In 1506 AD, the most absurd and most absurd emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne.
Zhu Houzhao
Some people called him stupid, and some praised him as a wise man. We won't mention these today. On the day Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, an elderly eunuch carefully arranged his robes, followed behind him, and watched him ascend. After ascending the throne, together with the civil and military officials, he knelt on the ground and shouted long live. At this time, 54-year-old Liu Jin did not know what kind of new life he was about to start.
Liu Jin, from Xingping, Shaanxi. His surname was Tan, because he was able to enter the palace because he was dependent on the eunuch Liu Shun, and changed his surname to Liu.
During the reign of Hongzhi, he had a meal with a palace maid (a relationship similar to that of a husband and wife between an eunuch and a palace maid), and was caught and executed, according to the law. Liu Jin was lucky and was pardoned, so he continued to live in the palace. If he doesn't make any changes, he will be like countless eunuchs, helpless in the palace, and finally die alone and use broken mats after death. One roll, throw it out of the palace, or be released from the palace, find a broken house, but die.
Liu Jin didn't want to spend his life like this, so he went to Wang Yue, the eunuch of , , and the future east factory factory boss. East Palace , playing with the prince, at the beginning, Liu Jin's fate changed.
Prince Zhu Houzhao, the eldest son and only child of Emperor Hongzhi, the next legitimate heir of the Ming Dynasty.At this time, the future Ming Wuzong was still a little boy. Liu Jin and seven other eunuchs formed an eight-person nanny group. Their daily task was to play with Zhu Houzhao. Anyone with discernment knew that this was a fat poor. How many people wanted to come in after breaking their heads. Liu Jin looked at the other seven people and understood that they were not good at coming here.
These eight people are the Eight Tigers of Righteous Virtue who later became famous all over the world. Of course, they are notorious.
During the days in the East Palace, Liu Jin changed his tricks every day to make Zhu Houzhao happy. He walked eagles, walked dogs, and fought crickets. He would play with Zhu Houzhao whenever he wanted. Emperor Hongzhi was busy with government affairs and lacked concern for Zhu Houzhao. Empress Zhang lived in the harem. Zhu Houzhao lives in the East Palace and does not meet often. The ministers want to make Zhu Houzhao familiar with the book of sages and become a good emperor in the book. Only Liu Jin and the others are willing to support Zhu Houzhao in doing whatever they want. For Zhu Houzhao, this kindness The understanding father-in-law Liu is definitely the person he feels closest to.
The person Liu Jin admires the most is Wang Zhen , who is the main culprit in the change of Tumubao. He is motivated to learn from his idols, so he runs wildly on the road of bringing the emperor down without hesitation. However, at this time, Liu Jin, in everyone's eyes, was a middle-aged eunuch who followed Zhu Houzhao on the background wall and nodded to everyone with a smile on his face. Naturally, the princes and ministers did not know that this eunuch would raise them up to them in the future. How vicious he was when he killed the knife, perhaps Liu Jin himself didn't know it.
From spring to autumn, Zhu Houzhao grows up day by day, and Liu Jin is also getting older day by day. It is a lie to say that he is not panic. He is already in his fifties. In the Ming Dynasty, fifty years old can definitely be regarded as an elderly person. , Liu Jin is afraid, afraid that his life will come to an abrupt end before he begins to enjoy the glory and wealth, before he begins to reach the peak of his life.
Finally, the conscientious Ming Xiaozong Emperor Hongzhi fell when Liu Jin was 53 years old, the emperor who worked hard to rule, the emperor who intended to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty, the only emperor in Chinese history with only one wife, this invention The emperor of the toothbrush has finished his short but glorious 35 years.
In the second year, Liu Jin's young prince, Zhu Houzhao, dressed in a dragon robe, became the tenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Houzhao became the emperor, but he was also a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. It was just when his playfulness and personality had not yet formed, he suddenly wanted to take charge of a country. What kind of pressure this was for him, there is no shortage in history. The emperor who inherited the throne at a young age, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also ascended the throne at the age of 16, and finally did a magnificent career.
is just a human being and cannot be generalized. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had the world in mind and displayed his ambitions and dominance, and Zhu Houzhao was a complete bear boy.
