As the ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi has always had mixed praise and criticism of her in later generations, but as a woman in the feudal era, she was able to hold the power of the government in her hands for decades, which has to be said to be very admirable, so some people call her the legendary empress. The legendary empress dowager has attracted much attention, and the red person Li Lianying beside her is no exception, but strangely, the mystery of Li Lianying's death has not yet been solved.
Li Lianying, born in 1848 AD, his family was poor and there were many brothers and sisters, and his father was an unemployed vagrant who could not support so many children at all, so he was clean at the age of seven, entered the palace at the age of eight, and became a eunuch at a young age. Folklore has it that he was appreciated by Cixi because of his hair-combing skills, but this theory has always been controversial, but no matter what he was chosen to serve next to Cixi, it proves that he is a vigilant and sleek person.
Li Lianying became the grand master of the Forbidden City step by step, and was deeply trusted by Cixi, but this had a lot to do with his personal cautious character, no matter how Cixi treated him for many years, he was always able to put himself in the right position and never crossed the line, so even if the people who served around Cixi changed batch after batch, he could always stay by Cixi's side.
Li Lianying has an eight-sided exquisite heart, Cixi and Guangxu discord is a well-known thing, but he can Zhou Xuan between the two, to gain the trust of the two sides, it is said that the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, Cixi took Guangxu to flee west through Baoding, Cixi lived in a gorgeous, comfortable and warm place, Li Lianying as the chief eunuch, the treatment is naturally not bad, but the place where Guangxu lives does not even have a bed, plus it is winter, so Guangxu has no way to sleep.
Later, after Cixi slept, Li Lianying deliberately went to visit the Guangxu Emperor, saw the scene in his house and blamed himself, and immediately took all his mattresses to make a bed for Guangxu, so Guangxu was very grateful to him and praised him as "loyal to the Lord". Li Lianying's most criticized place is greed for money, and there are not a few ministers in the DPRK who have been blackmailed by him, and everyone hates it to the bone but dares to be angry, because Cixi definitely knows about Li Lianying's greed for money, but as long as Li Lianying does not do anything harmful to the dynasty, she can turn a blind eye.
Cixi died in 1908 and Li Lianying left the palace in 1909, but he died only two years after leaving the palace, and experts have not yet figured out the real reason for Li Lianying's death. Some people said that he was killed by enemies in the palace, but he was cautious and careful when serving in the palace, not only trusted by Cixi, but even the palace eunuchs in the palace respected him.
This is not only because he is a red man in the Cixi Palace, but also because he can be a man, be lenient and loving to the people below, and never easily make enemies with people. The Qing Dynasty stipulated that eunuchs were not allowed to interfere in politics, and although Cixi grasped the government, she was moody and could never tolerate Li Lianying's interference in political affairs, so that Li Lianying could not be an enemy of the former dynasty's ministers in the court.
Some people also say that he was killed on the way to collect debts, but this argument is not convincing, because Li Lianying was more than 60 years old when he left the palace, and there were countless gold and silver treasures around him, which was completely enough for him to spend a stable old age, even if someone owed money, he could not personally run outside to ask for debts when he was old.
Li Lianying's step-granddaughter said that he died of dysentery, but he died in early spring, and it was unlikely that he would get dysentery. The mystery of Li Lianying's death is unsolved, and the mystery of his bones reappears. Li Lianying as a famous eunuch at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the tomb is naturally not bad, his tomb in Beijing, exquisitely built, the tomb door is made of hard granite, experts used 3 hammers to open his tomb door.
But to everyone's surprise, there is only one head in his coffin with a long discernment, and the body below is sewn from cotton, and no one knows where his torso went, but according to the tombstone, the body inside should be complete, and I don't know if the mystery will be revealed one day in the future.