On the surface, Lao San Yinzhi did not care about politics, in fact, his ambitions were not smaller than others, and Yongzheng imprisoned him, not only because he had no bottom in his heart for Lao San, but also because he had committed Yongzheng's taboo.
The third son of the Emperor, Yin Zhi, was one of the many sons of the Kangxi Emperor, and his literary attainments and calligraphy were extremely high, and he was proficient in archery on bows and horses, and even the Kangxi Emperor once praised him.
And when the "Nine Sons and Sisters" were raging, because Yin Zhi did not participate too much in it, to outsiders, Yin Zhi did not seem to care much about politics.
But in fact, this is all a careful disguise of Yin Zhi, and his true ambition is no less than his other brothers.
However, he used his high emotional intelligence and high intelligence to adopt a non-obvious way to approach the throne step by step.
For example, in the earliest times, Yin Zhi took the initiative to show goodwill to the prince Yin Rong and maintain a close relationship with the prince.
The reason for this is that Yin Zhi knows that his background is not strong enough, his birth mother is RongFei Ma Jiashi, compared with the birth mothers of several other princes, RongFei Ma Jia's mother's family does not have much power background, so there is no capital that can help Yin Zhi.
Moreover, the third eldest son, neither the eldest son nor the concubine, was just an awkward third son of the Emperor, who had no other advantages except for his older age.
Therefore, after examining the cards in his hand, Yin Zhi began to take the initiative to show favor to Prince Yin, and always maintained a good relationship with Yin Rong.
There are two advantages to this, one is that if Yin Rong ascends the throne in the future, then Yin Rong will at least mix his face first, so that he will not be regarded as an enemy by Yin Rong at that time, and second, he can also win the favor of his father Kangxi, and at the same time, he can also take the opportunity to find Yin Rong's weakness.
It turned out that Yin Zhi's move was very correct at that time, and in the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, an opportunity for Yin Zhi to be infinitely close to the position of prince came.
In the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, on the way of the Kangxi Emperor's tour of Saiwai with many princes, the eldest son of the emperor, Yin Zhen, who had always been at odds with the crown prince, took the opportunity to report Yin Rong to Kangxi, pointing out that he was violent and unkind, and connived at his subordinates to extort and extort ministers, and Kangxi was extremely dissatisfied with Yin Rong.
In the end, the Kangxi Emperor deposed Yin Rong's title as crown prince on the grounds that he "wanted to divide the authority and act arbitrarily".
After Yin Rong was deposed, the old third Yin Zhi realized that his opportunity had come, after all, he was the most outstanding one among the many princes of Kangxi, but if he wanted to ascend to the position of prince, he must first overthrow the old man Yin Zhen.
Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of Yin Zhen jumping up and down at that time, the old third Yin Zhi reported to Kangxi, accusing Yin Zhen of using the evil curse Prince Yin Rong, and it was clear that he had the intention of taking the concubine.
As a result, the Kangxi Emperor was naturally extremely annoyed with Yin, and Yin was imprisoned and expelled.
The eldest was out, and the second was deposed, which meant that the oldest at that time was the old third Yinzhi, and his usual performance was also very good, so the chance of becoming a prince was greatly increased.
However, the third elder at that time was not carried away by the situation that was extremely favorable to him, but still continued to act in a low-key manner, hiding his true intentions very deeply.
Why did he do that? It was because he knew what kind of person his father Kangxi was, and he also knew that Kangxi was not completely disappointed in the deposed prince Yinrong, and if he jumped out at this time, he would undoubtedly be suppressed by Kangxi and forced out.
Therefore, Yin Zhi concentrated on the study of literature, and organized well-educated people to compile the book "Pei Wen Yun Fu", and continued to increase his position in Kangxi's heart by doing practical things.
Putting himself in the cloak of a "cultural person" in order to make Kangxi look up to himself, I have to say that Yin Zhi's move is indeed quite clever.
A year later, Yin Rong was indeed made crown prince again, and during the period when the prince was deposed, the restless old Eight Yin Yu, because his performance was too "prominent", was resented by Kangxi, although he was not imprisoned, but also lost the possibility of inheriting the throne.
However, the old Sanyin Zhi was praised by the Kangxi Emperor for "keeping to himself in peace", and at the same time as the crown prince was restored, he was named "Prince Cheng" by Kangxi Jin.
However, Yin Rong's position as crown prince did not last long this time, and two years after he was reinstated, he was deposed again, and this time, Kangxi was really disappointed in him.
Moreover, at the same time as abolishing Yin, Kangxi said that he would not appoint a crown prince again.
Although Kangxi said that he would no longer appoint a prince, he was only talking about it, after all, the Qing Dynasty must have an emperor in the future, so there must always be someone to inherit the throne.
Therefore, in addition to the few princes who were out of the game and disqualified, the remaining few capable princes began to actively perform, trying to make Kangxi favor him.
Among them, Yin Zhi was also the same, except that his way was different from other princes, he did not handle government affairs like the fourth elder, nor did he lead the soldiers to fight like the fourteenth, but continued to concentrate on compiling books.
This alone won the favor of Kangxi, after all, in Kangxi's view, this son is not in contention, is a good talent, and more importantly, this son seems to be "not mixed things".
