Chapter 728: Xuan Ye 2
Kangxi, the old guy, has been squatting on the throne for sixty-one years, and he is comfortable, but his son is still waiting to take over, and the prince has waited for thirty-three years, waiting for him to become insane and schizophrenic. But you can't blame Kangxi, you must know that Kangxi is a famous Ming Jun in history.
There is neither a bright monarch nor a faint monarch in this world, and whether the monarch is faint or bright depends entirely on the cognitive concepts of the people. In this world, there is the idea of the emperor first, and then there is the autocracy of the emperor; and the idea of the emperor is first of all a kind of group cognition, if the group racks its brains to find an emperor to enslave itself, even if it is digging three feet into the ground, the group will dig out a tyrant for itself to enjoy.
When Kangxi was in power, there was a Han man named Hua Yixiang, who was the second Jinshi in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, which was a little well-known. One day he followed Kangxi and traveled to Xiangshan happily and came to a temple. Emperor Kangxi stopped the guard of honor, entered the temple, and bowed to the Buddha statue, and the monks in the temple sat upright on the futon, looking at the nose and the nose, and sitting silently.
While meditating, Hua Yixiang suddenly swooped out, holding a big wooden stick, and couldn't help but say, according to the monk's bald skull, it was a smash, until the monk screamed, covering his head full of blood and asked angrily: "Why are you beating me?"
I only heard Hua Yixiang screaming: "What are you? The emperor bows down to you, and you dare to sit still and be so lawless?"
The monk was terrified and said angrily: "The emperor worships the Buddha, not me, what does it have to do with me?"
Hua Yixiang shouted loudly: "Lao Tzu is the Buddha!"
This passage really broke the Han nation's strong imperial ideology and slave complex, his knees were weak, and when he saw power, he kowtowed, and he kowtowed, what does it have to do with others? But this Hua Yixiang not only strictly demanded himself to be a slave, but also forced others to be slaves as well, and he even wanted to force the Buddha of the West Heaven to be a slave with him. With such a slave and charming person, it is impossible for Kangxi to be a Mingjun even if he wants to be a gentleman.
In short, the Jurchens entered the Central Plains, where the slave complex was serious, and they really came to the right place, in this world with distorted concepts, Kangxi had some play. Speaking of Kangxi, although he has long lived up to the hope of Mingjun, in fact, his heart is smaller than the eye of a needle, and he will take revenge.
When Kangxi was old, his teeth were about to fall out, and at that time he had no porcelain teeth or dentures, so he had to let his mouth deflate like an old lady. One day, the old man Kangxi pursed his mouth and took a group of young and beautiful concubines to fish in the flower pond for fun. A concubine caught a turtle, just raised the rod, but the turtle was very smart, opened its mouth and spit out the hook, turned around and swam into the water and escaped. The concubine was frightened and shouted, "One of the eight kings ran away!"
The queen is a diligent thinker, she pondered: "Maybe this Wang Ba has no front teeth, so he can't bite the hook......"
Speaking of which, the concubine took advantage of the queen's focus on thinking, and hurriedly turned her head to Kangxi and smiled sweetly, hoping to leave a good impression, and when the time comes, she will be fortunate to be the only old man in the palace.
never thought that the concubine was so amorous, but it angered Kangxi. He thought that the queen said that Wang Ba had no front teeth, which was an unintentional remark, but the concubine turned her head and smiled at him, didn't this mean that he Kangxi was an old Wang Ba without front teeth?
The ancients said that the dragon has reverse scales, and the king's heart is unpredictable, and it is said that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, which means that an emperor like Kangxi is too difficult to wait. He didn't know what the stimulus was, and he was so psychologically sensitive. If you don't say the king, he suspects you of muttering to him. This kind of thing rests on ordinary people, it is called suspicion, and you should go to the doctor; but this happened to a Ming Jun, and it is clear that the Chinese demand standards for Ming Jun, which is really a bit too low.
