In "Kangxi Dynasty", the character of Yao Qisheng is very vividly shaped, a stubborn old man, which makes Kangxi love and hate. From the play, it is not difficult to find that Yao Qisheng is a Han Chinese, although he became the governor of Fujian and made great contributions to the recovery of Taiwan, he always maintained a sense of distance between him and Kangxi, and eventually retired from the merits, studying and fishing in his later years.
When Yushi recently read the "Qing History Manuscript Yao Qisheng Biography", he found that Yao Qisheng was not as perfect as in the TV series, and although he established Qigong in the recovery of Taiwan, the Kangxi Emperor and even the Manchu Dynasty were quite critical of him. This is also one of the main reasons why Yao Qisheng never built a coffin after his death.
Yao Qisheng was a Zhejiang Huijian, born in 1624, like other readers Yao Qisheng also wanted to enter the career through the road of the imperial examination, but his path of the imperial examination was not smooth, and the Chongzhen period only took the meritorious name of a student.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, Yao Qisheng had been confused for more than ten years, and there was no record of his earth-shattering deeds in the historical records. In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, Yao Qisheng encountered two soldiers robbing women during an outing, and he stepped forward to kill these two soldiers and save the women and return them to his home. In order to avoid being pursued by the government, he returned to the clan and obtained the household registration of the Han army with the red flag.
In the second year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Yao Qisheng was awarded zhixian in Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province, and worked for six years in office, during which the official reputation was still good, and the deficit left by the predecessor Zhixian was repaid. However, because of his careless behavior and unauthorized opening of the sea ban, he was punished by dismissal and never use.
If it were not for the San Francisco rebellion, it is estimated that Yao Qisheng would never have the opportunity to make a comeback in his lifetime. In the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Geng Jingzhong raised an army in Fujian to respond to Wu Sangui. Yao Qisheng, who had been dormant for many years, saw the opportunity and recruited soldiers at his own expense to serve in the army of Jie Shu the Prince of Kang, and was recommended by Jie Shu as the acting Zhi County of Zhuji.
During this period of counter-rebellion against Geng Jingzhong, Yao Qisheng was vigorous, and Kangxi did not care about his previous suspicions, and on the merits of rewards, after Geng Jingzhong surrendered, he appointed Yao Qisheng as a political envoy in Fujian. It should be said that Yao Qisheng was still talented, especially in terms of dispatch and command, and indeed made great contributions during the period of quelling the rebellion.
In July of the seventeenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Yao Qisheng was promoted to governor of Fujian. During this period, the Kangxi Emperor was preparing to deal with Zheng Jing, who had divided Taiwan. Yao Qisheng lived up to the expectations of the people and successively recovered Peace and Zhangping. Kangxi commented on the reward of merit and deeds, and ordered Yao Qisheng to be a positive product. The viceroys of the Qing Dynasty were generally concurrently ranked as bingbu Shangshu, and the high match was from Yipin, and Yao Qisheng, the viceroy of Zhengyipin, was also very rare.
Just when Yao Qisheng ushered in the peak of his life, some of his deeds also caused dissatisfaction among the courtiers. Xu Yuanwen, who was then the imperial historian of ZuoDu, impeached Yao Qisheng, saying that he had "shown his deeds in disgrace, acted in a vain manner, risked military merit, made false words the truth, and did nothing for himself."
Xu Yuanwen was impeaching Yao Qisheng for his false merits, embezzling other people's property and taking it for himself, and then taking it out as capital for military merit. Because before Yao Qisheng's departure, he was just a low-level criminal official who had repeatedly fled and was dismissed, who had money to recruit soldiers and brave soldiers, and also had a huge guard (historical records say that when Yao Qisheng was a political envoy, there were more than 3,000 personal guards).
In addition, Xu Yuanwen also accused Yao Qisheng of corrupting his private life, demolishing residential buildings, thousands of servants, and countless dancers and singers. He was nearly a year old and forcibly married the granddaughter of Dai Jie, a squire in Changtai County, as a concubine. In the end, Xu Yuanwen gave a summative suggestion: entrusting the territory with a feudal territory is not even the blessing of the eight Fujian cangsheng, and the beggars are indeed strict and strict, thinking that the people and subjects are deceitful and self-serving.
Xu Yuanwen's allegations are not empty, Yao Qisheng himself does have many problems, and his character is also debatable. However, he was also outstanding in terms of ability, and this period was the key moment for Kangxi to recover Taiwan, so he gave Yao Qisheng the opportunity to defend himself, and granted the hereditary knight lieutenant and the hereditary knight lieutenant Jia Yiyun.
In August of the 22nd year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Shi Lang conquered Taiwan, and Yao Qisheng returned to Fuzhou. In the process of recovering Taiwan, Yao Qisheng's merits are unquestionable, even greater than Shi Lang.'s. By the time Shi Lang entered the capital to meet Kangxi and was made the hereditary Marquis of Jinghai, Yao Qisheng had already died of illness at the age of sixty.
According to the custom, after the death of the feudal governor, the imperial court will express something, not to add officials to the rank of knight, to give a suitable title, and so on. Yao Qisheng was different from ordinary overseers, after all, he had military merit, but Kangxi did not give sacrifices and funerals as usual, gave him a title, and even did not have an official summary of the sacrifice text, which shows that Kangxi did not make a conclusion about Yao Qisheng's coffin, and generally still had a negative attitude.
In fact, In the minds of the people of Fujian, Yao Qisheng's image is also very general. Although Wu Xingzuo, the governor of Fujian at the same time, did not receive praise from Kangxi, after his death, the local officials and people supported him and called for it to be sacrificed as a good official. Yao Qisheng was not.
Soon after Yao Qisheng's death, the imperial history of the dprk and China investigated him for building ships and losing 47,000 taels of silver in ordnance, and asked Kangxi to deal with it severely. Kangxi had always been tolerant, and he remembered that Yao Qisheng had worked hard before his death and was exempt from being pursued, which still gave Yao Qisheng a little face.