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In history, although the assassination of the emperor is common, it is extremely rare for palace maids to assassinate the emperor, and it happened in the Ming Dynasty. In October of the twenty-first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1542), after sleeping soundly, more than ten maids, such as Yang, joined forces to drive away and almost strangled Emperor Jiajing alive. Fortunately, Queen Fang arrived in time after learning the news and saved him from the jaws of death. This is the famous "Renyin Palace Change".

In the early days of Jiajing, he was also diligent in government affairs and vigorously rectified the Chaogang, which made Tang Chao once present a scene of Qingming. However, with the development of the world, Emperor Jiajing gradually lost his enterprising spirit and began to love Taoism crazily. He is even more obsessed with the art of alchemy and immortality, and the outbreak of "Renyin Palace Change" is related to this.

Seeing that the emperor indulged in the art of immortality all day and ignored government affairs, many honest ministers came to remonstrate at first, but when Gu Cunren, AG and Wang Nayan were convicted of remonstrance and Yang Zui was killed for remonstrance, no one dared to make faces to remonstrate. "Chronicle of the History of the Ming Dynasty, Sejong" said, "(Yang drunk) died with a stick, and the courtiers were shocked, and the ministers competed for flattery, and the gods sacrificed their grandchildren."

As the saying goes, "you should know what is good in the world and what is bad in the world." Because the emperor is addicted to the art of immortality, some people have contributed a lot of secret recipes and alchemy drugs from all over the country to refine the so-called "elixir of immortality", among which "red alchemy" is the most popular alchemy method, that is, mixing women's menstrual blood with powder and baking it to make it look like cinnabar.

According to an alchemist, in order to ensure the quality of Dan medicine, it is necessary not only to collect the menstrual blood of girls who are thirteen or fourteen years old and have no personnel, but also to ensure the cleanliness of menstrual blood, and these girls are required not to eat, but to eat mulberry leaves and drink dew. However, malnutrition often leads to abnormal menstruation in women, so in order to ensure alchemy, take medicine to promote menstruation. As a result, not only a large number of maids were devastated, but also many girls died of blood collapse.

Due to long-term medication, Emperor Jiajing's character became more and more suspicious and tyrannical. As long as the maid-in-waiting makes a mistake, she will be put to death. "Li Jue Zong Shi Lu" records that "if there is a slight mistake, it is necessary to add Chu, so as many as 200 people were killed"; "Gong Ming Ci" wrote, "Sejong is indifferent, waiting for the imperial secretary to be unpredictable and the imperial secretary is afraid." So we can see the tragic situation of the ladies-in-waiting at that time and their inner despair.

What's more, Emperor Jiajing believed in auspicious things, so ministers often offered auspicious things. Among them, Yan Song gave a five-color turtle, which Emperor Jiajing loved very much, and ordered Yang and other 16 maids to take care of it. As a result, the tortoise died soon. 16 of the maids who screwed up the errand knew that they were born to die, so they had the idea of taking risks.

The official history such as Ming History and Shi Minglu did not record the details of the "Renyin Palace Change", but Zhang He, the minister of punishments who witnessed the case, wrote an interrogation afterwards in his Zhou Zai. From this, we have a general understanding of what happened.

At that time, Zhu Houzong, Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, liked Cao very much and often lived in his palace. So, after consulting with Yang, Su Chuanyao, Xing Cuilian, Yao, Yang, Guan Meixiu, Liu Miaolian, Chen Juhua and other ladies-in-waiting, they decided to take advantage of this fact and keep Emperor Shizong in Cao's palace. Therefore, Yang Yuxiang took a delicate ceremonial flower rope and twisted it into a noose.

In the 21st year of Jiajing (1542165438+1October 27th), Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty stayed in Cao Palace again. After he fell asleep, Yang and others decided to start work. Gold-pass the rope to Su Chuan Medicine, and Su Chuan Medicine will pass it to tie the condom. Then they laid hands on him together and put Ming Shizong on the bed.

Ming Shizong, who was held down by everyone, woke up suddenly and was about to shout, but he was gagged with a cloth ball. Xing Cuilian handed Yao a piece of yellow silk rag and covered it on the face of Ming Shizong.

