Ruyi's Rebirth: Ruyi's Disease Retreat Retreat

Chapter 215: Zeng Jing deceives Yue Zhongqi into rebellion; "Da Yi Jue Mi Lu"

The Lu Liuliang case has other names, but in fact, history prefers to call it the "Zeng Jing's Letter-Submission Case" because this case actually has little to do with Lu Liuliang.

Lü Liuliang was born in the second year of Chongzhen and died in the twenty-third year of Kangxi. By 1728 when the Lü Liuliang case broke out, Lü Liuliang had been dead for 45 years.

Lu Liuliang was famous for his mastery of Confucianism. He was mainly active in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which was the time when his homeland was destroyed and the Manchus entered the Central Plains.

The Manchus who had just entered the Pass were rather barbaric. They enclosed land, shaved heads and carried out massacres, so Lu Liuliang was very dissatisfied. His brother Lu Yuanliang participated in Shi Kefa's Yangzhou Anti-Qing War, while Lu Liuliang spent all his family wealth in his hometown, learned from Wen Tianxiang, and organized civilian patriots to fight against the Qing.

In the late Shunzhi period, after the resistance failed, Lu Liuliang lived in seclusion in the Jiangnan area, writing books and theories, and did not serve in the new dynasty. His theories were full of debates between China and the barbarians, and he denounced the barbarism of the Qing people.

Zeng Jing had no direct contact with Lu Liuliang. He had only read Lu Liuliang's works. Lu Liuliang's works were written in a very radical way. When radical ideas met antisocial ideas, sparks instantly flew, and finally caused Zeng Jing to develop dementia behavior.

In fact, if we analyze the ten major crimes of Yongzheng listed by Zeng Jing, we will find that his methods are exactly the same as those used by today's public intellectuals. They rely on hearsay and deliberately use high-sounding words to deceive the masses who do not know the truth and incite anti-government and anti-social sentiments among the masses.

The so-called "plotting against father, forcing mother, killing brother, slaughtering younger brother, and drinking alcohol" - how could a country scholar know the emperor's private affairs?

So this is what Zeng Jing wrote based on hearsay.

"Greed for money" refers to the Yongzheng New Deal of dividing the land tax and returning the fire consumption tax to the public, which increased taxes for the country. The positive significance of these two points is said in middle school textbooks to be that they relieved the pressure on the poor people.

"Love of killing" refers to the corrupt officials who were executed when Yongzheng clarified the administration of officials and the use of troops in the northwest to maintain national unity.

"Lust". In the imperial era, both Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Taizu of Song had three palaces and six courtyards, and it was normal for high-ranking officials to have many wives and concubines. Now Zeng Jing has narrowed down the common human characteristics to the characteristics of Emperor Yongzheng alone.

"Executing the loyal" refers to the fact that Yongzheng once executed the Qingliu bureaucrats who obstructed the new policies and only talked nonsense but did not do any practical work.

"Ren Ning" refers to the fact that Yongzheng once employed people like Nian Gengyao.

After the ten crimes, Zeng Jing concluded that "how should this country be organized?" and raised the banner of "the distinction between Chinese and barbarians is more important than the relationship between the monarch and his subjects" to trick Yue Zhongqi into rebelling.

Who was Yue Zhongqi? He was a descendant of Yue Fei, a famous official who fought against the Jin Dynasty (the Qing Dynasty was a descendant of the Jin Dynasty). He was also Han Chinese. To be able to become the Governor-General of Shaanxi and Gansu, commanding 10 troops and horses, and being like the King of Northwest China, he was not just smart.

So Yue Zhongqi immediately reported it to Yongzheng, and Zeng Jing was subsequently arrested.

After Zeng Jing was arrested, he was taken to the capital prison.

Although Yongzheng was angry, he did not torture him. Instead, he treated him with courtesy.

Yongzheng asked the eunuch to pass on his message, Zeng Jing replied, and the eunuch brought Zeng Jing's reply back. Yongzheng asked again, and Zeng Jing replied again, and this went on repeatedly, a conversation across the air.

Yongzheng refuted Zeng Jing's personal attacks on him one by one.

After Yongzheng answered Zeng Jing's debate on the relationship between China and the barbarians, Zeng Jing, who had initially vowed to fight to the death and make contributions to the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty, suddenly changed his attitude, knelt down and kowtowed, saying that he deserved to die and committed heinous crimes. He kept saying that he was in a remote area and was misled by Lu Liuliang's reactionary books, which led him to do foolish things. He wanted to apologize to the emperor, society, and the people, and wrote a "confession."

Later, Yongzheng used his "Confessions" as a basis and added his own defense and comments, which is the famous "Records of Awakening from Delusion".