After Bao Ting finished thinking about it, he stopped eating the rest of the wine and food, called Xiao Er to settle the account, and he hurried home, sorted out today's "inspiration", checked some books, and did not rest until midnight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In his sleep, Bao Ting seemed to dream of Lin Yizhe and his wife and children wearing shackles and locks to the entrance of the vegetable market......

Early the next morning, Bao Ting got up early, had breakfast, and after the crown was neat, he went to meet Concubine Hui's father, Fengxiu, in the mansion according to the strategy he had thought about all night last night.

As the abbot of the country, Feng Xiu and the father of the Empress Arut, Chengen Gong Chongqi, never acted unassumingly, and after seeing the Bao Ting, Feng Xiu was dressed and personally greeted the Bao Ting, welcoming the Bao Ting into the mansion.

But it didn't take long for Bao Ting to come out of Fengxiu Mansion angrily, and he got into the sedan chair without looking back, and the porter was not as polite as just now.

"I've kindly come to tell you! You have done this to me! Hum! The daughter still doesn't believe in the way of the demon surnamed Lin, so wait for the catastrophe to come! ”

Bao Ting sat in the sedan chair and scolded hatefully.

"My lord, are you going home?" A relative asked outside the car.

"No, go to the Cheng'en Mansion!" Bao Ting said loudly.

Hearing that Bao Ting was going to the mansion of Chongqi, the father of Empress Arut, several relatives and servants couldn't help but look at each other.

"Hurry up! Let's go! Bao Ting shouted in the sedan chair.

The attendants and servants answered, and the palanquin man lifted the palanquin and walked forward quickly.

What Bao Ting didn't know was that at about the same time, Feng Xiu came to the study and drafted a draft, probably because he was too angry, his hands trembled.

It was also at this time that at the back door of Fengxiu Mansion, a servant walked out quickly, hurriedly got into the carriage, and went straight to the direction of the Forbidden City.

Not long after, Bao Ting came to the Cheng'en Mansion, and Chongqi heard that Bao Ting came to worship, and he couldn't help but be a little strange. Because although Baoting is a clan, he has no intersection with himself on weekdays, and this time he suddenly came to the door, and Chongqi felt a little uneasy in his heart for some reason.

Chongqi changed his clothes and came to the living room to meet Bao Ting, and when the two met, they couldn't help but greet each other, and then Bao Ting couldn't wait to cut into the "main topic".

"I came here today because I have an important matter, and I want to tell Chonggong about it." Bao Ting said as he glanced at the servants standing around him.

Chongqi was even more shocked when he saw Bao Ting's eyes, and he immediately waved his hand, and the servants retreated in turn. Soon only the two of them were left in the living room.

"What do you have to tell Zhupo?" Chongqi asked.

"Chonggong, since Emperor Daxing is a guest, Chonggong can enter the palace to visit Empress Xiao Zheyi?" Bao Ting asked mysteriously.

Empress Xiao Zheyi is the late Empress Arut of the Tongzhi Emperor? Baoyin, after the Empress Dowager Ci'an and the Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong and other important ministers discussed welcoming the son of Prince Lichu as the heir to the emperor, Empress Alut's position was embarrassing, coupled with excessive grief, once had the idea of suicide, the Empress Dowager Cixi in order to comfort her, said that her position as queen remained unchanged, and at the suggestion of the courtiers, she was given the honorific title of "Xiao Zheyi" Empress to show respect. It is because the courtiers now talk about her, and they all call her "Empress Xiao Zheyi".

Hearing Bao Ting's brainless question, Chongqi was even more strange, he thought for a while, and replied: "Since Emperor Daxing went, Chong has visited Empress Xiao Zheyi in the palace several times, and everything is fine. In order to prevent her from being overly sad, Lord Sifo moved her to live in the 'Heaven and Earth Family Spring' and take care of her at any time. The grace of the queen mother, Chong's family, is very grateful. ”

"So, Empress Xiao Zheyi and Lord Xifo are now gone?" Bao Ting asked again.

"Since Empress Xiaoyi Zhe entered the palace, Lord Xifo treated her like a daughter, and always took care of her. Hearing Bao Ting's question, Chongqi was unhappy in his heart, but he didn't have an immediate seizure.

