Every dynasty and each generation has a lot of disasters caused by eunuchs, in the great palace, as long as the eunuch climbs up the high branch, no matter how clever it is, it can often be reborn as a person, not to mention good or bad, so that you can rely on your own wisdom to climb high from a eunuch between the left and right, and the means are not comparable to ordinary people.
Regarding eunuchs seizing power or eunuchs interfering in politics, there have been all dynasties, but they have still not been able to rectify.
China's last feudal dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, in addition to Li Lianying and a famous eunuch An Dehai, An Dehai since entering the palace, with the head of the aura step by step became the right and left arm of Empress Dowager Cixi, but could not withstand the influence of the desire for money and power, and finally provoked the fire, ended up with a tragic death in the street, even his master Empress Dowager Cixi did not want to save him.
Although a eunuch did not set off a big wind and waves, he was able to play with others and applaud, and from time to time with a clever mouth, he blew the wind in Empress Dowager Cixi's ears and stirred up dissension. Because of his arrogant nature, he forgets his identity and eventually harms others and himself. An Dehai asked the Tongzhi Emperor for an ink treasure, and wrote a "female" in the notice that An Dehai had long held a grudge.
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Anderhay first entered the palace
When Anderhay was young, his fate was miserable, his family was very poor, his parents died early, and he did not suffer a lot at a young age.
After the death of his parents, he and the other children were entrusted to An Bangtai, An Dehai's uncle, who was also a poor man with empty sleeves, and An Dehai plus a younger brother and a sister, a total of three children.
So the brother's middle-aged and older An Dehai was transferred again, and he was sent to the village to do a small job in the home of Old Master Zhang, who was called Zhang Yuzhu, and was the local landlord who had some money, just so-called: drought death, waterlogging death.
In the context of the feudal society of the Qing Dynasty, it was not uncommon, some people were too hungry to eat, and some people were full of delicacies. In Old Master Zhang's house, An Dehai had a good appetite for food, and naturally there was no complaint, and he was just ten years old this year.
In the days of Mr. Zhang's family, An Dehai did everything, and he was very envious of Mr. Zhang's life and wealth, and regarded Mr. Zhang as his idol, and when he was young, he secretly vowed that he would also live a good life.
Old Master Zhang also liked this child who worked sharply and was also clever, and would talk to him. So An Dehai learned that Old Master Zhang had a friend, a eunuch in the palace, and he himself was also a eunuch in the palace in his early years and still had no position, but with this messenger, he could now live so well.
That friend of Old Master Zhang is still in the palace, living a life that Old Master Zhang can't compare, Ande Hai suddenly longed in his heart, the original eunuch can get such a good day, but also can serve around those royal officials and nobles, if he also goes to the palace as a eunuch, is there a chance to turn over in the future.
It was an opportunity, and the only one for Anderhay, who thought about it day and night and finally decided to go to the palace to become a eunuch. Seeing that he was determined to write him a letter of recommendation, Old Master Zhang went to the capital, and after being elected, along with other child prisoners, a total of dozens of people officially entered the palace. He found Liu Duosheng, the friend of Old Master Zhang, through the letter of recommendation, and became his apprentice.
An Dehai studied with the master, to have a look, serving the master every day, learning to observe their preferences, and pleasing them, which was very popular. An de Hai has been in the palace for several years, and finally survived, and his sleek and clever nature makes the master spoil him a lot. Anderhai, who grew up in the palace, knew how to please people the most, and his mind was very active.
An Dehai was originally the personal eunuch of the fourth prince, the future Xianfeng Emperor. Because Xianfeng loved him, After he ascended the throne, An Dehai also got a lot of good and became the emperor's personal eunuch.
Xianfeng Emperor
Anderhay was no longer what he used to be, and he was also deeply aware that if he wanted to survive as a eunuch, he had to rely on his master, and he was so attached to Xianfeng, and so was Yehenara in the future.
Around the emperor, An Dehai learned more, the things in the court, the things in the harem, all of which should not be thought of. The special status also makes Andehai become a red man in the palace, and everyone wants to tie the knot.
Although An Dehai was complacent in his heart, he did not dare to be blatant, and at this time he was quite responsible, but his ambition had never been reduced. Being a low-voiced slave for a long time, even if he is still a slave now, there are still people who have to rely on him, which makes Anderhay inevitably a little fluttery.
An Dehai also wanted to climb higher, and then he set his eyes on a show girl in the harem who had no sense of existence, who was none other than the powerful Empress Dowager Cixi.
At this time, cixi entered the palace not long after being named Yi Guiren, an ordinary woman with no connections. If she wanted to share the favor of the emperor, it was not generally difficult for her to be alone, this Yi Gui was an ambitious person, even if she had not yet grown up, she was not the lord of an fen.
