Wei Zhongxian claimed to be nine thousand years old and had power to cover the sky, so why couldn't he fight the Chongzhen Emperor, who was only 17 years old?
In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Mingxi Zhu Youxue died of physical exhaustion due to long-term use of "immortal medicine", and because he had no heirs, before his death, he used a sentence: "Come, my brother should be Yao Shun", and handed over the stormy Ming Dynasty to his 17-year-old brother Zhu Youjian the Prince of Xin, that is, the later Chongzhen Emperor, and from then on, Zhu Youjian was forced to embark on the road to save the Ming Dynasty.
Stills of the Chongzhen Emperor
Chongzhen, who had picked up the throne in vain, was not too happy, because he knew that what he had taken over was just a mess, a lot of tricky things waiting for him to deal with, and for him, the most important thing was to get rid of Wei Zhongxian, who had done many evil deeds and disturbed the imperial program, but this was not an easy task.
How powerful was wei Zhongxian in the "Nine Thousand Years Old"
Wei Zhongxian was originally just a hooligan, he couldn't read a few big characters, because he couldn't get by anymore, he entered the palace as a eunuch, relying on his ability to earn in the city, he met the source left and right in the palace, and finally married Zhu Youxiao's wet nurse Keshi, and married her as a "food pair", and lived in the palace, and when Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, their good days came.
Keshi stills
With the special relationship between Keshi and Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi were deeply favored by Zhu Youxiao, who soon after zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he made Keshi Lady Fengsheng, and Wei Zhongxian also jumped from a middle-level eunuch to become a eunuch of Bingbi, the superintendent of ceremonies. The eunuchs who became the celebrant were all going to help the emperor deal with government affairs, so the eunuchs who could enter the celebrant were all learned eunuchs, and the minimum requirement was to be able to read and write, but Wei Zhongxian could not even read but could enter the celebrant, thanks to the merits of the Keshi.
Wei Zhongxian stills
After becoming a eunuch of the Celestial Superintendent Bingbi, Wei Zhongxian was able to directly contact the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, so he began to exert his expertise as a city mixer to find fun for the Emperor of the Apocalypse, the famous carpenter emperor of the Ming Dynasty was the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youjian, in addition to letting the emperor indulge in carpentry work, Wei Zhongxian also found a large number of beautiful women for the Apocalypse to enter the palace, Zhu Youxiao's self-control was indeed not generally bad, under the confusion of Wei Zhongxian, he indulged in making furniture and beauty all day long, and had no heart and energy to deal with the government.
The Apocalypse Emperor who was busy with carpentry
When Wei Zhongxian asked Zhu Youxiao for instructions on how to approve the recital, he also specifically picked zhu Youxiao when he was busy with carpenter work, and Zhu Youxiao, who was concentrating on carpentry work, was very disgusted that others were disturbing him, and whenever Wei Zhongxian came to ask for instructions, he replied perfunctorily, so that in the end he simply let Wei Zhongxian watch and deal with it himself, so that Wei Zhongxian gradually gained Zhu Youxiao's trust and began to control the government.
Wei Zhongxian, with the power he had gained from Zhu Youxiao, began to do whatever he wanted to do to the world, and many courtiers with a sense of justice were indignant at Wei Zhongxian's adulterous behavior and wrote to him, and these performances eventually fell into Wei Zhongxian's hands, so Wei Zhongxian began to attack dissidents on a large scale, and many ministers died. Moreover, he also installed his own cronies in the dprk, and they relied on Wei Zhongxian's preferences when handling government affairs, such as Xu Zhaokui, the Shangshu of the Punishment Department, who governed the prison case, and whoever Wei Zhongxian hated was sentenced to a heavy sentence.
