Cixi had three eunuchs with names on her side, the first of which was An Dehai, who entered the palace when he was eight or nine years old, and because he was intelligent and good at observing colors, he first gained the favor of the Xianfeng Emperor and later became a red person around Empress Dowager Cixi.
The second is Li Lianying, Li Lianying was favored and valued by Cixi, Cixi even broke the royal ancestral system, and li Lianying was named the chief eunuch of Zhengerpin, but Cixi broke a lot of ancestral systems, adding one more seems not special, but because it is a eunuch, it has added a lot of topics.
Li Lianying was born in 1848, at the age of 7, she entered the palace as a eunuch, at the age of 12 Li Lianying accompanied Xianfeng, Cixi and others to Rehe, and later the Xianfeng Emperor died in Rehe, and Li Lianying followed the empress dowager back to the Forbidden City.
At that time, it was widely rumored that Li Lianying had mastered a set of techniques for combing new hairstyles, starting with combing the hair of Empress Dowager Cixi, which received Cixi's attention, but in the "Palace Women's Talk", He Rong, a palace maid who served Cixi for eight years before and after, revealed in the book that it was a eunuch surnamed Liu who combed Cixi's hair.
However, Li Lianying was able to stay with Cixi for nearly fifty-three years, and she also had some skills, such as An Dehai, although she was once a red person around Cixi, but because she was favored and pampered, she eventually angered Cixi, and in 1869, she was beheaded for the crime of "violating the ancestral system and leaving the beijing master without permission".
And Li Lianying, although people look ugly, a face of pustules, face sinister, the picture above is Li Lianying's rare colored old photos, but Li Lianying, the biggest advantage of this person is obedience, everything is cautious. Therefore, in Cixi's view, a slave has the appearance of a slave, and when he is in a good mood, he will reward more things.
Of course, those who are slaves must have eyesight and know how to do things for their masters. Empress Dowager Cixi had praised Yang Xiaolou's field, and was in a good mood, and gave Yang Xiaolou the exquisite pastries on the table, and Yang Xiaolou took advantage of the good atmosphere to ask Cixi for a blessing.
But Cixi wrote the word Fu next to the word "clothes", the atmosphere was suddenly awkward, then it was time for Li Lianying to play a role, Li Lianying smiled and said: "Lafayette's blessing is one more 'point' than anyone in the world!" ”
Since Li Lianying had set up a "platform", Yang Xiaolou and Cixi went down with the trend.
However, Li Lianying is not a perfect eunuch, he is greedy for money, according to relevant literature, the Eight-Nation Alliance army into Beijing, Cixi fled west, although there were times when there was a windy meal and sleeping, but after entering Shanxi, the costs were borne by the place, Cixi's pomp is also getting bigger and bigger, the eunuchs including Li Lianying took the opportunity to extort, Li Lianying wanted to get the silver, each time about one hundred and two or so is still less.
The third eunuch with a name on Cixi's side was Zhang Rand, the palace name Xiao Dezhang, Xiao Dezhang entered the palace as a eunuch in 1891, because he had studied drama, thus getting the grace of Cixi, although Xiao Dezhang did not take cixi with him for more than fifty years, but after Cixi's death, Xiao Dezhang was promoted to the chief of the four divisions and eight places of Changchun Palace, and in the future, if the princes and nobles and court ministers wanted to meet Empress Longyu, they had to get xiao Dezhang's approval.
And Xiao Dezhang lived to 1957, at the age of 81. Although Li Lianying stayed with Cixi for more than fifty years, after Cixi's death, Li Lianying left the Forbidden City and died in 1911 at the age of 63, and many people believe that Li Lianying died of death.