In order to recruit talents, Kangxi would set up a special section of erudite Hongzi in order to pass a special form of examination and recruit the Confucian scholars of the time.
In fact, this is only a form, the purpose is to attract some of the former dynasty elders who have basically been found by the imperial court and use them for their own use.
At that time, although those dignified former Ming Confucians would not easily accept Kangxi's trick, the imperial court had already issued the documents notifying them to enter Beijing for the examination, and if they did not go, they would be suspected of resisting and disobeying; and if they went, wouldn't they be apostates?
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In this dilemma, some of the great Confucians who were able to learn and write adopted a passive resistance method to solve it, and their attitude was: That is, I was ordered to enter the Beijing examination, but I would never take it seriously, and even took this opportunity to take the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to show the evil spirit of the Han people in my chest. These people really think that way, and that's what they do.
On the first day of March in the eighteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, a total of 143 erudite Hongru recommended by the ministers inside and outside the imperial court all came to the Tiren Pavilion with their own hearts, and some of them may also want to take the opportunity to obtain an official and a half-post, but most of them only came to deal with the story and then leave the land of right and wrong as soon as possible.
The test questions are very simple, there are only two questions, namely "Xuanjie YuhengFu" and "Provincial Cultivation Poems: Twenty Rhymes of Five Words and Arrangements". After the examination, Kangxi personally read the papers, and then handed them to Li Wei, a scholar of the examination officer.
Doolittle, Feng Bo and Ye Fangcai, the head of the Hanlin Academy, read the public review and discussed the candidates for admission. In fact, Kangxi had already instructed in advance that anyone who had already determined that he must be admitted was composing a poem that rhymed, or had made a mistake in his words, and all of them should be accommodated and not calculated.
The reason why this kind of preparedness was to treat these former confucians was that Kangxi had anticipated that those scholars and doctors with real talent and practical learning might cope with this examination in order to refuse to enter the army.
Things did not turn out as Kangxi expected. Mao Qiling of Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province, has such a sentence in his answer sheet: "The sky is tilted to the north, can the refining stone be replenished?" The meaning of this sentence is clear, in fact, it is a mockery of the Great Qing Dynasty taking over the ming dynasty.
When Kangxi saw Mao Qiling's answer, he talked to Feng Bo about this sentence, but Kangxi did not criticize the political meaning of this sentence, but talked about the specific story of Nüwa Supplementing Heaven, and he asked: "Emperor Wa Supplement heavenly affairs believe?" ”
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Feng Bo replied: "The Lord is extravagant, and the ancient books should be available." ”
So Moltke was admitted. A commoner in Wuxi named Yan Shengsun, the grandson of The Ming Dynasty Shangshu Yan Yipeng, only gave a poem on the pretext that he had a disease in his eyes during the examination.
Although he did not have the heart to insert willows, Kangxi usually knew his name, and after reading the file, he specially sent a letter to the cabinet ministers, saying that it was not possible to compile the history of the Ming Dynasty without this person, so Yan Shengsun was hired as a second class.
Kangxi's sincere request for talent did have a good effect. After Yan Shengsun served as the official of the Japanese Lecture, he changed his arrogant attitude in the past, and as long as it was within his duties, he conscientiously completed it, in order to repay Kangxi Xuanye's kindness.
The Han scholar-doctors who were deposed in the "Jiangnan Song Sale Case" in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi were re-employed this time through the erudite Hongruke, among whom there were Wang Liu from Suzhou, Jiangsu, and Qin Songling from Wuxi.
These people who were admitted not only participated in the revision of history, but also many people were elected as Japanese lecturers, such as Tang Bin, Qin Songling, Cao He, Zhu Yizun, Yan Shengsun, Pan Lai, and others.
In November of the twelfth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Wu Sangui rebelled.
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In order to unite all the forces that could be united and consolidate the strength of the Qing army, Kangxi strengthened the management and control of the green battalions in various provinces, and he paid special attention to the Shaanxi and Gansu green banners, which were known for their bravery and good fighting.
He issued an edict to the governor of Shaanxi, Ha Zhan, the viceroy Daniel Zhang, Wang Fuchen, and others: You are all trusted ministers, just like the right and left arm of the shaanxi, defending the border, appeasing and commanding the local army and people, it is all up to you. If you receive a forged letter from Wu Sangui, please send it to the imperial court.
Wang Fuchen, the viceroy of Shaanxi, gave Wu Sangui the reverse letter to his son Wang Jizhen and asked him to take it to the capital to play the emperor as a sign of allegiance.
Kangxi praised Wang Fuchen for this move, saying that he insisted on the festival of his subjects, conferred the title of third-class viscount, and conferred on his son, The Shaoqing of Dali Temple.
