In the golden autumn of 1542, the Jiajing Emperor ushered in a hurdle in his life that he almost failed to pass. On the night of October 20, he drove to the palace of Concubine Cao with great interest, and fell asleep after turning clouds and rain.
In the middle of the night, the vast Forbidden City was silent, and the sound of Jiajing's purr echoed in the empty sleeping hall. Suddenly, there were many ghosts around the dragon bed, and more than a dozen palace girls appeared. They held ropes in their hands, carefully passed under Jiajing's neck, tied knots, and divided them into left and right, working together.
Poor Jiajing in the dream, the purring suddenly stopped, and before he could see the assassin's face, he was strangled in a few sobs.
This is a major assassination case in the Daming Deep Palace, and it is also a suspicious and suspenseful case involving the secret affairs of the palace. Why did the palace ladies who were supposed to be tame under the majestic imperial power conspire to assassinate the Jiajing Emperor? What was the reason for this earth-shattering palace change that occurred in the year of Nong Yin?
Nong Yin Palace turned hemp rope around Jiajing's neck
The earth-shattering conspiracy of 16 palace women: the first to attack is strong
In 1542, it was the twenty-first year of Jiajing's ascension to the throne. According to the conclusion of the follow-up interrogation contained in the historical data, the author roughly restores the specific process of the change of the Nongyin Palace:
Two days before the assassination, on October 19, 16 palace women, led by Yang Jinying, Su Chuanyao, Chen Juhua, etc., gathered together while holding the lamp and plotting something.
The palace ladies were very emotional, and when they talked about their sadness, they were sad and indignant. Finally, Yang Jinying made up his mind:
"Let's go first!" As strong as death at his hands! ”
On the night of the 20th, Jiajing came to the palace of Concubine Cao. Xiao Beisheng was newly married, and the two were still like dry firewood. Here's a minute omitted.
The palace ladies waited carefully for the opportunity, but they did not expect that the opportunity would come so quickly. When Jiajing decided to stay overnight in the palace of his recently favored concubine Cao Shi, the fate of the catastrophe was doomed to be impossible to escape.
Soon Jiajing fell into a deep sleep, and the palace ladies were able to hold their breath and waited until the early morning of the 21st.
The palace ladies untied the ropes used for the decoration of the palace and twisted them into a thick rope. This rope is the life of the 16 palace women, and it will also be the neck of the Jiajing Emperor.
"Quick, hold your neck and don't let go!" When Yang Jinying gave the order, the rope was already wrapped around the neck of the Jiajing Emperor.
The palace maid Yao Shucui took out a yellow silk spar and covered Jiajing's face, covering it deadly.
Su Chuanyao pulled Jiajing's left hand, Guan Xiumei held his right hand, Liu Miaolian held his left leg, and Chen Juhua held his right leg.
Xing Cuilian pounced on Jiajing's chest and pressed down, while Wang Huaixiang pounced on Jiajing's waist and hugged her tightly.
The rest of the people pulled the rope separately, pulling the rope tighter and tighter, and the Jiajing Emperor woke up violently, and without struggling a few times, he was strangled to faint.
Seeing that the Ming Dynasty was about to brew a new emperor candidate, it was a coincidence that Empress Fang led someone to kick in the door.
Empress Fang came to the rescue, and Xu Yuyi's clever hand rejuvenated
The palace ladies who were committing the crime were all stunned, and they were overwhelmed by Empress Fang and her party. The palace maid Yao Shucui knew that the crime had been exposed, and even disregarded the eunuch's obstruction, rushed to Empress Fang, and punched the woman who was in charge of the harem's life and death power in the stomach.
Chen Juhua, a palace maid on the side, took the opportunity to blow out and knock down the candlestick of the palace, so in the dark palace, the cries and spits of the palace women were mixed with the shouts of the guards and eunuchs, and the scene was chaotic.
