Although the protagonist of this article is Emperor Xianfeng, if we want to introduce him, we must start with a past incident many years ago.
When Emperor Daoguang had not yet ascended the throne and was only a prince, he had his first taste of men and women, and had an heir with a palace maid in the Forbidden City.
This was Daoguang's first child and the first grandson of the then emperor Jiaqing.
The royal family was added, and the old emperor Jiaqing was very happy, but Daoguang was very unhappy at this time.
Because our Comrade Daoguang is a gentle and elegant, knowledgeable, positive mentality, and healthy image in the palace on weekdays, he sets up a new era young man who has no vices and is not close to women, and now he has a child in vain, or with a lowly palace girl, what is going on?
The officials of the court will definitely laugh at themselves as princes, not cultivating self-cultivation and morality, but messing with the relationship between men and women, and the people of the world will definitely point fingers at them behind their backs and talk about it.
So after Daoguang ascended the throne and became emperor, the emperor's least favorite was the eldest son of this concubine.
What is this firstborn called?
It's called Xinjueluo Yiwei.
YIWEI image).
Yiwei was born to be an object that his father doesn't hurt and his mother doesn't love.
Emperor Daoguang has been haunted by this affair for many years, and has always had a deep prejudice against Yiwei.
From Yiwei's birth to his growth**, for about 20 years, the emperor never summoned Yiwei, and never gave Yiwei any reward.
Other princes had famous teachers to guide and take care of education, but Yiwei was excluded.
Emperor Daoguang ignored him and ignored him, which made the eldest son of the emperor live like a wild child in the Forbidden City, although he is prominent.
But in the ninth year of Daoguang, in 1829 AD, Yiwei ushered in a turning point in his life.
We know that Daoguang does not have many children, and as of the ninth year of Daoguang, he has only three sons.
The eldest son Yiwei, the second son Yigang, and the youngest son Yiji.
Although there are only three sons, the emperor still has two sons to choose from.
But either the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, or these two sons were blessed with a small life, and in the ninth year of Daoguang, they were all injured or sick, and they all died.
As soon as the two sons died, Yiwei, the eldest son who had been abandoned by the emperor, became the only heir designated by the empire.
There is no other reason, no matter how big-hearted the emperor is, it is impossible to pass the throne to any nephew and nephew, and he always has to leave it to his son.
As a result, Emperor Daoguang's attitude towards Yiwei took a 180-degree turn.
Portrait of Emperor Daoguang).
He began to summon Yiwei when he had nothing to do, shush the cold and ask for warmth, and arranged for several great Confucians in the world to start Yiwei's cultural and educational work.
Obviously, at this time, Yiwei has become the emperor's only hope.
This is the emperor's helpless choice after compromise, or the emperor's true feelings after waking up, anyway, the emperor compensated Yiwei for the lack of fatherly love for so many years, and also began to integrate the resources in the palace, hoping to build Yiwei into a qualified heir to the throne in a short period of time.
Daoguang's idea is very good, but at this time, Yiwei doesn't think much in his heart.
The neglect of his father, the loneliness of court life, the years when no one took care of him, no one cared about, and years of self-wandering have made Yiwei develop his stubborn and unruly character.
Father Daoguang's sudden concern has become a burden for Yiwei.
Emperor Daoguang's love for Yiwei may not have any true feelings, because the estranged relationship for many years seems to have made there is no family affection between the father and son, but it is true that the emperor hopes that Yiwei will study hard and improve himself as soon as possible.
Daoguang's move is in response to a lyric:
At the beginning, you were going to separate, and if you were separated, you were separated.Emperor Daoguang changed his mind about Yiwei, but Yiwei didn't appreciate his Lao Tzu's affection very much.Now he wants to exchange me for true love.
Family affection is not something you want to buy, you can buy it if you want to.
Let me break away, let me understand, let go of your love.
In order to supplement the cultural knowledge of Yiwei, the emperor specially deployed famous teachers from the Ministry of Rites to tutor Yiwei's homework, first-line teacher counseling, first-class educational environment, it stands to reason that Yiwei should seize the opportunity to study hard, but the performance of Yiwei in the classroom since childhood is very unsatisfactory.
The teacher lectures on top, and Yiwei sleeps below.
The teacher was spitting on the top, and Yiwei was sleeping in the dark below.
As a member of the Ministry of Rites, the most authoritative teacher in the entire Forbidden City, this teacher really had no choice but to persuade Yiwei bitterly:
Your father asked me to teach you to read, so that you can enrich yourself and improve yourself, so that you can become an emperor in the future.
This sentence is indeed very golden, enough to wake up the dreamer in one word.
Yes, it doesn't hurt you to let you learn, you have learned knowledge, and when you show your face in front of the emperor like this, the emperor is satisfied, and you will be a ** person in the future.
But with such good words, Yiwei still couldn't listen to it.
Not only did he not listen to it, but he said this to the teacher viciously:
In the future, if I become the emperor, I will slaughter you first.
As soon as this remark came out, it could make the teacher angry enough.
I'm also a member of the three grades in the imperial court, a deputy ministerial-level cadre of the Ministry of Rites, I deign to be here so much, teach you, you don't respect me, you dare to threaten me?
