In Chinese history, there have been many messy crimes in every dynasty. These charges are nothing more than casually made up by the rulers for the sake of their own authority, and then placed on a person they are unhappy with. Many criminals have committed crimes that are unprecedented and unprecedented. During the Qing Dynasty, there was a man who committed the only crime in history. He was the only one in the five thousand years of Chinese history. This crime is called ancient and rare crime. Because of this crime, the old man was not only sentenced to death, but also implicated the family, and finally the whole family was executed. The person who committed the ancient rare crime was Yin Jiaquan, the minister of Dali Temple at that time. This incident happened in the forty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign.
We all know Qianlong from watching TV. When he has nothing to do, he likes to travel around in the name of inspection. Once when he visited Mount Wutai during his inspection, Yin Jiaquan didn't know where he got the news from, so he made preparations to receive an audience with the emperor. But Qianlong had no intention of meeting him at all. He was just being smart. Yin Jiaquan thought about it and came up with a good idea. He wrote two zhezi for Qianlong. The purpose of his two zhezi was to give his father a posthumous title and to worship him. Qianlong was furious when he saw it, but he spared him because he was fulfilling his filial piety to his father and did not blame him.
But Yin Jiaquan was unwilling to do so and insisted on showing his face in front of Qianlong. No, he wrote another note to the emperor, asking "the emperor's permission for his father to worship in the Confucian Temple." In this excerpt, he calls himself the ancient and rare old man. This was great. Qianlong was so angry when he saw this ancient old man that he directly called him a wild dog barking. The officials under Qianlong were not jealous either. They made various accusations and finally beheaded Yin Jiaquan's entire family for ancient and rare crimes.
When I saw this, I felt that this person’s death was a bit unfair. Although he is just a victim of the centralized system, he will not die unless he seeks death. If he hadn't insisted on getting into trouble with the emperor, he wouldn't have died. However, the charges of taking the lives of others because of the ruler's own preferences seem to be groundless today, and can even be said to be ridiculous.