"This thing seems to be an object of Yongzheng Year, and ...... picture on it?"

Li Mingguang looked at the snuff box over and over for a while, and confirmed that the age of the snuff box should be from the Kangxi year, but he obviously didn't care much about the age of this thing, but paid more attention to the pattern on it.

"This pattern!hahaha, I'm really lucky today, I didn't expect to see something that I haven't found for more than ten years in one day, hahaha, it's really good, it's so good. Li Mingguang said that he was so excited that he burst into tears.

"Teacher, what is this unsolved historical case you are talking about, I am strangely itchy. Zhang Tianyuan had never seen his teacher Li Mingguang so out of shape, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Actually, you probably know about this matter, that is, Yongzheng's death, how Yongzheng died, is still a mystery. Only then did Li Mingguang stop laughing and said the content of his research topic.

For a person who likes history, even if it is only a small matter in history, for them, it is a haunting and difficult problem, if they don't figure it out, they are afraid that they will not be blind until they die.

It is precisely because of this that Li Mingguang laughs so indulgently, completely ignoring his own image.

"Yongzheng's death, I've heard of this. Zhang Tianyuan must have heard of this matter, after all, he is a college student who graduated from archaeology, and he naturally has his own involvement in these historical unsolved cases.

"Yongzheng's death has always been a historical mystery covered by layers of mysterious fog. The official book's record of Yongzheng's death is very simple, so. There has always been a lot of speculation about the cause of his death. There is a legend that he was assassinated by Lu Siniang, and some say that he was hanged to death by a palace maid and a eunuch. Besides. Many scholars speculate that he was poisoned by the elixir. Which of these claims are credible? I still don't know. It turns out that this is the topic you have been studying, "Zhang Tianyuan is actually quite concerned about Yongzheng's death, he has watched the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty" before, purely from the content of the TV series, he still likes Yongzheng's diligence and righteousness, as for the rest, he is not very interested, he also thought that if Yongzheng can stay in the emperor's position more, what kind of era will the Qing Dynasty go?

Of course. It's just speculation, or simple obscenity, which has no practical significance, unlike Li Mingguang, who really studies this.

As soon as Li Mingguang mentioned this, he immediately became interested, took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and began to talk.

About Yongzheng's death. The historical record is very simple, just to say that the day before, Yongzheng was seriously ill in the palace of the Old Summer Palace. On the afternoon of the second day, he was critically ill and urgently called the minister, but he died that night.

What exactly led to the death of Yongzheng. There is no record of it. According to the personal records of Yongzheng's confidant minister Zhang Tingyu, Yongzheng's seven orifices were bleeding at that time. He was "horrified."

Yongzheng died violently, and the official book did not record the reason. This naturally caused people's doubts, and there were many legends and comments about him at that time, which made it easier to arouse people's suspicions, so all kinds of theories about not being able to die well gave rise to a theory that Lu Siniang, who escaped in the Lu Liuliang case, was stabbed to death in the palace.

One of the theories is that he was assassinated by Lu Siniang. This is still quite popular today. In 1981, archaeologists excavated the Yongzheng Underground Palace, but they gave up before opening it. But it is rumored in the society that the coffin has been opened, and Yongzheng has a body and no head.

So, what is the origin of Lu Siniang? Legend has it that Lu Siniang is the daughter of Lu Liuliang, some say that it is the son of Lu Liuliang, the daughter of Jinshi Lu Baozhong, in the case of Lu Liuliang, she escaped with her mother and a servant, in order to avenge her father and ancestors, learn martial arts, and later sneaked into the palace and killed Yongzheng. There is also a saying that her master was a monk, who was originally a Yongzheng swordsman, but he was not happy to use it and left, cultivating this female apprentice.

Li Mingguang has always believed that these statements are unreasonable. Yongzheng disposed of the Lu family, in addition to killing corpses and beheading, Lu Liuliang's grandchildren were all sent to remote places as slaves. During the Qianlong period, the descendants of the Lu family had noodle shops, medicine shops, medical practitioners, and some became donor prisoners.

The descendants of the Lu family are all there, but they are strictly controlled and cannot move freely, and of course they cannot avenge their ancestors. It was impossible for Lu Siniang's master and servant to escape, and Li Wei, the governor of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, who was handling the matter at that time, was known for being good at apprehending thieves, and he was ordered to take charge of the Jiang and Su robbery cases. Besides, he once inscribed a plaque for the Lu family, Yongzheng did not blame him after the Lu case, he was afraid and dealt with the relevant personnel with all his might, and he would not let the descendants of the main culprit escape at all.

It was said that the palace maids and eunuchs used ropes to hang them when they were asleep, and it was the people who put the affairs of the Ming Shizong on the Qing Shizong. There is also a legend that says that in the ninth year of Yongzheng, the palace maid and the eunuchs Wu Shouyi and Huo Cheng used a rope to hang them when they were asleep in Yongzheng, and they were cured with the medicine of the imperial physician Zhang.

Li Mingguang told Zhang Tianyuan that this was a non-existent matter. Something similar happened in the Ming Dynasty. In the twenty-first year of Jiajing (1542), Sejong was hanged by the palace maid Yang Jinying and others, and recovered with the medicine of the imperial physician Xu Shen. Yongzheng and Jiajing Temple are called "Shizong", folklore, and it is inevitable that the affairs of Ming Shizong will be settled on Qing Shizong.

There is no information that Yongzheng was assassinated, but Yongzheng's grandson Jiaqing was really assassinated. On the 20th day of the second month of the eighth year of Jiaqing (1803), Jiaqing returned to Da Nei from the Old Summer Palace, entered the Shenwu Gate, and went to the Shunzhen Gate. This assassination case that occurred in the palace ban may also become a version of the assassin who killed Yongzheng by later generations.

