Complex sentence: Kangxi called for a council to seek his subjects'views on the issue and received divided responses; some thought that the Three Feudatories should be left as they were, while others supported the idea of retracting the three lords' powers.
Split into simpler sentences: Kangxi called for a council to seek his subjects'views on the issue and received divided responses. Some thought that the Three Feudatories should be left as they were, while others supported the idea of reducing the three lords' powers.