If we talk about the most learned people among the emperors, the Kangxi in the Qing History Manuscript is probably the first to be deserved. He is the only emperor in history who has mastered both foreign languages (although he does not know whether Chinese is a foreign language or Manchu is a foreign language in his mind), scientific and technological knowledge (has written mathematical papers), and is also highly skilled in martial arts (riding and shooting skills are quite strong), and at the same time has reached the level of "one emperor in ancient times". For example, Kangxi once said something like this:
"Since childhood, everyone who has obtained one hundred and thirty-five tigers, twenty bears, twenty leopards, ten lynx, fourteen elk, ninety-six wolves, one hundred and thirty-two wild boars, and hundreds of sentinel deer with shotguns and bows... He once shot three hundred and eighteen rabbits in one day, and if ordinary people lived in their lifetime, they could not reach the number of this day. ”
Shooting 318 rabbits in one day, it has to be said that Kangxi's martial arts have reached the point of being magical, assuming that he starts at more than 8 o'clock in the morning, arrives at 9 o'clock, shoots until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and rests for 2 hours at noon. Then Kangxi's rabbit shooting frequency is to shoot more than 50 rabbits per hour, that is, about one rabbit in a minute. This loads ammunition, aims, shoots in one go, shoots one shot a minute (shotgun), more than 300 guns are not false, but it seems that shotguns need time to cool down.
It can be seen from this that Kangxi's martial arts are definitely not blown. However, as an "emperor of all ages", not only to govern the country, but also to prevent others from rebelling, but also to engage in a word prison, at the same time to learn foreign languages and science, but also to shoot rabbits every day, such erudition can not help but make people doubt: Can you be so good as a person? What is the cultural level of Kangxi? The Forbidden City found a secret file, Chen Yinke: We have been deceived for 200 years.
When it comes to cultural issues, of course, there is no need to be as "bloody" as the study of Kangxi's armed forces, after all, so many cute rabbits were shot by Kangxi in one day, which shows the innocence of rabbits. So what was the cultural level of Kangxi? According to the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", Na Kangxi was indeed a learned and talented literary and artistic youth and a young man of science and technology, and even Zeng Guofan, who later suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, commented on him in this way:
"Where the former sanctuary is called the Supreme Dena, Van is not prepared. Above, the celestial signs, the earth opinion, the calendar, music, the examination ceremony, the practitioner, the criminal law, the agricultural administration, down to the archery, medicine, Qimen, Wang Shuo, Manchu, Western, and Foreign Documents, none of them are clear, and all of them create new laws, do not start the law. Later, the high talent was excellent, and finally could not go beyond its scope. ”
Look, Kangxi in the eyes of Zeng Guofan is simply an omnipotent grand master level of cultural masters, and at the same time, the "Qing History Draft" often records that Kangxi rewarded his ministers with his paintings and calligraphy, which are beautiful masterpieces. Unfortunately, some experts always have doubts about Kangxi's level, such as the famous Mr. Chen Yinke, who also doubts Kangxi's level. Unfortunately, after Puyi was expelled by Feng Yuxiang in 1924, scholars were able to enter the imperial palace to see kangxi's "true deeds".
In 1929, Chen Yinke entered the Forbidden City to specialize in studying some cultural relics of the Qing Emperor, and he really found several "authentic works" of Kangxi. However, the level of these Kangxi manuscripts is particularly messy, not only is it written crookedly and obliquely, but also the sentence breaks and intentions of the articles are relatively poor, and the most embarrassing thing is that there are many typos. How could an omnipotent, omniscient master of culture have manuscripts so bad?
In fact, not only kangxi's "manuscripts" seem to be very bad, but even the folds and conversations he publishes in his daily life often have some counterintuitive errors. Let's say that the 318 rabbits in front of me know that cowhide can't be blown like this! If he really killed 318 rabbits a day, there was only one possibility: he blew up the rabbit's nest with a red cannon, otherwise it was impossible to explain why Kangxi's hand speed was so fast. For example, On November 23, 1935, Kangxi:
"Eighteen days... The rabbits were more abundant than in the previous days, one hundred and thirty-two, fifty-nine, fifty-four, fifty-two... The number of slaughtered by the people of the enclosure totaled 2,610. ”
Here we can't help but sympathize with the rabbits of the Qing Dynasty, it turned out that it was not only ordinary people who were unlucky at that time, but also rabbits who were very unlucky! Kangxi not only shot rabbits madly himself, but also took dozens of his sons to shoot rabbits together. This is more illogical: what is the purpose of shooting rabbits so crazy? In fact, it is not difficult to speculate that behind it, of course, Kangxi wants to maintain their "Chinese riding and shooting" advantage, so every day the rabbit is afraid.
How sober can you expect a man who uses a rabbit to show his bravery? Think of the really brave emperors in history, Han Gaozu killed the python, Emperor Wu of Han and Wei Qing fought black bears together, Cao Cao was short but could fight crocodiles with his bare hands, Li Shimin liked to charge with Wei Chi Jingde, which one was a "warrior" like Kangxi who was obsessed with shooting rabbits?