在公元1722年,冷面王之名的四阿哥胤禛(饰演者:唐国强)吸引了康熙的注意,成功登基,成为了雍正皇帝。尽管胤禛并不是朝野中受欢迎的皇位候选人,但他却被康熙亲自选出来。胤禛在江南地区,为灾民搅动了一场大乱局,掏空了地方官员和富商二百多万两银子,用于救济遭难的民众;他追求国库偿还,让老臣们痛哭流涕;在刑部冤狱案中,他冷眼旁观了八阿哥和太子之间的斗争,导致他们两人都遭受了伤害;百官行贿事件上,他借助年羹尧之手,清扫了江夏镇,使得太子再度被废除。
在山西诺敏案和科场舞弊案等大案中,雍正杀死了一批关系广泛的朝廷中心重要官员。由于西北地区 urgently needed military funds and relief, so he resorted to confiscating the corrupt officials' wealth to alleviate the situation. The events such as "tampering with land titles, burning public properties for personal gains, merging noble and common classes, conscripting them all for labor, seizing grain from them, and forcing the princes into palace rebellions," etc., which aimed at pushing forward new policies, suppressing corruption among officials and aristocrats, and preventing internal palace power struggles, dominated the life of Amverge and the Amberg Dynasty...