Wei Zhongxian (1568-December 11, 1627), a native of Suning, Beizhili (now Suning County, Cangzhou, Hebei), was born in Suning (now Suning County, Cangzhou, Hebei). After the palace, he changed his name to Li Jinzhong. During the Ming Dynasty, he served as the eunuch of Sili Bingbi and was extremely favored. He was called "nine thousand nine hundred and nine hundred years old".
With the succession of Emperor Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian's party feathers were also beaten to the end by Chongzhen. Finally, Wei Zhongxian was forced to hang himself in a high-end hotel. There should have been a winding battle, but there are only a few words in Ming history
In August next year, Xi Zong became ill, called the king to enter, and was killed. Ding Si is the emperor. Amnesty to the world, the next year is the first year of Chongzhen. ...Guichou, Nanjing earthquake. In November Jiazi, Wei Zhongxian was placed in Fengyang. Wuchen, withdraw the guards from all sides. Ji Si, Wei Zhongxian hanged to death. ...December...Wei Liangqing, the son of the Hakka family and the country are all punishable. The simple translation of
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in August of the Seventh Year of the Apocalypse (1627), when Xi Zong was critically ill and called the King Xin to enter the palace to accept his death. Twenty-four, Zhu Youjian (Chongzhen) is the emperor. At the same time, the world is amnesty, and the following year is the first year of Chongzhen. ...On October 20th, Nanjing earthquake. On November 1, Wei Zhongxian was placed in Fengyang Shouhuang Mausoleum. On November 5th, he withdrew the courtiers guarding all sides, and on the 6th, Wei Zhongxian hanged himself. ...December...Wei Liangqing, Hou Xingguo, the son of the Ke family, and others all fell down.
So far, the struggle between Wei Zhongxian Group and Chongzhen lasted only 72 days and ended.
Is the record of Emperor Chongzhen's killing of eunuchs in Ming history that simple? Far from it, let me read some other historical materials today to restore the seventy-two days of shock. Z1z
's elder brother, Emperor Zhu Youxiao, who succeeded to the throne of Chongzhen
, had no children when he died due to various reasons. Chongzhen became the only legal heir. Before he succeeded to the throne, Chongzhen was the King of Letters and lived outside the palace of King of Letters.
After the death of Emperor Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian's party strictly sealed the news and sought a newborn baby inside and outside the palace. He wanted to succeed the emperor with falsehoods, and attempted to hold the emperor's self-respect together with the Keshi (the nurse of the Tianqi Emperor, who was named Fengsheng wife) Chao Tsun.
Zhang Yan, the queen of Emperor Apocalypse, stood up at this time.
Zhang Yan is incredible. In 1621, the first year of the Apocalypse, the internal officials held a beauty pageant across the country. A total of five thousand girls participated in the competition. Zhang Yan passed five passes, cut six generals, successfully crossed eight passes, and finally stood out. In April of the same year, he was named the queen. .
Zhang Yan was selected as the queen, breaking the feudal system of domination, breaking the shackles of political marriage, and becoming the first charming and unparalleled beauty queen in Ming history.
But at the same time she is also tragic.
Zhang Yan failed to give birth to a prince after the death of Emperor Tianqi due to the mutilation of Wei Zhongxian and the Ke family.
Her background and righteousness contributed to Zhu Youxiao's succession.
She does not have so many nepotisms, and has no political background to hold her back. In front of the castration party, she is not coerced, and she swears to be orthodox Zhu family.
She was not afraid of life and death, and passed the news to Zhu Youjian outside the palace. As a queen, she and ministers proclaimed Zhu Yujian's succession, so that the trembling King Xin lived in Fengtian Temple.
This beautiful girl is only twenty-one years old. She has a glimpse of history. What she has done is enough to shock the world.
has two points to add on this topic.
First, after scrutiny, the bloody succession of Emperor Chongzhen may exist, but other historical records may be a bit exaggerated; second, I deeply believe that from Hongwu to Chongzhen 276 years, the Zhu family was in prison The land, whether the eunuch or Donglin, has never seized real power in the hands of the emperor. For hundreds of years, their struggle was nothing more than a chess piece in the hands of the emperor.
Zhang Yan
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Wei Zhongxian’s trickery went bankrupt, and he felt a crisis with Keshi one by one. Because he knew that Jinyu Jiangshan belonged to the Zhu family, he changed his strategy and adopted various methods to constantly flatter Chongzhen.
has to say that Wei Zhongxian of the Apocalypse Dynasty is indeed in power. The generals of the borders are at his command, the chiefs of the towns are at his mercy, and his boss, the supervisor of the ceremonies and the eunuchs, are also committed to him. Forced to succumb to his lewdness. Although on the surface it did not steal the country's credentials, it has basically become the spokesperson of the country. This is a fact.
so he can control almost everything in the palacepersonal.
However, the tide of history always moves forward. He judged the situation, chose to flatter, tried to seduce Chongzhen with this trick, and once again steal the country's authority.
How did he do it?
He had been prepared for a long time, and selected four pure women from all over the country who were not weaker than Zhang Yan. After education, they showed a variety of styles.
He dedicated it to Chongzhen, and the emperor Chongzhen received it all.
