Why can't the eighth elder brother succeed to the emperor?When it comes to the original book and the TV series, the most failed point of the eighth child is essentially the same as that of the prince, that is, they have never regarded themselves as the masters of that country, and they have no sense of responsibility for the country at all. The fiscal deficit, the criminal law "slaughtering the white duck" case, and the actions of hundreds of officials are all cases that directly threaten the foundation of the country, but they did not effectively solve the problem like Yinzhen, but deliberately stirred up the situation. In the face of the flood, the prince knew nothing, and the eighth child was speechless but had no substantive suggestions. The fourth child personally checked the details of the household department and proposed a solution. The fourth child and the others raised funds for disaster relief on dog days, while the eighth child hid at home and planned how to deal with the fourth. The household department even borrowed the money for disaster relief, and when Kangxi said that he wanted to recover it, the eighth child tried every means to hold a banquet for the debtor. Kangxi knew very well, how could he let these people inherit the throne?If they are allowed to ascend to the throne, it is estimated that even Jiaqing will be difficult to continue at that time.
Kangxi was very clear about the bottom line of other princes at the beginning, allowing snooping on the crown prince's position, but never allowing the prince to be framed. At the public level, the prince is the king, and framing the prince is disloyalty;On a private level, the crown prince is the elder brother, and it is unjust to hurt the prince. The person who can frame the prince is at least a person who does not attach importance to family affection and filial piety, and he may force Kangxi to give way tomorrow. The eighth child was not without a chance at first, and after the trial of Xiao Guoxing, Kangxi not only praised him for handling it properly, but also asked him to meet the foreign prince in Rehe, which was to give him a chance. However, the eighth child got carried away and revealed to everyone that Kangxi might pass the throne to the eighth son, and was stabbed to Kangxi by the eldest and third, revealing his ambitions. Subsequently, Tu Lichen learned on the way to escort Xiao Guoxing that it was the eighth child who guided Xiao Guoxing to frame the prince. From that moment on, the eighth child had no chance to be the crown prince.
As for the "Eight Wise Kings", it is even more hopeless. Wu Sidao once criticized Yinren for borrowing money to buy a manor: "Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains will be his, why build a private nest"?The same applies to the eighth. If you want to become an emperor, why buy people's hearts?What Kangxi needed in his later years was thunderous means to get rid of maladministration. In order to curry favor with the ** corrupt officials, the eighth child did not regard the country as his own career at all. The so-called "leniency" was given to those corrupt officials, but what about the people who could not feed themselvesHis leniency is gone?
Will a truly "forgiving" person stand by and watch the innocent become a "white duck"?Would a "generous" man send a dead eagle when his father was seriously ill?Is a "lenient" person repeatedly trying to frame his second brother and thirteenth brother?Facts have proved that Lao Ba is the most ruthless and unemotional person.
The fourth child was eventually able to ascend to the throne because he had made the country his home from the beginning. He understood that if it was not rectified, the Qing Dynasty and the Aixin Jueluo family would collapse. Therefore, he undertook the drudgery of offending people, because the emperor was inherently opposed to the bureaucratic class, and the more the bureaucracy gained, the more the interests of the emperor and the dynasty were eroded. Kangxi wanted to choose an heir who could really mend the holes for the Qing Dynasty, not the umbrella of a group of moths. Even in terms of personal morality, at least the fourth child still has sympathy for the disaster victims and untouchables, righteous indignation at the unjust killing of the criminal department, and brotherhood for his thirteenth brother.