Although Yongzheng took the throne and carried out a series of actions to kill his brother, brother, rabbit and dog, rumors from the opposition that he was engaged in intrigue kept coming and going. Among many legends about his attempt to usurp the throne, the most famous one is Kangxi's testamentary edict, leaving fourteen sons, which was changed from ten sons to four sons by Yongzheng and became the fourth son. With the spread of these legends, the people mysteriously set off an undercurrent of anti-Qing and regaining sight. Yongzheng was very annoyed and upset when he heard these rumors. Later, with the help of the anti-Qing case of Lv Liuliang, a folk scholar, he set up a literary inquisition to crack down on rumors and anti-Qing forces. Yongzheng himself also wrote a book "Shu Lu of the Great Righteousness" to cover up and defend his plots and words and deeds, and to tamper with and discredit historical facts in many ways.
In the 13th year of Yongzheng (1735), at midnight on August 23rd, Yongzheng, who tried his best to steal the throne, just became emperor for 13 years.
He died in Yuanmingyuan and was buried in Yizhou Tailing Underground Palace.
As for the cause of Yongzheng's death, there is no record in the history books. It is inevitable that people will be suspicious and there are many rumors. A popular saying is that Lv Siniang was assassinated and Yongzheng's head was cut off and taken away. When the courtiers buried him, they cast a gold head on Yongzheng's body, so the body was buried. First, he died of poisoning. In the afternoon, Yongzheng was still discussing with his officials in Yuanmingyuan Palace, and suddenly died of illness in the evening.
The Yongzheng Dynasty established a secret storage system,
During his life, the emperor kept secret from Chu Jun, the chosen heir, but hid the imperial edict in the brocade box behind the fair plaque in Gan Qing Palace. After Yongzheng's death, the eunuch in charge of this matter went to Qinggong to take down the secret box and opened it immediately. The fourth son of Emperor Li Hong was the Crown Prince, who succeeded me as emperor. At this time, the emperor's four sons and others have been rushed into the palace, so they immediately presented a testamentary edict, ordering Zhuang Yunlu, Guo Taizi Yunli, college students E Ertai and Zhang Wei as four auxiliary ministers, and agreed to change the yuan to Qianlong next year. After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he did not inquire about the cause of Yongzheng's sudden death. Later generations were kept secret and could not be studied in detail. Because there is no exact record of Qing history, all kinds of statements can only be regarded as hearsay or one-sided words. As for completely solving this unsolved case, or witnessing whether Yongzheng was buried with a golden head, only by opening Yongzheng's own Tailing can the truth come out. The origin of tailing itself is also a historical mystery.
About this mystery, the folk rumor is that Yongzheng felt guilty after changing the imperial edict from Changchun Garden, plotting to usurp the throne, and then killing his younger brother. After his death, he was afraid of being punished by the first emperor Kangxi, and decided to choose another mausoleum site, regardless of the patriarchal clan system, and went to Yizhou to build a mausoleum. Kangxi, who was hundreds of miles away, was helpless to him.
In fact, since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, after the emperors and queens of Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties built tombs under Changrui Mountain east of the capital, they created the Zhao Mu system in which children were buried with their fathers and ancestors inherited them. Zhao Mu is an ancient patriarchal clan system, which is in order with the ancestral temple. The ancestors lived in the temple, and the following father and son gave it to Zhao Mu, Zhao on the left and Mu on the right. If the father is Zhao, then the son is Mu, if the father is Mu, then the son is Zhao. This method is also used for left and right sequential burial sites. As early as in the ancient book "Zhou Li", there was an ancient king buried in the middle, and Zhao Mu gave a normative account of the left and right.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, with the stability of the regime, he began to think of building a mausoleum. In the fourth year of Yongzheng (1726), officials from Yun Xiang, Zhang and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were ordered to handle the burial affairs. Yun Xiang and other courtiers led wizards to choose auspicious places at the foot of Changrui Mountain in Malanyu, but they didn't choose the right place. Later, I chose chao yang shan, Jiu Feng, which is not far from Xiaoling and Jingling, and has good feng shui, which was recognized by Yongzheng. However, the courtiers who were proficient in surveying and mapping were all three-dimensional. They thought that the chao yang shan in Jiu Feng was large in scale and incomplete in shape, and the soil in the cave was gravel, so it was really impossible to use it. Therefore, Yongzheng abolished the mausoleum site and asked the courtiers to conduct another survey. However, for some reason, these courtiers couldn't find a good cave for a long time, and for some reason, Yongzheng began to order Prince Yi Yunxiang and Han Chen Gao Qi to give up the east of the capital and go to the mountains southwest of the capital to collect divination. After Yun Xiang and others were ordered, after many investigations, they found the land of Taipingyu Wannian and Yizhou xinglong village, and returned to the palace to recommend it to Yongzheng. According to Yun Xiang and others, there are Yunshan in the west, Taining Mountain in the north, hills in the east and Yishui in the south. It can be called: the land where Gankun gathers and shows, where the morning light meets, and the sand and stones in Longdong are beautiful. The situation is reasonable. Everything is ready. After Yongzheng's tour, he also thought that this place was a landscape law, with meticulous and clear organization, and it was a blessed land. However, if you choose the mausoleum site here, it obviously violates the system of burying the son with his father. He can't make a statement immediately, only that the place is beautiful, but it is hundreds of miles away from his father's Jingling and his grandfather's Xiaoling. I can't stand it. Privately, they are suggesting that the masses are looking for evidence and excuses for themselves. The courtiers got the message, quickly quoted the classics and found a lot of seemingly reasonable basis. Yun Xiang and university students praised that although the tombs of Han and Tang Dynasties were all built in Shaanxi, the tombs of Emperor Gaozu, Wendi, Jingdi and Wudi were distributed in Xianyang, Chang 'an, Gaoling and Xingping counties, while the tombs of Tang Gaozu, Taizong, Gaozong and Xuanzong were scattered in Sanyuan, Liquan, Ganxian and Pucheng. According to this code, building a mausoleum in Yizhou is not contrary to the ancient ceremony. Zunhua and Yizhou belong to Jifu, not far from Beijing, and can be built completely. Ministers lived up to expectations and quoted classics, which enabled Yongzheng's intention to be implemented smoothly. Construction of Yizhou Tailing started in the eighth year of Yongzheng (1730) and was completed in the second year of Qianlong (1737). On the second day of March of the same year, Zigong, Yong Zhengdi was buried in Tailing Underground Palace. At this point, the Zhao-Mu funeral standard followed by the Qing Dynasty after entering the customs was easily broken by Yongzheng, and history turned a corner here silently. After the Qing dynasty entered the customs, the imperial mausoleum began to be divided into two major mausoleum areas with the coordinates of the capital. That is the Qing Dongling near Malanyu in Zunhua County, east of Beijing, and the Qing Xiling in Yixian County, west of Beijing.