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Extra Story: Some Views on Eunuchs

Speaking of eunuchs, we always look at them with disdain. In fact, regarding eunuchs, or eunuchs, and middle-ranking officials, they have different positions and have different opinions.

Of course, the most mainstream people are very disgusted and believe that eunuchs bring harm to the country and the people. This type of people are mainly scholars and the official and gentry groups behind the scholars. To be fair, the demise of dynasties in Chinese history is really not caused by eunuchs. Some say that the Qin, Han, and Tang Dynasties

Obviously, if you study carefully, the demise of these four dynasties was mainly caused by local separatism and party strife. The eunuchs were just scapegoats used by the scholar group to cover up their sins. If you must say that it was the eunuchs' fault, then let me ask about the Western Jin, Eastern Jin, and Sui Dynasties.

, how did so many dynasties of Song, Yuan, and Qing perish? The only group in Chinese history that still exists today is the official and gentry group. To put it bluntly, it is an interest group. These people hold the lifeline of the country's economy, and most of their resources are in

In their hands, the rise of other groups will inevitably harm their interests. Therefore, Emperor Yongzheng, who implemented the integration of officials and gentry as errands to pay grain, was scolded to death, and Emperor Wanli, who was able to rely on the eunuch group to collect the national mineral tax, salt tax, tax inspection wire, was even more scolded.

Black blood was shed (can the imperial court with an empty treasury carry out the "Three Major Conquests"?). Unfortunately, the official and gentry groups have controlled public opinion for most of the time since ancient times, so it is too easy for them to discredit a person.

As a ruler, that is, the emperor, he regards eunuchs as his right-hand man. This does not mean that eunuchs will not cuckold him, but that eunuchs are the silhouette of imperial power, another way of existence of imperial power. Eunuchs can only be attached to imperial power.

, so there have been very few eunuchs who really wanted to rebel since ancient times. In the late Han, Tang, and Ming Dynasties, the eunuch group was eliminated, and then the imperial power collapsed. Eunuchs are the emperor's eyes and ears, and they are the emperor's loyal servants. As the emperor, he can only teach him to restrain himself.

And could not eradicate it. Emperor Chongzhen turned to the official and gentry group, and as a result, the tax revenue in Jiangnan

Shrunk from a boa constrictor to a hair, he left behind a reputation for diligence, but it disappeared in the Ming Dynasty.

For more than 400 years in the Han Dynasty, until the second emperor Huan Ling, the eunuchs had caused a mess, but from the perspective of the country's operation, the country was still functioning normally. The general He Jin was instigated by the rich and handsome officer N generation Yuan Benchu ​​to kill the eunuchs.

, in the end the eunuchs were wiped out, but from then on the Han Dynasty actually existed in name only.

The Tang Dynasty is a prosperous dynasty in the minds of many angry young people. A vassal town can deal with foreign invasions, and an envoy can borrow troops to blow up India. But the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty are the craziest in history. They have led troops to fight against Vietnam.

People cry for father and mother, some depose the emperor, launch a coup, and even cuckold the emperor. Several generations of emperors in the late Tang Dynasty tried to eliminate the eunuch group, and finally succeeded, and then the Tang Dynasty was replaced by Zhu Wen. A man named Zhang Chengye

The eunuchs spent their whole lives assisting Li Keyong and his son to destroy the Liang Kingdom founded by Zhu Wen, and established the Later Tang Dynasty with the name Tang.

In the early days of the Song Dynasty, many of the eunuchs were martial arts masters who could lead troops in battle. Unfortunately, the Song Dynasty never reused eunuchs as a whole in view of the madness of the eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty.

The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty are not so much eunuchs as they are the Intelligence Department, Supervision Department and General Office of the Ming Dynasty. Since the Ming Dynasty established the administrative operation mechanism of "co-management of the supervisory cabinet", national affairs are basically handled by the cabinet and the ceremonial supervisor.

It was jointly decided that the emperor was just the host of the meeting most of the time. It is not difficult to understand that except for the two kings Taizu and Chengzu, the ministers of the other dynasties in the Ming Dynasty dared to argue with the emperor and dare to scold the emperor. Therefore, Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty directly scolded Jiajing.

Foolish King, you try to magnify the Qing Dynasty. In addition to killing everyone, I'm afraid even the ancestral graves will be dug up. Emperor Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian and established WeChat. However, from then on, the intelligence department of the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and taxes could not be collected.

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan, and only the eunuch Wang Chengen accompanied him to death.

As eunuchs themselves, how do they view themselves? This is complicated, because many eunuchs are very pitiful, either prisoners of war or from poor families, so they can only pursue money, so eunuchs are greedy for money. Of course, many are greedy for power, so

There are so many great eunuchs. There are also many ambitious eunuchs who can rule the country with their literary skills and bring peace to the country with their military skills. ps: Some people have raised questions about the combat effectiveness of eunuchs. Those who are interested can learn about the eunuchs of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Anecdotes about going into battle and killing the enemy.

As modern people, of course we don’t want to have eunuchs anymore, because after all, they are the product of a barbaric and cruel system. There are indeed no physical eunuchs, but what about the psychological eunuchs?

I'm drunk in the middle of the night, I'll give you a song for a hundred days to entertain you all

A hundred days of red, a hundred days of beauty, a hundred miles of spring breeze intoxicating

One hundred days of sunshine, one hundred days of good weather, hundreds of flowers never want to return.

Hundred-day tour, hundred-day fun, hundred-day rafting in the rivers and lakes

A hundred days of hard work, a hundred days of hard work, how many times of a hundred days of hard work

A hundred days of spring, cherish the spring. When the spring goes, the flowers can’t be chased.

A hundred days of hard work, a hundred nights of thinking, the rope cuts the wood and cuts through the stone and water

A hundred days of dreaming, a hundred days of laughter, and going to the top to ask how high the sky is
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