Under the blows of Wei Zhongxian, he soon controlled the power inside and outside the imperial court, and there were more than thirty people including Wang Tiqian, Li Chaoqing, Wang Chaofu, Sun Jin, Wang Guotai, and Liang Dong, who supported him left and right. Outside, there were Wenchen with Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ji, Wu Chunfu, Li Kuilong, and Ni Wenhuan as the chief conspirators, known as the "Five Tigers"; among the Wuchen there were Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Sun Yunhe, Yang Huan, and Cui Yingyuan who killed, known as the "Five Biaos". There were also officials Such as Shangshu Zhou Yingqiu, Taibu Temple Shaoqing Cao Qincheng, known as the "Ten Dogs", as well as "Ten Children", "Forty Grandchildren" and many other pawns, and Cui Chengxiu's gang was innumerable, from the cabinet and the six ministries to the governors and inspectors of the four sides, all of whom were all over his henchmen.
Officials who wanted to stand in the court had to flatter Wei Zhongxian, and even the later famous Liaodong general Yuan Chonghuan had to throw himself under his door, and the powerful Wei Zhongxian said that he could not hide the sky with his hands.
The 17-year-old Chongzhen Emperor zhidou Wei Zhongxian
In August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youguan ascended the throne, and at the beginning of the first month of the following year, He changed to Yuan Chongzhen, and Zhu Youjian of the first year of Chongzhen had just turned 17 years old, however, the imperial temperament and political ability displayed by the 17-year-old Zhu Youjian far exceeded that of his brother Zhu Youxiao.
Friends who have seen "Embroidered Spring Knife" must have a deep impression of Zhu Youxian, during the re-succession of the throne during the apocalypse illness, Zhu Youjian showed a weak and obedient image in front of Wei Zhongxian in order to successfully inherit the throne, thus gaining Wei Zhongxian's trust, and when he successfully ascended the throne, he immediately threw away the mask of forbearance and unexpectedly excluded Wei Zhongxian from the center of power.
Embroidered spring knife stills
The real Zhu Youjian in history is more witty than the one depicted in the movie, and from the moment he was determined to become the heir to the throne, he began to wrestle with Wei Zhongxian. After Zhu Youxiao's death, according to the requirements of the ceremonial system, Zhu Youjian, as the heir, went to the palace to guard the spirit of Zhu Youxiao, and then waited for him to ascend the throne, and just before he was ready to enter the palace, he received a warning from the imperial concubine Empress Zhang that he could not eat any food in the palace to prevent Wei Zhongxian from secretly harming him.
Still
Zhu Youjian naturally knew that Wei Zhongxian was a traitor, and during the critical period of the transition of power, he might have done some sinister measures. Therefore, after entering the palace, Zhu Youjian did not sleep all night, not only remembering Empress Zhang's admonition that he would not eat any food in the palace, and when he was hungry, he only ate the wheat cake hidden in his sleeve, but also coaxed the sword from the eunuch on duty to defend himself and promised them that he would reward them in the future, so he spent a long night in anxiety.
Zhu You checked stills
At dawn the next day, Zhu Youjian put on the dragon robe and crown, and was persuaded three times by the courtiers led by the British prince Zhang Weixian to ascend the throne smoothly. The Chongzhen Dynasty chronicles this history in detail:
The upper danger is very serious, the sleeve food to enter, do not dare to eat the palace objects also. When the time comes, the courtiers will not be able to see the superior. Sitting alone with a candle, for a long time, he saw a castrated carrying a sword, took it, left it on a few, and promised to give a reward. Hear the noise everywhere, labor. Ask left and right want to give wine and food, Ann from taking? The waiter said: The Guanglu Temple of the Question, the order to be given to it, the joy is like thunder. On the twenty-fourth day, the emperor was seated in the Middle Pole Hall, and was subjected to the Hundred Officials Dynasty, and the sky was suddenly roaring.
Although Zhu Youjian successfully became emperor, Wei Zhongxian's control over him did not stop, because he could not understand Chongzhen's thoughts, Wei Zhongxian used various means to lure the Chongzhen Emperor, the most important means was seduction, he sent several beautiful women to the Chongzhen Emperor, hoping to tie the Chongzhen Emperor with beauty, and then he continued to monopolize power.
