Eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics! Eunuchs are illiterate! Eunuchs have no right to read the Holy Will!
We often see such a scene in tv dramas, where the emperor shouts: "Intended! Then the minister or eunuch next to him took out a blank holy will, and the emperor said that the minister or eunuch wrote the holy will while writing it, and after writing it, he handed it to the emperor to look at, and felt that there was no problem to directly stamp it and read it directly to the eunuch.
What a child's play! In fact, these are all uncultured directors and screenwriters who have made up obscenities! That is why this logic is not self-consistent.
The reality is that the ancient emperors had no right to make holy decrees!
You read that right! In ancient China, from a very early age, the right to propose the will had been stripped out of the imperial power, and it was replaced by the Minister of Finance during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it was precisely because the Minister of State had this right that it once posed a threat to the imperial power, such as Zhao Gao's alliance with the Minister Li Si to pass on the edict.
Therefore, in the late Western Han Dynasty, the beggar system had been actually abolished and replaced by Shang Shu Ling. Then the Sui Dynasty established a three-province and six-part system that divided the rights of the chancellor, and its basic structure continued until the Qing Dynasty.
Taking the Tang Dynasty as an example, it was first necessary for the Zhongshu people in Zhongshu Province to draw up the first draft of the Holy Will for something, and then it was handed over to Zhongshu Ling for selection and editing with modifications, and then handed over to the emperor after completion.
If the emperor is satisfied, he will affix a seal, if he does not agree, he will use a red pen to leave an opinion in the blank space to reject the Zhongshu Province, and repeat the above steps before continuing to make changes.
For the holy decree agreed to by the seal, it will be issued to the menxia province, review and seal, if the menxia province feels that the content is not good, it will be rejected, even if the emperor agrees, it is useless. Without the seal of the province, this is the illegal holy will. Therefore, at this time, the holy will began with the word "menxia", and the Ming Dynasty appeared "Fengtian Carrying The Emperor, Zhao Yue".
For the provinces that have passed the Holy Will, they will arrange to issue them to Shangshu Province, and Shangshu Province will lead the six ministries to arrange the actual implementation according to the content.
If there is a holy will to be read out, there will never be a eunuch, and the ancient Hanlin Academy had an official position called "Hanlin Chengzhi" that was dedicated to this work. And the reading process also has a set of strict procedures, will be notified in advance to the recipient, choose the auspicious time to set up a colorful tent, burn incense bathing, and lay down incense to meet the holy will.
And the actual holy will is the shortest 2 meters, the holy will is also 5 meters long, not one person can read, generally need several people in front to open, the reader stands in the back to read the will. There will never be a situation in a film or television drama where a eunuch reads with his hand in his hand.
Of course, there may be reinforcement that says that the system is dead and people are alive, for example, the rights of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty are very large, and it is also possible to read the holy will. Indeed, during the Ming Dynasty, the status of eunuchs was promoted, and Zhu Zhanji even set up an academy for eunuchs to study.
However, the power of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty still came from the emperor after all, mainly the emperor's right to reject and seal, so the highest status of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was the celebrant who held the right to seal the eunuchs, followed by the Bingbi eunuchs, who were in place of the emperor to approve the red and write opinions. But if it comes to drafting and promulgating decrees, it is the cabinet's sphere of influence, so Feng Bao needs to unite with Zhang Juzheng to control the government, and if he dares to read the holy will directly, he will be directly torn apart by the brave civil officials.