In order to punish the eunuch Empress Dowager Cixi invented a kind of torture eunuch would rather commit suicide than be tortured to mention the eunuch, most of what we see in the TV series is a group of people who are arbitrary, specializing in doing bad things, and yang and yin violations, but whenever we have some understanding, or from the book to mention eunuchs, most of what we see from the TV series are arbitrary, specializing in bad things, and yang and yin violations of a group of people, but all we know, or from the books to see the eunuchs, Most of these people were powerful eunuchs, who were deeply favored by those in power and lived a very moist life, but the treatment of eunuchs of low status was very different.
Take the Qing Dynasty as an example, the Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty was extremely strict in the control of eunuchs, this strictness is not only in the restraint, the punishment is also extremely cruel, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to learn the lessons of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, many rules were formulated to discipline the eunuchs, so although there were many great eunuchs like Li Lianying in the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's regime was never touched by eunuchs.
In the Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace, there were only places to control eunuchs, such as honor rooms and scattered errands, and the Punishment of eunuchs by the Qing Dynasty Imperial Family was also extremely intense, and there were as many special provisions for punishing eunuchs alone, punishing them according to the crimes committed, from deducting three months' wages, dragging them out to be killed, and also raiding their homes, and sometimes even affecting their families.
Because the punishment was too strong, the eunuchs had to be cautious when serving the royal family, which could be described as trembling and trembling like walking on thin ice, and among all the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, the most cruel to the eunuch was Cixi, followed by Puyi, the eunuch Zhang Ziguang said that Cixi beat eunuchs like pigs and dogs, and never said anything benevolent.
Cixi because she is a female streamer, although she controls the power, but in fact, her heart has been very uneasy, afraid that someone will take away her power, in order to stabilize the regime Cixi did too many bad things, she guarded day and night, but also the eunuchs around her also have to guard, eunuchs as the easiest to approach Cixi, naturally know a lot of its secrets, in order to strengthen the control of these eunuchs, Cixi specially built a prison for eunuchs, named "Prudential Punishment Division".
We all know that Guangxu is actually a very idealistic and ambitious emperor, but because he was controlled by Cixi, he has been unable to show his talents, and we can see Guangxu's determination from the Penghu Reform Law, in this change, there are a large number of eunuchs to assist Guangxu, after the final failure of the change, Guangxu was imprisoned, and the most painful thing was the eunuchs who had helped Guangxu.
In order to punish these eunuchs, Cixi also ordered the Prudential Punishment Department to set up a kind of torture, called "qi death", this torture is extremely cruel, with seven layers of soaked white paper to seal the eunuch's mouth, nose and ears, and then use a stick to beat, because the pain eunuch will shout, but the mouth and nose are sealed, completely unable to breathe, will soon be suffocated alive, many eunuchs after the incident, they know that they would rather hang than be tortured.
Cixi liked to use this kind of torture, and after Zhenfei was killed, more than thirty eunuchs who served her were also tortured to death by this torture, and the eunuch Zhang Ziguang once witnessed a tragic case, and he said that the tragic situation made him shiver.
Therefore, the life of the eunuch in the palace is extremely miserable, Ma Deqing once said: "The days in the palace are dark, and it is not easy for us to survive as eunuchs", fortunately, with the progress of society, there are no more eunuchs.