Wei Zhongxian found a job of pouring toilets, but he was as excited as a high school student

Today we will talk about Wei Zhongxian's job search.

In the previous article, we mentioned that many ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty ran to become eunuchs because they were too poor to eat and had no other way.

But the competition for eunuch posts was too fierce, and the recruitment quota of the imperial court was only 1500 people, but the number of applicants reached 20,000. The imperial court had to expand the target to 4500 people, but the supply still exceeded demand. In other words, on average, only one out of 4.4 people can be admitted.

But in an era when there was no better choice, being a eunuch was still the first choice of many poor people at the bottom. Wei Zhongxian was also one of them. But Wei Zhongxian was very special compared to others.

Because ordinary people are purified when they are young, under the rule of their parents, while Wei Zhongxian is 22 years old, at the age of having a wife and children, he resolutely castrates himself.

Wei Zhongxian was not willing to suffer on the land for a lifetime, his family conditions were poor, and he also knew that it was impossible to get rich by his own hard work in this life. He thought that instead of starving for the rest of his life, he would go to the palace and become a eunuch.

Let's gamble with fate, I have nothing anyway. If you lose, it's a big deal to suffer a little physically, but what if you succeed? If you stay up for a few years and mix a leader, then return to your hometown, you will be beautiful. The family has since escaped from the sea of suffering and risen to the middle class or even higher.

He was already imagining that the people in the village usually looked down on him, and suddenly one day he could talk to the emperor. He imagined himself wearing a chinese costume, riding a horse, galloping in his hometown county. He imagined his own leaking adobe house turning into a courtyard of green brick houses, and the more he thought about it, the more excited his heart became.

Okay, it's out!

He hugged the money that his family had cobbled together, and went into Beijing to find a private purification master and cleaned his body. It was ok that everything went smoothly. Then I recuperated in bed for a month.

The Wei family sold the house again, and the whole family lived in the Land Temple, asking him to use the money to find a relationship. It can be seen that the Wei family also spent "blood" for this job.

But what is worrying is that when Wei Zhongxian was looking for a relationship, the other party thought that his money was small and did not accept it.

At this point, Wei Zhongxian had become the investment of the whole family, and he couldn't give up halfway. So his brother sold some more land and sent some money over.

This time, the other party accepted his money, but there was no guarantee that he would be admitted. Continued to wait, waited another four months. These four months were his most anxious days, nightmares every day, not even a thick piece of clothing on his body, and hiding in the temple room all day without going out.

Finally, he waited for the good news.

In the seventeenth year of the Wanli Calendar, he caught up with the last selection of that year. The first three need a person who pours a bucket.

Among all the candidates, Wei Zhongxian was the oldest at the age of twenty-two, and he was tall and agile, becoming the only person in that group of people to be selected.

When the news came, the whole family burned incense and chanted the Buddha. This day became the most important day in the life of Wei Zhongxian and his whole family.

His excitement was no less than that of a high school student of that era, and although he had only found a salary to pour the toilet, his life had opened a new chapter. On this day, he began to greet the turning point of his destiny.