胤祉 Yìnzhǐ
Biography
誠隱郡王允祉
誠隱郡王允祉，聖祖第三子。康熙二十九年七月，偕皇太子詣古魯富爾堅嘉渾噶山行宮，上命先還。
三十二年，闕里孔廟成，命偕皇四子往祭。凡行圍、謁陵，皆從。
三十五年，上親征，允祉領鑲紅旗大營。
三十七年三月，封誠郡王。
三十八年，敏妃之喪未百日，允祉薙髮，坐降貝勒，王府長史以下譴黜有差。
四十三年，命勘三門底柱。
四十六年三月，迎上幸其邸園，侍宴。嗣是，歲以為常，或一歲再幸。
四十七年，太子既廢，上以允祉與太子索親睦，召問太子情狀，且曰：「允祉與允礽雖暱，然未慫恿其為惡，故不罪也。」蒙古喇嘛巴漢格隆為允禔厭勝廢太子，允祉偵得之，發其事。明年，太子復立，允祉進封誠親王。
五十一年，賜銀五千。
聖祖邃律曆之學，命允祉率庶吉士何國宗等輯律呂、算法諸書，諭曰：「古歷規模甚好，但其數目歲久不合。今修曆書，規模宜存古，數目宜準今。」
五十三年十一月，書成，奏進。上命以律呂、曆法、算法三者合為一書，名曰《律曆淵源》。
五十八年，上有事於圜丘，拜畢，命允祉行禮。
五十九年，封子弘晟為世子，班俸視貝子。
六十年，上命弘晟偕皇四子、皇十二子祭盛京三陵。世宗即位，命允祉守護景陵。
雍正二年，弘晟得罪，削世子，為閑散宗室。
六年六月，允祉索蘇克濟賕，事發，在上前詰王大臣，上責其無臣禮，議奪爵，錮私第。上曰：「朕止此一兄。朕兄弟如允祉者何限？皆欲激朕治其罪，其心誠不可喻。良亦朕不能感化所致，未可謂盡若輩之罪也。」命降郡王，而歸其罪於弘晟，交宗人府禁錮。
八年二月，復進封親王。五月，怡親王之喪，允祉後至，無戚容。莊親王允祿等劾，下宗人府議，奏稱：「允祉乖張不孝，暱近陳夢雷、周昌言，祈禳鎮魘，與阿其那、塞思黑、允禵交相黨附。其子弘晟凶頑狂縱，助父為惡，僅予禁錮，而允祉銜恨怨懟。怡親王忠孝性成，允祉心懷嫉忌，並不懇請持服，王府齊集，遲至早散，背理蔑倫，當削爵。」與其子弘晟皆論死。上命奪爵，禁景山永安亭，聽家屬與偕，弘晟仍禁宗人府。
十年閏五月，薨，視郡王例殯葬。乾隆二年，追諡。子弘暻，封貝子。子孫遞降，以不入八分輔國公世襲。五世孫載齡，襲爵。事德宗，官至體仁閣大學士。卒，諡文恪。
Yunzhi, Prince Chengyin of the Second Rank
Yunzhi, Prince Chengyin of the Second Rank, was the third son of Shengzu. In the seventh month of the twenty-ninth year of Kangxi, he went with the Crown Prince to the travelling palace at Gulufu'erjianjiahunga Mountain, and the emperor ordered them to go back ahead. Edit
In the thirty-second year, when the Temple of Confucius at Queli was completed, he was ordered to go with the emperor's fourth son to offer sacrifices there. On every hunt and every visit to the imperial tombs he went with the emperor. Edit
In the thirty-fifth year, when the emperor went on campaign in person, Yunzhi commanded the main camp of the Bordered Red Banner. Edit
In the third month of the thirty-seventh year he was made Prince Cheng of the Second Rank. Edit
In the thirty-eighth year, when not yet a hundred days had passed since the death of Consort Min, Yunzhi shaved his head; for this he was lowered to Beile, and the officials of his household from the chief steward down were punished or dismissed in varying degrees. Edit
In the forty-third year he was ordered to survey the Dizhu rock at Sanmen. Edit
In the third month of the forty-sixth year he welcomed the emperor to the garden of his residence and attended him at a banquet. After that it became a yearly custom, and sometimes the emperor came twice in a year. Edit
In the forty-seventh year, after the heir apparent had been deposed, because Yunzhi had always been close to the heir apparent, the emperor summoned him and asked about the heir apparent's conduct, saying: "Though Yunzhi was close to Yunreng, he did not urge him on to wickedness, so he is not to be punished." The Mongol lama Bahan Gelong had worked sorcery against the deposed heir apparent on Yunzhi's behalf; Yunzhi found it out and exposed it. The next year, when the heir apparent was restored, Yunzhi was raised to Prince Cheng of the First Rank. Edit
In the fifty-first year he was given five thousand in silver. Edit
Shengzu was deeply versed in the study of music and the calendar, and he ordered Yunzhi to lead the Hanlin bachelor He Guozong and others in compiling books on the pitch-pipes and on mathematics. He said: "The framework of the old calendars is very good, but their figures have ceased to agree over the years. In revising the calendar books now, the framework should keep to the old and the figures should follow the present." Edit
In the eleventh month of the fifty-third year the books were finished and presented. The emperor ordered the pitch-pipes, the calendar and mathematics combined into a single work, named Sources of Music and the Calendar. Edit
In the fifty-eighth year, when the emperor performed the sacrifice at the Round Altar, he ordered Yunzhi to perform the rites after he himself had finished bowing. Edit
In the fifty-ninth year his son Hongsheng was made Heir Prince, with rank and stipend equal to a Beizi. Edit
