As we all know, the Qing Dynasty was established after the Manchus entered the country. In order to better rule the Han people, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty actively studied Han culture. As a promising emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi also had profound attainments in Confucianism. At that time, the nine sons were competing for the throne. In order to obtain the qualifications to inherit the throne, many princes were keen to guess Kangxi's thoughts. As a result, they all lost to their nephew Hongli in one thing.
One day, Kangxi was practicing calligraphy in the imperial study. Suddenly on a whim, I wrote dozens of "ink" characters in different sizes and fonts on the paper. After finishing writing, Kangxi smiled with satisfaction. After a while, Kangxi ordered the eunuchs around him to deliver those "mo" characters to his sons' houses. At the same time, he also asked the princes to write a word for the second line. When the eunuchs came to the palaces of the major princes with ink letters in their hands, the princes were like monks Zhang Er - scratching their heads.
The princes who were already very sleepy suddenly lost all sleep, and they all began to speculate on Huang Ama’s intentions. At that time, the fourth prince Yinzhen was sitting in meditation in the Buddhist hall. When he heard the eunuch delivering the order, he hurried out to receive it. He looked at the ink characters in his hand and asked his father-in-law who came to convey the order: "Is this a single pair or a group of people?" The father-in-law said: "It's all princes working together. You'd better hurry up, the emperor is still waiting!" Yinzhen thought to himself: "Nowadays, imperial officials are becoming corrupt and harming the public and enriching themselves. Isn't it that the emperor wants to eradicate the officials to revitalize the government?" So he wrote the word "official" on the paper and asked the eunuch who came to deliver the order to take it back. In order to detect intelligence, Yinzhen also asked his son Hongli to go to the palace to visit the emperor's grandfather with the eunuch who passed the order.
When the eunuchs from all the royal palaces returned to the palace, they placed all the answers on Kangxi's Android in order. Kangxi started from the answer given by the emperor's eldest son Yinti, and saw that Yinti answered with the word "武". Kangxi frowned and said, "That's nonsense." The result is the word "book" for the third prince Yinzhi, the word "official" for the fourth prince, the word "wen" for the eighth prince, the word "paper" and "pen" for the ninth and tenth princes, and the word "paper" for the fourteenth prince. The word "yan". Kangxi couldn't get angry after seeing it, and laughed and cursed: "These bastards have given me all the pens, inks, paper and inkstones"!
Because Hongli was grinding beside him, so when he saw Si'a When the word "Li" came out, Kangxi just made an ink dot and did not comment. Kangxi asked Hongli beside him: "What do you think of the answers of your father and uncles?" Hongli said: "Grandpa Huang already has the answer in his mind. Hongli is not in the position to comment. My father's answer probably did not satisfy you either, but You took care of Hongli's face and didn't reveal it." Kangxi said with a smile: "Then what answer will you give?"
I saw Hongli. He raised his pen and wrote the word "spring" on the paper. Kangxi had a surprised look on his face and asked: "How did you think of it?" Hongli said: "The character "ink" when separated is black and soil, and the character "spring" when separated is white and water. Black and white are both colors, and water and soil belong to the same category. Five elements. So Sun'er thought of this answer." Kangxi was full of joy when he heard this and praised the successor. In folklore, when Kangxi passed the throne to Yongzheng, there were factors related to Qianlong.