Jongmyo is, of course, the tablet of the ancestors in it. But sometimes there are exceptions, which make many people puzzled. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, there was a Hanchen named Zhang Tingyu, the second son of Zhang Ying, a scholar of the Kangxi Dynasty, and a veteran of the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties.
The front hall of the temple is the main hall of sacrifice; the middle hall is dedicated to the shrines of the emperors and queens of the following dynasties of Nurhachi; the back boundary of the middle hall is dedicated to the ancestors of the four generations above Nurhachi; the east of the front hall is shared by the prince; the west of the front hall is shared by the meritorious heroes; and the two houses of the middle and back halls store sacrificial vessels. Every year on the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, the gods of the middle and rear halls are worshiped together in the front hall. The apse sent the prince to salute. The state has a major ceremony, and the official is sent to pay tribute. Even the princes are not all, and the heroes are only Manchu ministers, and in the entire Qing Dynasty, the Han ministers are worthy of enjoying the Taimiao with meritorious heroes, but Zhang Tingyu is alone. In fact, this was done in accordance with the edict of Emperor Yongzheng, saying that after Zhang Tingyu's death, his shrine could be placed in the west of the front hall of the Taimiao Temple and accept the emperor's annual sacrifice. What the hell is going on? This has to start with Yongzheng's succession.
The talented Emperor Kangxi has been worrying about the establishment of the crown prince in the second half of his life.
Why? People wonder -- doesn't he have many sons? Is that still a good choice?
Indeed, Kangxi gave birth to a total of 36 sons, in addition to those who died in infancy and passed out, there are 26. But in order to compete for the position of the crown prince, those princes fought against each other, openly and secretly.
In October 1722, Kangxi suddenly fell ill while fasting in Changchun Garden. On the evening of the 12th, the princes came to Changchun Garden. On the 13th, his condition deteriorated and he died that night. On the 14th, he was buried. A few days later, the fourth son of the emperor, Yinzhen, ascended the throne, which was Yongzheng. Yongzheng suddenly ascended the throne, shaking the government and the opposition. Rumors have spread and remain an unsolved mystery to this day.
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"Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty" records that on the day of Kangxi's death, he summoned Yunzhi and Long Keduo and said: "The fourth son of the emperor has a noble character, and he will be able to inherit the unification and succeed me to the throne, that is, the emperor." ”
In the Korean "Li Dynasty Record", it is said that Kangxi's illness worsened, and he untied his rosary and handed it to Yinzhen and said: "This is a gift from Emperor Shunzhi when he was dying. ”
"The Record of the Li Dynasty" is the official history, according to this record, Yongzheng's accession to the throne is natural and legitimate. But later, some people voted "against the book", listing Yongzheng's ten major crimes: seeking his father, chasing his mother, killing his brother, slaughtering his brother, greedy for money, good killing, alcoholism, lustful, loyalty, and Ren Yu. If the "father" is true, then Yongzheng's accession to the throne is questionable.
There is a saying that when Kangxi was seriously ill, Yinzhen entered a bowl of ginseng soup, and Kangxi drank it and died. Then, Yinzhen succeeded to the throne.
He also said that at that time, there was an Italian Ma Guoxian who was there and thought that even if it was not poisoning, there was an extraordinary incident.
Changchun Garden
Moreover, Changchun Yuan was under the strict control of Long Keduo, he was responsible for Kangxi's security guards and the power of the guards, and he was Yongzheng's uncle, only he could get close to Kangxi at that time, and the possibility of his participation in poisoning could not be ruled out.
There is also a saying that Yongzheng changed the edict. It is said that when Kangxi died, there was an edict hidden behind the "Bright and Honest" plaque hanging in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, and the original text written on it was: "Inherit the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen." ”
Then, Yongzheng conspired with Long Keduo to tamper with the edict without authorization, changing the "fourteenth son" to "Yu fourth son", and changing "Yinzhen" to "Yinzhen", and Yongzheng ascended the throne according to the edict, which is logical.
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At present, there are two theories in the field of historiography. One is that there must be one of the two. It is said that Kangxi originally had two successors, Yinzhen and Yinzhen, but when his condition changed suddenly on the 13th, he had to choose one of them in a hurry, so he chose the fourth son Yinzhen. The second is that Kangxi wanted to establish Yinzhen, but the illness was sudden, and he was dying, and Yinzhen, who was on an expedition on behalf of his father, could only arrive in Beijing for more than 20 days, and it was too late, Kangxi knew that "the country cannot be without a monarch for a day", otherwise the princes may kill each other in order to compete for the throne, and the consequences are unimaginable.
So what does this have to do with Zhang Tingyu?
It turned out that the "Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty" was written by him. When he was compiling and revising the "Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty", he destroyed a large number of materials that were unfavorable to Yongzheng, and fabricated a scene of 8 people giving orders, that is, Emperor Kangxi passed on the edict to the 7 princes and Long Keduo before his death, which is the sentence mentioned above.
Zhang Tingyu
said that Yinzhen was not present at that time, and when Yinzhen arrived, Emperor Kangxi had already died, so Long Keduo announced the edict on his behalf. Yinzhen was not mentally prepared to be an emperor, and was shocked when he heard the edict.
Yinzhi and other seven princes and Long Keduo kowtowed to Yinzhen, and Yinzhen ascended the throne as emperor. It is said that Zhang Tingyu also made an apocryphal in favor of Emperor Yongzheng when compiling and revising the History of the Ming Dynasty, so he was absolutely valued by Emperor Yongzheng.
For this reason, Emperor Yongzheng, in the name of the Qing Emperor, posthumously presented Zhang Tingyu's great-grandfather and grandfather as the crown prince, and also posthumously presented Zhang Tingyu's mother Wu as Mrs. Yipintai. Therefore, this Zhang Tingyu became a person from the Qing Dynasty.