Since ancient times, emperors have been very sparing of their lives, they for their own diet, all the things they have entered have been checked by special eunuchs, and after inspection, they have to try to eat until they are sure that there is no problem before they are sent to their mouths.
Although all the food was sent to the emperor through layers of checks, the emperor was still cautious, and even if he liked the food, it was only a shallow taste, in order to prevent some poison that could not be detected by silver needles.
In order to save their own lives, they do not pay attention to the lives of others at all, preferring to kill thousands by mistake rather than let go of one. In terms of life preservation, Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to have achieved the ultimate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > silver needle turns black and kills the palace girl</h1>
Zhu Yuanzhang, as the most suspicious emperor, originally had very few people around him who dared to use them, and since Hu Weiyong was deposed, there was no capable and courageous helper around him.
In order to deal with the government, Zhu Yuanzhang had to work overtime every day.
One night, Zhu Yuanzhang stayed up late as usual to review the recitals, only to see that the time had reached the middle of the night, but the folds on the case were still piled up.
These recitals came from all over the country, from the outbreak of the disaster to whose family had a son, which made him feel quite troubled when he approved it.
Unconsciously, it was late at night, Zhu Yuanzhang was already feeling very tired, he even called out the name of the little eunuch a few times, but it was a small palace girl who came in.
The palace maid was holding a bowl of porridge in her hand, saying that Empress Ma had asked her to send it.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not pay attention at first, he asked the palace maid to leave the porridge behind and wait for the little eunuch to come in and examine it.
As a result, the little eunuch's silver needle had just turned black as soon as it was inserted into the porridge, and Zhu Yuanzhang saw that a little palace girl dared to murder himself, and immediately ordered the palace girl to be sent to prison.
The palace maid refused to admit what she had not done, and eventually lost her life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > investigate the truth</h1>
Although the palace maid was dead, the real culprit had not yet been found, and the matter had to continue to be investigated, and under this investigation, it was actually found on the head of Empress Ma.
It turned out that when Zhu Yuanzhang called the little eunuch, the little eunuch just left because of internal anxiety, and just at this time, the empress asked the palace maid to send porridge to Zhu Yuanzhang's case.
What is even more coincidental is that this palace girl sent by Empress Ma only happened to let her send porridge because she had just entered the palace not long after she had just entered the palace.
Since it was impossible to determine that the poison was under the palace maid, it was natural to check the imperial dining room.
The case-handling personnel went to the imperial dining room to test the remaining porridge with silver needles, and the result was that the silver needles turned black as soon as they were put into the pot, and it seemed that the person who poisoned it was the imperial cook who made this bowl of porridge.
The imperial chef naturally knew that he had not been poisoned, and in order to prove his innocence, he directly drank the remaining porridge in the pot and prepared to die.
However, a few days passed, and the imperial kitchen was actually fine, and there was no sign of poisoning.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the imperial chef should drink the antidote in advance, so he was not poisoned.
In fact, the imperial chef was really wronged, even if he gave him a hundred guts, he did not dare to poison the emperor's porridge, he just put some more turnips when making this bowl of medicinal food.
He thought that the emperor worked so hard all day long, eating more white radish could not only relieve fatigue, but also help the emperor fall asleep faster, so he put more white radish into the porridge.
I didn't expect to get the credit, and I almost buried my life in vain.
In order to verify the truth and falsity of what the imperial chef said, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to make two bowls of radish porridge, one bowl with more white radish and one bowl with less.
After doing a good job, Zhu Yuanzhang let people take silver needles to test the poison, and it turned out that the bowl of silver needles that put less white radish did not turn black, and the bowl that put more white radish became black.
Next, Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to eat the bowl of porridge with more white radish, and it turned out that although putting more radish would make the silver needle black, it would not bring any harm to the human body.
After doing all this, Zhu Yuanzhang finally believed that the palace maid was not harming herself with poisonous porridge. Unfortunately, it was all too late, and the palace maid had already been executed by him.
However, zhu Yuanzhang, as an emperor, had countless people who had died unjustly under his hands, and he naturally did not pay attention to the wrongful death of a small palace girl.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" > silver needle blackened is not poisonous</h1>
Using silver needles to measure poison is a common means for successive emperors to save their lives, but Zhu Yuanzhang personally proved that the blackening of silver needles does not mean that food is poisonous.
This result made Zhu Yuanzhang particularly surprised, could it be that the practices of successive emperors were all wrong, and the blackening of the silver needle could not be used as a basis for poisoning?
In fact, he really fell into a misunderstanding, the reason why the silver needle turns black is because the sulfide is detected, when the sulfide encounters the silver needle, it will produce a new substance, so the silver needle will turn black.
The reason why Song Ci used the blackening of silver needles as a basis for poisoning was because arsenic contained sulfides, so when silver needles encountered arsenic, they would turn black.
Arsenic is toxic, but sulfides are non-toxic and very common, such as white radish, leeks and garlic.
The ancients did not know that sulfides were non-toxic, which directly used the blackening of silver needles as the basis for food toxicity. In this way, those emperors who were poisoned at a young age really died unjustly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > case analysis</h1>
However, why did Zhu Yuanzhang think that the palace maid wanted to poison him just because of a bowl of porridge? It's not hard to analyze.
The emperor, as the ninth and fifth emperor, had a special eunuch to serve him twenty-four hours, and if the palace maid wanted to get close to the place where the emperor was, she had to first inform it through the eunuch.
However, when the palace maid entered the temple, the eunuch just happened to solve the physiological problem, so the palace maid entered the temple directly without notification.
Secondly, the palace maid said that she was sent by Empress Ma, but Zhu Yuanzhang's relationship with the empress was very good, and he was very clear about which close palace women were around the empress.
What's more, the empress has always respected him, and should not send a strange palace maid to deliver porridge.
Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious by nature, a small thing could become an extremely complicated thing in front of his eyes, so many coincidences were connected, which made him think that the palace maid wanted to murder him.
Seeing the silver needle turn black but not toxic, Zhu Yuanzhang was even more careful with everything after that, but he was very sorry for his life, and he did not want to be buried by seemingly inconspicuous things at any time.
In fact, as an emperor, it is indeed necessary to maintain vigilance in many aspects, after all, imperial power represents everything, and there are too many people in the world who want to get it.
Zhu Yuanzhang jumped from a mud-legged man to a king of a country, and his life was more important than anything else.
Unfortunately, although Zhu Yuanzhang, who was overly cautious, saved his power and life, he also lost a lot. He killed nearly a third of the heroes for fear of rebellion, and he did not exchange any sense of security.
On the contrary, excessive killing caused him to lose his nature, unable to distinguish between good and bad people around him, and eventually led to the death of countless people under his butcher's knife.