Then, the ladies-in-waiting put the rope prepared in advance around the neck of Ming Shizong. Yao and Guan Meixiu pulled hard, and the others came up together to stop Ming Shizong from struggling. Among them, Xing Cuilian pressed her chest, Wang pressed her upper body, Su Chuanyao held her chest in her left hand, Guan Meixiu held her chest in her right hand, Liu Miaolian and Chen Juhua leg press.

Although there are many ladies-in-waiting, they are only women after all. With fear in their hearts, they can't suppress the emperor. In order to prevent the lasso from falling off, they tied another knot, but they accidentally tied it into a dead knot. As a result, the knot became tighter and tighter, but it was impossible to strangle Ming Shizong. A few ladies-in-waiting were impatient, so they pulled out their hairpins and stabbed Ming Shizong.

The ladies-in-waiting's stabbing in panic caused a wound that was not too deep, but the emperor was covered in blood, and the scene became more and more scary with the chaotic struggle of Ming Sejong. When a maid-in-waiting named Zhang Jinlian saw this situation, she was really frightened. In fear, she gave up the idea of stabbing and driving, but surrendered to the Queen's Palace.

Queen Fang was very shocked when she heard the news, and hurriedly took someone to Duan Fei Palace to rescue her. Seeing a genial smile, Yang and others had to leave Sejong and run around. The queen rushed to the front of Ming Sejong, took people to untie the rope around Sejong's neck, and sent people to call a doctor. Ming Shizong barely escaped.

Although Yang and others fled everywhere, they were in the heavily guarded palace, and where they could escape, they were quickly captured. Although Ming Shizong escaped, he was frightened by joy and ran out of breath. Although Xu Shen died in the hospital, Emperor Jiajing "took a few liters of purple blood" and saved his life, but he was weak and difficult to manage, so the Queen Fang had to handle the follow-up matters.

According to Zhang He in Zhou Zai, in order to find out the truth, Queen Fang sent eunuchs Zhang Zuo and Gao Zhong to interrogate the arrested ladies-in-waiting, and it was a great sin to kill the nine families to assassinate the emperor. Therefore, Zhang Zuo and Gao Zhong were also welcomed. Immediately, they ordered heavy punishment, and Yang He and others were afraid. Under the punishment, they not only confessed the whole story, but also confessed that Wang Ningmian was the mastermind behind the scenes.

As for why Wang Ningjian participated in stabbing people, no one knows. If Yang and others hadn't tortured and bitten at random, there would only be harem rivalry. After all, Cao was extremely spoiled at that time, and Wang Ningjian might be jealous. The relationship between the two should be extremely bad. Because of this, after Wang Ningjian was arrested, he confessed that Cao was also an accomplice. In addition, it also confessed that Xu Qiuhua, Deng Jinxiang,, and other maids also participated in the conspiracy.

After Zhang Zuo and Emperor Gaozong found out the truth, they called Emperor Jiajing, and Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty wrote a letter, "Yang and a group of rebellious maids and friends of Wang murdered me in my bedroom, which was vicious and chaotic. I wish I deserved to die. As long as the interrogation is clear, regardless of the first obedience, they will all be dismissed, executed according to law, put on record and beheaded, and made public. All ethnic groups, regardless of similarities and differences, were found out one by one, sent to the Ministry of Justice by Royal Guards, executed according to law, and the property was not handed over to the official. "

So the punishments and the Royal Guards tied Yang and other sixteen maids to Cao's side and put them to death in this year. Cao Shi, the princess of Duan, and Wang, the wife of Ning Ai, were also executed in this year, and their property was confiscated. After Emperor Jiajing woke up, he found that Cao Duanfei had nothing to do with this matter, but died unjustly.

Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing, who recovered his life from the "Renyin Palace Change", never dared to live in the palace again and moved into the Xiyuan Royal Garden. Moreover, he believes that his own survival is the reason for sincere monasticism, so he believes in Taoism more from now on. Because of the emperor's carelessness in political affairs, the autocratic and chaotic political situation appeared in Yan Song indirectly.

In addition, Cao was killed with grievances, which led to the gradual alienation between Jiajing Emperor and Fang Empress. Five years later, a fire broke out in Kunning Palace, and Emperor Jiajing actually prevented the eunuch from going to the rescue, so that the Queen Fang was burned alive. Some even speculated that the fire was set by Emperor Jiajing.