Westerners have helped me reform the calendar and have cast cannon for the army; recognising their sincerity, I will not prohibit their preaching.

西洋人助朕修曆,於軍事復鑄炮砲,認其誠心,不禁傳教。

Kangxi Emperor

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Kangxi Emperor

Third Qing emperor (1654-1722). His 61-year reign — the longest in Chinese history — crushed the Three Feudatories, took Taiwan, signed the Nerchinsk Treaty, made the Kangxi Dictionary, founded the literary inquisition.

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