On November 13, the 61st year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi died of illness in Changchun Garden due to an attack of typhoid fever. However, on the day of Yongzheng's succession, the news about his usurpation of the throne without an edict spread in the court, and the third elder brother Yinzhi and the eighth elder brother Yinzhi concluded categorically that Yongzheng used illegal means to seize the throne. As Yongzheng's mortal enemy, it is reasonable for Yinzhi to question it so much, but why does Yinzhi speak ill of each other?
Crown Prince Zihu
In the same boat: Yinzhi and Yongzheng jointly protect the prince
In May of the 47th year of Kangxi's reign, Kangxi set off as usual to inspect Saiwai, and ordered the crown prince and some princes to accompany him, and met with the Mongolian princes along the way to talk about national affairs. Just when everyone thought that this inspection would end successfully, Kangxi suddenly returned to Beijing from outside the Saiwai and made a major decision to abolish the crown prince.
It turned out that when Kangxi met the Mongolian prince in the tent, the prince Yinren opened the nearby guards, waiting for an opportunity to spy inward, which was discovered by the eldest brother Yinren who rushed to take over the shift, and Yinren then denounced Yinren in the name of plotting misdeeds, Kangxi had a premonition that a coup was coming, so he galloped back to Beijing day and night, and told the ancestral temple in front of the kings and ministers, announcing the abolition of the prince.
Emperor Kangxi
This sudden decision undoubtedly shocked Yinzhi and Yinzhen, as core members of the princelings, the two have been attached to the princeling's forces and engaged in a protracted struggle with the Eight Masters. If you don't keep the prince at the critical moment, the members of the Eight Masters Party will definitely take advantage of the situation to fight back.
Therefore, in order to protect the common political interests, Yinzhi and Yinzhen are determined to work together and persuade Kangxi to reinstate the crown prince no matter what. At the same time, the Eight Masters Party saw that the crown prince was deposed, so they actively walked around the court, and their internal plans for the eighth elder brother Yinxi to be the prince, a battle for the abolition of the prince was about to be staged.
Because the disparity between the forces of the two sides was too great, the situation fell to the Eight Masters Party from the beginning, and the princelings did not even fight steadily, and even the folds of the prince could not be presented to Kangxi. Just when everyone thought that the overall situation had been decided and the eighth elder brother Yinxi was about to take the throne, the princelings cleverly discovered the flaws.
After Kangxi announced the abolition of the crown prince, there was an undercurrent surging in the court, in order to find out the faction of the princes, he deliberately used a trick to lure the snake out of the hole, requiring hundreds of officials to take meritocracy as the standard to elect the new prince.
Sure enough, as soon as the decree was issued, there was bait immediately. As the main supporter of the Eight Masters Party, the eldest brother Yinren couldn't wait to eradicate the prince, he thought he had understood Kangxi's thoughts, so he proposed the absurd move of stabbing Yinren.
As soon as these words came out, Kangxi was shocked, it turned out that the princelings and the Eight Masters had reached the point where they were incompatible. If Yinren is not reinstated at this time, then the situation in the court will be completely unbalanced, but the decree to elect the new prince is already known to everyone, and there is no joke in the king, how can Yinren be reinstated under the condition of calming public opinion?
Yongzheng youth statue
The third elder brother Yinzhi was keenly aware of Kangxi's thoughts, and he immediately played a statement, stating that Yinren's disloyalty was all caused by evil arts, and the mastermind behind this was the eldest brother Yinzhi. At the same time, Yinzhen also played hard to protect the prince, and pointed out that the eldest brother abused the forbidden technique.
Mongolian Lama Bahangelon was tired of winning and abolishing the prince for Yinzhi, and Yinzhi detected it and caused it. Manuscript of Qing History
In this way, Kangxi's restoration of Yinren is also reasonable, and it is difficult for the Eight Masters Party to get involved in this. Under the strong leadership of the Kangxi imperial power, Yinren became the first prince to be reinstated in Chinese history, and Yinzhi was also crowned Prince Cheng because of his meritorious service in supporting the prince.
Parting of Ways: After the two abolished princes, they went their separate ways
Although the crown prince was reinstated, the original contradiction between the crown prince and the crown prince was not resolved, so soon there was another incident of severely punishing the crown princeling. In October of the 50th year of Kangxi, Yinren found the infantry commander Tuo Heqi to conspire, claiming that there would be no prince for 40 years, and plotting to force Kangxi to abdicate as soon as possible.
Kangxi was patrolling outside the fortress at this time, and because he was worried that Yinren would use the power of the infantry commander to control the Beijing division, he chose to return to Beijing quietly, and immediately summoned the princes on the day of his return to Beijing, and announced in public the abolition of Yinren's position as the crown prince.
After the second abolition of the crown prince, the situation in the court instantly became clear, among the nine princes who participated in the succession, only Yinzhi, Yinzhen, and Yinyu still retained the qualification to succeed to the throne, and the rest of the princes were just foils.
General Wang Yinyu gives
Nowadays, many opinions believe that Kangxi's canonization of Yinyu to the general Wang has the meaning of inheriting the throne, and regardless of the fact that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has long been out of the era of tribal alliances, there is no need to rely on military merits to ascend to the throne, even if it is necessary to cultivate Yinyu's military prestige, he will not be sent to the northwest beyond the reach of the whip, once there is a sudden change, how can he guarantee a smooth succession?
