Because the Qing Dynasty used a large number of unwarranted *** to hang a handful on the heads of literati"Sword of Damocles"It was the existence of this sword that caused a large number of literati not to create, to develop their own ideas, and to propagate heretical doctrines that were not favorable to the Qing Dynasty.
There are not many people killed in the Qing Dynasty, although there is no specific data on the Internet, but compared with those tens of thousands of data, the number of people killed in the Qing Dynasty is not particularly large.
I don't believe the data of 200 people on the Internet. I remember who said they killed 10,000 people. )
However, it is worth noting that the Qing Dynasty's standards for *** are simply so"Schrödinger's cat? "The same. So that the literati can't guess the *** standard in the ruler's heart, in order to avoid the ruler's deliberate rise of many literati can only bury their heads in the pile of old papers, and conduct a lot of research and learning, thus giving birth to"Qianjia studied according to the evidence"Such a style of study.
Let's take an example that everyone knows.
Qingfeng is illiterate, why do you flip through books. "
This poem came from the mouth of Xu Jun, a native of the Qing Dynasty. Xu Jun°, the word Guanqing, a native of Kunshan, Jiangsu, is the youngest son of Xu Ganxue, the secretary of the Criminal Department of the Kangxi Dynasty, and the niece of Gu Yanwu.
In other words, Xu Jun is considered to be from the official eunuch ** family, but because he wrote a song "Qingfeng Tao", he was directly cut by Kangxi.
The whole Qingfeng Tao original text Mo Dao is small, and he still shines in the night. Qingfeng is illiterate, why do you flip through books.
The fundamental meaning of the verse is not to look at the small glow emitted by the fireflies, but still have the ambition to light up the night sky. Qingfeng doesn't know words, and he has no culture. Why flip through the books?
Kangxi doesn't know the meaning of this poem? must know, but knowing is one thing, Xu Jun's identity is another, Gu Yanwu participated in the War of Resistance against the Qing Dynasty, so let's kill chickens and be monkeys, so Xu Jun was executed.
This is the core of the Qingfeng case, the poems written by Xu Jun, anyone who knows a little bit of words knows that it does not mean that, but for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the political effect is very important, and the words are not important.
The consequence of this was that the Manchu literati did not dare to guess what the ruler was thinking, so they had to bury their heads in the pile of old papers.