Six Ways of Fumo

Chapter 2012 Picking Red Lead

"Don't quarrel, don't quarrel, girls, stop quarreling. I will make the decision for you about your grievances."

Rao Shi was worried that the resentment of these female ghosts would burst out and he could not control it, so he comforted him first and said: "Um... Yang Jinying, you should tell me how this happened and why you wanted to assassinate Emperor Jiajing. And why did it fail?"

All the female ghosts fell silent, and Yang Jinying continued to state: "Emperor Jiajing was dissolute and immoral, ignored the government, was obsessed with alchemy, and wanted to live forever. He also had an unstable temperament and would kill people if he had the slightest disobedience. At that time, we were beaten. Out of [-]% of the palace maids who died, there are fully [-] to [-]%..."

Bu Zhenxin and Rao Shi looked at each other and thought to themselves that this Emperor Jiajing was indeed cruel.

Out of 72%, 3000% to 20.00% were killed, which is a terrifying number.Because everyone knows that the royal family has three palaces, six courtyards, 600 concubines, and three thousand concubines, which are all basic configurations. Among the [-] people, [-]% were killed, which is also [-] people. It can be said to be a huge number!

"Twenty miles outside the west gate of the capital, south of Zhugezhuang, the locals call it Grandma's Tomb. It was the place where people were buried in the Ming Dynasty. Those sisters who were beaten to death were buried there." Yang Jinying kowtowed and cried: "Grandma's Tomb There are countless corpses and numerous steles... Every time on a stormy night, they appear or make a sound, but their ghosts remain. These are our sisters!"

Rao Shi felt sad, sighed, and said, "So, you plan to act first and kill Zhu Houcong?"

"Yes, everyone in the palace was in danger at that time. The sisters were all precarious and living under fear." Yang Jinying looked at Concubine Duan Cao and said:
"I was a maid of Concubine Duan at that time, and Concubine Duan was favored, and the emperor often came to Concubine Duan's palace. Accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger. There were several times when the emperor wanted to kill me because of trivial mistakes. Fortunately, Concubine Duan was favored. Please forgive me, otherwise, I would have died in the hands of that foolish king.

These are not counted, the dog emperor has more vicious methods to torture us court ladies.We couldn't bear it any longer, so we took action. "

Looking at the pitiful female ghosts in front of him, Rao Shi's eyes were a little moist and asked: "Is there any other way to torture you?"

Yang Jinying hesitated for a moment, as if it was a bit difficult to speak out.

Beside her, another female ghost rushed to say: "It's red lead mining!"

"Collecting red lead? What is this?" This time, it was Bu Zhenxin's turn not to understand and asked casually.

Rao Shi shook his head and said: "Red lead is collected for alchemy. Generally speaking, palace alchemy cannot do without this. It is nothing more than mercury water, cinnabar, autumn stone and red lead."

Everyone in the Taoist sect knows the art of alchemy, so when he heard about mining red lead, Rao Shi knew what was going on.

Palace alchemy was contributed by alchemists. Without exception, the raw materials were mercury water, cinnabar, autumn stone and red lead.

Mercury water refers to mercury.Cinnabar is cinnabar, and its chemical name is mercury sulfide.Qiu Shi is a crystal made from the urine of a child.However, there is a need to pay attention to the raw materials. The urine of a boy, with the head and tail removed, and the urine in the middle, is of high quality, and can be refined into crystals like refined salt.

If it were now, whoever tried to collect these four treasures and make them into tonics would be beaten up!However, the emperors of the feudal dynasty liked to eat these elixirs that had not been internationally certified and did not have national food health approval numbers.

It stands to reason that emperors are not stupid either. Why do they like to eat this?The reason is that alchemists would also add hot herbs such as musk, deer antler, aconite, etc. when making elixirs. After the emperors took them, they would stimulate the nerve endings, heat the whole body, and trigger primitive impulses.

The foolish emperors didn't know what was going on and thought it was the explosion of ancient power in their bodies, a harbinger of immortality!

"The faint king was weak since he was a child. He was married for ten years but had no children. Therefore, he enriched his harem through folk drafts to facilitate heirs. But he had hundreds of concubines, but he... was unable to do what he wanted, so he listened to the alchemists' folk remedies and refined red lead. Pill. So, we sisters all went to the palace to serve as maids in preparation for their use. Seeing sisters dying every day, we thought it would be difficult to survive, so we thought of assassinating Hun Jun!"

Bu Zhenxin's conscience was still intact, and he sympathized with these female ghosts in his heart. The hand holding the knife trembled slightly, and he cursed: "This foolish king should be cut into pieces with a thousand swords!"

"Thank you, my lord, for speaking up for us, I am very grateful!" Yang Jinying kowtowed repeatedly, tearfully grateful.

"You're welcome... But that stupid king is dead, girls, it's really wrong for you to be haunted here..." Bu Zhenxin said.

Rao Shi waved his hand, interrupted Bu Zhenxin's words, and asked Yang Jinying, "Then you implemented the assassination plan. Why did it fail?"

"It's because this bitch told the secret!" Yang Jinying's eyes were blazing, and he reached out to grab a female ghost and said: "Her name is Zhang Jinlian. At the last moment, she got scared and secretly ran to inform the queen. We were about to strangle Hunjun to death. At that time, the queen came with her people, but the success fell short!"

"Forgive me, forgive me..." Zhang Jinlian knelt on the ground, trembling unceasingly, begging for mercy.

The female ghost Wang laughed miserably and said: "That night, the Dog Emperor took the elixir and came to vent his anger on Concubine Duan, but he called me again and asked me to sleep with him. After the Dog Emperor fell asleep happily, I pushed away Concubine Cao and Concubine Duan. The personal eunuch knocked on the window and summoned Yang Jinying and others to come in.

Because they had been planning for a long time, Yang Jinying and others had already ambushed near the palace with yellow flower ropes and yellow damask cloths.After getting my signal, they immediately filed into the palace, tied a rope around Hunjun's neck, and blocked his mouth with a cloth. Then someone else rode on Hunjun and tightened the rope as hard as he could.

Hunjun 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 were too flustered and didn't know the correct way to tie the knot. In the chaos, you hit each other, and they tied a dead knot, which couldn't be tightened in the end.

At this moment, the informant Zhang Jinlian rushed in with the queen, and we finally failed!Early the next morning, the girls were all taken to the execution ground and fed fish scales for several 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. While the emperor was still being rescued, he falsely passed on the imperial edict and had her body filed down and her head cut off.

The execution day of the girls lasted for three days. During the three days, the Forbidden City was filled with fog day and night, showing the depth of the injustice! "

(End of this chapter)