In the late Kangxi dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, all the princes coveted the vacant princely position and were eager to try it, which eventually led to the tragedy of "nine kings seizing concubines".
Stills of the Nine Kings
However, the outcome of this battle was unexpected, before the momentum was huge, and the two core members of the Eight Masters Party, Old Eight Yin Yu and Old Fourteen Yin Yu, who were deeply favored by the Kangxi Emperor, were defeated, and finally the throne fell into the hands of the obscure and obscure Old Four Yin Chan.
After the new monarch ascended the throne, he would naturally suppress many political enemies in the past, so the fate of the old eight Yin Yu and the old nine Yin Yu were very tragic (after all, the old fourteen was Yong Zheng's brother with the same father and mother, and he was concerned about the brotherhood of yong zheng, and Yong Zheng's handling of him was bound to be merciful, so he is not compared here):
Yongzheng Emperor stills
Although At the beginning of Yongzheng's succession, in order to stabilize the overall situation of the court, he promoted Yin Yu to the title of "Prince of Lian" against his will, and ordered him to work with Yin Xiang, Ma Qi, and Long Keduo to serve as prime ministers, showing his extraordinary "elegant temperament". However, after Yongzheng had established his footing, the retaliation against Yin Yu also began. In the fourth year of Yongzheng (i.e., in 1726 in the Gregorian calendar), Yin Yu was deposed by Yongzheng on trumped-up charges (Yongzheng deliberately renamed him "Akina", Manchu for "pig and dog generation" in order to humiliate Yin Yu), and was imprisoned in the institute, and finally died in the prison on September 8 of the following year, at the age of 45.
Stills of Yin Yu
Yin Yu's fate was also similar, and he had been plagued by disasters since Yongzheng came to power. In the first year of Yongzheng (that is, in 1723 in the Gregorian calendar), he was ordered to fight in the bitter cold land of Xining (in fact, he was sent to the frontier to prevent him from colluding with Yin Yu and others to destabilize the situation), and in the third year of Yongzheng and the fourth year of Yongzheng, he was successively knighted, removed from the clan and removed the yellow belt (soon he was also forced to change his name to "Seth Black", which is synonymous with "Akina"). In August of the same year, he was questioned by Yongzheng on the charge of "twenty-eight crimes", and was then escorted to Baoding prison, where he was tortured to death at the age of 43.
Stills of Yin Yu
In contrast, Yin's ending is much better. Although Yongzheng was angry with him because of the Eight Ye Party's affairs, he stripped him of his title of "King of Dunjun" and imprisoned him in Beijing, he did not remove him from his name (which means that yongzheng still regarded him as his brother, but the two were not at odds). In the second year of Qianlong (i.e. 1737 in the Gregorian calendar), Yin Was released from prison by Qianlong and was given the title of "Auxiliary Duke". In the sixth year of Qianlong (that is, in 1741 in the Gregorian calendar), Yin Died of Illness at the age of 59, and qianlong specially arranged the uncle's funeral according to the grade of Beizi.
Stills of Yin
So why did Yongzheng kill The Eighth and the Ninth Elder, but only opened his eyes to the Old Ten and let him have a way to live?
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Old Shi Yin's birth mother was Kangxi Grandpa's Wen Concubine, and her aunt was Empress Xiao Zhaoren, who relied on the huge power of "Niu Hulu Clan", "one of the eight surnames of the Manchus", and its strength should not be underestimated. In addition, his grandfather Yu Wei of Shu Bilong (寛比尧孯) was born in manchuria and was the sixteenth son of One of the Five Ministers of the Later Jin Dynasty, and his mother was also the fourth princess of Emperor Taizu Nurhaci, and in the early years of the Kangxi Dynasty, Hebilong was also listed as the four assistant ministers with Aobai, Soni, and Sukshaha to assist the young emperor Kangxi in handling state affairs. Even when He bilong was impeached by Prince Kang for twelve major crimes and sentenced to death by stripping him of his post and being sentenced to prison, Kangxi did not dare to move him casually, and had to be granted extrajudicial grace, not only to spare him from death, but also to give him the title of duke to defend the inner court), and the Yongzheng Emperor did not dare to easily ignore Yin And so on.
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Although there are not too many records in the history books about Old Ten Yin, he is still worthy of the title of "Straw Bag" Old Ten by virtue of his various excellent and childish behaviors such as calling him a sick and false edict after Yongzheng took the stage, and writing disrespectful words to Yongzheng in a compromise. Compared with the "Eight Sages King" Yin Yu, who was good at inviting people's hearts and had outstanding talents (Yin Yu's talent also deeply touched Yongzheng, allowing him to praise him many times after succeeding to the throne, "Yin Yu is more talented than his brothers" and "poisonous snakes" and "money bags" Lao Jiu, his threat to the Yongzheng Emperor is much smaller, so Yong zheng is naturally not as cruel to him as he is to treat Lao Ba and Lao Jiu.
Skull Images
If Yongzheng didn't even want to let go of this "incompetent" brother, it would undoubtedly only confirm his accusation of forcing his brother to seek relatives.
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In fact, to a certain extent, Yin Yu was treated similarly politically to Lao Ba Yin Yu and Lao Jiu Yin Yu, and they were all imprisoned by Ge Jue, except that they only retained their original names and the identity of the sons of the clan. However, Yin Yu was able to keep the bitter day, and waited for more than ten years until Yongzheng died and Qianlong succeeded to the throne. In the end, he also got his wish to restore his free body, and his body and mentality had to be said to have played a big role in it.
postscript:
To sum up, Yongzheng let go of the old ten Yin, one is forced by the situation, his background is strong, and he has to let go; the other is because Yin is a mediocre person, there is no need to give a dead hand; the third is that Yin Chen's own conditions are good, he can escape the disaster, it is estimated that Yongzheng did not expect.
This article is originally created by Xiao Shicai, welcome to pay attention to it, and take you to increase your knowledge together.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Biography of the Kings, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty