The Kangxi Emperor ascended the throne at the age of 8, pro-government at the age of 14, reigned for 61 years, is the longest reigning emperor in the history of the mainland, the late Qing Dynasty minister Zeng Guofan once commented on the Kangxi Emperor: "I have six ancestors and one sect, and the collection is in Kangxi. Abroad, the Japanese had great respect and reverence for the Kangxi Emperor, referring to him as a "saint of the kingdom of Shangguo" and translating the Sixteen Articles of the Sacred Sayings.
Such an emperor can be said to be high above, as the old saying goes: "The king wants his subjects to die, and his subjects have to die." "The way monarchs get along has always been full of dangers and variables, even the Kangxi Emperor, who was good at using people, was no exception.
The Kangxi Emperor also made a poem for this purpose, that is, "The attendant Matsushita guards the platform, and his life has declined after returning from the tiger." Unaware of the king's promise, he repented and rode a horse. ”
In the autumn of the thirty-seventh year of The Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor took the hundred officials to the Mulan Field to hunt, but at first the Kangxi Emperor did not hit any prey, and his heart was a little unhappy, so he thought of playing a few games of chess and then hunting, and the hundred officials had to accompany the emperor to play chess.
Among them, there are also a few courtiers who are superb at chess, but the opponent is the emperor, so the "release of water" is very strong, so that after several games, the Kangxi Emperor has repeatedly won, how can the Kangxi Emperor not know that the courtiers are letting themselves, winning and winning is not happy, can't help but feel bored, so the Kangxi Emperor said: "If anyone can win the Yuan, he will be rewarded with gold one hundred and two, and the official position will be promoted three levels in a row."
At this time, a bodyguard named Renfu volunteered to accompany the emperor to play a game of chess, and the Kangxi Emperor felt that the young man's courage was commendable and admired, so he happily played against the guards, but the Kangxi Emperor's chess skills were really inferior to those of the guards, and it was a miserable loss.
If the guard's chess skills are quite different from the emperor's, the two can have a wonderful duel, but this guard does not know how to give the emperor face, does not give the emperor a way to retreat, the emperor's face has become more and more ugly, and the hundred officials are afraid that the emperor will be angry and angry.
Therefore, another guard next to the Kangxi Emperor said that there was a tiger on the mountain and could go hunting, and the Kangxi Emperor also pretended to get up freely, and then told Renfu to come back and duel him, so that Renfu would wait here and not leave.
However, the Kangxi Emperor saw Renfu's body 15 days later, Renfu was still kneeling in front of the chessboard, it turned out that the Kangxi Emperor had gone hunting and never returned, completely forgetting to meet renfu and continue to play chess, without the emperor's order, Renfu did not dare to move, so he could only stay there.
In fact, the officials also noticed the waiting Renfu, but the emperor had already swung back to the palace, thinking that it was probably the emperor who deliberately embarrassed Renfu, so he did not say anything more, and poor Renfu did not get the money and official position, but took his own life.