Eunuchs are one of the products of China's feudal dynasty and are also people with ancient Chinese characteristics. Eunuchs were men who had been purified in the ancient court serving the emperor and concubines, and they also had another title of eunuch. This group of people has been looked down upon by other officials throughout the ages, and they cannot be knighted. When there was a period in history, these kinds of officials became the big red people around the emperor, and hundreds of officials still attached themselves to them, especially in the Ming Dynasty, the development of such officials reached the peak. It is said that most of the Jinyi guards in the Ming Dynasty's East and West Factories were eunuchs, and they were skilled in martial arts, unlike the previous eunuchs who had a feminine attitude.
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch clique developed rapidly, and all the officials of the imperial court feared eunuchs, and some officials had to pay bribes to eunuchs. At that time, there was a eunuch with a high position of power, monopoly of power, and was also crowned as 9,900 years old, only 100 years away from the current 95th Supreme Master, and this official was Wei Zhongxian. There are many versions of his legends, some praising his exploits and others belittling him as a corrupt official who plagued the people. Wei Zhongxian is just a social person, as a teenager, he is very greedy for wine, but also very good at gambling, as the saying goes, ten gambles and nine deceptions, how can Wei Zhongxian gamble to win! Later, he owed a gambling debt to avoid the debt collection of creditors.
Wei Zhongxian came up with a way to enter the palace to avoid these creditors, and the only way to enter the palace was to be a eunuch, and he was forced to enter the palace after he was forced to clean his body. Wei Zhongxian was a person who rolled around in society, he naturally understood that many people were sophisticated, he was not like the little eunuchs who had entered the palace since childhood, he often knew how to flatter his superiors, and soon Wei Zhongxian was assigned to serve the emperor's eldest grandson Ming Xizong. Since then, Wei Zhongxian's life has been promising, and he has a good relationship with Ming Xizong's nursing mother, and the two families have also established a deep love.
Just when Wei Zhongxian did not know when he would be able to survive, Ming Shenzong and Ming Guangzong miraculously died within a month, and Ming Xizong became the only heir to the throne. After Emperor Mingxi succeeded to the throne, he and Keshi were promoted and appointed, and at that time, hundreds of officials in the imperial court advised Emperor Mingxizong, but the emperor never listened. When Emperor Mingxi succeeded to the throne, the Ming Dynasty was already full of holes and a hundred industries to be revived, and because of the boredom of the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, the folding documents were piled up. The hundred officials also went their own camps in the imperial court, and the officials of the imperial court all played their own small calculations.
It was such a complicated environment that left a loophole for Wei Zhongxian to interfere in the government affairs of the dynasty, and although Wei Zhongxian could not read, he used those local methods not only to make himself rich, but also to straighten out the ming dynasty's government. Wei Zhongxian placed his brother Wei Zhao in an important official position in the imperial court, and he constantly recommended some officials of the Wei clique to be placed in important positions in the imperial court. Wei Zhongxian's power was enhanced, and naturally he also attracted a lot of right and wrong, and he wrote down the names of the officials he had impeached. Wei Zhongxian later went to these officials one by one to settle accounts, and Wei Zhongxian could be said to have monopolized power above the imperial court.
Later, he was also called 9,900 years old, and from then on his status was even higher, just when Wei Zhongxian was proud of the spring wind, once he went on a trip with the emperor, the emperor accidentally fell into the lake, and Ming Xizong fell seriously ill after being rescued, and died soon after. After Zhu Youxian's death, the throne was handed over to Zhu Youjian, but Zhu Youjian had long been unaccustomed to Wei Zhongxian, so when the officials listed Wei Zhongxian's guilt, he immediately demoted Wei Zhongxian. Later, Wei Zhongxian's private raising of dead soldiers was exposed, and Zhu Youjian once again sent officers and soldiers to arrest him and bring him to justice, Wei Zhongxian knew that he could not escape the death penalty, and finally he chose to hang himself.