The folk unofficial accounts of Yongzheng’s death include:
1. According to the assassination theory, it is said that Yongzheng was killed by Lu Siniang, a master of martial arts and martial arts (who avenged his revenge on the literary prison, which can be found on Baidu). The body was not found. In order to take into account the royal family's face, it was rumored that he died of a sudden illness and was buried with a gold head.
2. Suicide theory. It is said that when Yongzheng was the prince, he met a woman in Jiangnan and had a secret pregnancy. He gave birth to a daughter named (Qiao Yindi, available on Baidu). The daughter was later killed by the 14th She was married to her younger brother as a concubine, and later Yongzheng took her into the palace as a concubine because she looked like his former lover. In the end, the truth was revealed, and Yongzheng committed suicide in shame.
3. According to legend, Yongzheng had a violent temper and killed countless people, including his brothers. Later, he dreamed of being killed by a ghost at night and died of fright.
4. The theory of sudden illness. According to historical records, on August 20, 1735 AD, while Yongzheng was still dealing with government affairs, he fell ill at night and died in the early morning of the next day. It was reported in the palace that Yongzheng died of a sudden illness, which was recorded in history, but later generations speculated.
Jin Hengyuan (Manchu, the seventh-generation grandson of Yinzhen, the fourteenth son of Emperor Kangxi, mainly engaged in the study of Qing history) gave a detailed description and explanation of Yongzheng's death in the book "Zhengben Qingyuan Shuo Yongzheng".
It can be summarized as follows: Yongzheng's death has a lot to do with his physical exhaustion due to years of hard work; it has a lot to do with his long-term lack of peace of mind, inability to sleep at night, inability to concentrate, and fear of retribution. ; It was also related to the fact that he had been taking elixirs for a long time and accumulated a lot of poison in his body. In his later years, he took increased doses of elixirs in order to seek immortality, and even took aphrodisiacs indiscriminately, which was the direct cause of his sudden death. Simply attributing Yongzheng's death to being "exhausted" from work may not be comprehensive. Folk rumors that Lu Siniang took revenge and beheaded Yongzheng are purely folk imaginations. They have no reliable evidence and are not historical facts.