An Dehai saw the potential of Yi Guiren, and he deliberately approached, promising her a chance to let her gain the favor of the emperor. An Dehai is a red man around the emperor, what the emperor likes and does not like, he knows everything, with his help, this matter will definitely be successful. The femininity of Yi Gui's life will also sing some small tunes.
Andehai's cooperation with her is not random, but also after some careful consideration, At this time, Andehai has already seen the deep palace strategy thoroughly.
Ande hai: Climbing Cixi
Yi Guiren entered the palace at the age of seventeen, and was snubbed in the palace, she did not have a strong family background, and hundreds of days and nights in this palace, let her finally realize how important it is to be favored, without power there is nothing.
Andehai wants to help Yi Guiren to find a reliable tree for himself, and Yi Guiren is also happy to have Andehai's help, so the two people hit it off.
Under The Arrangement of Andehai, a minor tune by Yi Gui directly fascinated Xian Feng, and after a night of waiting, Xian Feng found that there was such a wonderful person in his harem. Yi Gui also had some ability, but this time she took Xian Feng's heart, and she was constantly favored in the future, and she and AndeHai were strong and strong, and this grace came to hand.
Soon Yi Guiren gave birth to a dragon fetus, which was the future Tongzhi Emperor, Yi Guiren gave birth to a dragon son, Xianfeng Daxi named her Yi Concubine, and the next year he made her Yi Guifei, Cixi now got what she wanted and received the grace, but this was far from what she wanted, but before she could continue, the Xianfeng Emperor died on the way to escape.
Before XianFeng fled, Concubine Yi had advised that if there was no master in the palace, it would not be more chaotic, and if the emperor stayed, he could still deter one or two, but unfortunately XianFeng was afraid of death and could not listen to it at all.
Xian Feng was making fun all day in the palace, and she didn't ask about the capital at all, Cixi would already handle some court tricks for Xian Feng when she was in the palace, and she knew much better than Xian Feng in political affairs, she looked at the situation at this time, and suddenly felt that she hated iron and steel. Sure enough, before anyone could rebel, Xian Feng himself fell ill, and the problems that came out of the bumps in the road were even more seriously indulged by his drinking and pleasure.
In the end, Xianfeng died hastily in the Rehe Palace due to his physical collapse, and before he died, he could not even hold a pen, so he could only dictate that Zaichun was made crown prince, and sent a total of eight people, including Zaiyuan, to praise all government affairs. Yi Guifei's mother became the Empress Dowager by virtue of her son, and the other person, Niu Cobalt Lu, became the Empress Dowager of the Mother Empress Dowager.
The contradiction between the two empresses and the eight ministers in the Rehe Palace became more and more obvious, and the eight ministers tried to monopolize the power, cixi of course did not want to, and there was an undercurrent in this palace. Among them, the contradiction between Sushun and Cixi was the most serious, and the two had been at odds for a long time.
The empress dowager of the two palaces engaged in a power struggle with the eight ministers of Gu Ming at the Rehe Palace, but the situation was unfavorable to them at this time. The empress dowager and the little emperor were trapped in the palace by the Eight Gu Orders, and had no contact with the outside world, which was really passive. If you can't find a way to contact the capital, then what will happen next is difficult to predict.
This time there was another opportunity for Anderhay to make a contribution, and he consulted with the Yehenara clan on a countermeasure.
The next day, An Dehai took the opportunity to scold a palace maid in the empress dowager' palace, Shuangxi, who was not an ordinary lady, her father was the left collar of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Shuangxi was scolded miserably, the empress dowager angrily punished An Dehai, beat him up like a human, and then threw him out.
An Dehai, who pretended to have made a mistake and was thrown out of the palace, rushed back to the capital to report to Prince Gong Yi as soon as he came out.
Yikes
He hurried back to Beijing with the news and successfully delivered the message to Yi Bi. Yi Bi knew the form in the palace and immediately set off for the palace to discuss with Cixi. Soon after his arrival, he and Cixi launched the "Xin You Coup" to overthrow the eight ministers one by one and successfully left the Rehe Palace.
After the Tongzhi Emperor returned to Beijing, he also officially ascended the throne, and Cixi and Ci'an still held great power and listened to the government. Because of his meritorious service, An Dehai was praised by Cixi and was promoted to the chief steward of changchun palace and was wearing six pins, and Cixi's heavy use of An Dehai made him happy and a little forgetful.
At this time, An Dehai was not only the object of the previous people's struggle, but many people even feared and feared him, because An Dehai was a favored slave by Cixi's side.
Anderhay finally got what he wanted, and he realized that his current position was something that no one could threaten, not even the emperor. The greed for power made Anderhay more arrogant, and he was overly conceited with the empress's prestige.
