In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, in 1735 AD, the Yongzheng Emperor suddenly died violently in the Yuanmingyuan on August 25, at the age of 58. Yongzheng's death was extremely sudden, everyone was unprepared, and his real cause of death became a mystery for eternity. Regarding Yongzheng's death, scholars and folks have different opinions.
Among all the causes of death, the most bizarre is that Yongzheng was cut off by the female hero Lü Siniang. Lü Siniang was originally the daughter of the scholar Lü Liuliang. Lü Liuliang had always had anti-Qing and restoration ideas, and a poor man named Zeng Jing admired his learning, and even made up his own mind, personally visiting Yue Zhongqi, a subordinate of Yongzheng, and wanted him to "oppose the Qing and restore the Ming Dynasty."
Who knew that Yue Zhongqi turned his head and arrested Zeng Jing, and learned about Lü Liuliang from his confession. Subsequently, Yongzheng Daxing went to prison, beheaded, exiled or detained all of Lü Liuliang's protégés and male relatives, and sent female relatives to Ningguta as female slaves of the armored people, while Lü Liuliang was also dissected and dismembered, and his bones were scattered.
But what annoyed Yongzheng was that it had been rumored that one of Lü Liuliang's granddaughters had escaped the hunt and was determined to kill Yongzheng. For this reason, Yongzheng also reprimanded Li Wei, who was in charge of the case. However, Li Wei said: "This matter is nonsense, all lü relatives, both men and women, have been arrested, and there are no orphan daughters of the Lü clan."
However, when Yongzheng died violently, many people suspected that this was the work of the orphan daughter of the Lü clan. Because on the day of Yongzheng's death, his orphan minister, Ortai, had blood stained on his pants and was left in the palace for seven days, which was really suspicious. Therefore, some people suspect that the blood on Ortai's pants is the blood of Yongzheng, who has been assassinated.
In addition to the assassination of Lü Siniang, scholars have many views on Yongzheng's death, some people say that Yongzheng cool loves ginseng, is to take ginseng and die; some people say that Yongzheng is diligent in political affairs and is tired; others say that Yongzheng is lustful and dies by taking an aphrodisiac. However, the recent discovery of a secret court file has solved the mystery of Yongzheng's violent death.
This secret file, which is stored in the Palace Interior Office, is an account book that records Yongzheng's procurement records from the eighth to thirteenth years of Yongzheng. In the ninth year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng purchased more than 4,000 catties of charcoal and mineral silver, and these raw materials had only one purpose, that is, alchemy. From the ninth to thirteenth years of Yongzheng, Yongzheng transported various kinds of wood and sulfur to the Yuanmingyuan in cars. Mineral silver, black lead and other substances. Of these, 192 tons of black coal and 42 tons of charcoal were transported. It can be said that Yongzheng is simply mass-producing Dan medicine.
Seeing this, scholars understood that Yongzheng must have died of overdose of Dan medicine, there is no doubt about it.
According to records, Yongzheng was the only Qing emperor who believed in Taoism. As early as when he was a prince, Yongzheng was full of interest in monasticism, and he also gave himself a Dao name- Yuanming Jushi. In addition, he often interacted with Taoist monks, compiling a "Quotations of Yuanming Residents" and placing himself alongside the famous Daoists in history.
After Yongzheng became emperor, he was diligent in government affairs and could not take care of cultivation for a while. But in the seventh year of Yongzheng, he suddenly fell seriously ill and almost died. In order to prolong his life, Yongzheng began to indulge in monasticism again. In this regard, the regular history books of the Qing Dynasty have always been secretive about this, after all, the emperor's cultivation is not a glorious thing.
However, with the discovery of the above-mentioned palace secret file, Yongzheng finally obtained the real hammer in the palace. It can be said that as long as Yongzheng has free time, he will practice Dan with Wang Dingqian, Zhang Taixuan and other Daoist monks. After practicing, Yongzheng personally took it, the effect was very good, and he felt that his body was much lighter. However, according to modern medical views, this is only a precursor to heavy metal poisoning.
Due to the extremely large production of alchemy, Yongzheng even took out a small amount of Dan medicine and rewarded it to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions on the front line. However, Yongzheng, who felt good about himself, did not think at all that the poison of heavy metals had penetrated into his bone marrow and could kill him at any time. According to secret records, just 12 days before Yongzheng's death, another 200 kilograms of black lead were transported into the Yuanmingyuan, and these black lead also became the direct cause of Yongzheng's violent death.
After Yongzheng's death, qianlong, who succeeded him, immediately expelled all the Daoist priests in the palace and warned them not to talk about every word or deed in the palace and the former emperor, otherwise they would be spared. At the same time, Qianlong also announced to the world that Yongzheng only liked alchemy, as a "tool for game leisure", and for the alchemist, Yongzheng "did not listen to his words, never used one of his medicines". Obviously, Qianlong wanted to cover up the michigan. If Yongzheng hadn't died from taking the Dan medicine, why would he be so anxious to drive away the Daoist priests in the palace? There is no silver here for three hundred and two.
Of course, Qianlong may have wanted to cut the corpse of the Daoist who killed Yongzheng into ten thousand pieces, but during the period of the Emperor Xian's great journey, it was inconvenient to execute him, so he had to rush away.
It can be said that the discovery and decryption of this court secret file finally solved the cause of Yongzheng's death, and these are all things that Zhengshi did not dare or want to record. Since ancient times, it is not uncommon for emperors to die because of taking Dan medicine, and these emperors are regarded as laughing stocks, so Qianlong will naturally "hide his son for his father" and hide the ugly things of Yongzheng.