The teacher was so angry that he brushed his sleeves away, turned his head and went to Emperor Daoguang to make a small report.
Emperor Daoguang is happy to overflow the autumn court).
When the matter reached the ears of Emperor Daoguang, the old emperor was even more furious, and immediately sent someone to summon Yiwei and severely reprimanded him.
It is said that Yiwei's behavior is indeed excessive, but it is by no means a big sin, the emperor reprimanded, punished Yulu, and then grounded in a bad circle, so that Yiwei can think about it behind closed doors.
But our Daoguang Emperor is a violent temper, and he was not happy after the training, so he actually pulled Yiwei and beat him firmly.
As a result, the emperor was furious, and his attack was neither light nor heavy, and in a fit of anger, he actually beat Yiwei to a serious injury, and died soon after.
Yes, the emperor educated his son and directly educated his son to death.
The emperor gathered his sons, two died of illness, and one died violently, this time it was completely over.
But fortunately, there is no endless road, and Daoguang's concubines are very powerful, and soon gave birth to two big fat boys to the emperor, one is the fourth son of the emperor Yixu, and the other is the sixth son of the emperor Yixun.
The fourth son is loyal, but apart from loyalty, there are basically no bright spots.
When he was a teenager, he accidentally fell and injured himself while riding a horse, and he fell lame.
When I was young, I was the most stupid and stupid when I was studying in the upper study, and even Mr. Teaching sighed again and again.
In contrast, the sixth son of the emperor, Yixun, is an out-and-out all-round talent in civil and military affairs.
Whether it is swords and horses, riding and shooting, or leading the army, Yixin has shown a very high talent, and the level of first-class transformation is even more exported.
No matter what point of view, Yixin is far superior to Yixu in all aspects.
The picture shows Yi ).
As long as the emperor is not a fool, he knows who should be chosen as the heir.
But our Daoguang Emperor is not an ordinary emperor, in order to maintain the fairness and impartiality of the succession competition, the emperor still gave the two players the same opportunity.
What chances? An opportunity to meet.
In the last years of Daoguang, the emperor was seriously ill, and news came out in the palace that the emperor wanted to summon the two princes in turn to exchange father-son feelings.
It is said that it is an exchange of emotions, but in fact, it is more like a test.
Therefore, the two princes attach great importance to this summons, because everyone understands that whoever behaves well in front of the emperor and leaves a good impression on the emperor Lao Tzu is likely to become a ** person.
The first player to meet the emperor was the sixth son of the emperor.
Before the prince arrived at Emperor Daoguang's sickbed, it was a performance, talking loudly, patting his chest and saying that if he became an emperor in the future, how to govern the country, how to develop, how to forge ahead, how to push the dynasty to the top, and so on.
Yixun was known for his literary brilliance, and his words were impassioned and did not leak, which made the emperor very satisfied.
Now, the pressure has come to the side of the fourth son.
For Yi Su, this kind of summoning undoubtedly made him very distressed.
I was born with weak language skills, one can't speak, the other can't chat, and I stammered in front of the emperor, I don't know what to do, won't everything be over when the time comes?
Fortunately, Yisu has a good teacher, and the name of this teacher is Du Shoutian.
Du Shoutian, whose name is Xizhi, is a native of Binzhou, Shandong, a scholar of the Ministry of Industry, and is also a teacher of Yixu.
Portrait of Du Shoutian).
This teacher knows that his student is not good at expressing himself, and if he goes to the front of the emperor and competes with Yixun to learn, he will definitely lose all the **, so he simply let him follow his heart and only talk about father-son affection in front of the emperor, not about national politics.
So, our comrade Yixu came to the front of Emperor Daoguang, knelt down on his knees, and did not say a word.
He looked up at Daoguang on the sickbed, who was the ruler of the Qing Empire, the Son of Heaven, the emperor, but also his own father.
In my childhood memories, the figure of my father is great.
This true dragon son of the Qing Empire once reformed Caoyun, fought opium, and rectified the rule of officials, although he also submitted to the foreign powers, but the emperor's life's ambition is also worthy of the praise of the Lord.
But now, his father is withered, sick and lying in bed, no longer in his former glory, but has become an old man who is dying and his end is approaching.
Yisu looked at Daoguang, looked at his father, two lines of tears fell, and then hugged his father and cried bitterly, unable to help himself.
Yixu, the later Emperor Xianfeng).
This may be the method taught to him by his teacher Du Shoutian, and this may also be the true expression of the prince's feelings.
But at this moment, Emperor Daoguang had already made a decision.
In the thirtieth year of Daoguang, 1850 A.D., the eleventh day of the first month.
Emperor Daoguang of Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty died at the age of sixty-nine.
His son Yixu succeeded to the throne and was known as Emperor Xianfeng in history.
Yes, the final winner is the fourth son of the emperor who is clumsy.
This result seems strange, because from a strict point of view, Yi Su is not a suitable person.
But this result seems to be very normal, because in the history of the past and present, although there are deceits, although there is power to fight, although there are swords and swords, but the kindness and brilliance of human nature will always exist.
Yixu used its sincerity and kindness to impress Emperor Daoguang, or rather, Yixu used his love for his father to defeat the Yixu who seemed to be unable to defeat him.