I believe everyone knows very well, in the thousands of years of feudal rule, in addition to the emperor and concubines of the Forbidden City, there is such a type of character throughout the dynasties and generations, young people will be brutally castrated before entering the palace, yes, you must have thought of what I want to say, it is the eunuch, today let's see how their power has changed in the development of eunuchs!
During the Ming Dynasty, the power of eunuchs reached the peak of all dynasties, such as Wei Zhongxian, Wang Zhen, and Liu Jin, who were all notorious eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty who had a moment of power, subverted the government of the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus noticed the threat of eunuchs and learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty, from the Kangxi Emperor onwards, they limited the power of eunuchs, and the official products fell again and again.
But even under the general trend of attacking eunuchs in this way, it did not drown those eunuchs who coexisted in ambition and strength, and there was such a big eunuch in the late Qing Dynasty, which was simply a state of power and opposition, his name was Li Lianying.
The reason why he chose to enter the palace as a eunuch, like most of the internal servants who entered the palace, was to make a living for himself and his family, but he did not expect that he was a person with a flexible brain, and he knew how to please the master, and even the empress dowager cixi at that time was very fond of this person, and even it was not an exaggeration to say that Cixi's favor for him had exceeded all the internal servants around him.
We mentioned earlier the restriction of the power of eunuchs, and the law at that time also stipulated that the highest rank of an official who was an internal servant could not exceed four pins, but he relied on Empress Dowager Cixi, a big patron, and was once promoted to erpin official, it can be said that such a title is the first time after Kangxi, whether such an official rank has substantial power, at least it is very face-filled.
Later, in 1908, Cixi died of illness, and as her confidant eunuch, after completing all the funeral matters, he also resigned and returned to his hometown. Even so, empress dowager Longyu at that time remembered that he had dedicated his life to these masters for more than 50 years in the palace, and was also a highly respected old hero, so she specially approved him to retire with his own official rank. Quite simply, even if he is no longer a eunuch, he can still collect the two officials every month without landing, almost 60 taels of silver, measuring the living standards at that time, his life can be tasteful.
But what is shocking is that he only returned to his hometown for two years, and then quietly died in his own home, and Empress Longyu approved money to build a special mausoleum for him, and also put a lot of valuable funerary goods in his eyes, so it seems that the treatment is really very unusual. But the amazing thing is not over, when archaeologists opened his tomb in 1966, they saw only gold and silver treasures and a skull, but only his body.
It's also unbelievable, where can his body go? At present, it seems that the tomb robber will not steal the body and do not care about the treasure, coupled with the integrity of this tomb, the tomb robber may be vetoed, which means that it is very likely that he died in the first place, and the complete body has long been taken away by the enemy who hunted him down, so when he was buried, he only had a head.