Chapter 19: Nine Sons Seize the Throne

Kangxi's more favor for Mingzhu made him squeeze away Suo Etu, and then he was impeached by the imperial historian Guo Xiu who had nothing to say, Kangxi still made him the "Minister of the Interior", which is an irrefutable mistake.

Mingzhu knows how to observe words and feelings, and understands Kangxi's joys, sorrows, and sorrows, he may not have a prejudice against Prince Yinren at first, but because he wants to deal with Suo Etu, he must do something to Yinren, because Prince Yinren's biological mother, Queen Xiaocheng, is Suo Etu's niece.

Suo Etu was named "Prince Taifu" in the eleventh year of Kangxi. At that time, the crown prince Yinren had not even been born, and the prince and the prince were just a "plus official" (fictitious title).

Poor Queen Xiaocheng died in childbirth on the day she gave birth to Yinren.

Kangxi may have been reluctant to give up his love for Hesheri (Queen Xiaocheng), and added this affection to Yinren, and he was directly crowned the prince when Yinren was only one year old and seven months old. Kangxi personally taught him to read and write, and invited Zhang Ying (Zhang Tingyu's father) and Li Guangdi, Xiong Cilu and others to be the prince's teachers, and in the twenty-fifth year of Kangxi, he invited Tang Bin and Geng Jie to serve as Zhan Shi and "Shao Zhan Shi" of Zhan Shifu respectively, so as to be the prince's assistant.

It is worth noting that Tang Bin and Geng Jie are not Mingzhu's people, so Mingzhu often slanders and speaks ill of Kangxi in front of Kangxi. These two people worked for less than a year, Geng Jie resigned, and Tang Bin was even more angry, which also proved the arrogance of the literati.

Kangxi has thirty-five sons in his life, and Yinren is not the most capable one in this regard, but he can be said to be the best one. First of all, from the perspective of sinicization, he learned all the Manchu and Han characters, and he also knew some of the art of riding and archery.

However, when Kangxi conquered Galdan for the third time in the forty-sixth year, Yinren stayed again, and this time there were several things that angered Kangxi.

First of all, he started to beat Pingjun Wang Nalsu, Beile Haishan, and Zhenguo Gong Puqi.

Then, the horses that were taken from the Mongol tribute.

In the end, the husband of the indulgent nurse, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ling Pu, blackmailed his subordinates.

The following year, in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, when he went to hunt in August, the eighteenth son of the emperor fell ill halfway and stayed in Baiang'a. Kangxi felt that Yinren had nothing to do with his younger brother's illness: "Approaching Putrajaya (the emperor's tent) every night, peeking at cracks. I also feel that "I don't know if I will be killed today, and I will be killed tomorrow, and I will be cautious day and night."

In September of the same year, when he went to Burhasutai to hunt, the crown prince Yinren and the emperor's eldest son Yinren (zhi) were by his side, and on the 16th of this month, Kangxi recruited the princes and ministers, read out the prince's guilt, and directly abolished the prince on the spot and handed it over to Yinhe to take care of.

The crown prince's crime, in addition to the above, is actually the biggest one is that he wants to avenge Suo Etu.

Suo Etu was arrested by Kangxi five years ago (May of the 42nd year of Kangxi) on the charge of "discussing state affairs in vain", and died in prison shortly after being imprisoned. After Suo Etu's death, his crime was expanded from "discussing state affairs in vain" to "plotting major affairs", but if it was really "plotting major affairs", how could it be just detention? We said before that Kangxi was affectionate and gentle, but that was the way to deal with corruption, this kind of rebellion, as long as it is a little bit involved, it is the most effective way to deal with it rather than indulgence.

As for saying that Prince Yinren wants to avenge Suo Etu, he is even more wronged, which is obvious, from the tone of the Mingzhu Party.

After Kangxi abolished the crown prince, he felt that it was not enough to let Yinzhen guard alone, so he sent the fourth son of the emperor Yinzhen to be jointly responsible.

Yinren knew that he had no chance of becoming the prince, but he still had to be the enemy of Yinren, hired a lama, and used evil magic to make Yinren crazy, as for whether Yinren was really crazy, it is unknown. After Yinren was deposed, he put forward two opinions to Kangxi: Yinren, the eighth son of the emperor, has the appearance of an emperor and should be named the crown prince; If the emperor wants to kill Yinren, he doesn't have to do it himself.

When Kangxi heard his eldest son say such bastard words, he was immediately furious and locked up Yinxi, and from then on, there were also prejudices against the eighth son Yinxi.

And what Mingzhu wants to stand most is Yinxi, who once asked Wang Hongxu to officially protect Yinxu and touched Kangxi's reverse scales. However, Kangxi didn't know that Yinren's problem was the official culprit behind Mingzhu.

What kind of character is this Yinxi? His mother's name is Concubine Liang, her background is untestable, Yinxi is still very talented, and we can also see Yongzheng's "edict".

After Kangxi abolished Yinren, he dismissed Ling Pu, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, raided his home, and appointed Yinren as the "chief manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs".

