The Literal Prison of the Yongzheng Dynasty began with the Nian Tang Yao case. Nian Qianyao was a man with a yellow banner in the Han army, a scholar born and a talented soldier, who made many meritorious achievements in suppressing rebellion in the Sichuan-Tibet area, and in the last year of the Kangxi Dynasty, he was appointed as the general of the West and the governor of Shaanxi, and he was always attached to Yun Chan, who was still the Prince of Yong at that time. After Yin Chan ascended the throne, Nian Qianyao was highly favored and was awarded the title of Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Taibao and Fuyuan, and was knighted as a first-class duke.
Nian Qianyao, because his sister was the concubine of the Yongzheng tyrant, began to be proud of his achievements, and Yongzheng could not bear it, and finally moved to kill. In February of the third year of Yongzheng (1724), there was an astronomical spectacle of "the sun and the moon combined, the five stars and pearls", and the courtiers praised the table, and the year was also listed, but one was the font scribbled, and the other was to write the idiom "Chao Qian Xi Ti" as "Xi Ti Chao Qian", which means to be diligent all day long, that is, the meaning of writing down is unchanged. Yongzheng took Nian Tangyao as a meritorious defiant, and had ill intentions, and those who had a grudge against Nian Qianyao saw that the emperor had taken the lead, so they attacked him en masse, so Nian Qianyao was impeached into ninety-two major crimes. Nian Qianyao was ordered to cut himself off from the general Ofe Yuan and the general of Hangzhou, and his relatives and fellow party members were either beheaded or exiled or degraded.
Seven days after Nian Qianyao's death, Wang Jingqi was beheaded and displayed in public, that is, Wang Jingqi's Western Expedition Essay Case. Wang Jingqi, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was a friend of His friend Hu Qiheng (胡期恒) was appointed as a political envoy to Shaanxi and was a confidant of his superior, Nian Qianyao. Wang Jingqi went to visit and took the opportunity to submit a letter to Nian Tangyao and became a temporary guest of Nian Xiangyao. Wang Jingqi's journey to the west this time has two volumes of "Essays on the Western Expedition of the Reading Hall", which is dedicated to the collection of Tang Yao. Nian Qianyao offended the raiders, and the Essay on the Western Expedition was handed over to the palace. Yongzheng gritted his teeth and wrote an inscription on the first page of the cloud: "Paradox and madness, as for this pole!" It is a pity to see this late, and leave it for another day, so that this kind of leakage also. It is about the essay that mentions "the cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks", which is originally a reminder to Nian Tangyao. Yongzheng was indignant because of this, but he also wanted to show his filial piety, and the punishment decree only said that Wang Jingqi "wrote poems to ridicule Emperor Shengzuren, and rebelled against the tao." As a result, Wang Jingqi was beheaded and his head was displayed in public, and his skull was displayed for ten years in Beijing Caishikou. Wives and children were given Heilongjiang to the Phi Jia (Manchurian sergeant) as slaves; Brothers, uncles and nephews exiled to Ninguta; All officials who are alienated from their relatives are dismissed from their posts and handed over to the local officials of origin. Due to the large number of people involved, the county town of Pinghu, where Wang Jingqi lives, even spread rumors of "slaughtering the city", and the residents fled in panic.
Also implicated in Nian Qianyao is the case of Qian Mingshi Famous Sect sinners. Qian Mingshi Shizi Lianggong, a native of Wujin, Jiangsu, and Nian Qianyao was the same year as the township test, probably because of this. In the second year of Yongzheng (1724), the powerful Nian TangYao entered the capital to see him, and Qian Mingshi gave poems and praises, including poems such as "Dividing the Shaanxi Banner Zhou Zhaobo, General from the Heavenly Drum Horn Han", "Zhong Ding Ming Leshan River Oath, Fanzang Yijian Second Monument" and other poems to praise the stinky feet of the year.
Nian Qianyao was cursed, and qian Mingshi was of course doomed to escape. Yongzheng charged him with "flattery and praise for adultery." But he was not killed, but only dismissed from his post and expelled back to his original hometown, but he also wrote the four words "famous cult sinner" and ordered Qian Mingshi's original magistrate to make a plaque and hang it on the hall of Qian's home. The four words of "famous cult sinner" who was extremely humiliated and humiliated not only made Qian Mingshi faceless, but also made his children and grandchildren unable to lift their heads. Yongzheng also ordered the prefect of Changzhou and Wujinzhi County to go to Qian's house on the first and fifteenth day of each month to check the hanging of the plaque, and if it was not hung, he would report the crime of playing Meiji to the inspector. When Qian Mingshi left Beijing, Yongzheng ordered the Beijing officials to write satirical poems for Qian Mingshi from the university scholars and jiuqing below, and as a result, a total of 385 people were instructed to write poems. After Yongzheng looked at them one by one, he handed over Qian Mingshi to compile them into a special collection entitled "Poems of Famous Teachers and Sinners", which was printed and distributed to schools across the country so that everyone in the world could know about them. Satirical poems are praised if they are tasteful enough, and punishments are given if they are not tasteful enough. There is a sentence in the poem of Chen Wance of Zheng zhan shi: "The famous world has the same name of the world sin, and the bright worker is not different from the bright worker adultery" (the Dai Mingshi of the Guide Mountain Collection Case, and the Nian Tang Yao is also a bright worker), the wording is sharp, the sentence is new and clever, and it is praised by the tyrant. Wu Xiaodeng, a Hanlin attendant, was sent to Ningguta to be enslaved to the armored people because of his poem "delusion". Among the poets, there was a man named Cha Siting, who criticized Qian Mingshi for "a hundred years of stink and humiliation"; There is a man named Xie Jishi, who criticizes Qian Mingshi for "betraying and eventually exposing his adultery from ancient times"; But soon, they suffered, and the slaves of the country made pigs and dogs, and they were still eaten.
Like Nian Qianyao, Long Keduo was a heavy minister of Yongzheng, and without them, yongzheng was difficult to ascend to the throne, especially Longkeduo, who made Yongzheng a great treasure because of the edict, and his contribution was indispensable. However, Long became increasingly envious, making Yongzheng increasingly dissatisfied. In October of the fifth year of Yongzheng (1727), Longkeduo was finally tried for the crime of secretly hiding jade (imperial genealogy), and the kings and ministers jointly impeached Longkeduo for forty-one major crimes, and was ordered to be imprisoned forever, and the family property was posthumously supplemented with stolen silver, and his second son was also punished. The following year, Roncodo died in the Forbidden Place.