In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a great eunuch who was in power and lawless, and acted recklessly in the palace, but no one dared to provoke him, and this great eunuch was An Dehai. An Dehai was originally a minor eunuch, but during the Coup d'état of Xin You, An Dehai made great contributions to the two empresses, so he was deeply favored by Empress Dowager Cixi and was promoted to the position of grand eunuch.
An Dehai was only a teenager when he was favored by Cixi, and the young and ambitious An Dehai could not help but be pampered and proud, as Empress Dowager Cixi's confidant and eyeliner, he often had to report the situation to Empress Dowager Cixi, and it was on this occasion that An Dehai often manipulated right and wrong and suppressed dissidents. The ministers were dissatisfied with him, but they were subject to Empress Dowager Cixi, so they did not dare to do anything to him.
With the support of Empress Dowager Cixi, An Dehai did not even pay attention to the little emperor Zaichun. Zaichun was the biological son of Empress Dowager Cixi, but he was raised by the empress, so he was closer to the Niu Cobalt Lu clan and was more distant from Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi ordered An Dehai to monitor Zaichun, and An Dehai often said in front of Cixi that Zaichun was not, resulting in Zaichun often being punished by Cixi. After the little emperor learned that It was An Dehai who was tricking the ghost, he hated him to the bone and always wanted to get rid of him. Andehai knew that the little emperor did not like him, but he believed that he had Cixi's protection, and no one dared to be unfavorable to him. And it was This arrogance of Anderhay that led to his final miserable end.
When the Tongzhi Emperor was married, the palace wanted to buy things, and An Dehai always wanted to go out of the palace to play and take the opportunity to accumulate wealth, so he constantly told Cixi that the things purchased in the palace were not good, and someone needed to go to Jiangnan. Cixi trusted An Dehai very much, and although she did not agree, she still acquiesced to An Dehai's idea. After receiving empress dowager Cixi's acquiescence, An Dehai immediately excitedly led people out of the palace.
Although An Dehai has no official documents, he is known as Chincha, and he is very brazen along the way, and he has amassed wealth in a big way. When Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong, learned of this, he immediately ordered An Dehai to be captured, then imprisoned, and ordered his men to quickly send a whip to the Tongzhi Emperor. The Tongzhi Emperor had long wanted to get rid of Andehai, and when the opportunity came, he was so excited that he immediately ordered An Dehai to be brought to justice on the spot. After Ding Baozhen received the order, He immediately executed An Dehai in Jinan, and at this time it was only five days before An Dehai was captured.
The reason why Ding Baozhen dared to kill Empress Dowager Cixi's confidants without informing Cixi was not only because of the emperor's will, but also because of the shunzhi emperor's regulations. The Qing Dynasty was very strict about the management of eunuchs, and the Shunzhi Emperor ordered that eunuchs were not allowed to leave the imperial city without being dispatched. Although An Dehai left the palace through Cixi's acquiescence, he had no official documents, and he also called himself Chincha and was beheaded according to his sins. With this ancestral system, Ding Baozhen dared to vigorously get rid of Andehai.
When Empress Dowager Cixi learned that An Dehai had been executed, although she was displeased, Ding Baozhen's killing of An Dehai did indeed obey the law, and the ministers supported Ding Baozhen's approach. Cixi's favor to Believe An Dehai was not false, but it was naturally impossible to say that he had a conflict for the Manchu Dynasty. So Cixi not only did not punish Ding Baozhen, but asked him to deal with the other eunuchs as well. And Ding Baozhen, who killed Andehai, was also praised by the world and was constantly promoted.
As Cixi's confidant, An Dehai was clever and clever, but his cleverness was mistaken by cleverness, and with Cixi's favor, he was arrogant and arrogant, making enemies everywhere, and even the emperor dared to offend. Andehai's death was really his own fault.