eunuch is a castrated man. It is a special occupation in the ancient Chinese court. The original intention of its birth is to prevent the occurrence of adultery related to the emperor's concubines in the palace.
However, working in the palace as well, there has always been a folk legend of "masters in the big house", but the emperor's bodyguards have never been cleansed. Isn't the emperor afraid that they will have an affair with his concubines?
It should be noted that these guards are all strong and powerful. Is the emperor not afraid of the guards, close to the queen and concubine, and defile the harem?
Emperors are the most shrewd people in the world, and there are good reasons why they don't castrate their guards and are not afraid of them messing around.
Why can't the guards be castrated?
Castration in China has a long history, as early as around 1000 BC.
around 770 BC Zhou Dynasty , the Chinese eunuch system was born.
Castration, also known as "castration", refers to the destruction of human or animal reproductive organs for non-medical purposes, causing them to lose reproductive function.
After a man loses his testicles, the secretion of androgens will stop, and naturally he will lose his sexual ability and cannot threaten the emperor's harem. However, castration also has side effects, because the production of muscles is inseparable from male hormones. If there is a lack of it, the muscle strength of the body will be greatly reduced, and the explosive power and endurance will also be greatly affected.
There have been many eunuchs in Chinese history who led troops to fight, such as Northern Song Dynasty Tong Guan, Li Xian, etc.; but they mainly rely on military command ability, not personal military skills to kill the enemy .
Of course, there are not no eunuchs with high physical fitness.
Tang Gaozong , Xuanzong period,There was a eunuch Yang Sixu , which can be called a fighter among eunuchs.
He was castrated at the age of six, but his physical abilities were the same as those of ordinary people. History records that he was fierce and fierce, quite physically strong, and cruel to kill.
He is good at leading battles, and most of the time he takes the lead and heads up with the opponent's generals.
However, eunuchs like Yang Sixu who are full of stamina and wolf-like nature are very few, and they belong to an alternative.
Most of the castrated eunuchs were feminine and could not shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending the palace.
Therefore, in order to maintain combat effectiveness, the guards defending the palace cannot be castrated unless the emperor is tired of living.
If the guards are castrated, they will be unresponsive and their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. How can guards like this defend the palace and ensure the safety of the emperor?
Why is the emperor not afraid of guards against banning?
Since the guards cannot be castrated, how can they ensure that they will not mess around?
Generally speaking, there are two reasons; one is that the range of activities of the guards is limited, and there is no chance for concubines to contact them; the other is that the palace has a strict duty and living system; the third is that the guards have a special status and have an unusual relationship with the emperor. Trust; Fourth, the guards are well-paid in politics and have a bright future, so they are not worth messing around with.
The range of guards is limited
The guards are collectively referred to as the inner guards, and they are divided into two types: inner court guards and outer court guards.
The inner court guards are mainly the imperial guards and are responsible for protecting the emperor's personal safety.
The outer court guards are mainly the guards of the Qianqingmen, and one is responsible for guarding the gates of each palace.
Imperial Guards is the emperor's personal guards, who stay with the emperor all day long; their activities are mainly in Taihe Hall
The guards at each gate are responsible for the main gate Meridian Gate , Taihe Gate_ The safety of key parts such as span18span, East Gate Donghua Gate, West Gate Xihua Gate, North Gate Shenwu Gate, and the gates of the inner court palace Ganqingmen, Youemon, Shenwumen, Ningshoumen and other key parts.
No matter what kind of guards they are, their activity areas are mainly in the three halls of Taihe, Zhonghe, and Baohe, as well as the emperor's bedroom Qianqing Palace .
These main halls and Qianqing Palace are located in the middle and front of the palace. These areas are far from the Kunning Palace, Changchun Palace, and the Six Palaces where concubines live ( Jingren Palace, Chengqian Palace). , Zhongcui Palace , Jingyang Palace , Yonghe Palace , Yanxi Palace ) there is still a considerable distance.
Specifically, if you want to go to the harem, you first need to pass through the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Middle Harmony , and Hall of Preserving Harmony in the middle and front of the palace.
In addition, there are 15 palaces in it: Jiaotai Hall , Qin'an Hall , Fengxian Hall , Yangxin Hall , Huangji Hall , Taiji Hall , Yangxing Hall Temple of Heart.
In other words, most of the emperor's bodyguards have no contact with concubines at all, and they don't have the conditions to do anything wrong.
Strict duty and living system
No matter what the nature of the work of the palace guards, whether it is fixed or mobile, they act collectively, not individually.
This means that if a guard deserts, other guards will find out immediately.
And they have a strict duty system, go to work when it is time to go to work, go to work when it is time to go to get off work, can't be late or leave early, and are not allowed to stay in the palace at the same time.
So, can the guards go out at night and secretly meet their sweethearts? The answer is of course no.
The guards have a strict living system, everyone rests in the same bedroom at night, and there are people standing guard outside.
Since the guards can't live in the inner palace like the eunuchs, there is no chance to deal with the concubines at all.