"By the way, teacher, I heard that Yongzheng is very obsessed with Taoist immortals, is the speculation of pill poisoning credible?" Zhang Tianyuan actually didn't believe much in Lu Siniang's assassination of Yongzheng, in the inner court, you can still succeed in assassinating an emperor by a woman? This is a bit too mysterious, unless Lu Siniang is a novelist's sword fairy fox spirit.

"There is some truth to the statement about the pill. Li Mingguang continued to tell Zhang Tianyuan.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, some people proposed: "The collapse of Sejong." According to legend, the cultivation of bait pills may be caused by a reason. Mr. Yang Naiji, a contemporary scholar, has obtained first-hand information such as the "Inventory of Records for All Works" of the Qing Dynasty Internal Affairs Office in the collection of the First Historical Archives of China. wrote the article "Circumstantial Evidence of Emperor Yongzheng's Death from Pill Poisoning", Professor Li Mingguang thinks. Mr. Yang Naiji's argument can only be used as a reference, a reference, which may not be credible, but it is definitely more reasonable than assassination.

When Yongzheng was young, he was a good Buddha and worshiped the Tao. After becoming the emperor, he begged immortals to visit the Tao and seek immortality, and he was even more busy with it. He not only invited the Taoist priest into the palace and waited for the guests to make alchemy and take it for him, but also hoped that the palace where he lived could be like a famous Buddhist temple and a Taoist immortal view, including the surrounding environment to make a model for imitation. It can be seen that he has reached the point of almost obsession with Taoism's immortal teachings.

There is a historical record that Yongzheng Bin "bleeds from seven holes" when he was in the sky. The bleeding from the seven holes is a reflection of Yan zhòng's poisoning, Yongzheng has long taken the pill refined by the Taoist priest and the so-called "elixir of immortality", these pills have a high content of mercury, lead, cinnabar and other ores, and they are all calcined at high temperatures, and the heat is very large. After the death of the thirteenth elder brother Yunxiang, in order to thirst for immortality, Yongzheng increased the dose of pills and eventually became poisoned, which is reasonable.

Before Qianlong officially ascended the throne. It has been urgently passed on to expel the Taoist priests in the palace, which shows that Yongzheng's death is closely related to the Taoist priests, because Qianlong knew the harm of erysipelas, so he put the expulsion of the Taoist priests in the palace on top of many state affairs and immediately carried it out.

There is a folk saying that goes. Yongzheng coveted women for a long time, and even took aphrodisiacs indiscriminately, which may be one of the direct reasons for Yongzheng's eventual sudden death. According to their own imaginary opinions, they felt that Yongzheng was the emperor who ruled for 13 years. Basically, they are in a situation of being separated from relatives and being alone. When his life was dying, he asked his compatriots to go out of the mountain to assist and was resigned, and his situation and the suffering of his mentality can be imagined. Furthermore. Yongzheng's physical condition, seven years after Yongzheng. Due to the killing of political enemies and the closure of the pass, they have basically been settled, and compared with before, Yongzheng has a little 'leisure'. And once the emperor has some 'leisure', he also begins to covet women, and his illness is exposed. ”

"What is the teacher's opinion on this?" asked Zhang Tianyuan.

"I don't agree much, because there is a big contradiction here, and Yongzheng is unlikely to invite his fellow brother out of the mountain in the first place, because this person has always opposed him. In addition, although Yongzheng has killed a lot of political enemies, and in addition to many corrupt officials, it cannot be said that he is a traitor, he still has a lot of loyal servants and friends, and there is another point, Yongzheng's diligence is recorded in many historical materials, he will be obsessed with women? Li Mingguang said with some emotion.

"I remember that there is a saying in Korean historical materials, 'Yongzheng coveted women in his later years, was terminally ill, and could not use it from the waist down for a long time. It stands to reason that there is no need for the Korean envoy to deliberately fabricate and wantonly attack Yongzheng in his report to the king of his country, and this historical material should be used as a supporting evidence of Yongzheng's physical loss in his later years, right?" Zhang Tianyuan thought for a while.

"Why can't the North Korean envoy attack Yongzheng? You must know that even if Yongzheng becomes the emperor, there are people who are plotting against him, so can you guarantee that no one has bribed this envoy and then wants to borrow troops from North Korea to rebel?" Li Mingguang asked rhetorically.

"Well, I really didn't think about it. Zhang Tianyuan scratched his head and said with a smile.

According to the rumors outside, Yongzheng's death had a lot to do with his body overdraft, which was tired of years of hard work; it had a lot to do with his long-term lack of peace of mind, his inability to sleep at night, his inability to concentrate on his spirit, and his fear of retribution; it was also related to his long-term continuous use of pills and the accumulation of a large amount of poison in his body; in his later years, he took more pills in order to seek longevity, and even took aphrodisiacs indiscriminately, which was the direct cause of his eventual sudden death. It may not be comprehensive to attribute Yongzheng's death to being purely 'exhausted' by work. ”

"The folk rumor that Lu Siniang's revenge and beheading Yongzheng's head are purely the imagination of the people has no reliable evidence and is not a historical fact. And the so-called death from taking too many pills, or indulging in female sex and dying from taking aphrodisiacs, this is also unreliable, which is why I want to study this topic, Yongzheng as a ruler, he is qualified after all, it can be said that without Yongzheng's more than ten years, the Qing Dynasty would have been finished, and Qianlong's little doll would be a loser compared to him!" Li Mingguang said with a sneer. (To be continued......)