#非嫡非长的乾隆 why he was given the throne #
Speaking of ancient times, when choosing an heir, most of them would follow the "primogeniture inheritance system". The so-called primogeniture system means that the throne and property must be inherited by the eldest son, and the eldest son refers to the eldest son born to the wife (wife).
But Ah Qian found that although the emperor during the Qing Dynasty also obeyed this rule, only the Daoguang Emperor was the only one who really succeeded to the throne as the eldest son, and the rest were not the eldest son of the concubine, such as the Qianlong Emperor we talked about today, who was not a concubine or a long man, but could still inherit the throne?
Qianlong Emperor, Ai XinJue Luo. Hongli, the fourth son of the Yongzheng Emperor, his birth mother was Concubine Xi of the Niuhulu clan, in 1735 AD, the Yongzheng Emperor died, and the internal servant took out the edict and announced that the fourth son Hongli would inherit the throne, that is, the Qianlong Emperor.
As a non-concubine and non-long-term identity, the reason why Hongli was able to inherit the throne, I have to say, thanks to the following reasons:
First of all, Hongli's brothers either died prematurely or did not argue. Before him, the Yongzheng Emperor had five sons, namely Honghui, the eldest son of Empress Xiaojingxian, and Hongxu, hongyun, and Hongshi, born of Concubine Qi. In the forty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the eldest son of the 8-year-old Concubine Honghui died prematurely; Hongxun and Hongyun also died at a young age, and only Hongshi lived to adulthood. Hongshi, on the other hand, was an indisputable person, first passed on to Yun Yu, and then was stripped of his clan membership, losing the possibility of succession;
Secondly, Hongli is more pampered. Unlike the film and television drama in which Hongli was snubbed for many years, the clever Hongli was quite loved by the Kangxi Emperor, raised in the palace, personally taught, and took him on a tour of the Rehe Mountain Resort. At that time, the Yongzheng Emperor, who was still busy with the conquest of concubines, saw that his son was quite popular with the Kangxi Emperor and attached great importance to him;
There is also a factor, or the subconscious Manchu discrimination. Unlike the Kangxi Emperor's sons, the Yongzheng Emperor's heirs were not many, except for the eldest son Honghui and Hongli, the birth mothers of the other princes were all from the Han Army Banner. Although from the beginning of the Shunzhi Emperor, he respected the Manchu Han family, but the consciousness and habits of many bones cannot be changed, in the choice of heirs, even if Hongli's birth mother is not high, when she enters the palace, she is only a Gege, but she is still a woman of the Niuhulu clan, the Eight Surnames of the Manchu Niuhulu Clan, compared to the concubines of the Han Army Banner, still have an advantage.
In general, Hongli's succession to the throne is not an accident, nor is there a storm, and it is reasonable to open up a large number of other brothers' own advantages and let him successfully ascend to the throne. Choosing him as the heir was the best choice for the Yongzheng Emperor.