When Yongzheng was in the seventh year, he suddenly ordered that Lü Liuliang, who was plotting rebellion, be dug out of the grave, and cut off his head and hang it in the city tower, and all the men in Lü Liuliang's family were executed, and his former students were either executed or imprisoned because of him.
Lü Liuliang, an outstanding scholar in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties
So the question is, how did a person who has been dead for more than 50 years rebel? Moreover, Lü Liuliang was just a scholar, was there something between him and Yongzheng, a deep hatred that was not known?
In this matter, we have to start from the sixth year of Yongzheng, when there was a scholar named Zeng Jing, who became a local teacher after returning to his hometown because he failed to make the list. It is said that Mr. Teaching is also a decent job, but the income is not bad, and the life is still passable. However, Zeng Jing has always been grumpy about his failure to fall on the list, and he himself feels that the failure to fall on the list is not that he is not skilled in learning, but because he is a Han, because the Qing Dynasty rejects the Han people, so he will fall off the list.
Yongzheng Emperor
Because he was angry and more resentful in his heart, he had even completely lost confidence in his life and career. At this time, he only wanted to take revenge on society, in order to vent the resentment in his heart. Coincidentally, on this day he suddenly saw a book written by Lü Liuliang, which wrote a lot of things about the anti-Qing Dynasty, saying that the Qing Dynasty was the world ruled by barbarians, and the Han people would not have any status with the Manchus under the rule of the Manchus, nor would they have a good life, and the hearts of non-Chinese races would be different, driving out the Manchus to restore the Han people, and so on, and the only way to change was to fight with them to the end. Anyway, in the whole book, the basic articles written are all anti-Qing articles.
Young Yongzheng
Who is Lü Liuliang (who would rather cut his hair and become a monk than serve the Qing court) ? He was also a scholar, but he was a staunch anti-Qing faction. He hated the Manchus very much, as to what was the reason? That's not clear. Only because he is a reader, his own ability is limited, but he does not want to give up his anti-Qing cause, so he can only rely on his own pen to support the anti-Qing. His students, he also instilled anti-Qing ideas in them, and listed a number of Manchu crimes.
Yongzheng stills
When he saw the book, he suddenly had an idea in his heart, that is, to find this person named Lu Liuliang and have a good talk with him. However, as soon as he inquired, he learned that this Lü Liuliang had died as early as the Kangxi period. However, he did not have a dead heart, but let his students continue to inquire where Lu Liuliang's students were now. After many inquiries, he also contacted Lu Liuliang's students. After he and Lu Liuliang's students came into contact, they found that they really hated each other a little, and the two people could be said to be in love. One day, the two of them chatted and talked about the topic and talked about the matter of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the two people are more energetic, because both people are readers, and it is impossible to rebel, so the two people have thought of a way to kill people with knives. After the two men discussed it, they wrote a letter to Yue Zhongqi, who was then the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi.
Who is Yue Zhongqi? As mentioned above, he is the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, a great general, and has countless strong soldiers and good generals. Why did Zeng Jing choose him? Because Yue Zhongqi was also a Han Chinese and was also suppressed by many Manchus in the imperial court, they felt that Yue Zhongqi was the most suitable candidate.
After Yue Zhongqi received Zeng Jing's letter, she was also very surprised, how dare someone dare to contact him to oppose the Qing? At the beginning of the letter, it is written that Yong is a cruel king, how he killed his brother and mother, saying that he was absurd, disregarding the government and politics, and dozens of other crimes. Finally, it was written that he was a civilian aspirant, and had contacted many anti-Qing forces, as long as yue Zhongqi raised an army, they would respond. He also said that Yue Zhongqi was a descendant of Yue Fei, and he should be like Yue Fei who was not afraid of power and regain the Han people for the sake of the world. It sounds quite reasonable, but Yue Zhongqi will not rebel at all, because what is said in the letter is nonsense. But he had to pay attention to this matter, rebellion is not a small matter, he randomly arrested the messenger.
Yue Zhongqi
However, this student who delivered the letter was also quite tough, and no matter how Yue Zhongqi pressed him, he just didn't say who wrote the letter, and he had the courage to see death as a homecoming. Yue Zhongqi saw that it was not okay to use a strong one, if he killed someone, then the people behind him would not appear. After thinking about it, he decided to go along with them first, and agreed to join them in a rebellion. This student saw that what Yue Zhongqi said was true, so he told Yue Zhongqi about his teacher and asked him to send a letter.
The next thing was to arrest people, just two students, Yue Zhongqi didn't have much effort to arrest the two people. After interrogation, the two men quickly confessed the truth of the matter, and it turned out that this was a prank that two poor students had come up with in boredom. Yue Zhongqi also played this matter to Yongzheng, thinking that it would be over if he had beheaded these two students. Who knows, after Yongzheng knew the ins and outs of the matter, he did not let the two behead them, but told Yue Zhongqi that Zeng Jing absolutely could not die, not only could not die, but also lived well. What's going on here?
Qing Dynasty literal prison
It turned out that Yongzheng also knew that he was in the folk, and there were many bad rumors, especially among the Han people, there were many people who were dissatisfied with him, and he just wanted to take the opportunity to let the people of the world understand whether he was a rumored tyrant or not. He did not kill Zeng Jing, that is, he wanted him to sing praises to himself after he returned, because a sentence from a Han chinese was far more effective than a Manchu explanation of ten sentences. So Zeng Jing can't kill, and this matter is over? Of course not, this matter can not only not be big and small, but also make things bigger, so big that everyone in the whole world knows.
If things are going to be big, and someone has to be convicted, who is this person? This person can only be Lu Liuliang, why? Because Zeng Jing would have the idea of rebellion, all of them were "instigated" by Lü Liuliang (instigated by the book written by Lü Liuliang). Since the main culprit was found, he had to be punished, but Lu Liuliang was already dead, and no matter whether he was alive or dead, he was the main culprit who had to be punished. Yongzheng ordered him to be dug out of the grave, and then cut off his head and hung it on the city wall to make an example.
Lu Liuliang
At this point, it was not over, because he wanted to make a big deal out of it, so Yongzheng ordered that all the nine clans of Lü Liuliang be executed, and his students could not let it go. Even if such a thing is not over, because the scope of influence is not large enough, and then Yongzheng ordered that the people have worshiped Lü Liuliang, built temples for him, and so on, in short, as long as they can have a little relationship with him, they cannot let go.
In this way, with regard to the case of Lü Liuliang's rebellion, the personnel implicated were arrested for more than two years before they were concluded. Just after the case was over, Yongzheng published a book called "The Secret Record of Great Righteousness", the main content of which was that Yongzheng explained the ten major crimes of accusing himself one by one (set ten charges for Yongzheng: murdering his father, persecuting his mother, killing his brothers and slaughtering his brothers, greed for money, indiscriminate killing, alcoholism, obscenity, loyal subjects, liking flattery, and adultery. ）。
Yongzheng
It is not difficult to see that Yongzheng's intentions are deep, right? Through his explanation, the hearts of many Han chinese truly submitted to the Great Qing. Do you think, from ancient times to the present, where has the emperor explained to his subjects, does his emperor need to explain to you? But Yongzheng explained to you, what will you think at this time, and what is your mood? Did he think that the emperor loved his subjects, especially the Han Chinese?
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