Yinzhen has low self-esteem, and his schoolwork is not as good as other princes. Whenever he had time, the kind father taught his sons mathematics, astronomy, geography, medicine, surveying, agriculture, and other subjects. Many princes are showing excellent potential, fantasizing about being able to get their father's special guidance. Yin Zhen had low self-esteem and found that he was not an outstanding student in any subject.

The third elder brother Yinzhi had a deep understanding of various disciplines, Kangxi often explained geometry to him alone, let him see all kinds of hand-cranked calculators brought from the West, and cultivated his scientific talents;

The young Yinzhen had no intention of competing with other princes at all. The crown prince Yinren monopolized most of Kangxi's spare time, and all the princes could feel the aura on his body.

Yinren was born in the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Reign and was born to the first empress of the Kangxi Emperor, Hesheri. Hesheri died in Kunning Palace a few hours after giving birth to him, and Kangxi was grief-stricken, and the following year he made Yinren the crown prince and personally taught him to read. When the crown prince was six years old, Kangxi invited scholars Zhang Ying and Li Guangdi to be his masters.

Under the tutelage of his father and master, Yinren's comprehension in riding archery, speech, literature and other aspects far exceeded that of the princes, and he was able to open the bow left and right at the age of eight, and was able to recite the four books. Kangxi deliberately built a small garden for Yinren on the west side of Changchun Garden to reward him for living. Even if Kangxi went on an expedition outside the Saiwai, he didn't forget to ask Yinren to send a few old clothes in order to soothe his thoughts about his beloved son.

Only the eldest brother Yinren is openly competing with the crown prince Yinren. Yinren is strong in force, and Yinren is two years old, and Yinren has some experience in literature and art. After the two children became enemies, they would always start from the competition in Wuyi Zhai and go to the shooting range outside the Zhai Gate, and Yinren would compete with Yinren in every aspect. No prince dared to openly intervene in the conflict between the two elder brothers, not only because Yinren was able to kill people when he was excited, but more importantly, the two elder brothers had relatives in the court who were important ministers of the state.

The scholar Mingzhu is the uncle of the eldest brother Yinren, and he strongly supports his own nephew; Suo Etu, a scholar and minister of the guard, is the maternal uncle of the crown prince Yinren, so it is natural to constantly strengthen the position of the prince of Yinren's East Palace. The two scholars controlled the political order of the Kangxi Dynasty, and there was a folk proverb that said: "If you want to be an official, ask Suo San, and if you want to intercede, ask Lao Ming." ”

However, the two have long had long-standing grievances, often dumping each other and fighting with each other. Suo Etu is too arrogant, and Mingzhu is insidious, and there is a folk proverb that says: "The sky must be peaceful, kill Lao Suo, and the sky must be peaceful, kill Lao Ming." ”

Although Yinchu is a concubine, but the eldest son of the emperor, unwilling to succumb to the crown prince Yinren, Mingzhu has been actively planning for this nephew, on the one hand, he encouraged the eldest brother to behave positively in front of Kangxi, in order to win Kangxi's favor; Kangxi reused Suo Etu and Mingzhu at the same time, the original intention was to hope that the two would check and balance each other, and at this time, in order to protect the status of the crown prince Yinren, he finally dismissed Mingzhu, and soon disintegrated the emperor's eldest son party.

Yinzhen was born with a low status, and his adoptive mother, the imperial concubine, was the antidote to his inferiority. Yinzhen's biological mother Wu Yashi was originally Manchurian inlaid with blue flags, Kangxi entered the palace in the sixteenth year, but the lower status was always there, and she gave birth to Yinzhen the next year. Yinzhen's birth is plain and unremarkable.

Getting along with many prominent princes of the maternal family, Yinzhen will have a faint inferiority. In the year he was born, Wu Ya's family was not qualified to raise his biological son due to his low status, and Yinzhen was held by the imperial concubine Tong Jia to raise. Tong Jia's family was born in the aristocracy, Kangxi was promoted to the imperial concubine in ten years, because Emperor Kangxi was worried about his own queen, so after the death of Empress Xiaozhao, Kangxi has not established a new queen for more than ten years, Tong Jia's family will be in charge of the harem in the name of the imperial concubine, is the virtuous internal help of the Holy Ancestor Emperor Kangxi, and is also the mother of the princes.

