It is undeniable that Kangxi was a very accomplished emperor, and his life was full of ups and downs and wonderfulness. If we follow the confession of Kangxi at the Banquet of the Thousand Sons in the "Kangxi Dynasty", it is the tempering of Aobai, San Fan, Geldan, and Prince Zhu that has made Kangxi great and extraordinary. Kangxi also grew up step by step, and if these enemies had gathered to deal with Kangxi, Kangxi would have been GAME OVER long ago. The appearance of these enemies in batches allowed Kangxi to be tempered and grown, of course, in the later period, San Francisco, Tsarist Russia, Zheng Jing, and Dzungar were also consciously or fought or harmonized by Kangxi to form a situation of various breakdowns. Therefore, even without considering the economic and political factors of Kangxi's "Kangqian prosperous world", the means of foreign enemies only in the military can be called a strategic master.
Kangxi was also a life of ups and downs: he lost his father at an early age, and after succeeding to the throne, he was suppressed by the powerful minister Aobai, and after the elimination of Aobai, it was an eight-year-long San Francisco rebellion; it can be said that the Qing Dynasty, which was easy to revive, took a lot of effort to quell the rebellion. However, during these eight years, the Dzungars in the northwest, the Tsarist Russia in the north, and the Zheng clan in Taiwan continued to harass the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi also devoted himself to governing the world in addition to the southern conquest and the northern war, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of Kangqian. The Qing Dynasty finally stabilized since Kangxi, and Kangxi basically swept away foreign enemies during his sixty years in power
As the saying goes, the children of the poor have long been in charge, and although Kangxi was born into the imperial family, he experienced ups and downs. Therefore, the tribulations and crises suffered by Kangxi made him mature rapidly, just like kangxi reprimanded Qiu Bilong in "The Kangxi Dynasty" and said, "He grew white hair at the age of 16." The young Kangxi defeated the powerful and rebellious Ao Bai in the treacherous situation of the powerful courtiers, and of course, the auxiliary factor of Xiaozhuang could not be ignored. In the twelfth year of Kangxi in the past six years, the eight-year-long San Francisco Rebellion was triggered by the withdrawal of the Kangxi Domain. It should be known that at that time, the Qing Dynasty was not completely stable, and the directly subordinate territory only added the northeast hometown on the basis of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. At the time of the San Francisco Rebellion, the Dzungars seized the opportunity to annex the Mongol departments; the Tsarist Russia continued to invade the south along the Heilongjiang River; Wu Sangui claimed that the emperor was approaching the Yangtze River, occupying almost half of the country; Zheng Jing in Taiwan constantly attacked the financial and taxation centers along the southeast coast of the Qing Dynasty; and for a time the great Qing Dynasty was in a precarious situation and fell into a precarious situation.
At this time, Kangxi's strategic overall vision was now revealed, and after Kangxi put down the San Francisco Rebellion in the past twenty years, he did not rush to deal with several other forces. Of the remaining forces, if Zheng Jing, who occupied Taiwan, was a scabies disease, then Geldan, who was ambitious and vainly trying to restore the territory of Mongolia and Yuan, was the confidant of the Qing Dynasty. The encroachment of Tsarist Russia from northern Xinjiang had threatened the ancestral lands of the Manchu Qing, and Zheng Jing's attack on the southeast also made the Qing Dynasty's fiscal and taxation strongholds unstable. Therefore, before the decisive battle with Dzungar, Kangxi defeated Tsarist Russia and signed the Treaty of Nebuchu and recovered Taiwan to ensure that there were no worries. Of course, as a nomadic Mongolian Dzungar, which was also from a nomadic ethnic group, it was not so easy to pacify, and the emperors of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties finally calmed down after more than seventy years of conquest. At the time of Kangxi's death, the territory of the Qing Dynasty had already been initially formed, and except for Lobzang Tenjin, who was entrenched in Qinghai, there was only Dzungar left.
The integration of Manchu, Mongolian, and Confucian cultures laid a solid foundation for the prosperous era of Kangqian. Born into manchuria, Kangxi received careful instruction from his mongolian grandmother, Xiaozhuang, and received a royal education from Da ru. Therefore, in Kangxi's body, we can see the shadow of the integration of manchu, Mongolian, and Confucian cultures, and there is not only the fierceness and blood courage of the ma and the nation in the blood; there is no lack of the generosity of the Confucian emperor. Manchurian riding and shooting culture, Mongolian steppe culture and Confucian culture are in a sense Kangxi's shadow of Emperor Xiaowen of northern Wei. However, compared with the untimely death of Emperor Xiaowen, Kangxi, who ruled for more than sixty years, was able to fully exert his political and economic strategies. The Qing Dynasty also stabilized in the Kangxi dynasty, becoming a unified dynasty and laying a solid foundation for the prosperity of Kangqian.
Two deposed princes, Kangxi in his later years kowloon snatched the wife and caused cannibalism; perhaps this is the only event of Kangxi's inner torment, Kangxi can call Shengzu as an emperor is undoubtedly very successful, but in the matter of choosing an heir, he planted a big heel. The second brother was made crown prince at a very young age, but as the brothers grew up, the position of prince gradually attracted covetousness. Yin Rong's position as crown prince was deposed twice, and nine of Kangxi's 24 sons were involved in the conquest of concubines. This is the famous Kowloon conquest in history, which caused the tragedy of fratricide. After Yongzheng came to power, he imprisoned the backbone members of the Eight Ye Party, and in order to prevent similar incidents, he implemented a secret reserve system (behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque). Kangxi's life's work was called the Emperor, but he made irreparable mistakes on the issue of heirs.