When the hall was lit up again, Kong Wu's powerful guards had already controlled the scene, and the eunuch in charge of the affairs grabbed the palace maid and scolded her. Still Empress Fang had her husband in her heart, and hurriedly asked the eunuch to untie the rope, and it didn't matter if she looked up, her heart was half cold--Jiajing's eyes were tightly closed, her face was bruised, and there was a trace of blood between her lips and teeth.
When I reached out again, I didn't even have any breath!
"Pass the Tai Doctor! Pass on the doctor! ”
The guards flew with the tai doctor on duty and rushed to Jiajing for diagnosis and treatment. A sniffle, the emperor is afraid of being cold, prepare for the aftermath! Another pulse, the pulse is weak, it seems that there is still salvation!
Soon, the other imperial doctors were also awakened in the dream, and rushed to Cao Fei's bedchamber in a hurry. However, the Jiajing Emperor was already out of breath, his breathing was extremely weak, and no one was sure that he could come back to life.
The taiyi looked at each other, helpless, and the rescue of the Jiajing Emperor seemed to be better than nothing, as if they were just comforting Empress Fang, but Empress Fang must make sure that these tai doctors save Jiajing.
So the question is, who will do this work? Who will be the attending physician? Ordinary small problems, the doctors are eager to rush to see, cured can also be a reward. But this time, facing the dying Jiajing Emperor, who dared to guarantee that if he went down with a pair of medicines, he would be able to rise from the dead?
The situation is stronger than people, and at the critical moment, someone finally stepped forward, or was pushed out. Who? Xu Sheng, the head of the Hospital.
This Xu Gentry is not simple, it is a three-generation medical family that hangs in the pot. Grandpa and Dad were both famous doctors in the north, and when they came to him, they became full-time doctors of the royal family. He has cured the illness of the prince, concubine and other people, and has been repeatedly rewarded by Jiajing.
When Jiajing was nineteen years old, he gave him an honorary Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, who only received a salary but did not care about the Ministry of Works, and continued to act as a hospital.
This is good to die, too the hospital stall on the big thing! In the entire imperial medical team, there are not no people who are more skilled than Xu Shen's medical skills, but everyone is afraid! At this time, Xu Sheng, as the leader, had to go up hard.
Xu Shen was saddled with tremendous mental pressure, and trembled and adjusted a pair of fierce medicines, which were boiled and then poured into the unconscious Jiajing.
Historical records record that on the morning of the 21st, at seven or eight o'clock in the morning, I took the medicine, and at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Jiajing, who was motionless, suddenly coughed. Xu Sheng, who had been guarding the side, quickly helped JiaJing to lie on his side, and Jiajing coughed and vomited blood, spitting out several liters of black blood.
Jiajing Dynasty Punishment Department Shangshu Zheng Xiao "Present Words": "Xu Shen used his medical skills to go to the Gongbu Shangshu to control the affairs of the Tai Hospital, the changes in the Jiajing Xiyuan Palace, the holy bow was in danger, and the gentleman medicine shi Su.
Xu Shen was surprised and continued to give Jiajing the prepared medicine. Busy for several days, each day is like a year, finally watching the Jiajing Emperor come back from the ghost door, from coma to awakening, from supine to sitting up, and finally can talk and eat.
Of course, you can also try the case!
Why was the Queen able to arrive? Why didn't the Jiajing Emperor die on the spot?
Readers who see here will be curious, how can it be so coincidental that Empress Fang can come to the rescue in time? Moreover, when the Jiajing Emperor faced the joint murder of sixteen palace women, he was really able to not die, did not die on the spot, and was hooked back from the Yin Cao Mansion by Xu Shengsheng?
First, let's answer the first question: Why was Empress Fang able to arrive in time?
It turned out that at the critical moment, among the sixteen palace women, there was a traitor named Zhang Jinlian. Always timid and obedient, she did not dare to murder the emperor, and she was even more unwilling to make grasshoppers on a rope with Yang Jinying.
