Li Lianying was a late Qing dynasty eunuch, the last eunuch of the Qing Dynasty, and the most powerful eunuch of the time. He was sent to the palace as a eunuch at the age of 13, and did not leave the palace until Cixi's death, and he was a magical figure in the history of eunuchs. First of all, the master of his service was the most controversial figure in the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was very picky, but she liked Li Lianying very much, and kept Li Lianying with her until she died, he was the first person named Cixi Lafayette, which is why he was so powerful.
Although Cixi has always held power in her hands and is full of ambition, she is still a woman, and the eunuch palace girls around her have changed generations, but Li Lianying has always stayed with him. In his later years, Cixi was particularly dependent, and often summoned him to the palace in the middle of the night to chat with him and pass the time. Not only because he will serve people, but also because he can help Cixi do a lot of things, once Cixi gave the word to Yang Xiaolou accidentally wrote a wrong word, but because of the face is not good to retract the rewrite, and Yang Xiaolou did not dare to accept this typo, just in the case of these two embarrassing situations, at this time Li Lianying came forward, not only exaggerated Cixi rounded the typo, let Cixi have face, but also let Yang Xiaolou get the reward, which can be said to have won Cixi's heart.
Li Lianying never asked about major national affairs, and his biggest task was to think about how to make Cixi happy every day. In history, the highest official position of eunuchs is only four pins, and Li Lianying is indeed two pins, which shows cixi's love for him, because he is attached to Cixi, so cixi died, Li Lianying had no patron, and his status plummeted, but the skinny camel was bigger than Ma, and there were still a lot of gold and silver jewelry around him, although life was very rich, but he was terrified and wary every day to guard against the enemy family.
After the later changes, Li Lianying did not explicitly side with Cixi, so Cixi began to be a little distant from Li Lianying from then on. After Cixi's death, the new ruler was Empress Longyu, and Li Lianying knew very well that he had many enemies who wanted to put the blame on their heads by any means. Especially at that time, the country was in a situation of internal and external troubles, those nominal "patriots" wanted to charge Li Lianying more, he was attacked a lot, he was such a smart person, certainly not sit still, he thought of many ways to get out for himself, he pleased Empress Longyu, and took out his own gold and silver jewelry, longyu who saw the jewelry was very happy, so that he was not arrested and smoothly out of the palace, three years after the reunification, Li Lianying died at the age of 63, but the cause of his death became a mystery.
A person with a high status like him, even if he dies, should be higher than the average person, but when people dig into his tomb, although they find a large amount of jewelry in the coffin, they only have one head, so it can be seen that he is likely to be killed by others, it can be seen that after leaving Cixi, Li Lianying's life was very bad, so where his head went at that time has always been a big mystery, but who killed him has not been determined.