Tong Jia's has no children under her knees, and only one daughter died early, so she has always regarded Yinzhen as her own, diligent and caring. The young Yinzhen relied on this unique opportunity to be raised in the Kangxi Palace and was personally raised by the imperial father. Yinzhen, who is weak by nature, has a strong will for the first time, he wants to tie up this loving adoptive mother, and he will rely on this selfless maternal love infinitely.

In the pile of princes who pay attention to their background, Yinzhen deliberately showed the arrogance of the adopted son of the imperial concubine, and unintentionally showed the estrangement from his biological mother Wu Yashi. Over time, the relationship between the biological mother and child will always be overshadowed. When Yinzhen was ten years old, Wu Yashi gave birth to the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen, at this time she had been promoted from a concubine to a concubine, and Kangxi allowed her to raise her young son.

After the death of his adoptive mother, Yinzhen's personality changed rapidly. When he was twelve years old, Yinzhen's adoptive mother Tong Jiashi died. Tong Jia's death made Yinzhen lose the most important backer in his life. Soon after, Yinzhen would jealously find that Wu Ya's love for Yinzhen far exceeded his own. For a long time, Yinzhen fell into the abyss of darkness. So much so that Kangxi once put down political affairs and accompanied this melancholy son.

His personality began to change rapidly, and after marrying at the age of fourteen, he was still moody. It is inferiority, pretense, indulgence, and a deep anxiety about fate and death. In the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi sealed all his sons, the eldest brother and the third elder brother were both county kings, and Yinzhen, who was only one year younger than the third elder brother, was only named Baylor, Kangxi's explanation for Yinzhen was that the fourth elder brother was rash and moody. The emperor's judgment made the arrogant Yinzhen feel embarrassed in the loss, and Yinzhen's political character of forbearance began to take shape from that day.

During the long study, Yinzhen found that the only bright color of his study career came from his younger brother Yinxiang. Yinxiang is eight years old, the two were not born to the same mother, but they have been together day and night since childhood. When he was a little older, Yinzhen was ordered by Kangxi to teach Yinxiang arithmetic, and the relationship between the two young princes became deeper. Little did they know that a few decades later, they would use these arithmetic methods to calculate the finances and taxes of the entire empire.

Emperor Yongzheng, Qing Shizong Yinzhen, Yinzhen is the fourth son of Kangxi, after Kangxi's crown prince was deposed, Yinzhen inherited the throne and changed to Yongzheng. Yinzhen is honest and Buddhist, far-sighted, resolute and decisive. During his thirteen-year reign, he made great efforts to make the country prosperous, vigorously carried out reforms, rectified corruption, cleaned up money and grain, apportioned land into the land, expanded land reclamation, returned fire consumption to the public, used silver to maintain integrity, established the Military Aircraft Department, eliminated the banner owner, pacified Qinghai, stabilized Tibet, and changed the land to return to the stream.

It promoted the development of national production, economic prosperity, abundant treasury, political stability, consolidation of the frontiers, and strengthening unification, which played a key role in the continuity of the prosperous Kangqian era and provided extremely favorable conditions for Qianlong to create the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty. Yongzheng died in the thirteenth year, the temple name is Sejong, the name is Jingtianchang, Yunjian, the table is Zhengwen, Wu Yingming, Kuanren, Xinyi, Rui, the great filial piety, to the Chengxian Emperor, buried in the Tailing of the Qing Dynasty, and passed on the fourth son Hongli.

In the seventeenth year of Kangxi, Yinzhen was born in Yonghe Palace, the Forbidden City, Beijing, and his biological mother was Concubine Wu Ya. Because his biological mother Wu Ya was from a humble background, she could not bring Yinzhen a special status among the princes, and in addition, the harem in the early Qing Dynasty did not allow her biological mother to raise her son, so Yinzhen was raised by Empress Tong Jiashi of Xiaoyiren after the full moon. Empress Xiao Yiren is the daughter of the first-class prince Tong Guowei, the niece of Empress Xiao Chengren, Empress Xiao Yiren has never given birth to a prince, only one princess died at an early age, so she raised the son of a concubine, and the young Yinzhen is likely to intend to slap her because of her dignity.

In the twenty-second year of Kangxi, Yinzhen entered the study room at the age of six, and Yinzhen followed Zhang Ying to learn the Four Books and Five Classics, and learned Manchu from Xu Yuanmeng. The closest relationship with Yinzhen is Gu Badai, Yinzhen said that he has a good character and academic integrity. Yinzhen in his youth and youth was strictly controlled by his father and master, and engaged in the study of the Four Books and Five Classics as the main content.

