As mentioned above, on November 13, the 61st year of Kangxi, Xuan Ye died in Changchun Garden on the outskirts of Beijing, and the fourth son of the emperor, Yinzhen, inherited the unification. After twenty or thirty years of struggle in the late Kangxi Dynasty, Yinzhen knew that imperial power was not easy to come by, and now, there are two big problems in front of him: 1. How to defend his throne and strengthen the centralization of monarchy. 2. How to continue the great cause founded by my father and consolidate this already complex multi-ethnic country.

He said, "For the sake of government, it is important to win people, and it is not possible to save people, although the law is good, it is useless to listen to the people." He cautiously chose Zhang Tingyu as his main assistant to assist him in planning military affairs. Regarding Zhang Tingyu, I will talk about it separately in the future.

Among Kangxi's thirty-five princes, in addition to the young, young and incompetent, they can probably be divided into three factions: the first row is the second son of the emperor Yinren and his supporter the third son of the emperor Yinzhi; The second row is the eighth son of the emperor Yinyu and his supporters the eldest son of the emperor Yinyu, the ninth son of the emperor Yinjiao, the tenth son of the emperor Yin'e, and the fourteenth son of the emperor Yinyu; The third row is the fourth son of the emperor Yinzhen (Emperor Yongzheng) himself and his supporters Yinxiang, the thirteenth son of the emperor, and the seventeenth son of the emperor.

Of course, among these three factions, the eighth son of the emperor Yinxi is the most powerful, but after Yongzheng ascended the throne, he did not act immediately, but eased up. First of all, Yongzheng named Yinxi as one of the ministers of "Prime Minister's Affairs", and soon named him "Prince Lian", calling him also the "Li Fan Yuan" Shangshu, which is a very clever move of Yongzheng.

There is also a "general" who supports troops outside and his fourteenth brother Yinyu, Yongzheng ordered him to return to Beijing for funeral. As a result, after Yinyu came back, Yongzheng asked him to stay in Jingling (Kangxi's mausoleum) in Zunhua to wait for the big sacrifice, and later named Yinyu as the king of the county, restricting him from living in Ma Lanyu next to Jingling, which was a disguised detention of Yinyu.

Yinyu's other sponsor, the ninth son of the emperor, Yinjiao, was sent to Xining by Yongzheng, which seems to let him take over the military power left by Yinyu? Yongzheng didn't give him any name at all, which was more like a kind of "army recharge".

Yin'e, the tenth son of the emperor, was the commander of the three armies of Zhenghuang Qiman, Mongolia and Han appointed by Kangxi, and Yongzheng thought of an idea and asked him to escort the shrine (kan) of Jebtsundamba I to Khalkha. When he was on the way, Yongzheng asked him to live in Zhangjiakou temporarily, but in the second year of Yongzheng, he was charged with "privately struggling with him", and escorted him back to Beijing and locked him in prison (he was not released until the Qianlong period).

The emperor's eldest son, Yinyu, was imprisoned as early as the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, and now Yongzheng has ordered to continue to be imprisoned and not released.

In this way, although Yinxi has the highest status in the DPRK, he is a bare-bones commander.

As for Yinren's faction, the ministers have long been beaten out of the court, Yinren himself has long been banned by Kangxi, and the supporters are the third son of the emperor Yinzhi, who was also sent by Yongzheng to Zunhua to "guard Jingling".

Under such thunderous means, Yongzheng's world can be said to be a little more peaceful, but he feels that it is still not enough and needs to be further dealt with.

In July of the third year of Yongzheng, the ninth son of the emperor Yinjiao was arrested in Xining, accused of being called "Nine Princes" behind his back in Shaanxi, and in April of the fourth year of Yongzheng, he was renamed "Seth Black" (dog) by Yongzheng, and the crime was to use a password to communicate with others, and he was escorted back to Beijing on the way back.

