Chapter 742: Yongzheng's death
Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty Aixinjueluo Yinzhen, the fourth son of Emperor Kangxi and the third emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, reigned for thirteen years. He vigorously attacked the opposition forces that hindered the imperial power, effectively improved the administration of officials, increased the revenue of the state treasury, and laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of the Qianlong Dynasty.
Emperor Yongzheng left two major doubts to the world in his life, one is the mystery of Yongzheng's succession, and the other is the mystery of Yongzheng's cause of death. How did Yongzheng die? What was the cause of Yongzheng's death? Who is Yongzheng's queen, and how many queens are there in Yongzheng?
The first theory is that Yongzheng was beheaded to death by Lu Siniang. At this time, there was a case called Lu Liuliang's literary prison case, and Lu Liuliang was severely punished. But legend has it that his daughter Lu Siniang was caught, escaped without permission, and was not killed, this Lu Siniang apprenticed to learn art, strong martial arts, and later found a way to disguise herself and mix in the palace, and when she saw an opportunity, she cut off Yongzheng's head and avenged her father.
This legend is very vivid, how to mourn that Yongzheng has no head, the legend makes a golden head to put it aside, so it is buried in Yongzheng's Tailing. Yongzheng was killed by Lu Siniang, this possibility is not very likely, because it was very strict when it was full of beheadings, and it was impossible for Lu Liuliang's daughter to escape, taking a step back, even if she ran away, it was impossible to mix with the palace, and even if she got into the palace, there was no chance for her to kill Yongzheng. So it's just a very vivid and interesting story made up from a wild history novel.
The second statement is also very bizarre, that is, Cao Xueqin, the author of "Dream of Red Mansions", has a lover, this lover is called Zhu Xiangyu, who is very beautiful and can sing and dance, and was taken by Yongzheng, who took her to the palace. He took Cao Xueqin's love, so Cao Xueqin contacted Zhu Xiangyu through secret methods, although Zhu Xiangyu was in the palace, he still thought about Cao Xueqin, so he saw an opportunity and murdered Yongzheng. This is also the words of a wild historical novel, which has no historical basis and cannot be believed.
The third is that there is a book called "Brahma Lu Series". This book says that Yongzheng was strangled to death by a palace maid, but he was almost rescued again. This story belongs to the transfer of flowers and trees, there is such a story in the Ming Dynasty, in the twenty-first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing was very irritable to the palace maids. Because Jiajing eats alchemy, he is sometimes very short-tempered and often whips the palace maids.
There was a palace maid named Yang Jinying, and one night, while Emperor Jiajing was asleep, she strangled Jiajing's neck with yellow silk. Because she was very nervous, she tied a dead knot in the panic, she thought she was strangled, and the other palace maid involved in the matter was afraid, and quickly told the queen about it, when the queen hurriedly ran over, she saw that Jiajing had lost her breath, and the queen hurriedly ordered the imperial doctor, the imperial doctor called Xu Shen, after coming, he felt that the problem was very serious, so he took a sharp medicine to treat it, and after four hours, Jiajing had a little voice, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then Jiajing vomited several liters of purple blood, and then after a period of conditioning, Jiajing was saved, and of course Yang Jinying and others were killed. This thing is true, it is said that when Emperor Jiajing slept at night, this room had 3,927 beds, and others did not know which bed he slept on.
"Li Dynasty Record", the envoys of North Korea came to the Ming Dynasty, and also made a very detailed record of this matter, moved the story of the Ming Dynasty to Yongzheng, and made up such a very vivid and interesting story out of the need to oppose the Manchu Dynasty.
Fourth, it is said that Yongzheng died of a stroke, but there is no conclusive evidence that he died of a stroke, which can be regarded as a statement.
The fifth theory is that he was killed by erysipelas. After Yongzheng was in the middle of his life, especially after he had a serious illness, he personally wrote an edict and asked various local officials to recommend famous doctors and warlocks to the palace to treat him and help him take care of his health. Yongzheng wants to live forever, so he is recommended everywhere.