Other guards have no chance to contact the concubines. The emperor's personal guards have more opportunities to contact the concubines. Will it be like Ling Yunche, the guard in the TV series " Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", flirting with the emperor's woman? Cuckold the emperor? This is also impossible.
First of all, the guards are responsible for protecting the emperor's safety, but when the emperor meets his concubines, he is living a married life, and the guards will definitely not be present.
Besides, the concubines who can meet the emperor are all favored, how can they risk being ambiguous with a low-level person like a guard, ruining their life and future?
For example, in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace, Ling Yunche, the guard, fell madly in love with Ruyi, the emperor's woman.
But Luo Hua was intentional and ruthless, Ruyi repeatedly expressed in front of Ling Yunche that she had only the emperor in her heart.
Even so, such a plot is fictional, and the guards have no chance at all to cuckold the emperor.
is good,The last emperor Puyi was once cuckolded by the guards Qi Jizhong and Li Tiyu.
But that happens for a special reason.
First, Puyi lost his sexual ability, and the queen Wanrong kept the vacant room alone every day.
Second, the incident of the guards cheating on the queen happened in the 1930s, when Qing Dynasty had perished, Puyi had already arrived in the northeast, the "palace" area was not that large, there were not so many staff, the system was not perfect, and the guards You can't be completely isolated from the queen.
Third, Puyi is a puppet, and he has no life or death to seize power; so the guards dare not touch the "emperor" cheese because they are not afraid of him.
In fact, after the incident, Puyi did not dare to kill Wanrong, but put her under house arrest.
As for the brave guards, Pu Yi did not dare to kill, but gave them 400 yuan each to send them away.
Puyi did this not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't dare; because he was just a puppet, and everything had to look at the face of the Japanese.
Fourth, the bodyguard's practice was acquiesced by the Japanese; the Japanese hoped that through this scandal, Wanrong would be deposed, and then Puyi would be forced to marry a Japanese woman.
In this way, the prince of the pseudo-Manchukuo, whether it is Puyi's blood or not, has the genes of the Yamato nation on his body.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the guards will not mess around in the palace, because there is a strict system.
Strict selection system
As the guards are responsible for protecting the safety of the emperor, the selection conditions are very harsh.
In other words, to be a bodyguard, first of all, you must be rooted in Hong Miao Zheng. The ancestors have served the emperor for several generations, and they are more loyal to the emperor than their sons are to their fathers.
Taking the Qing Dynasty as an example, the emperor selected his bodyguards not only by the level of business, but also by himself.
exactly,It is to select " on the three flags children", only "eight flags honorable" can be selected.
As a Han, Cao Xueqin's ancestors Cao Xi , Cao Yin father and son once served as palace guards.
However, Cao Xueqin's family has a deep relationship with Qing Dynasty .
His ancestor Cao Zhenyan began to serve him before Manchu and Qing entered the customs.
And Cao Xueqin's great-grandfather, Cao Xi's wife, Sun Shi, once worked as a nanny for Emperor Kangxi .
Kangxi made six southern tours, five of which used the Jiangning Weaving Office of the Cao family as his palace.
It can be seen from this that the relationship between the Cao family and Kangxi is extraordinary.
The reason why the conditions for selecting guards are so harsh is very simple. Only those who are a community of interests with the emperor will sacrifice their lives to protect the emperor's safety.
Jiaqing On February 20, the eighth year (1803), the Jiaqing Emperor suddenly encountered an assassin at Shunzhen Gate .
At this extremely critical time, the first personal bodyguard who rushed to protect the emperor was named Lawan Dorje, who was the emperor's brother-in-law (the son-in-law of Emperor Qianlong's third son, Xunjun Wang Yongzhang).
It is not difficult to see that those who can be bodyguards are not only on the same boat as the emperor and share weal and woe; they are also ignorant and loyal people, who can be dismissed for the sake of the emperor's life.
, how can people like this mess around in the palace?
The future of the guard is promising
Can serve as a guard in the palace,His political future is boundless, and what awaits him are high officials and riches.
Countless high-ranking officials and dignitaries have served as guards when they were young, such as Suo'etu , Mingzhu, Longkodo , Fukangan , and Shen , etc.
Because they have the opportunity to get close to the emperor, they are the emperor's confidants, and they have more opportunities to make contributions to the emperor, and the probability of being reused and promoted by the emperor is much higher than others.
As long as they work hard, they can get ahead and have a bright future.
Even an ordinary bodyguard has a very high political status.
First-class guards are officials of the third grade, equivalent to the Dali Temple Minister in the capital or the local Shuntian Governor , and their treatment and favorability far exceed that of officials of the same level.
The official position of the second-class guards is not low, they belong to the fourth grade, and the official position is equivalent to the prefect; the third-class guards are the fifth grade, and the official position is equivalent to the prefecture; even the lowest-level Lanling guards are also the sixth-grade officials, and the official position is higher than that of the prefect. County magistrates are big.
Since the guards all have splendid futures, who would dare to bet on their political life and seek flowers and willows in the palace?
To sum up, the emperor did not castrate the guards, mainly from the perspective of combat effectiveness; and the selection mechanism and activity area of the guards determined that even if they were not castrated, they would not or dare not cuckold the emperor.
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