Obviously, An Dehai did not understand this truth, and thus brought the disaster of killing himself, and even Cixi did not want to protect him. An de Hai did not know how to restrain after he got zhi, he did not understand how much the eunuch spoiled him or the eunuch, and put his position wrong, that is not only not self-measured but also did not want to die. At this time, An de Hai was just eighteen years old, young and intelligent, but his mind was really unfamiliar.
At that time, the little emperor ascended the throne but did not yet have real power, and it was Cixi and Ci'an who were in charge of government affairs.
An Dehai believed that the emperor did not take him seriously at a young age, which made Zaichun eager to kill him and then quickly, in addition to Zaichun, An Dehai also provoked a character, Prince Gong Yiqi. Andehai had been dreaming long enough, and the two men had made Andehai wake up fiercely.
Death of Anderhay
ZaiChun hated An Dehai very much when Xianfeng was alive, and whenever he made any mistakes, An Dehai would go to complain to Cixi, and sometimes deliberately said bad things about the little emperor in front of Cixi.
It is reasonable to say that An Dehai is not a fool, does he not understand the gap between the eunuch and the prince, and blames only the momentary desire for profit, which makes him look at Zaichun too lightly.
Zaichun
Cixi loves to watch drama, and In order to please Cixi, An Dehai has made enough efforts to please Cixi, and one day An Dehai took the people of the opera class to the Cixi Palace, and happened to meet the little emperor, Zai Chun interrogated and asked An De Hai why he was going, but An De Hai bumped Zai Chun with a few words.
A eunuch dared to confront the emperor in front of so many people, Zaichun was furious and immediately ordered someone to beat Up Hai, it was a coincidence that Cixi passed by at this time, and after seeing it, he involuntarily reprimanded the Tongzhi Emperor, and the Tongzhi Emperor was angry, but he did not refute it, and after kicking An Dehai hard, he flew away.
How long has Andehai not suffered this humiliation, the dark psychology continues to ferment, Andehai is eager to take revenge immediately, this person is not only conceited but also very vengeful, like a mouse staring at you in the gutter, disgusting.
Finally Anderhay got his chance. The Tongzhi Emperor fell in love with a palace girl named Xiao Yu, this little girl was only twelve years old, her appearance was cute, her personality was also cute, the Tongzhi Emperor often played with him, and An Dehai knew that after he immediately calculated it.
It is not a big deal for the little emperor to play with a palace maid occasionally, but in the case of people with hearts, they have to make a big fuss. An Dehai immediately ran to Cixi and arranged it in a roundabout way, saying that the emperor was young, and if he was seduced by the palace women, it would cause a great disaster and should be stopped in time.
An Dehai is a veteran in this aspect of flattery, how to speak beautifully and smoothly is not annoying, he understands too well, this complaint in Cixi's words are all concerns about the little emperor, plus there is a reason, Cixi immediately ordered to punish that Xiao Yu.
An Dehai succeeded, Xiaoyu was scolded and seriously injured, Tongzhi was very distressed, and he also knew that it was An Dehai who was obstructing.
Tongzhi was furious at An Dehai's undisciplined and provocative behavior, and wanted to split his body into five horses. Tongzhi already had a murderous intent on An before he ascended the throne, and this time he was even more eager to get rid of Andehai quickly.
The 6-year-old Tongzhi once asked his personal eunuch if he wanted to kill anyone if he became emperor. The eunuch wondered who the little emperor wanted to kill at such a young age, and as a result, Tongzhi said the three words "Xiao Anzi".
In fact, there were too many people up and down the whole dynasty who wanted to kill Andehai, and his appearance of a villain was coupled with the fact that he continued to do evil deeds after that, and all kinds of behavior were unbearable. The man who was digging his own grave didn't notice.
Once, An Dehai asked Tongzhi for an ink treasure, and Tongzhi did not refuse to write a "female" character to him at the moment, and Prince Gong Yibi was also present and laughed after watching it.
An Dehai felt that he had lost face and could not come to the stage, his face was blue and white, this "female" word was not to laugh at him for not being a man or a woman, Ande Hai was secretly stoic in his heart, looking at Tongzhi and Yi Bi both hated to crush their teeth, he was a person with Cixi's support, these two people actually did not put themselves in their eyes.
Yi Bi asked Anderhai if he knew what the word meant? Ande Hai can only say that he doesn't know, Yi Bi continued, do you know what the word An zi is without a head. Andehai thought again, could it be that these two people wanted his head! Yi Bi and TongZhi both wanted him to die, but how did Ande Hai offend Prince Gong.
Prince Gong Yishi was the younger brother of the Xianfeng Emperor and the sixth son of the Daoguang Emperor, and Cixi called him "Old Sixth" on weekdays.
And An Dehai actually called Prince Gong Yi "Xiao Liu", which was a big disrespect, and it just so happened that this matter also reached Prince Gong's ears and was very angry, but because Cixi loved AndeHai, he didn't show anything.
