Wei Bao could have sat in a sedan chair, but he didn't.

Today, he specially wore a very festive dress, wearing a red robe, riding a horse, and he could also use Feng Quan, who was leading the horse and holding the whip, to set off himself.

The efficiency of the Tiandihui Statistics Office is very high, and it takes four days to deliver news and invitations, which is enough for those who get the news and receive the invitation to prepare gift money.

Therefore, there were not only many ordinary people along the street who watched Master Wei beat gongs and drums and were surrounded by people to go to the British government, but also many officials followed and cheered.

These people are not asked to come, but come spontaneously.

Whether it is a person who has not been unlucky in the text clearance, or a person who has been unlucky in the text clearance, they dare not despise Master Wei anymore, and they can even be said to be in awe.

The power of text clearance is just too great.

The literary prison has existed since ancient times, and it is one of the measures taken by rulers to strengthen ideological and cultural control.

It is also a rare system of cultural terror in the history of the world and unique in the history of China.

In order to prevent and suppress the rebellion of intellectuals, the rulers extracted words from their works and fabricated accusations, which constituted unjust imprisonment.

Literary prisons have existed since ancient times, but they did not pose a serious threat to society except during the Qing Dynasty.

Naturally, Wei Bao's written inventory did not reach the scale of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was only to satisfy Wei Bao's purpose of collecting money and replacing officials and controlling officials.

Moreover, Wei Bao is the initiator, but not the decision-maker, if Wei Zhongxian felt that it was okay, or the emperor felt that it was not possible, it would have been banned a long time ago.

However, Wei Zhongxian and Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse obviously did not mean to ban it immediately, and Wei Bao could hand over millions of taels of silver to the palace every month by checking one item in writing.

Originally, Wei Bao said that it would be over in a month, but now Wei Zhongxian and the emperor himself are reluctant to stop.

The Qing Dynasty Literary Prison lasted for about 250 years of the Qing Dynasty.

The peak period began in Shunzhi and lasted more than 140 years through the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties.

The Qing Dynasty, which was ruled by ethnic minorities, had extremely tight control over the Han Chinese.

The literati showed a little dissatisfaction in the text, or the emperor doubted that there was content in the text that ridiculed the Qing Dynasty, and improvised a prison, often causing a lot of trouble.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were conservative estimates of more than 200 literary prisons. Except for a very small number of incidents for a reason, the vast majority of them are chasing after the wind and shadows, which is purely unjustly killed.

The Qing Emperor imposed a large prison on the text to defend his rule, crack down on dissidents, and suppress ideological speech that was unfavorable to his rule, and created a number of cases of conviction for speech.

There were various literary prison cases in the Qing Dynasty, throughout the Qing Dynasty, especially in the early Qing Dynasty, and the Qianlong period.

This is a reflection of the increasingly decadent and declining ideological absolutism of feudal absolutism.

Literal prison is a crime that is caused by words.

As a part of the ancient cultural autocratic policy, it existed to varying degrees in various dynasties in history, such as the Yang Yun case in the Han Dynasty and the Su Shi Wutai poetry case in the Song Dynasty.

However, on the whole, before the Qing Dynasty, the number was small and the scale was not large.

First of all, in terms of the number of literary prisons, the number of literary prisons in the Qing Dynasty was about 170, which is more than the total number of literary prisons in other dynasties in history.

Secondly, in terms of scale and punishment results, it is second to none compared with other dynasties in history.

During the Qing Dynasty, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty adopted two methods against the literati left behind by the Ming Dynasty: one was to appease them, and the other was to take severe repressive measures against those who did not submit to the rule.

When the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, from the perspective of the traditional concept of the Han people, it was called "the sky is repeated, the Central Plains is sinking", "the sky is dark, the sun and the moon are dark", and there is a rather fierce national hostility among the Han scholars who regard Confucian culture as the authentic one.

