When it comes to China's eunuch system, I think everyone is not unfamiliar. From the pre-Qin period, eunuchs have appeared. Only in the pre-Qin and Western Han dynasties, eunuchs were not all eunuchs. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that eunuchs all became sexually incapacitated after being castrated. This system continued until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and then completely disappeared. However, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, there were no eunuchs in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established by Hong Xiuquan. Could it be that the ideological realm of the high-ranking members of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been raised to this level, taking into account the people-oriented? This is not the case.
On March 19, 1853, the Taiping Army captured Nanjing, and Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, was killed. On March 29, Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King, entered Jinling City amid the cheers of Yang Xiuqing and the hundred officials of The Civil and Military Forces, as well as the people of Li Min. Soon, Hong Xiuquan announced that the capital was Jinling, and renamed Jinling "Tianjing", officially establishing a peasant regime in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that was in opposition to the Qing Dynasty. However, the top brass of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who established the regime, did not want to seek the welfare of the broad masses of the people at the bottom, but quickly became corrupt and degenerate. Not only did they build luxurious palaces for themselves, but they also recruited thousands of slaves.
Because some jobs were not undertaken by women, but ordinary men entered the harem Hong Xiuquan was not at ease, so he wanted to establish a eunuch system like the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Hong Xiuquan selected 80 children under the age of twelve to castrate in Nanjing City, but because the chief surgeon was immature, 77 died on the spot. The remaining 3 are also half crippled, don't convince Shi Hong Xiuquan, even take care of themselves is enough.
Hong Xiuquan was greatly humiliated, and he did not care about the eunuch. But under the hands of Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, there was a man named Li Shouchun, who volunteered to say that he could do this craft. According to Li Shouchun himself, he once learned the art of castration from a teacher, and also falsely recounted the process of castration. Yang Xiuqing was overjoyed, so he asked him to try it. In fact, Li Shouchun did not understand the art of castration at all, but a relative in the family had engaged in this line of work and gave him a book. In order to practice his knife work, Li Shouchun went to the boys' gym and arrested more than ten boys, and as a result, he castrated 5 on the first day. A few of them were not cut to death, but later they could not bear the pain and died of pain.
Seeing that his castrated people were dead, Li Shouchun was also very nervous, and quickly found a doctor to prescribe painkillers for the boys to eat. But the problem arose again, he was castrated in the wrong place, and some boys were choked to death by urine. Just when Li Shouchun was panicking, someone solved his urgent need. This person's ancestors really did this line of work, and with his cooperation, more than 1,000 boys finally succeeded in more than 200 people. But Hong Xiuquan felt unreliable and did not want these incomplete people to be castrated.
In order to meet his own needs, Hong Xiu's entire palace was made up of women as officials and maids, and with the addition of concubines who served him, there were more than 2,000 women in Hong Xiu's palace. Because Hong Xiuquan often harshly rebuked these women, when the Xiang army broke through the gates of Nanjing, a female official guided the Xiang army to find Hong Xiuquan's body. Zeng Guofan sent people to crush Hong Xiuquan's corpse into ten thousand pieces, and then loaded it into the cannon and blasted it into the sky.