General Qin Ci Yutai (I)

"Newlywed Yan'er, I shouldn't have bothered you." Unexpectedly, after seeing the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother opened today's topic directly. "But you know, the emperor is now relying on Longyang Dan and Bailing grass every day. There are a lot of tricky things that we have to deal with in a hurry. Xinjie, have you ever told Emperor Ning'er why he named you the general of Yutai? ”

"No, because it's a secret decree of the emperor."

"It stands to reason that the emperor has just passed the prime of life, and he should not be so weak. When Ning Er was in the palace, he should have known that although he was sometimes short-tempered, he was not sick and was in good health. In the six months since you left, there have been more and more strange things in this house. Half a year after you left, the emperor's favorite concubine suddenly fell ill and fell asleep all day long, and the imperial doctor could not diagnose the source of this narcolepsy. I was in the summer resort and was not in the capital, I received a secret report that I thought it was very strange, so I asked Chongde, that is, Xinjie's cousin, to enter the palace for treatment, Chongde's secret report was poisoning, and I didn't know where the source of the poison was, but it was probably a mixture of scorpion and poisonous beetlefish. But it wasn't a big deal, so it didn't kill at the time.

You know the rules of the palace, whether it's food and refreshments, someone has tested them. Especially Concubine De, who was favored by the emperor in those years, was even more cautious step by step, it stands to reason that if someone poisons her, it should be based on taking her life, how can it be measured not too big or small, just to make her sleep. I was guessing that either there was an accident in the metering, or something was wrong in the poisoning process.

But where does this poison come from? Who casts it? Why do you want to harm Concubine De, is it just a competition for favor? Studied but cannot comprehend. If it's just a harem for favor, it doesn't seem to need to be so complicated, and the poison is generally not so weird. So the mourning family asked Chongde and Biyan to help. At that time, you had just arrived in Tangmen, and your strength was still recovering, and Bi Yan came to the capital with Xintian, but you can't conclude that there are many doubts.

And at this time, something even more bizarre happened, Concubine De's cat also seemed to be infected with this narcolepsy. Apparently the cat was also poisoned, and two days later, the rats in Yixiang Palace were also found to have this symptom. For a while, everyone was frightened, and some people suspected that Yixiang wanted to poison him, and used poisoned rats in his palace to infect the cat in Concubine De's palace, and the cat infected Concubine De, and finally harmed the emperor through Concubine De. But maybe the toxicity is not enough, it becomes the drowsiness of Concubine De, and the emperor is unharmed. But this logic doesn't make sense, because Yixiang is already the crown prince, why should he harm the emperor? If he wants to ascend to the throne early, there are many ways to rebel, and how to use these complicated means, and it may not be a one-hit hit. Everyone was puzzled, and in the end, Biyan recruited Xinjie, who had more experience in medical science and rivers and lakes than Xintian and Chongde, to give it a try. The new jie in the back, you say it yourself. ”

"At that time, there were a few very strange things that made me think that the original assumptions were unreasonable, first of all, the rats are not controlled by humans, and if Yixiang sent someone to catch the rats and poison the rats, and then let the cats poison, then the rats must be sent to the cats. That is to say, the rat is accused, it is impossible to run around, how can it run out after the incident and expose itself before it is shorter than others, so it is not so much Yixiang poisoning, but someone wants us to think that Yixiang is poisoning.

Second, although cats have nine lives, and cats often go in and out of the shade, so their vitality may be stronger than that of humans. But no matter how strong it is, after all, it is such a cat, not to mention that Concubine De's cat is a precious Persian cat, not to mention whether it often goes out in dirty places, it may even be allowed to catch mice by Concubine De, so it may not necessarily have stronger vitality than ordinary cats or people.

From the onset of Concubine De's mother, to the grandmother and eldest brother entering the palace, and then the cat became ill, there was nearly a month before and after. Can cats really fight poison that long? Although this poison may be slow in both humans and animals, cats are not so late as humans. So there is a possibility that the cat was poisoned. That is, after Concubine De's poisoning, someone saw her grandmother and eldest brother enter the palace to investigate the matter, so she deliberately created cat poisoning, so that everyone could pay attention to the poisoned mice, so as to point to Yixiang.

Third, why is Concubine De's poisoning not deep, just drowsiness? The mercy of his subordinates is still a mistake in weight, or Concubine De Niangniang is not the target at all, but just accidental poisoning, and the real target is someone else.

Fourth, I carefully observed the pulse, breath and hair of Concubine De Niangniang, and I felt that it was not like ordinary simple scorpions and poisonous beetles. Moreover, from the perspective of medical theory and poisonology, scorpions transmit poison through bloodthirst, and poisonous scorpions are transmitted to the blood body with the poisonous powder on their bodies, and then from the blood of the blood body to a third party. So unless it was Concubine De's cat that bit her, how could cats and people be infected with each other, and the poison was transmitted in the wrong way. We had people all over the whole body, even in the hair, there were no external wounds or scars, so it should not be the person who applied the poison to prick it with a foreign object and spread it from the blood.