"Hehe, I heard that when Empress Xiao Zheyi entered the palace, she seemed to be not on good terms with Lord Xifo, and her words collided a lot." Bao Ting smiled and said.

"Zhupo is here today, what is going on, please make it clear." Chongqi listened to Bao Ting's words, and his heart became more and more dissatisfied, and the tone of his voice changed a little.

"I remember that Empress Xiao Zheyi was not on good terms with Xifoye at the beginning, and there were many conflicts with Concubine Hui, this is an undeclared secret in the palace, and Chonggong does not have to deny it." Bao Ting waved his hand and said, "Now that Empress Xiao Zheyi has the grace of Lord Xifo, it is also true, I don't want to tell these stories, but I want to remind Chonggong that there are unknown things in this." ”

"What's not known about this?" Chongqi snorted and asked.

"Empress Xiao Zheyi and Xifoye were not on good terms, but when Emperor Daxing met with Lin Yizhe, Empress Xiaozheyi and Emperor Daxing listened to a few nonsense words from Lin Yizhe, and suddenly changed sex, not only cried and repented to Xifoye, but also admitted his mistake to Concubine Hui, and since then he has changed his sex, and there is no disobedience, I don't know if Chonggong has thought about the weirdness in this?" Bao Ting said as he stared at Chongqi's face, carefully observing Chongqi's expression.

"Empress Xiao Zheyi raised me as an adult, her temperament, I am very familiar with it, it is filial piety to repentance and self-reform to the West Buddha, what is the weirdness?" Chongqi asked rhetorically with some annoyance.

"Hehe, Chonggong's words are wrong! Empress Xiao Zheyi fell for the witchcraft of Lin Yizhe! Bao Ting said loudly.

"What do you say? Black art? Chongqi stared at Bao Ting, his eyes widened, as if he was looking at a madman.

"Exactly!" Bao Ting nodded affirmatively, "I can now be sure that he, Lin Yizhe, cast that soul dementorship on Empress Xiao Zheyi and Concubine Hui!" ”

"Dementorship?" Chongqi suddenly changed color, suddenly got up and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?" ”

"I mean, then Lin Yizhe cast a soul dementorship on Empress Xiao Zheyi and Concubine Hui!" Bao Ting said in a deep voice, "Chonggong can't even hear of this soul dementorship, right?" ”

"Chong is lonely and unheard, I really haven't heard of it!" Chongqi said angrily, "Are you dizzy, or have you drunk too much?" Running in front of Chong such nonsense? ”

"What I say is not gibberish!" Bao Ting said, "Chonggong is a well-educated person, and the story of the demons who used soul magic to make trouble in the thirty-third year of Qianlong, hasn't Chonggong heard of it at all?" ”

Hearing Bao Ting talk about the great panic caused by the soul dementorship that swept the whole country during the Qianlong period, Chongqi's face turned blue for a while.

That time of the great panic of folk witchcraft was at the peak of the rule of the Qing Empire, the prosperous Qianlong Dynasty, and the thirty-third year of the Qianlong Emperor Yuyu, who inherited the unification at the age of twenty-five. The Qing Empire under his rule was a period of economic vitality and rapid population growth. This is especially true in Jiangnan, one of China's most historically prosperous districts. It was in this area that the Dementorship Incident hatched into a nationwide case.

In contrast to the belief of later generations in science, it was believed that the soul of a person was separable from the body, and that if a person could master the soul of someone by chanting a spell on an object (such as a physical object such as a braided hair), it would be possible to master the soul of another. By performing this kind of sorcery, the practitioner of the sorcery can achieve certain goals for his own purposes. Undoubtedly, the people have a great sense of danger and fear of this "spiritualism". This fear slowly evolved into a great panic about witchcraft after a few "ordinary" cases that appeared by chance. Murky threats affect people's daily lives.

At that time, it was said that the sorcerers could make the victim sick or even die by applying his name, hair, or clothing, and steal his soul essence to serve him. This hysteria affected social life in 12 provinces, from the farmer's hut to the emperor's palace.