So on the night that Jiajing drove to the Duanfei Palace and Yang Jinying and others were determined to do something, this Zhang Jinlian took advantage of the night and quietly left the assassination squad and gave the assassination plan to Empress Fang.
Only then did Empress Fang lead the crowd to come and capture Yang Jinying and others on the spot.
To answer this second question: Why didn't the Jiajing Emperor die on the spot?
How could a dozen people conspire to strangle a person, and how could this victim escape? The sleeping Jiajing Emperor was defenseless, the ropes had been wrapped around his neck, not only was his head covered, his body was pressed down, and even his limbs were controlled. But what was strange was that the palace ladies worked together to tighten the rope noose, why did they only make Jiajing faint, but they did not let him die?
You may not believe it when you say it, this gang of palace women murdered the emperor for the first time, lack of experience, coupled with the excessive tension during the assassination on the spot, when the knot was knotted, it was actually a dead knot.
"Biography of Empress Mingshi Xiaoliefang": "Twenty-one years later, the palace maid Yang Jinying and others plotted rebellion, and Emperor Lai was saved, and his father Tai and Bo Rui were made marquises. In the beginning, Cao Fei was colored, Emperor Aizhi, and was registered as a duan concubine. It is the night, the imperial palace of the concubines. Jin Ying and others waited for the emperor to sleep, and in order to form emperor Xiang, mistakenly for a dead knot, and got endlessly..."
As a result, the palace ladies who dragged the rope took a lot of effort and failed to strangle Jiajing with the rope, but only made it difficult for him to breathe. Jiajing eventually passed out, and I am afraid that those palace women who were covered with handkerchiefs and directly pinched by their hands played a greater role.
The palace concubine Ling Chi was executed, and the tai doctor was promoted to prince Taibao
The palace ladies who conspired to assassinate were arrested by Empress Fang and imprisoned in strict custody. Soon an instruction came from the palace, "Good life asked!" ”
Therefore, under the heavy punishment, the palace ladies with fine skin and tender flesh could only confess honestly, saying that they were because they could not tolerate the Jiajing Emperor, so they had a murderous heart. Behind the scenes, it was Ning Concubine Wang.
The Concubine Wang clan of Ning was dissatisfied with Jiajing, so they gathered Yang Jinying and a dozen other palace ladies who were also dissatisfied with the Jiajing Emperor and conspired with this assassination plan, which should be executed according to law. The Jiajing Emperor was attacked at the residence of Duanfei Cao, and although Duanfei was not the mastermind or a coercive subordinate, it was difficult to blame!
To say that the most miserable among the palace women is probably the Zhang Jinlian who went to inform. After the case was concluded, she was also convicted, although there was a merit in reporting, but you had already conspired, why didn't you expose it earlier? Sin deserves death!
As a result, Jiajing issued a decree: both the main offender and the accessory were sent to Caishikou to be executed in public.
The Records of Emperor Ming Shizong says: "Jin Ying and Su Chuanyao, Yang Yuxiang, Xing Cuilian, Yao Shucui, Yang Cuiying, Guan Meixiu, Liu Miaolian, Chen Juhua, Wang Xiulan personally rebelled, Ning Concubine Wang's first plot, Duan Concubine Cao Shi did not conspire with Ran Shi, Zhang Jinlian's affair was revealed, Xu Qiuhua, Deng Jinxiang, Zhang Chunjing, etc. are all co-conspirators." Emperor Ming Shizong decreed: "Regardless of the head and subordinate, the emperor is in the city, and still files the corpse, and takes ten of his clan members, and pays the meritorious family twenty slaves, and the property is recorded, and all those who receive it from the opposite sex are judged." ”
Many of the assassins were slaughtered, and their families were implicated. And those who have meritorious service should naturally be rewarded heavily.
