The Qing Dynasty is a dynasty that has existed for a very long time in Chinese history, for 296 years, which is 20 years more than the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, but it, like the Ming Dynasty, when it spans the 3rd century, it inevitably declines, and when we think of that tragic late Qing Dynasty today, it is also very heavy and painful. Historians have studied the points of the Qing Dynasty's rise and fall, and they all think that it is the Yongzheng period.
The Yongzheng period was from 1722 to 1735, the initial Yongzheng Emperor was keen on innovation, more than the previous Kangxi Emperor, but even in the unification of multi-ethnic countries, there was a very advanced attitude, in order to strengthen the rule of the ethnic minorities in the southwest, in 1726 to implement the "land reform and return", alleviating the oppression of the local ethnic minorities. Unremitting efforts were made to rule Tibet, thus continuing the glorious "prosperous kangqian", social stability, vigorous population development, and a thriving scene.
However, on the contrary, the Yongzheng Emperor showed an extremely conservative attitude in foreign policy, because of the dispute with the Roman Catholic Church, he was so annoyed that he actually adopted some of the "closed country" policies of the Ming Dynasty, which not only restricted the exchange of Catholics, but even curbed imports and exports, but also hindered imports. Although the fundamental reason is to avoid the invasion of other countries' ideology and culture, and to covet it in other aspects, it also misses the period of bourgeois revolution and the rapid development of science and technology in Western countries.
Moreover, after the Yongzheng Emperor, the Kangxi Emperor exerted it to the extreme in this regard, and it can be said that there was almost no connection with the outside world, so that China even realized that when the long guns and cannons hit the head, it reacted to the backwardness of the guns, and there was no force to fight back in the war, and it could only be allowed to be eaten and divided by the Western powers, forced to go to modern history, walking under the squint of the world's eyes.
Therefore, some people put forward a hypothesis, thinking that if the Kangxi Emperor had passed the throne to his favorite thirteen brothers Yinxiang, the end of the Qing Dynasty might have been very different, and it would not have been rushed into the Yuanmingyuan by the Eight-Nation Alliance and destroyed the world's treasures. So why did this part of the people think that it should be passed on to Yin Xiang, rather than other princes? What is yin xiang's superiority?
Yin Xiang was born in 1686, his mother was the Jingmin Emperor noble concubine Zhang Jiashi, in 1698 he was only 12 years old, because he went to Shengjing with Kangxi once, after returning, he was favored, becoming the most favored prince in the palace besides the prince, and from then until 1708, the Kangxi Emperor had to take him wherever he went, and also let him contact and handle a lot of government affairs, and his strength in national affairs was gradually revealed.
Although he was made crown prince at that time, clear-eyed people could also see that Kangxi had a nurturing heart for him, and in 1704, he was mentioned in a letter written in 1704 by He Zhuo, the teacher of the eighth son of the emperor, Yun Yu, who mentioned that he had a promising future. And what is even stranger is that the thirteenth brother is advanced in thought, very curious about foreign cultures, foreign emissaries can get preferential treatment in his place, and frequently try to go out, intending to learn some new things.
Therefore, in everyone's opinion, the thirteenth brother Yinxiang has more characteristics of making the Qing Dynasty a "superpower" and allowing the country to naturally transition and develop to modern history, on the contrary, the four brothers who became the Yongzheng Emperor are not prominent, and he is unremarkable among the 9 princes in the imperial palace, because his birth mother is low, and he is not very popular with the Kangxi Emperor, let alone the heir to the throne in the mind of the Kangxi Emperor, but because of the "Nine Dragons Seize the Wife", in 1708, the thirteenth brother unexpectedly fell out of favor, the prince was deposed many times, and the Kangxi Emperor saw him compete for favor. When he is dissatisfied with him, he can also bear the burden of humiliation and rest his heart to taoguang and cultivate obscurity.
Finally, the Kangxi Emperor died of illness, and in 1722, he left a will and established Yin Chan as the new emperor, so that he could sit on the throne. However, the so-called "testament" was also drafted after Yin Chan ascended the throne, not written by the Kangxi Emperor himself, but also announced through the mouth of Long Keduo, so everyone suspected that he was usurping the throne, and his emperor had always been very awkward.