Wu Liangfu was a eunuch during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and can be said to be the most favored eunuch in Shunzhi at that time. This eunuch was executed immediately after Kangxi succeeded to the throne, and as for the reason, many people believe that it was because Wu Liangfu had an affair with Kangxi's biological mother in the harem, so he was killed and killed.
So what the hell is going on here, today Song Anzhi talked about this problem.
Regarding the Kangxi Emperor's killing of Wu Liangfu in order to cover up the view that his birth mother was infected, it was actually the result of watching too many TV dramas and reading less history books.
First of all, to correct, Kangxi succeeded to the throne when he was only 8 years old and did not have the ability to pro-government. The ones who could really decide were the four auxiliary ministers and Empress Xiaozhuang, and it was Wu Liangfu who was killed by the four auxiliary ministers, which had nothing to do with the young Kangxi at that time, and naturally there was no view that Kangxi was infected by eunuchs in order to cover up his birth mother.
Moreover, during the Qing Dynasty, the harem was strictly managed, and Wu Liangfu was a favored eunuch around the emperor, I don't know how many people would like to take his place, many eyes are staring at him, and he can't have anything to do with Kangxi's birth mother.
As for why the four auxiliary ministers killed Wu Liangfu, it is necessary to combine another thing, that is, at the same time that Wu Liangfu was killed by the four auxiliary ministers, the thirteen gates of the eunuch institution set up by the Qing Dynasty in the ninth year of Shunzhi were also abolished.
Why did the four great auxiliary ministers kill Wu Liangfu and revoke the thirteen yamen, this was the key. Behind it is a complicated situation involving the three-way struggle between imperial power, eunuchs and subjects in the early Qing Dynasty.
Let's first talk about the historical background of the Shunzhi Emperor's setting up of the thirteen gates
The Shunzhi Emperor was the third emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the first emperor after entering the Customs, and the emperor's life could be described as quite depressed, although the Qing Dynasty transitioned from a divided regime to a unified regime during his reign, but the entry into the Pass and the defeat of Li Zicheng's Dashun regime, Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regime, the destruction of the Southern Ming Hongguang and the Longwu regime, were all decided by the then regent Dolgun, and the Shunzhi Emperor could be said to have enjoyed his success.
Although The Shunzhi Emperor died suddenly in the winter of the seventh year of Shunzhi and the Shunzhi Emperor was successfully pro-government in the eighth year of Shunzhi, the Shunzhi Emperor still could not get out of the shadow of his uncle regent Dorgon, and many people also looked down on the Shunzhi Emperor and thought that the Shunzhi Emperor had no ability.
In fact, after the Shunzhi Emperor came to power, he still made many attempts to centralize power, and he was not the incompetent tianzi that many people remembered.
Judging from the seven years that the regent Dolgun abused his power, the Shunzhi Emperor in the early Qing Dynasty belonged to the matter of the king of the clan threatening the imperial power. However, fortunately, during the monopoly of power by Dolgun, the kings were vigorously suppressed, so that the power of the kings shrank, such as the council of ministers and ministers at that time, the power was very large, through a similar way of election, the next emperor could be elected, like Shunzhi became the emperor was elected in the form of the council of ministers and ministers, but after the regent Dolgun suppressed the kings, so that the council of ministers of the council of kings and ministers existed in name only, so as to objectively shrink the power of the kings in the early Qing Dynasty.
With the sudden death of Dorgon, the power of the kings of the Qing Dynasty shrank, and the era of the Eight Banner Lords deliberating on state affairs was gone, indicating that the factor of the king of the domain could not threaten the imperial power for a short time.
However, the power of the various banner ministers began to rise, and the shunzhi emperor's headache of the problem of the king of the domain had just come to an end, and he had to face these eight banner ministers who founded the country, which was far from being able to achieve the dictatorship of Qian Gang.
The Shunzhi Emperor can be said to be a fan of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and he also has his own unique approach to centralized power. In that year, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang set up twenty-four yamen, so the Shunzhi Emperor set up thirteen yamen in the ninth year of Shunzhi imitating the twenty-four yamen of the Ming Dynasty, and the Shunzhi Emperor actually wanted to suppress the Eight Banners Minister through the hands of eunuchs, and even take back the power.
The establishment of the thirteen yamen in Shunzhi was naturally opposed by the manchu ministers, because the former Ming had only been a few years after the fall of the country, and these well-read ministers naturally understood that the thirteen yamen were not so simple, and I was afraid that it was an institution to suppress the ministers, but the Shunzhi Emperor resolutely refused to give in, so the thirteen yamen were established.
However, with the untimely death of the Shunzhi Emperor in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, the Thirteen Yamen did not play their due role in a short period of time.
On his deathbed, Shunzhi appointed Sonny, Suksaha, Shubilong, and Aobai as auxiliary ministers to assist the eight-year-old Kangxi Emperor in handling government affairs.
Why did the Shunzhi Emperor make such arrangements, in order to avoid the recurrence of the regent Dorgon's abuse of power, but left four ministers to assist the government, hoping that they would contain each other.
However, the four auxiliary governments did not restrain each other, but first agreed with the outside world. After the death of Shunzhi, they immediately revoked the Thirteen Yamen that they regarded as a thorn in their side, killed Wu Liangfu, and once again took power back from the eunuchs, while thus avoiding the Thirteen Yamen from threatening them in the future.
Originally, the Shunzhi Emperor had high hopes for the Thirteen Gates, and tried to suppress the ministers and regain power like the Ming Emperor, using the eunuchs around him to suppress the ministers and reclaim their power. At the same time, the four auxiliary ministers were left to restrain each other, so as not to have the matter of the king of the domain overriding the emperor again, but the Shunzhi Emperor still underestimated the four auxiliary ministers, and these four people first revoked the thirteen yamen that threatened them the most as soon as the Shunzhi Emperor died, so that the centralized power pattern left by the Shunzhi Emperor was broken.
And Wu Liangfu, the representative figure of the thirteen yamen, was once a pawn of the Shunzhi Emperor's centralized power, and naturally he was killed and became cannon fodder because he was involved in this power struggle.
It can be said that the centralization of power in the early Qing Dynasty can be described as a series of twists and turns, the Shunzhi Emperor was first faced with the regent's power, and then subject to the power of the Eight Banners Minister, trying to centralize power with the power of eunuchs, because he died young and could not be solved.
But later the Qing emperors explored another path of centralization, first using the Manchu-Han dispute to grasp the balance, and then slowly centralizing power. By the time of the Yongzheng Emperor, the Military Aircraft Department was established, making the imperial power stronger than ever.
Now everyone understands the deep-seated reasons behind Wu Liangfu's death, right?
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