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The "Eagle Shooting Incident" in 1714 AD: The Eighth Prince was suspended from paying one year's salary for two dead eagles

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Today, we are talking about the story of the "Eagle Shooting Incident" during the Kangxi Dynasty.

The "Eagle Shooting Incident" in 1714 AD: The Eighth Prince was suspended from paying one year's salary for two dead eagles

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In the "Kangxi Dynasty" TV series, there is a story about the "Dead Eagle". The fourteenth prince who was on the expedition gave the Kangxi Emperor a "heavenly stone" as a birthday gift. However, when this gift reached the hand of the Eighth Prince, Yin Yu, it fell out of the bag. After priing open the base of the gift box, the eighth prince replaced the stone with a dead eagle. This startled the eunuch who saw the gift.

This is not a fabrication but a fact, but the TV series screenwriters have evolved. The actual story has nothing to do with the Fourteenth Prince.

The "Eagle Shooting Incident" in 1714 AD: The Eighth Prince was suspended from paying one year's salary for two dead eagles

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It is said that at the end of November of the fifty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1714 AD), the Kangxi Emperor was going on a "business trip" to the Area of Rehe, passing through the Miyun District of present-day Beijing and Huayugou (Huayugou). At this time, the eighth prince Yin Yu should have followed the emperor, but it was just in time for the second anniversary of Yin Yu's birth mother, Concubine Liang.

Out of filial piety, Yin Yu pleaded with him to pay tribute to his mother first, and then he went to accompany the driver. He explained the reason to the emperor's personal eunuch and said that he would go to the Tangquan Palace in Chengde to wait for the Kangxi Emperor and then return to Beijing with him. At the same time, he chose two good Hai Dongqing and sent someone to bring them back to the Kangxi Emperor.

The "Eagle Shooting Incident" in 1714 AD: The Eighth Prince was suspended from paying one year's salary for two dead eagles

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Haidongqing was a bird of prey that the Jurchens liked very much, and the rulers of the Jin Dynasty liked this bird very much, and the rulers of the Qing Dynasty also regarded Haidongqing as a rare bird. In the area of Zhangjiakou and Chengde, the imperial court had a special eagle catcher, and the later Eagle Hand Yingzi Mining Area was also a settlement named after the eagle catcher. For each sturdy Hai Dongqing captured, the eagle catcher received a reward of twenty to thirty taels of silver, which was a "huge sum" at that time.

In fact, giving it to Emperor Hai Dongqing was a way for the eighth prince, Yin Yu, to show filial piety and please the emperor at the same time. These two excellent Haidongqing play the role of icing on the cake. But coincidentally, the two birds had an accident.

The "Eagle Shooting Incident" in 1714 AD: The Eighth Prince was suspended from paying one year's salary for two dead eagles

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It was the middle of winter, and the northern part of Hebei would cool down to minus one or twenty degrees celsius in December, perhaps the bird giver had no bird keeping experience or perhaps someone really obstructed it, in short, the two birds were already dying when they came to the emperor's side.

Kangxi was not in good health in his later years, and gave the emperor two Hai Dongqing who were about to die, which was not equivalent to cursing the emperor? The Kangxi Emperor was furious and rebuked Yin Yu fiercely.

He not only reprimanded Yin Yu, but also took his birth mother and said it. The original text reads: "Yin Yu... Born of a lowly woman from Xin Zhiku, she has a high and sinister heart since childhood, listened to the words of Zhang Mingde, a face-to-face person, so she betrayed her subjects and looked for someone to murder the second brother, which is known to the whole country..."

The "Eagle Shooting Incident" in 1714 AD: The Eighth Prince was suspended from paying one year's salary for two dead eagles

Concubine Liang was not of a very high birth, and her father was the inner pipe leader Abu Nai. The original internal management collar set up by the Qing Dynasty was only the official of Zhengwupin, whose main job was to manage the snacks and delicacies, melon vegetables, liquor and sauce vinegar, and yuquan landscape, ice cubes, and other various utensils needed for the inner court to eat, reward, and sacrifice. Such an official, the good point is the logistics cadre, and the ugly point is the warehouse manager.

The "Xinzhiku untouchable woman" in Kangxi's mouth actually refers to Yin Yu's mother, Concubine Liang, which means that your mother is just a child born of a slave who watches the warehouse, and the fact that his mother's family is from a humble origin makes the eighth prince very embarrassed. Kangxi did not understand the hatred, and later said that "the grace of father and son is absolutely perfect." The following year, the unfortunate Yin Yu was also suspended from paying wages.

The "Eagle Shooting Incident" in 1714 AD: The Eighth Prince was suspended from paying one year's salary for two dead eagles

At that time, it was the sensitive period of the "Nine Dragons Seizure", the position of prince was vacant, and whether this inexplicable incident was the natural death of Hai Dongqing or whether someone had assassinated Yin Yu was different. But because of this incident, Yin Yu's status in Kangxi's heart was directly reduced to the lowest point.

Come to think of it, Yin Yu, who received the emperor's edict, must have "split two pieces of top yang bones and poured down a basin of ice and snow", and since then, the eighth prince has lost the hope of inheriting the throne, and he has also been snubbed by the emperor.

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