Fifth, scorpions may be easy to get, but poisonous beetles are a difficult thing to get. Although the usual poisonous beepher is poisonous, it is not very toxic, and even if a person is pricked, it is only a small piece of redness and swelling. I searched all kinds of poison records, and then I remembered that when I was in Jiangnan Province, I heard that there was a special ancient tribe in Miaojiang that specially offered the Jinke poison beetle as a sacred object, and worshiped it as a god. Later, it was found that there was indeed a record in the book, and the Jinke poisonous woolcock raised by Miao Jiang was extremely poisonous, but it took more than 20 years of cultivation time, and it fed on snakes and scorpions, and it was necessary to exchange the blood of dozens of buffaloes many times a year, which was extremely difficult to feed, and after vomiting poison once, it died by itself. Since it's such a difficult thing to get, it's definitely not something that ordinary people can get. So the source of the poison is strange, but certainly not much.

Sixth, the scorpion and the poisonous beetle are extremely poisonous after being mixed, and in the yin body, due to the excessive yin qi, the cold poison will erupt in the woman's body. There are no scars on Concubine De's body, and neither of these poisons can be taken from the diet, because it is easy to be denatured in the diet. Then one of the most likely things is *.

Concubine De has been deeply loved by the emperor for many years, and the palace is heavily guarded, poisonous*, it is very likely that it only comes from the emperor. Although it was only a suspicion, but for the sake of insurance, the Queen Mother still arranged for me to meet the emperor, and there was a faint black line walking around in his Tianhui, Yongquan, and Zusanli. Moreover, the emperor had a feeling of dizziness and thirst for a long time, and the imperial doctor always thought it was a disease of thirst. In fact, the yin poison has been lurking in its body for a long time, but it has not attacked.

And this yin poison is slowly passed on to Concubine De through *, each time the amount is not large, but it accumulates over time. Originally, there were many concubines of the emperor in the palace, and if different concubines took turns to serve the concubines, the toxicity would be dispersed and would not be revealed. It's just that Concubine De is favored, and almost one person bears everything, which broke out. This kind of yin poison will slowly deplete people's physical strength in the positive body, and if they encounter the yang induction they have prepared, the two will merge, and it will explode immediately. And it is recorded in the book that the most terrible yang attraction of this kind of yin poison is the ink cicada of Miao Jiang. When the poison breaks out, the poisoned person burns like a fire, his whole body turns red, and finally he dies of blood. This was originally used by a tribe there to sacrifice creatures when worshiping the heavens and ancestors, but I didn't expect it to flow into this palace.

At that time, the emperor was deeply poisoned, and the poison had invaded the bones, although we could prevent the appearance of yang induction, but the toxins that consumed his body were difficult to discharge. ”

The Queen Mother continued: "Now the emperor's physical strength is almost exhausted, although he has the support of Tangmen's centennial grass and various antidotes, but he can't see clearly for most hours of the day, and only in the morning he may barely see after a long sleep. ”

"But how did these poisons get into the palace? Could it be that the emperor himself was injured and didn't know it, or was there another way to poison him? Lian'er felt that the crux of the problem had not yet been addressed.

The Queen Mother sighed deeply: "This is also the answer that Xinjie wanted to find out back then." "Apparently not yet.

"Do you still remember, when the emperor insisted on going his own way and wanted to draft in Jiangnan, the mourning family once stopped it, but to no avail."

Lian'er remembered that five or six years ago, when she was still very young, the Queen Mother and the Emperor had a big dispute over this. The current emperor, only because he is the only son of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother has the backing of the forces of Tangmen and Jiangnan, so he can get a big position, otherwise with the character of the Queen Mother, if she has other sons and other choices, she will definitely not push such a stubborn and brainless person to the throne. In the more than ten years of his reign, if it weren't for the Empress Dowager controlling the middle palace, the government would have known what the chaos would have become. If it weren't for such a mediocre emperor, the Jiangnan Zhou family would not have been beheaded all over the house, and the execution was attacked by a group of people who took advantage of the darkness to wash the Zhou family before the holy decree was announced, If there was no bloody case, Wan Ning would not have become an orphan. Sometimes she thinks that such an emperor's short life may be more fortunate than unfortunate for the people of the world.

At that time, although the emperor had many favored concubines, he listened to the advice of some courtiers below, and felt that the harem was not full, and he had to make the most of the aura of heaven and earth. So he planned to go to the Jiangnan draft, which is said to have the most beautiful women, not only to let the magistrates at all levels screen, but also to go to Jiangnan to choose in person, leaving the government aside. Lian'er still remembers that the Queen Mother was extremely angry in the palace at that time, and hated herself for resisting the pressure of the first emperor and working hard for many years to rule the Taiping country into the hands of such a loser. And at that time, Yixiang had already shown the various shortcomings of his grandfather and father that he inherited. If the emperor and the crown prince are so uncompetitive, how can the country and society be kept.