present day. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has painted countless feats, but when the eyes are focused on the Qing Dynasty, everything changes, especially during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor, feudal ideas spread throughout China.
Background after the Qing soldiers entered the customs
There are many representative words of the Qing Dynasty: "literal prison, ideological concentration, war" of which two words occupy half of the Qing Dynasty - "ideological concentration" is synonymous with the formation of the Imperial System of the Qing Dynasty.
Soon after the Shunzhi Emperor brought the Qing soldiers into the customs, he officially declared himself "the identity of the Son of Heaven" and entered the Central Plains in this name. When the Qing soldiers were ready to fully enter the capital, they began to suppress and annihilate the rebels, and at this time the Qing Dynasty had become the spokesman of "orthodoxy".
After the Shunzhi Emperor officially served the government, he vigorously encouraged the trend of han officials, although this practice made the Manchus very dissatisfied, but it brought hope to the Han people and increased the Han people's good feelings for the Manchus, and this was what the Shunzhi Emperor expected - Huairou's ideological change.
The Shunzhi Emperor's gentle political measures against the Han were not accepted by the Manchus, so in the later period of the Shunzhi Emperor's reign, the Manchus in the Qing Dynasty began to stir up trouble, carrying out various blows and threats to the Han officials, and the Shunzhi Emperor at this time was already in the sadness of Dong E's death.
Such a phenomenon broke out after the death of the Shunzhi Emperor. During the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor, there was a great revival of the measures of the Han officials, which should have been conducive to national unity, but it caused dissatisfaction among the Manchus, and finally after the death of the Shunzhi Emperor, a dramatic scene appeared in the Qing Dynasty: sin against oneself.
In the edict of sin after the death of the Shunzhi Emperor, he completely denied the Han official's measures, and all kinds of far-reaching measures became a joke, and the Shunzhi Emperor's Huairou policy failed.
The Shunzhi Emperor took over the rule of the famous Kangxi Emperor. After the Kangxi Emperor officially ascended the throne, he embarked on a different policy from that of the Shunzhi Emperor. During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, he played an important role in the development of the territory of the Qing Dynasty, repeatedly suppressing the border wars by force, and demonstrating the strength of the Qing Dynasty.
The Kangxi Emperor's various tough measures against the outside world made the people of the Qing Dynasty very excited, and for a time they thought that the Kangxi Emperor was the greatest emperor, and this period was called "Kangxi Prosperous Era". The reign of the Kangxi Emperor was as his era name: Kangning Peace.
However, when the next generation of monarchs passed on the hereditary power, there was a major event in the royal family - the seizure of the nine sons and wives. At the time of Kangxi's death, there was a case of concubine seizure that is still puzzling: a humble fourth brother eventually inherited the throne, while the originally highly anticipated eighth brother became the corpse of the throne.
The ascension of the Yongzheng Emperor to the throne may be the biggest mystery of the Qing Dynasty, although there are many canonical records that describe the Kangxi Emperor's optimism for the Yongzheng Emperor, but in many wild histories, there are also many records of the kangxi emperor's true hope for the successor. The question of whether the Yongzheng Emperor was "orthodox" has always been in the fog.
The true truth of the "Nine Sons and Nine Wives" has always been confusing. Who did the Kangxi Emperor prefer? Which brother would you prefer to inherit the throne? These two questions alone are enough to make people see what it is called - the heart is like a deep, unfathomable.
Nine sons and wives
If we want to analyze who the Kangxi Emperor really liked more, we must thoroughly analyze the pattern during the handover between the Kangxi Emperor and the Yongzheng Emperor. The Kangxi Emperor was the emperor with the largest number of heirs in the history of the Qing Dynasty, with a total of thirty-five brothers and twenty princesses, which has always been the record of the Qing Dynasty.
At that time, it was natural that more men and fewer women were the best, but these thirty-five children were all born in the Forbidden City, and they were the dragon daughters of the Kangxi Emperor, and the fact that there were many heirs became the explosive point of the family's unhappiness.
The situation of "more wolves and less meat" was placed in front of the Kangxi Emperor. For the Kangxi Emperor, the numerous grids were easy to handle. After all, the Ge ge are generally the "chain of communication" between the monarchs and courtiers, and they only need to marry the courtiers, but the many problems of the brothers are a big problem.
Of the thirty-five brothers, only one was the emperor, and the rest were princes. This may seem like a harmonious pattern on the surface, but it is not. There are many examples in history of the overthrow of the monarchy by his own brothers, which is well understood by the Kangxi Emperor, who is familiar with history.
