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1. Yongzheng Emperor

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   The Yongzheng Emperor died suddenly in the Yuanmingyuan (Old Summer Palace) in October 1735. The official cause cited was an acute illness brought on by overwork. However, persistent, albeit unsubstantiated, rumors circulated that his demise was linked to an experimental longevity draught he had commissioned from a Daoist practitioner specializing in alchemical metallurgy, which supposedly contained trace amounts of purifie…