If you want to talk about Kangxi, let's introduce it first.

Aixinjue Luo Xuanye, the third son of Emperor Shunzhi, his mother is Empress Tong Jiashi of Xiaokangzhang, the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Xuan Ye ascended the throne at the age of eight, pro-government at the age of fourteen, and at the age of sixteen, he eliminated the ministers and ministers, and militarily leveled the three feudatories, collected Taiwan, drove out Tsarist Russia, conquered Dzungaria, and founded the "Duolun Alliance" alliance Mongolia.

As mentioned earlier, Kangxi has done a lot of things that are very beneficial to the people, as long as he, the emperor, can see and hear, he wants to do his best. If he doesn't do it properly or thoroughly, you can't blame him, or you can't blame him entirely.

As long as conditions permit, the emperors of ancient China will inevitably tend to the centralization of monarchy, and Kangxi can not be an exception, we can not be demanding how to improve his measures in the centralization, let alone how to be democratic, because our own cognition of the word democracy comes from the democratic politics of the Western bourgeoisie, especially with Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu and others, when Kangxi died, there were few constitutional monarchies in the world.

We can't ask Kangxi how to be democratic, just as we can't ask why the sage Confucius couldn't fly a plane.

First of all, since the Ming Dynasty, the malpractices and bad habits of Chinese officialdom have been deep, especially the influence of the Ming Dynasty bureaucracy led by the Donglin Party of the Wanli Dynasty.

Secondly, whether it is the top or the bottom of the officials, in fact, it is not the emperor who wants them to be corrupt and prey on the people, which cannot be blamed on him.

But we should note that these officials were selected by him, and after all, they were used by him.

Kangxi's personality is gentle, especially for the importance of the word "love". Forgiveness is a virtue, but as an emperor, you should not be lenient again and again, which will only make the officialdom that originally accumulated disadvantages more corrupt, and the feudal society that originally had no rule of law can only hope for the rule of man, and if this "person" does not govern, the country, especially the officialdom, will have no discipline.

Kangxi's biggest favorite can be said to be the pearl.

Mingzhu served as a guard in the palace when he was young, and was very close to Kangxi (older than Kangxi), and then rose to the head of the Internal Affairs Office, the bachelor of the Hongwen Academy, the secretary of the criminal department, and the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Palace.

At that time, Wu Sangui asked for the withdrawal of the feudal domain in order to test Kangxi's holy will, and Suo Etu advocated staying in the domain, Mingzhu saw Kangxi's thoughts, which was in line with Kangxi's and advocated the withdrawal of the feudal domain. From then on, Kangxi liked Mingzhu even more, and in the sixteenth year of Kangxi, he was promoted to a scholar of Wuyingdian University.

At this time, Suo Etu was a scholar of the Baohe Palace, and in the campaign against Wu Sangui, he accumulated meritorious service and strategically held the position of chief of staff (popular saying, because the Qing Dynasty did not have a chief of staff). Mingzhu excluded him and forced him to resign in August of the 19th year of Kangxi. Kangxi reappointed Suo Etu as the "Minister of the Interior" and "Minister of Parliament", Kangxi made him the "Minister of the Interior of the Guard" in the 25th year of Kangxi, and in the 28th year of Kangxi, he handled diplomacy with Russia and signed the "Treaty of Nebuchu".

After Suo Etu was squeezed out of the cabinet, Mingzhu was simply a monopoly on power, and he was a scholar of Wuyingdian until the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi, when he was impeached and removed from power by the imperial history.

Mingzhu has a Yu Guozhu under him, and he is his biggest lackey.

The imperial history impeached and said that as long as there were vacancies in the positions of governor, governor, political envoy, and envoy, Mingzhu and Yu Guozhu, as well as other private individuals, would "turn to bribes, and they would stop after satisfying their desires." Mingzhu's property is really piled up like a mountain.

Mingzhu not only "sells short", but also adopts the means of clamping down on the speech officials. The so-called speech officials, that is, the Metropolitan Procuratorate's Zuodu Imperial History's subordinate officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and engineering six departments of the "Giving Affairs", and the "Supervision of the Imperial History" of each province, as well as the Imperial History of Patrol Salt, the Imperial History of Patrol, and the Imperial History of Patrol Jingtong Warehouse. As long as it is a newly appointed official, he must come to Mingzhu to visit, called a visit, which is actually a "contract", saying that any recital to the emperor in the future must be read by Mingzhu first.

