Chapter 2011: Fish Scales
The palace maids came out one after another, lined up, and their miserable faces and blood-dripping eyes appeared in front of Bu Zhenxin and Rao Shi.
With the appearance of a large group of female ghosts, the atmosphere in the Sanatorium Temple has become more gloomy, and the temperature seems to have dropped a lot.
Bu Zhenxin also felt that his back was cold, his heart was furious, and he clenched the blood-devouring knife, not daring to slack off in the slightest.
"Kneel, kneel, kneel for me!" Rao Shi held on, made a fierce and vicious appearance, and shouted: "Don't make mistakes, otherwise you will be killed one by one!" ”
After brushing the ground, all the palace maids knelt down, bowed their heads, and said: "Slaves and maids don't dare to make a mistake, it's all up to the orders of the Taoist master." ”
Rao Shi was overjoyed in his heart, but he maintained this surface majesty, pointed to the palace beauty who came out of the lead, and shouted: "Wu Na woman, what is your name, who is it?" ”
The palace beauty kowtowed and said, "Returning to the Taoist master, the cheap maid is Emperor Jiajing's Ning Concubine Wang, who died in the palace change with Concubine Duanniang." The sixteen palace maids behind me also died because of that incident. ”
"Another concubine?" Rao Shi frowned and shouted, "What kind of thing do you mean by palace change?" Give me the beginning! ”
Concubine Ning raised her head and asked, "Okay, if Master Dao has patience, I'll start from the beginning." In this palace change, I am guilty, I died unjustly, I admit it. ”
Rao Shi and Bu Zhenxin glanced at each other, thinking to themselves, this female ghost is down-to-earth and generous, as if she has seen the world.
"I don't know if Dao Ye and this lord have heard that during the period of Emperor Jiajing, there was a case of a palace maid murdering the emperor?" Wang lightly opened his lips, talked loudly, and said, "The palace change we are talking about is that thing. The most hateful, our usually powerless weak woman was not able to kill that faint king! ”
Rao Shi's eyes rolled, and suddenly they lit up, and he blurted out, "Oh...... You're talking about the change of Renyin Palace! ”
In history, there is such a only case of assassination of the emperor by a palace maid. This is the only one of a kind.
This incident occurred in 1542 AD, October 21, the 21st year of Jiajing Ming Jiajing, and it was the highest-level criminal case in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
The executor of the assassination case was sixteen palace maids, and the target of the assassination was the long-lived lord at that time, Zhu Houxi, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty.
That night, after the lights went out in the palace, sixteen palace maids entered Emperor Jiajing's bedroom, and put a noose around Emperor Jiajing's neck!
It's just a pity that these palace maids were so flustered that they tied the rope into a dead knot, resulting in the inability to tie the knot in the end, allowing Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi to pick up a life.
This incident is known in history as the Renyin Palace Change.
But this incident, recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty, is very simple, it is like dealing with a brawl in the vegetable market, and it is brushed aside: "In the winter and October, Ding You, the palace people conspired against the rebellion, and the concubine Cao and Ning Concubine Wang were in the city." ”
The official history is just a few sentences, without a head and tail, and it is an understatement, so that later scholars and gossip writers are so sad that they can't guess the truth.
Among them, the speculation of gossip is the most widely circulated among the people, saying that those palace maids, because they can't get the favor of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, can't get a little rain and dew, so they are anxious, so they want to end up with Zhu Houxi.
But historians strongly objected, saying that those palace maids, who were only fourteen or fifteen years old back then, and the youngest were twelve or thirteen years old, and they didn't know how to deal with bed curtains, how could they be so hungry and thirsty that they started to kill?
There are different opinions on a public case, and there is still no conclusion.
Rao Shi only knew about the changes in Renyin Palace, but he didn't understand the details either, and when he heard the words of the female ghost Wang just now, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.
Bu Zhenxin was a rough man and didn't know this history, so he asked, "Renyin Palace changed?" What is it? ”
Rao Shi waved his hand and ordered the female ghost Wang clan: "Go on, don't hide it, why did you assassinate Emperor Jiajing at that time?" Is it because of ...... Jealous? ”
"Jealousy...... Perhaps, but I'm the one who is jealous. Wang sighed and said:
"Therefore, I knew about this before, but I deliberately didn't say it, and even cooperated with these palace maids. This concubine was wronged, at that time, Zhu Houxi was kind to her, and she was favored every night. It's just that after the incident, the queen took this opportunity to get rid of Concubine Duan, saying that she was also an accomplice. ”
Rao Shi straightened his mustache, his eyes swept around, and finally looked at Wang, and said, "So, these palace maids were used by you to make murderous knives for you?" ”
"No, they killed the emperor because they couldn't stand the torture of the emperor." Wang looked at the palace maids behind him and said, "There was a leader here at that time, named Yang Jinying, who was the personal maid of Concubine Duan, Daoye, you can ask her personally." ”
Rao Shi nodded and shouted, "Where is Yang Jinying?" Come to your knees. ”
A big-eyed palace maid stepped forward on her knees, kowtowed, and said, "Slave Yang Jinying, who died from fish scales, and I hope that the Taoist master will be the master for me!" ”
"Fish scales? This is...... What do you mean? Rao Shi was stunned.
Bu Zhenxin's scalp was numb, and he opened his mouth and said: "I know this, it is Ling Chi's punishment." It is said that Yuan Chonghuan died under the fish scales. ”
"General Yuan?" Rao Shi was silent for a moment and said, "I know, but what does this have to do with fish scales?" ”
Yuan Chonghuan was a hero, sticking to the border passes, so that the Qing soldiers could not enter, and later Ming Sizong Zhu Youzhen, fell into Nurhachi's counter-plot, and executed Yuan Chonghuan Ling Chi for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason. Daming Jiangshan lost a rare general, which finally led to its demise. So thinking of this past, Rao Shi, as a Han Chinese, is very sad.
Bu Zhenxin didn't know Rao Shi's thoughts, and explained: "The punishment of all dynasties and dynasties, the most powerful is Ling Chi. Ling Chi is also known as a thousand cuts, and it is divided into large, medium and small classes. Among them, the most complicated Ling Chi had to be tortured for three days and three nights, a total of 3,600 slashes were cut on the prisoners, and the last one was stabbed before he was killed......
As a family of executioners, Bu Zhenxin is naturally a treasure for all kinds of punishments, and continued: "But three thousand six hundred knives is a test for the executioner. In order to ensure that these knives are cut, the executioner will cover the body of the prisoner with a fishing net, tighten it, let the flesh of the prisoner protrude from the mesh, and then cut only one piece of flesh in the mesh with each knife, so as to ensure ......"
Rao Shi's scalp tingled when he heard this, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't say it, I know." ”
This kind of scene is too scary, you don't have to see it with your own eyes, just think about it.
The souls of the sixteen palace maids fell to the ground crying together, screaming indiscriminately: "The Taoist master is the master for us, we died under the scales of the fish, we died so miserably!" ”