Kangxi Dynasty: What happened to the crying temple case in history?

In fact, "Crying Temple" is a long-standing custom in Suzhou. The local economy is developed and the humanities are gathered. Scholars from wealthy families and the middle class have become important social supervision forces. When the government has misconduct outside the law, scholars often gather in the Confucius Temple to cry to their ancestors Confucius.

After crying, I told local officials that the declaration of the "Wailing Temple" in the Ming Dynasty often made the government dare not take it lightly. However, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, this custom was unheard of, so students crying in temples were often arrested and literary prisons were built in Daxing.

Shunzhi eighteen years, this year is very special, because the emperor shunzhi died. At that time, Zhao Aigang went to Wuzhong County, but there was a mourning temple in the county, because Wuzhong County ordered severe punishment for tax collection last year, and at the same time sold the official rice to enrich himself. The people in Wuzhong are miserable.

At that time, several literati, led by Jin Shengtan, didn't like what the officials did, so they wrote a post to the Confucian Temple crying about the corruption of the county magistrate, and even pointed the finger at Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangsu at that time. Zhu Guozhi was furious, of course. It was the emperor shunzhi's new funeral. Their behavior is also regarded as a collision with the spirit of the first emperor.

So at the scene of the Crying Temple, Ni Yongbin and other five people were arrested on the spot, and then they were implicated in Daxing, and as many as a dozen scholars were arrested. Zhu Guozhi arrested Jin Shengtan, the drafter of Crying Temple, as the first culprit, and was accused of "shaking people's hearts and advocating chaos, which is different from the national law". Subsequently, this 18 person was taken to the execution ground and beheaded.

In fact, everyone can see that his case is obviously unjust, but at that time, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty had just entered the customs, and the people's hearts were still unstable. Foreign rule would inevitably suppress some old aristocratic forces. The so-called "imperial court intended to embarrass the powerful families and rob the Jiangnan people by force."

Among them, besides Zhu Guozhi, we are most familiar with Jin Shengtan. At that time, as a gifted scholar, he was also quite wise, and he also commented on the Water Margin, which was equally admirable. At that time, people expressed great regret for his murder, both regretting that he failed to complete his writing plan and was killed.