I like your narration and details. Can you do a program on Emperor Yongzheng's death (unless you've already done one)? The official history is he died of illness or possibly inadvertent poisoning due to consuming toxic elixir (which wouldn't be first time that it happened to a Chinese emperor). Yet legend persists (probably because it's a better story) that he was assassinated. There were of course questions surrounding his father's death and his own succession to the throne, but at least his father was old and death would seem natural. Yongzheng was relatively young at 56 when he died, having only ruled 13 years (less than 1/4 of his father), but having made a lot of enemies due to his ruthless style during that time.
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Indeed, the death of Yongzheng is a tricky and unsolved topic. There's not so much I can do about it since there is a lack of relevant historical materials, and most of the legends, or, say, rumors, are easily searched out on the internet. I've made a video introducing his everyday activities, though. His is cute in some ways. Please check that out if you are interested. Thanks for the support.
Yongzhen? He was a bad tempered workaholic who probably poisoned himself to death! The whole gossip about him changing wills and all that Canto kung fu shit is pure rubbish, like his dad's will didn't have accompanying MANCHU script next to the Chinese? In those days there wasn't anyone who could stand up to him, and he executed officials with as much relish as Fat Kim does in North Korea, who could have stood up to him and murdered him so easily? Also, Emperor Qianlong took over as soon as he died, and that ushered in the most glorious period in Qing history, so what could have been accomplished by killing that guy? Nah, Yongzhen kept the treasury afloat, he was pretty efficient as a ruler, but his PR was ass, killed way too many people, even his dad Kangxi said he was 喜怒无常 so you can imagine...