Yang Jinying, Yang Lianxiang, Su Chuanyao, Yao Shucui, Xing Cuilian, Liu Miaolian, Guan Meixiang, Huang Xiulian, Huang Yulian, Yin Cuixiang, Wang Huaixiang, Zhang Jinlian, Xu Qiuhua, Zhang Chunjing, Deng Jinxiang, Chen Juhua.
Everyone may be unfamiliar with these sixteen names, they are indeed just ordinary palace girls during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, but what they have done is earth-shattering.
On the night of October 21, the twenty-first year of Jiajing (November 1542), these sixteen palace women broke into Jiajing's resting palace at night and attempted to strangle Jiajing with a rope.
If they were trained assassins disguised as palace maidens, the history of the Ming Dynasty would have been rewritten that night. However, in fact, they were really just ordinary palace women, without the power of a chicken, not to mention any assassination skills.
At that time, the palace ladies rushed up to control Jiajing, and then hurriedly put ropes for Jiajing. As a result, because she was too nervous, the palace maid Yang Jinying tied the rope into a dead knot, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not strangle Jiajing, and the knot could not be untied, and the palace women fell into panic. Until the empress brought people to the rescue, she netted sixteen people and rescued the dying Jiajing.
This is the shocking change in the palace, but the history books are secretive about the record of this case. The empress who was in charge of handling the case at that time concluded that the palace ladies were instructed by Cao Duanfei and Wang Ningfei to assassinate Jiajing, and on the second day of the palace change, they executed all the people involved in the case, and hurriedly learned about the case.
However, Cao Duanfei was Jiajing's favorite concubine at that time, and Jiajing was resting in Cao Duanfei's Yikun Palace on the night of the palace change, and she had no motive at all to kill Jiajing. Wang Ning's concubine was dissatisfied because she did not give birth to a dragon son and was promoted to a concubine according to the rules, but she would not be killed. Moreover, did these sixteen palace ladies dare to assassinate the emperor just because they were instructed by others? This is a great sin of the Nine Tribes.
The palace women revolted and assassinated the emperor, which was an ancient anecdote, but it ended hastily. What is the truth behind it, is it the degeneration of morality or the distortion of human nature? All this must start from the time when the Jiajing Emperor was a child.
The Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, born in Huguangbu Zhengsi AnLu Prefecture, was the son of Zhu Youqiu, the Prince of Xingxian, and the family of the king of the domain, and the succession to the throne had nothing to do with him.
The fate of Zhu Houxi's childhood can be described as quite tragic, perhaps because the Xingxian Wang's family was dissatisfied with the water and soil of the Huguang area, Zhu Houxi's brothers and sisters died one after another, and the Xingxian King himself also died prematurely due to illness. In the whole family, only Zhu Houxi stubbornly survived, but he was also weak and sickly and suffered a lot. Until Zhu Houxi was 15 years old, the gears of fate began to turn, and the heavens favored this teenager.
Emperor Mingwuzong Zhu Houzhao fell ill after accidentally falling into the water, and because Zhu Houzhao had no children under his knees, the imperial family and the cabinet invoked the principle of "brother to brother and brother", and after consultation, decided to make Zhu Houzhao's cousin Zhu Houxi the heir to the throne. The pie really fell from the sky, and Zhu Houxi transformed from a suffering sect room into the Ninth Five-Year Supreme Jiajing Emperor. His feud with the palace ladies also began.
The Jiajing Emperor was generally regarded as a promising prince, and the absurdity and immorality had nothing to do with him, and the early Ming Dynasty once had a situation of Jiajing Zhongxing under his rule.
However, how could such a ming jun make a group of palace women hate him to the bone? This brings us to a quirk of Jiajing, who worships Taoism and indulges in cultivating immortals.
As mentioned earlier, Jiajing's physical condition has not been good since childhood, and he has witnessed too many close relatives' life and death, so he especially cherishes life, pays attention to heavy maintenance, and fantasizes about immortality.
However, the person who conditioned Jiajing's body was not a doctor from the Tai Hospital, but a Taoist priest in the Taoist Temple in the deep mountains. Jiajing revered Taoism, greatly favored Daoists, and obeyed their words.
One of the Taoist theories pursued by Jiajing was "sucking wind and drinking dew into immortals", drinking the freshest dew every day, which required someone to go to the imperial garden every day before dawn to collect dew on the banana leaves, and this chore fell on a group of palace women. In order to collect nectar, the palace ladies wear stars and wear the moon, day and night, and there are many tired people.
If this incident has made the palace women cry bitterly, the next thing is the nightmare of all the palace women, so that their bodies and minds are devastated.
Jia Jing wants immortality, it is certainly not enough to drink dew, he also needs the elixir of immortality, so how does this medicine come about? The Daoist monks told Jiajing that the Broken HeavenLy Flower would cut off the Red Dragon and use the red dragon's blood as a medicinal guide to refine the elixir of immortality. What is Red Dragon Blood? The answer is the menstrual blood of a virgin, which is what we commonly call the great aunt.
Refining Dan with menstrual blood sounds quite absurd, but the emperor's will, no one dares to violate. How to collect menstrual blood, folk collection is unrealistic, too difficult, the concubines and female relatives in the palace are noble, and naturally they will not find their heads. There is no doubt that the palace ladies have become the only victims again.
The palace women could not live normally, needed to provide menstrual blood for refining medicine on a regular basis, and in order to keep the menstrual blood clean, they were not allowed to eat during menstruation, and could only eat mulberry leaves and drink some dew. Moreover, when the menstrual period is unstable, it is even necessary to use drugs to induce blood, resulting in excessive blood loss and death of many palace women.
The double torture of spirit and body, the palace women seem to live in purgatory. During this period, there were many people who wanted to rebel, but there was only one result: death. According to records, during the Jiajing period, as many as 200 palace women were punished and executed for reasons.
In this dark life, the only way for the palace ladies to get rid of it is to die Jiajing, which seems to be difficult to achieve, but finally someone decided to do it. After years of bitter torture, Yang Jinying and sixteen other palace women made this decision, even though they knew that the result of doing so would be doomed, but this time, they wanted to take their fate into their own hands.
On the night of October 21, 1542, the twenty-first year of Jiajing (November 1542), Yikun Palace. Jiajing was lying on the bed and dreaming of immortality.
Sixteen figures hid in the darkness, staring straight at the supreme man. Yang Jinying, the palace maid who was the leader, had a miserable face, her lips trembled, and the beads of sweat on her forehead all showed the extreme tension and fear in her heart. But at this moment they had waited too long, the matter was over, there was no way back to go.
"Hands on!" After Yang Jinying sucked for a moment, he issued a decisive command. Sixteen trembling figures kept approaching Jiajing on the bed...
After this night, the sisters will be able to live a happy life in the future, Yang Jinying thought.