The first eunuch in history to marry a wife and have children, he was ranked as the third duke before he died, and after his death, he was dug up and whipped!
Eunuchs are a special kind of group in history, the earliest history can be traced back to the pre-Qin and Western Han Dynasties, when eunuchs were not eunuchs, from the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the demise of the feudal dynasty, the eunuchs in this history were all eunuchs. You may have heard that some of the chief eunuchs of the late Qing Dynasty, such as Xiao Dezhang, a red man of Empress Longyu, once took concubines, but before the Northern Wei Dynasty, no one had ever heard of such things.
The eunuch marries his wife, which is a strange thing that Dougu has never heard of. The man mentioned today is the first eunuch in history to marry a wife, Liu Teng was a eunuch minister during the Northern Wei Dynasty, and he received the rebellion of the deposed prince Yuan Gong and the adulterous affair after Feng Was abolished, and moved to the servants and worshiped the great Chang Qiuqing. After gaining status, he did something unprecedented in history, marrying a wife and having children.
This is absolutely true. There is a passage in the "Biography of the Eunuch of Wei" about Liu Teng's marriage and adoption of children. Liu Teng's wife's surname was Wei, and she was also a countable beauty at that time. After Liu Teng had his own food estate (fifteen hundred households), he married the Wei clan, and the new emperor was also willing to make fun of it, not only not to prevent Liu Teng's behavior that violated the ancestral system, but also to make wei a julu county prince, "every time he was introduced, he was rewarded as a lord and a foreign relative"—like princesses and imperial relatives, he often let Wei enter the palace and accept the reward.
After all, Liu Teng was an authentic eunuch, and the eunuch was castrated and had no reproductive ability. The problem arises. Since Liu Teng, a eunuch, had no reproductive ability, where did his two sons come from? The answer is simple, Liu Teng himself adopted, the so-called borer yizi. Because Liu Tenglian did two "beautiful things", his two sons were soon promoted from a grass dweller to a high position in the county sheriff and Shangshulang. It is really "one man gets the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven"!
In the four years from 520 AD to 524 AD, Liu Teng can be said to have made the most of the limelight. He was honored with the post of Sikong, one of the three dukes, and with Cui Guang and others, under the pretense of Emperor Xiaoming's will, he allowed himself to take a ride in the palace - this is equivalent to the Qing Dynasty", which is a rare pearl.
The history books say that "the power of life and death in four years is determined by the hand", and even those famous ministers and ministers of the public secretary have to rely on his nose of Liu Someone. When encountering major military affairs, they must first ask Liu Gonggong if he already knows, if Liu Gonggong does not nod, even the things assigned by the emperor do not dare to do. Interestingly, those civil and military officials usually want to see the emperor, if it is the day of the Third, Sixth, and Ninth Dynasties, they can see it, but if they want to see Liu Teng, sometimes they often have to wait for a few days. As soon as the power was in his hands, Liu Teng began to scrape the "ground".
In fact, there is no need for Liu Teng to scrape, those who want to take the "shortcut to the end of the south" and mix in the official arena will also take the initiative to send "land". The "Biography of Wei Shu and Eunuch Officials" writes in this regard: "Public and private subordinates are invited, only in the interests of goods and boats, there is no flow of water and land, the land and water are solidly protected and exploited, the transportation of the six towns is mutually marketed, and the interest on revenue is huge in tens of thousands."
Still at the beginning of Liu Teng's great popularity, he rebuilt the original house, and a Fengchedu named Zhou Te used zhengcao to divinate for him, believing that it was "unlucky" and advising him not to forcibly seize the house and expand the mansion Shao, Liu Teng was "angry but not used" and did not listen to Zhou Te's advice at all. Zhou Te saw that Liu Teng did not believe himself, so he resigned his official post and went into hiding, and before leaving, he said to a good friend: "Liu Sikong (Liu Teng) is coming. According to Mr. Yi, the friend also hated Liu Teng, so, then Zhou Te's words asked: "When?" "According to the foolish opinion, according to the sealed elephant, it should be at the turn of March and April!" - He said this in the first month of the fourth year (524) of emperor Xiaoming Zhengguang. I don't know whether it was over-exaggerated in the history books, or whether that Zhou Te was really an uncertain prophet, anyway, Liu Teng did not live through the moment shown on the gua elephant. At the end of March 524, Liu Teng fell ill and died in Luoyang, the capital of Northern Wei. He was sixty years old.
On the day of the burial, Emperor Xiaoming ordered people to send 700 horses of high-grade silk, 400,000 yuan, and 200 catties of incense candles, and sent Hongjiao Shaoqing, who presided over the state funeral affairs, to preside over Liu Teng's funeral. Liu Teng's disciples and disciples and foxes saw that the emperor valued Liu Teng so much, and one by one they rushed to advance, "the middle officials are in decline for righteousness, and there are more than forty people who are widowed"--there are more than forty eunuchs of all sizes who are Liu Teng's filial piety and grandsons, and they wear filial piety for him, and officials of all sizes also live in the cemetery to mourn and "fill the countryside."
Liu Teng's disciple Sun also played the role of Yuan Xue and posthumously honored Liu as an envoy, a general on horseback, a prince of Taiwei, and an assassin in Jizhou. It is really "born when the temple eats death and waits, the boy's life is already rewarded", no wonder when the "Book of Wei" mentions this matter, it is necessary to sourly say a sentence "Since the beginning of Wei, the grandeur of the survival of the castration of power has not been great!" ”
However, the good times did not last long. Although Liu Teng was proud of the spring breeze in the last four years of his life and enjoyed special honors at the beginning of his death, he still had a sworn enemy. He died before his nemesis, how could the nemesis not take revenge and counterattack? Who is the nemesis? Needless to say, everyone must understand that it is the Empress Hu. Although Empress Dowager Hu was defeated at the hands of Liu Teng when Liu Teng was alive, she was after all Emperor Xiaoming's mother-in-law, and what son did not listen to his mother-in-law? Less than a year after Liu Teng's death, Empress Dowager Hu, with the support of Wang Yuanyong of Gaoyang and others, re-bowed to the government, and the first thing she did after taking power was to clean up Liu Teng.
Someone said that Liu Teng was dead. Empress Dowager Hu thought to herself, "Do you still need you to tell me?" If I don't die, I won't be able to get out of the Xuanguang Hall! But how could she say this to others, so she put on the posture of the empress dowager and said viciously: "Dead, dead is not the end, doesn't he have a grave and a tomb?" He imprisoned me in the Xuanguang Temple, and I will dig his grave, dig his grave, and let him see the sun!" "Seeing that the empress dowager moved the liver fire, who dared to rap."
Therefore, hundreds of soldiers were quickly dispatched to Liu Teng's cemetery to "send his grave and scatter his bones"—digging up Liu Teng's grave and throwing his bones to the ground. This is simply a re-edition of Wu Zixu's whip corpse. The person who was whipped by Wu Zixu had a vendetta against Wu for killing his father. As the saying goes, "The revenge of killing the father is not to wear the heavens together", and Empress Hu also took a similar move against Liu Teng, which shows the depth of the grudge between the two. Liu Teng, the great eunuch who enjoyed all the glory and wealth in his lifetime, may not have dreamed that he would be so good after death, in fact, he should have thought of it, the old saying: "Many unrighteous deeds will kill themselves."