What is the real will of Emperor Kangxi?

The Kangxi Testament preserved in the First Historical Archives of China reads: "Yin Zhen, the fourth son of Emperor Yong, is of noble character, and he can inherit the great unity with a deep bow. Follow me to the throne, which is the throne. " Judging from its writing, it is absolutely impossible to change it to "pass on the four emperors".

6 1 year (A.D.1722 65438+February 20th)1month13rd, 69-year-old Emperor Kangxi Michelle Ye was in Changchun, west of Beijing, after being emperor of the Qing Dynasty for 6 1 year.

Seven days later, the fourth son, Yin Zhen, succeeded to the throne. In the second year, he changed his name to Yongzheng.

Soon, the legend of Yongzheng's usurpation began to spread quietly. With the passage of time, the story of Yongzheng's usurpation became more and more vivid among the people. There are five legends about Yongzheng usurping the throne in unofficial history.

The first is "Yongzheng changed the imperial edict". Emperor Kangxi originally passed the throne to the fourteen sons, but Yongzheng secretly changed the word "ten" to the word "imperial" in the imperial edict, so the imperial edict became "passed on to the four sons".

The second is "Longkeduo changed the imperial edict". Roncodo was the commander of the infantry. When Kangxi was seriously ill, an imperial edict was originally issued, calling fourteen sons Yunchan, who was far away in Xining, to return to Beijing urgently and give him the throne, but Longkeduo held the testamentary edict in his hand and did not send it out. Emperor Kangxi died, and Longkodo falsely proclaimed the imperial edict, and made the fourth son Yin Zhen.

The third is another version of "Longkodo changed the imperial edict". Thinking that Kangxi had just passed away, Long Keduo quickly took out the imperial edict hidden by Kangxi from the back of the "fair and square" plaque and changed "passing fourteen sons" to "passing four sons".

The fourth is "Yongzheng Poisoning Theory". When Kangxi was seriously ill in Changchun Garden, Yin Zhen, the fourth son of the emperor, drank a bowl of ginseng chicken soup and died.

Fifth, "Nian Gengyao changed the imperial edict". Nian Gengyao was the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi. It is said that Yongzheng's mother had an affair with him and gave birth to Yongzheng eight months after she entered the palace. So Yongzheng is the illegitimate child of Nian Gengyao, and Nian Gengyao did it.

Historians and archivists first denied the authenticity of several folklore about Yongzheng's usurpation.

Manchu is the national language of the Qing Dynasty, and it is impossible for Kangxi's imperial edict to change only Chinese without changing Manchu. Manchu is written vertically, so it is not easy to change "ten" into "Yu".

According to the terminology of the Qing Dynasty, when writing a prince in a file, it should be written as "the son of the emperor" and "the son of the emperor" instead of "the prince". Just changing the word "ten" into the word "jade" is not the same as changing the word "fourteen sons of the emperor" into "four sons of the emperor".

Besides, people wrote the word "Yu" in the Qing Dynasty in a traditional way, instead of the simplified word "Yu" now, so the change from "passing on fourteen sons" to "passing on four sons" was entirely made up by subjective ideas.