The death of the Yongzheng Emperor
The death of the Yongzheng Emperor was as doubtful as his accession to the throne, and on the 23rd day of the eighth lunar month of the thirteenth lunar calendar of the Yongzheng Emperor, the Yongzheng Emperor suddenly died violently in the palace of the Old Summer Palace.
Portrait of the Yongzheng Emperor
The official book "Yongzheng Dynasty Living Register" describes the death of the Yongzheng Emperor as follows: "On August 21, the thirteenth year of the Yongzheng Dynasty, he did not hesitate to do things as usual. On the 22nd, Shangbuhe, Prince Zibao, and Prince served on the side. At the end of his life, he summoned kings, ministers of the interior, and scholars, to the palace to receive the edict. On the twenty-third day, the dragon was a guest. The university scholar read Zhu Bi's edict, and Prince Bao (Qianlong Emperor) ascended the throne. On the morning of the 23rd, Emperor Huang Yi returned to Da Nei and engraved the funeral. This also meant that after feeling unwell on the 21st, in just two days, the Yongzheng Emperor died violently.
Many people will feel very puzzled because of this, and some people think that the Yongzheng Emperor died of poisoning by taking pills, why do some people think so? Because in the private records of Zhang Tingyu, a university scholar at the time, it was written that when the Yongzheng Emperor died, he was bleeding from seven tips, which made people "shocked", and this was a sign of poisoning. So, why did the Yongzheng Emperor take pills?
The reason why the Yongzheng Emperor took the pill
Portrait of the Yongzheng Emperor
The Yongzheng Emperor was an extremely rare emperor in history who was diligent and dedicated, and he also prided himself on "putting diligence before the world". According to legend, after the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he slept less than four hours a day, and there is such a statistic in "The Twelve Emperors of the Qing Dynasty": "In terms of Zhu Zhu T ”
Moreover, in addition to being busy with work, the Yongzheng Emperor was also addicted to beauty, and his body was extremely overdrawn.
And it is under the influence of these two things that the Yongzheng Emperor's body is getting weaker and weaker, and he wants to make up for it through pills, and since the fourth year of Yongzheng, the Yongzheng Emperor has begun to take pills to condition his body. Talking about things, although the Yongzheng Emperor is the Ninth Fifth Supreme, he is also a human being, and he will also be afraid of death. Therefore, since he ascended the throne, the Yongzheng Emperor has been visiting immortals to ask questions, seeking the method of immortality, and the early death of the thirteenth brother has intensified his fear of death, so he has sought the method of immortality even more frantically, and his dependence on elixirs has become stronger and stronger. As we all know, these so-called elixirs actually contain a lot of lead, mercury and other chemicals, and these substances are stored in large quantities in the human body, which in some cases may lead to the death of the Yongzheng Emperor.
For the death of the Yongzheng Emperor, the poisoning theory is more convincing, but there are different accounts among the people, and some of the people believe that Lü Siniang killed the Yongzheng Emperor, and this scene can be seen in many literary works and TV series.
Lu Siniang said that he killed Yong Zhengzhi
Lü Siniang assassinated the Yongzheng Emperor
Speaking of Lu Siniang, we have to mention the Lu Liuliang and Zeng Jingwen prison cases that shocked the whole country during the Yongzheng period.
During the Yongzheng period, anti-Qing forces still existed, and the Yongzheng Emperor was very harsh, ruthless, and launched a literary prison to suppress the anti-Qing forces. The Lu Liuliang's literary prison case was not discovered until many years after Lu Liuliang's death. However, a Confucian student named Zeng Jing was very respectful of anti-Qing learning, which was widely spread and finally exposed. Zeng Jing was imprisoned, while Lu Liuliang was found guilty of "great rebellion" and brutally opened and killed, and his relatives were also affected, some were killed, others were assigned to distant places.
Legend has it that Lü Liuliang had a granddaughter who, after the incident, fled to a foreign country and learned a very high level of kung fu, this woman was Lü Siniang, and after that, Lü Siniang mixed into the palace and cut off Yongzheng's head with a dart.
Even though the theory that Lü Siniang assassinated the Yongzheng Emperor was widely circulated, if you think about it carefully, you will find that Lü Siniang's assassination of the Yongzheng Emperor is difficult to convince. First of all, after the Lu Liuliang case, his family was implicated, and the official in charge of the matter at that time was Li Wei, the governor of Zhejiang, who was known for his ability to hunt down thieves, he had a past with the Lu family, and after the case, it was already a great favor that the Yongzheng Emperor did not pursue his responsibility, and he would definitely deal with the matter seriously, so the possibility of Lü Siniang escaping was not great; Secondly, even if Lü Siniang escaped and learned extremely high kung fu, it would be difficult for her to evade the copper-walled guards in the palace and enter the cabinet of the Yongzheng Emperor to complete the assassination. Therefore, Lü Siniang's assassination of the Yongzheng Emperor is just a folk story, but it is not a historical fact after all.
Other accounts of the death of the Yongzheng Emperor
Of course, there are also popular theories about the death of the Yongzheng Emperor, such as the Yongzheng Emperor died by taking too many aphrodisiacs, and some people even say that the Yongzheng Emperor was poisoned by Cao Xueqin and Zhu Xiangyu, these claims are even more unrealistic and just fictional stories.
summary
The death of the Yongzheng Emperor is mysterious and indiscernible, and it is this mystery that makes history even more fascinating.
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