In the interpretation of the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", in order to ensure the smooth succession of the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, the Kangxi Emperor can be said to have exhausted his thoughts. The two edicts controlled Long Keduo, who was then the "Viceroy of the Nine Doors"; retained the powerful "Chincha Guanfang" in Yin Chan's hands; pushed Nian Qianyao to the position of "Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu"; in short, the Kangxi Emperor in the late Kangxi Dynasty brought the "Imperial Mind Technique" to the extreme, effectively ensuring the smooth progress of the process of Changing the Imperial Power of Kangyong.
However, the eighth son of the Emperor Yin Yu, who had suffered successive blows, was still powerful and extremely threatening; Yin Yu, the fourteenth son of the Emperor who had been appointed by the Kangxi Emperor as the "Great General King", had even been identified as the crown prince by the whole dynasty; therefore, even under the protection of Yin Xiang and Long Keduo, the fourth son of the Emperor Yin Chan was smoothly upgraded to become the Yongzheng Emperor, he was charged with the crime of "poisoning the emperor's father and correcting and usurping power", resulting in instability in the imperial power and turmoil in the dynasty.
Similarly, in the real history of the Qing Dynasty, because the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, was not patient during the "Ninth Son's Seizure of The Concubine", he always showed himself as the "first idle person in the world"; because after the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, the fourteenth son of the Emperor Yin Yu, who was appointed as the "Great General King", became more and more vocal; because of the sudden death of the Kangxi Emperor, the identity of the crown prince of the fourth son of the emperor was not clear before his death, and the "Edict of Succession" was not published on the night of his death; so that the Yongzheng Emperor reigned for thirteen years, always bearing the charge of "plotting for his father to usurp power".
Why, then, did the Kangxi Emperor not take the throne in advance, as the Qianlong Emperor did, in order to completely eliminate the negative situation faced by the Yongzheng Emperor?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the Kangxi Emperor in the Yongzheng Dynasty</h1>
In the interpretation of the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", the Kangxi Emperor began to regard the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, as an alternate figure for the heir to the throne from the "Jiangnan Donation", and then after the initial temptation and finally determined his identity as the heir to the throne when the war in the northwest resumed.
Then, since the identity of the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, was clearly defined, why could the Kangxi Emperor in the play not be able to take the throne in advance and take the initiative to give up power?
Putting aside the supremacy of imperial power, no one is willing to take the initiative to give up power to the simple reason, the reason why the Kangxi Emperor did not abdicate in advance was that he was worried that the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, would become the second "Prince Yin"!
After Crown Prince Yinrong was deposed for the second time, why didn't the Kangxi Emperor choose another crown prince?
1. It can effectively avoid the chaotic situation of the crown prince taking the concubine again;
2. It can effectively prevent the fourth son of the emperor from becoming the target of the public;
3. The most important thing is that only by hiding the candidates for the crown prince can the princes act independently and find no target for attack; can we ensure the Kangxi Emperor's grasp of the overall situation, and then make arrangements after all the princes have made arrangements for taking the throne, so as to clear all obstacles to the succession of the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan!
If the Kangxi Emperor ceded the throne to the fourth son of the Emperor, Yin Chan, to a certain extent, Yin Chan at this time was just like the original crown prince Yin Rong, and would immediately become the target of attack by the other princes. If The eighth son of the Emperor, Yin Yu, had a huge influence in Beijing; the fourteenth son of the Emperor, Yin Yu, had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the northwest; if Yin Yu and Yin Yu secretly colluded to launch a coup on the grounds of "the side of the Qing Emperor", if it succeeded, the Kangxi Emperor could not even guarantee a good death; even if it failed, it would cause considerable harm to the Yongzheng Imperial Power and to the Qing Dynasty. Obviously, this was not the situation that the Kangxi Emperor wanted to see!
In order to stabilize and paralyze the powerful Emperor's eighth son, Yin Yu, the Kangxi Emperor made the following arrangements:
1. Appointing the fourteenth son of the Emperor Yin Yu as the "Great General King", dividing the forces of the "Eight Masters Party" at the same time, but also diverting the direction of attack of the Eighth Son of the Emperor Yin Yu;
2. The imprisonment of the thirteenth son of the Emperor, Yin Xiang, to the last moment, can not only prevent the "Eight Masters Party" from adjusting its grasp of the armed forces, but also effectively hide Yin Chan's identity as the crown prince, and can protect Yin Chan and Yin Xiang from being attacked at the last moment as much as possible;
3. Let the Eighth Son of Emperor Yin Yu's co-optation of the then "Nine Gate Admiral" Long Keduo and the mastery of the then "Fengtai Camp Admiral" Cheng Wenyun, so that the Eighth Son of the Emperor Yin Yu's "confidence" remained until the last moment.
Only in this way could the Kangxi Emperor "strike from behind" and secretly readjust the layout while the eighth son of the Emperor, Yin Yu, thought that he had a chance of winning, fully ensuring the smooth progress of the change of power of the Kangyong Emperor!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the real history of the Kangxi Emperor</h1>
After all, "Yongzheng Dynasty" is adapted from the novel of film and television works, with a lot of artistic processing required for the development of the plot and the manufacture of contradictions, the change of imperial power in the history of the Qing Dynasty did not have so many power calculations, nor such a meticulous succession plan, the reason why the Kangxi Emperor did not take the initiative to Zen, the reason is very simple: do not want, can not, do not dare!
First of all, we need to understand an eternal truth, the imperial power is supreme, no one can challenge and covet, has been clearly defined as the crown prince Of Yin, the reason why he was deposed twice, forever imprisoned, is because he has a direct threat to the Kangxi imperial power; the eighth son of the emperor Yin Yu is so talented, still did not escape the fate of being punished and suppressed, but also because the forces behind him are too strong, so that the Kangxi Emperor is jealous. Therefore, the Kangxi Emperor did not want to take the initiative to zen at all, did not want to take the initiative to give up this supreme imperial power!
