Suo Etu, the leader of the princelings, was the son of Sony, the chief auxiliary minister of Kangxi's childhood, the uncle of Empress Renxiao, the uncle and grandfather of the crown prince, a scholar, and the minister of the guard, and was once one of the most trusted ministers of the Kangxi Emperor. In the 28th year of Kangxi's reign, he served as the chief representative of the Chinese side in the Sino-Russian border negotiations, advocating that Nebuchu and Yaksa should be returned to the Qing Dynasty and sign the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu.

But he later fell into the whirlpool of contradictions between Emperor Kangxi and the crown prince. In the forty-second year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi used Suo Etu to discuss state affairs and form a party for the crime of recklessness, so that the Zongren Mansion detained him, and soon Suo Etu died in a secluded place. Emperor Kangxi also ordered the arrest of Suo Etu's sons, handed them over to his younger brothers Xinyu and Fabao for detention, and ordered: "If there is no more trouble, Xinyu and Fabao will be punished!"

The ministers Martu, Ekuli, Wen Dai, Shao Gan, Tong Bao and others were also imprisoned for the crime of attaching the party to the Etu, and the ministers and his ancestors and grandchildren in the ministry were deprived of their official positions. Jiang Huang tied Suo Etu's private letter to death in the Criminal Department, and as long as he was slightly involved with Suo Etu, he was punished.

The third prince Yinzhi likes to dance and write, and he is surrounded by literati. They were ordered by Kangxi to compile books, and were also responsible for rebuilding altars, temples, palaces, musical instruments, and compiling calendars. Their greatest achievement was the editing of the second major book, "The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books", and there was no obvious party at all.

The fourth elder brother of the fourth master party Yinzhen's desire for storage has a transformation process. This process can be divided into three stages, the first of which was before Yinren was first deposed. During this time, he was still a princeling, and he was not at all enthusiastic about the storage position. He just wants to assist the prince and do his best to be a minister.

The second stage is between before and after Yinren was reinstated and the second time he was deposed. During this period, a small wave was set off between the elder brothers to overthrow the prince and compete for the storage position. Like the Eight Masters Party, it was during this period that it was gradually formed. At this time, Yinzhen's position was very unstable and had no prestige. He knew that even if the prince was replaced, he would not be able to take his turn. In the past, Yinzhi was older than him, and after Yinzhi was stronger than him, and Yinren could be reinstated once, it was possible to be reinstated twice or three times.

He felt that the crown prince's throne was too far away from him, and if he deliberately sought it, he would succeed, and if he failed, even the prince would not be able to do it, and he would be imprisoned forever like Yinren. So at this time, Yinzhen still defended the prince everywhere, and after the prince was deposed for the first time, only he dared to say good things for Yinren. At the same time, he also coexisted peacefully with Yinci and others.

The third stage is after Yinren was abolished for the second time. This time, the elder brothers deeply realized that Yinren was abolished this time, and there was no possibility of re-establishment, so the battle for the storage position was white-hot, and Yinzhen was also ready to move. With Yinzhen being imprisoned early, Yinren's second time was abolished, Yinzhi took the initiative to withdraw because his power was too small and fledgling;

In order to expand his power, Yinzhen planted domestic slaves everywhere to fill the vacancies of officials in other provinces. Although there are not many people, all of them are in important positions. He served as the governor of Sichuan in the 48th year of Kangxi, the governor of Sichuan in the 57th year of Kangxi, and the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi in the 60th year of Kangxi.

There is Dai Duo in the locality, who has served as the prefect of Fujian, a Taoist, and a political envoy in Sichuan, and Nian Qianyao is a scholar and a martial artist, worthy of being Yinzhen's right-hand man; another important figure in the process of Yinzhen's seizure of the crown is Long Keduo, who was the governor of Jiumen in the last years of Kangxi, as long as he orders the closure of the nine gates of the Beijing Division, no one in the capital, including Kangxi, wants to go out.

On the other hand, in the early battle for the storage position, Yinci's edge was too exposed, which had aroused Kangxi's disgust and vigilance. And Yinzhen is deeply obscure, and during the Kangxi period, several major cases were handled well, which was deeply appreciated by Kangxi. Therefore, in terms of pleasing the Sacred Heart, Yinxi is naturally at a disadvantage.

