Since ancient times, the road to the position of leader of a country has been full of struggles, bloodshed and killings. The most famous event in history with the largest number of participants is the " Kowloon Seizing of the First Son" during the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi.
In the end, the fourth prince Yinzhen won the battle to seize the throne and became the heir to the throne of Kangxi , which was the Yongzheng emperor in history. After he ascended to the throne and secured the throne, he began to liquidate his "political enemies."
Although those "political opponents" were all his brothers, he still showed no mercy. Among them, he thoroughly punished the eighth prince and ninth prince among the most powerful eighth prince , but he allowed the tenth prince to escape. Why?
The main figure of the Eighth Age Party
During the Ming Dynasty , except for the favored princes, the rest had the status of princes, but they did not receive orthodox education. This made the quality of the descendants of the Zhu family uneven in the late Ming Dynasty.
The Qing Dynasty learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty and set up special institutions to educate princes. Therefore, most of the sons of Emperor Kangxi were among the best, which made them unwilling to be inferior to others and also paved the way for the subsequent nine sons to seize the legitimate sons..
In the early days of Emperor Kangxi's reign, there was no reason for the prince to compete for the throne. When the second elder brother Yinreng was born, Emperor Kangxi named him the prince and took him to his side to raise him personally. Yinreng has been firmly seated as the prince for more than thirty years, and he is basically the next emperor who is certain.
However, history is full of twists and turns. In 1712 AD, Yinreng, who was deposed for the second time, had no chance anymore. The other princes swarmed in and the battle for the heir became fierce.
After the second elder brother Yinzhen was completely abolished, the leader of the eldest elder brother's party Yinti who participated in the seizure of the legitimate son had already been abandoned because he offended Kangxi. Therefore, the biggest opponent of the fourth elder brother Yinzhen in seizing the legitimate son was the eighth elder brother's party led by the eighth elder brother Yinti .
In addition to the eighth elder brother Yinhu, the eighth elder brother party also has the ninth elder brother Yinchu , the tenth elder brother Yinzhen, the fourteenth elder brother Yinqi , and some ministers who follow the eighth elder brother. Among them, the fourteenth elder brother is the biological brother of the fourth elder brother.
The eighth prince Yinhu’s mother was the good concubine Wei family. The eighth prince himself was also polite, resourceful, and had a kind and easy-going personality. He was named Baylor by Kangxi before he was crowned weak. This shows that the emperor valued him very much at that time.
When the second elder brother Yinfeng was deposed for the first time, Emperor Kangxi asked the ministers to choose a prince to ascend to the position of prince. Most of the officials in the court recommended the eighth elder brother. This shows how good the eighth prince's reputation is outside, and he is also known as the "Eight Wise King".
The biological mother of Ninth Brother Yinzhen is Yifei Guo Luoluo. She has been fond of reading and inventing since she was a child. She also likes Western culture very much and even taught herself foreign languages. In addition, he is also good at doing business and has a lot of money. He can easily make tens of thousands of taels of silver.
There are even rumors outside that the ninth prince's money has already caught up with Emperor Kangxi's small treasury. After being impressed by the gentleness of the eighth prince, he became his die-hard supporter. Even after Yongzheng came to the throne, his feelings for the eighth prince did not change.
During the period of seizing the throne, most of the money spent by the Eighth Prince Party was earned by the Ninth Prince. He can be said to be a veritable "money bag".
Except for the second elder brother Yinfeng, the tenth elder brother Yinzhen has the highest background. His mother is Wenxi Concubine Niu Colu, and his maternal grandfather is Yibilong.
Although Yinzhen had a noble status, he was disliked by the ministers for his perverse personality and rudeness. However, he followed the eighth elder brother because he had a good relationship with the ninth elder brother, Yinzhen.
At that time, in order to stabilize Yinreng's position as prince, Kangxi married Yin'er to a Mongolian tribe Fujin, completely cutting off the possibility of Yin'er becoming a great treasure.
