In ancient Chinese history, there have been various uprisings. There were peasant uprisings, there were military uprisings, there were workers' uprisings, and there were women's uprisings. However, when it comes to the palace revolt, there is only one case in history, that is, the "Change of The Palace of Nongyin" that occurred during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone knows that palace women are usually timid and afraid of things, so what kind of unforgivable thing did the Jiajing Emperor do to force the timid palace women to revolt? Xiaobian will introduce the beginning and end of the matter to you today.
The Jiajing Emperor was the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty and a cousin of Emperor Wuzong of Ming, Zhu Houzhao. Because Emperor Wuzong of Ming left no heirs, when he died, the Ming ministers elected the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi to succeed to the throne. At the beginning of his succession, the Jiajing Emperor was also wise and divine, strictly governing the people with control of officials and leniency, rectifying the imperial program, and creating a situation of "Jiajing Zhongxing". However, in the later period, he began to favor Taoism and became obsessed with alchemy, which also laid hidden dangers for the "change of the Palace of Nongyin".
In order to live forever, the Jiajing Emperor ordered his disciples to practice the "Immortal God Dan" for him. One of the condiments of the so-called "Immortal God Dan" of the alchemists is the virgin menstrual blood of thirteen- and four-year-old women. In order to ensure the purity of menstrual blood, the Jiajing Emperor required the palace ladies not to eat during menstruation, but to eat mulberry leaves and drink dew. At the same time, the Jiajing Emperor became moody because of his long-term service to Dan Medicine, resulting in metal poisoning, and whipping and punishing palace women became commonplace. And these behaviors of his also made the palace ladies breed hatred for him little by little.
On the night of October 21, 2001, the Jiajing Emperor came to the Duanfei Palace to rest after eating the "elixir" that the Taoist tao Zhongwen had refined for him. Although this concubine was one of the favorite concubines of the Jiajing Emperor, she was frequently treated coldly by the Jiajing Emperor in recent times, and her palace daughters were repeatedly punished. Among these palace women, there was a woman named Yang Jinying, who contacted more than a dozen palace women who were dissatisfied with Jiajing. She said to the crowd, "Let's do it as soon as possible, or sooner or later we will die at the hands of the emperor!" The palace ladies felt the same way, so they decided to do it when the Jiajing Emperor went to Duan Concubine's Yikun Palace again.
On the day of the incident, the Jiajing Emperor slept soundly in Yikun Palace. Yang Jinying and other palace ladies attacked the Jiajing Emperor together, and they first put the rope around the jiajing emperor's neck, and then pressed the hand of the hand, and the leg of the leg, and everyone worked together. As a result, because they were too panicked, they tied the rope into two dead knots, and the two dead knots were tied together, and the tighter they were pulled, but they were the jiajing emperor who could not die. In a hurry, the palace ladies took their hands and took the golden hairpin thorns, but they couldn't kill Jiajing. Some palace ladies were frightened, thinking that Jiajing was not a human being, but a true dragon tianzi, and hurried to the empress palace to turn themselves in. The empress arrived with people, which saved Jiajing. After their deaths, these palace women were all exterminated, and their uprising eventually ended in failure.