Copywriting planner, producer: Yuan Zaiyu; copywriter: round-faced rabbit
As the saying goes, evil comes out of the mouth, but without knowing it, this evil will also come out of the pen and paper. It was not unusual in ancient times for rulers to convict people of people in writing, especially during the Qing Dynasty, which was simply too numerous to count.
It is said that one day in the eighth year after the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, His Majesty the Emperor was diligently grading and revising the recital, just in time to approve the recital of Xu Jun, an official of the Hanlin Academy. Looking at it, I don't know what I saw, and suddenly I was furious and immediately ordered Xu Jun to be raided and thrown into prison.
Everyone thought, Lord Xu must have written something that angered the emperor, otherwise how could he have suffered so badly. In fact, to say this is to wrongfully accuse People Xu, people just wrote a typo, that's all, this Yongzheng Emperor is too much of a fuss.
Because of a typo, the whole family was sent to prison, which is the qing dynasty's text prison. Relying only on the emperor's strange imagination and completely nonsensical charges against the nine tribes, creating countless tragic cases, the Qing Dynasty's literal prison is really cruel and frightening. Such a "case" that ran through almost the entire Qing Dynasty, how should our descendants evaluate it?
"Qingfeng is illiterate, why should I turn over books", "Mingyue has affection for me, Qingfeng has no intention of leaving no one", in the eyes of our ordinary people, these poems are nothing more than ordinary poems that write Qingfeng and Mingyue, but in the eyes of those Qing rulers, these verses are not such a thing at all, it is a remembrance and remembrance of the Ming Court in the open and in the dark, and the satire and ridicule of the Qing Dynasty.
And these strange understandings are nothing more than the unwarranted speculations of the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty, but it is these spurious speculations that have led to one literal prison after another, so that those literati and inkers have died a wrong and a miserable.
Speaking of the literal prison, everyone must have seen or understood it in the history books to a greater or lesser extent, but the real Qing Dynasty literal prison is far more than what is written in the book.
As foreign rulers, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty feared that public opinion would appear to satirize their dynasty. Therefore, in order to consolidate their own throne and deceive themselves to prove that their throne is justified, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty could never let go of any remarks that denigrated the orthodoxy of the imperial family.
Adhering to the idea of "I don't care if you have this meaning, anyway, I think you have it", the cruel Qing Dynasty was born under the unjustified suspicion and imposition of the rulers. Everyone in the imperial court was panicked, one after another literati and ministers were beheaded by the door on trumped-up charges, and along with the prosperity of Kangqian came the bloody and wailing that ran through the entire Qing Dynasty, which was a literal prison for no reason.
The gun shoots the head bird, and Zhuang Tingxin, who wants to leave a name in Qingshi, becomes the first person to open the Qing Dynasty's literary prison.
As a rich man and a reader, it was not difficult for Zhuang Tingxin to become famous, but he chose the path of writing books and sayings. But how does a blind man write a book? He wanted to come and go, bought the Ming Dynasty official Zhu Guozhen's manuscript "History of Ming", and also found many learned people to help him revise and polish it in order to publish a good book with his own name on it.
I have to say that Zhuang Tingxin can be too capable of death, during the Qing Dynasty, you wrote the history of Ming, obviously to remember the Ming Dynasty, dissatisfied with the Qing Dynasty, the ruler does not engage you in who. Sure enough, the entire Zhuang family was copied, becoming a sensational text prison case.
In addition to the behavior of writing Ming Dynasty history books like Zhuang Tingxin, which was the target of the Qing court's crackdown, the unconscious "Bright Moon, Qingfeng" and other objects also became "criminal suspects" in the eyes of the Qing Emperor.
The Xu Jun mentioned above is a typical case. This Lord Xu accidentally wrote the "Majesty's" character "陛" as "狴" in the song chapter, and the suspicious and cautious Yongzheng Emperor thought to himself that Lord Xu was satirizing the people of the Great Qing Dynasty who had no culture. Looking at Xu Jun's collection of essays again, there was a verse that he thought was rebellious, such as "Qingfeng can't read, why turn the book randomly". As a result, Xu Jun, who had no such meaning at all, was executed by raiding his home. I have to say that Xu Jun is really "too unlucky". In the prison of writing that ran through the entire Qing Dynasty, such "unlucky" people can be said to be no less than a lot.
The sentence "Qingfeng can't read, why should he turn over books", the tragic history of the Qing Dynasty's literary prison. Behind this man-made disaster set off by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty on the grounds of safeguarding imperial power is actually inexplicable absurdity and cruelty.
For the sake of their own imperial power, rulers can do anything, sacrifice anyone. As Mr. Li Guowen said in his book "The Unnatural Death of Chinese Literati": "As a foreign ruler, how to erase the shameful record of brutal massacres, how to revise the unfavorable records of oneself, and how to prove the legitimacy and rationality of his rule over China, all of this absolutely requires the unity of public opinion." And the literal hell is the perfect way for rulers to erase bad records.
For the rulers, it is understandable to eliminate all the forces that threaten their thrones, but it is too absurd and ridiculous to create such a literal prison of imposing charges and soldiers.
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Reference: A Classic Case of The Literal Prison of the Qing Dynasty: China Historical Stories Network
Encyclopedia entry "Qing Dynasty Character Prison"