Later, due to the increasingly unfavorable situation for the Qing army, Wu Sangui was also trying his best to win over the strength of the Green Battalion, and in order to prevent a recurrence of incidents similar to the Sichuan rebellion, Kangxi specially sent Mo Luo to Shaanxi, and his authority was to "patrol the town below the town and listen to the moderation".
Of course, the Viceroy was also under Molo's surveillance control, but he did a terrible thing that backfired.
Although Kangxi was worried about the Green Flag generals betraying Wu Sangui, he still felt more comfort and care for them in action, while Mo Luo was not, and only suspected and discriminated against the lowest-ranking Han Green Flag officers and soldiers, but did not have a little consideration and trust, resulting in a tense relationship between him and Wang Fuchen.
Militarily, Mo Luo commanded indiscriminately, and he ordered the newly recruited Green Battalion soldiers to march into Sichuan, while Wang Fuchen advised Mo Luo: "The recruited people cannot be trusted", and it is best not to lead them into Sichuan. Mo Luo ignored it and transferred Wang Fuchen's two thousand good horses, leaving him with some tired horses, which was equivalent to killing Wang Fuchen.
This made Kangxi also feel that something was wrong, so he was urgently sent to the next edict, saying: "We must not rashly advance our troops, and there will be changes in the advance." ”
On December 4, when Mo Luo led his army to Ningqiang, Shaanxi, Wang Fuchen did indeed stage a rebellion under the pretext of ma weakness and lack of strength, and killed Jing Luo Moluo.
Wang Fuchen
As we have talked about, Kangxi regarded Wu Sangui as his main enemy, while his main focus on other rebellions was to appease other rebellions. After Wang Fuchen rebelled, Kangxi hurriedly ordered the Governor of Shaanxi to appease him, and then sent his son Wang Jizhen to declare the sincerity of the imperial court and not to blame him for his past actions.
On December 23, Kangxi issued another special edict stating: "What is the sin of Yu'er? This shows that he not only does not take Wang Fuchen as an exaggeration, but also dares to take responsibility for himself.
He also said, "Now that the situation has changed suddenly, it is imperative that you should be humbled and not condemned." "However, at this point, it is not an easy task to get Wang Fuchen to take the reins of Mari.
At this time, Wang Fuchen had already accepted the seal of the Pingyuan General and the seal of the Governor of Shaanxi East Road, which had been awarded by Wu Sangui, and began to distribute reverse books and pseudo-books on behalf of Wu Sangui, causing the Shaanxi-Gansu region to defect one after another.
Kangxi also had to mobilize his men and horses to pacify. It was not until June of the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty that Wang Fuchen led his troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and Guyuan and Qingyang also surrendered to the imperial court. At this point, Kangxi still had no intention of rebuking Wang Fuchen, and he knew that Wang Fuchen's once defection was largely caused by his own misuse.
Kangxi was very pleased with his return, restored Wang Fuchen to his original official position, and was given the title of Prince Taibao, promoted to the rank of General of Jingkou, and ordered him to make meritorious atonement for his sins, almost completely forgetting his previous suspicions. It can be seen that kangxi, who was twenty-three years old at this time, really had a very good set of personnel.
He knows how to treat some rebellious people differently, as long as the other party is not sincerely against himself in his heart, he will unite them, which is usually the case, especially when the situation is unfavorable to his own side, which is of course very correct.
In the counterinsurgency war, Kangxi never tolerated those who saw the wind and steered the helm. He once declared that those who surrendered and rebelled should be dealt with severely.
For example, Zu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Gaozhou in Guangdong, once surrendered to the imperial court, and then defected to Wu Sangui in March of the seventeenth year, and Kangxi immediately told the military department: Zu Zeqing's father and son brothers have always enjoyed the preferential treatment of the state, and the previous defection of Wu Sangui was forced to do so, and he had no choice but to forgive, and when he repeated the defection this time, he fully understood that he was indeed bent on thieves, considering that zu rebelled against the graveyard, the state law was intolerable, and he was not allowed to be appeased in the future, nor did he accept his surrender, and the military department should secretly inform all the great generals. The general and the governor and the town officials shall carry out this intention.
In August, the officers and soldiers searched the mountain in several ways, captured the father and son of the Zu clan, and in February of the eighteenth year, "Ju Lingchi was executed", and the remaining sons and family members "did not enter the official".
Xiao Bian believes that Kangxi Xuanye's ability to discriminate against former Qing Dynasty generals who committed treacherous acts is actually a simple dialectical materialist concept at work, and it is precisely because of this quality that he has made his governance of the country orderly, so that the four parties can be ruled by chaos and rule, and the people of the world have been happy since then.