Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 1005 Yao Qisheng

In the 18th year of Kangxi, Liu Guoxuan, Wu Shu, He You and others occupied Ouxitou of Guotang and planned to destroy Jiangdong Bridge to capture Changtai.

Yao Qisheng teamed up with Laita, Yang Jie and governor Wu Xingzuo to pursue and annihilate Zheng Jin's army. More than 400 officials and more than 14000 soldiers were successively recruited and surrendered.

In May, Liu Guoxuan, Wu Shu and others led more than [-] people to seize Jiangdong Bridge and Liushanzhai. Yao Qisheng defeated them with Laita and Shi Tiaosheng, and killed more than a thousand enemies at Taiping Bridge and Chaogou.

In February of the 19th year of Kangxi, Yao Qisheng, together with Laita, Yang Jie, and Shi Tiaosheng, attacked Haicheng County. Admiral Wan Zhengse conquered Haitan. 19 village.

In addition, troops were sent across the sea to capture Jinmen and Xiamen, and the puppet generals Zhu Tiangui and Yang Biao were recruited.Xu restored the county merits of Changtai and other counties, and entered the Shangshu of the Ministry of War and the Prince Taibao.

Just as Yao Qisheng was ushering in the pinnacle of his life, some of his actions also aroused the dissatisfaction of the courtiers.

Xu Yuanwen, who was the censor of Zuodu at the time, impeached Yao Qisheng, saying that he "has made a lot of noise about his filthy achievements, and he fought alone in the army, so he took military merits, took false words as facts, and took his own merits as his own."

Xu Yuanwen is impeaching Yao Qisheng for false rewards, embezzling other people's property and taking it as his own, and then using it as capital for military exploits.

Because Yao Qisheng was just a low-level criminal official who had repeatedly fled and was dismissed before he made his fortune. More than 3000 people).

In addition, Xu Yuanwen also accused Yao Qisheng of corrupting his private life, demolishing residential buildings, having thousands of servants, and countless dancers and singers.

In his sixtieth year, he forcibly married the granddaughter of Dai Ji, a squire in Changtai County, as his concubine.Finally, Xu Yuanwen gave a concluding suggestion:

It is not a blessing for the people of Fujian to entrust the border closure. The Ministry of Beggars will strictly investigate and discuss it, and it is a warning to those who think that the ministers are treacherous and selfish.

These accusations made by Xu Yuanwen are not groundless. Yao Qisheng does have many problems himself, and his conduct is also open to question.

But it is very outstanding in terms of ability, and this period is the critical moment for Kangxi to recover Taiwan.

Therefore, he gave Yao Qisheng a chance to defend himself, and conferred the title of hereditary cavalry captain and Yiyun cavalry captain.

In August of the 22nd year of Kangxi, Shi Lang conquered Taiwan, and Yao Qisheng returned to Fuzhou.

In the process of regaining Taiwan, Yao Qisheng's contribution is unquestionable, even greater than that of Shi Lang.

When Yao Qisheng was about to recover Taiwan, Kangxi sent Shi Lang to attack.

This is equivalent to overhead in disguise.After conquering Taiwan, all the credit was taken away by Shi Lang, and the foreshadowing in the early stage was also very important.

But the imperial court and history didn't care about this, and attributed all the credit to Shi Lang.

But Shi Lang was personally recommended by Yao Qisheng, and probably only Yao Qisheng knew the various feelings in his heart.

After returning to Fuzhou, Yao Qisheng was depressed, and soon his old illness relapsed, and he died in Fuzhou at the age of 60.

This is actually a "battle" between Kangxi as the ruler and Yao Qisheng as a courtier.

Kangxi was bound to frustrate Yao Qisheng's arrogance, so he would parachute a general without warning, taking the credit that should have belonged to Yao Qisheng.

However, as shrewd as Yao Qisheng, he also saw through this point, and his whole life was just a pawn in the hands of the emperor.