Yinzhen also has one of the biggest characteristics, that is, he is good at concealing his hopes for the storage position everywhere, and he is relaxed on the outside and on the inside. Most of Yinzhen's early poems reveal a kind of faint thought. On the surface, he told the world that he just wanted to be a prince who had no quarrel with the world, and he didn't want to be involved in political affairs, but in fact, he just used it to cover up his true thoughts.

As the date passed, Kangxi's affection for Yinzhen increased day by day. In his day-to-day government activities, he was appointed to investigate the cases of the royal family or to perform great sacrifices on behalf of the Son of Heaven. Four days before Kangxi's death in the 61st year of Kangxi, the emperor also appointed Yinzhen to go to the Temple of Heaven on his behalf to perform the winter solstice sacrifice ceremony. Probably Kangxi knew that his time was running out, and he had decided to pass on the throne to Yinzhen, so he sent him to sacrifice to the sky, so that God could see this future king.

The Eight Masters Party is headed by the Eighth Elder Brother Yinxi, and also includes the Ninth Elder Brother Yinyu, the Tenth Elder Brother Yinyu, and the Fourteenth Elder Brother Yinyu, who has the same mother as the Four Princes, and favors the Eight Princes in the struggle for the throne, and is hated by the Four Princes. As well as the guard Oro Dai, the Minister of the Interior, Alinga and others, they are the most powerful of all the friends.

Yinci, the eighth son of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, was born in the twentieth year of Kangxi and died at the age of forty-five. Because Yinci's biological mother, Concubine Wei, was originally a criminal of Xinzhiku, she was not a son of her mother, and she was sent to Concubine Hui Nalan to raise her at birth. His humble background and gentle personality made him ridiculed and looked down upon by his brothers when he was a child.

However, he was gifted and intelligent, with both ability and political integrity, and was named Baylor at the age of seventeen, and had an excellent reputation in the central and Jiangnan regions. It is said that Yinci has been smart since childhood, and knows the world, since he was a child, he has developed a kind and easy-going style of treating others, he is kind and charitable, known as the Eight Sages King. Emperor Kangxi's brother Prince Yu Fuquan also praised Yinci in front of Kangxi for not being pragmatic and boastful, smart and capable, and well-behaved, and should be the prince.

When the crown prince was abolished for the first time, many parties that coveted the position of the prince became active, and the Eight Masters Party was the most intense. Although the second elder brother Yinren is disobedient and perverse, he has been personally raised by his side since he was a child, and the relationship between father and son has not yet ended, so Kangxi hopes that the ministers will reinstate the second elder brother Yinren as the prince. At that time, Kangxi asked the hundreds of officials in the court, who would be the best for the position of prince, and he would appoint whomever he would. Who knew that most of the hundred officials recommended the eighth elder brother, which caused Kangxi's extreme dissatisfaction.

Kangxi hated forming a party for personal gain the most in his life, and he was still in the prime of life at that time, and he was very dissatisfied when he saw the power of the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and the Eight Masters Party expanding day by day. He once said: "The second elder brother is rebellious and has repeatedly lost people's hearts, and Yinci has repeatedly won people's hearts, and this person is a hundred times more insidious than the second elder brother." ”

Therefore, after everyone recommended Yinci as the heir to the throne, Kangxi was not only furious, but also ordered Yinci to be banned in order to crack down on the Eight Masters. It didn't take long for him to be released, though. Later, Kangxi looked for opportunities to crack down on the Eight Masters many times.

In the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, everything was laid out properly, and Yinren was naturally re-established as the crown prince. After Kangxi added the sons, the third son of the emperor Yinzhi, the fourth son of the emperor Yinzhen, the fifth son of the emperor Yinqi was named the prince, the seventh son of the emperor Yinyou, the tenth son of the emperor Yinyu was named the king of the county, the ninth son of the emperor Yinzhi, the twelfth son of the emperor Yinzhen, and the fourteenth son of the emperor Yinyu were named Beizi. The only adult princes who have not been knighted are the imprisoned emperor's eldest son Yinxiang, the emperor's thirteenth son Yinxiang, and the great loss of the sacred heart.

