Pearl enters the central land and confronts Soetu's respective parties, eventually expelling the latter from the cabinet near the end of the pacification of San Francisco.
In the second month of the Great Parade, King Shangke of Pingnan was pleased to ask him to return to Liaodong and reach the Qing court. Geng Jingzhong the King of Jingnan and Wu Sangui the King of Pingxi also expressed the same request. A court dispute over the withdrawal of the clan was inevitable.
"San Francisco" was the first of three major events on the pillars of the Hanging Palace after Kangxi came to power. From conveying the Empress Dowager's will to court officials to holding grand military parades, these actions have made the settlement of the San Francisco issue a near-open secret.
It is worth noting that before and after the withdrawal of the domain, Kangxi repeatedly asked his trusted teacher Xiong Cilu for advice on how to serve the people, the security of the world, and the urgency of seeking governance.
On August 24, 1673, Kangxi issued an edict to Wu Sangui ordering him to move his family. On the first day, Kangxi summoned Xiong Ci to the imperial palace and consulted the teacher on the urgency of the way of healing.
This dialogue between the monarchs was of great help in understanding the decision to withdraw the clan and the different opinions of his courtiers. Xiong Ci fulfilled the clear meaning of the opening text, saying: "In order to cure the solid troubles and ruins, but it is very urgent to seek treatment, it will become more fat, and for the evil and prosperous, the desire will not be achieved quickly." ”
Kangxi said: "Zhizhicheng should not be too abrupt, but only accumulate over time, and have its own results over time." The bear said: "If you are too eager to seek treatment, or if people want to use things, they will have no desire and then they can speak the king's way." ”
Kangxi said: "Only with pure heart can there be pure government." In the future, it will only depend on how the truth is, and what is reasonable will be done, and what is not reasonable will not work. Xiong said: "Reasonable decisions, unreasonable decisions, although the two emperors and three kings are just the same."
However, what is considered reasonable and what is unreasonable, must pay attention to familiarity, in order to be able to respond to the curve, otherwise, I may not avoid the slightest fallacy. ”
After Kangxi came to power, there was indeed the problem of "seeking sharp treatment". The treatment of San Francisco seems to be viewed from this perspective. There was no disagreement with the withdrawal of Shang and Geng Erfan, including Suo Etu.
The focus of the dispute is on Wu Sangui. According to the edict of the complete withdrawal of Shang Fan on the 3rd day of the first month of May, Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong wrote to request the withdrawal of the domain on the 3rd and 9th of the first month of July, and on the 28th the meeting of ministers of the prince, it was agreed that all the officials and soldiers of the Southern King would be evacuated, but Yu Wufan was quite skeptical, and the court discussed for a long time.
Until the 6th of August, it was still discussed in two terms. The first meeting: Wu Sangui and the 53 officers and men under his command should be relocated, and installed outside Shanhaiguan, there are local toasts in Yunnan, Miao is miscellaneous, and the defense must not be neglected.
Another discussion: Since Wu Sangui had defended Yunnan, the place had been pacified, but if he moved now, and he had to send another officer and soldier to guard it, then the soldiers would move back to Wang Zhi, making the places along the way bitter, and Wu Sangui should still guard Yunnan.
Shangshu Mingzhu of the Shibing Department, Shangshu Misihan of the Hubu, Shangshu Moluo of the Criminal Department, etc. insisted on the main withdrawal, while the university scholar Suo Etu and others thought that it was impossible. Under the will of Kangxi to "withdraw or oppose, not withdraw and oppose, if it is not preemptive", the court decided to withdraw the domain.
Whether Xuanye made a mistake in the decision to abolish the San Francisco, I will not comment here, but Suo Etu and Mingzhu disagreed, and the latter "claimed the will" and firmly sided with Kangxi, which seemed to foreshadow the fate of the two close ministers in the future.
Objectively speaking, Suo Etu was a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and he must have known Kangxi's attitude towards San Francisco, and dared to disagree with the position of a great bachelor who could almost influence the situation, regardless of his intentions, but the obvious fact was that he opposed himself to the emperor.
The pacification of San Francisco was another challenge to Kangxi's reign. Later, he repeatedly talked about not knowing what the situation would be if it was delayed for a few more years, "I don't know how to deal with it", and warned ministers not to forget this difficult history.
Xuan Ye also talked about pacifying San Francisco many times, which made him realize that everything cannot be thought of easily. After the end of the war, he refused to take the honorific title and issued a heartfelt message that it was not easy to cure.
It can be said that Pingding San Francisco has a heavy shadow in the depths of Xuan Ye's heart, more worry than joy, and there is a "pain" that cannot be erased, which is a psychological ordeal for him.
At the end of the eighteenth year, Xiaozhuang used Kangxi to "have all kinds of worries and hearts in the past few years", so that he went to Nanyuan to recuperate, releasing the bitterness in his heart in nature, and also illustrating the influence of pacifying San Francisco on Kangxi.
Under such circumstances, we will examine the dispute between the pearl and the Suojitu more deeply. Xuan Ye's change in his view of Suo Etu did not begin when the latter did not agree to withdraw the domain, but that San Francisco had rebelled, but Suo Etu suggested that "people who should be killed to move San Francisco", which was what Kangxi was worried about and unhappy about.
After the outbreak of the Battle of San Francisco, the location was shaken, and Jiangnan was almost unclear. In Kangxi's view, this was another "betrayal", that is, an act of evasion from living and dying with the imperial court.
In the case of shaking people's hearts, Suo Etu proposed that those who cut off the lord and withdraw the clan would undoubtedly destroy their own power, encourage the courage of the enemy, and bring greater turmoil and dispersion.
