When it comes to eunuchs, many people may have a misunderstanding about this, thinking that they are all eunuchs, in fact, the word eunuch first appeared in the Xia Shang period, with the development of history, until the Ming and Qing dynasties generally refer to eunuchs. In ancient times, eunuchs were a very special group, and if a person achieved the highest rank among eunuchs, he could follow the emperor almost every day and serve as the emperor's messenger.
But they did not have real power, because all the dynasties had eunuchs and harems who were not allowed to interfere in politics. However, China's feudal society has a history of thousands of years, and in the development of successive dynasties and dynasties, there have been several powerful eunuchs, of which Li Lianying in the late Qing Dynasty is one of them, and his death time is only one year away from the end of the Qing Dynasty. As a red man in front of Empress Dowager Cixi, he was also one of the most powerful eunuchs in the late Qing Dynasty, and his tomb after his death was of extremely high rank, which was incompatible with the financial constraints of the Qing Dynasty at that time.
In 1966, The tomb of Li Lianying was unearthed in Beijing, which was found in an old school, and later learned according to expert investigations that Li Lianying's mausoleum covered an area of more than 20 acres, perhaps the largest eunuch mausoleum in Chinese history.
Li Lianying's tomb is very strong, even the soil is very hard. According to the experts present, the soil in the vicinity is made of a mixture of glutinous rice balls, egg whites, loess, and white lime, which is extremely expensive to build and is as strong as modern cement, and the use of this soil is to prevent tomb robbers.
The archaeologists present scrapped 3 hammers to open the tomb, but what everyone did not expect was that there was a huge area of granite under such a solid loess, which made all the archaeologists feel overwhelmed. Finally, under the guidance of an old man, a tomb passage was opened from near the stone stele, which allowed the experts present to enter the burial chamber.
The first thing that catches the eye in the tomb is a white jade coffin in the center, which is extremely expensive to build, and it reflects the highest standard tomb form mostly used by the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties - Jinjing Jade Burial, from which we can see how powerful the "Great Eunuch" Li Lianying was before his death. After the opening of the museum, the experts inhaled a cool breath, it turned out that the coffin only had a skull with a layer of skin on the top of the head, and the body part had become a pool of black mud, and its bones were not seen, as for why such a scene would appear, there is still no conclusion, but it is certain that the grand eunuch Li Lianying may not have had a good time before his death.
The surprise brought to the experts is not limited to this, the burial materials in the tomb are also very many, the tomb is scattered with a large number of pearls, jade, agate, sparkling, gold smoke saucers, ping-pong ball-sized orbs are even more eye-opening. As the most powerful eunuch in the late Qing Dynasty, Li Lianying also enjoyed luxury after his death, which was enough to see his position in the government and the opposition at that time.