As we all know, in ancient times, the struggle for imperial power was a very common event, and the benefits were proportional to the risks, so the danger was self-evident.
Different forces competed for the throne, and intrigues and intrigues between them divided the court and officials, resulting in chaos in the government and the inability to effectively govern the country, and even fratricidal warfare between brothers.
The nine sons of the Qing Dynasty are a good example, but there are also some people who are more sober, and even have no fate with the emperor's position.
Let's start with a poem
The world is impermanent, and the cups are drunk. It is rare to have a confidant in life, and you can talk about the past and the present when you push the cup.
The theme of the above poem is very simple, that is, I want to drink and talk happily and have fun in time, and the image of a gentleman and the second ancestor is vividly embodied, and the author of the poem is Hongday.
As the saying goes, "outsiders look at the lively, insiders look at the doorway", this poem is praised by historians as a "life-saving poem", because it has fulfilled the way of brotherhood with Hongli, maintained the way of monarchs and ministers with Qianlong, and also preserved the glory and wealth of themselves and future generations.
The TV series "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" must have been watched by many people, and the six princes in the TV series, that is, Liu Luoguo's father-in-law, are modeled on Hongday, and the five big characters of "one question and three don't know" are vividly interpreted.
Although the above poem has not been passed down through the ages, it is not something that a gentleman can make, Hongtian has more or less a little ink in his stomach, so why did he choose to pretend to be stupid? The reason is the four words "imperial power struggle".
Hongday is the fifth son of Emperor Yongzheng, born in the palace of Prince Yong in the 50th year of Kangxi, and happened to witness a major event during his childhood to his youth, that is, the nine sons seized the heir.
At the earliest time, Yinren was the crown prince during the Kangxi period, but he was deposed twice for various reasons, when Kangxi was already old and unbearable, and the position of the prince was vacant, and for a time nine sons participated in the battle for the prince.
In this battle, each camp attacked each other and framed each other, and the final result was that the fourth elder brother Yinzhen was even better and became the emperor, that is, Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty. I thought that the nine sons had come to an end, but in fact, it had just entered the climax, and Yongzheng liquidated his brothers one by one in the later period.
In the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, the third elder brother Yinzhi accused Yinzhi of cursing the prince and plotting to seize the position of the prince, and Kangxi was furious and directly imprisoned by Yinzhi. After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Yinhe was still not released, so that he finally died in captivity at the age of 63.
The deposed prince Yinren also suffered the same fate, he was imprisoned after being abolished by Kangxi, and Yongzheng did not release him after succeeding to the throne, and died in Xian'an Palace at the age of 51.
Yinzhi is the third elder brother, and he once tried to compete for the crown prince, but halfway through, he felt that he had little hope and gradually withdrew from the fight, and then he has been working behind closed doors. However, Yongzheng still did not let go of this brother after succeeding to the throne.
constantly suppressed him, first let him guard the mausoleum for Kangxi, and then simply took the title and was imprisoned in Jingshan Yong'an Pavilion, and the ending did not end well.
The end of the Eighth Elder Brother Party is the most tragic, first of all, the Eighth Elder Brother Yinxi himself, Yongzheng was worried that he would take risks at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, and carried out a series of actions to appease the members of the Eighth Elder Party, and when his position was stable, he disposed of the Eighth Brother, cut his title and imprisoned him to death.
A similar fate also befell the ninth elder brother Yinyu, who was imprisoned by Yongzheng Jue for supporting Yinyu, and finally died tragically in captivity.
Ten Elder Brother Yinyu was dissatisfied with Yongzheng's accession to the throne, opposed him many times, and refused to escort the shrine of the Mongolian Living Buddha, which caused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Yongzheng, and he was also imprisoned.
The same tragedy is also the fourteenth elder brother Yinyu, although he and Yongzheng are compatriots, but still did not escape the punishment of the other party, and was under house arrest in the Jingling of Emperor Kangxi for the rest of his life, until the Qianlong period regained his freedom.
A struggle between their own brothers
Do you think that Hongyang just witnessed the struggle between his fathers? In fact, his own brothers also fought to the death for imperial power.
In the history of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong was called the pride of heaven and was designated as the heir by Kangxi since he was a child.
According to relevant historical records, Emperor Kangxi saw the 10-year-old Hongli for the first time, and was shocked by his learning and temperament for a hundred years, as if he saw himself when he was young, and then he has been taking it with him to educate.
Some people say that Yongzheng was able to get Kangxi's admiration, thanks to his son, so Hongli, who has a "noble appearance", has been designated as the heir of the emperor from this time on, just like Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji in the Ming Dynasty.
Power can blind a person's eyes, Yongzheng's third son Hongshi is like this, the official history of the Qing Dynasty is very secretive about Hongshi, and the actual records of the Yongzheng period do not even mention his name, mainly because of the seizure of the heir.
