Secret: Why is it said that there won't be a situation in which nine sons won the office in Yongzheng Qianlong Dynasty?

Hello, everyone, this is me. Today, I will tell you the story of the Qing Dynasty. Welcome attention.

After the Qing army entered the customs, although many places adopted the "incorruptible system", for a long time, influenced by the previous tribal management, Chu Jun was elected by the people before, which was very simple and efficient in the early Qing Dynasty, and years of war also made it very easy for them to distinguish which prince was more qualified to be the next generation king, and this was the case with Huang Taiji.

However, by the Kangxi dynasty, this phenomenon had a fundamental change. Because there are many descendants of Emperor Kangxi (the 24th Prince), and according to the tradition before entering Shanhaiguan, most of the princes are involved in military affairs, and they all have their own clique forces behind them, so they have powerful eldest brothers Yi Yin, second brother Yi Yin, third brother Yin Zhi, fourth brother Yin Zhen, starling Yi Yin and Jiu Ge Yi Yin.

After Yong Zhengdi won the final victory, he reflected on the cause and effect of "Kowloon seizing the office" and decided to reform the storage system, so he created the secret storage system. The so-called secret storage system is also called "secret storage" and "secret storage". The specific operation method is: the emperor did not establish a prince before his death or did not announce the establishment of a prince. He wrote the candidate of the prince in the imperial edict and put it on the board of Gan Qing Palace. After the emperor died, he took it out in front of his ministers, minister Gu Ming and others, and announced the candidate of the next emperor on the spot.

This method has three advantages: first, it prevents the prince from being attacked by other princes; The other is to prevent the prince from prematurely cultivating his own power and threatening the throne; The last one is to arouse the enthusiasm of every prince and prevent anyone from knowing that the throne is hopeless and giving up on themselves.

Sure enough, from then on, there was no such thing as "Kowloon seizing the office" in the Qing Dynasty. So many people think that the secret storage system fundamentally avoids killing brothers, but is this really the case? Before answering this question, let's look at another fact.

Let's start with Yong Zhengdi. A * * * gave birth to 10 children, including eldest brother Honghui, second brother Hongchun, third brother Hongyun, seventh brother Fuyi, starling Fuhui and Jiu Ge Fu Pei. They all died before adulthood, that is, fourth brother Hongshi, fifth brother Li Hong, sixth brother Hongzhi and tenth brother. So only six elder brothers, Hiroyuki, and ten elder brothers have a chance to compete with Ganlong. Choosing one of the three is not a difficult choice for Yongzheng.

Let's look at Emperor Qianlong, who gave birth to 17 sons in his life. Among them, the eldest brother Yong Huang, the second brother Yong Lian, the third brother Zhang Yong, the fifth brother Yong Qi, the seventh brother Yong Cong and the twelfth brother Yong Xuan have never been emperor Qianlong. Jiu Ge, ten elder brothers, thirteen elder brothers Yongjing, fourteen elder brothers Lu Yong and sixteen elder brothers are all young; May 4th was adopted by Prince Lu, and May 6th was adopted by the King of Quality County, with no inheritance right. Among the rest, Eight May Yong Xuan was addicted to debauchery and foot disease, Eleven May Yong Xun was addicted to poetry and songs, and Seventeen May only sought wealth and did not seek the throne, sifting and sifting, leaving only fifteen May Yan Yong.

Throughout the Yongzheng and Qianlong Dynasties, among the sons of Yong Zhengdi 10, 6 died before themselves; Of the 17 sons of Emperor Qianlong, 1 1 did not live as long as they did. Therefore, these two dynasties seem to have many children, but the people who really have the opportunity to participate in the power grab are actually a few. Moreover, among these people, quite a few people only seek wealth and do not seek the throne.

For example, Lin Yong, the youngest son of Qianlong, knew very well that even if he participated in seizing the office, the probability of success was very small, so he simply gave up seizing the office and became a rich monarch. After Jiaqing acceded to the throne, he also got a mansion in Little Shenyang, which was regarded as a rich life.

Of course, this is also related to the emperor's ability to cultivate his own children. In contrast, the average ability of many sons of Emperor Kangxi is better than that of Yong Zhengdi and Emperor Qianlong. On the one hand, the growing environment gradually became comfortable, and the emperor's constraints on the prince gradually increased, losing many opportunities for exercise; On the other hand, consanguineous marriages often occur in the royal family, and the quality of offspring has indeed declined.

Therefore, although the secret storage system has played a great role in preventing brothers from killing each other, it is also true that the quality of the children of the Qing emperor is not as good as that of the next generation. So from another point of view, the external cause of the secret storage system is to avoid brothers killing each other, and the internal cause is the decline of the quality of the prince. After all, there are not so many outstanding children, so it is naturally impossible to stage "Kowloon takes the office" again. For example, Zhu Youtang, a dutiful son, left only one living son when he died, so it could only be him. There is no such thing as seizing an office.

Another fact that can't be ignored is that although the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties successfully avoided the cannibalism of "Kowloon seizing the office", the frequent premature death of the prince also caused the two emperors to fall into the pain of sending white-haired people to black-haired people.

You can't have your cake and eat it, as always.