Chapter 2012 - Red Lead Mining
"Don't argue, don't argue, don't quarrel with the girls, your grievances, this Taoist master will definitely make the decision for you."
Rao Shi was worried that the resentment of these female ghosts would explode and he couldn't control it, so he appeased him first and said, "That...... Yang Jinying, let's talk about it, how did this matter come about, why did you assassinate Emperor Jiajing, and why did you fail? ”
The female ghosts all quieted down, and Yang Jinying continued to state, saying: "Emperor Jiajing is absurd and unreasonable, ignores the government and politics, is obsessed with alchemy, and vainly tries to live forever. And the temperament is impermanent, and if something goes wrong, it will kill. At our time, two or three out of ten palace maids were killed......"
Bu Zhenxin and Rao Shi glanced at each other, thinking to themselves, this Emperor Jiajing is indeed cruel.
Out of ten, two or three out of ten are killed, which is a terrible number. Because everyone knows that the seventy-two concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards of the royal family, and the three thousand palaces are all basic configurations. Of the 3,000 people, 20 percent were killed, which is also 600 people, which is a huge number!
"Twenty miles outside the west gate of the capital Zhuge Zhuang South, the locals call it the tomb of grandma, it is the burial palace of the Ming Dynasty. The sisters who were killed were buried there. Yang Jinying kowtowed and cried: "There are countless bones in my grandmother's grave, and there are many monuments...... Every stormy night, or appearing, or making sounds, the ghosts are not gone, those are our sisters! ”
Rao Shi listened sadly, sighed, and said, "So, you plan to strike first and kill Zhu Houxi?" ”
"Yes, at that time, everyone in the palace was in danger, and the sisters were in danger and living in fear." Yang Jinying looked at Concubine Duan's Cao and said:
"At that time, I was the maid of Duanfei Niangniang, and Duanfei was favored, and the emperor often came to Duanfei's bedroom. A companion is like a tiger, and several times, because of a trivial mistake, the emperor wants to kill me. Fortunately, Concubine Duan pleaded, otherwise, I would have died in the hands of that faint monarch.
These don't count, that dog emperor has even more vicious methods to torture us palace maids. We couldn't bear it anymore, so we started to kill. ”
Looking at the poor female ghosts in front of him, Rao Shi's eyes were a little moist, and he asked, "What other ways to torture you?" ”
Yang Jinying hesitated for a moment, and seemed a little difficult to speak.
Beside her, another female ghost rushed to say, "It's red lead!" ”
"Red lead? What is this? This time, it was Bu Zhenxin's turn not to understand, so he asked casually.
Rao Shi shook his head and said, "Red lead mining is used for alchemy. Generally speaking, palace alchemy is inseparable from this. Nothing more than mercury water, dansha, autumn stone, and red lead. To put it bluntly, it is...... These female ghosts were when they were girls...... First red. ”
People in the Daomen know the art of alchemy, so when they hear about red lead, Rao Shi knows what's going on.
The alchemy of the court was all contributed by the monks, and without exception, the raw materials were mercury water, dansha, autumn stone and red lead.
Mercury water, refers to mercury. Dansa is cinnabar, and its chemical name is mercury sulfide. This thing of autumn stone is the crystallization of the child's urine. However, the materials are particular, and the urine of the boy is removed from the head and tail, and the urine in the middle is the highest grade, and the crystals like refined salt can be refined.
Red lead is the most perverted, and it is a cinnabar-like powder refined from the blood of a virgin menarche.
If it were now, whoever wanted to gather these four treasures and make them into tonic for people to eat would definitely be beaten! However, the emperors of the feudal dynasties liked to eat these elixirs that had not been internationally certified and did not have an approval number for national food, and they were never tired of it.
It stands to reason that emperors are not stupid, why do they like to eat this? The reason is that the alchemy alchemists, when refining the pill, will also add musk, deer antler, aconite and other hot herbs, after the emperors take it, it will stimulate the nerve endings, the whole body heats up, and triggers primitive impulses.
The stupid emperors didn't know it, and they thought that it was the explosion of the power of the desolation in their bodies, which was a harbinger of immortality!
"It turns out that this is the ...... of red lead mining Is it uncomfortable? Bu Zhenxin underestimated.
"It hurts a lot because we ...... Blood of Menarche...... Very little, they are induced by drugs, and many sisters ...... They all died of bloodshed. Yang Jinying lowered her head and said:
"That faint gentleman has been weak since he was a child, and he has been married for ten years without children. Therefore, the harem is enriched in the folk draft for the benefit of the heirs. But there are hundreds of concubines, but he ...... Unable to do so, he listened to the prescriptions of the Fangshi and mined red lead to refine the elixir. Therefore, our sisters all entered the palace to fill the maids, in order to be adopted. Seeing that our sisters are dying every day, we think that it is difficult for us to live, so we think of assassinating the faint king! ”
Bu Zhen believed that the heavens were not clear, and the atmosphere in his heart was sympathetic to this godgirl, and the hand holding the knife trembled slightly, and scolded: "This faint monarch should be cut with a thousand knives!" ”
"Thank you, sir, for speaking up for us, thank you very much!" Yang Jinying kowtowed again and again, grateful.
"You're welcome...... But the faint king is dead, girls, you are here...... Haunted, it really shouldn't be. Bu Zhenxin said.
Rao Shi waved his hand, interrupting Bu Zhenxin's words, and asked Yang Jinying again, "Then, you implemented the assassination plan, why did it fail?" ”
"It's because of this slut's secret!" Yang Jinying's eyes were on fire, and she reached out to pull a female ghost over, and said, "Her name is Zhang Jinlian, and at the last moment, she was scared and secretly ran to tell the queen." When we were about to strangle the faint king, the queen brought people to come, and it fell short! ”
"Spare your life, spare your life......" Zhang Jinlian knelt on the ground, trembling incessantly, begging for mercy.
The female ghost Wang laughed miserably and said: "That night, the Dog Emperor ate the elixir and came to Concubine Duan to vent his anger, but he called me again and asked me to sleep together." After the Dog Emperor fell asleep, I broke away from the Cao family and the personal eunuch, knocked on the window, and summoned Yang Jinying and the others to come in.
Because they have been planning for a long time, Yang Jinying and others have already taken yellow flower ropes and yellow silk cloth and ambushed near the dormitory. When he got my code, he immediately entered the palace, tied a rope around the neck of the faint king, and blocked his mouth with a cloth, so that someone else rode on the faint king, desperately tightening the rope.
The faint king woke up from his sleep and wanted to call for help, but he couldn't make a sound.
It's a pity that the girls are too flustered and don't know the correct way to tie the knot.
At this time, the whistleblower Zhang Jinlian rushed in with the queen, and we finally succeeded! Early the next morning, the girls were all pressed to the execution ground and ate fish scales for a few days. Concubine Duan and I were executed in the palace. Concubine Duan was innocent, but because she was favored, she was jealous of the queen, and while the emperor was still being rescued, she faked the holy decree and filed her corpse.
The day of the girls' execution was a total of three days, and during the three days, the Forbidden City was full of fog day and night, which showed the depth of grievances! ”