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Brief: This article covers Kangxi’s key governance achievements: Jin Fu and Chen Huang successfully tamed the Yellow River. It also tells of the Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia and three major campaigns against Mongol leader Galdan. By stabilizing waterways and frontiers, Kangxi greatly expanded and secured the Qing Empire.
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Brief: This article introduces two legendary clean officials of the Kangxi era. Shi Shilun, son of Admiral Shi Lang, was honest and strict in governing finance, protecting common people. Yu Chenglong lived an extremely simple life, ate only vegetables, and turned troubled areas into stable regions. Kangxi praised him as “the most upright official…