He didn't like the ministers talking about all kinds of great truths every day, and he didn't want to listen to the saints and monarchs. Zhu Houzhao preferred to play with the father-in-laws who grew up with him.
So, , 8 tigers and packed up and followed Zhu Houzhao into the palace, becoming the eunuchs who were close to the emperor and the closest person to the emperor. At the beginning of this year, Liu Jin was granted the right for the first time. Being ordered to take charge of the 5,000 battalion, this is a real right. Liu Jin tasted the opportunity for the first time. This feeling of being looked down on, he indulged in it. Perhaps at this time, Liu Jin had the idea of continuing to improve. Climbing thoughts.
Five thousand battalions is not enough, Liu Jin has to stand even higher.
During this period, Liu Jin also gave full play to the spirit of learning from idols. The star-chasing father-in-law could not stop him. Under Liu Jin's instigation, Zhu Houzhao began to stray. "Imperial Village", making money everywhere, harassing the people and encroaching on profits, and leading Zhu Houzhao to the bad road. Although this is not good, it is very cool. Liu Jin also keeps telling Zhu Houzhao that this world belongs to your majesty, majesty, you can do it anything you want.
By the time the ministers found out, Zhu Houzhao was already addicted to it and it was difficult to correct it.
The ministers were heartbroken and scolded themselves secretly. One inattentive, after all, let the emperor go astray. When Emperor Hongzhi was dying, he told Li Dongyang and other important ministers that the prince was playful and must be strictly disciplined. Unexpectedly, Let these eunuchs take advantage.
The ministers are naturally indignant. If such villains are placed by the emperor's side, wouldn't they want to humming? This is okay, so the ministers and Liu Jin had their first conflict.
Countless courtiers made their performances, hoping that Zhu Houzhao would be close to the wise and far from the villains, and finally drive the eight fathers away, but the eight fathers grew up with Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao naturally had feelings for them, so he turned a blind eye to the snowflake memorials .
The ministers were angry. Back then, in the Hongzhi dynasty, as long as they played their games, Hongzhi would fully consider their opinions and implement them. Today, Zhu Houzhao doesn't listen to them, so he can't start this. The impeachment of countless officials has not made Zhu Houzhao nod. , Zhu Houzhao finally loosened up until the ministers sent Yang Yuan to bring out the astrology. After all, God is the greatest, and the meaning of God cannot be violated, so the ministers pursued the victory and asked Zhu Houzhao to kill the eight tigers.
Zhu Houzhao was forced to make concessions and decided to make concessions. He felt a deep sense of powerlessness as an emperor and planted the seeds for more and more deviance, but he was reluctant to kill these father-in-laws. He hoped that the ministers would retreat with him. Let's take a step, just exile a few people to Nanjing.
The cabinet scholars just disagreed and insisted on killing them all the time. Wang Yue, who has become Dongchangchang Gonggong, was an upright man. He also disliked the behavior of the Eight Tigers to favor the emperor, so he chose to stand on the side of the ministers. , together to put pressure on Zhu Houzhao.
As the saying goes, extremes turn into opposites. Zhu Houzhao is really in the rebellious period of his youth, and he has long been disgusted by such persecution.
On the minister's side, the cabinet scholar Liu Jian is going to call the big guys to go with him and give the emperor the last blow, oh no, the last pressure. At this time, there was a traitor in the team.
His name is Jiao Fang , the official secretary.
Jiao Fang is not an ordinary person. He is equivalent to the current Minister of Personnel, the most senior kind. In Daming, the Minister of Personnel has the title of Hidden Minister. The rebellion of such a senior person directly affects the trend of the entire history. It can be seen how important it is to rectify the team before doing things.
Maybe he saw the relationship between Zhu Houzhao and the Eight Tigers, so Jiao Fang chose to stand with the Eight Tigers, and he disclosed this to Liu Jian and the others overnight.
