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This leads to a rapid influx of American silver to China leading to the taxes being based off of silver. This makes, to a further extent, the whole economy dependent on a large of silver.
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Ascended to the throne at age 9 and was protected for his whole childhood. However, he refused to deal with any state affairs or have any interaction with the bureacracy because he barely had any power. This allowed the bureaucrats to rule the country themselves, adding to the decline of the Ming dynasty.
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This added to the already worsening decline of China in that taxes could not be collected when there was not enough silver as the only currency was silver.
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This limited the availability of silver in China, which was used to pay taxes at that time, destabilizing the economy further.
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For the first part of his reign he held no real power because he was coronated at age 6 and his uncle, Dogan, ruled for him as regeant. He died of small pox.
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Upon arriving in Beijing with the Ming army, which had allied with them, the Manchu seized it and declared themselves emperors. When they took the throne their population numbered only 1 million, with the population of their realm being 250 million.
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There were only a few companies of soldiers and a few thousand eunuchs were present to defend the 21 miles of walls. A few days after Zicheng captured Beijing, the Emperor hanged himself.
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Reageants ruled until he was 15, 1669, when he expelled the last one with the help of his grandmother.
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This edict serves to bolster China by codifing 16 maxims on Confucian values, that helped to grow his popularity with Han China and promoted him as a father figure.
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This was the war in which three southern generals aposed Kangxi's rule, and the Manchu rule as a whole, by declaring their own dynasties as the true and right dynasty.
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At the end of this war all of three generals' followers were executed, sending a clear signal of Kangxi's intolerance of rebellion. This helped him to consolidate the holdings he already had as well as annex new lands to the south.
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