During the Qing Dynasty, there was an empress dowager who held heavy power and pushed the Qing Dynasty to the end of decay, and she was Cixi. Cixi was a difficult person to serve, and her nature was also difficult to understand, but there was a powerful eunuch at her side, who had been serving at her side for many years and had been reused, and he was Li Lianying.
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He was originally from Hebei, a hooligan in the local area, he could not do anything on the table, and later because he sold contraband prohibited by the government, he was arrested and imprisoned by the government. Later, he somehow escaped from the cell, set up a stall on the street and began to repair shoes for a living. The hardships of life made him feel that this livelihood was not the way to go, so he followed the example of many fellow villagers and took the initiative to enter the palace as a eunuch in order to earn more money. It is reasonable to say that men are more evasive about such things as being eunuchs, and ordinary people who want to become such people have a resistance psychology, and most of the eunuchs who enter the palace are forced, but he enters the palace voluntarily, which is also a strange thing at that time.
After entering the palace, he was very liked by the empress, and was once rewarded with the official hat of Erpin, according to the records, the highest eunuch at that time was only the top of The Four Pins, but he was the equivalent of the Erpin Chieftain, which is also the number one person in history, and he had experienced four emperors when he was on duty, none of whom had rich experience, and it can also be said that his current achievements are rewarded by the master.
The emperor once missed him very much, and once said that if it were not for him, he might have died a long time ago.
At that time, because of the Eight League Incident, Guangxu and the empress escaped from the capital together, and later when he was resting, he found that Guangxu did not have a quilt that could withstand the cold, so he gave him his quilt, which also showed that he could go so far for a reason, but it also proved that he was a generous person, because when Guangxu was imprisoned later, he did not fall into the well, which is very rare in the public.
After being a eunuch for half a century, he chose to leave the palace when he was a master, after all, he had entered the palace to survive, and he had saved a lot of money over the years. But he died three years after he left the palace, and the court was preparing a generous funeral. For this kind of tomb, the tomb robber should be unavoidable, it must have been dug up long ago to loot the valuable things, but the fact is that such a thing did not happen, which makes people wonder why no one moved his tomb?
Later, after expert excavations of the tomb, this secret was also revealed. The staff present at the time were all shocked by that scene. Because his coffin did not contain Li Lianying's body, only a head. Later, after investigation, it was found that his death was not a normal death, and perhaps when he left the palace, he had a premonition that such a thing would happen, so he chose to return to his hometown to retire, but in the end he still failed to escape this fate.