This is definitely Liu Jin's most dangerous night. The breath of death more than ten years ago is approaching again. Under such circumstances, Liu Jin is surprisingly calm. He understands that if he wants to survive, he must hug the emperor. thigh.
So he took a few people to find Zhu Houzhao overnight and burst into tears. They were all human beings, and with just a few words, Zhu Houzhao directed his anger at those ministers.
That night, Liu Jin was in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies, Ma Yongcheng was in charge of the East Factory, and Gu Dayong was in charge of the West Factory. With the power in hand, Wang Yue became their first target of revenge.
Eunuch Wang Yue, Eunuch Dongchang Factory, I never dreamed that the little eunuch I arranged back then would eventually turn back on me. It was really good luck. The place chosen by the ministers for the Eight Tigers was replaced by the Eight Tigers, and finally, on the way to Nanjing, Wang Yue was killed by the people sent by the Eight Tigers.
On the second day, when the ministers were confidently preparing to eliminate the traitors in one fell swoop, and then create a prosperous, strong and beautiful Ming Dynasty together, they were surprised to find that in just one night, the Eight Tigers actually turned over to sing and killed their teammates. The bloody story of
tells us that we should hurry up and do things as soon as possible, and don't wait until the next day, otherwise we will really have a lot of dreams at night.
The ministers understood that they had already lost, so the three senior cabinet scholars who were known as the Hongzhi troika resigned, and the other two were approved, but Li Dongyang was left behind. In the next few years, Li Dongyang, a dying old man, resigned. , Under Liu Jin's butcher's knife, he desperately saved many people.
Liu Jin gained power and began to swell. He began to take revenge on the ministers who wanted to kill him. Perhaps it was the first time he had hurt others. , they are lucky, because compared with their colleagues behind, they at least saved their lives.
Slowly, Liu Jin became ruthless, and he was no longer merciful to officials. He was critical of ministers and never let go of a small problem. He was just a little eunuch back then, and these ministers never let go. Looking straight at him, his words were full of contempt, and now Liu Jin wants to repay the humiliation of the past, he wants the entire capital, no, everyone in the entire Ming Dynasty will shiver when they hear his name.
So he cultivated his cronies and mutilated dissidents. All those who dared to oppose him were tortured to death in prison. He accepted bribes, and he succeeded in making the world take him seriously. Liu Jin felt that he became more and more like his idol. .
In order to fully grasp the power, Liu Jin specially chose to report when Zhu Houzhao was having fun, which made Zhu Houzhao very impatient, and finally let Liu Jin decide what to do, don't bother him.
At this moment, Liu Jin became the de facto emperor of Ming Dynasty. This year of
is the first year of Zhengde, and Liu Jin achieved his goal in this way.
However, Liu Jin still has some ambitions in his heart, and he also hopes to leave a good name in history. Now that the emperor is no longer working, his share of work naturally falls on Liu Jin.
In addition to harming people, Liu Jin is also very busy. He knows that his education level is not high, so he summoned a large number of ministers who rely on him to deal with government affairs every day, promulgating new decrees according to his thoughts. It also made a lot of noise, and some of them caused public grievances.
There is no unity within the Eight Tigers. They are also separated from Liu Jin. Zhang Yong, Ma Yongcheng and Qiu Ju are in charge of the East-West Factory respectively, but they are not willing to be dispatched by Liu Jin. Everyone served the emperor together. Not lower than anyone else.
Liu Jin was naturally very unhappy, so he set up a new factory and set up an expert factory, which not only monitored hundreds of officials and people in the world, but also included the Jinyiwei Tools Factory, which overshadowed everything and lost the limelight.
has the power in hand, and the thugs are well matched. If you don't make money, you will be sorry for climbing to such a high position, Liu Jin said. Where can
get money? That is naturally the ministers. As long as there are officials entering and leaving the capital, it is impossible not to go to Liu Jin's place to pay the protection fee. I heard that some people were robbing people to bribe him, but he was actually very angry. He reported all these people and put them in jail for bribery. As for those bribes, they were all given.
