乾隆 / Qianlong Emperor
乾隆 / Qianlong Emperor enters 11.雍正王朝之大义觉迷：史景迁笔下的千古奇案 as the ruler who reversed 雍正’s handling of the 曾静 case. Soon after Yongzheng’s death, the episode says Qianlong had Zeng Jing and 张熙 arrested again and executed, while also suppressing 《大义觉迷录》.
The episode uses Qianlong as a contrast in ruler style. Yongzheng argued with and tried to convert a rural scholar; Qianlong preferred erasure, punishment, and restored control. The source does not present either strategy as finally successful: suppression could make the banned book seem more dangerous, just as publication had made rumors easier to remember.
Hanji 920 uses Qianlong in a different, comparative register. While explaining 汉灵帝’s palace shops, the episode cites Qianlong’s Tongleyuan New Year buy/sell street as a later palace-market amusement staffed by outer-city shop clerks and allegedly stopped after Qianlong’s death in 1799.
This comparison adds Qianlong to 宫市游乐式权力错位 without changing the earlier Zeng Jing branch. In this source, he is a later example of royal market play rather than the punitive ruler of the Yongzheng succession-rumor case.
Connections
- Hanji 920, 汉灵帝, and 宫市游乐式权力错位 - Tongleyuan buy/sell street comparison.
- 雍正 - predecessor whose settlement he reversed.
- 曾静 and 张熙 - men executed after the reversal.
- 《大义觉迷录》 - text Qianlong tried to suppress.
- Political Propaganda Backfire / 政治宣传反噬 and Historical Memory Contest - concepts explaining the memory effects of suppression.
- 岳钟琪 - official later reused despite earlier suspicion.