On May 23 of the first year of Yongzheng, shortly after the Yongzheng Emperor succeeded to the throne, his birth mother, Princess Wuya, died in Yonghe Palace. However, there is not much record in the records of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Court Hospital that Wu Yashi fell ill before his death, but the history of the Qing Palace records: "On May 22 of the first year of Yongzheng, the empress dowager was seriously ill, and the Yongzheng Emperor personally went to Yonghe Palace and served soup medicine day and night. ”
That is to say, the Wuya clan, which was already the empress dowager at that time, not only did not stay in the Empress Ningshou Palace, but even became ill the day before and died the next day, and the specific disease of the Wuya clan was not recorded in the palace archives. Therefore, there are many folk rumors that the Wuya clan is unwilling to accept the position of empress dowager given by the Yongzheng Emperor, and on the day that Yongzheng went to the Yonghe Palace, he quarreled with his birth mother over how to deal with Yin Yu, who was also involved in the dispute to seize the concubine, and finally forced the Wuya clan to commit suicide by crashing into the pillar. Such rumors are not empty, first, the sudden illness of the healthy Uya clan died the next day, but there is no clear record in the Tai Hospital; second, the relationship between Yongzheng and the Uya clan has indeed been poor, and the civil and military officials in the DPRK have long known about it.
Ai Xinjueluo Yinyu was the fourteenth son of the Kangxi Emperor and was highly valued by the Kangxi Emperor. He is also the youngest son of the Uya clan, and unlike Yin Chan, Yin Chan has always been cared for and loved by the Uya clan, and has always been able to grow up under the knees of the Uya clan. The Yongzheng Emperor Yin Chan, on the other hand, was placed under the knees of Empress Xiaoyiren Tong Jia because of the low status of the Wuya clan at birth. Therefore, in Wu Yashi's heart, she prefers her youngest son Yin Yu, who she brought up with her. However, after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, in addition to disposing of the Eight Ye Party, who had participated in the conquest with him, he also disposed of yin Yu, the brother who supported the Eight Master, which was undoubtedly a great blow to Wu Yashi, a mother who had always loved her young son.
The Wuya clan did not like Yongzheng to treat Yin Yu in this way, and repeatedly pleaded with Yongzheng, who was already emperor, hoping that he would spare his half-brother Yin Yu, who was half-father and mother. However, Yongzheng never agreed to the Wu ya clan, so the contradiction between the two deepened, and the Wu Ya clan was even reluctant to move away from the Yonghe Palace where he lived and go to the Ningshou Palace, the residence of the empress dowager.
When Yin Chan was born, she was fostered under the knees of Empress XiaoYiren, who was still an imperial concubine at the time, and Empress Xiaoyiren only had one daughter, so she cared for Yin Chan very much, and never treated him harshly because Yin Chan was not her own child. However, Empress Xiaoyiren died in a hurry when Yin Chan was eleven years old, and Yin Chan did not return to her birth mother Wu Yashi after that, but only watched Wu Ya clan take care of her brother Yin Yu to the extreme, but was very cold to herself.
The reason why Yongzheng was able to ascend the throne smoothly was inseparable from his adoptive mother, Empress Xiaoyiren Tong Jiashi, and also from Empress Xiaoyiren's brother-in-law Long Keduo. Once Yongzheng also affectionately called Longkeduo as his uncle, and Longkeduo also made a lot of efforts to support Yongzheng, but later the fate of Longkeduo was known to everyone. It was not that Wu Yashi did not like her own son to become emperor, but she did prefer her youngest son Yin Yu in her heart, and she was also quite dissatisfied with Yongzheng's handling and attitude towards her own brother.
As for whether Uyashi committed suicide by hitting a pillar or died of a sudden illness, more people are inclined to the former. It's just that Yongzheng lacked the love of his birth mother when he was a child, and when he was a teenager, his adoptive mother died, and he could only watch his birth mother spoil his young son and snub himself, which is not a kind of cruelty to Yongzheng?