In 1727, Yongzheng took his third son, Hongshi, to a secret room and said to him fiercely: "Today, you have no other way but to commit suicide." When Yongzheng turned to leave, a glass of poisoned wine was brought to Hiro.
The Yongzheng Emperor came to the throne from the nine sons, so from the day he became emperor, he was thinking about how to ensure the stability of the succession to the throne. However, the eldest son Hongshi, facing the temptation of the imperial throne, contacted Wang Ye, the banner lord outside the Guanwai, with the eighth uncle Yun, who was unwilling to lose, and agreed to let Hongshi ascend the throne, while their eight iron hat kings participated in politics and discussion. However, the reality is very skinny, they failed to mobilize the army, and the appearance of the thirteenth king Ye Yunxiang beat their conspiracy to the bottom, and the so-called eight kings discussed the government.
Hongshi's means are inferior, his ability is insufficient, but his ambition is too great, and it is also self-defeating to end up like this. Of course, the above is only the above statement in the main history, please see the following for the detailed process.
According to some historical sayings, Yongzheng had a son Hongshi, he died because he was executed by Yongzheng, you must know that these are father and son, even if Yongzheng no longer loves this son, how can he go down, so such a statement is a little too unreliable. Compared with the princes of Kangxi, Yongzheng is far inferior to his father in terms of reproducing heirs, and the princes under Yongzheng's knees can actually be counted on two hands.
Before this Hongshi, Yongzheng also had three sons older than him, all of which could be bad fate, and the young ones were all broken, so according to this arrangement, Hongshi can be regarded as Yongzheng's sister-in-law. Hongshi's mother is also a more favored woman around Yongzheng, in addition to Hongshi, she also gave birth to other children, plus she herself is very intelligent, so she is deeply loved by Yongzheng, then Hongshi is naturally a son that Yongzheng loves very much.
When Yongzheng became emperor, Hongshi had already become a relative, but Yongzheng did not let him live alone in a mansion, but let him live in the palace together, and it can be seen how much Yongzheng attaches importance to this son. In addition, Yongzheng often handed over some government affairs to Hongshi to handle, so Yongzheng was also very interested in cultivating this Hongshi, and the good relationship between father and son made people have some suspicions.
Since Yongzheng is already the emperor, he has to consider the matter of the crown prince early, Yong is just like this instrument heavy Hongshi, so many people think that Yongzhengxin's selection is Hongshi is right, and Hongshi himself does not think so, with this motivation, every thing he does, more serious and diligent, in order to let his father discover more of his good places. And in order not to let what happened to him repeat itself, Yongzheng did not say who this person really was. After a while, on the day of Kangxi's death, Yongzheng was supposed to go by himself, but he sent one of his own princes to replace him, and the prince appointed by Yongzheng was generally not qualified, unless Yongzheng had already made him the crown prince, and no one thought that in the end Yongzheng let Hongli go instead of himself. This incident caused Hongshi to have a sense of crisis, and the ministers in the imperial court also began to discuss, but Hongshi felt that his father let Hongli go did not mean anything, and he must still be very hopeful.
Then he worked harder, but he himself did not expect that the second time Yongzheng still let Hongli go, so that who the Crown Prince was could see at a glance, Hongshi had no chance at all, which made him have a lot of resentment towards his father, not only did not do well what Yongzheng explained, but also spoke for his eighth uncle, you know, his eighth uncle was Yongzheng's biggest opponent before, and he was doing so to provoke Yongzheng.
Yongzheng was naturally very angry about this matter, and Hongshi was unfavorable during this time, so he severely punished this son, not only removed his lineage, but also drove him out of the palace, and finally passed it to his eighth uncle.
Hongshi also did not expect that his own father would be so cruel to him, and he was also worried that Yongzheng would come to him like his brothers, worrying about this every day, and soon he became ill and his health never improved, and died not long after.