Chapter 2075 Tianshui is ready (1)

Georgiana could see that Academician Bonaparte was a little disappointed.

People were busy listening to "Oriental" topics and were not so attentive to the carefully prepared programs on the stage.

But he was also a person who loved to listen to stories, so he didn't feel very angry and just listened attentively.

Qianlong liked Jiangnan so much that he moved part of Jiangnan's elite culture to the Chengde Summer Resort, making the Manchu summer capital more sophisticated and elegant.

In July of that year, the scorching heat enveloped BJ City. However, going to Chengde was not just to escape the hot weather. The emperor also wanted to bring the Manchu nobles back to their old homes and let them mount their war horses again, just like before outside the customs.

Same hunting drill.

The Manchus were degenerating as fast as they were Sinicizing. The emperor himself was attracted by Jiangnan, but also rejected its decadence. The society in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River was luxurious and corrupt, corroding people's virtues like candy corroding teeth. Officials and

The wealthy gentry colluded with each other and acted arbitrarily, and only occupied a small part of the rights and interests of the salt people. The county officials, in order to protect themselves, learned to turn a blind eye to troubles. Basically, unless it was an extreme situation, they would not let some "little things" disturb them.

The emperor's mood.

But just as the people in the summer resort were preparing to hunt, Qianlong himself looked at the new palace built after the Potala Palace, bypassing BJ's military aircraft and placing it directly on the emperor's table in Chengde.

Aixinjueluo Hongli's taste was unique, while his father Yongzheng was more elegant. As long as you are used to his color matching... those colorful four treasures of the study are still very beautiful.

The emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were not afraid of sorcery. They believed in lamas and did not know much about Chinese Buddhism and Taoism. Moreover, they were more afraid of smallpox than these, and Kangxi had suffered from it before.

But this does not mean that they have no fear of witchcraft, especially "misfortunes and blessings", which were written into the Qing laws.

In other words, it is a prophecy. The Han people like to engage in these things, such as "Great Chu will rise, Chen Sheng will be king". This kind of "monster talk" must be banned.

The study of prophecy has been around since the pre-Qin Dynasty. It is a kind of political prophecy for the future. Prophecy is the lingo of the alchemists, and wei is its explanation. Compared with Buddhism, Taoism has more mastery of this discipline.

In the fantasy novels written by literati in the 18th century, Taoist priests pretended to be gods and conspired to seek wealth and murder, while monks were hypocritical, immoral, and had improper relationships with several married women. This was also an attack on priests in Europe.

a topic covered at the time.

But this time, it was not a Taoist priest who sought wealth and death, but a monk. At first, Qianlong didn't care about it at all. But just like the broken window effect, various states and counties were full of rumors about witchcraft.

The news came in droves throughout August, from south to north, as if people all over the country had begun a "witch hunt."

It's been 2000 years. This is the first time that when the Immortal Sect was popular in the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty treated these "immortals" as honored guests and married them to a princess. It was the turn of "reform" here.

In the past, the Yellow Turban Uprising also had leaders like Zhang Jiao, but this time there was no such thing. It was all just random guessing. The old ladies saw that there were two monks living in the Guandi Temple outside the village, and felt that they might be trying to harm people, so they reported it to the government.

, and then the government actually sent people to arrest the person.

Without further ado, I started with a stick, which can break a person's ankle bones. If I didn't want to suffer physical pain, I had to confess quickly.

No justice? This is normal. The Manchu aristocrats oppressed the minions, the minions oppressed ordinary Han people, and those with families bullied those without families. In the social structure at that time, monks and beggars were the poorest and least able to protect themselves.

, they have no powerful relatives to support them. Moreover, wandering Taoist priests and monks are alone or in a very small number of people, unlike beggars who travel in groups.

In what ways is a decent society most vulnerable to attack?

Beggars, and a large group of them, all in ragged clothes. Respectable people can't avoid weddings and weddings. These beggars bow to the groom who is riding a white horse and walking in front of the sedan chair of a wealthy family. They say good things and give red envelopes and they will leave. If they don't give them, they will leave.

He would rush into the banquet of people hosting a wedding banquet, and even get a mouthful of wine and meat from him, good or bad.

Of all the rich and well-established people in the world, they are most vulnerable to attacks from those who have nothing to lose.

