"Eunuchs" or "eunuchs" are often seen in current film and television dramas that eunuchs in history have existed for thousands of years, accompanied by the continuous change of feudal dynasties, until the collapse of the last feudal dynasty, which completely withdrew from the historical stage.
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Eunuchs are castrated men, physically handicapped, neither male nor female. The pain after castration not only brought them physical pain, but also brought them psychological wounds that could not be healed.
In order to ensure the authenticity of the bloodline, the imperial family used inhumane methods to turn the male servants in the palace into eunuchs.
The fate of the eunuchs is very miserable, from childhood or abandoned by their parents, or abducted, or they themselves in order to survive and eat, they are forced by the injustice of fate, and embark on this road is doomed to be discriminated against, insulted, perverted road of no return.
Speaking of eunuchs, some people will think of Zhao Gao, who "refers to deer as horses", Wei Zhongxian, the "nine thousand years old" who usurped power arbitrarily, and Li Lianying, the first eunuch in front of Empress Dowager Cixi, etc., all of which are negative images anyway.
In fact, there are also many famous figures among them, although they are crippled, they have not changed their ambitions and made great contributions to China's development, with far-reaching influence.
For example, the "papermaking technique" invented by the eunuch Cai Lun changed the ancient Chinese writing materials, which were both economical and lightweight, and promoted the progress of the cultural industry;
The great navigator Zheng He, also a eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, organized the world's largest voyage at that time and went to the West seven times, which set a precedent for Chinese civilization to go to the world.
Zheng He
Of course, China had a system of eunuchs, as well as abroad, almost all over Asia and the Mediterranean coast.
Their special life encounters also deduced a story of sadness and joy, which made people sigh and sigh.
First, the eunuch's body has no freedom, and even feelings do not belong to themselves
The ancient Persian Empire (550-330 BC) was the first great power to span three continents: Asia, Europe and Africa. The Persian ruler was given unparalleled wealth and a huge land area, which did not fill his desires, and he also had countless beautiful women in the world.
However, the harem beauty of three thousand, the persian ruler is worried, because the harem male servants are also indispensable, not good, green hats also have to carry three thousand.
At this time, a close confidant told the Persian rulers, "King, why don't you use eunuch male servants?"
In a word, the dreamer can solve the problem of employing people in the court and avoid being "green", which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
The Persian rulers began to replace all the male servants in the palace with eunuchs. The society at that time despised eunuchs very much, and seeing eunuchs as ominous, they had to meet eunuchs on the street, and eunuchs had to bow their heads to apologize.
There are also noble families, but the number is small, since the palace a large number of recruitment and use, it has brought a brand effect, slave traders, human traffickers began to abduct through the pit, the young children sent into the palace after the net body.
Other nobles followed suit in the palace, replacing male householders with eunuchs, which formed a blue ocean market, and since eunuchs were in short supply, the rulers issued decrees allowing the castration of war criminals to supplement the market's deficiencies.
After the castration of captured war criminals, as male servants, it seems that there are very few in China, after all, they are enemies and cannot afford to put them around to kill each other, and the Chinese rulers are still relatively smart.
In addition, the eunuchs of ancient China only existed in the palace, and other princes and nobles did not have this privilege, so the number was enough.
These eunuchs were recruited into the palace, some were still young, and when they grew up, there was no shortage of handsome men, beautiful boys, which appeared male pets, the ruler was after all one, and the harem beauties all found some male pets as tools to accompany themselves to relieve their boredom; in addition, because these eunuchs were not only handsome, but also able to speak the Tao, know how to read people's hearts, they would be elected to serve the ruler, and even sleep with the ruler, like a husband and wife.
In order to better get the appreciation of the master, the eunuch must change the law to please the master, the rules in the palace are strict, in addition to the body is not free, even their true feelings can not be arbitrarily revealed, so that the master will not be happy, which forms the eunuch's perverted psychology, moody and sad, to the master's preferences change, the master is sad, he wants to laugh again, but also has to turn out to tears, let the master think that you are his intimate person.
