One night in November 1542, the drunken Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was asleep in the Palace of Concubine Duan. The 4 palace ladies quietly came to Zhu Houxi's side, took out the rope prepared in advance, and without hesitation, put it around his neck.
Zhu Houxi was suddenly awakened and began to struggle desperately. In the panic, the four of them actually tied a dead knot to the rope, and how to kill the emperor could not be killed, and could only pull off the hairpin on his head and poke it randomly.
The four palace women, all in their teens, were already weak and weak, and seeing that Zhu Houxi was still struggling hard, their hearts were getting more and more afraid, and one of the palace women felt that the matter might be exposed, and even rushed to the queen to inform. When the other palace ladies saw the situation, they had no choice but to scatter the birds and beasts.
Plotting rebellion, but to destroy the Nine Tribes; The execution of the king is also to be sentenced to death. Many powerful secretaries of state did not dare to move this thought easily, so why did the four unarmed palace ladies have such courage?
In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that if Zhu Houxi was not too absurd and violent, they would definitely not be desperate to take risks.
The Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty, succeeded to the throne at the age of 15, and at the beginning of his reign, he vigorously reformed, widely accepted advice, killed the courtiers, pardoned the world, encouraged farming and weaving, rectified harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and treated the people leniently, thus making the government and government look completely new.
If he can maintain this momentum all the time, the vitality of the Ming Dynasty will certainly be extended. However, in the later period of his reign, he began to believe in Taoism, obsessed with alchemy and elixirs, and pursued immortality, and his degree of demonic defiance was even greater than that of Qin Shi Huang.
In order to vote for the emperor's favor, those Daoist monks changed the law to make alchemy medicines, among which there was a kind of elixir called "red lead", which made Zhu Houxi most obsessed.
This flavored elixir is quite strange, and it is actually made of young girls' menstruation and medicinal powder. Taoist monks say that this elixir has an extraordinary effect, which can not only strengthen the body, but also prolong life.
As a result, Zhu Houxi went crazy and ordered the palace women to collect menstrual blood, and even forced them to take menstrual drugs, and many palace women lost too much blood and died.
After all, the number of women in the palace is limited, in order to ensure that the raw materials are sufficient, Zhu Houxi also ordered the young girls to enter the palace in the civil election, which made the people panic and complain.
(The Ming dynasty Shen Defu recorded in the Wild Harvest Compilation: "In September of the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, another one hundred and sixty people under the age of eighteen were selected.) Gai from Tao Zhongwen (Alchemist) said, for refining medicinal use also. ”）
What is even more frightening is that since Zhu Houxi took dan medicine, his temperament has become more tyrannical, and he often whipped the palace maid for a small matter.
The palace ladies were originally miserable for the "medicine" thing, and they were still doing physical work every day, and now they were going to be punished by the emperor if they were not careful, and some of them had already been unbearable.
Among them, there was a palace maid who was waiting at the Duan Concubine,named Yang Jinying, who was more assertive, thinking that the horizontal and vertical were all dead, it was better to kill this cruel emperor before death, and maybe she could win the hope of life for the other sisters.
So she found three familiar sisters and plotted to find an opportunity to do it.
At this moment, another thing happened that pushed them to do it.
In order to curry favor with Zhu Houxi, the ministers presented him with a five-colored "Millennium Turtle".
Coincidentally, the task of guarding the "Millennium Turtle" was just handed over to Yang Jinying. But Yang Jinying did not know that in fact, the "five colors" on this turtle were not born, but painted with paints, which may be that these pigments are toxic, so this "millennium turtle" was quickly poisoned.
When Yang Jinying saw that the Millennium Turtle was dead, he knew that he must be guilty of a capital crime, so he stepped up the pace of plotting to kill Zhu Houxi.
The opportunity soon came, and one night, Zhu Houxi finished drinking and drunkenly came to Duanfei's bedchamber, and Duanfei waited for him to sleep, and then went to bathe and change clothes.
At this moment, Yang Jinying and the four of them quietly came to Zhu Houxi's side, took out the prepared rope, and without hesitation put it around his neck.
If it weren't for the panic and accident that caused one of them to run to the empress for fear, Zhu Houxi might have really died, and if so, he would have become the first emperor in history to be strangled to death by a palace maid.
Unfortunately, after the queen got the news, she came to rescue him in time, and even so, it took him more than a month to recover before he could speak.
During this period, the empress ordered that all these palace women be executed, and at the same time, she also took advantage of this good opportunity to kill the "love enemy" DuanFei.
(Empress Dowager Mingshi and Empress Sejongfang: "The palace maid Yang Jinying and others plotted to kill the emperor, and Lai Hou saved him.") ...... ）
This year happens to be the lunar year of Nongyin, so this palace assassination incident is called "Nongyin Palace Change".
【Tuzha】
After this incident, Zhu Houxi did not have any reflection, but felt that this was a blessing from God in the underworld, so he believed in Taoism even more, so he handed over the government to Yan Song, the "Qingzi Prime Minister", lived alone in the Western Garden, and xiuxian went.
In 1566, Zhu Houxi died of illness at the age of 60. It is said that he was poisoned because of taking an overdose of Dan medicine, which is also the result of self-inflicted wounds!
It was just pity for Yang Jinying, these brave little palace girls, who were tragically killed by Ling Chi. But in any case, when they were oppressed, they bravely stood up, did not sit still, and left their names in the history books to let the world know their efforts for themselves and their sisters with the same fate!
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