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Cao Xueqin everyone should be very familiar with it, one of the four famous works of the famous "Dream of the Red Chamber" most of the part is from Cao Xueqin's hand, and as Cao Xueqin himself, the ups and downs in his life are also very rare, it can be said that Cao Xueqin is also a person who has tasted the world's hundreds of forms and human feelings, but if there is no such experience, I believe That Cao Xueqin should not be able to write such a huge production.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Xueqin's ancestors were actually officers of the Ming Dynasty, who were captured by the Qing army during the ming and Qing wars, and finally were not killed, but became the "wrapper" (that is, domestic slaves) of the imperial family.
Although the status is very low, but the good villain is also a figure associated with the imperial family, and later became the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner, a proper bannerman, and after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Cao family began to make a fortune, mainly because Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Xi's wife Sun Shi, became the Kangxi Emperor's grandmother by chance, and his grandfather Cao Yin also grew up with Kangxi from childhood, although it is not a rich family, but Kangxi later became the emperor, and the Cao family will naturally follow a lot of light.
Sure enough, after Kangxi came to power, he gave Cao Xi a position and was given the title of Jiangning Weaving, this official position is actually not high, but the position is very important, some of the royal procurement matters are through an official position, it can be said that an official is not big, but there are many seats of oil and water, and it can also be seen that Kangxi took care of the Cao family.
Later, Kangxi went down to Jiangnan, five times were directly living in the Cao family, this is not the average person can have a blessing, the Cao family is therefore more glorious, a door of three generations, a whole position for nearly sixty years, its accumulated wealth can be imagined how much huge, and in the local area, the Cao family has also become a famous household.
However, such a situation of the Cao family did not last long, after the death of Kangxi, the newly enthroned Yongzheng Emperor was not so kind to the Cao family, and in the sixth year of Yongzheng, the Cao family was directly raided, and all its family wealth was confiscated, which also made this famous Wang clan beaten into the lowest level almost overnight.
And the reason why the Cao family has such a big change, in fact, has a lot to do with Kangxi, because a very important reason why Yongzheng wants to punish the Cao family is that their deficit in the weaving position is too large, and this deficit is actually a lot of the cao family's debt in order to take over Kangxi that year, because the number is too huge, embezzled the weaving property, and can not make up for it for a while, Yongzheng knows this matter, so he also prepared the Cao family to pay off the money within three years. However, because the number was too large, within three years, it was impossible to pay it back, and eventually Yongzheng attacked the Cao family.
There is another reason, the Cao family in the Kangxi period and the former crown prince Yin Rong walked very close, but later this Yin Rong did not become the emperor, even the crown prince did not keep, this has the Yongzheng throne, this is related to a problem of taking sides Ah, the Cao family can not find the right team, naturally will not get the new emperor's favor.
Therefore, when it came to Cao Xueqin's generation, the Cao family was just a period from prosperity to decline, and it was still very extreme, which could be said to have a very huge impact on Cao Xueqin.