The person who "accidentally" ascended to the throne of God in history and left a deep impression on us was Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.
Interestingly, according to the History of the Song Dynasty. The biography of Empress Dowager Du records that When Zhao Kuangyin's mother learned of her son's "yellow robe plus body", she clapped her hands and laughed, and her eyebrows fluttered and danced to the people around her: "My son has always had great ambitions, and now it is true!" "In the case of the uncertain auspiciousness at that time, it can be seen that this mother has a good attitude.
Compared with Zhao Kuangyin, the fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, ascended the throne, which also surprised many people, but after the efforts of the two generations of Shunzhi and Kangxi fathers and sons, when Yongzheng ascended the throne, the Great Qing Kingdom was in the midst of a peaceful and prosperous era, resulting in Yongzheng sitting on the throne, and there was no chaotic situation of foreign enemies and internal strife that was difficult to calm when the Northern Song Dynasty was founded.
That is to say, from the moment Yongzheng sat on the dragon chair, his throne was as solid as a rock and difficult to shake.
However, Yongzheng's mother, Wu Yashi, did not have the joy of Zhao Kuangyin's mother.
▲ Uyashi
In the Records of Emperor Qing Shizong, when Wu Yashi heard that Yongzheng was on the throne, he acted very dismissively and said unusually coldly: "It is not what I ordered my son to inherit the unification, which is not what he dreamed of." The Yongxian Record also records that Wu Yashi once issued a decree saying: "I have been a concubine since I was a child, and I have not done anything before the former emperor." To make my son emperor is not only something I dare not hope for, but I do not think about it in my dreams. ”
Even if she acted disdainful and unhappy, the mother deliberately wanted to oppose her son and contradict her everywhere.
Before the new emperor held the ceremony of the ascension ceremony, according to the old rules, he had to first pay homage to the empress dowager, and then he was promoted to the imperial palace and accepted the worship of the courtiers.
Wu Yashi did not cooperate at all, deliberately demolishing the stage, and refused to accept the new emperor's salute.
The Records of Emperor Shizong of the Qing Dynasty records uyashi's prevarication, which translates into the vernacular: "When the emperor inherits the throne, of course, he must accept the worship and blessing of his subjects." But to come and salute me is really unnecessary, and it has nothing to do with me. Moreover, the former emperor has just died, and I am really uneasy in my heart to accept the new emperor's salute instead of mourning clothes, so the matter of saluting to me should be pulled down. ”
But if you don't follow the procedure, Yongzheng's throne will be unjustified and unsmooth.
Yongzheng had no choice but to plead, personally come forward, plead again and again, and at the same time signal the princes and ministers to persuade them vigorously from the side. Uyashi reluctantly agreed in the end.
After the enthronement ceremony was held, the new emperor gave the empress dowager a badge according to the old rules.
The emblem that Yongzheng gave to his mother was "Renshou", and the weight of these two words could not be said to be high.
However, Wu Yashi said: "The important matter of burying the former emperor is being held, I am in a deep mood, I have no time to think about anything else, I only hope that my son can understand the mind of the former emperor ruling the country, Jiangshan Yongbao; the princes and ministers can understand the mind of the first emperor to rule the country, loyal and patriotic, then the heavens are dependent, the four seas are peaceful, and I am also very glorious, far better than accepting any honorific title." ”
Of course, no matter how Wu Yashi pushed back, her actual identity was the empress dowager. As the empress dowager, she should move to the Cining Palace or Ningshou Palace according to the regulations. However, the Uya clan was determined not to move, and lived in Yonghe Palace, one of the six eastern palaces where she lived when she was a concubine, until she died of illness.
Why is that? This has to start with the people of Uyashi.
According to the history books, Wu Ya was born in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660, three years younger than Kangxi), a Manchurian Zhenghuang bannerman, who was a military leader of the protector army and a first-class public warrior.
On the surface, Uya's identity is still good. Yongzheng claimed that his mother was born from the "old clan of this dynasty and a famous creator of the world".
In fact, Uya's grandfather, Echan, was the head of the dining room and covered the interior of the ministry. The Manchu word for wrapping is "booi", which originally means "servant of the family", referring to the servants raised in the homes of the Manchurian nobles in the Qing Dynasty. The history books did not record this paragraph because of Yongzheng.
In other words, the Uya family is not a "old family of the dynasty, a famous family of the founding world", but a low-status slave family.
Because of her humble origins, although Wu Yashi conquered the Kangxi Emperor with her beauty and unique charm, gave birth to three men and three daughters (one man and two daughters died prematurely, only the Yongzheng Emperor Yinchen, the fourteenth son of the Emperor Yinzhen and the ninth daughter of the Emperor Gulun Wenxian Became adults), becoming the fertility champion among the kangxi harem women, she was not eligible to raise this son when She gave birth to Yongzheng in the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678).
The Qing Palace had a rule that only the harem masters above the concubine level (including the rank of concubine) were eligible to raise the crown prince.
The Kangxi Emperor was first officially crowned a concubine in February of the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1677), and he was given eight main thrones (one concubine, seven concubines) in one go. It is estimated that the rank of Uya clan at that time was "always present" or "noble".
Therefore, Yongzheng was taken to raise the noble concubine Tong Jia after the full moon of his birth.
