00:00When China was born on May 4, 1654 in Beijing in the Forbidden City and died on December 20, 1722, is
00:06an emperor of China, the fourth of the Qing dynasty.
00:09He was the emperor with the longest reign in Chinese history, from 1661 to
00:131722, which is more than 61 years.
00:16He is considered one of the greatest emperors of imperial China.
00:20The third son of Emperor Shunzi, he was designated as his successor upon the latter's death in 1661, when
00:26that he is only 7 years old.
00:26At the age of 15, in 1669, he seized power by ousting the regent Oboy.
00:32He finds himself at the head of an empire that is far from consolidated since its conquest by the
00:36Manchus and the establishment of the Qing dynasty.
00:39A cultured, open-minded, pious, and deeply cynical ruler, Kangxi put an end to the main measures that pitted the Han population against the
00:46Manchu rulers.
00:47It restores the lands confiscated by the conquerors.
00:50It limits the taxation burden on the peasantry and promotes the development of literature and the arts.
00:54He restructured the local administration organization inherited from the Ming dynasty, prioritizing its efficiency and drastically limiting its
01:01staff.
01:02Kangxi's armies ended the resistance of the last supporters of the Ming dynasty by defeating
01:07piracy was paralyzing activities and had driven the population along the southwest coast of
01:12China and by taking possession of the island of Taiwan, a stronghold of pirates.
01:16He regained control of the southern provinces, which had become virtually autonomous under the leadership of the Zanz generals, to whom had
01:21were entrusted with their conquest for the Count of Manchus, by overcoming the rebellion of the Three Fires of
01:25'Aterre, 1673 to 1681.
01:28In the northwest, he subdued the Mongol tribes in 1696 to prevent an alliance against the Chinese Empire.
01:34For the same reason, a civil war that broke out in Tibet prompted Kangxi to intervene militarily, and the Chinese armies...
01:40occupied the Tibetan capital Lhasa in 1720.
01:43Finally, he established, through the Treaty of Nurchinsk in 1689, the borders with the rapidly expanding Russian Empire in Siberia.
01:50and whose colonies threaten to encroach upon the northern part of the Chinese Empire.
01:53Under Kangxi's reign, the Chinese population and economy, which had been deeply affected by the decline of
01:59the Ming dynasty and then by the various conflicts arising from the Manchu conquest of the country,
02:04returns to an era of prosperity that will continue throughout the 18th century under the reigns of his son
02:08Yongzheng and his grandson Tianlong.
02:11Kangxi is the author of several notable publications.
02:14An encyclopedia of nearly a million pages, a dictionary listing the 47,035 characters of Chinese writing
02:20and an anthology containing 49,000 poems produced during the Tang dynasty.
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