Since the ancient emperors are controversial, otherwise Wu Zetian would not have left a wordless monument, it is not meritorious to be judged, and the one we want to talk about today is the same, all along, the people who praise him think that he is "even one of the best emperors in Chinese history, he is like Tang Taizong Li Shimin, so that I, a modern Han Chinese, are proud." ", the people who stepped on him scolded him for closing the country and laying the foundation for the humiliation of modern history, he was the Kangxi Emperor, and he loved the new Jue Luo Xuanye.
The topic we are discussing today is whether he is qualified to be called "the emperor of the ages"?
He ascended the throne at the age of eight, pro-government at the age of fourteen, reigned for sixteen years, and he was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and even looked at the longest reigning emperor in the entire ancient history of China. To tell the truth, when I first learned about Xuan Ye, maybe it was too emotional, and I was somewhat distressed about him, why? Xuan Ye had not lived a day under the knees of his parents since he was born, and in order to prevent him from contracting smallpox (a dangerous disease at that time), he was raised outside the Forbidden City and carried by his wet nurse. When Xuan Ye was older, he had not yet become familiar with his father and emperor, and his father and emperor went to hexi, and as for the reason, everyone knew that loving beauty was better than Jiangshan. The Shunzhi Emperor did not appoint a crown prince, and the reason why Xuan Ye was elected emperor was because he had smallpox and was immune. Seeing this, some people will say that Xuan Ye was lucky to be born in the royal family, although the heavens did not let him have the same parental love as ordinary people, but used the whole world to make up for him. However, such luck is always cruel, for him, the missing part of childhood, how to fill up.
Returning to the truth, the Qing Dynasty that Xuan Ye took over at that time had several provinces in the south of the "San Fan", the Weilat Mongol Dzungar Division in the northwest, the descendants of the Zheng clan occupying Taiwan in the southeast, and the Tsarist Russia coveting and invading in the northeast. It is not an exaggeration to say that as long as he takes a wrong step, it is very likely that he will be chewed up by enemies in all directions. The young Tianzi naturally did not have enough courage to intimidate the government and the opposition, so the four ministers and auxiliary governments also became the situation at that time. However, these four ministers assisted the government, and gradually there was a problem, one of the four ministers, Ao Bai, who was proud of his merits and monopolized power, and even killed Suksaha, who was also an auxiliary minister, for a while, there was still some coercion of the meaning of the young Tianzi, Xuan Ye endured for several years, under the cover of the "Buku" play, trained a group of young guards, and finally on May 16, 16, the eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, he took Ao Bai in one fell swoop. After the eradication of Aobai, Xuan Ye completely regained the power of the imperial court, and after that, he seemed to have opened all the way, leveled the Three Domains, unified the mountains and rivers, expelled Tsarist Russia, and conquered the desert north in the west, and under his unremitting efforts, consolidated the multi-ethnic state and brought the politics of the Qing Dynasty to a peak.
In addition to the above, of course, he also did other things, that is, he has been used to criticize him in later generations, first, he imposed a sea ban, and second, he did not learn Western technology and technology. But are these two points really what we think? There is also a misunderstanding. For the first point, Xuan Ye was indeed banned at the beginning, but that was to attack Zheng's Taiwan, in the long run, personally believe that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and after achieving results, the Kangxi twenty-three years of sea ban was officially abolished, the rulers have always implemented some coercive means for the unification of the world, in that era there is nothing wrong with it; as for the second point, for Western studies, Xuan Ye is very enthusiastic about learning, and the most prominent achievement is to draw maps, using scientific methods and Western instruments to draw a map of the whole country. It was also called by Joseph Needham in England not only the best of all the maps of Asia at that time, but also better and more accurate than all the maps of Europe at that time. It can be said that Xuan Ye is very interested in new technologies, and will also use him to serve his own country, and even recruit talented people during private visits, that is, at that time, ancient Chinese mathematics, which absorbed the essence of foreign mathematics, was re-emphasized. Perhaps, if it had not been later discovered that Western religions tried to interfere with Chinese cultural traditions and the rule of the time in the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi would not have begun to resist the West, but according to records, he only resisted certain Western religions, and really could not talk about resisting the entire Western technology.
During the Second National People's Congress in 1960, chairman Mao talked about the Kangxi Emperor in a small chat with Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi in the lounge, saying that he had three remarkable places, first of all, the territory we inherit today was basically firmly determined by the Kangxi Emperor, and secondly, he adopted a united front policy, when the Manchus entered the customs with only more than 50,000 troops, and the contradiction was very prominent to rule the vast China with such a small population, so the Kangxi Emperor created a united front policy It is to unite the Mongols and other ethnic minorities first, and then to unite the upper han scholars. And comprehensively study and inherit the advanced Han culture, respect Kong and Confucianism. The third great thing is that the rewards and punishments are clear, even if the prince loses the battle, he still has to squat outside the city and wait for the punishment.
In ancient China, every emperor had meritorious deeds, and Kangxi was no exception, but on the whole, he was worthy of the title of "Emperor of the Ages", and people were not sages and sages, not because he never made mistakes, but because under the circumstances at that time, he alone turned the tide, struggled, in his hands, the territory of the Qing Dynasty expanded, the national cohesion was enhanced, his life as an emperor, dedicated to his efforts, whether it was simply compared to all the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, or put him into the long river of history, compared with other kings, He is clearly one of the best.