The most is the ruthless imperial family. Ordinary people may not understand the palace compound, but the phrase "the most ruthless imperial family" is widely circulated in the folk, and it is the most intuitive view of the public on the secret history of the palace. Since ancient times, the struggle for imperial power has always been so cruel, the change of Xuanwu Gate, the sound of candle shadow axes, the nine sons and so on.
These events are recorded in history and circulated in the folk. One of the most cruel and mysterious is the nine sons and wives during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.
However, the depiction of the "Nine Sons and Concubines" in the main history is very small, and although there are detailed descriptions in the wild history, most of them cannot be believed. It was not until the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, came to power that the historical events of the nine sons and wives unfolded their mysterious pictures one by one...
Puyi and his people
When people mention Puyi, they may think that he was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, but few people know that Puyi is also an ordinary person who suffers a hard life.
On February 17, 1906, Puyi was born in the palace of Prince Alcohol. He could have inherited his father's throne and been a happy idle prince. But the trickery of fate and the tide of the times are always so elusive.
In 1908, the Guangxu Emperor became seriously ill, and Puyi was taken to the imperial palace. On November 14, the Guangxu Emperor died, and Puyi was placed on the dragon chair by Empress Dowager Cixi. She announced: Puyi is the son of the emperor, and now, shang is desperate, and the legend is located in Puyi. Wait for him. In this way, Puyi, who was not yet three years old, became emperor in a confused way, and his father Zaifeng served as the regent and took care of political affairs for him.
It should have been a pleasure to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Dignity. But in the stormy late Qing Dynasty, everyone knew that the Qing Dynasty was incurable, and staying in the imperial palace was nothing more than a lamb to be slaughtered. However, the day of "slaughter" came so quickly that it was a surprise.
Puyi had not yet ascended the throne for three years, and under the persecution of many forces, he withdrew from the throne, and he himself was placed under house arrest in the Forbidden Palace. Since then, he has been surrounded by various forces and has not been allowed to be free.
A mistake
Happily, although he was placed under house arrest, he spent a lot more time with his family. Especially the arrival of his younger brother Pujie made him extremely excited. The two brothers go to school together and play together. Soon, the palace was surrounded by two brothers.
At this time, Puyi was no longer the emperor of the Nine-Five-Year Emperor, and there were many fewer palace eunuchs around him, and there were also many fewer shackles. As long as he does not leave the palace, he can have absolute freedom to go wherever he likes.
However, the imperial palace was only that big, and the two energetic young men naturally quickly ran all over Ouchi. Even the Yangxin Hall, which was strictly forbidden by their mother and queen, was often within the scope of their play. However, an inadvertent act in the Yangxin Hall still frightened the two brothers.
On this day, as usual, they came to the Yangxin Hall to hide and seek. This time, Pu Jie hid behind the dragon chair. Puyi seemed to have known Pujie's hiding place long ago, and he did not go straight to catch Pujie out, but quietly changed into a "ghost mask", crept around, and shouted at Pujie".
Pu Jie was frightened by this sudden "wow" sound, and staggered backwards, "bang" hit the brick wall behind the dragon chair. However, with Pu Jie's impact, the mechanism on the wall was touched, and a wooden box popped out.
A century-old case
Puyi was attracted by this sudden appearance of the wooden box, and did not pay attention to Pujie, who was screaming in pain. On the wooden box are written seven big characters" "Love New Jue Luo Shi Bei Qi". After seeing these words, Puyi hesitated a little and was ready to put them back. But Pu Jie suddenly grabbed it, took the lead in opening the wooden box, and said viciously to Puyi: "Hum, let you scare me." ”
What really frightened the two boys, however, was the yellow paper in the wooden box. On the yellow paper, it was written impressively: "Dove kills Yin Yu, Yin Yu". They immediately understood that this was a secret edict. They were also very familiar with the characters on the secret edict, that is, the eighth and ninth sons of the Kangxi Emperor.
So who is going to kill Yin Yu and Yin Yu? The name of the Yongzheng Emperor is impressively written on the end of the paragraph. It was already clear, and the record of the history of the wild was indeed true.
The two looked at each other, which greatly impacted the minds of the two. In the history they studied, although Yin Yu and Yin Yu tried to harass the Yongzheng Emperor at every turn, in the end the Yongzheng Emperor still gave Yin Yu and Yin Yu the throne and asked him to help him handle the government. Although Yin Yu and Yin Yu died young, it was because of overwork. The history is recorded as such.
In a trance, they seemed to see the history of the original "nine sons and wives".
The Kangxi Emperor had 35 sons in his lifetime, except for 11 sons who died young, the other 24 sons were very outstanding. It stands to reason that as a father, you should be very happy to see your children so good. But born in the palace, raised in the palace, with such an outstanding son, then the succession to the throne is a great challenge.
Therefore, in order to avoid the occurrence of the concubine seizure, the Kangxi Emperor established him as the crown prince two weeks after the birth of The second son yinrong born to Empress Xiaocheng. However, after yin rong had been crown prince for more than thirty years, he was despised by the Kangxi Emperor for being excessively violent and conniving at the corruption of his subordinates, so he was deposed as the crown prince. As the saying goes: the foundation of the country is in storage.
Now that the crown prince has been deposed, the sons of the Kangxi Emperor, as if they have seen the dawn, have set their own camps to please the Kangxi Emperor, and at the same time attack each other, hoping to overthrow each other so that they can inherit the throne. Among them, the three factions of the Great Brother Yinyu, the Fourth Brother Yinchen (Yongzheng Emperor), the Eighth Brother, the Ninth Brother Yinyu, and the Yinyu faction are the most fiercely contested.
For a period of time, the Eight Ye Party was the most proud, and they used tactics to make the eldest brother imprisoned, the fourth brother deprived of real power, and the balance of victory gradually tilted towards the Eight Ye Party. However, the creation of people. The Kangxi Emperor was most disgusted with forming parties for personal gain in his life, and although the behavior of the Eight Brothers was hidden very deeply, the discerning Kangxi had already seen the Eight Ye Party faction clearly.
Therefore, after his death, he left a will for the low-key and stoic Fourth Brother Yinchen to inherit the unification.
Since then, the Ninth Son's conquest of the concubine has come to an end, and the Yongzheng Emperor has taken the throne. Soon, in addition to the thirteen brothers who supported him, Yin Xiang, the rest of the brothers who participated in the nine sons' conquest died one after another, and the reason was mysterious. Now, the birth of the wooden box of the Yangxin Hall shows that the truth about the Yongzheng Emperor's murder of his brothers has been confirmed. Therefore, Puyi and Pujie did not dare to believe this fact, and they were afraid to know this truth.
Many years later, Puyi recorded in detail this "rashness" in his own memoir "The First Half of My Life", which is to say that this court mystery was made public.
brief summary
Poor parents in the world, it is difficult for a clean official to break the housework. Naturally, the Kangxi Emperor did not want such a tragedy to happen. But born in the imperial family, raised in the palace compound, some things can not be their own.
In order to survive, for the sake of their homeland, the brothers had to do the same. If it wasn't Yongzheng who seized the throne, but The Eight Brothers Yin Yu who seized the throne, I think the result would still be the same. The most ruthless imperial family, for the sake of the stability of the country, had to do something that was not understood by people, or even cruel.