To be a king, to stop at benevolence, to be a subject, to be respectful. In the ancient feudal society, the relationship between kings and subjects was undoubtedly more humble than a dynasty, from the Spring and Autumn Period when the monarchs and subjects respected each other as guests, to the Qing Dynasty's courtiers' waist plate has long been unable to stand straight, and even a look at the holy face has to tremble and tremble, the relationship between kings and subjects changes, which actually means that China's feudal system is gradually tightened and perfected.
However, in the Tang Dynasty, a strange scene occurred, the eunuch held the power of the emperor in his hands, and the prince, in order to regain the imperial power, also dressed up as a pig and ate a tiger, pretended to be crazy and sold stupid for decades to successfully ascend to the throne, and just ascended to the throne, he crushed the delusions of the eunuch dictatorship with a holy will.
This eunuch is the famous eunuch Ma Yuanzhen in history, and the era of his wei zuofu is when Tang Wuzong was in power, and when this emperor was in power, Ma Yuanzhen can be said to have enjoyed all the power and wealth.
Although in ancient times, the power of the Son of Heaven was unpredictable, people had become accustomed to bowing their knees to the emperor, and even the emperors of all generations gradually thought that they were really the son of heaven, the true son of the dragon under the self-deification. However, those who really approach the center of power are either crushed or seize the opportunity to turn themselves into masters.
It is precisely for this reason that successive emperors, who were at the top of the power, tried their best to limit the power of their subjects, from qin shi huang setting up the imperial history to supervise hundreds of officials, to later Emperor Wu of Han, in order to prevent dictatorship, on the basis of the imperial history system, adding assassins to patrol all places; and finally Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, while simply abolishing the system of ministers, did not forget to inspect and inspect local officials. But they could not defend the hundred officials, but they could not prevent the eunuchs who were closest to them.
And the Ma Yuanzhen we are going to talk about today is sitting as an eunuch in a position below one person and above ten thousand people.
When did the eunuch appear, look through the annals of history, this tragic role has appeared since the pre-Qin period, and the eunuch system has been gradually perfected, called palace punishment. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, set up a permanent attendant, and after the eunuch entered the court as an eunuch, although he lost the most important place for men, he also got an opportunity to be closest to the center of power.
In the past dynasties, there have been countless eunuchs in power, and since Qin, Zhao Gao has been in trouble in the world, and if it were not for this person to do the work and let the prince Hu Hai ascend to the throne, Qin would not have died twice. And Ma Yuanzhen, as a great eunuch who held great power, compared with these predecessors who were a disaster for the court, but "the ghost sent the gods" to support a holy prince to come to power, and also buried his own life.
After Tang Wuzong's death, Ma Yuanzhen was not only not sad, but secretly rejoiced in his heart, thinking that this was a good opportunity to strengthen his position once in a lifetime. Although it was impossible for an eunuch to seize the throne, he could support a puppet who was easier to control than Tang Wuzong. With the idea set, Ma Yuanzhen and his group of power circles began to pick and choose the "Ming Jun" they wanted in the royal family.
As a result, Li Chen fell into the sight of this group of people. During the Tang Wuzong period, many people thought that this former emperor's uncle was a demented fool, and many people in the imperial family still liked to make fun of this emperor's uncle when they gathered, but Li Chen was always demented to deal with it, and over time, the courtiers, including Ma Yuanzhen, believed that this person was the easiest person in the royal family to control.
So Ma Yuanzhen chose Li Chen, who was "crazy and crazy", and also chose to stand by his name. However, everyone saw through that they had set up Li Chen only to covet power and seize the opportunity to take power, but unfortunately, at this time, an alliance was formed between Ma Yuanzhen and Li Deyu, the prime minister of the DPRK, and the courtiers of the DPRK and the CENTRAL Were intimidated, and they dared not speak out, and even those who tended to be inflamed and followed the power were willing to become eunuchs' dog legs. After defeating the former empress, who had the only obstacle to the succession to the throne, the castration party was victorious, and Li Chen sat on the throne in such a vacuum.
On the day li Chen ascended to the throne, the people of the world mourned everywhere, and everyone in the country thought that the country would not be a country, and the wind of the tang dynasty might really be extinguished. But from the moment Li Chen sat on the throne, the various faces of the courtiers in the court had all been included in his eyes, and then something in the eyes of this demented child in the eyes of others suddenly changed.
At this time, Li Chen's ascension to the throne was already a matter of certainty, and the Qunchen were still wavering left and right between yielding to Ma Yuanzhen, Li Deyu, and indomitable, but li Chen, in one day, disposed of the accumulated Tianxia Chapters in an orderly manner, and immediately issued a will: abolish the position of the power minister Li Deyu and demote the power of Ma Yuanzhen. A holy will had already determined the fate of Ma Yuanzhen, and Li Chen also created the last afterglow of the late Tang Dynasty after regaining imperial power.