Emperor Kangxi used the bodies of corrupt officials to make leather drums. Is it possible in history?

There is no such possibility in history. Kangxi used the bodies of corrupt officials to make leather drums, because he built Qiaowan City. According to Anxi County Records, Qiaowan City was built in ten years of Yongzheng.

There is a legend that Emperor Kangxi once had a dream, in which he cruised to the northwest and came to the desolate Gobi and found an oasis. This oasis is surrounded by a clear bend of water and slowly flows to the west. There are two big trees by the river, with golden crowns and blue ribbons hanging, which is simply a fairyland on earth. After waking up from a dream, Kangxi was very happy and thought this place was a good place to cruise.

So he painted a dreamland and ordered people to look for it in the northwest. So the ministers went to the northwest to look for this holy land. When ministers came to Qiaowan area of Gobi, they saw a place similar to Kangxi's dream. I quickly reported it to Kangxi. Kangxi was very happy when he heard about it, so he allocated funds for Cheng Jinshan and his father to go to Qiaowan in Fiona Fang to build a Jiuli City, which was convenient for Kangxi to travel westward in the future. Cheng Jinshan and his father went to see it, thinking that the emperor would not go to such a remote place, they built a small town and were greedy for the rest of the money.

Later, an imperial envoy passed by and found that the situation reported by Qiaowan City and Cheng Jinshan was even more inconsistent, so he reported it to Kangxi. Later, Kangxi skinned Cheng Jinshan and his father, made adult leather drums, hung them in Yongning Temple and knocked them every day. This legend is Mengqiao Bay City in Kangxi period, and now the tree has become a dead tree, which was moved from other rivers and has only symbolic significance. The human skin drum is only the size of a fist and the color is very yellow. I don't know if it's from the Qing Dynasty. According to records, Qiaowan City was built in Yongzheng, that is to say, there was no Qiaowan City in Kangxi, so Kangxi's Mengqiao Bay City was just a fictional dream.