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In the late Qing Dynasty Palace, the most favored by Empress Dowager Cixi, and at the same time the longest pampered, was li Lianying, the chief eunuch.
However, the politics in the palace are full of twists and turns, and Li Lianying has not always been favored.
Especially after Guangxu became an adult, due to the constant friction between Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, Li Lianying, as the chief supervisor of the palace, inevitably walked some tightrope.
Logically speaking, Li Lianying had been favored by Empress Dowager Cixi for many years and should be loyal to empress dowager;
But on the other hand, Empress Dowager Cixi was already old after all, and sooner or later the Guangxu Emperor would have to take power, and offending either side could bring himself the disaster of killing himself.
No, Li Lianying swayed left and right, and later let Empress Dowager Cixi see it.
After the coup d'état, Li Lianying gradually lost the trust of Empress Dowager Cixi, while another eunuch, Cui Yugui, took advantage of the situation.
For example, the dirty work of going to Yingtai to monitor Guangxu and even throwing Zhenfei into a well was also done by Cui Yugui.
After the end of the year, the Guangxu Emperor was placed under house arrest, and the eunuchs at that time tended to be inflamed and attached to the situation, and they all treated Guangxu coldly, but Li Lianying was still not falling into the well.
The Testament of Emperor Dezong records such a story:
In the middle of the year of Gengzi, Empress Dowager Cixi fled west with Guangxu and did not return to Beijing until after the signing of the Treaty of Xinugu.
At the time of walking to Baoshi, the group stopped to rest, and at that time, Empress Dowager Cixi's bedroom was laid out with gorgeous flowers and supplied Zhou Bei.
When Li Lianying waited for Empress Dowager Cixi to sleep, the eunuchs and the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also dispersed, or drank and gambled or rested.
Li Lianying later went to Guangxu's bedroom and found that there was not a single eunuch inside, only Guangxu was sitting alone in front of the oil lamp.
Li Lianying knelt down and asked, "Why doesn't the master sleep at this time?" ”
Guangxu said, "Look at this room and teach me how to sleep?" ”
Li Lianying took a look and found that in the middle of winter, there was no quilt in the Guangxu house except for the mattress and the chair pillow.
When Li Lianying saw this, she immediately knelt down and hugged Guangxu's leg and cried bitterly:
"The slaves are really guilty of a sin and deserve to die!"
Then he hurriedly brought his bedding and said:
"It is late tonight, and it is no longer possible to preach to them, this is the bedding they have set for the slaves, please use it with the master, and there is no way to add to the sins of the slaves."
After Guangxu returned to Beijing, he often read about this matter, saying: "If it were not for Li Li's answer (Manchu, that is, the meaning of the master), I am afraid I would not have lived today." ”
In the last ten years of Guangxu, she was often embarrassed by Empress Dowager Cixi, and Li Lianying did not fall into the well, and sometimes gave Guangxu a little care within the scope of her ability.
In this way, compared with other eunuchs who tended to be inflamed, Li Lianying was still quite generous.