Kangxi visits Aobai and discovers that Aobai has a knife hidden in his quilt, and then makes up his mind to get rid of Aobai, a story from the Qing Dynasty imperial zhaozhi's "Miscellaneous Records of the Xiaoting Pavilion".
Such a story about the relationship between Kangxi and Aobai has been circulating in the folk and has been adapted to the TV screen again and again.
When the Shunzhi Emperor died, in addition to allowing the Kangxi Emperor to ascend the throne, he also arranged for Soni, Suksaha, Shu bilong, and Aobai to be his assistant ministers, assisting the young Kangxi Emperor in acting in state affairs. However, with the passage of time, Ao bai, who was originally the last of the four people, began to gradually control the government, and the situation of "four ministers assisting the government" was broken and replaced by the "Ao Bai dictatorship".
Especially after the death of Shoufu Soni, Aobai was even more unscrupulous, and when the Kangxi Emperor was already pro-government, he openly intimidated the Kangxi Emperor in the courtroom to force the Kangxi Emperor to order the killing of Suksaha's entire family. The killing of Suksaha's entire family gave the Kangxi Emperor a great shock, and at the same time made Ao Bai more arrogant and unscrupulous, which further intensified the contradiction between the two.
After that, there was the story of "Ao Bai was hidden by the knife", which was not from the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", but from the "Miscellaneous Records of the Xiaoting Pavilion".
The author of the "Miscellaneous Records of the Xiaoting Pavilion" is Ai Xinjue Luo Zhao, a member of the Qing Dynasty clan, this name is relatively unfamiliar to everyone, and his title must be very familiar to everyone, that is, Prince Heshuo Li. Yes, Zhaozhuo was the descendant of Prince Li Daishan, and also the heir to prince Li's title, but he was later removed from the hereditary title by the Jiaqing Emperor, and others inherited it. Regarding him, we do not press the table, or continue to talk about Ao Bai.
According to the records in the "Miscellaneous Records of Xiaoting", Aobai once again deliberately claimed that he was ill and could not go to the court, so the Kangxi Emperor took the initiative to visit Aobai's mansion after retiring from the dynasty, and Aobai met with the Kangxi Emperor on his bed. Who knew that during the period, a knife was actually found from under the bed of Ao Bai, and everyone was shocked, only the Kangxi Emperor said a sentence, "Manchu warriors, they can't leave the blade, this is the true color, Shaobao has not forgotten the book." "Eased the embarrassment of the scene. So the Kangxi Emperor returned to the palace and immediately decided to completely get rid of Aobai, followed by the story of the Kangxi Emperor using the Buku teenager trained by Soetu to "Zhi Bao Aobai". And this incident has also become an important evidence for many people in the future to judge that Ao Bai has the intention of rebellion.
In fact, there have always been many questions about the authenticity of this story. He is true because the "Miscellaneous Records of Xiaoting" was written by the Qing Dynasty imperial family Zhao, and most of the content in the book is a story and example, which has a certain persuasive power and is widely used in the historical research of later generations.
But from this story alone, I think its authenticity is still debatable:
First, this story has many similarities with the plot of the Shunzhi Emperor's visit to Dorgon, and it is inevitable that it will be borrowed.
Second, when Mang Gultai was "exposed to the blade in front of the emperor", he was severely punished and was directly stripped of the title of Heshuo Belle, but Kangxi did not pursue it afterwards and did not list it as a major crime, which also made people question.
Third, it is also the most critical point, and later in the process of Kangxi's wisdom to capture Ao bai, Suo Ertu stood at the door of the Wuying Hall and asked Ao Bai to hand over the saber, and Ao Bai directly unloaded it to Suo Ertu without thinking. If Ao Bai really wanted to guard against Kangxi or had the intention of rebellion, he would not have handed over the sabre so easily. Moreover, since he was afraid that the Kangxi Emperor would assassinate himself in his own home, he left the knife for self-defense, but he confidently and boldly handed over the sword in the palace, which was also obviously illogical. Moreover, after being controlled by the Buku youth, Ao Bai used his own force to break free of the shackles, and at this time, Ao Bai only did to rip open his shirt, revealing a full body of scars, and did not have any disobedience to the Kangxi Emperor.
Therefore, the truth or falsity of the matter of "Ao Bai being stabbed down" is debatable, and the fact that Ao Bai has the intention of plotting against and usurping the throne has been repeatedly proved to be no such thing. Ao Bai was only a courtier, but not a judge and a rebel.
In fact, the dictatorship of Aobai was an inevitable historical development at that time.
The Shunzhi Emperor arranged for Soni, Suksaha, Shubilon, and Aobai to be auxiliary ministers, but this arrangement put Suksaha in a very awkward position from the beginning.
