The reason for the failure of the eighth elder brother to win the heir, Kangxi's evaluation of him is "anyone can do it, but he can't".
In the forty-second year of Kangxi, in the forty-second year of Kangxi, Suo Etu, the biggest supporter of Prince Yinren, was killed for rebellion. Since then, the relationship between Emperor Kangxi and the crown prince Yinren has undergone strange changes, the crown prince Yinren, who was favored by the Kangxi Emperor at first, gradually lost the favor of the Kangxi Emperor, and Yinren's fall from grace also made other princes realize that the crown prince's position is not unchangeable, so it became famous in history"Nine sons take the heir"Event.
In accordance with the order of the Eighth Master Party, the Fourth Master Party, and the Fourteenth Master Party, the Fourth Master Yinzhen finally won the victory for Yongzheng.
Among these people, in addition to Prince Yinzhen, the most powerful is the power of the original partner or the eighth elder brother, who has strong support at the three levels of the army, ** and the enterprise, and in some aspects, the image of the eighth elder brother is most similar to Kangxi. However, in this round of exchanges, the eighth elder brother was first snubbed out, which was a big surprise, and then the eighth elder brother actually had some taboosSo much so that Kangxi wanted to exclude him from the candidate for the crown prince:
The power is too strong, strong to the extreme.
Actually, the eighth elder brother and the emperor are here"Langya Bang"There are means and plans to make good friends, so in the end, he can only be one step away from the throne, but how strong is the eighth elder brother?At that time, Yinren was disbanded, and Kangxi allowed the ministers to reconsider the choice of the crown prince, in fact, many people were optimistic about the former ministers such as Eighth Brother and Tong Guowei.
But the situation at that time was similar to that of King Yu, because the emperor felt that the situation was out of control. At first, it was typical for the emperor to sit back and watch the struggle between the two forces in the court, because the checks and balances were also for him, and not all dynasties in history could withstand the test of party struggle.
But when he realizes that the forces he supports are no longer under his control, he will turn from support to suppression, as is the case with Eighth Brother. First of all, he used the courtiers to restore the crown prince to see if they still supported Yinren, and at that time even Emperor Kangxi did not consider whether to abolish the crown prince.
However, during this period, to Kangxi's surprise, the military, political and business circles chose the eighth elder brother as the crown prince, which disrupted Kangxi's status, but at the same time, this incident also made Kangxi begin to have nothing to fear of the eighth elder brother, and at the same time, the eighth elder brother began to resent Kangxi. After this incident, the original eight-party line began to suppress the people to varying degrees.
It can be seen that this is the first blow to the eighth elder brother, and the party that was too strong in front could not get along, which finally made Kangxi disgusted with him.
A mother from a humble background.
There is also a very fatal factor, that is, Kangxi's biological mother Concubine Liang's background is too low, which makes the eighth elder brother not have a high status among many elder brothers.
For example, the prince's biological mother is Suo Etu's nephew, and the biological mother of the tenth elder brother is also related to Kubilong, and although the biological mother of Emperor Yongzheng has a lower status than the first two, her status at that time was not bad, otherwise how could she be a concubine?
And the biological mother of the eighth elder brother is different, and it can even be described as a low status, Xin Zheku's biological mother's background was also a relatively low-level person in the Qing court at that time, most of them were either slaves or criminals, and even lower than the status of ordinary people.
How could such a background be convincing at the time?Therefore, even if the crown prince is abolished and the duke is appointed to another person, the biological mother with a low status will definitely not be within his reach.
He loves her the most, but he can't pass the throne to her!
Just like Zhu Di in the Ming Dynasty was the general who was most like Zhu Yuanzhang, many princes can be said to be the most like his younger brother Kangxi. However, because it was too similar, Kangxi failed to pass the throne to him.
In Kangxi's later years, the ambitions of his early years gradually defeated the ambitions of his old age, and he began to neglect government affairs, so many things could not be done, and there were big things turned into small things, which led to corruption in Kangxi's later years, and the treasury was often unable to collect and spend.
The eighth elder brother is also an example for Kangxi to learn from at this point, because of the low birth rate, he will enroll, and in addition, he will be more generous, so there is one"The Eight Sages", kind and elegant"The Eight Sages"Appear in front of foreigners.
However, it is precisely because of his benevolence and righteousness that he can't adjust more, because the eighth elder brother born of benevolence and righteousness is not a natural benevolent person, his benevolence is more pretended to attract people's hearts.
However, such a person will definitely not be able to clean up the mess left by Kangxi, because of Kangxi, the government is not governed, and taxes are often not collected, if the prince who inherits the throne continues to live like Kangxi, then they will fall apart, and the only way to clean up this mess is to kill the emperor, when he should be soft, and when he should be soft, he is ready to kill.
Obviously, the eighth elder brother is not such a person, at the critical moment of the peaceful and prosperous era, he will be like Kangxi, and decide to turn big things into small things, which will make the corruption of Qing officialdom more serious.
Therefore, at that time, in all the ahs and the four kills, Brother Yinzhen could indeed play a decisive role.
This is also why the least favored of all the emperor's sons actually became the emperor, and the most favored did not become the emperor, which was also the fate of the time.