Mingzhu is such a big crime, it is an absolute capital crime in any dynasty, and Kangxi just removed him from the position of a scholar, saying "I can't bear to add to the crime of the minister", not long after, Mingzhu was actually promoted to "Minister of the Interior", and he still put it by his side, this style of "evil and can't go" can not be said to be a major shortcoming of him.

Yu Guozhu is a villain, when Mingzhu was deposed, he was also dismissed, he took his wealth to Jiangning (Nanjing), built a mansion, did business, and looked shameless. After being impeached by a person, Kangxi ordered him to be expelled from Jiangning and returned to his hometown, but Kangxi did not pursue the stolen money he was greedy for.

Another villain is Xu Qianxue, who was appreciated by Mingzhu as the imperial history of the left capital and the book of the criminal department. At this time, in the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi, Zhang Wang, the governor of Huguang, committed a corruption case and was sent to Beijing for trial, and the first confession was this Xu Qianxue, and Kangxi only allowed him to resign, but retained the "chief affairs of the collar and repair", responsible for the revision of some Qing history.

In the 29th year of Kangxi, Xu Sanli, the deputy capital of the left vice-capital, impeached Xu Qianxue and said that during the time when he was repairing books, he "took the name of repairing books, entered and exited the forbidden court, and Gao Shiqi was the inside and outside, the prices were boiling, and he was recruiting power and accepting bribes." Kangxi presided over the "ministerial meeting", thinking that there was no evidence for what Xu Sanli said, and scolded Xu Sanli.

Xu Qianxue, either out of weakness or out of shame, asked Kangxi for instructions, left Beijing, and continued to recruit power and bribes after returning to his hometown. His son Xu Shumin received the silver from Jiading Zhixian County and was confessed, and the case went to Kangxi's side, but Kangxi exempted Xu Qianxue, who was supposed to be hanged and hanged, from hanging, and let the fine be in a hurry.

and Xu Shumin accepted bribes from Jiading Zhixian together, and there was also a person named Wang Hongxu, who was also a member of the Mingzhu Party, and was awarded the title of Zuodu Imperial History in the 26th year of Kangxi as a "Bangyan". And Wang Hongxu's bribery, Kangxi is just chasing dirty silver. In the thirty-third year of Kangxi, Wang Hongxu was still reused, and later this bribe-taking thing was still able to do the book of the household department and manage the money. Later, because he suggested that the eighth elder brother Yinxi be the prince, he was dismissed from office. Later, Wang Hongxu wrote Wan Sitong's Ming history by himself, and Kangxi asked him to edit the "Provincial Grand Ceremony".

Kangxi likes literati, but some like literati too much, and especially likes a few literati who have no line, he should really read the recital of Sun Jiagan of the Qianlong Dynasty later, "The villain and the gentleman retreat, without it, use talent instead of virtue, so also." The virtuous person is the only one who is a gentleman, and the gentleman and the villain are together, and the villain wins. Kangxi really doesn't understand this truth, or what he does doesn't understand this truth.

The most incompetent is Gao Shiqi, who was originally a showman, because he wrote well, he was used by Kangxi as the "South Study Offering", and was specially awarded the "Additional Hanlin Academy", and was finally promoted to the official Shaozhan of the Hanlin Academy. Together with Wang Hongxu, he collected protection money from officials at all levels in the governors, provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties below, called "peace money", to ensure that they would not speak ill of them in front of the emperor.

As a result, the original poor sour show became a rich man, with more than 400,000 taels of belongings in Beijing, and also bought 1,000 hectares of fertile land in his hometown Hangzhou, and built a large garden next to the West Lake.

Later, he was impeached by the imperial history and demanded that he be sentenced to Ming Zheng, and Kangxi was only dismissed from office in a hurry.

Kangxi is affectionate, but such affection is really rare in the emperors in history, maybe when he passed on the throne to Yongzheng, he really said "Please be kind to your brothers, don't kill them unless necessary".