Chapter 26 Chapter 2 Don't Sit on Broken Chairs

The eradication of Obai was not planned by Kangxi, but by Xiaozhuang. In fact, Kangxi ascended the throne at the age of eight, and when he eradicated Oboi at the age of sixteen, Kangxi did not have such autonomy.He couldn't do it, and he didn't dare to do it.Before eradicating Oboi, Xiaozhuang called Kangxi, had a one-night conversation, and set up a sinister trap the next day. What trap?Invite Obai to discuss the matter.When he invited Oboi, Xiaozhuang carefully made a hidden weapon - a strange chair.Empress Xiaozhuang saw off the legs of a good chair, and then put them back together. If such a chair is sitting upright, the chair is very stable, but if the body is slightly tilted, the chair will fall, and people will follow. fell to the ground.This tampered chair was placed in the middle of the room.Then Kangxi put another teacup in the fire and burned it for a long time, and the teacup became hot and hot.

When Obai came in, Kangxi asked him to sit down first.Because Oboi thought he was a veteran of Gu Ming, he sat on the chair in the middle of the room carelessly.At this time, the little eunuch served tea, Oboi stretched out his hand to take the teacup, and his hands were blistered by the scalding teacup, and Oboi threw the teacup on the ground reflexively in pain.Kangxi pretended not to know anything, looked at Ao Bai, showing a very surprised look.And Oboi didn't think that the teacup was burnt in the fire, he just felt that his nerves seemed to suddenly lose control, and he dropped the teacup in front of the emperor, so he instinctively bent down to pick up the teacup.As soon as he bent down, the leg of the special chair under his buttocks broke, and Oboi fell to the ground.At this moment, a group of eunuchs rushed out, stepped forward and restrained Oboi, and tied him up.

This is the entire historical scene of Kangxi's eradication of Obai, and it is also the first political achievement of Kangxi's ruling. In the history of Qing Dynasty and all other history books, it is written like this: Kangxi young man was wise and martial, and he eradicated the powerful minister and old Oboi. But all the history books avoid this situation: Oboi was locked at home and died silently and depressed. More than ten years later, all Oboi’s sons came out to be officials. He restored his reputation and gave Oboi a new title, Chao Wu Gong.In the history of China, only two people have received the highest title of generals, one is Yue Fei, and the other is Obai.In other words, we can understand that Cheng Yongzheng wanted to tell us through this incident that Obai was more wronged than Yue Fei.

So if he was wronged, why did Kangxi eradicate him?Later, why did Yongzheng rehabilitate him and give him the same title as Yue Fei?Also, why do our history books avoid this question? To answer these questions, we might as well take Kangxi and Oboi as opponents first to see what the historical panorama looked like at that time.