The biological mother of the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen De Fei Wu Ya, a compatriot from the same mother as the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, had extraordinary military ability and once commanded the three armies, but had no relationship with his own brother since childhood. He was attracted by the virtues of the eighth elder brother, so he has always been a die-hard member of the eighth elder brother's party.
The fate of the Eighth Prince's Party
Although the Eighth Prince's party is full of talents and is the most promising, even if the Eighth Prince himself is deprived of his qualifications as prince, the Fourteenth Prince still has a great chance. It is a pity that due to various reasons, the fourth elder brother Yinzhen ascended the throne and took the emperor's reign name Yongzheng.
At that time, Yongzheng did not take action against his biggest rival, the Ba Age Party, but gradually emptied their power. It was not until Yongzheng secured the throne four or five years later that he began to liquidate.
The first person to bear the brunt was the eighth prince Yinhu. Emperor Yongzheng cut his title, removed his name from the genealogy, and imprisoned him. He also changed his name to "Aqina", which means a person inferior to a pig or a dog. The double mental and physical torture caused Yinsu to suffer from vomiting, and he eventually died in 1726.
The second is the ninth prince Yinzhen. As the money bag of the eighth prince party, he is also the key "care" target of Yongzheng. He was first revoked from the title and then renamed "Seshei", which means a disgusting person, and finally he was imprisoned in Baoding.
The place of confinement is said to be no different from a pig pen, and the food is not as good as pigs and dogs. Not long after the confinement, Yinzhen died of illness. The endings of the eighth prince Yinzhen and the ninth prince Yinzhen were relatively miserable, but the endings of the tenth prince Yinzhen and the fourteenth prince Yinzhen were relatively better.
As the younger brother of Yongzheng, the Fourteenth Prince was only imprisoned by him in the Shouhuang Palace in Jingshan. This approach is understandable, but as Yongzheng's number one political enemy, why was Yinzheng only imprisoned? Even during the reign of Emperor Qianlong, he was released to enjoy his old age.
Why the fate of the tenth elder brother Yinzhen is better
The fate of the tenth elder brother Yinzhen is better than that of the eighth elder brother Yinsu and the ninth elder brother Yinzhen. There are mainly the following reasons:
Yinzhen's birth is noble. As mentioned above, except for the second elder brother Yinzhen, his background is the most noble among all the children of Emperor Kangxi.
The tenth elder brother Yinzhen was born in the Niu Gulu family, one of the eight major families in Manchuria. The ancestors of this branch can be traced back to Eyidu , one of the five founding ministers of the Qing Dynasty.
His maternal grandfather was Ye Bilong, one of the four auxiliary ministers appointed by Shunzhi . His aunt was the wife of Huang Taiji Yuan Pei, his aunt was the second empress of Emperor Kangxi Empress Xiao Zhaoren , and his biological mother was Concubine Wen Xi.
The wife of the tenth elder brother Yinzhen is also very powerful. His first wife is Borzijit from Mongolia, and his stepwife is from the Hesheli family and is the niece of Kangxi's first queen Xiaochengren .
The Borzigits are the direct descendants of Genghis Khan. This family was of great political significance to the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. There were 6 queens in this lineage. Queen Xiaoduanwen and Queen Xiaozhuangem2 were all from this family. Even Yongzheng did not dare to take action easily from such an influential family.
The tenth prince, Yinzhen, has such a profound background and noble birth, but "mud can't hold up the wall". He has a hot temper and is uneducated, making him a veritable "idiot" prince.
Emperor Yongzheng once commented on the tenth prince Yin Zhen, saying that he had mediocre qualifications and no big ambitions, let alone accomplished anything big. It can be seen that in Yongzheng's heart, the tenth elder brother Yinzhen is not much of an opponent. As long as the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother of the eighth elder brother's party are dealt with, the remaining ones will not pose much of a threat.
What the eighth elder brother Yinhu needs is not the person of the tenth elder brother Yinzhen, but the background of Niu Colu, Borzigit and Hershey represented by him. Yongzheng also knew this reason and did not severely punish the tenth elder brother Yinzhen.
What do you think about this?
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