On the same day, all eighteen sons of the emperor died. This is really a double whammy for Emperor Kangxi, and it is a heavy emotional blow. Emperor Kangxi had to abolish the Crown Prince for political needs. However, after being rejected, I was very sad, with resentment, disappointment, regret, pity, love and mixed feelings. "I couldn't sleep well" for six days in a row, and I talked to ministers about it, "sobbing" (Qing Xian Lu, volume 234).
On September 16, Emperor Kangxi returned to Beijing. He was ordered to set up a felt tent next to the court where the emperor raised horses and lived for the Yin people. The emperor's fourth son, Yin Zhen, was ordered to guard with the emperor's eldest son. On the same day, Emperor Kangxi summoned ministers Jiuqing and James, as well as the kings, Baylor and other scientific and technological officials, and announced the arrest of the Crown Prince. On 18, Emperor Kangxi personally wrote a memorial to heaven, earth, ancestral temple and country. Xian 'an Palace, which will abolish the confinement of the Crown Prince, issued a letter to the whole world on the 24th.
The Crown Prince was established in the 14th year of Shen Kang (1675) and abolished in the 47th year of Shen Kang (1708), which lasted for 33 years. At this time, Emperor Kangxi was 55 years old and the Crown Prince was 35 years old. In order to train the Crown Prince, Emperor Kangxi took great pains. The abolition of the Crown Prince made Emperor Kangxi feel sad and tired. At this time, Emperor Kangxi has entered the old age, but his successor has become slim. He begged his ministers to say: two things happened at the same time: the death of the eighteenth emperor and the abolition of the crown prince, which was heartbreaking. You should look back and don't let anything happen again. However, Emperor Kangxi had too many sons and was in office for a long time. "Sleeping" and the princes have already formed several political groups with great interests. The struggle between them is not for houses, silver, jewels and land, but for the throne. The great temptation makes this struggle irresistible from the outside to the inside, from hidden to obvious, from slow to urgent, from warm to intense. Emperor Kangxi's move to abolish the crown prince not only failed to stop this struggle, but also made some princes seem to see hope, thus the battle for storage became more intense.
Third, Prince Early and Prince Phil.
Yin Ren was abolished, and the position of the Crown Prince became vacant. The princes immediately took an active part in the competition for reserve positions.
The benefits of the emperor's eldest son are: first, longevity; second, the former college student Pearl is his uncle; third, he is loved by the emperor's father. In order to compete for storage space, he took pains:
First, strive for growth. He misjudged the situation and thought that the official position of Emperor Kangxi would not be established, but it would be established.
But Emperor Kangxi knew his ambition. In the forty-seventh year of Shen Kang (1708), he was taken into custody on the fourth day of September. At the same time, he clearly declared: "I ordered Wang Yun, the magistrate of a county, to be good at protecting me and had no intention of making him the crown prince." If you allow yourself to be impatient and stupid, how can you become a crown prince? "("A Record of the Holy Father in Qing Dynasty ",Volume 234)
Second, please kill Yun Yong. Yi Yin's profits made him lose his mind. He even made a plea to kill Yi Yin, saying, "If you want to punish Yi Yin now, it doesn't have to come from the emperor's father." Emperor Kangxi was very surprised. He realized that Yi Yin and Yi Yin had formed a small group to seek a storage place, but he wanted to kill Yi Yin. If he succeeds, the consequences will be serious. Emperor Kangxi criticized Yin Ge for many times, pointing out his idea of killing his younger brother: it is not advisable to know the meaning of the monarch and the minister, not to think about the love between father and son, and not to obey the laws of heaven.