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 张熙 to persuade 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 吕留良’s anti-Qing Hua-Yi arguments. Once arrested, he admitted primary responsibility and became the object of 雍正’s forced pedagogical project: repeated confession, imperial correction, and eventual publication in 《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 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
- 张熙 - student and courier.
- 岳钟琪 - target of the anti-Qing letter.
- 吕留良 - ideological influence named in the case.
- 雍正, 乾隆, and 《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.