To say that the most famous eunuchs in history, many people will mention Zhao Gao, Gao Lishi, Li Lianying and others. Due to the physical mutilation of eunuchs, many eunuchs had dark hearts, and from time to time in Chinese history, a eunuch jumped out to interfere in the government and became a famous traitor. However, there are not many good eunuchs, such as Zheng He and Cai Lun.
In addition to these very famous eunuchs, there is another eunuch who has not left his name in the history books, but the title of "the kindest eunuch", he deserves it, because he risked the world and his own killing, saving more than a thousand people, this person's name is Zhang Juhan. The famous literary scholar Ouyang Xiu once mentioned that "JuHan is more than a word to live a thousand people" and regarded him as his own learning example. So why did Zhang Juhan dare to challenge authority and tamper with the Holy Will?
Zhang Juhan was an important eunuch of the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty, born in 857. Not long after, he was adopted by Zhang Congmei and thus embarked on a political career and became an important eunuch around Emperor Tang. Because he was serious and careful, and did not form parties with others for personal gain, Tang Yizong also gave him crimson clothes as a reward.
After some time, he was sent to Youzhou to supervise the military, and he had a good time with the governor of Youzhou, and it was because of this that he saved his life. At that time, Tang Yizong decided to transfer him back, but the governor of Youzhou, because he was reluctant to let him, asked to keep him. When the emperor saw that they had a deep friendship, he thought that this was not a big deal, so he agreed to let Zhang Juhan stay.
Unexpectedly, when 903 arrived, Zhu Quanzhong wrote to the emperor to strip the eunuchs of their positions, and even kill them. Fortunately, Zhang Juhan did not return to the court, Liu Rengong hid him, pretended to kill him, and Zhang Juhan escaped the disaster. After Zhang Juhan went into seclusion after this battle, just when a major war broke out, Liu Rengong lent him to Li Ke.
Zhang Juhan, with his outstanding ability, made great contributions in the great war, and when Li Ke saw that he was so capable, he was unwilling to return him to Liu Rengong, so Zhang Juhan commanded the battle under Li Ke. However, during the Five Dynasties period, wars were frequent, and war after war created generation after generation of kings and kings, and after Li Ke's death, his son destroyed the Liang state in one fight after another, and officially ascended the throne in 923.
Three years later, Wang Yan rebelled, and Li Cunxun was so angry that he sent a bunch of people to suppress it. Wang Yan clearly realized that he was powerless to resist, so he judged the situation and surrendered. Li Cunxun was very happy and promised to give them fiefs, but he did not expect that when Wang Yan and his party arrived in the capital, they just happened to meet Li Cunxun who was about to march on the imperial conquest. Some ministers sensed the crisis and believed that if Wang Yan was not killed, it was very likely that chaos would increase. Li Cunxun thought about it for a moment, and quickly wrote down the edict and sent someone to issue an order to kill.
Zhang Juhan just happened to review the edict at this time, and he believed that the emperor had clearly agreed, and then rebelled, which would first cause the people's hearts to scatter grievances and make the world dare not return to their hearts; second, it was really not in line with heavenly reason. Therefore, at this time, he deliberately mispronounced the holy will, and changed the line in the edict to a home, and changed it to just killing Wang Yan's family.
The emperor and the eunuchs who ordered it did not know that Zhang Juhan was so bold, and what was more coincidental was that Li Cunxun was too busy to take care of himself because of the chaos of the war, and he could not divide his mind to see if the edict was really implemented. Therefore, Zhang Juhan saved the lives of more than a thousand people and stopped the unnecessary killing. He who did good deeds is regarded as a righteous gentleman, the so-called "good has good rewards", the good deeds he did in life were also returned to himself, in 928, he died of illness, a total of 71 years of life, can be regarded as a rare long-lived old man in ancient times.