Because he had to take it, the first day he entered the palace, Queen Zhang Yan had instructed him not to eat the food in the palace, so he had to eat the pancakes that Congxin had brought. After
received these four peerless beauties, Emperor Chongzhen was shocked, because these four beauties contained the fascinating "scent of the soul" in their clothes. Fortunately, Chongzhen is not too close to female sex, and he also raised the precautionary alert to the highest index. In order not to arouse Wei Zhongxian's vigilance, he remained the same, and at the same time, he promised to continue to build Wei Zhongxian's shrine throughout the country.
But he can't hide it from Wei Zhongxian. The steel knife
"color" is still Wei Zhongxian's attacking weapon.
Chongzhen has to sleep!
When Chongzhen was asleep, he ordered the eunuch to stay in the secret room, light the aphrodisiac with a bamboo tube, and then convey it to Chongzhen's bedroom. But Wei Zhongxian ignored a little. His trickery of flattery was seen through by Chongzhen. Chongzhen has been guarding against him since the first day he entered the palace. In other words, this aphrodisiac has been replaced by hypnotic sandalwood. The next day , Chongzhen still happily approved his memorial invitation.
What kind of people are Wei Zhongxian, because he didn't see Chongzhen staying in the harem, languishing all day long, on the contrary, he routinely goes early in the morning and is full of energy and never delays.
Then come to the third trick!
Wei Zhongxian drafted a list of officials’ promotion and appointments, and presented them to the emperor’s imperial inspection. All but a few of them were his cronies. He also deliberately marked individual personnel to indicate that Chongzhen could assign them. Drop. Z1z
Chongzhen did not go through the cabinet and did not need court discussion. Yubi Zhu approved the word "quasi".
worked, and the last touchstone shone brightly. Chongzhen was under his control. This young emperor was no different from Emperor Tianqi, and Wei Zhongxian thought that he could once again be in power. He put down his grudges and dreamed of a great dream.
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counterattacked
When Wei Zhongxian began to offer beauties, Chongzhen tried his best to collect the attendants and eunuchs.
was originally from the Zhu family, and a lot of them belonged to the wall. They gradually understood Chongzhen and felt his emperor's determination. They judged that one day the castrated party would be destroyed, and Wei Zhongxian would eventually be eradicated, so they chose to face the new The emperor is loyal.
During this period, Chongzhen adjusted the cabinet and the sixth department, and Choi Chengxiu, the leader of the Ministry of War, resigned, and he approved it. From then on, he concentrated the national border defense, the command of the army, and the military power of the three major battalions in Gyeonggi. Although Wei Zhongxian was still in control of Jinyiwei and Dongchang matters at this time, he was not enough to compete with Chongzhen.
Chongzhen allowed the prefectural government to contribute to Wei Zhongxian's rebuilding of the ancestral hall, and agreed to continue to collect industrial and commercial and mining taxes in various places according to his ideas, and finally approved Wei Zhongxian's appointment and removal of personnel. But behind all these appearances, Chongzhen raced against time to collect evidence of Wei Zhongxian and the Eunuch. He thought that soon, he must fight back and destroy it completely.
On October 27, the time to decide Wei Zhongxian's fate has arrived.
Qian Jiazheng, a student of the Imperial College Supervisor, resolutely filed a letter to impeach Wei Zhongxian's top ten counts.
One is side by side with the emperor, two is contempt for the queen, three is to use military power, four have no second ancestors, five are cut off the kings and nobles, six eyes have no saints, seven are indiscriminately plus noble rewards, eight cover the side merits, nine exploit the people, ten Traffic joints.
is a young man born in the Imperial Prison. The ten most serious crimes are all capital crimes. Chongzhen threw up his thunder and anger, and immediately arrested Wei Zhongxian and vowed to take the castrated party in one fell swoop.
Because of the ties between the Criminal Ministry and other ministries and the Eunuch Party, there were some twists and turns in handling the case. In the end, Chongzhen was promoted to Qiao Yun to take over as the Secretary of the Criminal Department. University scholars Han Kuang and Qian Longxi hosted the case. A total of 261 people were arrested when the case was closed. The heads that should be shaved, the exiles that should be exiled, the demotions that should be banished, and the eunuchs that have caused the disaster for the past two hundred years were finally wiped out.
fell from power
On November 1st of the Seventh Year of the Apocalypse (1627), Chongzhen made a roundabout, recite Wei Zhongxian’s hard work, and then went to Fengyang to guard the mausoleum.
Stupid Wei ZhongBefore Xian awakened, he ordered hundreds of servants to tidy up for six days, filled with forty carts of gold, silver, jewels and fragrant silk. At the same time, he took a thousand cavalry guards and set off to Fengyang.
, who is at a dead end, should he do this? Personally think that the ending is the same.
As soon as he left, Chongzhen took the castration party in one pot, and the Five Tigers, Wubiao, and Wang Tigan fell off the horse one after another, and were convicted and punished, and the infallible castration party was destroyed. Z1z
once again ordered Chongzhen, who hated Wei Zhongxian, to arrest Wei Zhongxian again.
Wei Zhongxian collapsed. He knew he could no longer come back, and there was no way to survive. On November 6, he hanged himself after drinking alcohol in a high-end hotel in Fucheng County, Hejian Prefecture, Zhili Province.
The last eunuch in the history of Ming Dynasty collapsed, and Chongzhen began his era after putting down the eunuch in one fell swoop.
Reference materials: "Ming History" and "Ming History. Biographies"
Picture: From Toutiao Gallery
