The luckiest emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he did not fight, his father solved the brothers for him, and he sat on the throne
The most well-known battle for the throne in the Qing Dynasty was the "Nine Sons Seize the Throne" during the Kangxi period. At that time, there were many parties in the court, such as the Four Masters Party, the Eight Masters Party, the Princeling Party, and the Fourteenth Master Party. Emperor Kangxi had a long life, reigned for a long time, and never re-established the prince after the second abolition of the prince, so it is no wonder that people's hearts are fluctuating.
However, in the Qing Dynasty, not all battles for the throne were so dangerous and terrifying. There was one of the most fortunate emperors, who did not fight for himself, and his father settled the brothers for him, and he sat on the throne. However, the "solution" mentioned here is not to kill, but because his father lived as long as Kangxi, and survived his brothers alive.
This emperor is Jiaqing. Jiaqing was born in the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong (1760), and Qianlong named him Yongyan. At this time, Jiaqing's biological mother Wei Jiashi was already a concubine and had a noble status, but Emperor Qianlong did not set up the prince because he favored his biological mother, but mainly because the prince himself was not outstanding.
Prior to this, Qianlong had a candidate for the crown prince several times in his heart. Empress Fucha once gave birth to the second son of the emperor Aixin Jueluo Yonglian and the seventh son of the emperor Aixin Jueluo Yongcong, but these two children did not inherit Qianlong's physical fitness and died early, and Qianlong was in great pain. Later, Yongqi, the fifth elder brother born to Concubine Yu, was valued by Qianlong.
It's just that Yongqi also died of illness in 1766 at the age of 25. As a father, Qianlong will naturally grieve for his children, but as a human monarch, Qianlong has to cheer up and reconsider the heir of the country. It's just that Qianlong paid the same attention to health preservation as his grandfather, Emperor Kangxi, and his physical fitness was excellent; in contrast, his sons either died early or did not live as long as their father.
The princes who persevered like the fifteenth elder brother Yongyan are only the eighth elder brother Aixin Jueluo Yongxuan, the eleventh elder brother Aixin Jueluo Yongxuan, and the seventeenth elder brother Aixin Jueluo Yongxuan. Among them, the eighth elder brother and the eleventh elder brother are brothers of the same mother, and their biological mother is Jia Guifei, while Yongyan and the seventeenth elder brother are brothers of the same mother, and their biological mother is Ling Guifei.
But the eighth elder brother and the eleventh elder brother successfully extinguished Qianlong's idea of making them the crown prince. Qianlong was very dissatisfied with him because he liked to drink and have fun and behaved frivolously, and once reprimanded him in public; what about the eleventh elder brother?
Among the fifteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother, the fifteenth elder brother Yongyan is better in all aspects. Foreign envoys believed that Yongyan was "open-minded in measurement, strange in appearance, the emperor was like himself, favorite, and Chinese and foreign subordinates were looking forward to it", and their observation was not wrong, and in the 38th year of Qianlong (1773), Yongyan was indeed secretly established by Qianlong.
It's just that the day when Yongyan ascended the throne is still far away, because Emperor Qianlong did not give him the throne until 1796, the reason is that the reign time is not more than the holy grandfather Kangxi, and then Jiaqing is still subject to Qianlong and Heshen. Three years later, Qianlong and He Shen died one after another, and Jiaqing seized real power and became the head of the Qing Dynasty. But he has been a prince for too long, and in the face of some situations after taking the throne, Jiaqing is already powerless.