Eunuch Liu’s hand also stretched out to the place. He sent a large number of cronies to control the place. After those people arrived at the place, they made a name for themselves to collect money and oppress the people. Not wronged.
This winter, when Liu Jin was cleaning up, a small official in his thirties angered Liu Jin for speaking out in good faith. He was beaten to death for forty, beaten to death, and sent to the frontier areas. On the way, he dived and escaped. The killer sent by Eunuch Liu secretly went to Nanjing to find his father. His father advised him that since the court had appointed him, he should go to office. So the small official came to the frontier to educate the local people, and won the love of the people. He finally realized the Tao. Wang Yangming, the future sage, is also known as Confucius, Mencius, Zhu, and Wang along with Confucius, Mencius, and Zhu Xi.
Under the rule of Liu Jin, the Ming Dynasty went online and mourned everywhere. Whether it was the ministers in the court, the frontier soldiers, or the common people, they all suffered from their exploitation. The ministers sometimes said the wrong word, and they were afraid to commit suicide. The generals wanted to bribe the supervisors sent by Liu Jin while fighting. Even if the battle was lost, only the money would go up instead of falling, and countless people would be displaced.
What is Zhu Houzhao doing at this time?
Liu Jinquan is in power, but he understands that everything he owns is given by the little emperor. No matter how busy he is, Liu Jin never slacks off about Zhu Houzhao. He tries every day to find interesting things for Zhu Houzhao and help him build a famous The leopard's house allows him to enjoy every day, and provides countless beauties. How can Zhu Houzhao, who has been strictly guarded for more than ten years, resist this temptation, and he will never come out again.
Liu Jin smiled happily when he saw Zhu Houzhao, and he was also very happy. How could he not understand the monstrous floods outside, but what could happen? As long as the emperor was happy, he would be as stable as Mount Tai, and no one could shake it.
In the end, Liu Jin's power reached its peak, and everyone in the world knew that there were two emperors in the court, the Emperor Zhu with the surname and the Li Emperor with the surname Liu.
Liu Jin is the emperor standing.
is now, one person is below ten thousand people!
He is stronger than his idol Wang Zhen!
In the next five years, Liu Jin's glory was infinite, those who obeyed Eunuch Liu were prosperous, those who rebelled against Eunuch Liu died, countless ministers were imprisoned and eventually died tragically, and countless people's wives and families broke up. The entire Ming Dynasty hated Liu Jin to the bone. , everyone gets it and kills it.
Behind Liu Gonggong's glory, an anti-Liu alliance is forming.
Liu Jin's former colleague and current opponent Zhang Yong has long had the idea of overthrowing Liu Jin. He cooperated with Ma Yongcheng and united the East Factory and the West Factory, but this is not enough, they also need to rely on the strength of others .
Among those persecuted by Eunuch Liu, there was a man named Yang Yiqing. Although he was a civil official, he was stationed in the frontier all the year round. He was known as a virtuous man. Eunuch Liu, who loved talents, naturally wanted to recruit. Yang Yiqing had the arrogance of a literati and was cruel After fiercely fighting back, Eunuch Liu was furious, and he was about to attack. Thanks to Li Dongyang's rescue, he was able to save his life.
In the future, all the people who will eradicate Liu Jin will gather, and now we need to wait for an opportunity.
There are thousands of kings of the Zhu family. Since the king of Yan, Zhu Dijing, failed to succeed, he has set a bad example for the family. Everyone is a family, all surnamed Zhu. If you can sit, can I also sit?
A few years later, Ningwang is counted as one, and now Anhuawang is also counted as one.
At home, he was busy doing calculations every day, and finally came to a shocking conclusion that he should sit on the throne. Although
does not know how he calculates it, once a person recognizes a dead reason, it will not change.
