Secrets of Yuqing Palace

Yinreng looked at his tenth brother with an anxious face and sighed softly, then stood up and walked to the bookshelf behind him and took out a stack of papers from a compartment.

What is recorded above is the truth about the cause of death of the three queens.

He handed the information he had found to Yin'e.

"Take a look."

"These are the clues and evidence I found earlier."

Yin'e took the things handed to him by his second brother, flipped through the pages one by one and carefully read the contents recorded on them.

The more he looked, the more obvious the shock and anger in his eyes became.

It turns out that the causes of death of the three queens were almost all related to the concubines in the harem.

Empress Renxiao was a concubine who entered the palace to serve the emperor in his early years. She was killed by a joint effort of various parties including the former light and dark figures who remained in the palace, but the shadow of the bannermen was also behind the scenes.

Because in the early years, many children died young in the palace, and even more concubines suffered miscarriages.

The concubines all suspected that Empress Renxiao repeatedly attacked pregnant women and royal heirs in order to protect the status of her legitimate son.

The reason is that there are people who are deliberately guiding us in secret.

But Yinreng felt that this reason was pure nonsense.

He didn't think that in the early years of Kangxi, the difference between legitimate and illegitimate princes in the palace was as clear as it is today!

After all, the emperor himself ascended the throne as a bastard.

How long had the Qing Dynasty been established? There was no precedent for a legitimate son ascending the throne!

Moreover, all the concubines in the harem at that time were Manchus, and there was not even a Han woman. The previous dynasty was also mostly ruled by Manchus, so who would care about legitimate or illegitimate children?

Although he was later enthroned as the crown prince because he was the legitimate son, he was still a legitimate son.

But he has a biological brother, Chenghu!

If Emperor Kangxi had really valued his legitimate son so much in his early years, his own brother would have been crowned the crown prince long ago!

He was named the crown prince when he was just one year old, and his elder brother Chenghu died when he was four years old.

Moreover, according to the old people left by the Empress Dowager, the Emperor loved his legitimate brother Chenghu very much. Even the Emperor's diary mentioned that Chenghu was naturally intelligent and the Emperor loved him very much.

His elder brother had been favored by the emperor since birth, but due to various coincidences, Yinreng was the only one who was favored by the emperor.

Although he was indeed favored, this favor was mixed with various factors and was not as pure as that of his legitimate brother.

Therefore, Yinreng always felt that it was not reasonable for the Empress Dowager to decide to clear away the obstacles just because of the difference between legitimate and illegitimate children.

Although he could not guarantee that the Empress Dowager was a completely innocent person, if it was said that the many premature deaths of the imperial heirs and miscarriages of the concubines in the harem were all caused by the Empress Dowager, he did not think that the Empress Dowager had such great ability.

At that time, in addition to the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, there were also Empress Xiaozhao and the Nianhulu family watching covetously from the sidelines.

Once the Nianhulu family discovered the queen's misconduct and caused an uproar in the front court, the families of the concubines in the harem, such as the Nara clan, the Wanyan clan, the Zhaojia clan and other major families, would compete for the position of queen, and the empress might not be able to keep her position.

He didn't think the Empress Dowager was such a short-sighted person!

But in the end, the Empress Dowager was stigmatized and killed by those people.

The people behind the scenes were the bondservants and their families. They used the bondservants serving in the palace to guide them in secret, and then united various secret forces to plan a drama in which the queen died in childbirth!

In fact, there were many reasons for the death of so many children and miscarriages of pregnant women back then.

Because the emperor and his concubines were young and not fully grown, the children they conceived would naturally be unhealthy.

There are also people in the harem who are stirring up trouble and attacking the royal heir, especially those from the former Ming Dynasty who are hiding in the dark.

This is also the reason why the rumor of a clear distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children spread. After all, at that time, only the Han people cared about legitimate and illegitimate children.

The purpose of those people was to divert everyone's attention, push the queen to the opposite side of everyone, and let those unwilling concubines kill the queen.

Empress Xiaozhao was even more unfortunate.

After Empress Renxiao passed away, Empress Xiaozhao became the next empress.

Unexpectedly, not long after becoming the queen, she was diagnosed with pregnancy.

Ever since Yinreng was made the crown prince because he was the legitimate son, everyone saw the signal that the emperor was sending out that he valued the legitimate and illegitimate sons.

It was already unbearable enough that a legitimate son in the palace was made the crown prince at the age of one.

If another legitimate son is born, there will be no hope for their children and their families!

How can anyone bear this?

However, he didn't expect that he wanted to get rid of the baby in Empress Xiaozhao's womb, but ended up killing the person.

The successive deaths of two queens in the harem had a significant impact, and the previous emperor had gradually gained power and was able to free up his hands to deal with his own harem.

With the emperor's intervention, those people dared not make any big mistakes again, fearing that the emperor would find out about their previous affairs and lead to the complete annihilation of their family.

So the baoyi only dared to do some small actions.

But this peace did not last long.

The bannermen who had originally retreated into seclusion did not expect that the daughters sent to the harem after the minor selection would become more and more promising, with Uya being the most outstanding among them.

Uya originally wanted to use the child in her womb and hand it over to Empress Xiaoyi to raise in order to improve her status, and then take her son back after she had completely established her foothold in the harem.

Unexpectedly, after Empress Xiaoyi took her son away, she never allowed her to contact him again.

As the contradictions between the two accumulated little by little, and with the deaths of one son and two daughters, Uya, who had completely established her foothold and was favored to a high position, was unwilling to endure it any longer.

He once again used the manpower of the Baoyi family and the connections developed in the harem to kill Empress Xiaoyi step by step.

However, the relationship between the Baoyi is not as solid as an iron bucket. In order to compete for the right to speak and interests, there are also conflicts among the Baoyi.

Why was Prince Chun Yinyou born with a disabled foot?

Why did Concubine Liang suddenly become favored and then suddenly fall out of favor?

Why was the twelfth prince Yinlu sent by the emperor to be raised by Su Malagu?

Why did Concubine Min die at such a young age?

Why did Pingfei's son Yinzhen die at birth?

Why were there no more princes born by the Manchus after Yinzhen was born?

Almost every one of these incidents has the shadow of Baoyi.

However, Yinreng did not tell Yin'e about this now. He decided to wait for him to digest the matter of Empress Xiaozhao.

Yin'e asked fiercely after looking through the information in his hand.

"Second brother, how did Khan Ama handle the situation after he learned the truth about the deaths of Empress Xiaozhao and Empress Xiaoyi?"

Yinreng raised an eyebrow.

"Have you forgotten the turmoil in the harem a while ago?"

Yin'e: "Second brother, you mean the time a while ago when those concubines with uterine uterus were stripped of their titles and confined to their homes, and those without children were demoted to commoners and sent to the imperial palace?"

Yinreng nodded.

Because he didn't dare to make too much noise, Yin'e clenched his fists and then hit his leg angrily.

"Khan Ama is so unfair!"

Yinreng said calmly, "But the Emperor has already made his decision, and there is no possibility of changing it."

"Are you very dissatisfied?"

Yin'e said bitterly, "Empress Xiao Zhao is my brother's aunt. When my mother was alive, she often mentioned to my brother the times when she lived with my aunt at home when she was young."

"Brother, I understand. Mother misses Aunt. Now that she knows that Aunt died unjustly, she lets the person behind it off so easily. How can I accept this?"

Yinreng said quietly, "Yes, how can we accept such a small punishment?"

"Since the Emperor is unwilling to seek justice for the three queens, we can only rely on ourselves!"

Yin'e looked at Yinreng with a determined expression.

"Second brother, tell me what to do!"