Today we want to talk about a very wonderful character in the "Kangxi Dynasty", which makes Kangxi love hopeless and hateful, he is one of Kangxi's most important three great ministers: Yao Qisheng, and the other two are Li Guangdi and Zhou Peigong.
The acquaintance of Kangxi and Yao Qisheng originated from Zhou Peigong, when Zhou Peigong was thrown to the remote north by Kangxi because of his heavy troops, when he was dying, he recommended Yao Qisheng to Kangxi, saying that Yao Qisheng could help Kangxi recover Taiwan, and Yao Qisheng finally lived up to his expectations to help Kangxi recover Taiwan, but it was such a world wizard, Kangxi said bluntly: In his heart, he has killed him a thousand times, why is this?
Yao Qisheng was born in 1624, his ancestral home is Zhejiang Huiji, Yao Qisheng has a heroic spirit since he was a child, not only righteous and magnificent, but also has a high political insight and military command ability, but Yao Qisheng's official is different from others, others are getting bigger and bigger, his official is getting smaller and smaller, to what extent? In the end, he had to raise horses, the main reason was his poisonous mouth, and his mouth was unobstructed.
Let's first talk about Yao Qisheng's personality, a sentence is too clear, joining the imperial court is not for officials or wealth, how to understand this sentence? That is to say, now it is the world of the Great Qing, no matter how useless he struggles, he knows in his heart the various drawbacks of the Great Qing, and he feels that the Manchus are not worthy of the way of Kong Meng, let alone the Forbidden City, to put it more directly, that is, Yao Qisheng has never sincerely submitted to the imperial court, this is actually a contempt for the Manchu imperial power, Kangxi has too much hatred for Yao Qisheng, not only contempt for the officials of the imperial court, ridicule the relatives of the emperor and the state, preferring to feed horses in the Gobi, rather than enter the court as an official, just like Kangxi said, he is a deadman of the Han dynasty, Looking down on the Manchu Qing of the horse machete.
When Kangxi first met Yao Qisheng, in fact, he saw Yao Qisheng thoroughly, Yao Qisheng also understood Kangxi, Li Dequan said: "Yao Qisheng and Kangxi have a place very similar, that is, that stubbornness, in addition, Yao Qisheng is very upright, does not form parties for personal gain, nor does he collude with people", even so, Kangxi did not accept Yao Qisheng, you think, some characteristics of a person are similar to the emperor, which is doomed to this person's bad end, of course, Yao Qisheng is still a current affairs person for Junjie, he does not dare to collide with Kangxi like Zhou Peigong, Unlike Li Guangdi, who was narrow-minded, Kangxi used his own method to scold Yao Qisheng, and this scolding also made Yao Qisheng happy, and the more Kangxi scolded him, the more comfortable he was.
Although Yao Qisheng admired Kangxi but looked down on him from the bottom of his heart, you know, Yao Qisheng represents a kind of intellectual sobriety, to say that it is not good to say is to meet the contempt and disgust of satisfying the imperial power, coupled with Yao Qisheng's clever tongue and sneering at the officials of the imperial court, challenging Kangxi's bottom line again and again, in the play When Kangxi gave Yao Qisheng a title, Yao Qisheng excitedly shouted "Emperor", Kangxi said with a disdainful face: "Do you want to resist the will", the small friends who have seen this plot can definitely feel that Kangxi at this time is very helpless, both like and angry Later, in order to kill Yao Qisheng's pride, Kangxi locked him up in a cell, and even did not allow anyone to approach him and talk to him, which drove Yao Qisheng crazy, and he asked Kangxi for books to read every day, and later Kangxi summoned Yao Qisheng on his way back to Beijing, and told him that there were two things in his life that he never gave away, one was a woman, and the second was the book he had read, and then Kangxi gave Yao Qisheng the "Shilin Anon" and told him that this book had not yet been read, you take it and read it.
Yao Qisheng's "from the Tao does not follow the king" of the Qingjie atmosphere, although very respected by posterity, but for the ruler of kangxi is not a very smooth thing, for example, your company has a new employee, all aspects of talent are very prominent, but also made a great contribution to the company, but is not obedient to the boss, let alone in the 21st century, even the ancient feudal dictatorship can not tolerate.
When recovering Taiwan, Yao Qisheng and Shi Lang did their best, but after Taiwan was successfully recovered, Shi Lang monopolized the credit, and Shi Lang not only did not appreciate it after being reused by Kangxi, but also often made small reports in front of Kangxi.
There are ten thousand ways for Yao Qisheng Kangxi to make him disappear, but Kangxi is not convinced, why? It is the stubbornness we said before, Kangxi not only wants Yao Qisheng to convince him both from the heart and body, in addition to Yao Qisheng Kangxi, he also wants thousands of intellectuals behind him to know that he is the most capable and courageous generation of Ming Jun, he hopes that the talented people in the world will be used by him, but this matter is very difficult, why? Just like Confucius said: Yidi has a king, not as good as the death of Zhuxia. Traditional Chinese culture has always respected Huaxia and rejected other ethnic cultures, so those thousands of intellectuals looked at Kangxi even more coldly, because they knew that the Manchus only conquered China by sharp blades, but culturally, they never broke through the defense line of the Han people, some questioned his unworthiness to have this great river and mountain, and some questioned his ability, saying that it was because they were Manchus who did not deserve to learn The philosophy of Confucius and Meng.
This is the fundamental reason why Kangxi hated Yao Qisheng and could not destroy him, because Yao Qisheng represented the views of tens of millions of Han intellectuals, so how could Kangxi not hate such a person? If you kill him, you will be saddled with the name of the ancients, and you will be able to kill Yao Qisheng, and there are thousands of "Yao Qisheng", let alone kill their Han Chinese thoughts. If he didn't kill, all kinds of gossip would follow, so Kangxi loved and hated Yao Qisheng, which was really helpless.
What about Yao Qisheng's ending? As soon as Taiwan was recovered in the Kangxi Dynasty, Yao Qisheng resigned. Yao Qisheng has this idea of retreating from the rapids is also the main reason why he was able to die well, in the play Kangxi said: With Yao Qisheng's merits, to reward do not know what to reward, to know that this sentence is very terrible, simply put, the credit is too big, there is nothing to reward, only the throne, so many people in history can not end well after making great contributions, so Yao Qisheng resigned as the right choice.
Another reason is the example of Zhou Peigong, Zhou Peigong was degraded because of his military power, of course, the most important thing is that Kangxi did not trust the Han people, but what Kangxi did not expect was that Zhou Peigong was contributing to the Qing Dynasty until his death, he spent ten years to draw the most complete territory map of the Qing Dynasty, this matter is also ashamed in Kangxi's heart, he allowed Yao Qisheng to tell the old man to return to his hometown is also to repay Zhou Peigong's kindness.