Yinyu's small circle is about to come out, and a number of ministers in the court: like Alinga and Oro Dai and others, as well as a number of princes: such as Yinyu and Yinyu, Yin'e (actually next to Yinyu, but I can't find it), Yinyu, has always been good friends with Yinxi, and when they saw Kangxi let Yinxi hold important positions, they thought that Kangxi wanted to make Yinxi the crown prince. There was a scholar Zhang Mingde, who saw that Yinxi had the appearance of an emperor at the beginning, and he was overjoyed.

As a result, a few days later, Kangxi said that Yinren was "soft and adulterous, vain ambition, and the party members formed a coalition to murder Yinren", which once again triggered the anger of thunder and dismissed Yinren from his post and arrested. Zhang Mingde, the minister, was handed over to the minister of the council for trial, and after the trial, he was sentenced to Ling Chi, and Puqi, the prince of Zhenguo who was attached to Yinxi, was also dismissed as a duke.

After Kangxi punished his three sons one after another (the eldest son Yinren, the crown prince Yinren, and the eighth son Yinren), he regretted it, and soon released Yinren, lived in Xian'an Palace, and also restored Yinren's title of Baylor, but Yinhe has been imprisoned (until Yongzheng died of illness in the twelfth year).

In the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, Kangxi made Yinren the crown prince again, and nearly four years later, on September 30, the fifty-first year of Kangxi, he was abolished for the second time. This time, he was accused of discharging information on behalf of several convicted corrupt officials such as Tuo Heqi, the commander of the infantry army.

Kangxi abolished the crown prince of Yinren this time, but he still lived in Xian'an Palace, but he was not allowed to go out, that is, he was detained. Kangxi said, "Yinren's appearance, knowledge, and talents are considerable, but his behavior is absurd, unkind and unfilial, what is it that is not crazy?" Kangxi directly said that Yinren was crazy, but the reason for the madness, Kangxi did not say that he was mentally ill, but that he made bad friends, which led to confusion.

Another three years passed, in November of the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi, Yinren was impatient with the days of detention, and wrote invisible characters in alum water to ask someone to take him out, to Puqi, so that Puqi could be crowned a general afterwards. This is indeed a dizzy behavior, not to mention whether Puqi is willing or not, even three years have passed, and there are so many changes in the ministers of the DPRK and China, how can you exercise? As a result, Puzi suffered again.

In the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, Kangxi ordered the emperor's fourteenth son, Yinyu, to be the "Fuyuan General", stationed in Xining, and promoted Nian Qianyao, the governor of Sichuan, to the governor of Sichuan, and stationed in Chengdu to deal with the Dzungar leader who was preparing to invade Tibet.

As a result, Yinren's worth is declining more and more, and some ministers in the court who were originally favored by Yinren can't sit still, and are ready to persuade Kangxi to crown Yinren as the crown prince for the third time.

In the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, the scholar Wang Yan and other eight imperial histories successively wrote that they wanted to establish the prince early, but they did not dare to say the name of Yinren, and their recital was shelved by Kangxi and did not reply.

In the second year, the Hanlin Academy also came to help, this time saying Yinren's name, but Kangxi killed the leader, and several accomplices were either put to public or locked up and imprisoned.

In the sixty years of Kangxi, this Wang Yan worked hard to recommend Yinren again, but Kangxi was furious and punished Wang Yan for filling the army, but Wang Yan was too old to go, and Kangxi asked him to have a son to go instead.

As a result, Yinren was permanently imprisoned in Xian'an Palace.

In November of the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Aixinjue Luo Xuanye and Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty passed away, and it was not Yinren who was recommended by important people, not Yinzhen who had many friends, not Yinzhen who led troops outside, but Yinzhen, the fourth son who worked silently and fought for nothing.

As for whether there is a mystery case of Yinzhen's accession to the throne, the literati of later generations have carried out many slanders and slanders. The first version is the first version, saying that he killed the monarch and usurped the throne, what a character Kangxi is, especially in his later years of alertness and unobstructed visibility of the prince, who can entrust the world; Whoever trades fame for fame and loses it; Whoever is rarely calm in character and is more suitable as a military general, can see clearly.

The second version is the spread of the "Fourteen Sons" changed to "Passed on to the Four Sons", not to mention that the Chinese written at that time was not the "Yu" we see now, but "Yu", that is, since the Huang Taiji began the "three-body" text, how do you modify it, you can change the Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu can not be modified.

In the case of Zeng Jing that appeared in the Yongzheng Dynasty, Emperor Yongzheng wrote a "Mystery of the Great Righteousness", which was originally intended to be passed on to the people of the world to see how these people mistreated him, such a version is wrong, but the people are ignorant, they only believe in the events they want to appear, and they prefer the fictional words, so the follow-up results are not as good as they want. When Emperor Qianlong saw such a situation, he banned "The Mystery of Dayi Jue" when he ascended the throne, which resulted in more doubts in the hearts of the people, suspecting that the things written in this book were true, which led to the slander of Emperor Yongzheng's various wild histories.

Of course, this is also related to Yongzheng's policy, touching vested interests will inevitably lead to a counterattack, any reform at home and abroad in ancient and modern times is the case, Shang Ying's death from a car crack, Wang Anshi's two strikes, Zhang Juzheng's posthumous liquidation, and the follow-up will talk about Yongzheng's fire consumption to the public and the spread into the mu.