Even if you have the Qing and the world in your heart, you can't escape the ending of being at the mercy of others.

In this contest with the emperor, he was defeated after all.May I ask, throughout the ages, who else?Really ushered in the victory?
When Shi Lang went to Beijing to meet Kangxi and was named the hereditary Marquis of Jinghai, Yao Qisheng had already died of illness at the age of 60.

According to the usual practice, after the death of a great official in the frontier, the imperial court will express something, not adding an official to a promotion, giving a suitable posthumous title, and so on.

Yao Qisheng is different from the general governors, after all, he has military merits, but Kangxi did not give funerals or posthumous titles as usual, and there was not even an official concluding memorial.

This shows that Kangxi did not make a conclusion about Yao Qisheng's coffin, and generally held a negative attitude.

In fact, Yao Qisheng's image in the minds of Fujian people is also very ordinary.

Although Wu Xingzuo, the governor of Fujian at the same time, was not praised by Kangxi, the local officials and people supported him after his death and called for him to be sacrificed as a good official.But Yao Qisheng is not.

Soon after Yao Qisheng's death, the imperial censor of the imperial court held him accountable for the deficit of 7000 taels of silver in shipbuilding and ordnance, and asked Kangxi to deal with it seriously.

Kangxi thought of Yao Qisheng's hard work during his lifetime and was exempted from being chased, which somewhat gave Yao Qisheng a little face.

As an emperor, the ruler of an empire, Kangxi didn't like Yao Qisheng's character, and he didn't fully accept this hard-working courtier.

Because Kangxi understands better than anyone else that although Yao Qisheng is grateful for his kindness and admires his great talents, he still does not accept himself and cannot understand the hypocrisy and cunning in the officialdom.

Throughout Yao Qisheng's life, it can be summed up by the word "proud".Kangxi can be described as "love and hate" towards him.

He is not as obedient to Kangxi as Li Guangdi is, nor is he as outspoken as Zhou Peigong.

Instead, there is some rebellion in obedience, and rebelliousness in admiration. He has a glib tongue and satirizes the officials of the DPRK and China to the point.

The so-called deep love and deep responsibility, love and sense of responsibility for this country made him extremely critical, just to bring a breath of fresh air to the dirty officialdom at that time.

Although his personal efforts are like a mayfly shaking a big tree in the face of the general environment, his strength of character is worthy of admiration for future generations.

In order to make up for the losses caused by the ban on the sea and the blockade of Taiwan to coastal residents, Kangxi ordered that all residents who relocated could get land and silver taels, but the actual silver taels received by the people were far less than what they should have received.

Yao Qisheng knew in his heart that this was the result of layers of embezzlement by officials at all levels, but he was still helpless in the face of accusations.

He said he hated the moths, but that's what he had to do in order to complete the ban.

This kind of helplessness is the conscience of officials, it is a genuine sympathy for the people, and it is also a sobriety and negativity that sees through the morals of the world.

In fact, speaking of Yao Qisheng's strength of character, he really doesn't exist. No matter what others say about him, Yao Qisheng is a traitor in Zhu Youjian's heart.

Although this person is very capable, Zhu Youjian cannot forgive him for voluntarily surrendering himself and helping Dongyao encircle and suppress the Ming army.

But that was history, and now Youjian Chu has changed history.

Now Yao Qisheng has no chance to surrender to Dongyao, Dongyao has been destroyed long ago.

Zhu Youjian never thought that Yao Qisheng would kill him inexplicably if he surrendered in later generations.

So Zhu Youjian fell into deep thought for a while, and he couldn't find a reason to punish Yao Qisheng for the time being.

What's more, this person is still useful. At least for now, he is doing very well and loves the people very much.

Forget it, we'll see the situation later, I wanted to have a good talk with Yao Qisheng.

But thinking that Yao Qisheng was also a traitor in history, Zhu Youjian suddenly lost that interest.

(End of this chapter)