Why was Yong Zhengdi buried alone in Qing Xiling?

Yongzheng chose to build Xiling, all kinds of excuses. According to original records, in the seventh year of his accession to the throne, he ordered people to look for "auspicious land" in Jianling. The people who were originally ordered to survey chose Jidi in Dongling, Xiaoling and Jingling, but they didn't find a suitable place. He also chose chao yang shan, Jiu Feng, which is not far from Xiaoling and Jingling, and invited people who are proficient in Feng Shui. He refused on the grounds that the terrain layout was not good and the soil in the cave was gravel. Only three-year-old children believe that there is no ideal burial place for such a large mausoleum. Of course, courtiers will understand the emperor's intentions. Prince Andrew and minister Gao Jizhuo, who had a keen sense of smell, knew the real intention of Yongzheng, so they declared that Tianpingyu in Taining Mountain, yi county had discovered a "land of eternal happiness" and strongly recommended it to Yongzheng.

In the memorial, they praised this place as: the land where Gankun gathers and shows, the land where Yin and Yang meet, the sand and water in Longdong, without beauty and anger, and all kinds of auspicious phases. Yongzheng read the letter and thought that the landscape method was detailed and clear, and it was indeed a blessed land. However, this obviously violated the system of burial with his father, and he could not agree immediately, so he argued that although the place was beautiful, it was only a few hundred miles away from his father's Jingling and his grandfather's Xiaoling, and he could not bear it. Then he asked the ministers to prove for him whether another mausoleum was inconsistent with the prescribed ceremony of the ancient emperor. The emperor's intention was completely exposed, and the ministers who were good at conveying the meaning of the remains quoted classics and pointed out that Yu Xia was buried in Huiji, Zhejiang Province, and was buried in Xixia County, Shanxi Province, more than a thousand miles apart. Shang Tang was buried in Yanshi, Henan Province, Taijia, Licheng, Shandong Province, Huangtaiwu, Zhangde, and Wuding, Zhouchen, West China, with a distance of five or six hundred miles each. Although the emperors of Han and Tang Dynasties were all in Shaanxi, Gaozu, Wendi, Jingdi and Wudi of Han Dynasty were buried in Xianyang, Chang 'an, Gaoling and Xingping counties respectively. Tang Gaozu, Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong were buried in Sanyuan, Liquan and Ganxian respectively, four or five hundred miles away and two or three hundred miles away. It proves that the tombs of the emperor and his father can't be built together. What's more, yi county and Zunhua are close to the capital and live together in Jifu. In fact, they are not far away, which is not contradictory to the ancient system. Moreover, the terrain trend of the mausoleum is consistent with the astronomical phenomena, which is related to the rise and fall of the national fortune. It is possible to build the mausoleum in a favored place, which can open up the eternal inheritance of the descendants of the Qing Dynasty. After the persuasion of ministers, Yongzheng was "relieved" and ordered to build Tailing at the foot of Yongning Mountain, and the first Xiling was built.

The real reason why Yongzheng did not bury Dongling with his father is still unknown. There is a saying among the people that he tampered with Kangxi's testamentary edict and conspired to climb the throne of God. For hundreds of years, there have been many legends about Yongzheng's "changing the imperial edict to usurp the throne" with different versions, which became one of the three major mysteries in the early Qing Dynasty.

One theory is that during Kangxi's serious illness, he summoned Yun to Beijing and wanted to pass the unification to Shiziyun. His imperial seal was hidden by Long Keduo, and Yun did not return to Beijing until the death of the Holy Father. Roncodo sent a message to Yin Zhen, and Yin Zhen acceded to the throne. One saying is that when the saint died, he held an imperial edict in his hand, "My fourteen sons are unified". Yin Zhen managed to get it, changed the word "ten" to "first" privately, and then came to Kangxi alone, and no one was allowed to come in. The Pope was furious and picked up a pillow and hit Yin Zhen. Yin Zhen knelt down and confessed to his father. Soon after, the news of the Pope's death came, and Yin Zhen succeeded to the throne.

One theory is that there was a posthumous edict of "passing on fourteen sons" before the saint died. Later, Long Keduo changed the word "ten" to the word "jade", making the testamentary edict "pass on four sons", and then entered Kangxi's bedroom and a bowl of ginseng chicken soup. After the death of the sage, Yin Zhen succeeded to the throne. One way of saying this is that Yongzheng was originally named, because the posthumous edict of the holy father was located in (the original name of fourteen sons), Yongzheng privately renamed Zhen Zi, and announced it as ""after going to bed, so he proclaimed himself emperor.

Perhaps because there are ghosts in his heart, he started from feudal superstition and worried that if he was buried with Kangxi, he would be "retaliated" by Kangxi, so he decided to take Tianpingyu in yi county, which is hundreds of miles away from Dongling, as his graveyard. However, this is only a legend of later generations, and there is no evidence.