Xu Sheng, the first leader of the Tai Hospital, had a life-saving grace for Jiajing, and his fierce medicine really brought the Jiajing Emperor back to life. What reward can such a great merit be given?
As a result, Xu Sheng was crowned prince Taibao and became the only doctor in the history of feudal society who received this honorary title for his meritorious service in saving the driver.
Prince Taishi, Prince Taifu, and Prince Taibao are the "three divisions" of the Prince of Donggong, and in layman's terms, they can be regarded as tutors selected by the emperor for future successors, and they are high-ranking officials from Yipin. It is generally appointed by a highly respected minister, although the dynasties and dynasties are mostly honorary titles, but that minister does not mix with a full head of white hair to get this honor?
Xu Sheng, the tai doctor, became the prince Taibao, and I don't know how many people in the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu had red eyes!
However, Xu Shen was not blessed, and the Jiajing Emperor was cured, but Xu Shen died violently not long after. It turned out that when he was ordered to rescue the Jiajing Emperor, Xu Shen was prescribing medicine to the Jiajing Emperor with the determination of "killing himself if he did not work", and even if he cured the emperor, he was scared half to death.
When Xu Shen was dying, the grateful Jiajing came to visit him in person. Xu Shen informed the cause:
"Ming Shi Vol. 299 Fang Ji Biography": "I can't afford to be a palace change, and I will kill myself if I don't work, so I am frightened, and I can't cure it." ”
Opinions vary: What was the motive of the palace concubines for assassination?
The rebellious palace maid was executed, and the divine doctor who recreated Jiajing also drove to the west of the crane. The Palace of Nongyin became a sensitive topic that the government and the public did not dare to touch, and even the historical records did not record this event in more detail.
Yeah, what a shame to say! Tangtang, an emperor of the Ninth Five-Year-Old, was murdered by the palace ladies in the palace of his concubine, who else but him Jiajing in the past dynasties?
Although the incident of the change of the Palace of Nongyin has become a mystery of the deep palace, the melon-eating masses in later generations are full of curiosity. What evil did Jiajing do that could force the palace ladies to be cornered and exchange their lives for him?
[1] Jiajing said abusively
Soon after the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne, he began to be obsessed with sound and color. Later, he was even more intoxicated with asking for immortals, and cultivated the elixir in the deep palace in an attempt to seek immortality. In this project, Jiajing spent countless gold and silver to find ways to loot the people's fat and people's ointment, so that the folk slipped along: "Jiajing Jiajing, every family is clean!" ”
Those Daoist monks whom Jiajing favored gave him all kinds of strange elixirs. The raw materials used in alchemy are unbelievable, and there is even the menstrual blood of a virgin. Scholars who hold this view believe that the Jiajing Emperor forced the palace women to take special drugs in order to refine Dan, thus suffering from menstrual cycle disorders. In order to prevent the leakage of secrets, it is also possible to eliminate the used palace women.
The sentence "As strong as dying in his hands" that Yang Jinying confessed at the time of trial shows that the palace women's assassination was precisely because their lives were seriously threatened by Jiajing.
Jiajing, who is obsessed with xiu immortals
[2] Ning Concubine said
Concubine Ning had given birth to an heir to the Jiajing Emperor, and according to the usual practice, she should be promoted from concubine to concubine. But without knowing why, Jiajing did not give her a promotion and became increasingly alienated from her. Seeing that the woman surnamed Cao entered the palace at about the same time as herself, but she was favored, the friendship that used to call each other sisters disappeared in the blink of an eye because of jealousy.
Concubine Ning held a grudge against Cao Shi and gradually resented Jiajing. With an idea of "if you don't get it, you can destroy it", Ning Concubine planned such a murder case, and the location was chosen in the palace of Duanfei Cao's family.
This view is supported by the confession of The Transformation of the Palace of Nong Yin and is a mainstream view.