Yinxi himself was "cut off from the sect" in the first month of the fourth year of Yongzheng, and was dismissed from the prince in February, renamed "Aqina" (pig), confined in the Zongren Mansion, and died in prison in September.

Yinyu was demoted to "Beizi" in March of the third year of Yongzheng, and in May of the fourth year of Yongzheng, he was imprisoned in the Shouhuang Palace (he was released when he knew Qianlong).

Yinzhi was imprisoned in Jingling in May of the eighth year of Yongzheng, and died in prison in May of the tenth year of Yongzheng.

When Kangxi was not dead, the eighth son of the emperor Yinxu successively received the help of the scholar Mingzhu and Mingzhu's son Zhuxu, but Mingzhu died in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, and Zhuxu died in the fifty-sixth year of Kangxi. The death of these two people is not unrelated to Yinxi's failure.

Yongzheng took the throne and hated Xu, and even did not hesitate to go against the ghost when Xuxu was already dead, chasing after the officials of Xu, and set up an inscription in front of the tomb of Xu, "The tomb of disloyalty, unfilial piety, insidiousness, and softness", and another Yinyu party member Alinga, also the same as Xu, the inscription reads "The tomb of the tyrannical and greedy Ling'a". Alinga's son was also forcibly confined by Yongzheng in Alinga's cemetery and killed two years later.

Yongzheng's mother was a concubine, called "Concubine De", Wu Yashi, Manren. Yongzheng has been doing things steadily before, but Kangxi does not care about Yongzheng in terms of external performance, but seems to be more of a candidate for training and promoted Yinyu to "General Fuyuan", hoping to make some contributions in Qinghai and Tibet and gain prestige.

This really aroused Yongzheng's grudge, Yinyu has always been cowardly, and he has no ambition, he will only recommend the eighth son of the emperor Yinzhen, if he knows to support Yinzhen who is the same mother as himself, maybe the end will not be so miserable (this is not the author to talk nonsense with history, the case of the thirteenth son of the emperor Yinxiang is placed there).

There is a twelfth son of the emperor who does not participate in the struggle for the throne, Yinqi, there is no place to offend Yongzheng, but because Kangxi reused him, asked him to be in charge of the Manchurian, Han and Mongolian armies of the white flag, and let him serve as the capital of Manchuria with the yellow flag, Yongzheng was extremely uneasy, and after ascending the throne, he was first crowned the king of the county, and then demoted to Beizi, and then demoted to the prince of Zhenguo. Yinqi was also smart later, won the trust of Yongzheng in all aspects, and was named the king of the county in the eighth year of Yongzheng.

What I just said is a dissident who has just been attacked, and now let's talk about the power that Yongzheng relied on to ascend the throne.

Among the princes, Yongzheng relied on the thirteenth son Yinxiang and the seventeenth son Yinli, the minister Chinese minister Nai Long Keduo, and the military general Nai Nian Xianyao.

Yinxiang was named "Prince Yi" by him, and as one of the ministers of the prime minister's affairs, he was listed with the university scholar Maqi, the official department Shangshu Long Keduo, and the eighth son of the emperor Yinxi. Yinxiang really did his best to Yongzheng and died, and he was busy until May of the eighth year of Yongzheng, and died of illness. Yongzheng gave him the word "virtuous", and also gave him a plaque "loyalty, sincerity, diligence and honesty".

Yinli was named "King of Guojun", successively served as the "Minister of Management" of the Lifan Yuan and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household (above the two books), and called him to patrol the garrison soldiers (Manchurian) and green battalion soldiers (Han) in the southwest provinces, and was in charge of the affairs of the southwest Miaojiang in the central government, and was named "Prince Guo" in the sixth year of Yongzheng, and died in February of the third year of Qianlong.

The fate of Long Keduo and Nian Qianyao is far inferior to Yinxiang and Yinli.

Long Keduo is the younger brother of Empress Xiaoyiren, and he can be described as a full "national uncle", and Yongzheng is also very close to him and calls him "uncle". When Kangxi was dying, he was lying on the couch and read the edict in public, without him, Yongzheng's accession to the throne may not be so easy.