The rampant panic of witchcraft caused great attention from the imperial court and Emperor Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong's shock was followed by a purge of all provinces across the country. When Emperor Qianlong came into contact with the soul dementoring case, he judged that it was a rebellion, and it was a mountain rain that could not be taken lightly. As more and more suspected cases were reported across the country, the initial judgment of Emperor Qianlong was increased. His credulity was reflected in the pressure on provincial officials. And the pressure on the officials, most of them turned into some unjust, false and wrongful cases to give back the new clues that the Qianlong Emperor wanted to get.

For most of the year, from spring to autumn, the entire Qing Empire was mobilized by this demonic fear. Officials at all levels in the 12 provinces of the country were busy chasing down the "demons" who frequently committed crimes in various places, while the Qianlong Emperor, who lived in a temple, was restless in his sleep, trying to figure out the sinister conspiracy behind the dementors' fears, and constantly issued edicts to supervise them. Tossed to the end of the year, after the worthless life of the small people and the precious black yarn of the official lord were lost, the truth of the case was finally revealed, and the so-called dementorship fear was just a farce: there was no real demon, there was no demon case that was not an unjust case, and some were just disturbing themselves, spreading rumors and framing them, and beating them into tricks. Frustrated and disappointed, Emperor Qianlong had no choice but to stop fighting.

Chongqi had heard of this story that the court was reluctant to retell, but he never thought that someone would associate this with his daughter!

"What do you want to do today?" Chongqi stared at Chongqi who was still sitting there, and his gaze had become extremely sharp.

"I want to ask Chonggong to go up and impeach Lin Yizhe!" Bao Ting didn't realize that Chongqi was already furious at this time, and directly said the purpose of his coming.

"Lin Yizhe used Western strange skills to defile the court, and if he wanted to do things that were not subordinate, the world was a corporal, and all of them cut their teeth! Now he uses soul dementorship to confuse the concubine, Chonggong, as the royal prince, should stand up to expose the treacherous plot and punish such demons, so as to live up to the emperor's grace......"

"Shut up! You despicable villain! Chongqi finally understood Baoting's purpose at this time, and couldn't help but burst into tears, and sharply cut off his nonsense.

Thinking of Baoting's desire to use this to rectify Lin Yizhe's vicious methods and the dirty water poured on his daughter, Chongqi trembled with anger for a while.

He already knew that the reason why the Dementor case could cause such a big storm back then had a lot to do with the suspicion of the monarch and the ministers!

The Qianlong Dynasty had a profound social crisis, and it had become a "troubled society" that could not solve the basic problems of society by increasing production, and in which people were very aggressive because they doubted whether they could improve their situation by working or studying. When strangers intrude into their territory and threaten to rob them of their resources, they naturally protect themselves by expelling strangers – that is, those on the margins of society. In the process of squeezing the living space of marginal groups in this social subject, the more people on the margins of society, the greater the mobility, and the more and more rumors will circulate correspondingly, and the spread will be faster and faster.

With the continuation of the purge and the retrial of the case, the Dementor case has gradually become clear. In the final analysis, this is just another example of the unjust case that has resulted from the heavy torture of the Yamen. This series of incidents triggered by the "Dementor Braiding Case", and the participation of the imperial court, provincial officials and the people in the demon eradication campaign, is just the masterpiece of Emperor Qianlong. This untenable soul case is completely the embodiment of Emperor Qianlong's personal will. And the great panic of folk dementorship is only born from ignorance and the ghost that grows in jealousy. The interpretation of the events of the Dementorship varies from person to person, and each social group recombines different elements of the sorcery lore to suit its own worldview. Emperor Qianlong injected the consciousness generated by his own fear into the folk witchcraft, and the understanding and expression of the people in turn affected the mood of the Qianlong Emperor.

The Qianlong Emperor's unusually fierce reaction to the dementorship case reflects the ruler's anti-suspicion psychology towards his subjects. Suspicion of subordinates has been the ruling psychology of the ruling regimes of the past dynasties, and the Manchurian outsiders are especially serious. In the early Qing Dynasty, the high-pressure ruling policy had the saying of "keeping your head without hair, and leaving your hair without leaving your head". The connection between hair and the Dementors, with its racial symbolism, has a natural political element. Although the Qianlong Emperor was careful to remain silent about this, he ignored and avoided possible connections between them. But there is still a connection between the unreformed witchcraft and the Qianlong Emperor's deep anxiety about the Qing Empire.

