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Speaking of witchcraft in Chinese history, chen ajiao in the Western Han Dynasty used witchcraft to plague empress Wei Zifu; In the Sui Dynasty, Dugu Tuo used witchcraft to plague empress DuGu Jialuo. It is really harmful, and an ordinary witchcraft case during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty has caused turmoil in the government and the opposition, and tens of thousands of people have been beheaded.
In the thirty-third year of Qianlong, Deqing County, Zhejiang Province, wanted to repair a stone bridge, and the person in charge of the project was Wu Stonemason. When Wu Mason was about to start work, the wealthy merchant Shen Shiliang came to the door. Shen Shiliang and Wu Stonemason had no friendship, but now he said that he wanted Wu Stonemason to help him a little favor, and he also took out a piece of silver.
It turned out that Shen Shiliang had no children and no daughters, and the family property had to be inherited by two nephews, and in return, the nephews needed to support Shen Shiliang. But now that the nephews had repented, Shen Shiliang wanted to punish them, so he handed the note with his nephew's name to Wu Mason. Because there is a saying in the Jiangnan region: the stonemason will write a note with someone else's name under the stone, and the person on the note will either die or be maimed.
Shen Shiliang was convinced of this, but Wu Shishang felt that there was no need to kill people because of family trivia, so he told the government about it. The county magistrate also thought that it was just a neighborhood dispute, so he beat Shen Shiliang twenty times and could not do it, but the people believed in this kind of witchcraft and spread it one after another. Two months later, another case on the ground worsened the situation.
There was a beggar who was sent to the official palace because of his suspicious appearance, and under severe torture, the beggar lied that he could use a spell to take away the child's soul, and the government was dismissive of this, so it did not publish the list in time. So the crowd at the scene panicked, and all the states and counties were talking about witches and people.
Seeing that things were making a big fuss, the government began to post notices, but it was too late, and no one believed that this was a rumor. The situation was out of control, and local officials chose to conceal and not report for the sake of political achievements. Soon, this ordinary case disrupted half of the Qing Empire, and almost the whole country appeared in cases of witchcraft, and the rumors spread more and more evil.
Finally, the news reached the capital, and Qianlong was furious. In his eyes, the Qing Empire had become Haiyan Heqing under the hard work of Kang Yong II, and if it was finally destroyed by such absurd words, how could he be worthy of his father and grandfather. Moreover, in the later years of his grandfather Kangxi, there was also the matter of the great prince cursing the prince with witchcraft, which made him have to pay attention to it.
Therefore, Qianlong immediately asked the Military Aircraft Department to form an investigation team to strictly investigate the case. However, when things got to this point, it was obvious that Qianlong could not solve it with a single sentence of strict investigation. At first, Zhejiang officials were worried about their political achievements, so they did not report it, but now that the emperor has decreed that officials everywhere have begun to act arbitrarily in order to ask for credit, so that they can rejoice in the achievements, resulting in more and more people involved.
Therefore, the investigation team had to join hands and plead with Qianlong to stop the investigation so as not to cause more unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and Qianlong had no choice but to agree. At this time, only one year had passed since Wu Mason's case, but in the end it spread to more than ten provinces across the country, and tens of thousands of people were beheaded, leaving behind countless unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.
The author believes that if the government had explained the situation in a timely manner from the beginning, there would have been no final turmoil between the government and the opposition. It can be seen how important the mainstream media is to the guidance of public opinion, even in the feudal era hundreds of years ago.
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