History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
The Kangxi Emperor can be called an emperor of thousands of years, and it is precisely because of his rule that he was able to make the Qing Empire more and more powerful and the Qing Dynasty develop better and better, and he had many meritorious deeds in this life, such as he pacified San Francisco, he also unified Taiwan, and defeated the biggest enemy he had encountered in his life, Kaldan.
When many people mention the Kangxi Emperor, they think of some great things he has done and his outstanding contributions, but many people have ignored the wrong things he has done. Even the greatest person may make some mistakes, and it is the common sense of man to make mistakes, and no one does not make mistakes in this life. Kangxi did three extremely important wrong things in his life, and all three things he did changed China.
What three wrong things did Kangxi do in his life? The first thing he did wrong was shutting down the country. Many people are very confused about why Kangxi will implement the closed country, because before the Qing Dynasty, in fact, China and the West exchanges can be said to be more, often there will be some Western missionaries to China, and the exchanges with Western countries to a certain extent for China's development is beneficial, but Kangxi decided to implement the closed country, the reason for the implementation of the closed country is not particularly clear, in the historical data some think that the invasion of the sea Wokou brought a series of troubles, in order to avoid the invasion of the Sea Wokou, in order to avoid the invasion of the Sea Wokou, It can only be closed to the outside world.
Another reason is that in order to better rule the country and better manage the people, Kangxi did not want his people to learn advanced culture, which would be very inconvenient to manage, and the closed country could avoid the entry of foreign cultures. No matter what the real reason for Kangxi's practice of closing the country was, in short, he was very wrong in this matter. If we can open the door to more contacts with advanced Western countries, we will not let China lag behind so much, nor will we suffer heavy losses in the subsequent wars.
The second wrong thing Kangxi did was not to listen to the advice of the military man Shi Lang. The military scientist Shi Lang was a very far-sighted figure, he proposed to attack Japan after Kangxi regained Taiwan in the twenty-second year, he believed that only after attacking Japan could he ensure the peace of Taiwan, but Kangxi did not listen to Shi Lang's opinion, Kangxi was attacking his biggest enemy Kaldan at that time, there was no extra force to attack Japan, although in the end he did eliminate his biggest enemy Gardan, but this also led to Japan's invasion of China later. Many innocent people have lost their lives, lost their families and children, and been devastated in the war.
The third wrong thing Kangxi did was to "seize the wife in Kowloon", that is, not to choose the right heir. Many people will ask why do you say that? Because the heir chosen by Kangxi at that time was Yongzheng, and the main reason for choosing Yongzheng was that Kangxi liked his grandson Qianlong and wanted to pass the throne to Qianlong, so Kangxi passed the throne to Yongzheng before his death. However, after Qianlong inherited the throne, he implemented a "extermination" policy on culture, and although the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" was compiled, it was based on the destruction and deletion of Han culture, and it can be said that Qianlong destroyed the inheritance of Central Plains culture, which also led to the decline of culture in the late Qing Dynasty.
These three wrong decisions made by Kangxi directly changed the current situation in modern China, and also laid the hidden danger of becoming a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society for modern China.