Castration party
Mentioning Wei Zhongxian, the image in the TV series appeared in his mind, a eunuch costume, holding dust in his hand, low eyebrows and pleasing eyes in front of the emperor, humbly waiting, turning his back, facing other ministers, he changed his face, his toes were high, no one put it in his eyes, and when he returned to the East Factory, he became the embodiment of the devil, holding the list in his hand, with the sharpest voice, cocking the orchid finger, and issuing the order to extinguish his mouth. It was such a man who gave the whole eunuch clique a political name—the castration party.
01 Wei Si
Wei Zhongxian's original name was Wei Si, his family was poor, he could not let him study and open his mind, he could only mix in the streets and alleys early, learn a body of skills, such as gambling, drinking, prostitution, archery and horseback riding, but it is such a person, but also the parents' baby child! Parents love their children, and they have far-reaching plans for them. Arranged the marriage for him early, but Wei Si was indeed too bad in character, and his wife ran away after giving birth to her daughter, and her daughter was also sold by him to pay off gambling debts.
How crazy can a gambler be in order to pay off a gambling debt?
Wei Si made his own decision, he went to the palace, not to practice the Sunflower Treasure Book, but to pay off gambling debts, in order to eat food.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were requirements for eunuchs, first, it was age, most eunuchs entered the palace when they were young, which was easier to adjust, and second, like all jobs, they needed to pass the interview. Many people who go to the palace in order to eat food may end up being brushed off. Such people who can't enter the palace and have exterminated their children and grandchildren have become a major factor of social instability, and only then did they have the later regulations that they could not go to the palace! This also gave rise to a new profession, one-size-fits-all teacher.
I have to say that Wei Si's luck was still good, he relied on another father-in-law to successfully enter the palace and changed his name: Li Jinzhong.
02 Li Jinzhong
After Li Jinzhong entered the palace, he surrendered to Wang An, the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi at that time, through the Wei Dynasty, and leaned on his thigh. The so-called Si Li Bingbi eunuchs have the right to approve red and vote. Just like the assistant tutor who can help you revise your thesis, the tutor (emperor) is too busy to batch one by one, so the tutor assistant (Si Li Bingbi eunuch) helps.
Also through the Wei Dynasty, Li Jinzhong got to know the Emperor's grandson's nursing mother Keshi at that time, that is, the Wei Dynasty's counterpart. At this time, the network of relations was completed, and what awaited Li Jinzhong was his dream power and status.
In 1620, at the age of 15, Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne as emperor, and even with the milk lady Keshi also flew yellow Tengda, and was crowned as Lady Fengsheng, at this time, Li Jinzhong had completed the task of prying the corner, killed the Wei Dynasty, became the counterpart of the Keshi, and wandered in front of the emperor for a long time, and the emperor also greatly favored him, giving him the name: Wei Zhongxian.
After that, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi, serving the emperor, began to do various kinds of demons. One internally, one externally, Wei Zhongxian was responsible for bringing down Wang An and serving as the new eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and Keshi was in charge of the harem, exporting the harem to serve one-stop service, so as to avoid someone being able to take away the emperor's trust.
Keshi
I have to say that men and women are not tired of working together, even if they are half men, they are also effective. Finally, Wei Zhongxian killed Wang An and became a eunuch of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, there was a large group of civilian officials in the Court of Donglin, and Wei Zhongxian chose to curry favor with the Donglin Party in order to sit firmly, but the Donglin Party people did not look up to Wei Zhongxian.
As the saying goes: the enemy of the enemy is the friend, in order to have the capital to compete with the Donglin Party, coupled with the power of the Dongchang, Wei Zhongxian began to have many sons and grandsons with different surnames, and countless court officials began to turn to him, and he began to control the government and eradicate the road of dissidents.
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It is said that four people were drinking in the secret room at night, one of them was drunk and insulted Wei Zhongxian, and the other three were too frightened to speak out. Before the man could finish scolding, Dongchang Fanzi escorted the four people to Wei Zhongxian's residence, and immediately put the scolded person Ling Chi, while comforting the other three people, jinzi, all three of them were frightened and scattered and did not dare to move.
It was said that this Wei Zhongxian was only an illiterate eunuch, so why could he do this?
03 Wei Zhongxian
It can only be said that Duke Wei really met a nobleman, and the biggest nobleman was Zhu Youxiao. Although Zhu Youxiao was an emperor, he was a full carpenter in his bones, and he only wanted to be a happy wooden man, but he had a heavy burden, and in order to contain the Donglin Party, he allowed Wei Zhongxian to fight with the Donglin Party, and he himself was idle.
If Colonel Zhu Had reigned a little longer, Wei Zhongxian might not have been able to do anything else, but unfortunately, this Mr. Zhu fell ill due to the boat falling into the water, and as a result, he died at the age of 25, his brother and brother, Zhu Youjian ascended to the throne, and his year number was Chongzhen.
Chongzhen
Chongzhen had just ascended to the throne, knowing that the castration party was powerful and difficult to deal with, so he slowly accumulated strength and then eradicated it together. Wei Zhongxian was afraid, so he began to do all kinds of things, all kinds of temptations, to see what the 17-year-old emperor had toward himself, saying that he could retire and ask for his resignation, but Chongzhen did not approve.
Finally, after Qian Jiazheng impeached Wei Zhongxian for ten major crimes: one was juxtaposed with the emperor, two were contemptuous of the empress, three were manipulated by the military power, four were not two ancestral emperors, five grams were knighted by the king of the clan, six eyes were not saints, seven indiscriminate knights were rewarded, eight were covered up for side merit, nine were exploited by the people, and ten traffic joints were carried out. After approving Wei Zhongxian's retirement slip, this batch represented that Wei Zhongxian was laid off, and he was no longer a beautiful eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and was placed to Fengyang Shouling.
However, Wei Zhongxian, who was not in the scenery, on the way to Fengyang, not only publicized, but also brought a well-bred killer, Chongzhen listened, but he was angry, but he was not honest, so he sent Jinyi Wei to arrest Wei Zhongxian and return to Beijing for trial. When Wei Zhongxian heard the news, he knew that he could not escape the death penalty and hanged himself. After his death, Chongzhen sent people to raid Wei Zhongxian and Keshi's home, Wei Zhongxian was dismembered, Keshi was whipped to death, and finally violently died in the streets.
04 Duke Wei
Man is a creature with desires.
Maybe at first Wei Si just wanted to live and have a bowl of rice to eat, more likely to want to have money, after entering the palace, Li Jinzhong saw the signs of power, after becoming Wei Zhongxian, rights became his pursuit, and preserving the position of power he had became his goal. Of course, these are what we see after he successfully ascended to the throne, the wheel of history has gone for more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, this enterprise has long entered the end of the road, there is no Duke of Wei, there may be a prince, Li Gonggong.
The gulf of desire cannot be filled, and in the end it can only be a slave to desire.
Text/Tea Plum
A post-90s casual freelance writer~