Negative evaluation of Yongzheng in history

It makes intellectuals afraid to ask about politics and causes social terror.

Other literary inquisitions are also far-fetched. In the poems of Xu Shukui, a juren in Yangzhou, some sentences, such as "Let Ming Taizu meet again, put aside the pot" and "Shake the capital in the early Ming Dynasty and clear it at one stroke", are far-fetched. The history of the Ministry of Rites once wrote a poem praising the black peony, saying that "when valued, the different species are also kings", which was misinterpreted as humiliating the Qing Dynasty and seizing the country of Zhu. They were both slaughtered. Wei, a student from Jiangsu Province, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in 300 yuan for using the word "forgiveness" in his composition. Cheng, a student from Hubei province, sketched Japanese and used the word "creating great cause". He was executed by Ling Chi, and his relatives were also implicated. There is a saying in Gong Sheng Fang Fen's poetry collection that "I want to be white and clear, but I want to be sad and bright in my dreams", and it is a disaster for future generations to dig the grave and slaughter it. "Cool breeze" and "bright moon" are hot topics for scholars in past dynasties. If you accidentally write a poem, you will be forced to commit a crime and be slaughtered. The rise of literary inquisition provided some resentful villains with opportunities for revenge. They tried their best to find words in each other's poems and framed them. The success of the prison case is that the family is ruined and the relatives and friends are implicated.

In order to avoid literary inquisition, culture often replaces doubtful words with other words, or simply leaves them blank, which often makes them unreasonable and elegant. Later, even "Hu", "Lu", "Yi" and "Di" became taboo words, and spaces were often not engraved in books. To this end, Qianlong issued a special edict, saying: "When the people of this dynasty published and wrote books, the words Land Rover Yi Land were often left blank, and some of them were changed to Yi and halogen. There are many such cases. This is nothing more than a taboo in this dynasty to show respect for the author, but I don't know that this practice itself is quite disrespectful. Mencius said that Shun was a native of Dongyi and King Wen was a human being. It can be seen that words such as "Yidi" are just square domain titles, and sages have not avoided them since ancient times. As for imposing Lu 'an on the DPRK, it is even more absurd. In the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the border areas were constantly in war, and countries that could not surrender were often referred to as Lu. I originally lived in Manchuria, on the east coast of China. If the Dongyi people are omnipotent, it would be a big mistake to say that they are Lu. Now people all over the world are Qing subjects, and even people in into the badlands can't bear to regard them as Lu. How can we add Lu to Manchu? Only Zhungeer does not obey his fate, always refuses to accept kingization, and constantly rebelles, can he be called a gourd by them. In short, the Qing Dynasty accepted the destiny, unified the whole family, and did not allow all ethnic groups in China to discriminate against each other. From now on, anyone who writes and prints books in the next chapter shall not avoid it at will as before, and change the words in the blanks, otherwise it will be punished as blasphemy. "

Scholars are at a loss, so many people escape from reality and bury themselves in ancient paper's research, thus forming a famous school in the academic history of China, that is, Ganjia School. Ganjia School originated from Gu Yanwu in Ming and Qing Dynasties. At first, it advocated argumentation based on classics and history books in order to save the world. In the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods, scholars praised the exegetical methods of Chinese and Confucian classics, textual research and interpretation, and applied them to all aspects of ancient books collation and academic exploration. Its research scope is centered on Confucian classics and extends to literature, phonology, history, natural calculation, land and water, canon, epigraphy, collation, compilation and so on. The materials cited were multipolar in the Han Dynasty. Because it rose in Qianlong and Jiaqing years, it was called Ganjia School. Oppose glitz and advocate simplicity, so it is also called "Sinology" and "Piaoxue". This school has made great contributions to the collation and research of ancient Chinese historical materials, and its research methods have been inherited from generation to generation, which has a far-reaching impact on later academic circles. Sinology corrects the emptiness of Neo-Confucianism, but it also has the disadvantages of tedious textual research.