In the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi had been in charge of this Qing Dynasty for half a century, and on the surface it seemed to have unlimited scenery, but in fact, it was not necessarily so flowery inside. why? First, if there is no cold in the heights, there will be a sense of loneliness; second, she has been widowed at a young age, and it is inevitable that there will be times of bitterness in her heart. This distorted her personality.
When Cixi was depressed, what to relieve her anger, Cixi would certainly not harm herself. At this time, he will go and take the eunuch to be angry. From a modern point of view, it is actually the abuse of eunuchs. Fully reveal the dark side of his heart in the eunuch.
For example, once, Cixi was not in a good mood and wanted to play chess to relieve her boredom. It just so happened that Li Lianying was not around, so she found another eunuch to accompany her to play chess. As a result, because the eunuch said when he ate the child, he killed her a "horse", and he did not know which sensitive nerve he touched, which made her furious and scolded: You kill my horse, I kill your whole family. Eventually, the eunuch was pulled out and beaten to death.
Another time, when the eunuch in charge of combing her hair brushed her hair, she combed off a hair. This eunuch knew that Cixi hated losing her hair the most. Therefore, he wanted to hide this hair before Cixi found out. Unfortunately, Cixi saw it in the bronze mirror. She asked the eunuch, what was that? The eunuchs were scattered and did not dare to speak. Cixi was furious and pulled the eunuch out of the room again.
There are many more such examples. In short, most of the eunuchs who served Cixi, except for a very small number like Li Lianying, had been abused by Cixi. Especially during her menopause, being beaten and scolded is commonplace.
Puyi, the last emperor, was also extremely talented in abusing eunuchs. From the age of six or seven, the eunuchs around Puyi began to suffer.
We can't say that Puyi, who is six or seven years old, is already psychologically dark, but from his almost perverted behavior, we can at least find that Puyi is definitely not a mentally sound sunshine teenager.
For example, once Puyi wanted to pee, there was no toilet around, he let the little eunuch next to him open his mouth to urinate, and he also had to grunt and drink. For a child under the age of ten, doing such a vicious thing is not just a mischief. It can be seen that the alienation of power to people is really amazing.
In the "Last Emperor" recorded a real thing, once Pujie and Puyi argued, Puyi lost, angry let the eunuch drink the ink, which eunuch has no way but to drink the ink.
Another time, Puyi went out to play, found a pile of feces on the side of the road (maybe human, maybe animal), Puyi had a sudden idea, let the eunuchs around him eat this stall of feces. According to himself, it was to test whether the eunuch listened to him.
As a result, the eunuch was really obedient (didn't listen?). He lay on the ground and ate the feces clean.
This scene can only be summed up in one word: it is disgusting.