The origin of the position of eunuch can be traced back to the pre-Qin, "Book of Poetry", "Zhou Li", "Book of Rites" have relevant records, eunuchs have no right to interfere in government affairs, at best is a slave who does some chores, but after all, in the imperial palace, there are also many eunuchs who can rely on their own efforts to live a life of fine clothes and jade food, and the eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty are more poor children born in the young age and sent to the palace as slaves, of which the representative figure Li Lianying is a model case.
Li Lianying, whose original name was Li Jinxi, was born on November 12, 1848 in Lijia Village, Zangtun Township, Dacheng County, Hebei Province, and was castrated and sent to the palace as a eunuch at the age of seven, after entering the palace, Li Lianying was only eight years old at this time, but like most eunuchs, her status was despicable, and she worked in the Jingren Palace and the Music Office for eight years, and then she was transferred to Cixi, who saw that he would come and gradually became fond of him, so she gave him the name "Li Lianying".
At that time, The red man An Dehai around Cixi actually entered the palace with Li Lianying, but An Dehai was not as smooth as Li Lianying in terms of dealing with the world, probably with Cixi behind his back, and later he was also maimed by his arrogance, and after An Dehai's death, Li Lianying smoothly took over his task to serve Cixi.
In fact, in the early years, Li Lianying treated her superiors with great respect and respect, and treated her subordinates with a kind heart, and she was able to handle leniency without being aggressive, and in the early years, she was also respected by everyone by virtue of her own personality, although Li Lianying's appearance was indeed not good.
According to the historical records and photos, Li Lianying's eyes are a veritable moderate swollen eye bubble, there are several pimples on the face and a full face of hemp, the face is fierce, and his appearance is basically farewell to the average appearance line of the public, but basically this does not affect Cixi's favor for him, this aspect is still due to li Lianying's too good to do things, emotional intelligence is extremely high, basically put into the existence of the top domestic public relations now.
Li Lianying once accompanied Cixi to watch Yang Xiaolou's performance, this day Cixi was in a good mood and wanted to reward Yang Xiaolou, who knew that Yang Xiaolou proposed that he wanted Cixi inscription to give to him, and it was estimated that the only person who dared to talk to Cixi at that time was the late Empress Dowager Ci'an.
But did not expect that Cixi not only did not get angry but laughed and ordered others to bring pen and ink and paper, and wrote out a "Fu" word, who knew that the Blessing written by Cixi was next to the clothes word, one more point, the scene was extremely embarrassing, at this time Li Lianying said: "Oh! Lafayette has a little more than anyone else in the world, and it is really Hong Fuqitian! This allowed the crowd to break the dilemma.
Li Lianying, who was sleek by nature, would not even remain in politics, and it should be known that the eunuchs at that time basically fell into the quagmire as soon as they were involved in politics, and they were afraid that they would retreat after they achieved success, but Li Lianying was different, in the reform and change of law at that time, when the two forces of Guangxu, who were the opposition cixi and the support faction, were deadlocked, as Cixi and Guangxu's "pillow people", Li Lianying adopted a position plan that no one supported and no one opposed.
It is even more dependent on his own personality to make Empress Dowager Cixi trust him more, and even broke the eunuch handed down by the Yongzheng Emperor to the upper limit of four pins, in one fell swoop, Li Lianying rose to the second pin, and gave the erpin to wear a flower plume, at this time Li Lianying was only 46 years old, in fact, not only cixi can do perfect, in the side of the Guangxu Emperor, Li Lianying is even more deeply trusted, to what extent is this trust? Directly let Guangxu sigh: "Without Li Chenda (Li Lianying), I would not have lived today." ”
When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the capital, Cixi led the big guys to escape from the capital, and each of them arranged to a temporary residence, Cixi needless to say that even if it was a temporary residence, it was also very luxurious and luxurious, and the red man Li Lianying around him also followed the blessings, and the residence was naturally not much worse, only the poor Guangxu Emperor did not even have a cover, trembling against the candle.
After being seen by Li Lianying, she didn't know if she really sympathized with Guangxu, so she hugged Guangxu's thigh and said in pain, "Slaves deserve to die!" Did not take good care of His Majesty and let His Majesty suffer such grievances! Later, he gave all his futon cover to Guangxu, so in Guangxu's heart, Li Lianying's image has always been good.
On November 15, 1908, Empress Dowager Cixi died, and when Li Lianying had completed the funeral of Empress Dowager Cixi, shou xiao left the capital after a hundred days of filial piety, officially retired, and two years after returning to her hometown, Li Lianying also died. In 1966, after Li Lianying's mausoleum was excavated, it was found that Li Lianying's body was separated, the body was still there, but the body did not know where it had been, and most of the explanations given were basically not enough and valid evidence to support it, so it has been a mystery until now.