While the conspiracy and conspiracy case not only provoked the political control nerves of the Qianlong Emperor, but also triggered the contest between the Qianlong Emperor's control of the bureaucracy and the counter-control of the bureaucracy. The struggle of how the bureaucracy tried to control the supreme ruler by manipulating the communication system, and how the supreme ruler tried to get rid of this control, ran through feudal Chinese society. In the **** ruling structure, the emperor and the bureaucracy **** are indeed limited by many obstacles in the exercise of authority. These malpractices are partly due to their own management defects, and the bureaucratic machine's own sluggish way of working is enough to make the ruse of resisting the **** dictatorship succeed. The Qianlong Emperor was frustrated by the inefficiency of the bureaucratic apparatus, and this fact was also prevalent in his society. Theoretically, the government has the right to open up and restrict a policy, but the reliability and efficiency of the administration are often difficult to reconcile, and are often hindered by the forces of all parties. The decentralization and balance of power is one of the difficulties of the Qing generation and the modern ruling regime.

Among the multiple problems reflected in the Dementorship Crisis, it provided a particularly suitable opportunity for the discipline of the individual, and it also created an environment for the Qianlong Emperor to have a direct showdown with the bureaucrats on the issues of concern to him, and even strengthened the relationship between the monarch and the bureaucracy. For Emperor Qianlong, the crisis of sorcery provided an opportunity for him to vent his anger at the deep taboo of the bureaucracy.

The Crisis of the Dementors provides a particularly fitting opportunity for a disciplinary purge of the individual, as it is a case built on such absurdity. Political crimes such as the Dementors put the neat and orderly backyard of the bureaucracy's career under the harsh rage of **** power, and the many examples of the Dementor case show that the bureaucrats do their best to direct the urgent, unconventional demands from the monarch into the habitual, everyday track. The officials were not active agents in the farce of the Great Panic, and even they acted as a buffer, doing their best to channel the anxious, unconventional demands from the Emperor into the habitual, everyday track. In fact, in the end, it was Liu Tongxun, the Minister of Military Aircraft, who dissuaded the almost paranoid actions of the "perfect old man".

And Bao Ting said that Lin Yizhe knew how to dementor demons, and deliberately linked it with the soul dementorship case in the Qianlong period, because he understood that the supreme ruler of the empire was so nervous about his subordinates, even if he knew that this matter was false, it would easily make the queen mother disgusted with Empress Arut and Lin Yizhe!

Once this dark and vicious seed is planted in the bottom of my heart, it will take root and sprout, and it will be difficult to remove, and for my daughter and my daughter's benefactor Lin Yizhe, it will be a real disaster!

"Bao Ting, you are so bloody, aren't you afraid of thunder and thunder?!" Chongqi shouted angrily.

"Huh! Chonggong is really confused! I kindly came to point out to you, and you did this to me! That's it! I didn't say it! Bao Ting sneered and stood up, "However, I still have to remind Chonggong that if you are so laissez-faire, one day, then Lin Yizhe will do something sorry to Emperor Daxing, don't blame me for not reminding you in advance!" ”

"Bao Ting! You...... Shame on you! Chongqi was so angry that he trembled, pointed at Baoting with his halberd, and roared angrily, "You just can't see my daughter get the favor of Lord Xifo, and you want to frame Lin Yizhe in every possible way, so you came up with such a means!" Baoting! Be careful! If you dare to harm my daughter, I will not spare you! ”

"Since Chonggong said so, my Baoting has nothing else to say." Bao Ting glanced at Chongqi who was shaking with his hair and beard contemptuously, and said, "However, since Chonggong is unwilling to go to this fold, and is bent on protecting the Zhuzi surnamed Na Lin, this fold must be taken by me Bao Ting!" ”

"You...... You bastard! Chongqi was extremely angry, only to feel dizzy in front of him, and almost fell.

"Sir! Master! Several servants rushed in at this time, and when they saw Chongqi crumbling, they couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

"Someone!" Chongqi pointed at Bao Ting angrily and yelled, "Beat this despicable villain out of me!" ”