Speaking of the word eunuch, people must be particularly bad at its positioning, eunuchs are also divided into many kinds, the most powerful eunuchs will belong to the emperor's side to serve, even the harem concubines and the ministers of the dprk have to give up three points, and in the past dynasties there have been many eunuchs to interfere in politics, especially in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor reused eunuchs, so the eunuchs interfered in the imperial court chaos, causing the whole dynasty to be uneasy, so people's impression of eunuchs has been bad, but there is an example of everything, the protagonist we are talking about today is a eunuch, However, he was the only eunuch in history who was posthumously honored as the emperor, and he did not have a name in his life, and his grandson was unknown to everyone.
He was the eunuch Cao Teng in the Eastern Han Dynasty, born in a poor family, when people from poor backgrounds had to enter the palace as eunuchs because the family was not rich, after he entered the palace, because he was clever and clever, his work was very agile and very eye-catching, and he also had learning, so Empress Deng sent him to serve by the side of the crown prince Liu Bao and accompany him to study and grow.
He who has been with the prince for a long time has won the love of the prince and likes this person very much, so the treatment in the palace is different from others, and the food is the best, until Liu Bao took the throne, Cao Teng's status was also improved, and he was single-mindedly serving the emperor and assisting him. After Liu Bao's death, his two-year-old son took the throne, unfortunately less than half a year later, when the chancellor decided that an older and more experienced person should be made emperor, so with the support of the general Liang Ji, Liu Ji was proclaimed emperor.
At this time, there were already two factions in the DPRK, one was mainly Li Gu and supported the King of Qinghe, and the other was mainly Liang Ji and supported Liu Zhi. The far-sighted Cao Teng believed that if the King of Qinghe took charge of the imperial government, the imperial court would certainly not prosper, because he was too strict and certainly would not have a peaceful life in the future, so he supported Liu Zhi as emperor, and then Liang Ji sent his cronies to poison Liu Yi, and with the support of everyone, Liu Zhi became the new emperor.
After he became emperor, he thought that Cao Teng had helped himself and supported himself on the road to the throne, so he began to reuse him, promoted him to an official position, promoted him to the rank of Great Changqiu, and was given the title of Marquis, and since then he has held a very large power, becoming a powerful eunuch, but after he had power, he did not do many evils, but scrupulously abided by his duties, and often recommended talents to the emperor, although he was a eunuch, but the people in the imperial court respected him and never cursed.
As a eunuch, he naturally could not give birth to a son, so he adopted an adopted son, Cao Song, and then inherited his father's throne, and his son was known as Cao Cao. Later, the rise of the Cao family was naturally inseparable from Cao Teng, without him there would be no status of later descendants, in 229, Cao Rui posthumously named his grandfather Cao Teng as Emperor Gao, becoming the only eunuch in history to have the throne.
Reference: Book of the Later Han Dynasty