In the early years of Kangxi, the Southern Ming Dynasty collapsed, and the organized anti-Qing armed struggle on the mainland basically ended, and the national contradiction rose to the main contradiction in Chinese society.

With the change of some relevant policies of the Qing Dynasty, the further convergence of the Manchu and Han landlord classes, and the gradual development of social economy, by the Yongzheng period, the class contradictions had developed to a rather acute extent.

The anti-Qing ideology circulated among the people through various forms of written works, combined with the anti-Qing struggle aimed at restoring the Ming Dynasty, and made the Manchu rule unstable.

Emperor Yongzheng once said: "There have never been different surnames successively, and there are many people with the surnames of the previous dynasties who have submitted to their descendants, and there have never been traitors like this dynasty, pretending to be surnamed Zhu, shaking people's hearts, if this is the public." ”

Summarizing historical records, the "Qing Shilu" and other materials, from the early days of the prosperous Kangqian period, various forms of struggles have appeared frequently, and although the development is uneven, they have risen one after another, endlessly, constantly impacting the feudal ruling order, and posing a threat to the Qing regime day by day.

The Qing Dynasty Literary Prison was not only aimed at the Han Chinese, but also the Manchus.

The red flag of the Ministry of Rites Lang Shichen because of the poem "frost invades the temples and sighs about the poor" made Qianlong very unhappy, and he was even more unhappy when he saw "the autumn color attracts people to be lazy to go to the court", and goodbye "should be according to Chang'an'er my family", Qianlong thought that Shichen had forgotten his ancestors and drove Shichen back to his hometown Heilongjiang.

Shichen was removed from his post for writing poetry, which is not bad. is also Manchurian, and the governor of Guangxi, Echang, is even more wronged. In his songs and poems with friends, he referred to the Mongols as "Hu'er". Qianlong said that the Manchurian family scolded the Mongols and scolded me. Kill yourself.

Judging from a series of written cases, most of the people involved were lower-class literati, including literary youths, as well as old and talented people, and even some people in the tombs who had long since died were not spared.

Engaging in this kind of thing is basically a routine, and Wei Bao is the same, first of all, he encourages the government and the people and officials to expose, report and inform.

Then it is to mobilize the state forces to raid homes, look for clues of conviction, and look for so-called evidence of guilt in books and articles.

The guilt arises from the distorted interpretation of the text by the powerful person, and the evidence is also formed by the distorted interpretation of the text by the powerful person.

It has had a bad impact on ideology, culture, and the atmosphere of scholars.

Reading and writing often get trouble, and the literati and bachelors had no choice but to extinguish their thoughts, lose their integrity, or cling to the eight-strand program, reciting the teachings of Confucius, Meng, Cheng and Zhu in order to enter the imperial examination; Or stay away from the sensitive academic field, stay away from reality, and devote all your energy to the pile of old papers of exegesis and evidence, which is known as the study of Qianjia in history.

The literal prison has corrupted the atmosphere of officialdom. Most of the officials of the Qing Dynasty were admitted to the imperial examination.

As literati, they risk falling victim to the literal prison; As bureaucrats, they are also the makers or accomplices of the literal prison.

On the one hand, they are unwilling to touch the literary network and die in ruin; On the other hand, he did not want to be convicted for failing to implement the emperor's edict and not being able to strictly investigate the responsibility of writing.

So they can only develop in the direction of being cautious and undisciplined.

It has caused social terror and destroyed talents.

Many intellectuals do not dare to intervene in politics, thus imprisoning their minds and seriously hindering the development and progress of Chinese society.

Some local officials took the discovery of taboo characters as a way to invite merit.

In this environment, philosophy is gone, theories are gone, and the tradition of Chinese culture that has always attached importance to reality, life, politics, and ethics is gone.

These were very harmful to the Manchus, but Wei Bao was not worried about how much harm it caused in the Ming Dynasty, Wei Bao felt that the Donglin Party was the product of too much freedom of speech.