[3] Officials instructed
In addition to the previous two statements, this view is a more interesting novelty. Some scholars believe that there is still cattiness behind this incident, and behind the mastermind Ning Concubine, there is actually the main messenger, that is, some officials in the DPRK who are dissatisfied with the Jiajing Emperor.
If it is said that the change of the palace is that some officials instruct the palace women to assassinate Jiajing, it seems to have a very conspiratorial theory flavor, what kind of logic is this logic?
As we all know, the centralization of power in ancient Chinese feudal society was constantly strengthened, and it reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty. Behind the act of deposing the prime minister by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is the struggle between imperial power and power. The contradiction between imperial power and relative power is actually the contradiction between the emperor himself and the entire clique of civil officials.
The Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao was Jiajing's predecessor and cousin. Zhu Houzhao, who ascended the throne at the age of 14, was born in 1591, but died mysteriously at the age of thirty. The cause of death is said to be boating on the surface of the lake and then falling into the water, and after being fished up, he was infected with pneumonia, and he could not afford to die.
Zhu Houzhao's death is a historical mystery, and conspiracy theories are rampant. The death of his cousin was bizarre, and he did not even have children at the age of thirty, which gave his cousin Zhu Houxi the opportunity to become emperor and succeed to the throne as the king of the domain.
Jiajing was an extremely intelligent man and a master of mastering the crowd. When he first ascended the throne, the Great Ceremony Incident severely destroyed the prestige of the civilian bureaucracy. The so-called great ceremonial discussion incident is that Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, had to turn the cousin relationship between Zhu Houxi and Zhu Houzhao into a brotherly relationship, so he must let the Jiajing Emperor recognize his uncle Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youfan as his father.
The son of King Xingxian of the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, the family has a father! In order to give his father a place in the ZongMiao Temple, the Jiajing Emperor thus got into a fight with a group of civilian officials led by Yang Tinghe.
This matter ended with the victory of the Jiajing Emperor, but it also showed that he Jiajing was as difficult to serve as his cousin Emperor Zhengde, and was not a master who was willing to be manipulated by the civilian official clique. Therefore, it is very likely that the civilian-official clique will take a risk and kill Zhu Houzhao, letting Jiajing die mysteriously.
Of course, the premise for this view to be established must be that the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao was also murdered by the civilian official clique. This argument has not been skimmed yet! Therefore, it is indeed unconvincing to say that the assassination of Jiajing was also a conspiracy of the civilian bureaucracy, but it was really brain-opening.
[4] Turtle breeding failed to say
There is also a saying that the favored minister Yan Song once presented a five-colored divine turtle to the Jiajing Emperor. Jia Jing liked this magical Wang Ba, so he let Ning Concubine raise it.
As a result, this so-called five-colored god turtle is actually an ordinary turtle, which is nothing more than a flattering person dyeing its shell and pretending to be Xiangrui. As a result, the "Divine Turtle" was faded and faded, and it became weaker and weaker, until one day it was found out by Yang Jinying and other palace women.
Ning Concubine was bitter, and could not say that the divine turtle was fake, beat Jiajing in the face to offend Yan Song, and did not dare to directly tell Jiajing that she was a pet killer, so she was born with evil and decided to assassinate Jiajing to marry Concubine Cao, so as to escape responsibility during the chaos in the palace.
The author thinks that ning concubine raised a turtle to death, and no matter how heavy the guilt is, it is not as heavy as plotting against the king! Doesn't make sense.
Yan Song
brief summary
In addition to the above four statements, there are other speculations about the reasons for the change of the Nongyin Palace. Some are quite convincing, and some are considered to be Bo Jun's smile. The right attitude should be bold assumptions and careful verification!
After struggling through this obstacle of fate, the Jiajing Emperor completely changed. He lived alone in the deep palace, passively and slackened the government, and handed over everything to the celebrant and cabinet, and he became more and more addicted to the Immortal Dao, and the danger of the Ming Dynasty was getting worse and worse.
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