In ancient China, the emperor would arrange a eunuch around him, that is, to help the emperor publicize the holy will, pass on letters in the imperial court, and other functions. In fact, eunuchs were seen as more inferior than commoners, because they had been sent to the palace to serve the emperor since they were young, and they had no status of their own. However, friends who have watched costume palace dramas will be more questioned, why do many officials have to specially curry favor with eunuchs?
They generally called eunuchs as taigonggong, and they were very polite to taigonggong, in short, they wanted to please taigonggong and let him say good things in front of the emperor. This is because the emperor will generally spoil the eunuchs around him, because the eunuchs are generally very loyal to the emperor, otherwise they will be eliminated. Of course, there are also individual emperors who are very friendly to eunuchs, which depends on what kind of character this eunuch is worthy of the emperor's love.
In people's eyes, they think that eunuchs are particularly bad, because in ancient China, there were cases of collusion between officials and eunuchs, etc., but they could not be killed with a stick, and there were still some eunuchs who were relatively kind, such as Zhang Juhan, a eunuch in the Tang Dynasty. He was kinder and wiser, and he was deeply favored by the emperor. The emperor would generally listen to him in order to better strategize for himself.
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, due to social unrest and perennial wars and chaos, the people's lives were very difficult, and there were various problems such as hunger and homelessness. Because Zhang Juhan was deeply favored and trusted by Tang Zhaozong, Tang Zhaozong appointed him as the overseer of Youzhou, and it can be said that a eunuch who could hold such a position was highly valued by the emperor. Of course, this also shows that the emperor has a lot of vision and can appreciate him.
It was here that Zhang Juhan became acquainted with Liu Rengong and became close friends with him, and Liu Rengong did not dislike Zhang Juhan's identity here, because he also valued his talent and loyalty. In the chaos, Liu Rengong helped Zhang Juhan escape from danger, and Zhang Juhan, who had already returned to live in seclusion when Liu Rengong encountered difficulties, resolutely returned to the imperial court to help Liu Rengong, and when he promulgated the Holy Will, Zhang Juhan was very sad to see that Wang Yan and his party were going to be executed, plus this was thousands of lives, so he deliberately mispronounced a word and pronounced the line word into a family word, which saved thousands of lives.