If we say that in the ancient palace, the emperor, other concubines, princes and princesses, who are representatives of the Tian family, are indispensable roles, it is actually not completely accurate, because behind the dazzling imperial power, there are actually many invisible people who are silently making their efforts for all this prosperity, and they are slaves in the palace.
These slaves have palace maids, so naturally there are eunuchs. The path to promotion for palace maids is very simple. Either they are lucky enough to be noticed by the emperor and become noble people in the palace in one fell swoop, or become the first maid around the noble people. Either you have a bad fate and are trampled on by others in the palace, you can only be an ordinary palace maid, or leave the palace after you get older. The eunuchs in were in a bad mood. They had no chance to be favored by the emperor, nor had they had the chance to leave the palace, and even had the smell of odor due to physical reasons. However, even so, there were still concubines who flattered each other. Why is this?
Survival was a last resort
It can be said that since the group of kings and nobles, there have been basically eunuchs and palace maids. In ancient times, there were many people who jumped from palace maids to harem, and as a helpless group, there were many eunuchs who finally became prominent figures in a country. For example, as early as the Qin Dynasty period, there was Zhao Gao .
However, there are only so many famous people, such as treacherous people such as Wei Zhongxian , and there are also loyal and honest Huai'en, but many of them are actually nameless people, and they will not leave a speck of dust in the long river of history. Some of their group were implicated because of their convictions, and most of them were because of their hardships and had to be eunuchs.
After all, in the palace, although he is a eunuch, he still has a salary. At least he can satisfy his food, although the food may not be very good. But most of the time, they are not in a good condition than normal men. Why do you say so? This is because the eunuchs of basically work in the harem, and the group they serve is also very special. Therefore, in this case, it is impossible to sacrifice the interests of the concubines in the harem. They are victims, that is, they must be purified before they can enter the palace.
Because after purging themselves, their normal physiological characteristics are damaged, so when going to the toilet, they can only squat and produce a certain bad smell. Therefore, they have the title of "pickled eunuch" in the palace. But the people who shouted like this were people with little knowledge. Instead, they were the concubines in the harem. They not only did not discriminate against the eunuchs, nor did they dislike them, but instead tried their best to curry favor with them. Why is this?
Thousand-mile dikes are destroyed by the ant hole
In fact, the reason why concubines come to curry favor with them is naturally because they have something to ask for. In the palace, although eunuchs are slaughter groups and slaves, and concubines are masters, the masters cannot move around casually, while slaves can act on their behalf. What's more, not every eunuch has a humble position.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, eunuchs had a high status, and by the end of the Tang Dynasty, eunuchs were even more dictatorial. However, they are generally called slander ministers, because eunuchs were still a slave group after all. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to make their work easier, Xuanzong directly taught eunuchs to learn to read and learn to screen and review memorials.
It was from this time that eunuchs became an indispensable group of power institutions, even more powerful than many ministers. Because in the Ming Dynasty, specially set up eunuchs in the hands of the seal and eunuchs on the pen. They had the power to add and approve memorials. When the cabinet chief minister came to them, they said that they would have to be suppressed.
And the concubines are just women in the harem. How can they compete with the people in the previous dynasty? However, the people in the previous dynasty are under the control of eunuchs, so those women in the harem still have to rely on eunuchs.
To take a step back, even if the eunuch's power has not reached the point where he is in power, many of them are well-known figures. reference film and television drama " The Legend of Zhen Huan ", Su Peisheng is the eunuch around the emperor, and that is the leader of all eunuchs. If the concubine trips him, then he looks down on the emperor's face.Even if the emperor didn't care, the people in the , Hua Fei and others treated Su Peisheng everywhere, and Su Peisheng would say good things in front of the emperor because of this.
To put it bluntly, eunuchs are sometimes just people who help themselves . After all, no one will always be smooth sailing. As a woman who relies on the emperor's favor, she must be careful everywhere. Once she takes a wrong step, she may face a situation of no return. At this time, in front of a well-known person, the eunuch's words are more effective than pleading for many times.
For example, Qing Dynasty The eunuch next to Empress Dowager Cixi Li Lianying . When he left the palace, Empress Dowager Cixi specially assigned guards to protect him and also gave him a yellow flag that specifically demonstrated his identity. If there were life and death problems in the Qing Dynasty harem, if a person like Li Lianying had a few words of love, he might not have died.
Of course, in addition to eunuchs pleading, there is another point in that many concubines need to live on eunuchs’ news. As a choreographer in this palace, they can be said to be everywhere. If the concubines are flattered, the eunuchs will be loyal and will give them reliable news. Then those concubines will have the advantage before their opponents, and they will have the opportunity to successfully gain favor or defeat their opponents.
The last point is to survive, and the concubines should also be kind to others. Because the gate of the palace is as deep as the sea, there are crises everywhere, and I don’t know where the enemies are and which friends are. In this environment, it is better to be friends with them first. It is better than establishing an enemy. After all, one day you will fall and you will not die. If the eunuch, who is the enemy, knows his own handle and comes up and steps on him, he may really die.
and less establish enemies. When facing life and death situations, although some eunuchs are not good alliances, they at least will not come out and step on them, and their situation may not be that miserable. So to put it bluntly, we will start from the small part of , so as not to fall down in the future, and everyone will push us. After all, as an ant, eunuchs may also defeat a master like him.
Conclusion
Whether it is a eunuch or a palace maid, it was a way of survival for miserable people in that era. If there is a good choice, who will be a rootless person for others to trample on. However, in the feudal palace, how many concubines are better than eunuchs? After all, there are 3,000 beauties in the harem, and many women have to stay in the palace all their lives. Sometimes they have to be buried with them if they are not lucky. So the concubines seem noble, but their survival is actually closely related to the eunuchs.
Because eunuchs are an indispensable group in the palace, although they do dirty and hard work, they are freer than concubines and can collect a lot of information. They can use the information to turn the world around in a moment. Those eunuchs around the emperor, or even the empress dowager, are even more offensive because they represent the face of the person behind them and cannot be trampled on at will, so concubines must flatter when they see them. It can be seen from this that even those who are always superior may not cover the sky with their hands, and those who are in the mud may not be useless. We must learn to look at everyone peacefully.
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