You may not have heard the name "Qiu Shiliang", but you must have heard such a sentence: "Only by luring the emperor to seek pleasure all day long, not to read, not to receive Confucian courtiers, and not to know about palace affairs, can you control the emperor and seize power and wealth." "
In the editor's mind, the most cattle eunuch in history is Qiu Shiliang in the Middle Tang Dynasty, not only because he can elevate the emperor and support the emperor, but also because of his decisive killing, even Wei Zhongxian has to bow to the wind.
Qiu Shiliang killed two kings, one concubine, and four prime ministers, dominating the dynasty for more than 20 years, and went through the six dynasties of Tang Shunzong, Tang Xianzong, Tang Muzong, Tang Jingzong, Tang Wenzong, and Tang Wuzong.
His words were advice to the younger generations when they retired, and indeed said an important reason why the eunuchs of the past generations were able to monopolize the government, and had a great impact on future generations.
Qiu Shiliang, a native of Xingning, Guangdong. During the reign of Emperor Shunzong of Tang, Qiu Shiliang served Li Chun, the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, and it had to be said that he had very good luck, and Li Chun later shunli ascended the throne of Tang Xianzong, and was one of the few concubines of the Tang Dynasty who succeeded to the throne smoothly.
Tang Xianzong created the wise king of "Yuan and Zhongxing", but no one was perfect, he trusted eunuchs, so Qiu Shiliang and other old people who began to serve the emperor from the Eastern Palace suddenly became prominent figures in the court.
How awesome is Qiu Shiliang?
We can see this little thing.
The great talent Yuan Shu, that is the famous sentence that wrote "Once the sea was shipwrecked as water, except for Wushan Mountain is not a cloud" and has been passed down to this day, even the famous "West Chamber" is based on the Tang legend "The Legend of yingying" he wrote.
Among the great literary heroes of ancient times, they were all famous figures.
It was such a Sven who insisted on a business trip with Qiu Shiliang, and when he arrived at the place of Shishuiyi, he fought for who lived in the last room.
In the end, it ended with Yuan Shu being beaten to the point where his nose was blue and his face was swollen.
Afterwards, Yuan Shu's superior, Yu Shitai's first in command, yushi Zhongzhong Wang Zhi who was born in the Taiyuan Wang clan of the "Five Surnames and Seven Hopes" impeached Qiu Shiliang and held grievances against Yuan Shu, but As a result, Emperor Xianzong ignored him and instead removed Yuan Shu from his official position.
In the ninth year of Emperor Wenzong's reign, Qiu Shiliang was promoted to lieutenant of the Left Army of Shen Ce.
Tang Wenzong succeeded to the throne, but he deeply resented the eunuchs and wanted to eliminate them all, so in the name of Guan Lu, he plotted to launch a coup d'état, hoping to trick Qiu Shiliang into the backyard of the Janissaries to be killed, and as a result, the matter was revealed, and Tang Wenzong was imprisoned by the eunuch clique led by Qiu Shiliang.
This is the famous "change of manna" in history.
Tang Wenzong was imprisoned, and the four current chancellors Li Xun, Wang Ya, Jia Biao, and Shu Yuanyu, who conspired with him, did not fare much better, and were directly executed by Qiu Shiliang.
After that, Qiu Shiliang served as the envoy of guanjun Rong and commanded the left and right armies (commanding all the forbidden armies), the Zhi Nei Shi (in charge of all eunuchs), and the younger brother led the army, in the name of catching thieves, and wantonly killed Jin Wuwei, which Wenzong used to booby-trap himself, "bleeding from the corpse and making a mess", and was arrogant to the extreme!
From then on, Tang eunuchs became more tyrannical. The chancellor Li Shi was jealous of Qiu Shiliang and sent assassins to stab him. Li Shi was fortunate not to die, and resigned in fear.
Emperor Wenzong was even more discriminated against by domestic slaves, and once asked zhou Qi, a scholar on duty: "Who is the former master of Shuo Kefang?" He replied, "Your Majesty Yao and lord of Shun." Emperor Wenzong sighed, "How dare you compare yao and Shun, how can you be like Zhou Zhao, Han Xian'er!" "How can the Lord of the Fallen Kingdom be compared to holiness?" Emperor Wenzong said, "Zhao and Xian are subject to the powerful princes, and now they are subject to domestic slaves, in other words, it is better to perish!" "Five years after kaicheng, Emperor Wenzong died of depression.
After Emperor Wenzong's melancholy death, Qiu Shiliang supported Li Jie the Prince of Li as the emperor's brother-in-law, and Li Chengmei, the son of the original crown prince Wenzong, changed the title to King Chen, and Yang Xianfei wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make Li An the King of Li Dissolve, and the matter was exposed.
After Li Hong succeeded to the throne, li yan was renamed Li Yan as Emperor Wuzong of Tang, and at the behest of Qiu Shiliang, Yang Xianfei, Li Rong the Prince of An, and Li Chengmei the Prince of Chen were all given death.
Therefore, the history says that Qiu Shiliang killed the second king and one concubine when he supported Emperor Wuzong.
At this point, Qiu Shiliang achieved the achievement of "killing two kings, one concubine and four prime ministers", and was named a great general of the Hussars and the Duke of Chu, which was no different from the heroes who opened up the territory.
To be a eunuch to this point, I have simply reached the peak of my life.
And that's not all.
During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Tang, Li Deyu was the prime minister, and Qiu Shiliang had the merit of supporting the establishment, ostensibly showing respect and favor, but actually suppressing his power. In the second year of Huichang, Qiu Shiliang tried to launch a divine strategy army to kill Li Deyu, and when Li Deyu learned of this, he fled to Emperor Wuzong, who came forward to intimidate the extermination of the clan, so the soldiers did not dare to make a mistake, but they knew that the general situation was going to go.
With the passage of time, Tang Wuzong gradually became estranged from Qiu Shiliang, and coupled with his old age and illness, in May of the third year of Huichang, he was forced to serve as an internal supervisor.
When he left the dynasty, he said the words of his predecessors at the beginning.
In June of the same year, Qiu Shiliang died at the age of 63 and was posthumously given the title of Governor of Yangzhou.
However, in the following year, because he was accused of hiding weapons, he issued an edict to cut the official and had no home.
But the story is not over here, things have undergone a big reversal in the five years of Da Zhong, Xuanzong ascended to the throne, and then "rehabilitated Zhaoxue" for Qiu Shiliang, and made a monument to Ji Gong.
Qiu Shiliangtan has been in power for more than 20 years, deposing the emperor at will, consistently deceiving and deceiving subordinates, rejecting dissidents, running amok, being greedy and cruel, and successively killing the second king, the first concubine, and the fourth prime minister, and the representative work "The Change of Ganlu" is the pinnacle of the history of Chinese eunuchs who have dominated the government and run amok.
In contrast, the eunuch rebellion of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the arrogance of the Ming Dynasty at the age of nine thousand, and Wei Zhongxian, who was laid down at the first change of dynasty, were simply weaker than the behavior of this super eunuch of the late Tang Dynasty, and Qiu Shiliang himself had to laugh and say nothing.
Editor/Genichi, picture from the web