"The Four Scores of the Qing Imperial Family" records: "The third son of the emperor Hongshi...... On the sixth day of the eighth month of the fifth year of Yongzheng, he indulged in his youth, acted carelessly, and cut his clan to death......"
The reason is also very simple, Yongzheng set Hongli as the emperor's heir very early, but unfortunately Hongshi was not convinced, and he has been using conspiracies and tricks to assassinate his brothers in private, and even cooperated with his uncles to seize power.
In such a situation, Yongzheng thought that if he did not stop his son's behavior, it was likely that there would be a tragedy of his generation, so he "cut his book and put him to death", and this scene was also seen and remembered by Hongday.
What kind of person is Hongday, his mother is the concubine of Emperor Chunyi, she was born in the palace, and her background is not weak. Being able to make the above poem shows that his cultural ability is not weak, and he has the capital to compete with Hongli.
However, since childhood, I witnessed the scene of the struggle for the throne between Emperor Yongzheng and the emperor's uncle, and also witnessed the struggle between brothers.
Usually cynical and addicted to drinking, if you put it in ordinary people's homes, you may be scolded as a loser, but you can be in the royal family and be at ease, and you can avoid all kinds of crises in the open and in the dark, this way of survival can be called an art of life.
In the eleventh year of Yongzheng, Hongday was named Prince He, and his father also gave him real power, but Hongday was not interested in it.
In "Yongzheng Dynasty", there is such a scene, Hongday not only asks the people in his house to cry, but also asks monks and Taoists to chant the scriptures, and sometimes even invites ministers to come to his funeral, which is called "I don't enjoy it before I die, I can't hear it after death".
The house is a vegetarian, the guests come with generous gifts, and Hongday is eating the wine and meat on the sacrificial table while watching his own liveliness, and the main thing is a "not big deal".
Emperor Yongzheng not only didn't care about this matter, but looked at this son differently and asked him to be in charge of Miaojiang affairs with Hongli.
Emperor Yongzheng died and Qianlong ascended the throne, thinking that Hongtian would be more restrained without his father's backer, but the other party didn't know how to write the word convergence, and what he did was even more excessive.
Beat the court officials in front of the emperor
After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he loved this emperor very much, and even gave him his father, Prince Yong's old residence and property, and for a time Hongday became the richest person in the capital. At the same time, he also relied on his brother's protection to become more reckless and arrogant.
At a grand court meeting, Hongtian had a small dispute with the Minister of Military Aircraft, and he was so emotional that he beat his relatives in front of the Manchu civil and military forces, which shocked everyone.
Emperor Qianlong witnessed this scene with his own eyes, but he did not reproach Hongday, nor did he stop it, as if he recognized what his younger brother had done.
You must know that Hongday's actions are not only a blatant provocation to the Minister of Military Aircraft, but also a contempt for the rules and etiquette of the imperial court, but Emperor Qianlong chose to remain silent, and his attitude was incomprehensible, so that the civil and military officials avoided Hongday when they saw it in the future.
Hongday's outrageous things are not limited to this, but Qianlong chooses to forgive, even if he disobeys his own intentions, it is only a symbolic reprimand, and he will not impose severe sanctions on his younger brother.
In the early years of Qianlong, Hongli ordered Hongli to participate in the discussion of politics; in the fourth year of Qianlong, Hongli ordered Hongday to manage the Lama Palace, and then he was awarded the title of Manchuria Metropolitan with the White Banner and the Yellow Banner of Manchuria, and in the 18th year of Qianlong, he was promoted to the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, which can be said to be a powerful figure in the Qing court.
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In ancient times, he could become the emperor of a country, which person was not the best of the best, and Hongtian pretended to be stupid and couldn't see it.
Emperor Yongzheng saw it, but in order to protect the brotherhood between him and Hongli, he chose to acquiesce in all this, and even gave corresponding compensation in order to make up for his son's sacrifice.
Emperor Qianlong naturally saw it, so in order to make up for the younger brother's choice to maintain, he could also show his tolerance as an elder brother.
Hongtian also knows that his father and brother know that they are pretending to be confused, but they are "rarely confused", and the main sentence is "As long as I don't want to wake up, no one can wake me up".
Whether it is the nine sons who take the heirs and brothers turn against each other, or the fratricidal relationship between Hongshi and Hongli, the root lies in one word "fight", that is, the competition for the position of the emperor.
Hongtian saw through the impermanence of the world early and the hot and cold state of the world, and the confused prince adopted the strategy of "avoiding" and "letting", and finally preserved the wealth of future generations in a chic life, and sometimes "foolishness" is the real "wisdom".
What do you think differently about this?