The rise of a group of Donglin schools, flaunting integrity and advocating practical learning, played a positive role in reversing morale.

In their lectures, they often touched on social realities and discussed how to change the situation of political corruption and people's misery.

Donglin Academy both lectures and political discussions, attracting many people with lofty ideals, including some officials who were belittled for criticizing the government.

Regardless of the distance of the road, they came one after another, and the number of people was so large that the school buildings of Donglin Academy could not accommodate them.

Some of the upright officials who served in the DPRK also echoed the Donglin lecturers.

Donglin Academy actually became a center of public opinion, and the people here gradually formed from an academic group into a political faction, which was called the "Donglin Party" by their opponents.

At that time, the so-called "party" was different from modern political parties in that it did not have a fixed constitution or a strict organizational form, but referred to a group of people who had roughly the same political views and were often combined in political activities.

The political activities of the Donglin Party in the last years of the Ming Dynasty experienced the three dynasties of Shenzong Wanli, Xizong Tianqi and Sizong Chongzhen, which lasted for half a century.

Since there is no fixed constitution and strict organization, their political attitudes and ideas are often expressed through individual activities.

To sum up, it is roughly as follows: strongly demand to change the situation of eunuch dictatorship and disorderly government, advocate that "political affairs should be attributed to the six ministries, and public opinions should be paid to the officials", so that the world will "be happy and want to rule"; He vigorously opposed the emperor's dispatch of mine supervisors and tax envoys to various places to carry out frenzied plundering and expropriation, and advocated attaching importance to both agriculture and industry and commerce, and demanded that merchants and people be compassionate and the people should be reduced, and that land should be reclaimed and water conservancy should be built. oppose the frequent fraud in the imperial examination, and advocate that scholars should be hired according to their talents and intelligence, regardless of rank, high and low; Strengthen the military forces in Liaodong and actively defend against the attacks of the Manchurian nobility.

Wei Bao believed that the Donglin Party members "lacked the ability to govern the country", "the party was the same and the party fought against differences", their failure was "self-inflicted", and for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, "the party members of the late Ming Dynasty" were "responsible for historical crimes".

It is precisely because these people speak too freely that they have created a miasma in the world, if Wei Zhongxian is really a terrorist ruler, someone will naturally overthrow him, and there is no need to let officials form gangs and factions, and make the people miserable.

Moreover, Wei Bao's text inventory had the greatest impact on the Donglin Party, but it was not specifically aimed at the Donglin Party, so even the Donglin Party itself could not join forces to oppose Wei Bao, otherwise it would be against the emperor.

This has created Weibao's current status.

Now Wei Bao is about to marry the British government again, Wei Bao's status has risen rapidly, it is conceivable that a person who is just fifteen years old is already a fourth-grade official, and he is from Tanhualang, and Lord Wei has become the most popular figure in the Ming Dynasty to talk about after dinner.

The huge pomp and circumstance came out, and President Wei's mansion actually had half an hour enough to go to the British Mansion, but he walked for almost an hour, chatting with people along the way, expressing his closeness to the people, and making Lord Wei's throat a little dumb.

Wei Bao originally thought that when he arrived at the British Mansion, Zhang Weixian and Zhang Zhiji would still embarrass themselves and give themselves a dismount, but they didn't expect that they would not have it at all.

Zhang Weixian even took the whole family to greet Wei Bao at the very end of the street of their mansion, accompanied by all the cabinet ministers.

Coupled with Feng Quan, who led the horse and whipped Wei Bao, it was equivalent to a large gathering of cabinet ministers at the intersection.

This is absolutely impossible to see outside the cabinet, because they belong to two distinct factions, the eunuch party on one side and the Donglin party on the other, and they are incompatible.

In the cabinet, it is necessary to govern together, and there is no way to be together, outside the cabinet, it is impossible to gather so neatly like today, unless it is the emperor who goes on patrol.

