Literary Inquisition.
Officially defined as "the practice in ancient times where rulers persecuted intellectuals by deliberately extracting sentences from their writings to fabricate crimes," it is considered a representative of the tyranny of feudal despotism, its detrimental effects being the imprisonment of thought, the destruction of talent, and the severe impediment of social progress.
Setting aside the ideological content added by officialdom, purely from a political perspective, it is an extremely efficient administrative measure, particularly suited to vast empires under the rule of ethnic minorities.
——In fact, one should advertise this, such as "Who is strong in ideological control? The braided Qing Dynasty of the Celestial Empire"...
