After the Manchu Qing entered the customs, it has been going around to calm down the forces of all sides, the country has been in a state of not being very peaceful for a long time, and after the Qing army entered the customs, the emperor Taiji wanted to show his grand plans, but he did not expect that the body lit up with a red light, and the 5-year-old Shunzhi Emperor succeeded to the throne; although the Shunzhi Emperor was unreliable, but the family had a good son, it can be said that there are successors.
The emperors of the early Qing Dynasty were very young when they succeeded to the throne, but the Kangxi Emperor was obviously a teenager and did not grow crooked; he never rejected foreign cultures, and even took the initiative to learn, and when he saw the 900-word instruction manual when eating chocolate, he would read it carefully, but the content was not of interest to him, so he no longer paid attention to it.
First, the soul of the indomitable nation
The Manchu Jurchens originated in Guanwai and can be traced back to more than 3,000 years ago in the Sushen period, and were an extremely ancient nomadic people; the characteristics of the nomadic people were to live in the grass and have been suppressed by the Central Plains Dynasty, and the Jurchens themselves have developed extremely slowly, and have had the experience of inheritance faults.
The Jurchens once had the experience of stationing in the Central Plains, but the Jin Kingdom from its establishment to its demise was only more than a hundred years, the two Song Dynasties were weak, but still orthodox in the Central Plains, the Jin Kingdom was eventually destroyed by the Mongolian Iron Horse, and returned to the White Mountains and Black Water to continue the life of herding horses and sheep; because of the suppression of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the Jurchens could only survive in the cracks, until Nurhaci led the Jurchens, and there was a new opportunity.
At that time, although the Ming Dynasty was already in decline, but Yu Wei was still there, Houjin had been developing outside Guanwai, and after Emperor Taiji succeeded to the throne, he attached great importance to Han talents, and he incorporated some Han and Mongolian into the Eight Banners, forming the Han Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners.
Emperor Taiji also thought of letting the Qing soldiers enter the pass and unify the world, but Daming strictly guarded the pass, and the Qing soldiers never broke through this line of defense; it was not until after the Shunzhi Emperor ascended the throne, Wu Sangui opened the door to the Qing army, and Dolgun was able to bring troops into the pass, thus opening the Qing Dynasty's rule for nearly 300 years.
The Shunzhi Emperor succeeded to the throne at a young age, and the major affairs of the imperial government were controlled by the regent Dolgun, excluding dissidents in the court, and what was unexpected was that the famous regent suddenly died while traveling and hunting, and the Shunzhi Emperor directly took over the government in advance.
The mountain pressed on the head was gone, the Shunzhi Emperor's career love double harvest, but within a few years Dong Efei died of illness, so that the Shunzhi Emperor was heartbroken, the whole person was depressed, he usually had more contact with Tang John and Buddhist monks, and the idea of having a home was discouraged; originally the Shunzhi Emperor was depressed enough in his heart, and he also contracted smallpox, and the treatment was ineffective, and he died at the age of only 24.
2. Blessed are the Sons of Heaven with great destiny
The successor of the Shunzhi Emperor was the third son Xuan Ye, his birth mother was not favored by the Shunzhi Emperor, and he was born at the time of Dong Efei's special favor, so for this son, the Shunzhi Emperor did not pay much attention; and Xuan Ye was infected with smallpox when he was a child, and was taken out of the Forbidden City to raise for a period of time, Xuan Ye's parents are not long-lived people, because of this experience, he also has a lot of happy times.
However, Xuan Ye successfully survived from the smallpox epidemic, at that time there was no symptomatic drug treatment for smallpox, most people resigned themselves to fate, Xuan Ye survived, equivalent to having a lifelong immunity, which also became an important reason for Xuan Ye to inherit the unification later, and also opened the Kangxi Emperor who opened the Kangqian dynasty.
The young Kangxi Emperor, who succeeded to the throne almost like his father, had several auxiliary ministers on his head, and he also had to learn the way of governing the country and the classics of famous masters with many great Confucians and masters; during the Shunzhi Emperor period, Western missionaries came to the Central Plains to preach, and the clever and studious Xuan Ye also came into contact with a lot of Western knowledge.
The emperor liked Western foreign things, and the number of missionaries who came to the Central Plains gradually increased, and with their arrival, more and more imported goods entered the inner courtyard of the palace, because the Kangxi Emperor had been deeply affected by the smallpox epidemic before, so he attached great importance to Western medicines.
Among these medicines, there were drugs that could cure smallpox, which surprised the Kangxi Emperor, who asked the missionaries to get the formula of the medicine and then handed it over to the Palace Tai Hospital for secondary development, creating a treatment plan to prevent smallpox, and promoting it to the people, so that many innocent people were spared.
The reason why the Kangxi Emperor was a man of great fortune and great fortune was not only because he was infected with smallpox when he was young, he also suffered from malaria when he was more than forty years old, the fatality rate of this disease in ancient times was very high, even if people like the emperor could call on the country's best resources, it was difficult to cure for a long time, so that the tai doctor in the palace was helpless.
Third, the drawbacks of feudal dynasties
The Kangxi Emperor, who was plagued by malaria, was also very troubled, and finally a Catholic named Hong Ruohan offered cinchona cream to the emperor, which solved the difficulties of the Kangxi Emperor and made the Kangxi Emperor more fond of Western medicine, so when he heard about Qikola, the Kangxi Emperor also regarded it as a treasure, making people immediately look for analysis.
Chocola is the translation of the time when it first entered the Central Plains, which is now chocolate; chocolate originated in Mexico, was discovered by European explorers, extracted its medicinal value, and was quite popular in early European Catholicism, and it was also passed down to the Qing Dynasty during this period.
After the missionaries figured out the eating methods and efficacy of chocolate, they wrote out a full 900-word instruction manual, but when the Kangxi Emperor saw that the instructions were mainly eaten as drinks, the interest in chocolate was not so great; although later the missionaries explained the health effects of chocolate, but the Kangxi Emperor did not buy it, only said that there was no following.
Speaking of health, there are many better ways to use the ancient Chinese court secret recipe, the health effect of chocolate is far less suitable for Chinese physique than health exercises and health tea, so after the effect of chocolate, directly gave up this black dessert.
The Kangxi Emperor was not exclusive of foreign affairs, he himself learned algebra, geometry, astronomical geography, pharmacological anatomy, foreign languages, music, etc. Put it now, the Kangxi Emperor is definitely a general talent who has studied both Chinese and Western affairs, but these advanced knowledge are all learned by himself, and have not been popularized throughout the country.
The study of Western knowledge was only the interest of the emperor himself, because the Central Plains Dynasty had always regarded itself as a great power, and often examined foreign affairs with a high attitude, and when the budding of Western capitalism quietly arose, after the implementation of the policy of closing the country to the outside world, the advanced productive forces and production directions of the outside world were also isolated, and gradually lagged behind people.
Summary:
The Kangxi Emperor was a pragmatist, he was not stingy about things that were beneficial to the country and the people, and was willing to invest manpower and material resources in research, such as the secret recipe for preventing and treating smallpox, which was successfully developed under the support and leadership of Kangxi, saving thousands of lives.
Chocolate as a dessert, in the era of medical technology was not developed in the era of medical technology has been regarded as a treasure with medicinal value, but with the analysis of its ingredients, chocolate is still classified in the category of desserts; if you must say its medicinal value, perhaps sugared chocolate will make people happier, when people are in a bad mood, a cup of sweet chocolate will cure everything!