When the kingdom is about to perish, there will be demons. The Qing Dynasty was no exception.
To say that this Forbidden City, the door control is strict, three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, not to mention assassins, even ordinary people are difficult to get close to, but this Forbidden City has had many strange cases and strange things.
Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, Beijing
There is not much to say about the attack case of one of the three major cases at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the assassination of the Jiaqing Emperor at the Shenwu Gate is not much to say, and today Ah Qi specifically talks about the lesser-known Guangxu Dynasty madman who made a big fuss about the Taihe Temple, and tried to analyze its origins.
The Forbidden City in Beijing, commonly known as the Forbidden City, is the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, with strict barriers and strict defenses, during the Qing Dynasty, the Manchurian and Mongolian soldiers of the Eight Banners selected elite guards to form a "protective army camp", with as many as 15,000 officers and soldiers. The officers and men of the Upper Three Banners guard the inside of the Forbidden City, and the officers and soldiers of the Lower Five Banners guard the outside of the Forbidden City. Ordinary people don't say that they have entered the Forbidden City, even if they stand outside the palace walls for a while, they will also be severely reprimanded by the guards: Hurry up! Is this the place for you to see?
There was such an aggressive and strange thing.
This incident occurred on the eighth day of the seventh month of the seventh lunar month in the thirty-first year of the Qing Dynasty (1905 AD). A madman not only sneaked into the Forbidden City, but also danced in the solemn and sacred Temple of Taihe.
Let's be specific.
Interior view of the Taihe Temple
This day is the same as usual, nothing special. The duty in the palace, Zhang Jing, routinely, check whether the door lock is locked? Is it safe to burn candles? Are the people on duty lazy or not? Who are on duty that day? The middle left gate duty Zhang Jing Jishan, the middle right door duty Zhang Jing Longhai, the back left door duty Zhang Jing Akdang'a, the rear right door duty Zhang Jing Shenglu, these four old four from north to south, from the Bohol Hall to the Middle Harmony Hall, from the Middle Harmony Hall to the Taihe Hall. The old four were yawning and idly strolling around, and one of them found a problem, how did the east window ledge between the taihe and the west of the temple fall? No, this window is generally not opened? The four people were inspecting the scene when they suddenly heard someone singing in the Taihe Temple.
Oh my god! What is this place? The emperor does not sing in this hall either. The Hall of Taihe is commonly known as the Golden Ruan Treasure Hall of the people, which is generally not used, and is only used when the new emperor ascends the throne, promulgates important edicts, announces the list of new jinshi emperors, appoints generals to go on expeditions, and every year on New Year's Day, winter solstice, and the emperor's birthday, when the emperor wants to issue edicts or accept pilgrimages. Usually only eunuchs can go in when they go in to clean, otherwise there is no one who can enter the place normally, which big brother is it today? So bold? The door is locked and you climb in through the window? These four Zhang Jing can be described as well-trained, and they were quickly reported to the superior leaders - Song Quan, the key chief of the Zhengbai Banner Division, and The Leader of the Guards of the Zhengbai Banner, as well as the Zhang Jing and the Zhenghong Banner Protector of the Red Flag. These two leaders were also not ambiguous, and immediately reported to the leader at the next higher level, the Jingyunmen Duty Minister Tu Qin, who had to report to the emperor and the empress dowager, but fortunately, he did not continue to report, but took the minister in charge of internal affairs and these six subordinates, as well as the officers and men under him, straight to the Taihe Hall and surrounded it. At the same time, there were also three leaders, namely: Wailang Yuxiang, a senior member of the Three Great Halls, Yan Ren, the duty of the Three Great Halls, and Zhonglian Qing, acting Minister of internal affairs.
Everyone came to the outside of the Taihe Temple, and when they heard that it was lively inside, they would cry, laugh, shout, and shout, and catch up with the New Year singing drama.
Everyone took the key and opened the door of the Taihe Temple, and when they looked at it, they couldn't help it, and there stood a man in rags and rags, who was chanting and dancing. As soon as the officers and men rushed up, they pressed down, searched, hey, even carried a short knife with a sheath, and a small knife without a sheath. (The whole one two knives ah)
Taihe Temple window ledge
Among these officials, it is the largest official of Tu Qin, and when the face of the big man is heavy, give me a beating, and the dancer confesses, saying that his name is Jia Wanhai, who is 29 years old this year (so far unmarried, this sentence is Aqi jia), and is a person from Daxing County on the outskirts of Beijing. If you ask again, you can't ask anything, why ask, this Jia Wanhai is just giggling, dancing and chirping, either crying, or making trouble, looking like a madman.
How can this be done? Tu Qin did not dare to be the master, and the next day, on the ninth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, he gave it to Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, proposing to hand it over to the Ministry of Punishment for interrogation. The old lady who did the work was called Li Suo, and immediately replied: "According to the proposal, I am admiring this." ”
The Punishment Department began to sentence this Jia Wanhai, but no matter how you beat him, Jia Wanhai was stunned and answered the question. The Punishment Department has not recruited, get it, find a doctor to see it, and then retry after more than a month of treatment, or so, the living immortals can not do it.
The Punishment Department was also out of the way, but no matter what, Jia Wanhai, a commoner, ran to the Taihe Temple, and also carried two murder weapons, and according to the Great Qing Law, he had to be hanged and waited, and the Punishment Department reported the matter to the old empress, and the old empress dowager was still so sharp that she approved four words: "According to the discussion, qin this." The Punishment Department then hanged this Jia Wanhai.
This matter is over at this point, but the mystery behind Jia Wanhai has not been solved. A madman, how did he get into the palace? What do you want to do with a knife? Are there any accomplices and masterminds? Which day did you come in? How to dodge the patrol? What is running in the temple? Is he really crazy or pretending to be crazy?
The gate of the Taihe Temple
Okay, Aki to analyze. First, this Jia Wanhai is really crazy. If he wasn't crazy, even if he was taken to the Forbidden City by Neiying, he wouldn't cry and laugh and make trouble in the Taihe Temple. Second, there are two possibilities for him to enter the Forbidden City, first, a madman is not equal to a fool, some crazy people have a higher intelligence than ordinary people, and it is not impossible to figure out the time of the Forbidden City's guards and patrols, and use tools to climb into the Forbidden City. Another possibility is that he really has internal response, and Neiying has a bad intention to assassinate the king and kill the driver, looking for a gap to introduce the madman into the Forbidden City, but the madman is not controlled, resulting in the failure of Neiying's original plan. What were the major events in 1905? The Alliance was established in Japan (on the sixth day after this incident), the Guangfuhui was in full swing, Wu Fan assassinated the five ministers and did not become martyred in the revolution, Chen Tianhua threw himself into the sea and died...
Third, Ah Qi's tendency to this Jia Wanhai is internal, and the possibility that he was introduced into the Forbidden City to assassinate the head of the Qing court was unlikely, but the purpose of disrupting the palace order and achieving people's trepidation was finally achieved. At a time when the revolutionary cause of the late Qing Dynasty was in full swing, the news of the madman's big fuss in the Golden Ruan Hall of the Forbidden City was enough to make the revolutionaries sing a long song and make the numb people hehe.