Later, there were two Taoist priests, one named Zhang Taixu and the other named Wang Dinggan, after these two Taoist priests arrived in the palace, they helped Yongzheng refine the pill and handed them Taoism. Yongzheng really believes in Taoism, and sets up altars in the Ganqing Palace, in the Taihe Palace, and in other places, and some places worship the talisman of the Taoist god. Later, Yongzheng was in the Old Summer Palace for a long time, and he sent people to the Old Summer Palace to send alchemy medicine, which was very large, and he sent 200 catties of black lead twelve days before he died.
Yongzheng once sent the items needed for alchemy one hundred and fifty-seven times in five years, he not only ate the alchemy pill himself, but also sent people to give them to eat the ministers he favored, Yongzheng has been eating the alchemy pill for a long time, and may be poisoned by mercury, lead, selenium and some heavy metals, it should be said that Yongzheng's death has a certain relationship with lead poisoning and erysipelas. There are as many as 14 emperors in Chinese history who died by refining pills, and Yongzheng's death may also be due to poisoning by pills, so Yongzheng died at the age of fifty-eight.
How many queens are there in Yongzheng? In principle, there is only one queen in Yongzheng. Empress Wulanala of filial piety, a native of the Yellow Banner of Manchuria, and the daughter of Fei Yanggu, the consul of the Guanbu Army. When Sejong was the prince, he was the queen of Fujin and the queen in the first year of Yongzheng.
Folks say that the emperor has three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, but in fact, this is just a general statement about the harem of the feudal emperor. As the supreme ruler of the feudal empire, there was no limit to the number of women the emperor had.
The three palaces, six courts, and seventy-two concubines are only a formal system, and the women in the emperor's harem are always just an appendage of the emperor, a royal fertility tool and a personal plaything, they are sometimes noble and illustrious in the constraints of the emperor's majesty and court etiquette, sometimes noble and prominent, sometimes lowly and humble, hot when favored, and fall into a sea of misery when they fall out of favor, and even lose the minimum personal security, without a little independent personality.
The splendid buildings in the eyes of others may be hell on earth in their eyes, and the struggle caused by many women around a man is nothing more than the joy of the world and the level of life treatment, and the tragedy of accompanying the king like a tiger will happen at any time, and the emperor plays with women at will under the banner of having many sons, many heirs and many blessings, and even ignores the government and corrupts the dynasty.
Looking at the behavior of the feudal emperor in the harem, you can know how hypocritical and cunning the emperor's ethics and morality are. Those who are fortunate enough to step into the ranks of concubines can often involve her family political status and social relations and other backgrounds, because sometimes marriage is also politically necessary.
Although Emperor Yongzheng reigned for only thirteen years, his concubines were not many in number. These concubines were buried by Emperor Yongzheng's side after his death, that is, in the Tailing Concubine Garden next to Tailing. Tailing Concubine Garden is located in the northeast of Tailing in the poplar ditch, is the Qing Dynasty in the Guannei built the second concubine garden, is the Qing Dynasty Xiling the first concubine garden.
Twenty-one concubines of Emperor Yongzheng were buried in the Tailing Concubine Garden, including one imperial concubine, three concubines, one concubine, five nobles, seven Changzai, and four Gege.
Each of the twenty-one women has its own tomb, each with a separate dungeon. It is not known how many ordinary or bizarre stories and experiences have been buried in these mysterious beauties Kazuka, and even the simple life experiences of some of them have not been handed down, and they have become a wisp of smoke and dust in the vast world, leaving only a cold lonely and lonely grave.
Emperor Chunyi's concubine, Geng's family, the daughter of Geng Dejin, Manchuria inlaid with yellow flags, was born in the twenty-eighth year of Kangxi, eleven years younger than Emperor Yongzheng. In his early years, he entered the palace to serve as a Gege, and gave birth to the emperor's fifth son, Hongday. After Yinzhen ascended the throne, he was named Yu Concubine in the first year of Yongzheng, and was named Yu Concubine in the eighth year of Yongzheng. On the fourteenth day after Yinzhen's death, that is, in the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, the newly enthroned Qianlong Emperor honored her as a concubine.
