The mention of Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch at the end of China's Ming Dynasty hanging himself, is chilling and chilling to mention the most feared eunuch in history. How could a eunuch have so much power to turn to the opposition and make people talk about it?
Wei Zhongxian, whose original name was Li Jinzhong, was a native of Suning (present-day Hebei). He was born into a rogue city, and was forced to castrate himself into the palace by gambling debts, and was introduced as a eunuch by Wei Chao, a subordinate of the eunuch Wang An, who was Wei Zhongxian's introducer to the palace and Wei Zhongxian's brother-in-law. Through the Wei Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian befriended Wang An, a eunuch in the palace, and has since been blessed by him. Later, Wei Zhongxian stumbled upon the fact that the Wei Dynasty had a special relationship with the nursing mother of emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Youxiao, so he hooked up with keshi and killed the Wei dynasty, and took the opportunity to get close to the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Youxiao.
From then on, Wei Zhongxian and the emperor's eldest grandson's nursing mother, Keshi, were in cahoots and treacherous, flattering Emperor Mingxi, making clever remarks, and doing their utmost to flatter him, luring him into a feast, and even pleasing him. Later, as a eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, he was extremely favored and became the emperor's confidant eunuch, known as "nine thousand nine hundred years old", Wei Zhongxian often falsely preached holy wills, excluded dissidents, and arbitrarily ruled state affairs, so that people "only knew that there were loyal people, but did not know that there was an emperor".
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Emperor Mingxi did not know right from wrong, and no matter how ministers such as Yushilang wrote to impeach Wei Zhongxian, the emperor turned a deaf ear. When all the party members saw that Wei Zhongxian had almost single-handedly covered the sky, they all submitted to Wei Zhongxian to get promoted, and used his power to exclude upright ministers. At that time, social contradictions were becoming more and more intense, and officials such as Shangshu Zhao Nanxing and other Donglin Party figures rejected the opposition in the imperial court, demanded honesty and honesty, revitalized the rule of officials, opened up the way of speech, eliminated the accumulated shortcomings of the government and the opposition, and opposed the greed and indulgence of the law by the powerful.
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The Donglin Party's ideas were supported and recognized by many of the societies of the time, but were also fiercely opposed by eunuchs and their dependent forces. When two parties fight, there will be a wound. So people who were not from the Donglin party began to befriend Wei Zhongxian. In 1624, Wei Zhongxian was impeached, but survived, so Wei Zhongxian began a frenzied revenge and attack on the Donglin Party members, and in the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), Wei Zhongxian framed the Donglin Party for being guilty of embezzlement, and hunted down the Donglin Party, donglin Academy was completely demolished, and the Donglin Party was completely destroyed by the castration party forces.
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Therefore, Wei Zhongxian's power spread throughout the government and the public, and in his heyday, officials from all over the world flattered him and set up ancestral shrines for him. Wei Zhongxian cracked down on dissidents, using the name of Dongchang Jinyiwei to bring calamity to the world and poison the people's livelihood.
In 1627, Emperor Mingxi died, and after the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, he severely punished the eunuchs, and Wei Zhongxian was impeached, sentenced to ten counts, and committed suicide in fear of sin on the way to exile Fengyang.
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