February River Collection: Kangxi the Great Emperor (Complete 4 Volumes)

Author: February River
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book introduces that Kangxi ascended to the throne at the age of eight, following the of Shunzhi, with four ministers—Soni, Suksaha, Ebilun, and Ebilai—as his advisors. Among them, Ebilai was arrogant and tyrannical. After the death of the elderly minister Soni, he allied with Ebilun and executed Suksaha, who refused to cooperate with him, consolidating his control over the court. He often roared in the Golden Hall, forcing Kangxi to comply with his wishes.
At the age of fourteen, Kangxi took power in person, but Ebilai not only refused to return power to the emperor but also formed cliques, rallying his loyalists to plot the assassination of the emperor and seize the throne. Kangxi was intelligent and mature from a young age. On one hand, he secretly took the failed scholar Wu Ciyou, a talented Jiangnan literati, as his teacher and diligently studied the governance experiences of past emperors. On the other hand, he took personal guard Wei Dongting as the core, selecting and training over a dozen young and strong men under the guise of practicing martial arts, preparing to eliminate the greatest in his vicinity at the right moment.