Sonny, Shubilong, and Aobai were born under the two yellow flags, and Suksaha was born in the zhengbai banner, and the two yellow flags and the two white flags have been full of contradictions since the beginning of the "yellow-white exchange" of Jin Da Khan after Emperor Taiji ascended the throne, and later after the "Hauge and Dorgon conquests", "Dorgon dictatorship" and "liquidation of Dorgon", the contradictions are more deeply rooted. Moreover, Suksaha's ascension to the throne relied on "selling the lord for glory" and betraying Dorgon and his henchmen, and his character and integrity were already conservatively disputed, especially Sony, who looked down on Suksaha very much.
All this made Suksaha ostracized and resisted from the beginning by the other three people and most of the officials in the DPRK, and naturally it was gradually isolated.
On the other hand, Sony is old and sick and has been on leave for a long time, but he has a close and friendly relationship with Ao Bai, and when he married eight worship friends in the process of supporting Hauge, he naturally let Ao Bai serve as his spokesman. He was the son of Eyidu, one of the five founding ministers, but he had the courage and strategy to rely on the same famous hou Ao Bai for a long time. In this way, in addition to Suksaha, the other three concentrated their power on Ao Bai, which also directly led to the dictatorship of Ao Bai.
In addition, it has to be said that Ao Bai has begun to fight for power from the beginning of his career as an auxiliary minister
According to Ao Bai's merit and prestige, he should have become the second most important person among the four auxiliary ministers, only so much so that Sony, but the final result is that Ao Bai ranks last, it can be said that Ao Bai's heart is extremely unbalanced, perhaps for Sony's first assistant Ao Bai has nothing to say, but for Suk Saha, Ao Bai must be ten thousand unconvinced, which also dooms Ao Bai to concentrate power in his own hands through various means, while attacking other forces such as Suk Saha.
Therefore, the dictatorship of Ao Bai in this period became inevitable.
During this period, the fermentation of some things further intensified the relationship between the Kangxi Emperor and Ao bai, and finally made the Kangxi Emperor make up his mind to get rid of Ao Bai.
The first is Aobai's blow and persecution of John Tang.
John Tang was the Western teacher of the Shunzhi Emperor and the Kangxi Emperor, and enjoyed a very high prestige among western and Han officials at that time, so the worship of the "first worship of Manchuria" was bound to be unable to tolerate Tang Ruowang.
Therefore, Aobai used Yang Guangxian and other Hanchen as pawns to provoke the "calendar dispute", and then framed the "Hong Fan Five Elements Case", completely pushing Tang Ruowang into the abyss. Although under the continuous efforts of Empress Xiaozhuang and the panic caused by the sudden earthquake in Beijing at that time, Tang Ruowang was able to recover his life, but it caused a huge blow to her body and mind, and he died soon after.
Before the Shunzhi Emperor died, it was Tang John who proposed that the Kangxi Emperor, who had had smallpox, inherit the throne, and Tang Ruowang was also a trusted Western doctor such as Empress Xiaozhuang and Empress Shunzhi, and had a very close relationship with the imperial family. It can be said that Tang Ruowang's death greatly stimulated the Kangxi Emperor and also caused Kangxi to have a great resentment towards Aobai.
The second is that the "land exchange dispute" has triggered turmoil within the Eight Flags.
In fact, in addition to Aobai's henchmen, even the two yellow flags involved were also quite critical of this decision, after all, they had been cultivating for many years, had accumulated industry, and did not want to give up. However, Aobai still insisted on "changing land", during which he even executed Sunahai, Zhu Changzuo, Wang Denglian and others, which greatly shocked the Kangxi Emperor.
Again, Ao Bai was good at killing Sukh Saha.
This was also mentioned earlier. At that time, Sony died, the Kangxi Emperor pro-government, Suksaha knew that he could not fight Aobai, hoping to resign from the court of right and wrong, but was punished by Aobai for contempt for the emperor and wanton arrogance. The Kangxi Emperor did not agree to the execution of Suksaha's entire family, but was blatantly intimidated by Aobai, so he agreed to Aobai's request, but changed Ling Chi's execution to execution. In this way, Suksaha was instantly exterminated by Aobai.
The occurrence of these times, on the one hand, greatly stimulated the heart of the Kangxi Emperor, hurt the feelings and dignity of the Kangxi Emperor, and caused the Kangxi Emperor to have a huge dissatisfaction with the arbitrary dictatorship of Aobai, on the other hand, it was Kangxi's concern about the stability of his imperial power, especially after Suksaha's death, Kangxi felt more dangerous existence, and strengthened his determination to get rid of Aobai.
So after a long period of sinking, the Kangxi Emperor successfully paralyzed Aobai, so that Aobai completely ignored the threat of the Kangxi Emperor, while at the same time, the Kangxi Emperor, with the assistance of Soetu, successfully trained a group of Buku teenagers who were loyal to him, and through them successfully captured Aobai and announced the "Thirty Great Crimes" of Aobai.
The Kangxi Emperor originally sentenced Ao Bai to death, but Ao Bai's credit was too great, coupled with the fact that Ao Bai showed his own scars, even the Kangxi Emperor was moved by it, and finally changed to imprisonment, and two months later, Ao Bai ended in prison depressed, ending his ups and downs.