It's just that today it is not the emperor who is on patrol, but Lord Wei who comes to propose marriage.

"It's coming, it's coming, Tanhualang is here." Shoufu Gu Bingqian's interest today was very high, and when he saw Wei Bao from afar, he began to shout.

Compared with the Donglin Party, Wei Bao, who has a certain eunuch attribute, is obviously more respected and supported by the eunuchs.

Although Wei Bao did not explicitly reveal the identity of the eunuch party, since Wei Bao took power, he has kept sending silver to Wei Zhongxian and the palace treasury, and the economy of these eunuch ministers has a certain loss, and there is also a certain loss of power, but the loss is not large, especially for the senior officials of the eunuch party.

Because Wei Zhongxian will distribute a part of the silver to maintain the integrity of the system.

In addition, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty did not have much power, and some people collected 'black money' in a standardized manner, and they were happy to ignore anything.

Although the Donglin Party is a little disgusted with Wei Bao, they can't oppose it on the surface, they just feel a little at a loss, in the past, they used to argue with the eunuch party every day, and now since Wei Bao took power, Yang Lian and a group of other key ministers died, they don't seem to be able to find an opponent.

Because Wei Bao basically doesn't come out, and everything is done by the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate who have expanded to seven or eight thousand people.

In fact, the people in Wei Bao's Metropolitan Procuratorate are a bit illegal, because they are all nominal officials, and there are very few official officials.

The original official imperial history was only more than 300 people, even if it was added to nearly 1,000 people in Wei Bao's hands, there were still six or seven thousand people who were pseudo-imperial history, most of them only had the fame of Xiucai, and even some of them did not even have the fame of Xiucai, just because their ancestors had served in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they could also spend money to get the nominal officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

At first, there were not many people who bought officials, but later everyone found that the nominal officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate could also do a lot of things, especially many yamen who had collapsed because of the relationship between the written inventory, and even ran to a yamen to 'occupy the mountain as the king'.

No matter how long it takes, if you can work for a day, maybe you can be transferred from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to the yamen that you are currently occupying in the future.

On this point, the stubble of the nominal officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is becoming more and more popular.

Sold to the back, a nominal official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can even sell more than 10,000 taels of silver, which is simply terrifying.

Therefore, it is not too much to say that more than half of the officialdom of Beizhili is controlled by Wei Bao.

When Zhang Weixian saw Wei Bao coming, he immediately led his family over to greet him.

Wei Bao also hurriedly dismounted and came over to bow down: "How dare Lauber's father come out by himself?" ”

"You're still called uncle, we're already a family, Xiaobao." Zhang Zhiji said with a smile.

Wu Sanfu felt a little harsh when he heard the word family next to him, but he still helped Wei Bao up.

Of course, Wei Bao can't get up by himself, a person who is a big official, naturally he has to talk about pomp, although he has not yet reached the point where he has to hold the arms of others when he walks, but from kneeling to getting up, he must be supported by others to get up.

"Brother said it well." Wei Bao laughed.

"Lord Wei, we have already mentioned to Grandpa Guo, you can now call Master Yue, hahaha." Gu Bingqian took the lead.

Wei Bao first bowed to several cabinet ministers, and then said to Zhang Weixian: "Lord Yuezhang is above, and he is bowed by his son-in-law." ”

Zhang Weixian laughed and held Wei Bao up, "This is on the street, the virtuous son-in-law doesn't have to be polite!" Hurry up and follow the old man into the house. ”

Wei Bao saw Zhang Weixian smiling like a kind old man, and secretly relaxed, although he knew that all this was an appearance, a family like Ren Guogong was a high-ranking family, and a family that had been hereditary for nearly two hundred years, how could he show a little demeanor in front of outsiders, but Wei Bao still felt good.

If the previous thing happened in a small family, the man and the woman would have been doing it back and forth for the sake of face, and they didn't know how many times they had to go back and forth.

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