Tribute to the beauty
However, the Chongzhen Emperor soon saw through his plot, and Chongzhen was not good at color, and had no interest in beauty, but in order to stabilize Wei Zhongxian, he left all these beautiful women behind, and carefully searched them, and actually found a small pill at the end of their nepotism, called "Ecstasy Incense" in the palace, which was actually an aphrodisiac that could be naturally volatilized.
Because Wei Zhongxian's power was too great, the Chongzhen Emperor, who had just succeeded to the throne, did not dare to move him easily, in order to stabilize Wei Zhongxian, the Chongzhen Emperor constantly appeased and rewarded him, at the same time, he quietly changed the eunuchs and palace ladies in the original XinWang Palace to the palace to ensure his own safety.
However, wei Zhongxian was not sure whether the Chongzhen Emperor really trusted him, so he constantly tested the Chongzhen Emperor, and he first took the initiative to resign to the Chongzhen Emperor, and Chongzhen decisively refused his request.
On the first day of September in the seventh year of the Seventh Year of the Chongzhen Long Edition, wei Zhongxian, a eunuch of the East Factory, resigned. Wen Zhi will not allow it.
Although Chongzhen refused his application for resignation, Wei Zhongxian was still not at ease, so he asked his "counterpart" Keshi to ask Chongzhen for resignation, and this time Chongzhen actually agreed, so Keshi put the hair and nails of Zhu Youxiao's childhood in a yellow box that she collected and treasured, burned them in front of Zhu Youxiao's spirit, and cried away.
Ancestral Temple
Seeing that Chongzhen En approved Ke's application for resignation, Wei Zhongxian panicked again, and he successively asked the Chongzhen Emperor to stop the construction of the ancestral hall given to him by various places and to withdraw the reward that the Chongzhen Emperor had given him when he ascended the throne, for these two requests, Chongzhen still behaved very unpredictably, he agreed to the request of various places to stop giving Wei Zhongxian the Jiansheng Ancestral Hall, but refused to retract the reward given to Wei Zhongxian when he ascended the throne.
On September 29, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch of the East Factory, asked to stop building the temple. Allowed. On October 11, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the eunuchs Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch Wang Tiqian of the Eastern Factory each resigned to the pole Qin En, and Ju You replied to him.
At the same time, there were also courtiers in the DPRK who constantly participated in the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian, and the Chongzhen Emperor was also very intriguing about the performance of these impeachments, he knew that the fact that the courtiers impeached Wei Zhongxian and caused chaos in the imperial program was clear, but he still showed a very calm attitude towards these officials involved in the impeachment, neither saying that the content of the participation was true, nor saying that the content of the participation was false, but only telling the courtiers not to play similar recitals in the future.
However, Emperor Chongzhen's attitude towards participating in Wei Zhongxian made the signs of impeachment of Wei Zhongxian grow rapidly in the court, and more and more courtiers joined the ranks of impeaching him, until the Chongzhen Emperor felt that the time was ripe, so he took Wei Zhongxian down naturally!
Why did Wei Zhongxian not fight the young Chongzhen Emperor
Since the Chongzhen Emperor ascended the throne, Wei Zhongxian discovered through various temptations that the Chongzhen Emperor was not a person who could be easily controlled, and although the Chongzhen Emperor was young, he was meticulous in his thoughts, and his means and tactics were not lost to him at all, not to mention that he still had imperial power in his hands!
Wei Zhongxian, as a powerful eunuch, although his power is great, but it is all given to him by the imperial power, and without the imperial power as a backing, he is only a physically handicapped eunuch and cannot afford any storms.
Stills of Chongzhen and Wei Zhongxian
After the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the succession of the Chongzhen Emperor, the imperial power he relied on changed to the master, and he also wanted to regain the favor of the new master, but the new master was obviously not as foolish as the old master. So, in the face of the imperial power, he sought concessions, and retreated again and again, hoping to be able to retreat with his whole body, but from the moment he found that he could not play with the new emperor between the palms, his death knell had already sounded!