Dust in History: A court bloodshed caused by witchcraft

If someone bullies you and you can't take revenge, someone tells you a way to get revenge.

It is to tie it into a paper figure or a cloth figure, and then write the name of the enemy, prick it with a needle, bury it in the ground, and let others trample on it.

In this way, the enemy will be trampled to death, or he will die of illness.

Do you believe it or not?

I don't think you believe it.

But someone believes.

This person is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In his time, this spell was very popular.

It was popular among the people, and it was also very popular in the court.

The subordinate was scolded and beaten by the superior leader, and the subordinate was not popular, so he used this method to retaliate against the leader.

I don't believe that this method has any effect, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty believed it, and was very superstitious.

He is very wary of the people around him, and always feels that these people will harm him, so it can be said that he is suspicious.

One day, he closed his eyes in Jianzhang Palace, and in a trance, he suddenly saw a man walking towards him with a sword.

Is this man an assassin?

He was horrified and hurriedly shouted, "Someone! There are assassins!

Although he shouted and the pipe in his throat was on fire, no one answered and got up to help.

Later, his shouting still alarmed everyone.

The reason why these people didn't arrive in time was probably on a lunch break, or they were playing cards to cheat Jinhua, so they didn't hear it.

Later, when they heard this, they immediately arrived, but the assassin was nowhere to be found.

Everyone searched for more than a dozen rounds but couldn't find it.

Emperor Wu of Han did not believe it, believing that the assassin must have been hiding in the harem.

The harem is where women live, and men are not allowed to enter it.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't care.

He made up his mind to catch the assassin, and so, under his orders, a large number of armed police rushed to the harem, turning it upside down.

The Assassin was still nowhere to be seen.

Although the assassin was gone, an object that appeared in the harem made Emperor Wu of Han break out in a cold sweat!

It's just that there are a lot of puppets and spells.

According to the modern method of analysis, everyone tends to quarrel with each other in the harem, and the party who loses the quarrel uses this to curse the other party.

But Emperor Wu of Han did not think so.

He thought that it must be aimed at him, so he ordered the palace police to strictly investigate the matter, and under the severe torture, naturally some people couldn't stand it, and talked nonsense, saying that there were indeed people who wanted to harm the emperor.

The heads of these concubines and harem women must have landed.

But Emperor Wu of Han thought it was not enough.

These people are too low in rank to pose a threat to him.

The only one who can harm him is the minister.

He had this idea, and a large number of villains were born of natural application.

In 91 BC, Gongsun Jingsheng, the son of Prime Minister Gongsun He, was the first to fall.

He was accused of being a witch curse Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

This Gongsun He is not an ordinary person.

His wife is the empress's sister, and his relationship with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is that of brother-in-law and brother-in-law, so his son Gongsun Jingsheng serves as a servant and is in charge of the emperor's horse and horse administration, and is the closest person to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

I didn't expect that the people around me also rebelled.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious, kill!

Gongsun He and his son died, along with his family and some relatives and friends.

In ancient times, it was like this, when one person committed a crime, he punished the whole people and his friends, and many of them fell in pools of blood.

Their downfall caused a panic inside and outside the court.

In order to protect themselves, everyone became villains and accused each other of wanting to kill Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

These people said that they had noses and eyes, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty believed it, and they went on a killing spree, and tens of thousands of people's heads were cut off.

Inside and outside the palace, blood flowed like a river.

This is not enough.

His son and wife were also involved.

His son's name is Liu Ju, and his wife is the queen Wei's husband.

The wife is the authentic eldest wife, the number one in the harem, the son is born to Liu Ju is eldest wife, is the eldest son of the authentic, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty died, he is the emperor.

It is very unfortunate that Liu Ju offended one person, that is, Jiang Chong, the favorite minister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Because of a trivial matter, Liu Ju's cronies were investigated by Jiang Chong, Liu Ju went to intercede, but Jiang Chong ignored him, so Liu Ju was angry and scolded Jiang Chong.

Jiang Chong held a grudge and always wanted to kill Liu Ju, and now the opportunity has finally come.

Because he is in charge of investigating the "witch case".

In addition, Jiang Chong is a close confidant of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and is the person he trusts the most, basically Jiang Chong is what he says.

It can be said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty trusted Jiang Chong more than his wife and son.

Jiang Chong thought that he could make a fuss about the "witch Gu case", so he said that Liu Ju was involved in the witch Gu

Emperor Wu of Han believed it.

Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty liked this son very much and once made him the crown prince and the first heir to the throne, after hearing about it, he was still very angry and asked Jiang Chong to deal with his son strictly.

Jiang Chong went to arrest Liu Ju with great momentum.

However, Liu is not an ordinary person.

He is the crown prince and the heir to the throne, so naturally there are a large number of people around him.

He had an army, and there were a lot of them.

Jiang Chong killed him, but it turned out to be the other way around, and Liu Ju arrested Jiang Chong and his people.

So they killed, and the heads of Jiang Chong and the others fell to the ground.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was shocked, some people said that it was a rebellion, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty believed that it was true.

So he ordered Prime Minister Liu Quyu to attack Liu Ju.

The prime minister led the regular army, and Liu Ju's army was almost a militia group.

One of the characteristics of these militia groups is that they are very powerful in peacetime, and once they encounter regular troops, they will rush for their lives and scatter in a hurry.

Liu Ju couldn't beat the prime minister, so he had to run away, and then he couldn't escape, so he hanged himself.

His mother, that is, the eldest wife and empress of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, although she did not participate in the witch Gu, her son died, her eldest sister died, and all thoughts were lost, and she also committed suicide.

Emperor Wu of Han was shocked.

At this time, he began to reflect, and he always felt that something was wrong.

You say that others want to kill themselves, but there is still this possibility, the problem is that she is the queen!

What can she get by killing herself?

If the husband dies, can the wife's life be better?

Besides, the son is the heir to the throne of course, and the position of the emperor will be his, is it necessary to use this kind of inferior means?!

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty thought about it and felt that it was impossible.

Later, someone finally told the truth, and he checked it, and it was indeed nothing. A year later, he rehabilitated his son and the empress, but it didn't mean much.

After all, both of them are dead and can't be resurrected.

According to incomplete statistics, hundreds of thousands of people were implicated in this incident, and nearly 100,000 people were killed.

What seems absurd now, but it was a big case back then, and I hope that such a tragedy will never happen again.

(Li Suzhang's original, plagiarism must be investigated)