He took advantage of Liu Jin's bad governance and led a group of officers to rebel, causing a lot of noise. Even Zhu Houzhao, who had always been indifferent, was alarmed. His own relatives rebelled. Zhu Houzhao didn't say that it was a problem.
Under the recommendation of the ministers, Zhu Houzhao sent Yang Yiqing to suppress the rebellion, and at the same time sent Zhang Yong to keep in touch with him. The two anti-Liu forces officially met, and after three rounds of drinking, Yang Yiqing coaxed and deceived, and the two sides established a unanimous joint opposition. Liu Jin's offensive and defensive alliance.
Liu Jin may have noticed something, maybe not. In short, during that time, Liu Jin suddenly wanted to rebel. He wanted to make his nephew the emperor. Maybe he was too invincible. Civilian smear.
In short, Liu Jin floated away.
may be because Liu Jin has lost his alertness to danger because he has been at the top of the power for too long, and he is thinking about how to continue to make Zhu Houzhao happy.
Zhang Yong escorted the captured King of Anhua back to the capital. In the eyes of Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yong, Liu Jin was ready to kill the king, and they took action.
On September 13, the fifth year of Zhengde, Zhang Yong offered his captives. Zhu Houzhao was very happy. He dragged the Eight Tigers to drink at night. He may not have been so happy for a long time. Just like when he was a boy, many people left him. Go, these eight father-in-laws have always been by his side, for so many years, they have always been like this.
Liu Jin may be in a hurry to go back to deal with official documents. He didn't plan to play all night, so he made the worst decision in his life and left alone, leaving the remaining seven and Zhu Houzhao alone. In Liu Jin's heart, he has always Look down on the other seven people, he believes that these people will not dare to do anything against him.
This time, luck finally did not favor Eunuch Liu.
Zhang Yong saw the opportunity to expose Liu Jin's intention to kill the monarch to Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao naturally did not believe that he was drunk, but the seven people took turns to persuade Zhu Houzhao to be in a daze and believe what they said, so he sent someone I went to catch Liu Jin.
Zhu Houzhao woke up the next day, thinking of yesterday's decision, he should regret it, but the ministers did not give Zhu Houzhao a chance to hesitate. This time, they prepared for five years, and countless colleagues died tragically under the knife, and they must not fail again. Man, can't wait five years. Under the indignation of the ministers, Zhu Houzhao finally murdered the Liu Gonggong who grew up with him.
Liu Jin was arrested that night and placed under strict supervision.
Liu Jin may have regrets in his heart, he shouldn't have left the emperor's side. The last time the crisis came, he hugged Zhu Houzhao's thigh tightly. This time, he was careless, and some mistakes were unacceptable.
Zhu Houzhao personally brought people to search the house. The mountains of gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings were familiar to Zhu Houzhao. The Anti-Liu Alliance knew that a fire must be added to make Liu Jin die without a burial.
So, two daggers were found in Liu Jin's commonly used fan, and the bloody evidence was in front of him, and Zhu Houzhao didn't believe it either.
The real situation and no one knows it, it is hard to imagine that someone like Liu Jin wants to rebel. This is too much to overestimate Liu Jin. Even if he assassinates the emperor, the world will surely attack him. He would be eager to move, no matter what, it would not be his turn to sit in this Ming Dynasty, and his approach was undoubtedly courting death.
Anyway, Liu Jin never saw Zhu Houzhao again. His biggest mistake was to treat Zhu Houzhao as a child all the time.
If Liu Jin is smart enough, he will find that Zhu Houzhao is just having fun, but he is not stupid. After so many years, how could Zhu Houzhao know that Zhang Yong and Liu Jin are not in harmony? On the night of the counterattack, the rights were divided into the hands of different people. Was the most important factory guard really Zhu Houzhao unintentional?
also has the Leopard Room, where you can see Zhu Houzhao eating, drinking and having fun, but there are also a group of military attachés. In the future, they will help Zhu Houzhao show his ideals and gallop on the battlefield.
There are so many people in the world, does Zhu Houzhao really know nothing about what Liu Jin did?