At that time, Long Keduo was the secretary of the Lifan Yuan and the commander of the infantry army, with military power in hand, Yongzheng named him the "Minister of Prime Minister's Affairs", and transferred him to the Ministry of Officials as a scholar, inheriting his Tong Guowei's "first-class knighthood" title.

In the third year of Yongzheng, he was suddenly relieved of his position as the commander of the infantry army.

Nian Qianyao is a person with the yellow flag of the Han Army, born in a professional class, a jinshi in the 39th year of Kangxi, "changed to Shu Jishi" (Hanlin), became a review of the Hanlin Academy, an examiner of the township examination in Sichuan and Guangdong, and a cabinet bachelor, and was the governor of Sichuan in the 48th year of Kangxi, and hung the seal of "General Pingxi" in the 59th year of Kangxi, commanded Yue Zhongqi and others to enter Tibet, and defeated the officer stationed in Tibet Celing Dun Dob. The following year, Kangxi promoted him to "concurrently manage the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi".

After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he asked Nian Qianyao to "manage the general's sealing" and left it to the successor Yanxin to take office. In the first year of Yongzheng, he was appointed as "General Fuyuan".

At this time, the Mongol leader of Qinghai was Luo Bu Zang Danjin, after he rebelled, Nian Qianyao commanded Yue Zhongqi to crusade, and in March of the second year of Yongzheng, after defeating Luo Bu Zang Danjin, he swept away all of Qinghai.

In October, he returned to Beijing to accept Yongzheng's reward, and Yongzheng rewarded him with dazzling eyes, four dragons, yellow belt, purple bridle (pei), and gold coins.

Whether it is Nian Qianyao's arrogance and domineering, or the need for Yongzheng to strengthen the centralization of power, in February of the third year of Yongzheng, he rewrote "Chao Qian" to "Xi Ti Chao Qian", which made Yongzheng angry. In April, Yongzheng dismissed him as a general and transferred him to Hangzhou as a general, and in October, he was arrested and sent to death.

Nian Qianyao's sister was Yongzheng's concubine in the palace, and was known as the "Dunsu Imperial Concubine" after her death. Nian Qianyao relied on his military exploits and the credit of helping Yongzheng ascend the throne, and on the other hand, he relied on his sister in the palace to support himself. His sister died about a month before his death.

At that time, the people, especially the literati, were extremely dissatisfied with Yongzheng's policies, probably because they had damaged their vested interests, and it was at this time that several "literary prisons" occurred, including the Lu Liuliang case and Zeng Jing case.

What made Yongzheng, the ruler of the regime who lived in the Central Plains as a Manchurian minority, feel even more troubled was the "Huayi Debate", a topic that had existed since the Spring and Autumn Period, was picked up by the literati at this time and continued to be used to attack the legitimacy of the Qing Dynasty's rule.

Yongzheng invented a set of theocratic theories for this problem, saying that the emperor was appointed by God, and God only asked whether the person was "virtuous" and whether he was enough to be an emperor, and did not ask where the person was born. "Shun is a person from Dongyi, and King Wen is a person from Xiyi, how can he damage his holy virtue?" "Since I have inherited the mandate of heaven and are the lord of the Chinese and foreign peoples, how can those who have received this care and love be treated differently by Huayi?"

For the Qing army's entry into the customs, Yongzheng felt that Dolgon's words could be used directly, saying that the Qing Dynasty won the world from Li Zicheng, not from the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty "Since Jiajing (Sejong), the monarchs and ministers have lost their morality, thieves have risen from all directions, and the territory has no peace, and the fields are closed at that time." Since the Dingding, this dynasty has swept away the poor, the cultural relics are flourishing, and the yellow boy is white, and he has not seen the military revolution in his life...... Can it still be described as a dim call? "I am made in China, big and great!"