Yongzheng had a total of ten sons, of which six died young, one was cut off from the clan because of "indulgence" (the third son Hongshi), one was passed to Prince Guo Yunli (the sixth son Hongzhan), and the remaining two were Hongli (Emperor Qianlong) and Hongday.

Qianlong ranked fourth, born to Concubine Xi Niu Hulu, and Prince He (Hongday) ranked fifth, born to Concubine Yu Geng. Yongzheng's main palace Wulanala clan has no children.

Hongli can be said to be one of the most blessed figures in Chinese history, and as an emperor, it can be removed. was born as the grandfather's (Kangxi)'s favorite grandson, and was also loved by his father (Yongzheng), and he can be said to be carefree all his life. After being the emperor for a full sixty years and a few months in his life (and later a few years after the addiction of the emperor), he can also be regarded as the Taiping Emperor.

Hongli is a good person, once he has the opportunity to fight, fortunately, eight or nine times out of ten are either victorious, or can earn some face, and later he even boasted of being a "perfect old man".

Compared with Yongzheng, Qianlong is really lucky, looking back at the beginning of Yongzheng's accession to the throne, he was full of hideous-looking brothers, and Qianlong only needed to give his younger brother Hongyang glory and wealth (this is simply a breeze for the emperor).

In the fiftieth year of Kangxi, Hongli was born in the "Ruyi Room" of the East Academy of Prince Yong's Mansion in Beijing, with the young name "Yuanshou". It is rumored that when Kangxi saw this grandson Hongli for the first time in Prince Yong's mansion, he liked it, let him raise him in the palace, and taught books and classes himself, which was quite a "good grandson".

In the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Kangxi died, and Emperor Yongzheng ascended the throne.

In the first year of Yongzheng, perhaps because of the bloody wind and rain when he ascended the throne, Yongzheng personally wrote a secret decree and established Hongli as the heir, hidden in the box, and placed behind the plaque of "Zhengda Guangming" in the Qianqing Palace.

Since he is appointed as the prince, he must strengthen education, otherwise such a huge empire is not entrusted to people? Therefore, in addition to the original teacher Fumin, he also selected Zhu Shi, Xu Yuanmeng, Zhang Tingyu, and other famous scholars to tutor Hongli to learn cultural knowledge and Confucian classics, and let Yunlu and Yunxi in the clan teach him the use of firearms and archery.

In the fifth year of Yongzheng, Hongli married the daughter of Li Rongbao, the head of the famous Manchurian Fuchar, and it was also this year that Yongzheng's third son Hongshi was cut off from his clan because of indulgence, and Hongli's strong competitor did not exist.

In the eighth year of Yongzheng, Hongli's son-in-law was born, and Yongzheng personally named it "Yonglian", which has a bit of the meaning of inheriting the throne. In order to further cultivate Hongli's political ability, in the eleventh year of Yongzheng, Hongli was named "Prince Heshuobao" and let him participate in handling important political and military affairs such as quelling the Junggar rebellion and pacifying the Miao uprising in Guizhou.

Hongli received comprehensive and strict education and training during the Yongzheng period, and his performance was still very good, and he won the trust of Yongzheng. Since then, Hongli has often been ordered to sacrifice the mausoleum, sacrifice Kong, sacrifice to the Holy Emperor, enjoy the Taimiao, sacrifice the ground, sacrifice Tai Sui, sacrifice the Taisha Daji, etc.

On August 23, the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, Emperor Yongzheng died, and the chamberlain took out an edict to announce Hongli's succession, which was already self-evident in the hearts of all ministers. After Hongli ascended the throne, he announced the way of "combining leniency and severity". In the early years of Qianlong, the shortcomings of the previous two dynasties (Kangxi and Yongzheng), especially those of the Yongzheng Dynasty, were corrected.

In order to adjust the situation of serious imbalance in the internal relationship of the royal family, and in order to win the hearts of the people, Qianlong first released Yongzheng's fourteenth brother Yunyu and others, who had been imprisoned for a long time, from prison and restored his title. In the second year of Qianlong, Yue Zhongqi and Fu Erdan, who were sentenced to death for delaying the fighter plane during the Yongzheng period, were released, and Duke Yunyu was given to let the university scholar Ortai still handle military affairs.

As for the rest, I'll talk about it later~