After a long time, he followed Emperor Kangxi to patrol the four places and was ordered to handle some political affairs. At the age of sixteen, he accompanied his third brother Yinzhi to the Confucius Temple in Qufu. In the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi, the nineteen-year-old Yinzhen followed the Kangxi Emperor to conquer Galdan and was in charge of the Zhenghongqi camp. He went to Zunhua to temporarily enshrine Empress Xiaozhuang Wen.

Kangxi was awarded the title of Baylor at the age of twenty-one in the thirty-seventh year. At the age of twenty-three, Emperor Kangxi inspected the Yongding River construction site and inspected the quality of the project. At the age of twenty-five, he accompanied his father to visit Wutai Mountain, and the following year he accompanied the southern tour of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to accept the project of controlling the Yellow River and the Huai River.

In the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi deposed the crown prince Yinren for the first time. In the process of electing the new prince, Yinzhen supported the restoration of Yinren, and at the same time maintained a good relationship with Yinren, the eighth son of the emperor. In the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, Yinren was reinstated as the crown prince. In the same year, Yinzhen was named Prince Heshuoyong. During this period, in order to seek the throne, the princes formed private parties, and the intrigue was extremely fierce.

After Yinren was re-established, he carried out some illegal activities in order to consolidate the storage position, which caused the displeasure of Emperor Kangxi, and he was deposed again in the 50th year of Kangxi. In the future, courtiers continued to rush for his restoration, and they were all punished by Emperor Kangxi. Yinren was abandoned, but the vacant position of the crown prince he left behind, but Emperor Kangxi did not let people replace him, which provoked the princes to be very tempted.

Yinci had the capital and continued to move, but was once again reprimanded by his father. His accomplice, Corporal Yinzhen Lixian, contacted people from all walks of life, and had a good plan. The 14th prince Yinzhen was appointed as the general of Fuyuan in the 57th year of Kangxi, went to the northwest, commanded the Qing army of two routes into Tibet, escorted Dai Lai VI to Lhasa, expelled the forces of the Dzungars who were once entrenched in Tibet, and stabilized the situation in Tibet. His reputation grew, and he had the potential to become a prince. The third prince, Prince Cheng Yinzhi, was ordered to open the Mengyang Zhai Hall, and a group of scholars gathered around him. He also hoped for the throne, so that after Yinren was abolished again, he actually appointed himself as the prince.

Yinzhen is good at governing the country and knows how to keep his eyes open. He respected Taoism, claimed to be the first idler in the world, maintained harmony with his brothers, had close contacts with Nian Qianyao and Long Keduo, and at the same time showed sincerity and filial piety to his father Emperor Kangxi, painted Tibet in the territory, and won the trust of Emperor Kangxi.

In the 60th year of Kangxi, Yongzheng was 44 years old, it was the 60th anniversary of Emperor Kangxi's accession to the throne, he was ordered to go to Shengjing to pay tribute to the ancestral tomb, return to Beijing to participate in the Gongshi meeting to try the volume review affairs, and obey the order on behalf of Emperor Kangxi in the southern suburbs of the winter solstice. In the following year, the two warehouses of Beijing and Tong were cleared, and the winter solstice was ordered to sacrifice to the sky.

These activities of Yinzhen have a twofold significance to him, because he has repeatedly toured the fortunate and gone out to do government affairs, and has traveled all over the major regions of China, so that he has the opportunity to understand the economic products, mountains, rivers, water conservancy, folk customs, religious beliefs, and historical issues in various places, and has obtained first-hand information on civil affairs; he has observed the Kangxi Emperor's handling of political affairs, examined local administration and official governance, exercised his ability to handle certain political affairs, and gained some experience in politics, which is of great practical significance to Yinzhen's future management of state affairs.

The victory of Emperor Yongzheng in the struggle for the throne, his talent and pragmatism will win the support of some people, and his subordinate Dai Duo once praised his master to the scholar Li Guangdi: "Talent and virtue are complete, and grace and power are both powerful, and great achievements." ”

In fact, in the struggle for the crown prince, Emperor Yongzheng put forward the political policy of revitalizing the accumulated habits, which was opposed to the benevolence and righteousness policy of the eighth prince Yinxi, in order to win the hearts of the people. He was good at playing duplicitous tricks, thus deceiving his opponents and the Kangxi Emperor, so that his political enemies did not think of him and did not concentrate on dealing with him, so as to achieve success lightly. He has a group that uses his strength at critical moments to stabilize the situation in Beijing through Long Keduo, and control Yinzhen and stabilize the northwest region through Nian Qianyao.