Moreover, although the situation in the late Kangxi Dynasty was unstable, the Kangxi Emperor's sufficient self-confidence in two aspects also made him "unnecessary" to make a Zen decision:
1. Confidence in your physical condition
According to the Records of the Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor's illness developed very rapidly before his death:
On the seventh day of November in the 61st year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor was still hunting in Nanyuan, and then felt that "the holy bow was not hesitant" and ordered to return to Changchun Garden;
On November 13, 61, the Kangxi Emperor died suddenly in Changchun Garden.
That is to say, the Kangxi Emperor had always maintained a good physical condition before the illness, and the Kangxi Emperor had always adhered to the way of health maintenance, which made the Kangxi Emperor very confident in his physical condition. Therefore, the Kangxi Emperor did not have to take the throne at all.
2. Confident control of the situation of "nine sons and nine wives"
Like the interpretation of the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", the historical "Nine Sons and Sisters" is also a gradual elimination process:
In the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the crown prince YinRong was deposed for the first time, and the eldest son of the emperor, Yin Rong, who first jumped out to compete for the throne, was ordered by the Kangxi Emperor to "cut the knighthood and be imprisoned", and he withdrew from the dispute for the concubine with great pain and passivity.
In the fifty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the crown prince Yinrong was deposed twice, and the Kangxi Emperor ordered that he be "imprisoned forever in the Xian'an Palace" and eliminated from the game; at the same time, the third son of the emperor, Yin Zhi, saw the chaos of the conquest and voluntarily withdrew from the dispute over the concubine.
Fifty-three years after the Kangxi Dynasty, the famous "Eagle Shooting Incident" broke out in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and the Kangxi Emperor evaluated the protagonist of the incident, the Eighth Son of the Emperor Yin Yu, as "born of a lowly woman of the Xin Zhiku, and had a high and sinister heart since childhood", and at the same time, he also publicly announced that "from now on, yin yu and Yin Yu, the grace of father and son is absolutely complete", completely cutting off the possibility of succession of the eighth son of the emperor, Yin Yu.
In the fifty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, although the Kangxi Emperor appointed the fourteenth son of the Emperor Yin Yu as the "Great General King", Nian Qianyao, who belonged to the "Four Masters Party", was also appointed "Viceroy of Sichuan" almost at the same time and transferred to the "Viceroy of Shaanxi and Gansu" in the sixtieth year of Kangxi, responsible for the supply of grain and grass and logistical support for the Northwest Army, and was able to suppress Yin Yu's Northwest Army to an absolute extent.
In the fifty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor appointed the "uncle" Long Keduo, the fourth son of the Emperor Yin Chan, as the "Shangshu of the Li Fan Yuan" and "Acting Viceroy of the Nine Doors", which was almost equivalent to handing over the arch guard power of the capital to the fourth son of the Emperor Yin Chan.
That is to say, until the sixty years of Kangxi, the Kangxi Emperor had completed all the arrangements for the succession of the imperial throne, and had absolute certainty of the smooth succession of the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan. From this point of view, the Kangxi Emperor did not have to take the initiative to meditate, but only quietly waited for the last moment of life!
In the end, the Kangxi Emperor absolutely "did not dare" to make the decision to take the initiative to zen.
In his later years, the Kangxi Emperor in history was almost the same as the Emperor of The Emperor, tired of government affairs, indulging in subordinates, indulging in the harem, and raw and turning the "Kangxi Prosperous Era" he personally created into a virtual dynasty with gold and jade outside and defeat. The reason why the Kangxi Emperor chose the fourth son of the Emperor, Yin Chan, as the heir to the throne was to believe that he could "rectify the loss of Kuang Zheng and revitalize the imperial program" and restore and promote the steady development of the "Kangxi Prosperous Era".
Just imagine, if the Yongzheng Emperor succeeded to the throne in advance, how would he treat this Taishang Emperor who had already entered the state of "Emperor Xia"? If the Yongzheng Emperor had offended the Kangxi Emperor's favored courtiers, close subjects, and meritorious servants in the process of recovering the arrears of the state treasury, rectifying the official style and government, and implementing the Reform of the New Deal, what kind of contradictions would arise between the two generations of emperors? Don't forget, the Yongzheng Emperor who "guessed the Yin Qixiong" was not the Jiaqing Emperor who only promised, and whether the Kangxi Emperor could still end up well can be imagined! Therefore, the Kangxi Emperor also "did not dare" to take the initiative to zen!
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Regardless of the Kangxi Emperor's considerations, he failed to take the throne in advance, but fortunately failed to affect the smooth progress of the process of Kangyong's imperial power change, and the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, eventually became a promising prince who "laid the foundation for the Qing Dynasty for two hundred and more decades".
In fact, even if the Kangxi Emperor ascended the throne in advance and fuyongzheng emperor made a trip, it could not fundamentally eliminate the various insults carried by the Yongzheng Emperor. Because of the rectification of the rule of officials, because of the implementation of the New Deal, because of a series of administrative measures to promote the rapid development of the Qing Dynasty and the rapid arrival of the Qing Dynasty's prosperity, it hurt the vested interests class, especially the gentry who mastered the "pen pole", which is the real reason why the Yongzheng Emperor fell so embarrassed before his death!
References: TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Qing Shilu Shengzu Shilu", "Qing Shilu Sejong Shilu", "Zhengzhi Qing Dynasty Twelve Emperors", "Da Yi Jue Mystery"