But as a person who likes reading and writing, he thinks that Kangxi's greatest sin is "literary inquisition". "Speech" is the instinct of the people and the basic right given to them. However, overbearing and hypocritical rulers often "defend the people more than Sichuan" and the people are convicted of speech. Shut your mouth and I'll kill your head. Let's take a look at the famous and bad literary inquisition in Kangxi period.
Dai Mingshi Prison, which happened in Kangxi period, is also known as Nanshan Ji case. Just because he agreed with Fang's idea of rehabilitating Nanming, he was beheaded and his family and friends were also implicated in slavery. This case is widely known. Shouldn't the emperor who made such a literary inquisition condemn his tyranny and praise his kindness?
During the Kangxi period, the world-famous literary inquisition "Zhu case" also happened. The brief record of the literary inquisition in the Qing Dynasty in the General Rules for Banning Books in the Qing Dynasty also introduced this situation: "Zhu was imprisoned in the nineteenth year of Kangxi, and there were Zhu and Shanren in Huguang. He said that the middle road is at the foot of the mountain between the eyebrows, and Kangxi is twenty. As a result, Zhu was beheaded, and disciples Lu Guangxu, Zhai and Gu were also sentenced to death after the autumn. "
At that time, he told the king about Zhu's three major crimes: first, he preached faith and had a birth law, omitting the classes of emperors, ministers and civilians; Then there are many believers; Third, the invention of memory in the brain is not in the heart, thinking it is new and different.
The first two words, it is estimated that Wang Gen and even Wang Yangming of the Ming Dynasty were inevitably beheaded under the rule of Kangxi. Needless to say, Wang Gen, a civilian thinker from Ding Yan, thinks highly of himself, considers himself a saint and has many disciples. This alone was enough to make him beheaded under the rule of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. As for Wang Yangming, he said: "Learning is a public school in the world, not for Zhu, but for private, not for Confucius." Under the rule of Kangxi, the crime of deviance was a cinch. What's more, he also called his disciples to give lectures, which made a sensation and was praised as a saint by his disciples.
If the last item "memory is in the brain, not in the heart, thinking that innovation is also established" is actually ignorance of Kangxi and his ministers. This view is not new, and it has been circulated among many intellectuals as early as the end of the Ming Dynasty. How could he set up an innovation and even be accused of beheading? At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the great historian Meng Sen wrote an article from 0755 to 79000, saying: The so-called mental function of the new invention, especially the definition of physiology, is considered a great sin by the academic circles, so today's books will be burned and banned, and schools will be sealed up and destroyed.