曾静 / Zeng Jing

曾静 / Zeng Jing is the rural scholar at the center of the case in 11.雍正王朝之大义觉迷：史景迁笔下的千古奇案. The episode presents him as the teacher who sent [[ZhangXi|张熙]] to persuade [[YueZhongqi|岳钟琪]] to rebel, but not as the head of a mature revolutionary organization.

Zeng Jing’s political imagination, as the source summarizes it, combined civil-service frustration, local distress, omen reading, idealized Confucian restoration, and [[LuLiuliang|吕留良]]’s anti-Qing Hua-Yi arguments. Once arrested, he admitted primary responsibility and became the object of [[YongzhengEmperor|雍正]]’s forced pedagogical project: repeated confession, imperial correction, and eventual publication in [[DaiYiJueMiLu|《大义觉迷录》]].

The episode treats his fate as a measure of imperial strategy. Yongzheng spared him as a deluded commoner and propaganda convert, while [[QianlongEmperor|乾隆]] later executed him and Zhang Xi after Yongzheng’s death. That reversal makes Zeng Jing a case for Imperial Public Rebuttal / 皇帝公开辩驳, Political Propaganda Backfire / 政治宣传反噬, and the instability of pardon under personal rule.

Connections

• [[ZhangXi|张熙]] - student and courier.
• [[YueZhongqi|岳钟琪]] - target of the anti-Qing letter.
• [[LuLiuliang|吕留良]] - ideological influence named in the case.
• [[YongzhengEmperor|雍正]], [[QianlongEmperor|乾隆]], and [[DaiYiJueMiLu|《大义觉迷录》]] - rulers and text shaping his fate.
• 清代文字狱 / Qing Literary Inquisition, 满汉合法性政治 / Han-Manchu Legitimacy Politics, and 清代谣言政治 / Qing Rumor Politics - broader source concepts.