But An Dehai was nervous in his heart, he knew that after Prince Gong was angry because of his disrespect, he was worried all day long, this Prince Gong was Xianfeng's younger brother, and he was also a courtier, and he made a great contribution to the "Xin You Coup".
An Dehai was frightened, so he began to blow the wind in Cixi's ear again, and when Cixi was dissatisfied with Prince Gong's restrictions on her expenses, he spread rumors to Cixi that Prince Gong himself was not frugal, and he also withheld military expenses to build his own garden, and he still had savings abroad.
An Dehai's words drilled into Cixi's ears like a poisonous snake, and under the constant provocation, Cixi looked at Prince Gong more and more unpleasantly, and An Dehai often compared Prince Gong to Sushun, and it was better to spread rumors that Prince Gong had the heart to seize power or be careful with him.
Cixi's suspicions about Yi Bi were rising, she was a person who was very sensitive to power, and in order not to leave hidden dangers, she eventually dismissed Prince Gong from his post, deposed Prince Gong from his position as prince of parliament and expelled him from the military aircraft department.
Prince Gong wondered who was obstructing him, and after some investigation, he found that it was actually Andehai, although the reason for Prince Gong's depose was not so simple, but Andehai did play a role in it. For this daring eunuch, Prince Gong also hated it to the bone.
An Dehai knew that these people wanted him to die, but he always felt that as long as he had Cixi's protection, then he would have no problem, but all these evil things he did, Cixi actually saw in his eyes, and in the big tolerance, he could not calm the anger of the people.
One summer the emperor wanted to buy a new dragon robe, but there was no good embroidery lady in the palace who could undertake this task, so An Dehai took the initiative to ask Cixi to go to Suzhou to find a good embroidery lady to return, and Cixi agreed.
After Andehai prepared a pass, he left the palace in a furious manner, taking the whole family to plan a public-funded tour and enjoy the service of officials from all over the world.
Their momentum was huge, and Andehai hung a brightly colored flag on the boat he was riding, and the dragon and phoenix flag with the words "Bong Zhi Chincha, Procuring dragon robes" was really a show of might. When passing by various places, officials flattered Andehai, prepared money for him, good wine and good dishes, and although Andehai was a dragon robe, it was very extravagant, making it as big as the emperor's departure from the palace.
Some people wanted to curry favor with An Dehai, and some people were very displeased with him, Andehai was notorious, and no one wanted fan to teach him a lesson when he was around Cixi, but at this time, the Emperor of Heaven was far away, and there was a righteous man who wanted to punish this evil person.
Waiting for Anderhay in the front, there is no good wine or good food but shackles.
Ding Baozhen, a famous minister of ZTE, had already heard of this eunuch who was causing trouble in the palace, and when he heard that An Dehai was about to pass by, he immediately ordered people to keep an eye on An Dehai and arrest him as long as he did something illegal. Arrange his subordinates layer by layer and capture him in one fell swoop as he passes by the river.
Ding Baozhen
On the other hand, after Tongzhi in the palace learned the news of An Dehai's departure from the palace, he immediately consulted with Ci'an, who had long been vocal about the various actions between An Dehai and Cixi.
She knew that if there was a recital, she would definitely send it to Cixi's side first, so on the pretext of letting the little emperor study political affairs, she asked the Inner Orchestra Office to give priority to sending the recital to Tongzhi.
Tongzhi approved the recital for a month, and finally waited for An Dehai's recital, Ding Baozhen had already arrested An Dehai and said that he was a fake Chincha, Andehai was not convinced at first, but he did only get Cixi's dictation, without any proof, and when Ding Baozhen wanted to put him to death, he was afraid.
After Tongzhi received the request to execute An Dehai, he quickly summoned Prince Gong Yishi, as well as the Minister of Internal Affairs Mingshan and the Minister of Military Aircraft, and Tongzhi ordered people to raid Andehai while sending a secret message for Ding Baozhen to execute Andehai.
Cixi was ill at this time, and when she heard the news that Andehai's family had been raided, she immediately came to Tongzhi, but she did not stop it, and it seems that Cixi actually had a murderous intention for An Dehai.
After Ding Baozhen prayed, He put An Dehai to death in the early morning of the next day, and his body was hung on the city gate for public display. How Did An Dehai not expect that he would be killed in Jinan when he left the palace this time, and ended up in this fate, blaming him for not knowing how to restrain and harming others and ultimately harming himself.
summary
An Dehai got everything he had never had before by relying on the crooked mind of flattery, greed finally made him punished, if An Dehai was really smart and determined not to step on others when climbing up, stepping on figures such as the emperor and Prince Gong, even if they did not have the power of Cixi, they should also know that rabbits will bite people when they are anxious, let alone wolves without teeth.
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