The Kangxi Emperor loved Xinjue Luo Xuanye, was the second emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the Customs, as the longest reigning emperor in history, the emperor's life was quite colorful, zhi qiao worship, ping san fan rebellion, war in Tsarist Russia, the acquisition of Taiwan, the three conquests of Dzungar, etc., his life experience is more exciting than some founding emperors.
This emperor in the Qing Dynasty and even in the history of China, can be described as the most well-known emperors, its rocks and downs wonderful life, Song Anzhi will not say much, anyway, everyone is very familiar. Today Song Anzhi came to tell you about the other side of the Kangxi Emperor, in fact, the Kangxi Emperor attaches great importance to agriculture, and can be said to be a rice expert in the Qing Dynasty.
Generally speaking, many people think that the Qing Dynasty was a unified dynasty established by ethnic minorities outside Guanwai, so it did not attach great importance to agriculture, but Xiao Zhicao followed the previous generation. In fact, the Qing Dynasty, as the only ethnic minority unified regime for more than two hundred years, ruled China for 268 years, and many places are still remarkable, for example, in agriculture, the Qing Emperor attached great importance to the development of agriculture, and the Kangxi Emperor was one of the best.
The Kangxi Emperor paid more attention to the cultivation and increase of rice, which is not just talk, but a considerable importance. He even opened up a plot of land in Fengzeyuan in Zhongnanhai to grow rice, and built Qiuyun Pavilion and Zhijiaxuan nearby to observe the growth of rice.
Once, when Kangxi was observing rice, he found that one of the rice had matured 60 days early, which aroused his interest, so Kangxi put the rice seed away. After the second year of the trial planting, it was precocious again, and it tasted very good.
For the new rice species, Kangxi first tried to plant it within the court, and when the test preparation was almost complete, in April of the thirty-first year of Kangxi, the new rice seed was officially announced, called "Early Imperial Rice".
In the thirty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Li Guangdi, the governor of the direct subordinate, proposed to Kangxi the idea of trying to plant early imperial rice in Tianjin, but the Kangxi Emperor did not agree, believing that although the early imperial rice was successful in the capital, it was not necessarily successful to plant it elsewhere.
In the forty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Rehe Palace was built, and Kangxi tried to plant early imperial rice on the north side of the Rehe Spring, which was successful again. So Kangxi began to consciously implement the early imperial rice on a large scale, and began to promote it in Beijing and Tianjin, and the effect was not bad.
In the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi, Kangxi began to try to plant early imperial rice in the south, and was responsible for his confidant Suzhou weaving Li Xu, the first trial was not successful, Kangxi specially sent the old farmer Li Yinggui to Suzhou for guidance, so the second trial of early imperial rice was successful.
This act of the Kangxi Emperor was still very obvious for the agricultural development at that time, which showed that the emperor who reigned for the longest time was not vain, but was still very attentive to the fundamental agriculture of the country.
After the Kangxi Emperor, under the influence of this, the Yongzheng Emperor and the Qianlong Emperor held a ceremony of "borrowing the field" in the small experimental field of Fengzeyuan every spring ploughing began, and personally supported the plough to demonstrate the heavy peasants.
In addition, Kangxi also paid more attention to river affairs, after all, the development of agriculture is inseparable from the influence of water conservancy. Especially in feudal society, the flooding of the Yellow River could have a huge impact on the two banks of the Yellow River and its transportation at that time.
Kangxi successively changed the governor of the river several times, and later appointed Jin Fu, the inspector of Anhui who had experience in river management, as the governor of the river. Jin Fu did not live up to Kangxi's expectations, he had experience in river management, and also consulted a more experienced aide Chen Huang, the two people worked together, while referring to the Ming Dynasty water conservancy expert Pan Jitao's method of governing the river, coupled with the support of the Kangxi Emperor, the effect of river control was remarkable.
Unfortunately, later Jin Fu had some connection with the fallen Mingzhu Peng Party case because of the rule of the river, and his political enemies took the opportunity to attack him, and this old minister who worked hard to govern the river was dismissed from his post, and his staff member Chen Huang was even dismissed from his post and exiled, and died in the process of exile. A few years later, Kangxi had no one to use, and used Jin Fu again, and Jin Fu died in office at the end of the year before he could continue his ambition to rule the river. I have to say that in feudal society, sometimes it is really a difficult problem to stand in line, and it is not so easy to keep yourself clean.
At the same time, through Kangxi's emphasis on agriculture and other aspects, many people now think that if the Qing Dynasty is not yongzheng succeeding to the throne, it is really possible to fall into the country, but in fact, it is still too heavy. Yongzheng does have merit, and the shortcomings of society in the later period of Kangxi's rule are indeed full of contradictions, but to say that there is a danger of national subjugation, it is inevitable that some will be too demeaning to Kangxi and too exalted yongzheng's meaning, and I hope that everyone can objectively look at history.
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