In the following year, Yinxi did not suffer any reproach. On the way to Rehe to inspect the Kangxi Emperor, he passed through Miyun County, Huayugou and other places, and Yinci was supposed to be with him, but because it was the third anniversary of the death of his mother Concubine Liang, he went to pay tribute to his mother, and did not go to the line to ask for peace, but only sent a eunuch to Kangxi to explain the reason, saying that he would wait for the emperor's father to return to Beijing together at Tangquan.

Later, Yinci selected two high-quality Haidongqing and sent them to Kangxi, but he didn't expect that when they arrived in Kangxi's hands, they would become two dying eagles. This made him extremely angry, thinking that this was Yinci cursing himself, and immediately summoned the princes, scolding Yinci for being born to a slut in Xinzhiku, and his heart was high and insidious since he was a child. Listening to what the physiognomist Zhang Mingde said, he turned his back on the way of the ministers and found someone to murder the second elder brother, which was known to the whole country.

"He killed the second elder brother, and he never thought of my family affection. I was sick before, and the ministers played the eighth elder brother, but I had no choice but to release the uncanonized Yinren, and within a few years, I was extremely depressed. Yinci still maintains his original thoughts, forming a party with rebellious ministers and thieves, and secretly committing treachery, because I am already old, and my years are short, and I am not shy about it, he has been protected by others, who dares to argue with him?"

Kangxi admitted that Yinren's abolition and reinstatement was out of helplessness, and then Kangxi said even more heartless words: "Since then, I have been with Yinren, and the relationship between father and son has been severed." ”

Kangxi ordered Yinxi, and stopped him and his subordinates from silver, deacons, etc. Yin Xi was hit hard by this move, sneaking around, unwilling to see people, and fell ill in the following year.

In the fifty-fifth year of Kangxi's reign, Yinci contracted typhoid fever at the end of August, and his illness became worse day by day. Zhu criticized the excerpt of the imperial doctor's report on Yin's illness: "I have always believed in doctors and witches, and I was coaxed by scoundrels, taking too much medicine, and accumulating too much poison. The tone was closer to sarcasm.

Even more excessively, in order to avoid passing through the place where Yinci was recuperating from illness, under the instruction of Emperor Kangxi, the princes moved him from the villa near Changchun Garden to his home in the city on the day before the emperor's father and grandmother returned to Changchun Garden after returning to Changchun Garden after their trip to Changchunyuan.

At that time, only the ninth elder brother Yinyu resolutely objected, saying: "The eighth elder brother is so seriously ill today, if he moves to the house, in case of accidents, who can bear it?"

And Kangxi shirked his responsibility and said: "Eighth Elder Brother is extremely sick and unconscious, if you want to move back, you must not shirk and order him to go home." ”

But even so, Yinci still has a high prestige among the courtiers, like Li Guangdi, a bachelor who is deeply trusted by Emperor Kangxi, still thinks that the current kings, with the eight kings being the most virtuous, it can be seen that he is still the prince with the highest reputation among the ministers. But it has never been reused by Kangxi.

Thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang, he trained in Gubeikou in his early years, and his subordinates were later promoted to commanders at all levels in the defense forces of the capital, such as Fengtai Battalion, Green Battalion and other Beijing garrison troops are under his control. Although he was implicated when Yinren was first deposed and was imprisoned until Kangxi's death, his prestige was still there, and those old subordinates were loyal to him and Yinzhen.

There are many princes, but there is only one emperor. After decades of open and secret fighting, there will eventually be a time when people will be scattered. In the end, Kangxi didn't want to set up a prince at all. He knows very well that if he establishes the prince again, the deception of the elder brother will continue for a long time, and the only way is to announce it to the world when he is dying.

After the new monarch ascended the throne, he changed the name of the eighth elder brother to Aqina, the ninth elder brother to Seth Hei, and transferred the tenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother to remote places and was not allowed to return to Beijing. The eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother were tortured to death in prison one after another. His concubine, Guo Luo, was also ordered by Yongzheng to be retired and returned home. Yinci was also expelled from the clan.