During the Ming Dynasty, there was a stubborn teenager in Suning County, who was born in a poor family, had never read a book since he was a child, and when he grew up, he wandered the streets and wandered all day in the Qinglou Gambling House. When he was about 22 years old, because he owed a lot of gambling debts, in order to save his life, he had to assume the pseudonym Li Jinzhong and hide in the palace as a eunuch. What is unexpected is that this boy who was forced into the palace as a eunuch because he was cornered turned out to be a "nine-thousand-year-old" who was talked about by people in the world a few years later.
Li Jinzhong entered the palace as a eunuch for more than ten years, but he has not been promoted, and he is always just a humble eunuch. However, although Li Jinzhong's status was not high, with his three-inch tongue, he lived like a fish in the palace, and his popularity was quite good. As he spent time in the palace, Li Jinzhong also slowly became acquainted with many powerful eunuchs, and later became acquainted with Ke baba.
Ke Baba is the famous Keshi, she is the nursing mother of the Emperor's grandson Zhu Youxiao, and enjoys a lofty position in the palace. After Li Jinzhong climbed the guest Baba, he turned to Li Xuanshi (Xi Li), who was responsible for raising Zhu You's school, and helped Xi Li do some shady deeds. In July of the 48th year of the Wanli Calendar, Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty died, and the crown prince Zhu Changluo succeeded to the throne, and only a little more than a month later, Zhu Changluo also died, and a royal power struggle began.
When Zhu Changluo was alive, he was very fond of Xi Li and promised to make her an imperial concubine. However, Xi Li was not satisfied with this, and she wanted to be an empress more than an imperial concubine. However, before she could figure out a way to persuade Zhu Changluo, Zhu Changluo died because of taking the "Tonli Medicine" that Zheng Guifei was looking for someone to offer. Although the empress's position was hopeless, Xi Li was not disappointed, because after Li Jinzhong's reminder, she found that she seemed to be able to bow to the government.
When Zhu Changluo died, Xi Li was living in the Qianqing Palace, and the ministers were worried about this, fearing that Xi Li would take the opportunity to listen to the government. After consultation, the ministers headed by Zhou Jiamo, Yang Lian, and others decided to persuade Xi Li to cede the Qianqing Palace so that the new emperor could ascend the throne smoothly. However, Li Jinzhong insisted that Xi Li not move out of the Qianqing Palace, and he not only prevented the emperor's grandson Zhu Youxiao from returning to the Wenhua Hall of the Crown Prince's Residence, but also tried in vain to coerce Zhu Youxiao to take control of the imperial government.
However, the dreams of Li Jinzhong and Xi Li were finally shattered, and Zhu Yu was later forcibly pulled by the ministers to the Wenhua Palace, and Li Jinzhong did not have military power in his hands, so he did not dare to block it strongly. Soon after Zhu Youxiao returned to the Wenhua Palace, he joined hands with the ministers to drive Xi Li out of the Qianqing Palace and ascended the throne as emperor, as the Emperor of the Heavenly Revelation. In this storm of fighting for imperial power, Xi Li became the biggest loser, and Li Jinzhong, relying on his relationship with Baba, was not punished, but further received the attention of Zhu You.
Soon after Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he named Baba a "Lady Fengsheng", and Li Jinzhong's status also rose with it. After a while, Zhu Yu gave Li Jinzhong another name, renamed him Wei Zhongxian, and personally married Wei Zhongxian, making them a "food pair" couple with a justifiable name. In the hundreds of years of history of the Ming Dynasty, the absurd act of marrying eunuchs by the emperor himself is only one example.
Ke Baba was a vicious person, and Wei Zhongxian did not hesitate to let go in this regard, and the two joined forces to quickly control the government. Any minister who offended these two men, for whatever reason, was retaliated against, either exiled or executed. Moreover, Wei Zhongxian himself was not a reasonable person, and he relied on the emperor's favor to act arbitrarily in the court, and also controlled Jinyiwei and Dongchang through his adopted son, and the whole court dared to be angry about it.
Wei Zhongxian was illiterate, but he achieved the high position of eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, the superintendent of ceremonies, Bingbi, all of which stemmed from the credit of Ke Baba. Although the ministers of the DPRK all scorned Wei Zhongxian, an illiterate eunuch, they did not dare to resist Wei Zhongxian in the slightest, because Wei Zhongxian did not care whether you were the elder of the Three Dynasties Cabinet or the prime minister, as long as you offended him, there would be no good fruit to eat. At that time, although the Ming Dynasty was constantly worried about internal and external troubles, under Wei Zhongxian's iron fist, there was no real threat to the disasters that really threatened the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule, which had to be said to be a strange phenomenon.
After the Chongzhen Emperor succeeded to the throne, he was determined to revitalize the imperial program and no longer allowed Wei Zhongxian to act arbitrarily. With the help of the Donglin Party, Wei Zhongxian was forced to commit suicide, and Keba was flogged and died in the Huan Clothing Bureau. Since Wei Zhongxian's death, the atmosphere in the dprk has been renewed, and the Chongzhen Emperor is also determined to do a big job and be a Zhongxing king. However, to everyone's surprise, Chongzhen had just killed Wei Zhongxian on this side, and the Ming Dynasty over there collapsed, and the Chongzhen Emperor himself was hanged on the coal mountain.
In the party struggle that ran through the decades of the late Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party ministers always insisted on honesty and honesty, revitalized the rule of officials, and at the same time constantly wrote letters to the emperor to eliminate the accumulated shortcomings of the government and the opposition, and opposed the greed and indulgence of the law by the powerful. However, when the biggest eunuch, Wei Zhongxian, was eliminated, and when the Donglin Party came into play, the situation in the Ming Dynasty did not get better, but became worse and worse. In addition to the repeated defeats in Liaodong, rebellions broke out one after another in various places, and the Ming Dynasty was in danger.
The Donglin Party defeated the castration party led by Wei Zhongxian and seemed to have won a victory, according to their philosophy, shouldn't the Ming Dynasty develop in a better direction? Why are rebellions everywhere intensifying? The reason is actually very simple, it is because Wei Zhongxian is unreasonable. In fact, in the feudal era, for the stabilization of the rule of the imperial court, unreasonableness also had the advantage of unreasonableness, after all, in the face of iron-fisted means, those who dared to resist were still in the minority.
So, does this mean that Wei Zhongxian was able to save the Ming Dynasty? The answer, of course, is no. The Ming Dynasty has accumulated shortcomings for a long time, although Wei Zhongxian can temporarily suppress it with an iron fist, but with the passage of time, this method is destined to gradually fail. In any case, the defeat of the Ming Dynasty is doomed, and the difference is only a matter of time or time.