It has been five years, and the little prince and emperor of that year have grown up. Liu Jin is not false to be the emperor, but this Ming Dynasty is still under the emperor Zhu Houzhao.
The mighty Liu Jin and the Liu Jin who made the world feel terrified were just a word from Zhu Houzhao, and they vanished. The right to rely on the imperial power was eventually destroyed by the imperial power.
Liu Jin may have been wronged. He has no intention of rebelling, but the bad things he did are real.
During the interrogation, Liu Jin was still imagining that Zhu Houzhao could finally be the same as last time, and let him go as soon as his heart softened. He had been the emperor for five years, and he was no longer the servile little eunuch he used to be. Proud head, whoever dares to say that he is clean, even Li Dongyang has written a birthday speech for himself, see who is qualified to come to the trial!
Who dares to judge me!
I dare!
Hundreds of officials gave way, and the person who came was Cai Zhen, the concubine and commander-in-chief, a relative of the imperial family. In terms of seniority, Zhu Houzhao would also call him auntie when he met him.
You said that all the officials are your comrades and they bribe you. Do my royal relatives also bribe you to be your comrades?
"The shock of the country, why does it depend on you"
This statement will be remembered through the ages!
After all, Liu Jin is just a eunuch, but under the banner of Zhu Houzhao, he is just a slave. In front of the royal family, he is just a slave. Liu Jin finally remembered his identity, and his arrogant arrogance was stripped away, and he dared not raise his head again.
Zhu Houzhao must be very disappointed with Liu Jin. He is a person who attaches great importance to feelings. When Liu Jin wanted to persecute his teacher Yang Yanhe, Zhu Houzhao turned his face. Although he didn't like it, he knew that everyone was doing it for his own good. , Liu Jin knew for a long time that Zhu Houzhao cared about the people around him, so he took advantage of this caring to misbehave. And Zhu Houzhao was betrayed by the person he was closest to and believed in, and one can imagine the feeling in his heart.
So he ordered Liu Jin to be slaughtered by a thousand cuts.
By convention, the execution would have to wait until autumn, but Zhu Houzhao didn't want to wait. The betrayal made him angry. He never wanted to see that Eunuch Liu again. In his heart, Eunuch Liu was already dead.
Liu Jin was sent to the execution ground. Until the executioner started to cut the flesh on him, Liu Jin was still waiting for the imperial decree of pardon. Countless people in the audience cried bitterly and comforted the dead relatives. They competed for the flesh that Liu Jin cut off in front of him. He ate it to express the hatred in his heart. Liu Jin didn't care. On the first day of execution, he was cut several hundred knives. Liu Jin asked for a bowl of porridge. He wanted to live, but he didn't want to die. arrival.
Until the end, Liu Jin finally understood that the emperor didn't want him anymore. The little prince grew up and didn't need him as Eunuch Liu anymore. He talked about the secret history of the palace. Remember the happy time when you played with the little prince? Nobody knows.
Liu Jin was cut with a thousand cuts. In this way, he was included in the annals of history, and together with the evil he did, he was reviled by others.
In the past five years, he has had infinite glory, countless partisans, and his demise is only in an instant.
In 2001, the "Asian Wall Street Journal" once included Liu Jin in the list of the 50 richest people in the world in 1000 years.
According to the conversion, Liu Jin's wealth is equivalent to 374.9 billion today, not counting all kinds of real estate and land, it is equivalent to the income of the Ming Dynasty for ten years, and it took him only five years to earn this money. The record of
was not broken until and Shen came to power several hundred years later.
Liu Jin died, the era he represented is still going on, and there will be countless eunuchs in the future. They each write their own stories. The little emperor he served fell into the water more than ten years later, and his old enemy Zhang Yongzhonglie survived in his later years. The fate of the Eight Tigers is different. Until the end, Liu Jin's descendant, the eunuch Wang Chengen , accompanied by the emperor of the Zhu family, and the Ming Dynasty, went to the end together, the story of the eunuch and the emperor of the Zhu family, So far.
