On November 13, the 61st year of Kangxi, Kangxi died of typhoid fever in Changchun Garden, and the general Wang Yinyu galloped back to Beijing from the northwest not far away. In front of the Kangxi Mourning Hall, Yinzhen is leading the princes to cry and mourn, Yinzhen entered from the Xizhi Gate, did not bow down to the new monarch, first looked around with a hawk and a wolf, and then beat the guards who persuaded him to salute in public, and provoked Yongzheng in every way. As the brother of a mother's sibling, why did Yinyu suddenly attack on the mourning hall and challenge the absolute authority of the fourth brother Yongzheng?
Fourteen elder brother Yinyu gives
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In September of the 47th year of Kangxi, Kangxi, who was inspecting outside the Saiwai, suddenly ordered to return to Beijing, and when he arrived at the Rehe Palace, he summoned the accompanying princes and ministers to enter, and announced that he would abolish the position of the second elder brother Yinren as the crown prince on the grounds of disloyalty, filial piety, and rebellion, and immediately handed it over to the Zongren Mansion for confinement. After the news of the prince's deposition was transmitted back to Beijing, the Eight Masters led by Yinxi were ecstatic, and the storage position that had been hidden for many years was finally vacant.
In order to grasp this hard-won opportunity, the eighth elder brother Yinyu and the fourteenth elder brother Yinyu walked around frequently in the court, wanting to win the hearts of the people before Kangxi returned to Beijing, so as to lay a chance for the next battle for the storage position. Under the strong demagogy of the two, the confidential ministers headed by Tong Guowei and Ma Qi joined the party one after another, and the civil ministers and military generals from the upper and lower banners to the lower five banners also threw themselves into their commands.
The leader of the Eight Masters Party
However, at this critical juncture, a very sensitive matter happened within the Eight Masters Party, in order to create the destiny of heaven, the tenth elder brother Yinyu found a fortune teller, claiming that Yinyu would be very expensive in the future. This matter was accidentally heard by the eldest brother Yinyu, who also coveted the storage position, and hatched a plan to kill people with a knife.
On the day Kangxi returned to Beijing, Yinhe hurriedly entered the palace to face the saint, saying that Zhang Mingde, who had seen the appearance, would be very noble after seeing Yinxi, and he should be the holy lord of the rare world. This remark made Kangxi furious, and Kangxi concluded that Yinxi had the heart of hope for unification, and took precautions against it in every way.
For the purpose of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys, Kangxi specially summoned the princes to the Qianqing Palace, and reprimanded Yinxi in public for being born to Xinzhiku's cheap maid, and tried in vain to collude with his henchmen to seize the throne.
The fourteenth elder brother in the Yongzheng Dynasty
At this critical juncture, the fourteenth elder brother Yinyu brought poison to block the admonition, and because he lost his sense of proportion in words, Long Yan was furious. In addition, Kangxi had repeatedly reprimanded him before, strictly prohibiting the elder brothers from forming a party for personal gain and seeking to seize the storage position, and what Yinyu did was tantamount to seeking his own death. Just in front of everyone's eyes, Kangxi, who was completely enraged, pulled out the saber in his hand and walked straight to Yinyu, according to the record of "Qing Shengzu Record":
Shang Zhen was angry, out of the saber to punish Yun Yu, the fifth son of the emperor Yun Qi knelt and persuaded him, the princes kowtowed and pleaded, and the anger was less relieved, and the princes were ordered to tart Yun Yu and expel Yun Yu and Yun Yu. "Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty"
However, although Yinyu was severely punished by Kangxi, he was not treated coldly because of this, but was favored by virtue of his honest and consistent style of acting. Kangxi not only praised Yinyu for his affection and righteousness afterwards, but also assigned his commander's Zhenghuang Banner to him. In the abolition of the crown prince, the eldest brother Yinyu and the eighth elder brother Yinyu were both punished to varying degrees, and only Yinyu was the only prince who profited from it.
On behalf of his father, he went on an expedition to pacify the northwest
In the spring of the 57th year of Kangxi, the leader of the Dzungar tribe plotted to attack Tibet, and Lazang Khan urgently asked the central government to send troops to support. Under the adversity of the Qing army's annihilation in northern Tibet and the defeat of the army, most of the officials had a feeling of disgust and fear of war, and tried their best to oppose the central government's dispatch of troops.
On the major issue of whether the territory can remain intact and related to the unification of the country, the prince and the princes and ministers of Beijing mostly have a passive attitude of avoiding war, but Yinyu clearly supports Kangxi's strategic propositions, and repeatedly takes the initiative to ask for permission to be preserved, as he himself said in the recital:
The emperor's father disregarded the worries and labors, three personal expeditions, and finally annihilated Galdan, at this time, the princes and ministers, should send out a warrior, on behalf of the emperor's father, this is a matter of the minister's life, and the beggar ordered the minister to enter Tibet. "Kangxi Dynasty Manchu Zhu Pi Fold"
Under the strong encouragement of Yinyu, Kangxi made a strategic decision to drive the preservation of the treasure, and officially appointed Yinyu as the general Wang, leading hundreds of thousands of troops to carry out the western expedition. On the day of the expedition, Kangxi ordered to use the Zhenghuang banner to set up the army, you must know that the title given to Yinyu is just a shell, but you can enjoy the emperor's personal conquest. On the other hand, in order to establish Yinyu's absolute authority in the army, Kangxi specially told the princes of Qinghai and asked them to ask the general Wang for instructions on all matters.
