0p0 Chapter 336: Shunzhi Empress Xiaohui Qiqige 69
Chapter 336: Shunzhi Empress Xiaohui Qiqige 69
During the reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, literary inquisition reached its peak, with dozens of large and small literary inquisition cases occurring.
It seems that he is a very sensible person.
The so-called burning of books and burying of scholars actually means: burning poetry books and burying sorcerers.
In the 213th year of Qin Shihuang's reign ( BC), Qin Shihuang held a banquet in the Xianyang Palace.
The scholars debated the feudal system.
Among them, Chunyu Yue advocated following the ancients and implementing the feudal system to consolidate his rule.
However, Prime Minister Li Si believed that private schools and Confucian scholars used history to criticize the present, confusing the people and doing harm to the unity of the country and the implementation of laws.
Therefore, he suggested that Qin Shihuang order the burning of books, that is, except for books on medicine, divination, and planting, all privately collected books of "Book of Songs", "Book of Documents" and works of various schools of thought must be handed over within a time limit and burned.
Anyone who dares to discuss the Book of Songs and the Book of Documents will be put to death, and anyone who criticizes the present by comparing the past with the present will be exterminated; officials who know about this but do not report it will be punished with the same crime.
Qin Shihuang adopted Li Si's suggestion and implemented the policy of burning books.
The purpose of burning poetry and books was essentially to make people discuss less about national affairs and spend more time farming.
You can call it a policy to keep the people ignorant, but the core is to improve productivity.
Furthermore, if we don’t burn the history books of other countries, then we have to wait for them to restore the monarchy.
As for the pit warlock.
In pursuit of immortality, Qin Shi Huang went around looking for elixirs. Those alchemists and sorcerers took Qin Shi Huang's money, but failed to accomplish anything and even ridiculed Qin Shi Huang behind his back.
It's not about being punished!
The 460 people arrested were all buried alive. According to later generations, it was clearly an anti-fraud activity.
In order to highlight their own aura of martyrdom, Confucianism changed the idea of killing the sorcerers into the idea of killing the Confucian scholars.
As the rumor spread, people believed that Qin Shihuang wanted to suppress Confucianism, so he not only burned books but also physically killed scholars.
But Qin Shihuang actually supported the Legalists.
Later, Emperor Wu of Han advocated "abolishing all schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone."
After all, Qin Shihuang was the greatest emperor of all time and his power was too great.
Therefore, they could only discredit Qin Shi Huang, otherwise the policy of "abolishing all schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" could not be implemented.
Xue Li couldn't help but rub his head.
Those who are capable should work harder. She is going to have a good sleep.
The little guy bowed and left!
At night, the big guy came~
After some preparation, Xue Li asked for iron ore and wanted to develop firearms.
Oboi didn't understand, but agreed!
The days that followed fell into silence again.
Ever since Jinghua almost followed Jingrong into the study, he was so scared that he hid in the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace.
The Queen Mother is also old and likes to have someone to accompany her.
Jinghua was chirping, she was also happy.
And intend to delegate power!
Xue Li was too lazy to worry about it and didn't accept it.
The Queen Mother wasn't even feeling relieved at this moment.
She truly realized that this queen was just lazy!
But then he thought again that there was another woman named Dong E in the harem, so he didn't refuse.
After all, she felt that the Queen could not defeat Concubine Dong E.
In this year, a case of bribery and collusion between eunuchs and officials occurred.
This involved the eunuch Wu Liangfu, who was very favored by Emperor Shunzhi.
Wu Liangfu attracted the attention of the court because of his monopolistic control of government affairs and his improper dealings with officials.
However, Emperor Shunzhi did not initially punish Wu Liangfu according to the ban he had issued.
But when the Queen Mother learned everything, she severely reprimanded and demanded that Wu Liangfu be beaten to death.
The dispute between Shunzhi and the Empress Dowager began again.
As I said, a mother cannot defeat her son.
Especially since this son is an emperor!
There was no other choice, so the Queen Mother reformed the palace procedures at Xue Li's suggestion.
Rewards and punishments are clear, and there is no need to recognize anyone as your grandfather.
These things cannot be eradicated, but they can be improved.
The Queen Mother became sick again because she couldn't do anything about Wu Liangfu!
This was also the case in history. After the death of Emperor Shunzhi, in the first year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang ordered the execution of Wu Liangfu on the charge of "changing the ancestral system."
This incident not only ended Wu Liangfu's autocracy, but also reflected the Qing Dynasty royal family's severe attitude towards eunuchs interfering in politics.
After all, eunuchs were in power in the previous dynasty, and the empress dowager kept this in mind.
The dispute between Xuanye and Jingrong became increasingly serious.
Of course Jingrong doesn’t think so.
But Xuanye was unwilling to accept this.
Xue Li was observing this and that with great interest.
Dong E was unusually quiet!
Xue Li was still joking with the concubines, and she would accompany Qin to see the fifth prince every now and then.
I didn’t have to go there later!
After all, Dong E was just as gentle towards the outside world.
Xue Li was too lazy to ask whether she was truly tolerant or just pretending to be tolerant.
But not long after, smallpox suddenly broke out in the palace.
Unexpectedly, Jingrong was sick.
If Xueli remembered correctly, she had arranged for them to be vaccinated against cowpox early on.
Xue Li didn't care about anything else and arranged for the disinfection of the palace first.
Then the Kunning Palace was disinfected and sealed.
Xueli asked Jingrong and Jinghua to take off their clothes and take a bath.
Xue Li's face was tense. Normally, she shouldn't get sick, unless it was a plague!
After all, her pills are not jelly beans.
But Jingrong was shy and held up his pants, refusing to let Xueli touch him.
Xue Li was so angry that she wanted to beat him up.
As a result, the little guy secretly told her that he was pretending to be sick!
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"What did you say?" Xue Li was a little uncertain.
"My son is fine. He was just pretending to be sick. Mother, please let Baizhi take a look at the purse and the books in the backpack!" Jingrong said with narrowed eyes.
Baizhi came in with a handkerchief covering her face to check.
Xue Li still pushed him into the water.
Then the soul discovered.
The purse was actually contaminated with droplets from a tuberculosis patient.
Or, it looked more like a handkerchief used by a tuberculosis patient.
Xue Li sneered and suddenly laughed out of anger when she saw the embroidery on it.
"Did Concubine Qin give you the purse?"
Xue Li was very sure in her heart. After all, Qin had embroidered shoes and socks for her many times.
"Yes!" Jingrong responded, "Her expression was not right at the time, and her son came back after taking a bath and changing his clothes!"
"Tus, drag Qin in here! Now!" Xue Li said coldly. This ungrateful woman must die no matter what her reason was!
Do you really think of her as a Bodhisattva?
Bai Zhi couldn't find any problems with some of the books in the other schoolbags.
However, Xue Li noticed the smallpox virus on it.
"Who gave you the book?"
"Third brother! He has been too respectful to me recently!"
There was nothing Xue Li didn't understand about these two sentences.
It seems that the kid is quite ambitious!
"Jiang Yang!"
"I'm here!" A thin and small eunuch jumped out.
"Put this in Xuanye's diet!" Xue Li casually rummaged around in the secret realm.
Initially, she wanted him to assist Jingrong in the future!
After all, he was lucky enough!
But now, there is no reason to let him go.
"Hey!" The little eunuch took the bottle from Xue Li's hand and left.
Xueli asked Baizhi to burn the schoolbag and books, but left the purse.