Chao wrongly appointed the head, the Yin Jian of the Wu Chu Seven Kingdoms Rebellion was not far away, and Kangxi did not come to Naso Etu's suggestion, which was indeed a wise move. In October of that year, Mingzhu changed the transfer of Shangshu to the Ministry of Officials, the reason for which is not clearly stated, but it can be considered a measure by Kangxi to avoid a frontal conflict between the two. After Mingzhu entered the cabinet, the two became acquainted, and Suo Etu also encountered the strongest political opponent.
On July 28, the eighteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1679), a strong earthquake struck the capital. The gates of Shuncheng, Desheng, Haidai, and Changyi collapsed, the city walls collapsed, and palaces, official halls, and residences fell down.
University Shile Dehong was crushed and wounded, crushing to death 43 members of the family of Wang Shizheng, a cabinet bachelor, and Wang Guangyu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Work, and many other civilian military officials and civilians died.
Two days after the Ming Dynasty, there was another earthquake, and the city walls of Tongzhou and Liangxiang collapsed, cracking the ground into canals, and yellow and black water and black gas flowed out. The Kangxi Emperor evacuated the earthquake in Jingshan for three days and nights, the residents of the living were exposed to the belly, and the dead were filthy and fumigated.
Since then, there have been occasional microtremors. On the 8th, 12th, and 13th of August, there was a great earthquake, and 300 miles near the capital, and many people were crushed to death. In the traditional society that believed in the sense of heaven and man, Kangxi and his ministers quickly linked this abnormal earthquake to personnel, and believed that the tunnel was the way of ministers and was caused by the minister's negligence.
On the day of the earthquake, Zuo Du Yushi Wei returned to his apartment after three evacuations, and after the earthquake, he "rushed into the dynasty and bowed to Saint Ann." And ask for a map to thank the world. Wei's self-written chronology deliberately avoids the truth, saying that "the dialogue is lost".
After Chen Tingjing's words were earthquakes, Xiangshu "was summoned alone, and when he was close to the front of the imperial throne, he moved to the time of speech, or wept, and his words were not passed on." Xu Qianxue said that Wei Catastrophe's Chenyan, "Language infringement is especially urgent, and the lower court discusses it."
The Kangxi Emperor immediately accused "internal and external ministers of not being able to be honest and conscientious." Or they acted in selfishness, or they were greedy and unscrupulous, or they were prevaricating, or they wantonly abused the people, right and wrong were reversed, and they took measures to be perverse, ministers were lawless, and small ministers were not honest", and he also ordered the ministers and courts above the third grade, as well as the officials of the departments and provinces, and the governors of the provinces to clearly explain the rules on "the matters that should be carried out and should be carried out now."
Among the "six things" that the Kangxi Emperor subsequently proclaimed, there was an article "There are many ministers who favor favoritism", that is, Suo Etu. Suo Etu was the first to express his position, saying: "The oracle and this, the ministers and others really have no place to be self-contained, and dare not wash their hearts and minds in order to repair it. "
University scholar Mingzhu said: "The sources of internal and external evils are understood by the oracles one by one. If the ministers and workers do not repair the province, even if they can escape the laws of the country, they will not be exempt from heavenly punishment. ”
The Jingshi earthquake was a shake on Suo's throne. Subsequently, the Kangxi Emperor launched another great debate about rumors (details later), although he did not allow it immediately, but his purpose was to deter powerful ministers who were corrupt in the party by opening up his words.
A year later, Suo Etu reluctantly left his post as a senior bachelor who had been for more than ten years. Among them, the role of the pearl is obvious. On August 19, 19, the university scholar Soetu was dismissed due to illness.
The Kangxi Emperor asked Mingzhu: "Is this ticket signed and so on?" "Pearl plays": "The previous paragraph, according to the purpose of Chen Ben in the past. Since the use of troops, the ministers and other public have drawn up votes. ”
The Kangxi Emperor ordered: "According to this vote, it is more excellent, and two votes are still planned to play." "On the twentieth, Mingzhu and others played Suo Ertu again to ask for illness. Emperor Yi "Got it. There are still some changes to its tickets."
On the 21st, university scholars and bachelors took the folding book to play a petition on this matter, and Kangxi said: "What is the cloud?" University scholar Lederhorn and Pearl played: "Here is only a wise tailor." "
Kangxi said: "Replace the ticket signing wholesale." In a few days, "Suo Etu begged for an illness and ordered the Minister of the Interior to go to court." The reason why Kangxi decreed that the Pearl ticket was intended to be "excellent" and later insisted on issuing it with the ticket he changed shows that Mingzhu and Kangxi had different views when evaluating the merits of Suo Etu since the use of the army.
The decree issued by Kangxi was as follows: "Qing Fu is a heavy minister, diligent and skillful." Since the use of troops, Yizan has planned and met the opportunity. The music is earnest, and the words are earnest, and the interior minister is in the upper dynasty, and the intention is adjusted, with the vice affection. ”
The Korean envoy's report to his king also stated that when the report arrived, "the emperor personally met with the empress father Suo Ertu (referring to Suo Etu) and the military department Shangshu (Pearl)", and there was also "the Qing lord (Xuan Ye)... Commissioned to his ministers" and other words.
It can be seen that Kangxi's evaluation at that time was fair, and his dismissal of Suojitu University Scholar was also contradictory in his heart, which was different from Mingzhu's several positive invitations.
Towards the end of the counterinsurgency war, Soetu left the central land and was relieved of his position as a scholar. Although the power of the Pearl during the pacification of San Francisco was greatly expanded, the struggle between the two did not end.