Positive yellow flag
Kangxi's strong support allowed Yinyu to give full play to his military talents without scruples. After a year of precise deployment, the grain, grass, machinery, and war routes have been planned, and Yinyu began to launch a full-scale counteroffensive against the Dzungar army, and the Qing army successively attacked Krasa and recovered Tibet, saving people from all walks of life.
The campaign of expelling the Zhun Tibet under the personal command of Yinyu was of great military significance as it thwarted the conspiracy of the Junggar Empire and prevented the country and the nation from moving towards separatism. It is precisely because of this that on the occasion of Yinyu's victorious return to the dynasty, Kangxi specially ordered the princes of the clan to greet him, and everyone must kneel down and salute, and respect the general like the emperor.
In the sixty years of Kangxi, when the general Yunyu returned from the army, Ith went out to kneel to pick up, and the prince of the clan, Yu Zhuwang and Brother did not have this example. "Donghualu"
After that, the princes and ministers figured out the holy will of Kangxi, and uniformly regarded Yinyu as the heir to the throne, and Yinyu also became the most prestigious prince by virtue of the unanimous support of civil and military officials.
At this time, Kangxi experienced the pains of the two abolished princes, advocating that the Qing Dynasty no longer follow the Han system and set up a storage position, but in private, he set up an inspection mechanism for the princes and secretly observed their political ability.
Emperor Kangxi
First: After the Western Expedition, Kangxi immediately overturned the conclusion that the prince could not form a party, and deliberately selected a group of princes and brothers in the clan and let them follow him to serve in front of Yinyu, which was a treatment that other princes did not enjoy.
Second: After Yinyu pacified the northwest, Kangxi immediately brought his son Hongming to the palace, not only to raise him personally, but also to teach the way of the Holy Lord. After Qianlong succeeded to the throne, in order to create a reasonable basis for succession, he claimed to be Kangxi's most loyal saint grandson, but in fact, only Hongming was favored by Kangxi.
Third: Before Kangxi's death, whether it was access or etiquette, Yinzhen enjoyed the specifications of the emperor level, and even the fourth prince Yinzhen had to kneel down and salute him, and the qualification for succession was self-evident.
The seizure of the reserve failed, and it was a miscalculation
On November 13, the 61st year of Kangxi, Kangxi suddenly died suddenly in Changchun Garden, and the commander of the infantry army, Long Keduo, conveyed the oral edict in public, and the fourth elder brother Yinzhen inherited the unification for Emperor Yongzheng.
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Since he could not produce any physical evidence on the succession, Yongzheng was worried about the instability of the throne, and immediately issued two edicts, the first edict sent Long Keduo to block the nine gates of the Beijing Division, and the other was an edict ordering Yinyu to return to Beijing immediately. But what is suspicious is that in the first edict, Yongzheng issued it in the name of the emperor, and in the edict that Yinyu returned to Beijing, Yongzheng adopted the method of sending it to the prince's court.
In the military affairs of the West Road, the general has a great position, and the fourteenth elder brother is allowed to give it, and it is difficult to leave temporarily. But in the event of a major event in the imperial examination, if Yi does not come, I am afraid that I will be uneasy. "Records of Qing Shizong"
Yongzheng has obviously ascended the throne and claimed the emperor, but why did he contact Yinyu in the name of the prince, and the reason for persuading him to return to Beijing was only to say that Kangxi had a major incident, but it was vague what the major event was. In fact, the reason why Yongzheng was vague was just that he wanted to trick Yinyu back to Jingshi, so as to strictly control it. In the later Zhu Pi Song, Yongzheng's earth-shattering conspiracy was completely exposed.
After Yun Yu traveled for three or four nights, he learned that the emperor's father had ascended to heaven, but he wanted to return to Ganzhou, and he could only give up after being persuaded by Cha Kedan and others. "Yongzheng Dynasty Manchu Zhu Criticism Fold"
That is to say, after receiving the message from Yongzhengting, Yinyu thought that something big had happened in Beijing, so he hurried back to Beijing from Qinghai, but on the way back to Beijing, he suddenly learned that Kangxi had died. Knowing his plan, he wanted to return to Ganzhou, a military town, but was coerced by his cronies sent by Yongzheng to rebel, so he rushed back to the capital in desperation.
Yongzheng Image
Therefore, at the moment when Yinyu arrived at the Kangxi Spiritual Hall, the grief of missing the throne and the resentment of Yongzheng's false recall all came to his heart, and the surrounding guards forced him to bow and kneel to Yongzheng, which was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, which eventually led to the openness of the contradiction between the two brothers and completely turned against each other.
After Yinyu made a big fuss in the mourning hall, Yongzheng first sent Nian Qianyao to act in charge of the Northwest Military and took over his position as the general Wang, and then sent someone to search his correspondence with Kangxi, and burned one of them.
Fourteen elder brothers and their blessings
In clearing all worries, Yongzheng in the name of the spirit, Yinyu to be imprisoned in the imperial tomb for a long time, since then, the great achievements of the general king in the northwest are not seen in the annals, leaving only one mausoleum keeper Yinyu only.
Epilogue:
In the nine sons of Kangxi in the last years, Yinyu was first appreciated for his loyal and courageous temperament, and then became Kangxi's potential heir with the help of the Northwest, and his prestige has reached the extreme.
However, with the succession of Yongzheng, Yinyu degenerated from the majestic general Wang to a prisoner who was bullied, which can be said to have tasted the warmth and coldness of the world. Just when Yinyu thought that he would be imprisoned for life, Qianlong took over the throne from Yongzheng, and in order to ease the political tension, he soon released the fourteenth uncle from the imperial tomb and entrusted him with heavy use, but after thirteen years of house arrest, the former general Wang had already been smoothed out and had no intention of any political affairs.