Chapter 405 Drinking and Dying

"You're talking about poison? Is there really such a toxin in this world? I asked.

Of course, the world thinks that those are just legends, or exaggerated records in the history books, but this is not the case, the poison is fierce, and the records in the history books are not enough. Poison was one of the ten great tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and was often used in death-giving situations. This kind of criminal law is often used with high-ranking officials or high-ranking people, and it is also one of the more humane of the ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. In fact, the plover is a poisonous bird, this bird is edible, and it is said that the taste is very delicious, but its feathers are highly poisonous. The bird is a little bigger than the eagle and has a terrible call. The feathers are purple-black, with a long neck and a red beak. The reason why it has toxins is because it eats all kinds of poisons, so its feathers are highly poisonous, and if you soak it in wine with its feathers, the wine becomes a wine, which is very toxic and almost insolvable. There is also a saying that if the poop of the plover is pulled on the stone, the stone will also rot like mud, and there will be no grass within dozens of steps under the nest of the plover, and all kinds of insects will be poisoned to death in the stream where the bird bathes. Jiang Yurou said.

Speaking of poison can be described as a concept that has been stinking for thousands of years, many records in history are related to poison, and I also want to come to a lot of historical records when I hear Jiang Yurou say this.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Xiangong's favorite concubine Li Ji tried to murder the crown prince Shen Sheng, she put the poison into the wine, put the violet into the meat, let Shen Sheng eat, Shen Sheng has not yet touched his lips, Xian Gong arrived first, he used this wine to sprinkle on the ground to pay tribute to the ancestors, and a big bag was immediately puffed up on the ground. Shin Sheng discovers Li Ji's conspiracy and is very frightened. He ran away from the palace and hanged himself soon after. Although Shen Sheng did not die directly from the poison, the poison of the wine is really terrifying.

From the Han Dynasty onwards, the way of killing people with poison was more common, after Liu Bang's death, Emperor Hui Liu Ying succeeded to the throne, and Empress Lu was worried that King Ruyi of Zhao would become a threat to the throne, so he summoned him to Chang'an and poisoned him with wine. After that, Empress Lu wanted to kill Liu Fei, the king of Qi. Liu Fei is the son of Liu Bang who was born in a side room when he was young. Empress Lu had already regarded him as a thorn in his side. Once Liu Fei went to Beijing to meet him. Emperor Hui Liu Ying warmly hosted a banquet to entertain this brother, and Empress Lu suddenly came to the banquet hall and saw Liu Fei sitting on the upper seat, and Liu Ying treated him with family etiquette. Make somebody's blood boil. So he quietly ordered the servants to prepare two cups of wine. Ordered Liu Fei to celebrate his birthday and drink that glass of wine. Liu Ying didn't know Empress Lu's intentions, and also picked up another glass of wine to celebrate Empress Lu's birthday. Empress Lu hurriedly snatched Liu Ying's cup. Pour the wine away and place the glass on the table. Liu Fei felt strange and didn't dare to drink the glass of wine he served, so he pretended to be drunk and left the table. Later, he learned that Empress Lu gave him wine, and he was so frightened that he fell seriously ill.

After the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the general Huo Guang and the guard Wang Mang together to assist the government, Emperor Wu had a testament to seal Huo Guang, Jin Riyan and Shangguan Ji, there was no Wang Mang, Wang Mang's son Wang Hu suspected that the edict was forged, Huo Guang was very angry, and severely blamed Wang Mang, Wang Mang was afraid that offending Huo Guang would suffer a catastrophe, so he killed his own son Wang Hu with poison. Coincidentally, another Wang Mang of the Han Dynasty was also accustomed to poisoning, at the beginning of Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty, he had the idea of usurping the throne, and when he offered pepper wine in Larijin, he put the poison into the wine, poisoned Emperor Ping, and set up his son as the emperor in the second year.

There are countless such examples, when Gongsun Shu occupied Sichuan and became emperor, he heard that Li Ye had a reputation for talent and virtue and wanted to hire him as a doctor, but Li Ye resolutely resigned and refused to obey. Gongsun Shu was furious, so he sent Yin Rong, the great Hongqing, to invite Li Ye again with wine and edicts, and if Li Ye was willing to serve the edict, he would be crowned as a prince, and if he still did not accept it, he would be given to drink this poisonous wine. Li Ye calmly chose the latter and died of drinking.

During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Chao, the prince of Wei Gaoguixiang, personally led the guards to crusade against Sima Zhao, and was killed by Sima Zhao's generals, and the empress dowager issued an edict to count Cao Chao's crimes, saying that Cao Chao had bribed the people around her, and planned to take advantage of her to take the opportunity to poison her. It doesn't matter whether what the Empress Dowager Guo said is true or not, but it can be seen from this incident that poison is a common means of intrigue and trickery in the court.

The reason why poison is often used by people is because it is highly toxic, and the time required for people to die after taking poison is short, and the poisoning causes death quickly, even if there is an antidote, it is too late to save lives. Legend has it that he died of poison and bleed from seven holes. The death was horrible.

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, because the poison is very cruel, so some people in ancient times have long opposed the use of poison. During the Warring States Period, the envoy of the State of Chu went to the country of Ba with a horse, and on the way he saw a man carrying a load of poisoned wine, and asked him what he was doing with this poisonous wine, and the man said that he used a horse to kill people. The horses asked to buy his poisoned wine, and the man agreed to sell it, but the horses did not have enough money, so they gave him both the cart and the horses, and poured all the wine into the river. It turned out that the ponies had bought it to destroy the drugs.