Therefore, the Kangxi Emperor would have chosen a brother and brother Gong. Looking at many brothers, there are ambitious eight brothers, there are stupid and honest big brothers, there are lively and capable thirteen brothers Andi Yinxiang, and there are four brothers who have no quarrel with the world.
The brothers with very different personalities made the Kangxi Emperor nervous, first, the struggle between the brothers was something that the Kangxi Emperor did not want to see, and second, they could not let the incompetent people inherit the monarchy. This ideological struggle between the two of them finally made the Kangxi Emperor choose to coldly watch the drama of "nine sons and nine wives".
When the various brothers were fighting fiercely, only Yin Chan (the four brothers) was independent of the struggle. Such a situation made the Kangxi Emperor very curious, was Yin Chan really unintentional to the throne? Under the many temptations of the Kangxi Emperor, it was concluded that Yin Chan and his nickname were generally the same as "the first scattered people in the world".
The Kangxi Emperor believed that Yin Chan was not for imperial power because he did not want to hurt brotherhood, and this was something that the Kangxi Emperor was very optimistic about, but he did not know that this was all the appearance of Yin Chan. In the sixty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1722), with the approval of the Kangxi Emperor, Yin Chan finally ascended to the throne and was called Yongzheng.
Soon after the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he launched a purge against his brothers, driving some of the princes who did not support him out of the capital to guard the frontier, and the other part of the prince for various reasons of rebellion. This was the result of the Yongzheng Emperor giving Kangxi, who used ruthlessness and iron fist to eliminate his hands and siblings.
Yin Xiang's talent
However, among the many princes, he left Yin Xiang (the thirteenth brother) to act as his right and left hand, and even after Yin Xiang's death, he changed the "Yun" to avoid "Yin" and changed it back to "Yin", and the advice of the group of ministers was fruitless, which was the only case in which the Qing Dynasty did not avoid the "imperial surname".
All these things are not difficult to see, the Yongzheng Emperor's optimism and trust in Yin Xiang. The Yongzheng Emperor valued Yin Xiang not only because he was his own supporter, but also because of Yin Xiang's own talent and strength.
After the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he began to formally face the various problems left to him by the Kangxi Emperor, including agricultural complaints and official fraud, which annoyed the Yongzheng Emperor with various examples, among which the remarks that the Yongzheng Emperor was not orthodox made the Yongzheng Emperor very annoyed.
So many cases yongzheng emperor alone really could not afford it, so he found a helper- Yin Xiang, and the Yongzheng Emperor handed over a bunch of folds to Yin Xiang. Soon after handing over various matters, Yin Xiang resolved all the twists that the Yongzheng Emperor could not handle, cleaned up, and acted vigorously.
In addition to political governance, Yin Xiang also brought great help to the Yongzheng Emperor in military terms. In the seventh year of Yongzheng, due to the invasion of the Jungar region, Yin Xiang was ordered to manage the discipline of the two military disciplines in the northwest. The brothers' repeated help made the Yongzheng Emperor very touched and happy.
Therefore, the Yongzheng Emperor made Yin Xiang the Iron Hat King, the ninth Iron Hat King of the Qing Dynasty. The Yongzheng Emperor's love and trust for Yin Xiang was expressed to his courtiers all the time: Yin Xiang was a pillar of the Qing Dynasty, and he understood me.
Things are clustered in groups, and people are grouped
The same kind of people must get together, and the Yongzheng Emperor and Yin Xiang are one type of people. During the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor, he pushed the dictatorship to the climax, and indirectly contributed to the corruption and loneliness of the Qing Dynasty, and finally ushered in the eight-nation alliance and the demise of the Qing Dynasty.
If the Yongzheng Emperor had not pushed the dictatorship to the pinnacle; if it had been Yin Xiang who had succeeded the Kangxi Emperor, would all this have changed, eventually making the Qing Dynasty a superpower to defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance. It's a hypothesis, but the results are all the same.
Whether it is Yin Chan or Yin Xiang, they are essentially the same kind of people, and the reversal of identity cannot change the advancement of the dictatorship of the imperial system, and whoever controls the imperial power cannot change the inevitable result of the decline of the Qing Dynasty. This can be seen from Yin Xiang's deep imperial heart, Yin Chan and Yin Xiang are a type of person.
If the essence of Yin Xiang and the essence of Yin Chan were different or incompatible, then Yin Xiang had already become one of the skeletons of many imperial power struggles. In summary, Yin Xiang did not change the decline of the qing dynasty at the end of the qing dynasty.