In addition to being extremely sensitive, Kangxi also has a hobby, that is, he likes to make trouble. Once, Kangxi suddenly found Yang Yizhai, the chief soldier of Gubeikou, and ordered him to recite "University" on the spot, but poor Yang Yizhai didn't know what kind of evil wind Kangxi was smoking, so he had to bite the bullet and blindly back, and after reciting half of it, he couldn't memorize it: "Your Majesty, the minister forgot." ”
As soon as he heard that Yang Yizhai had forgotten, Kangxi was overjoyed: "This is a text memorized by a child, why did you forget it?"
Yang Yizhai said: "I'm too busy with work......" said in his heart: "The bastard only recites children's texts every day?"
I heard Kangxi say: "No matter how busy you are with work, can you still be busy with me? You see me reciting a ...... for you."
He stood in front of Yang Yizhai, finished reciting "University" in one breath, and then said triumphantly: "How?"
Yang Yizhai realized at this time, it turned out that Kangxi was extremely bored and had nothing to do, and wanted to find someone to sing praises to him, so he immediately sang and said: "Your Majesty, you are a genius in the sky, how can I compare." Kangxi was overjoyed.
Just because he can memorize a text that children can memorize, Kangxi is happy to be like this, which shows that this person is more innocent and superficial. This kind of person naturally likes to show off, and he is a master of causing trouble. As soon as he hears that someone is more powerful, he will compete with the other party, not to mention that he is a genius, he will be endless.
Another incident is that when Kangxi was on his southern tour, the magistrate came out to greet him, pointed to a representative of the people in his entourage and said: "This person, called Wu Tingzhen, is very smart, and he is a talented man in our Wuzhong." ”
Kangxi heard this: "What? Who dares to be smarter than me? Let the horse come." ”
He stretched out his hand to beckon Wu Tingzhen to come over: "Are you a talented man in Wuzhong? Not bragging? Since you are a talented man, you will immediately write a poem, and you can only use Jiang Yun in the order." ”
The head of the people's representative Wu Dinh Ching suddenly became big, and he had to rack his brains: "The dragon boat is moving the flag, and the Holy Lord is patrolling the party to the ...... of Vietnam."
As soon as he said two sentences, Kangxi interrupted his poem: "It's not to Yuebang, it's already to Wujiang...... You come on. ”
Wu Tingzhen was angry in his heart, and said in his heart What kind of person is this Kangxi, saying that there is something wrong with you going to Yuebang, you still have to get it to Wujiang, gritted his teeth and said: "The people care about the forgotten place, and the courtiers spread the word to Wujiang." ”
In this way, the four lines of poetry came back at once, and Kangxi smiled: "It's really a talent in Wuzhong, there is a set of ......"
In short, Kangxi is a person, he just likes to find trouble with others and give others problems. It was this extraordinary talent that led him to the rank of one of the few Ming monarchs in China. And his character is precisely part of his imperial strategy.
A comparison of the second emperor of the Qing Empire, Huang Taiji, the third emperor Shunzhi, and the fourth emperor Kangxi will reveal a strange phenomenon. This phenomenon is that when the second emperor Huang Taiji was in power, he practiced collective leadership, and the four giants of the leadership team sat side by side, and Huang Taiji took great pains to defeat the other three giants.
When it came to the third emperor Shunzhi, the situation was even more dangerous, if it weren't for Ao Bai and other retainers who fought for their lives, and dared to use knives with Dolgon at the meeting of princes and ministers, it would definitely be unknown who would choose the emperor. But when it was Kangxi's turn, he didn't hear that anyone had made any trouble, and the election of Kangxi was completely due to the two people of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and the foreign devil Tang Ruowang behind closed doors, and the matter was decided.
Why did Kangxi ascend the throne so smoothly, and why was it so difficult for Huang Taiji and Shunzhi to ascend the throne?
This problem originated with the old Khan king Nurhachi. When Nurhachi was alive, although he liked to play Yiyantang, he still understood the right and wrong in his heart, and knew that collective leadership was more in line with human nature and more sustainable development, so he left a will, requiring that after his death, establish a parliamentary system of eight and shubele and implement collective leadership. It is precisely because of such a collective leader that Huang Taiji is not happy but not enjoyable, so he painstakingly and racked his brains, and finally overthrew this leadership group and established a system of responsibility for the head of his one-man show.
However, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty already had a tradition of collective leadership, this tradition will always be used in writing. In fact, it was precisely because of the existence of the leadership system of the Council of Ministers that prevented Dolgon from winning the throne, and finally this black fruit fell on the head of the depressed young Shunzhi.
What happened next was that in order to defeat the Shunzhi interest group, Dolgon deliberately and unscrupulously abolished the Council of Ministers of the Parliamentary Princes, which was equivalent to dissolving the parliament and implementing Dolgon's complete dictatorship, and he could do whatever he wanted. But before Dorgon could do anything, he died. The result was the imperial soil he had worked so hard to cultivate, which fertilized Kangxi.
It is precisely because the interest groups have been broken by Dolgon that once there is a vacuum in power, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang will sit back and enjoy it. She can arrange her favorite little doll to be the emperor as she pleases, not to mention that she set up Kangxi, even if she sets up a dog as the emperor, no one will raise any objections, because no one still has the right to put forward opinions.
The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was playing with her own, and although Shunzhi was dead, he was not idle, and before he died, he left his son with four major ministers, including Aobai, which to some extent was equivalent to restoring the parliament and establishing a rational management team, the foundation of the empire, which became more solid.
From now on, Kangxi can be like his father Shunzhi, tossing in and out of the palace by him, no matter how tossing method, the power will not leak out a little bit. But even so, there is still a new crisis brewing in the royal family, which can be summed up in one sentence, how to avoid letting Kangxi follow his father's old path?
Kangxi, like his father Shunzhi, was still being carried to the dragon chair when he was still breastfeeding and wetting the bed, and the honor of the throne definitely means a kind of enjoyment for others, and they can't ask for it. But for Kangxi and Shunzhi, this emperor is too boring, which is equivalent to being forced by others to him. What a delicious thing, it's not cool to stuff it in your mouth, Shunzhi is a lesson from the past, it is precisely because all this came too easily, and there was a lack of an indispensable struggle process, and as a result, he was depressed to death.
For example, the colorful butterfly moth, when it ushers in the wings of life, it has to break out of the cocoon, and the weak chrysalis struggles hard from the hard cocoon shell, struggling to squeeze out little by little. If someone watches the process of the moth breaking out of the cocoon so hard, and tears the cocoon shell for the moth on the side, then the moth will be miserable. It flies out, but it doesn't fly high, it doesn't fly fast, it doesn't have any survivability, even if a breeze blows, it will blow and crash into the wall, crashing to death.
Shunzhi, the third emperor of the Qing Empire, was such a moth that crashed to death on the wall. Because he has not struggled or tempered, when he faces the problems of life, he does not have any courage and ability to fight against it, and he kicks his legs and dies in depression, which is Shunzhi's luck. If he hadn't died, then he would definitely have become a tyrant in a state of serious psychological distortion, and such examples abound in history.
Now the serious problem in front of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is how to make Kangxi, an untempered moth, mature and grow up quickly, and become a person instead of another failure.
It can be believed that the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang must have wondered in her heart every day about Shunzhi's intransigence: "What is going on with this guy? I have worked so hard to help him become an emperor, but he himself does not take it seriously at all, and he clamoves every day to become a monk, how can a monk have a comfortable life as an emperor? Look at the monk in the Xiangshan Temple, when he saw the emperor, because he did not kowtow, he was brutally beaten by the Han man named Hua Yixiang. What's going on? What's going on?"
On a moonlit and windy night, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was independent in the atrium, thinking about this problem. At first, she really didn't understand the reason, and if she did, Shunzhi would certainly not be clamoring to become a monk. But pondering and pondering, the old lady didn't do anything else in her life, so she pondered such a problem, coupled with the foreign devil Tang Ruowang from the West reminding on the side, finally one day, the old lady thought about it: "Oh, it turns out that this is the case, I said ......"
The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang found that if you want to avoid Kangxi from taking the old road of Shunzhi again, then you must consider giving Kangxi a life topic and letting him complete it independently.