In the Jin Dynasty, the imperial court had ordered a ban on poison and stipulated that birds were not allowed to cross the river. When Shi Chong served as the general of Nanzhong Lang and the assassin of Jingzhou, he had captured a bird chick and handed it over to Wang Kai, the general of the rear army, for maintenance. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Rao, the governor of the Fei Dynasty, presented the bird to the imperial court, and the Emperor Sima Dan of the Jin Dynasty was furious, and ordered Wang Rao to be whipped by 200, and sent a certain Zhongyu Shi to burn the bird to death at the crossroads in the capital. However, it needs to be noted that the Jin Dynasty banned the use of poison, not all the practice of poisoning people, and the commonly used method of killing people at that time was to drink gold dust wine. Jia Nanfeng, the empress of Emperor Hui of Jin, was poisoned by Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, with gold dust wine.

It is undoubtedly very cruel to poison people and kill people, but it is even more dehumanizing and tyrannical behavior to poison people without letting them die, and deliberately watching the miserable state of people suffering when they are poisoned. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang did such a thing. During the Hongwu period, there was a cook named Wang Zong in Jinyiwei, who was afraid of killing his head when he committed a crime, so he asked his family to buy a package of poison from the doctor Wang Yunjian. When Zhu Yuanzhang learned of this, he ordered Wang Yunjian to be arrested and asked to swallow the bag of poison he sold on the spot. Wang Yunjian held the poison in his hand, was shocked, hesitated, did not dare to swallow, the samurai was urging on the side, Wang Yunjian had no choice but to eat the poison, at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang carefully asked him how the poison was prepared, how long after eating it would die, if he died of poisoning, what kind of nostalgia and other questions, Wang Yunjian answered one by one. Then Zhu Yuanzhang asked him if there was a way to dissolve the poison, and Wang Yunjian said that using cold water, raw bean juice, and cooked bean clear to mix together for the drug user to drink can detoxify, and it is faster to detoxify if cold water is inserted with feces. So, Zhu Yuanzhang asked someone to bring half a bowl of cold water, a little dung, and waited beside him. After a while, Wang Yunjian had symptoms of poisoning, his eyes looked around, he was irritable, and his hands kept scratching his body, and Zhu Yuanzhang chattered about his feelings after poisoning and how long it could be solved, and how long it was unsolvable, until he saw that Wang Yunjian was in unbearable pain and his life was dying, so he asked someone to pour him detoxifying feces and cold water. Wang Yunjian was tortured and dying, but fortunately did not die, but the next day, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Wang Yunjian to be beheaded and beheaded in public.

When the bird bathes in the water, the water is poisonous, and if a person drinks it by mistake, he will be poisoned and die. However, everything has a cause and effect, mutual restraint, legend has a white vine flower, can detoxify the poison, so the nest of the bird can often only see this inconspicuous little white flower, other grass plants are not seen, I don't know if this statement is correct.

"Senior, this kind of poison legend is the feather of the plover, but isn't the plover already extinct?" I asked.

"That's right, birds are scarce and generally live off the beaten track. They have a ring of shiny feathers on their necks, their eyes are full of blood-red color, they can only live in the mountains and forests with ancient trees and snakes and scorpions, they like to nest on the poisonous chestnut tree that is several feet high, and the grass does not grow within dozens of steps under the poisonous chestnut tree that builds a nest, because the feathers and dirt of the plover fall down enough to make many crops die, only the poisonous chestnut tree and the white vine flower are not afraid of the poison of the plover, the poisonous chestnut people and animals eat to death, and the bird is regarded as a good meal. There are dark spots and tiny cracks on the stones around the bushes where the birds live, which are the result of the droppings of the birds falling on the stones. In addition to eating poisonous chestnuts, the bird also pecks at the poisonous snake, and in the mountains and forests, all poisonous things must be eaten by the bird. Therefore, there must be poisonous snakes, scorpions and other poisonous substances in the mountains and forests with plovers, which is also one of the conditions for the survival of plovers. Therefore, it is not difficult for people who are familiar with the habits of birds to go into the mountains where there are birds to find birds, but the difficulty is that people enter the field of birds like other birds and beasts. Everywhere the bird went, the trees died, the stones cracked, and the poisonous snake immediately went limp, and the bird stepped forward to eat calmly. Jiang Yurou said.

"What kind of hatred made you choose such poison against your mother and sisters?" I exclaimed.

"I can't say that it's because of deep hatred, it's because of determination, I must not let the plan I have been planning for a long time fail, and I chose poison to hit with one blow. You must know that by the time of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the poison had almost disappeared, and it was really the will of God that I was able to get a feather of a bird. However......"

"And yet something went wrong?" I asked.

"That's right, it was my mother's 45th birthday, and the whole family was very happy, and my eldest sister was pregnant with her second child, and the whole family was very happy. It's just me, with a heart. But things went well, and at the family dinner I successfully added poison to the wine glasses of my eldest sister, sister, and mother, and I also manipulated my own wine glasses to make it more like. I also deliberately took my husband and forced my brother-in-law to leave the table early to take care of my niece, who was just two years old, but who would have expected that my mother would be able to escape this fate, she said that she was going to her room to have a drink with her deceased father, so she took the glass of wine and left the table and went back to the room, but it happened that there was a white vine flower in her room. (To be continued.) )