The strange case that shook the Qianlong period: A series of guests lost their lives because of... spider silk

A party that was going on happily suddenly turned into a crime scene where diners died from poisoning for unknown reasons.

Bloody feast

During the Qing Dynasty, a strange case happened, its notoriety was so great that it even shocked the Qianlong emperor. It happened at a party after reporting the old man back to the hometown of the official Luong. It is known that he was also a great god loved by the emperor.

Those who attended the party were all high-ranking mandarins in the court. Unexpectedly, the party just started not long ago, many guests hugged their stomachs and struggled, some even died on the spot. Since the host and guests were both high-ranking officials and aristocrats, this case attracted the attention of the people and the court.

More than a dozen guests died while dining, so this incident became a big case. The district commander was very worried, if he didn't solve it properly, he could lose his job. Therefore, he did not dare to make any mistakes. He immediately led his subordinates to the scene of the investigation.

A great minister told him to return to his hometown and immediately held a party, who expected that there would be a case that caused many people to die from poison. (Photo: QQ News)

They packed up all the food they had used that day for testing, but no matter what they tried, they couldn't find any toxins in the food. The district command also carefully bought two big dogs and gave them a taste of the party food, but after eating it all, they did not show any abnormality and were still very healthy.

However, there is a point that the district command always finds it very difficult to understand is that on the day of the banquet, there were a lot of guests, but only a few people died from poison, while many people showed no symptoms. This case was eventually reported to the court, which angered the Qianlong king. Qianlong ordered the district to give a seven-day time limit to thoroughly resolve the case.

When the district commander returned, he ordered his subordinates to once again review the relations of the great minister Liang. However, he could not find anyone with such a contradiction that he had to act so cruelly. Seeing that there was no other way, the district command had to imprison all the servants of the great minister for thorough interrogation in the hope of finding the real culprit.

The killer suddenly appeared

The emperor's time limit for the emperor was not much, the district command searched a lot of people (the name of the forensic medicine at that time) to examine many times in the hope of finding clues. After many tests, a new work has made a new discovery.

According to this artist, the banquet area was originally in the garden of the palace of the great god, which was built a long time ago. Great minister Liang had taken office and lived in Beijing, so the palace was not cleaned. After the great minister Luong returned to his hometown, he immediately ordered a banquet to be held in the garden.

Because the servants in the palace did not clean carefully, the tree was still full of spider webs. Therefore, this author has come up with a bold theory based on the book "The Poison Throne" that all people who die are poisoned by spider silk .

According to the records in "Tian Ti Chi Poison" , some spiders are very poisonous, and the webs they spread are also very poisonous. Maybe during the party, the cobweb was blown into the wine by the wind and melted soon after. The guests drank alcohol, so they were poisoned.

The district command heard that it made sense, so he ordered his subordinates to take some spider silk from the tree and mix it with wine and give it to the dogs to drink. After drinking, the dog immediately fell dead. He took the remaining alcohol before bringing it to test for poison, and indeed determined to have very strong toxicity. So the case was resolved quickly. Turns out the real killer was just. a spider's web.

Fortunately, many people who attended the party did not like to drink, so they escaped a great disaster. At this time, the district command and everyone understood why some guests were safe. In the end, the servants of Great God Liang were exonerated. Qianlong concluded the case was just a random incident; Unfortunately, the guests died innocently.