If there was no old fourth Yin Chan at that time, then Yin Zhi would most likely be made crown prince, because Yin Zhi at that time was very advantageous, he was not only the nominal boss, but also had both culture and martial arts, whether it was a person who also drew a bow and archery, he was a good hand, no matter from any point of view, he was the best candidate to inherit the throne.
However, Kangxi finally chose the old fourth Yin Chan, the old third Yin Zhi's dream of taking the wife, thus shattered.
However, judging from the planning and arrangement of the third elder during the entire "Nine Sons and Concubines" period, he was not as unconcerned about politics as he seemed on the surface, on the contrary, he was also extremely concerned about the position of crown prince, but unfortunately fate did not favor him.
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Yin Zhi's good days were over.
Originally, Yin Zhi thought that with his low-key performance over the years, the fourth elder would not do anything to himself, but what he did not expect was that as soon as the fourth elder ascended the throne, he sent Yin Zhi to see the imperial tomb.
Why did Yongzheng do this? In Yongzheng's own words, he was deceived by the old Sanyin.
That is to say, from the root, Yongzheng knows that his brother is not a good stubble, and he knows that he is not as harmless as he seems on the surface, but his heart is very heavy.
To put it bluntly, it is Yongzheng who has no bottom in his heart for Yin Zhi's personality, and will send him to see the imperial tomb for the insurance period.
If Yin Zhi had kept to himself from then on, he would not have been imprisoned to death by Yongzheng later, but after that, two more things happened, completely ruining Yin Zhi's life.
The first thing was that in the sixth year of Yongzheng, someone reported Yin Zhi to Yongzheng, saying that he was holding the status of a prince and asking for bribes from the chancellor, and after this matter was known to Yongzheng, he reprimanded Yin Zhi for "the courtesy of no one's subjects", and in the end, Yin Zhi's princely title was stripped away and demoted to the rank of county king.
This incident can be seen as a change in Yongzheng's attitude towards Yin Zhi, but it is not yet time to clean him up, after all, Yongzheng was very busy at that time, and was busy cleaning up Lao Ba and Lao Jiu and others.
After two years, Yin Zhi did something that violated Yongzheng's bottom line, and finally made Yongzheng make up his mind and began to attack Yin Zhi.
In May of that year, Yongzheng's favorite brother, The Prince of The Thirteenth Yi, Yin Xiang, died of overwork and illness, and Yin Xiang's death made Yongzheng heartbroken.
As we all know, the relationship between Yongzheng and the old thirteenth Yinxiang can be said to be higher than the sky and deeper than the sea, since childhood, the two people have lived together, and then during the "Nine Sons and Sisters", the old thirteenth Yinxiang is Yongzheng's right and left arm.
It is no exaggeration to say that Yongzheng's kindness to Old Thirteen is the kind that he is eager to give him half of the throne, to give a very simple example, when the son of Old Thirteen was crowned as the king of the county by Yongzheng Jin, Yongzheng's own son Hongli, that is, the later Qianlong Emperor, was still a bald-headed brother who did not have any title.
Some people jokingly called Lao Thirteen the "Executive Vice Emperor", which meant that Yongzheng had unconditional trust in him.
And Yin Xiang's death, Yongzheng is naturally sad to the point of not being able to do it, but at Yin Xiang's funeral, Yin Xiang did not know whether it was intentional or negligent, and he was actually late.
Not only was he late, but after Yin Zhishan's late arrival, he never showed a sad expression throughout the funeral.
In doing so, Yin Zhi undoubtedly violated Yongzheng's taboo, and after the funeral, Yin Lu the Prince of Zhuang and others immediately wrote a letter to impeach Yin Zhi, and Yong Zheng also used the title to play a role, directly taking Yin Zhi's title to the end, and imprisoning him and his family in the Jingshan Yong'an Pavilion.
Some people may think that Yong is making a fuss, in fact, Yin Zhi's attitude towards Yin Xiang is not the first time, and both times are related to funerals.
In the thirty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Yin Xiang's birth mother, Concubine Min, died of illness, and as far as Yin Zhi was concerned, although Princess Min was not his birth mother, she was also considered an elder, so according to the rules of the palace at that time, after the death of an elder, it was not allowed to shave her hair for a hundred days.
However, Yin Zhi did not abide by this rule, and shaved his hair privately when Concubine Min's mourning period was less than 100 days old, for which the Kangxi Emperor not only reprimanded him, but also demoted his title from king of the county to Belle.
Although Kangxi punished Yin Zhi at that time, as far as Yong Zheng, who had a deep affection for Yin Xiang, this account was written down, and it was because of this matter that Yong Zheng's impression of Yin Zhi was very bad.
Now, Yin Zhi was not only late at Yin Xiang's funeral, but also had no sad feelings, and his indifferent attitude reminded Yong Zheng of what he had done in the past, so he came to Yin Zhi with a new account and an old account.
In the final analysis, Yongzheng imprisoned Lao Sanyin because Yongzheng himself was quite uneasy about Lao San, and he also knew some of his means in the process of seizing the wife that year, coupled with the bad performance of Lao San at Yin Xiang's funeral, which deepened Yongzheng's dislike for him, so he would imprison him to death.