Later, the Arab Empire (632-1258), which dominated the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, also existed in the eunuch system, and even used eunuchs of different skin colors, which can be seen in the original work of "One Thousand and One Nights", and the existence of black slaves in the palace.
Second, the cycle of cause and effect will eventually have retribution
History, the famous book of Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC), the father of Western history, has a story about the revenge of the eunuchs.
In the 5th century BC, Hermodimus was sold as a prisoner of war to Parnionius, a castrated merchant, and his pleas did not impress Panionius's mercy.
As a successful castration dealer, such scenes have been seen a lot, what prostrations, rolling on the ground, hitting the wall hanging, biting the tongue and committing suicide...
This plea was nothing, and in the end Hermodim succeeded in becoming an eunuch and being sold into the palace at a high price.
Such a thing will not leave the slightest impression on the castration dealers, which is their daily business after all.
Helmotim, who had become neither a man nor a woman, accepted all this calmly after experiencing painful struggles. Because Ofimothim was an officer, well-informed, and proficient in martial arts, he soon became a close eunuch of Xerxes I of the Persian kingdom (c. 519-465 BC).
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Because of his tragic experience, he never forgot the castrated peddler Panionius who made him miserable.
In the years that followed, he searched for the whereabouts of his enemies, and finally met the castrated peddler Panionius during his conquest of Greece.
Hermodim did not directly solve the enemy, because that would be too cheap for the other party.
He was overjoyed to see Panionius and told the castration dealer about his origins, saying that all this was due to him sending himself to the palace.
He was also graciously invited to live with his family in the Imperial City and to be responsible for all their expenses. Such a good thing made Panionius as sweet as honey, and immediately packed up and followed Hermodim back to the imperial city.
However, what awaited him was not a good thing, but the public castration of all four of his sons and the coercion of his son to castrate Panionius.
This cruel revenge also shows that the eunuchs have great contempt for and hatred for their identity, and their mentality has also been distorted.
Third, eunuchs interfered in the affairs of the dynasty and plotted to usurp the throne, both at home and abroad
During China's feudal rule, eunuchs had monopoly power and even usurpers. In the case of the grand eunuch Zhao Gao, he made his son and baby emperor, and he himself bowed to the government.
There was also Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng, of course, not his grandfather, Cao Teng was the leader of the eunuchs at that time, he and the general Liang Ji joined forces to establish Liu Zhi as emperor, that is, The Han Huan Emperor in Zhuge Liang's "did not sigh and hate Huan Lingye" in zhuge Liang's master's table. Later, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi was proclaimed emperor, and Cao Teng was made Emperor Gao of Wei and the first eunuch in China to become emperor.
Liu Jin, the Ming Dynasty's grand eunuch, was sentenced to Ling Chi for plotting to usurp the throne.
Foreign eunuchs were even more so, not at all implicit, killing and setting fire to naked people and seizing imperial power.
At the end of the Achaemenid dynasty, in just a few years, two kings were poisoned, and both princes and princesses were killed. And the black hand behind this scene is the once most trusted eunuch Bagoas.
After the Roman Empire was divided into east and west, the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire, 395-1453) produced an eunuch named John.
In order to gain supreme power, John introduced his young and handsome brother to Empress Zoe ( reigned 1028-1050 ) , who was more than a hundred and a half years old , and after his brother succeeded in capturing the queen 's heart , John murdered her husband without hesitation.
John's younger brother Michael became the second husband of Empress Zoe and received the same throne, known historically as "Emperor Michael IV and Empress Zoe I".
He and his brother controlled the government for a long time, gradually emptying the power of Empress Zoe.
Aga Mohammed Qajar, the eunuch emperor of Iran
China has a eunuch cao teng as the emperor, and foreign eunuchs as the emperor, that is, the last dynasty in Iranian history, the Qajar dynasty, the emperor's name is Aga Mohammed Qajar.
In general, the emergence of eunuchs is a tragedy of the times, no matter whether the historical evaluation of eunuchs is good or bad, there are only a few representative figures, in fact, most of them are humbly living in the case of physical and mental damage.
As Li Lianying said: "We eunuchs, who have no one to love before we die, keep this thing, and only ask for a whole corpse after death."
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