Why did the maids strangle Jiajing? Who's behind this?

Great emperors have great things. The reason why maids strangled Jiajing Emperor was mainly related to Jiajing Emperor's practice of elixir of life.

Emperors of all ages wanted to live forever, but in the end they failed. By the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing was extremely interested in it. He was superstitious about alchemists and believed in Taoism, so he didn't go to court for more than 20 years. If you are lucky enough to cross the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that you can see Emperor Jiajing wearing Taoist robes to cultivate immortality most of the time.

In order to cultivate immortality, Jiajing invited Taoist priests to make an alchemy in the palace, making all the places smoky, and then practicing the so-called elixir, who knows what it is.

An alchemist told Emperor Jiajing that "the way of sucking wind and drinking dew" can become immortal, that is, sucking nectar from broad leaves every morning, but this thing must be collected at night, otherwise the sun will come out the next day, so Emperor Jiajing ordered the ladies-in-waiting to collect nectar every morning. As a result, many ladies-in-waiting collapsed and fell ill.

Later, it was said that in order to develop a kind of "Hongdan Pill", Dan medicine can collect yin and tonify yang and prolong life, but this medicine should have a drug primer, which is also special, that is, the virgin menstrual blood of a 13-year-old woman.

So Emperor Jiajing recruited a large number of women of this age into the palace. In order to keep the purity of virgin blood, ladies-in-waiting have to experience a special way of life. They can only drink nectar and eat a little mulberry leaves every day. Emperor Jiajing often beat them violently, resulting in a large number of maids dying in the palace.

Finally, A.D. 1542, this year is the year of Renyin, which we call "Renyin Palace Change". Sixteen ladies-in-waiting, headed by Yang, finally couldn't stand the status quo and decided to start work on Jiajing Emperor.

This year1October 12 night, more than a dozen maids tied the rope while Emperor Jiajing was sleeping, and then held him down. But the girl is a girl after all, and has no experience in killing people, so she actually tied the rope tightly, which led to the rope never being tightened. Emperor Jiajing struggled. When others saw it, they quickly pulled out the gold and silver hairpin on their heads and stabbed Emperor Jiajing.

If no one finds out tonight, Emperor Jiajing will probably be reimbursed. But at this moment, a maid-in-waiting named Zhang Jinlian ran out of her bedroom because she was afraid, and went straight to the Palace of Kunning, where the queen lived, and reported the matter to the queen. Upon hearing this, the queen hurried to take someone to save her.

When Yang and others saw the arrival of the Queen, they quickly gave up the assassination and fled everywhere, but in the end they were all caught back, and then they were all executed by the Queen in that year, and the first offender was killed by Jiuzu. Emperor Jiajing fainted with fear. Although he was tied by several hairpins, he was treated by a doctor.

Yang and others are weak women. They resisted the imperial power mainly because they were fed up with such days. It is better to strike first than to do nothing and be tortured to death. I was really forced to make this decision, but because of my inexperience and psychological instability, I was finally killed by this tragedy.