What did Kangxi visit Jiangnan six times for? This isn't about finding Wei Xiaobao.

Emperor Kangxi was one of the most successful emperors in Qing Dynasty. He defeated Zhungeer all his life, recovered Xinjiang, put down the rebellion in San Francisco and unified China. Wenzhi can be regarded as the first emperor of martial arts throughout the ages. However, he was also a charming emperor. Records of the Historian recorded six trips to the south of the Yangtze River. To this end, there are also TV dramas saying that he traveled incognito and pleaded for the people. In the duke of mount deer, it is said that he went out of the land of flowers and willows to look for Wei Xiaobao. Every time he stayed for a long time, he couldn't leave. So what is the real situation?

Let's take a look at the places that Kangxi frequented at that time, mainly Yangzhou, Suzhou and other rich places in the south of the Yangtze River, especially Yangzhou, which was the gathering place of Huaihe River and Huaihe River salt merchants. Salt merchants were the richest class at that time, and they had more money than selling oil now. So Yangzhou at that time was really a place of luxury goods. Salt merchants live in luxury, and all kinds of industries are born for these rich people.

At that time, there was a profession called raising thin horses, which mainly paid for the beautiful daughters of poor families, and then after training, taught them chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and calligraphy etiquette, and grew up to be knowledgeable and versatile beauty. These girls will be sold to wealthy businessmen as concubines when they grow up, or go directly to brothels as prostitutes. And the huge profits in the middle are huge. It may only cost a few taels to buy a girl, but it costs hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands to sell it. So Yangzhou was the distribution center of romantic place in China at that time.

As the duke of mount deer said, Yangzhou is a place where beautiful women spend money, in various palaces and aristocratic areas. What did Kangxi do in Jiangnan? Although we can't find the answer from the history books, we can see from two things. First, every time Kangxi went to the south of the Yangtze River, there were many beautiful women with little feet of Han nationality in the palace. These beautiful women played with Emperor Kangxi, and many missionaries recorded these situations at that time. According to the records of Jingting for thirteen years, Emperor Kangxi often played with a group of beautiful Han women in the imperial garden. They play chess, draw pictures, play hide-and-seek, or chase and have fun, which is very unpleasant.

In addition, at that time, you can also see a secret play presented by Suzhou weaving Xu Li to Emperor Kangxi. The play book says, "I have found some beautiful women for your majesty, and now I am teaching them to sing opera so that they can be sent to the palace to wait on you." But now Yiyang Kunqu teachers are hard to find. I hope your majesty can find one to cultivate. "Finally, Kangxi sent a man named Ye Guogu to teach.

It can be seen that Emperor Kangxi visited Jiangnan six times and was not idle. Not to get rid of the mob, not to travel incognito, not to go to Wei Xiaobao, but to get drunk in Yangzhou and Suzhou. Of course, Kangxi did some business because Jiangnan was a heavily taxed area of the country at that time. Therefore, Kangxi went to Jiangnan to explore the news, stabilize people's hearts and inspect the river.