In the fifth year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, the court official, King Li Yun, was in poor health. Having only been on the throne for three years, he showed signs of decline and was on the verge of death.
Yinzhen discovered that there were serious problems within Joseon. Li Yun's younger brother, Li Qin, was much more capable than the physically weak Li Yun and had won over many people.
This Li Qin is quite a character; Li Yun is clearly no match for him.
Putting aside other matters, Yi Geum and Yi Yun were children born to different mothers. The former King of Joseon favored Yi Yun, which naturally made Yi Geum resentful, but there was nothing he could do about it. The fact that Yi Yun, despite his illness, was able to ascend the throne only fueled Yi Geum's anger, leading him to harbor rebellious intentions.
So they wanted to seize the opportunity to take power.
Yinzhen didn't do much, but he stirred things up a bit, making the Joseon court even more lively.
As for Korea, Yinzhen's dislike for it was not as great as his dislike for Japan, but he didn't have much affection for it either. As a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, its disloyalty was enough to make Yinzhen dislike it.
In the sixth year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, Li Yun, who should have died that year, did not pass away. As for the reason? Of course, it was not because a divine physician had been reborn, but because the people sent by the Yongzheng Emperor discovered that Li Qin had bribed the doctor who had been treating Li Yun for a long time.
Now the problem is much easier to solve.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yinzhen openly helped Li Yun. In August of that year, Li Geum launched a coup, but with the help of the Qing Dynasty, the coup failed. Li Yun then agreed to sign an August treaty, and from then on, Joseon became part of the Qing Dynasty's territory instead of a tributary state.
The country of Korea became Korea State.
However, due to its geographical location, Chosunju has the right to self-government, and the ruling party is still the Lee clan.
This is tantamount to treating Korea as a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty.
This contract also involved another issue that Yinzhen had not noticed, namely the issue of the attribution of cultural origins. Yinzhen had not thought of this before, but Tong Cheng'er told him, which is why he decided to add this treaty to it.
This part was naturally handled by the Third Prince, and he did a good job in this regard. The treaty made a detailed record of the origins of Chinese civilization and culture, which was then compiled into a book called "Feng Hua Lu" (Record of Splendor). It was also stipulated that this book must be used as a compulsory subject for scholars in Korea.
In this way, regardless of whether Korea will remain a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty in the future, the existence of this book will ensure that they will no longer have any reason to claim the Dragon Boat Festival as their own.
After Yinzhen registered his marriage, there wasn't much that Tong Cheng'er could do. She herself wasn't very interested in politics, but as the empress, she couldn't really be uninterested.
Many of the contents of this August contract were Tong Cheng'er's ideas.
Yinzhen did not think she was incapable of interfering in politics.
In the seventh year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, there were no major wars. However, thanks to Tong Cheng'er's efforts, the Qing Dynasty established its first royal women's academy, which recruited women who were interested in studying.
In the same year, the Qingzheng Military Academy project officially began preparations.
In the eighth year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, the Qingzheng Military Academy officially began enrolling students, with the First Prince Zhi serving as its first dean. The students recruited were disciples of the Eight Banners.
At this time, the Eight Banners descendants still had some courage; not all of them were just loafing around waiting to die. Yinzhen ordered that all banner descendants must enter the Qingzheng Military Academy to study when they turned eighteen, and even members of the imperial clan were not exempt.
The Qing Zheng Military Academy was under closed management, so this order was naturally not something to be happy about. However, some people were happy, because not all the Eight Banners soldiers had the opportunity to enjoy themselves. When the Qing army entered the pass, they were indeed all very wealthy, but many years later, many of them had fallen on hard times.
Few of the Manchu bannermen's children were successful in their studies. It wasn't impossible for them to pursue education, but compared to students from places with a strong literary tradition like Jiangnan and Shandong, they had a much harder time standing out.
The Qingzheng Military Academy was an opportunity for them to rise above their circumstances.
Whether they liked it or not, the imperial edict had been issued, and no one dared to openly defy or oppose the emperor.
Of course, there were always people making underhanded moves. For example, an old lady from the Niohuru clan couldn't bear to see her pampered grandson suffer. Thinking of the imperial edict that said those with illnesses could be spared, she used her connections to make sure her grandson was "ill." In the end, her grandson did stay and was exempted from two years of military academy life.
Before long, the old lady saw that her eldest grandson was getting old, so she wanted him to find a job in the court. She tried to pull a lot of strings and spent a lot of money, but no matter how much she invested, it didn't make a ripple or even a sound.
Upon further inquiry, she learned that her physical condition had deteriorated to the point where she could no longer attend military academy and was therefore no longer eligible to serve as an official in the government.
Upon learning the truth, the old lady fainted. When she woke up, she held her eldest grandson and wept bitterly, saying it was all her fault, all her fault, and that if it weren't for her, her grandson's future wouldn't have been ruined.
Of course, the old lady wasn't the only "clever" person in the capital who ultimately succumbed to her own cleverness and began to regret it.
After all this, no one could ignore the Qingzheng Military Academy anymore.
Two years passed in this way. In the tenth year of Yongzheng's reign, the first batch of students from the Qingzheng Military Academy officially graduated. After studying at the academy for two years, their mental outlook was naturally different. Many elders saw that their sons and grandsons, who were originally idle and knew nothing, had become more mature and steady after leaving the academy. Even if they had suffered a little, they felt that it was not a bad thing.
A man should be self-reliant; it's good to endure some hardship.
In this way, the Qingzheng Military Academy finally gained a firm foothold.
Shortly after the first batch of students from the Qingzheng Military Academy graduated, Emperor Kangxi suddenly fell ill. It was quite sudden. He was already seventy-six years old that year, seven or eight years older than the sixty-eight years that Yinzhen had dreamed of.
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