Geng spent forty-one years on the throne of the concubine, to the forty-third year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor for Yu Guifei's ninety-year-old birthday, Jin named Geng as the imperial concubine, at the age of ninety and was named the imperial concubine, not only in the Qing Dynasty unprecedented, but also in Chinese history is rare. In the forty-ninth year of Qianlong, Geng finally died due to advanced age at the age of ninety-six.
She lived ten years longer than Empress Xiao Shengxian. Her lifespan is only one year younger than that of Emperor Kangxi's concubine, and she ranks second among the concubines known to be year-round. The day after Geng's death, the Qianlong Emperor personally went to the golden coffin of Emperor Yu's concubine to lay wine.
Concubine Qi, Li, Han nationality, daughter of the prefect Li Wenye. She was one of Yinzhen's early wives and concubines, and she was already a Fujin on the side of the Qiandi before Yinzhen ascended the throne. At that time, her status was higher than that of Empress Xiao Shengxian and Emperor Chunyi. Li gave birth to three boys and one girl for Yinzhen within ten years, which undoubtedly shows that she is deeply favored by Yinzhen.
After Yinzhen ascended the throne, she was edicted as Concubine Qi. In the second year of Qianlong, Concubine Qi was sick in bed. After the death of Concubine Qi, Emperor Qianlong personally went to the Wulongting Funeral Home in front of Concubine Qi's golden coffin to lay wine and salute. Her status is second only to the Chunyi Imperial Concubine.
Concubine Qian, Liu, the daughter of Liu Man, the leader of the inner management, entered the palace in the seventh year of Yongzheng, and was initially called Liu Promise, and Yongzheng was promoted to Liu Guiren in the eighth year. The sixth son of the emperor Hongsun, Hongsun is the youngest prince of Emperor Yongzheng, when Emperor Yongzheng was fifty-six years old, he had a son in his later years, naturally he was very happy, on the second day of Hongsun's birth, Emperor Yongzheng was named Liu Guiren as a concubine, the title was Qian, and the canonization ceremony was held in the second year. After Hongli ascended the throne, he enshrined Concubine Qian as Concubine Qian, and Concubine Qian died in the 32nd year of Qianlong at the age of 54.
Concubine Ning, Wu's family, the daughter of Wu Guozhu of Zhizhou, entered the Yinzhen Qiandi in her early years, died in the twelfth year of Yongzheng, and was posthumously named Concubine Ning.
Mao Concubine, the Song family, the daughter of the director Jin Zhu, entered the Yinzhen Hidden Mansion in her early years, and she was Gege. She was Yinzhen's earliest wife and concubine. In the thirty-third year of Kangxi, she gave birth to the first eldest daughter of the emperor for Yinzhen, who was just seventeen years old. After Yinzhen ascended the throne, he was enshrined as a concubine in the first year of Yongzheng, and the concubine died in the eighth year of Yongzheng. The year of the death of the concubine Tailing has just been built, the concubine garden bed has not yet been built, the concubine golden coffin had to be parked in the funeral palace for a long time, to the second half of the second year of Qianlong Tailing concubine garden bed was completed, Qi Concubine and the concubine golden coffin was able to be enshrined.
Emperor Yongzheng actually had thirty concubines. Twenty-one people were buried in the concubine garden, one queen and one concubine were buried in Tailing, one was buried in Taidong, and twenty-four people were buried in Qingxi Mausoleum. The other six people are Lao Guiren, Ji Changzai, Ying Promise, Wang Promise, De Promise, and Yun Hui. Among them, the old nobleman was buried in the garden of Su Malagu in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty. Where the other five were buried remains an unsolved mystery.
Emperor Yongzheng had sixteen sons and eight daughters, and the eldest son and the second son died young. Before he died, Yongzheng passed the throne to the fourth son of the emperor, Prince Bao Hongli, and ordered the third son of the emperor to kill himself. The fifth son of the emperor, Hongday, was weak since he was a child, failed to compete with his brothers for the throne, and did not have this intention. After Hongli ascended the throne, the year name was Qianlong