When everyone is watching some costume TV series, have you found such a detail, that is, before the emperor eats, there will be a eunuch holding chopsticks to present the dishes in the imperial dining room, tasting them one by one. Those who understand may know that this is a eunuch testing poison for the emperor.
There is a saying that goes well, there are always people who want to harm you. Some people can't fight the emperor in the open, so they can only use poisoning to kill the emperor, and poisoning is best used in meals. It was a good idea for the emperor to let the eunuchs test the poison, but what if someone else used a chronic poison?
The rules and procedures for the emperor to eat
In ancient feudal dynasties, who had the most power was definitely the emperor. As an emperor, he needs to take care of every day every day, and the emperor who works day and night will definitely have to eat some supplements. If you want to replenish your body, you can only do it through diet and medicine.
From the TV series, we can see that the emperor will eat some mountain treasures and seafood every day, and in the ancient era of lack of materials, the emperor can say that he enjoyed the best treatment. You know, these mountain treasures and seafood are very nutritious.
Everyone has heard of it, a total of one hundred and eight dishes, some of which are particularly precious, and money may not be able to buy them. However, such a rich table of dishes is only the emperor's daily meal, and it can be said that the emperor's life is very luxurious.
Since there are so many dishes per meal, where do they come from? Quite simply, there are two sources of these dishes, the precious ones are generally used by some officials to pay tribute to the emperor, and the rest of the palace has special people to buy.
Since the provision of the dish will pass through the hands of so many people and come from different places, it is certainly not a difficult task to poison. However, in ancient times, there was a rule that those who committed rebellion and murdered the emperor would be connected to the Nine Tribes. Whether you succeed or not, all your family and relatives in this line have suffered, so generally there is no national hatred and no one will murder the emperor.
Moreover, poisoning is quite easy, but it is not easy to get into the emperor's mouth. After the vegetables were bought, they had to go through the processes of sorting, cleaning, cutting vegetables, side dishes, stir-frying, etc., and the emperor avoided accidents and convenient tracking, and all the processes were recorded in detail.
If you think about it, if you want to murder the emperor and poison him, the result is that you were found out before the emperor, and when people look at the records again, they can immediately find out that you did it. After the emperor was furious, he gave an order, and all the heads of the nine tribesmen fell to the ground.
And more strictly, after the dish enters the palace, every process is monitored by eunuchs. According to the relevant records of the history books, when the chefs of the imperial dining room cooked dishes for the emperor, there were three eunuchs next to them staring at themselves, and these three hundred and sixty degrees of surveillance without dead angles, where there was kung fu to poison the dishes, this is not a way to seek their own death.
The eunuchs tested poison for the emperor
With such a strict system, poisoning the dishes became a more difficult thing than ascending to the heavens, and there was also a thing that the emperor had many dishes at every meal, and he could not eat everything. Just like some people are picky eaters now, the emperor also has dishes that he does not like to eat.
Imagine that a person with ill intentions had to poison a dish under such a strict system, and as a result, the emperor did not like to eat this dish at all. In the end, this dish was eaten by eunuchs and palace women, and if something happened to them, the poisoned people would not be able to escape death.
In order to kill the emperor, you can't poison every dish, which is simply not as good as going directly to the assassination. Moreover, the dish was prepared, but it would not be served directly to the emperor, and the eunuchs would have to try the dish.
There were two purposes for eunuchs to try dishes before the emperor ate them, one was to see if there was poison, and the other was to taste what did not suit the emperor's taste. First of all, the first one is not poisonous, first of all, the real test dish is to use silver to test the poison, not to let the eunuchs eat a bite like in the TV series.
The eunuch just finished eating and served it to the emperor, it is estimated that when the emperor has eaten it, the eunuch may not have had a poison attack. Ancient poisons were generally made of mercury or arsenic, and eunuchs could try it out with silverware, so why should they try it out with their own bodies.
The second eunuch wanted to taste it, because the emperor was very tired for a day, and if the food was not to taste, it would be a few lives in a fit of anger. Just as the so-called companion is like a companion tiger, in order to put the head on the head, the eunuchs grasped the emperor's taste quite accurately.
Is chronic poison more suitable for poisoning the emperor?
Some people may be about to say, with this poison one is easy to be detected, the other is that the attack is relatively fast, and it is not too late to run when there is an accident. Therefore, it is better to use chronic poisons, so that you can save yourself while achieving your goal.
But in ancient times, where there were people who specialized in the development of chronic poisons, you should know that the development and utilization of arsenic and mercury alone have taken hundreds of years to begin to be used by people. Chronic poisons obviously require more effort and longer.
In ancient times, there were only two kinds of people who had the leisure to study poison, one was a warlock alchemist, and the other was a doctor who refined medicine. From the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the King of Qin Shi wang issued a message in the world, that is, to find the elixir of immortality, that is, because of the appearance of warlocks.
After a long period of research, the warlocks would refine some poisonous elixirs. Let's assume that the poison of these elixirs is chronic, and if someone wants to give this to the emperor to eat, then they will face the problem of why the emperor wants to eat your elixir.
Inside the palace, there were its own warlocks, and whatever elixir the emperor wanted to use was exclusively supplied, and there was no need to eat these foreign elixirs with chronic toxicity. However, in history, there are indeed emperors who died by eating Dan medicine by mistake, but it is not a chronic poison.
Looking at the alchemy, there is a position in the palace called the imperial doctor, which means that it is specially for the emperor to see a doctor, and the medicinal materials are strictly screened and checked, and it is not realistic to use medicine to poison the emperor.
Moreover, as mentioned above, it is generally not a deep hatred, no one wants to kill the emperor, and not everyone in the Nine Tribes can afford it. If it really reached the point where he wanted to kill the emperor, it would definitely be a burning eyebrow, and there would be no need to delay for a moment, who still had the patience to go to the chronic poison.
Chronic poison can make things go quietly, but it depends on yourself. And chronic poisons and severe poisons are not comparable, severe poisons can generally be killed in small doses, chronic poisons because of slow sex, so if you want to see the effect, either in large quantities or little by little underground poison, and when the amount is reached, it will naturally be poisoned.
Under such a strict inspection system, it is basically impossible to poison a large number of people, and before you can finish the estimation, you will be discovered. And to accumulate the total amount little by little, it is estimated that you must also be a high official in the palace, otherwise the power that comes from there will walk around in the palace.
Improper senior official can also be a staff member in the link, but if it is because others are strict and do not get the medicine several times, the effect of the medicine will be greatly reduced, risking life but not effective, it is better not to get it.