In the sixtieth year the emperor ordered Hongsheng to go with the emperor's fourth son and twelfth son to offer sacrifices at the three mausoleums of Shengjing. When Shizong came to the throne, he ordered Yunzhi to guard the Jing Mausoleum. Edit
In the second year of Yongzheng, Hongsheng was found guilty of an offence, stripped of his rank of Heir Prince and made an imperial clansman without office. Edit
In the sixth month of the sixth year, Yunzhi extorted a bribe from Sukeji. When this came out, he argued with the princes and high officials in the emperor's presence. The emperor rebuked him for lacking the manners of a subject, and it was proposed that he be stripped of his title and confined in his residence. The emperor said: "We have only this one elder brother. How many brothers like Yunzhi do we have? Yet they all wish to goad us into punishing him; their intent truly passes understanding. Indeed it is also because we have not been able to move them to better ways, and it cannot be said that the fault is all theirs." He ordered Yunzhi lowered to Prince of the Second Rank, laid the blame on Hongsheng, and handed Hongsheng to the Imperial Clan Court to be confined. Edit
In the second month of the eighth year he was raised again to Prince of the First Rank. In the fifth month, at the mourning for the Prince Yi of the First Rank, Yunzhi arrived late and showed no grief. Yunlu, Prince Zhuang of the First Rank, and others impeached him, and the matter was sent to the Imperial Clan Court, which memorialized: "Yunzhi is perverse and unfilial. He kept close to Chen Menglei and Zhou Changyan, made prayers and worked sorcery, and formed a faction with Aqina, Saisihei and Yunti. His son Hongsheng was vicious, stubborn, wild and unrestrained and helped his father in his wickedness, yet was only confined, and Yunzhi has nursed resentment over it. The Prince Yi was loyal and filial by nature, and Yunzhi, harbouring jealousy, did not even ask to wear mourning; when all gathered at the prince's residence he came late and left early, defying reason and scorning the proper relations. He should be stripped of his title." He and his son Hongsheng were both sentenced to death. The emperor ordered him stripped of his title and confined at the Yong'an Pavilion on Jingshan, allowing his family to live with him, while Hongsheng remained confined at the Imperial Clan Court. Edit
He died in the intercalary fifth month of the tenth year and was buried by the rule for a Prince of the Second Rank. In the second year of Qianlong he was given a posthumous name. His son Hongjing was made Beizi. His sons and grandsons were lowered a step in each generation, and the line was hereditary as Duke Who Assists the State, without the Eight Privileges. His great-great-great-grandson Zailing inherited the title. He served Dezong and rose to Grand Secretary of the Tiren Hall. He died and was given the posthumous name Wenke. Edit
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Source: 清史稿 卷二百二十 列传七 诸王六 (Draft History of Qing, juan 220, Biographies 7: Princes 6)
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- [Source] 清史稿 卷一百六十四 表四 皇子世表四 Draft History of Qing, juan 164, Table 4: Genealogical Table of the Emperors' Sons 4
- [Collation note] 表云：「聖祖第三子。康熙三十七年封誠郡王，三十八年緣事降貝勒，四十八年晉誠親王，雍正六年緣事降誠郡王，八年復封誠親王，尋緣事革爵，十年薨，照郡王例殯葬，乾隆二年追諡曰隱」 The table: “Third son of Shengzu. In Kangxi 37 (1698), made Prince Cheng of the Second Rank. In Kangxi 38 (1699), over a matter, demoted to Beile. In Kangxi 48 (1709), promoted to Prince Cheng of the First Rank. In Yongzheng 6 (1728), over a matter, demoted to Prince Cheng of the Second Rank. In Yongzheng 8 (1730), again made Prince Cheng of the First Rank, soon after, stripped of his title over a matter. In Yongzheng 10 (1732), died, buried with the honours of a Prince of the Second Rank. In Qianlong 2 (1737), later given the posthumous name Yin.”