Therefore, Kangxi had no intention of letting Yinyu succeed to the throne from the beginning, but repeatedly entangled in Yinzhi and Yinzhen, which can be glimpsed from the "sacrifice of the father to the sky" at that time.
In the centralized dynasty, the father's sacrifice to heaven is an important symbol of the divine right of the monarch, since the second abolition of the prince, Yinzhi on behalf of Kangxi sacrifice to the sky 18 times, and Yinzhen only 15 times, far less than the former. Moreover, in the Zhu edict written by Kangxi to Yunzhi and Yinzhen, Yinzhi is in front and Yinzhen is the last, so people at the time once said: When the storage position is undecided, everyone is vain and the prince should stand in turn, and want to go to his door.
Sacrifice to the heavens
What's more critical is that after Yinzhi broke away from the princelings, he had close contacts with the powerful Eight Masters Party, and his prestige in the court was unparalleled for a while, and he himself regarded himself as a prince on weekdays.
Yinzhi appointed himself as the prince after the second elder brother was deposed, and the eighth elder brother wanted to attract the party's help. "Reply to the Banner of the Lord"
Compared with Yinzhi's active pursuit, Yinzhen has no concern for the throne, not only always keeping a distance from the Manchu and Han ministers, but also claiming to be the first idler in the world. But with the sudden death of Kangxi, Yinzhi suddenly realized that the fourth brother was just pretending to be obscure, and behind his back he hoped for a storage position, and did everything.
The loser is the coward: Yongzheng imprisoned the third brother for life
On November 13, 61 years of Kangxi, Kangxi died in the Xiyuan Book House in Changchun Garden, and before his death, he told Long Keduo to pass the throne to the fourth prince Yinzhen. After Yongzheng ascended the throne with an oral edict, he first ordered Long Keduo to block the nine gates of the Beijing Division, and then ordered Nian Qianyao to block the grain and grass in the northwest and forced the fourteenth elder brother Yinyu to return to Beijing ahead of schedule.
In the matter of succession, Yongzheng couldn't produce any physical evidence, and this operation out of nothing deepened the doubts in the hearts of the elder brothers. For a time, the news of the new emperor's illegal succession spread in the court, and the Baye Party, which had been silent for a long time in the Kangxi Dynasty, revived.
Yongzheng, known as the world's first idler
But Yongzheng, as an iron-blooded emperor, how could he tolerate Xiaoxiao's wanton rebellion, in the first four years after succeeding to the throne, he used various power techniques such as dividing and attacking, drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, and wiped out all the members of the Eight Masters Party, the Eighth Elder Brother Yinyu and the Ninth Elder Brother Yinyu died in the forbidden place one after another, and the Fourteenth Elder Brother Yinyu was imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum for life.
Although the forces of the Eight Masters have been wiped out, the third elder brother Yinzhi is still active in the court, posing a threat to the current situation. Yinzhi is not only the core leader of the scholar group, but also the main participant in the Nine Sons to win the heir, who once protected the crown prince with him, and knows too many secrets, and it is impossible for Yongzheng to keep him in the court.
But Yinzhi is different from the Eight Masters, he is not corrupt and perverts the law, and his friends on weekdays are all loyal and upright ministers, and Yongzheng has no idea where to start. But with the outbreak of an evil art case, Yinzhi's evil was completely exposed to the sun, according to the spies placed by Yongzheng in Yinzhi's mansion to report, it turned out that Yinzhi had also engaged in the evil art of suppressing others.
Yunzhi Su Ri harbored evil intentions, hoped to save the position, and conspired with Chen Menglei, who was rebellious and evil, to create evil arts, and to suppress the nightmare. Chen Menglei originally wanted to suppress the eldest brother and the second elder brother from coming out, and he also wanted to suppress the wrong masters. Because it didn't work, it didn't work. "Yongzheng Dynasty Chinese Zhu Pi Folds Compilation"
In Yongzheng's view, although Yinzhi's threat to the imperial power is not as good as that of the Eight Masters, his heart is a hundred times more treacherous than Yinzhi. First of all, in the Kangxi Dynasty, in order to support the crown prince, Yinzhi once accused the eldest brother Yinzhi of using the nightmare to harm the royal family, but he later instructed his subordinates to suppress the prince, isn't this a thief shouting to catch the thief;
Eighth Elder Brother Yinxi
With these two points alone, Yongzheng can't tolerate Yinzhi continuing to meddle in political affairs, in case he dies young one day, how should future generations deal with this third uncle.
In May of the eighth year of Yongzheng, that is, the third month after the occurrence of the Nightmare Case, Yongzheng ordered the Zongren Mansion to agree on Yinzhi's ten crimes, the most eye-catching of which was the Daxing Nightmare Evil Technique. Since then, Yinzhi has been imprisoned in the Jingshan Yong'an Pavilion next to the imperial mausoleum, and has been trapped here for life.
Conclusion:
Among the nine sons in the last years of Kangxi, Yinzhi was the most neglected prince, and he was awarded the title of Prince Cheng when he abolished the crown prince, becoming the first prince after the crown prince. And with the second deposition of the crown prince, Yinzhi not only sat on the largest group of scholars in the court, but also attracted the powerful bureaucrats of the Eight Masters Party to help, from the six cabinet ministries to the local governors, his huge network of power was filled everywhere. Although the powerless Yongzheng is far inferior to the third brother Yinzhi, he completed the turnaround at the last moment, which tells us that the relationship network is in quality but not quantity, and only needs to rely on Longke for many years, Yongzheng can control everything inside and outside the Beijing Division, and do everything that others can't do.