After Yongzheng grew up, although there were also fixed meeting times such as asking for peace or wishing for birthdays to the birth mother, under the strict system in the palace, mother and son could not be close, and the ideological estrangement and indifferent relationship between mother and child could be imagined.
Yongzheng himself once said personally: "It is not as good as raising grace." In Yongzheng's heart, his adoptive mother Tong Jiashi was his mother, and his birth mother, Wu Yashi, was just a familiar stranger, nothing more.
For Uya, his own son was sent to an outsider to raise, his self-esteem was already stimulated, and a deep-rooted sense of inferiority was planted in the depths of his soul. On the contrary, Yongzheng often thought that he was the adopted son of the imperial concubine (the head of the palace at that time), which further deepened the sadness and sadness of the Wuya clan.
It was not until the eighteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1679) that the Uya clan was crowned as a concubine, and in the twentieth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Uya clan was promoted to the title of De Concubine for giving birth to the sixth brother Yin Zuo (who died at the age of six).
Promoted to concubine and concubine, Uya clan had the qualifications to raise his own son. Therefore, the love that could not be shown in the eldest son who was taken away and the second son who died prematurely was infused by the Wuya clan to the third son Yin Zhen.
Uyashi said, "Not only do I dare not hope to make my son emperor, but I don't think about it in my dreams," and half of these words are true and half are false.
Kangxi was deeply influenced by the Confucian thought of the Han people, advocating the Han feudal dynasty's "concubine system" of the reserve system, the eldest son Yin Rong had just reached the age of one year, he could not wait to make him the crown prince.
Yin Rong, the crown prince, had been there for more than twenty years.
In these more than twenty years, Kangxi never thought of becoming crown prince.
Of course, Uyashi is "not only dare I not look forward to it, but I don't think about it in my dreams."
In the forty-seventh year of Kang Xuan (1708), because of the impatience of the long-time crown prince, he eagerly tried to ascend to the throne of God. Kangxi couldn't bear it any longer and announced the deposing of the crown prince at the Burhasutai Palace in the Mulan yard. However, the idea of the "concubine system" still lingered, and only a year later, Kangxi re-established Yin Rong, the only concubine, as the crown prince.
However, Yin Rong was an unsupportable Ah Dou in the end, and was eventually deposed by Kangxi for the second time in the fifty-first year of Kangxi (1712).
Crown Prince Yinrong was deposed, and the eighth son of the Emperor, Yin Zhen, who had previously been very vocal about the seizure of the throne, was also publicly rejected by Kangxi, and the fourth son of the Emperor Yinzhen and the fourteenth son of the Emperor Yinzhen became popular figures for the throne.
▲ Yin Zhen
In particular, the fourteenth son of the emperor, Yin Zhen, served as the general of Fuyuan in the fifty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1718) and was ordered to march west. This was the first time that the Qing Dynasty made the prince a great general. On the day of the expedition, the ceremony was extremely solemn, and the specifications were similar to those of the Heavenly Son, "using the yellow flag of the yellow flag, according to the style of the king", "the king of the expedition, the shell, the gong and the following are all dressed, gathered in front of the Taihe Hall." The king of the expedition, Baylor, Beizi, Gong and the ministers of the second and above were all dressed in python costumes, and gathered outside the noon gate. As a result, many people came to a consensus that Kangxi intended to pass the throne to the fourteenth son of the emperor, Yin Zhen.
Therefore, at this time, Wu Yashi should not be "not only I dare not hope, but also do not think about it in my dreams", but full of expectations that his beloved son Yin Zhenxi will be crowned crown prince after the victory of the western conquest.
However, the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, accidentally ascended the throne, and as soon as he ascended the throne, he removed The Prince of Yin Zhen, who had returned from the northwest, and only retained the original identity of Beizi.
▲Yongzheng
This, how to teach Uyashi not to be angry?! Not being polite, not accepting the honorific title, and not moving the palace are all expressions of Wu Ya's resentment towards Yongzheng.
Soon after, an incident occurred that made Wu Ya clan hate Yongzheng to death.
On March 27, 1723, Yongzheng led the princes and ministers, as well as the empress dowager and concubines of the harem, to personally send Kangxi's Zi Palace to Zunhua Dongling.
Arriving at zunhua dongling, Yongzheng ordered Yin Zhen to stay in Zunhua to keep the tomb. It is not difficult to see that this is house arrest in disguise.
Wu Yashi really hated Yongzheng to death. Ten days later, Uyashi hated the illness, stuck in his chest, and finally "hated" himself to death.
According to the Records of emperor Shizong of the Qing Dynasty, Uya felt unwell at the end of May 23 (1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.) in the first year of Yongzheng (1723), and the ugly carving the next day (from 1:00 to 3:00 a.m.) hung up.
The news of Uya's violent pawn came out, and the whole world was in an uproar. Originally, there were various speculations about Yongzheng's ascension to the throne; Wu Ya's previous behavior of not being polite, not accepting the honorific title, and not moving the palace has deepened people's speculation; the death of Wu Ya clan has made people more convinced of the authenticity of the speculation.
People even suspect that Yongzheng's succession to the throne is not only suspected of "killing the emperor's father", but also suspected of "forcing the death of the mother".
Yong yong jumped into the Yellow River and could not wash it away.