A lot of people love history, and what fascinates us about history is its drama, because you don't know that a beggar will become emperor, and you don't think that a very powerful dynasty will only exist for a few decades, and you don't know that a dynasty will collapse because of that little person. In the ancient feudal society, there was such a profession, although they were in the palace, but their status was very low, not even a complete person. In ancient times, in order to prevent eunuchs from having some improper relations with women in the palace, they were usually castrated before entering the palace, and it was precisely because of this that eunuchs were looked down upon by the people in the palace.
Although these eunuchs were looked down upon by others in the palace, there have been many outstanding figures in history, but most of them are negative teaching materials, which are related to the chaos of the government. The one I want to introduce to you today is the most threatening eunuch at the end of the Ming Dynasty- Wei Zhongxian. The struggle between Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Party at that time has always been the topic we talk about the most after tea and dinner, but if it were not for the execution of Wei Zhongxian later, which led to the financial tension of the country, and finally led to the gradual growth of the Donglin Party and the gradual decline of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, Wei Zhongxian was originally an ordinary person at the beginning, and he did not even have to eat at home, and finally had to choose to enter the palace as a eunuch, and finally took a keshi in the palace, emptying the emperor's rights. Here Keshi is Zhu Youxiao's nursing mother, and Keshi treats Zhu Youxiao like his own child. In the end, because Zhu Youxiao became emperor, Keshi also got a lot of power and began to do whatever he wanted in the harem, and at this time Wei Zhongxian also gained Keshi's trust.
At the beginning, the Donglin Party was the largest party at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and their biggest shortcoming was corruption and greed, and they wanted to snatch the country's governance power from the emperor's hands. However, at this time, Wei Zhongxian stood up. Wei Zhongxian was different from the Donglin Party, he did not hesitate to use any means for the sake of the end, and such means were the best way to deal with the Donglin Party, he was a master of playing with power, his vision was beyond doubt, and in the end Wei Zhongxian also eliminated many important figures of the Donglin Party.
Although Wei Zhongxian had great power, he did not treat the people sincerely and did not increase taxes on the people, so his prestige in Jiangnan was very high, and the people also built ancestral halls for Wei Zhongxian. Later, after Zhu Youxiao's death, the Donglin Party seized the emperor's ascension to the throne and directly overthrew Wei Zhongxian, and the great situation created by Wei Zhongxian before him no longer existed. The Donglin Party began to loot the people's anointing, which eventually led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, and although Wei Zhongxian's behavior was very bad, he always restrained the Donglin Party, so after Wei Zhongxian's death, the Daming Dynasty was also destroyed.