Chapter 31 Chapter 7 Black Kangxi, Black History

There is such a record in the notebook novel: Once, Kangxi took a group of empresses and concubines to catch bastards by the pool.Suddenly a bastard was biting the hook, and when he was pulling the line to catch it, he found that the bastard opened his mouth, spit out the hook, and ran away.One of the concubines was a young girl, she clapped her hands happily and said, "The bastard is gone." At this time, the queen turned her head and smiled at Kangxi.Kangxi thought about it: why is she smiling at me?Did she laugh at me as a bastard?So, since then, the queen has been left out in the cold.This shows that Kangxi is extremely sensitive.

Kangxi has been the emperor all his life, and it can be said that he wants the wind to get the wind, and the rain to get the rain.In his later years, he had a lot of sons, such as elder brother, second elder brother, in short, a lot.At the earliest time, Kangxi planned to let the elder brother succeed him and made him the prince.But no one thought that Kangxi's lifespan was too long. He sat on the throne for sixty years.Who can wait sixty years?So during the sixty years of long waiting, the princes all grew up and began to fight for power and profit.Therefore, Kangxi needs to solve the problem of heirs.

So one day, Kangxi announced a meeting for everyone, saying: I will leave this world sooner or later, let's decide on the future successor now, and you all see who is suitable.As a result, the ministers and many elder brothers unanimously elected the Eighth Prince. At that time Kangxi was in trouble: it turned out that when I was so careless, Lao Ba had already formed his own political power. Everyone knows that there is a saying in history called Junwu jokes, but this sentence is not effective for Kangxi. It can be said that every word Kangxi said is a joke.The result of the election of the eighth prince by the ministers was that the eighth prince was imprisoned, and his supporters were also imprisoned.Some ministers died very badly, such as March, who was nailed to death in prison by six big iron nails.

There is another similar case. Just after Wu Sangui's death, Kangxi issued an order to surrender to Wu Sangui's soldiers. Anyone who surrenders will forget the past. These words have been understood beyond comprehension, who can doubt the emperor's words?So Wu Sangui's generals surrendered one after another.But what is the result of surrender?The leaders of the rebel army were dragged to the downtown market, their wives and daughters were sent to brothels, and the 200,000 soldiers who followed Wu Sangui were all exiled to Siberia. It can be said that throughout his life, Emperor Kangxi lived a happy life of not paying attention to what he said and denying what he promised.It is precisely because what he says doesn't count, that you can't fight him, because you can never be sure whether what he says is true or not.

This is history, but it is not the interpretation of historical facts in the minds of the people. The interpretation in the hearts of the people is this: Kangxi is a wise and mighty emperor, Obai is a traitor, and Wu Sangui is a big traitor. When these three attributives are recorded in history and Kangxi's political position is determined, the whole history is gone, and only empty political symbols are left. But through the series of battles between Kangxi and Obai, Kangxi and Wu Sangui, we can tell us such a law: there is no right or wrong in human nature, and there is only one thing that causes human nature to tend to be evil-power.

Just imagine, if Kangxi wasn't for power, then he would never have done such a frenzied act to Oboi, to his old housekeeper, to his loyal person. But because of the temptation of power, he was able to do it, and he didn't feel any guilt when he did it. In today's words, it was right to eradicate your reactionary group back then, and it is also right to rehabilitate you now, anyway, you are out of luck. What is wrong with this political conception?That is, it does not treat people as human beings, nor does it treat itself as human beings. It reduces everyone to a symbol, not a sentient person.

When we interpret this period of history and look back at this period of history, what we want to say is such a law: only by filtering power can we obtain social rules that are beneficial to us and trends that are beneficial to the development of our human nature.