Likewise, those who have nothing are easy targets for the wealthy and well-established.

So it became a competition to see who could sue whom first. For example, someone had a creditor who didn't want to pay back the money, so he falsely accused the creditor of using "soul-calling" witchcraft, so that he wouldn't have to pay back the money when the creditor died.

Already.

The creditor will not sit still and wait for death. He will say that a certain beggar or monk did it. Using beggars and monks as scapegoats is a conspiracy between the court and the people. Hongli believed that monks were the masterminds, and they were more likely to know this kind of magic, while beggars

It's an errand.

When will the injustice be repaid?

There is no end to the sea of ​​suffering, and there is only one shore.

Save these words for the Lord of Hell. By the way, Lord of Hell is the God of Death in China.

Later, "calling the soul" became a folk way of swearing.

A missionary named Alan MacFarlane compared this phenomenon with the witchcraft during the Tuscan Dynasty in England and found that witchcraft is different from witchcraft in that it does not rely on innate inner strength, but a

This magical skill can be learned by anyone, and therefore anyone can become a target of suspicion.

The bonds formed by "patriarchal clan" and blood relations will exclude internal suspects, so wandering wanderers become the target of suspicion and are hunted and killed at will like stray dogs.

It was not until Qianlong found out the root of the matter that there were two monk temples in Deqing, the hometown of silk, one called Ciren Temple and the other called Guanyin Temple. One was very prosperous and the other was not so good. So a monk spread rumors and led to

The road to the popular temple has been cursed, and anyone who steps on it will die.

Originally, there were many loopholes in this story, but the people used their imagination to complete the story, so the "soul-calling" magic became "real".

It is easy to break the evil spell, but it is difficult to correct the mental tricks.

Shang Yang's Five Arts for Controlling the People is called the "Emperor's Secret Skills" and is a course that emperors need to learn. However, the most important thought left by Shang Yang is the Theory of One Punishment. Han Fei also pointed out that "words are no more valuable than laws."

And Han Fei took Shen Buhai as an example to demonstrate that laws and regulations must be unified.

In simple and clear terms, everyone is equal before the law. To use the understanding of the French Revolution, it is to eliminate the privileged class and cancel immunity. Like Jiangnan merchants who use their influence to influence politics, the method of obtaining immunity is not allowed in a society ruled by law.

of.

However, these people have experienced the panic of "soul calling" and have not experienced the terror caused by the Reign of Terror and the guillotine. They can continue to live in luxury and dance. France has ended its feudal society and the old order and entered modern society.

Sometimes people do not necessarily progress with the passage of time, but those who follow must be more advanced than their predecessors. Europeans gave up the natural science of the ancient Greeks and no longer believed that the earth was round. This period happened to be the darkest Middle Ages.

As these people chatted, they told another story. There was a dervish in Hangzhou who was good at performing illusions in his mendicant, as if a dragon was flying.

At that time, there was a retired official who was good at identifying strange and magical arts. He heard the story of the dervish, so he went to visit him. There was a wandering dervish who could use a kind of magic to perform in his

The image of a wandering dragon appeared in the bowl. The monk invited an official who was a good sorcerer to travel into the mountains with him, and then suddenly disappeared.

The officials searched everywhere and finally found a man who had seen the dervish in a monk's temple. The monk told the officials that he should become a monk there.

At first the officials didn't believe it, but when he returned home, suddenly the wall collapsed, his young child and his mother died, and his wife fell ill, leaving him alone.

He was so distracted that he returned to the temple, saw the sweeping monk again, and asked him, "If I didn't go back that day, would things be different?"

"It won't be any different, it's just that your state of mind will be different."

Han Feizi stammered and couldn't speak clearly. How could he defeat Li Si in an argument?

But Ying Zheng was a monarch who decided to continue the construction even though he knew that Zheng Guo Canal was used to consume Qin's national power. If it hadn't been for him, could anyone else have accomplished the unification?

Georgiana looked at Bonaparte again, wondering if she could get him to do "one sentence."

She may be a waste, but it's better not to worry about so many things. Look at the beer industry she started. How many people will starve to death in the Great Famine 13 years later.

Once you know the prophecy, you can't change the outcome.

So why bother knowing so much in advance?
Chapter completed!