Liu Jin, a great eunuch during the Ming Dynasty, went from an ordinary person with no name to relying on his ability to sneak and shoot horses, and eventually became a eunuch who was in charge of the government and the opposition, and could play right and wrong in the court, treat the emperor to conceal deception, and treat his colleagues cruelly.
It is precisely because of these reasons that Liu Jin was eventually executed by Ling Chi, becoming the person with the largest number of Ling Chi knives in ancient history, a total of 3357 knives, which was breathtaking, so how did Liu Jin step by step go to the road of destruction, and how tragic was it when he was Ling Chi?
Liu Jin's path to fame
Liu Jin, whose original name was Tan Jin, was born in an ordinary family in Xingping, Xianyang, Shaanxi, and was adopted by the eunuch Liu Shun at the age of 6, and after being trained by the eunuch Liu Shun, he went to the imperial palace and became an ordinary eunuch and changed his name to Liu Jin.
Thanks to Liu Shun's education from an early age, Liu Jin's life as a small eunuch in the imperial palace was relatively smooth, except for the hongzhi years, because he was almost killed because of a work mistake, there was no other big storm.
The eunuch group during the Ming Dynasty can be described as a most complex group, Liu Jin grew up in such an environment, for some of the art of power can be described as a good understanding, just waiting for the opportunity to implement it well, Liu Jin's first thing to do was to seduce Li Guang, the most popular eunuch at that time, at this time Liu Jin just came out of the storm of work mistakes and almost died, Liu Jin deeply understood what power in the palace represented.
I have to say that Li Guang is indeed very capable, after Liu Jin found him, he was soon arranged to serve the then prince Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao grew up in the doting of his parents since he was a child, he had no opinion and was relatively willful, in the process of serving Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin had figured out zhu Houzhao's personality characteristics.
After the death of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming, Zhu Houzhao, who was only 15 years old, ascended the throne as emperor, and relying on the careful care of Zhu Houzhao in the past, Liu Jin was able to change from an ordinary eunuch to a grand eunuch in charge of guarding the five thousand battalions of Emperor Wuzong of Ming, such a position, in the Ming Dynasty at that time, can be regarded as the real power holder of the foreign dynasty, that is, relying on this power foundation, Liu Jin began a life of opening and hanging.
When Emperor Xiaozong of Ming died, he arranged for Liu Jian to be a loyal vassal, hoping that he would assist Zhu Houzhao as a good emperor, but Zhu Houzhao did not listen to Liu Jian's advice at all, but instead gradually lost himself under Liu Jin's sneaky patting, Liu Jin in order to please Zhu Houzhao, not only found him a variety of fun things such as eagle dogs, but also searched for a large number of beautiful women to dedicate to Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao played well and happily.
Just as the so-called playthings lose their minds, Zhu Houzhao is under the seduction of Liu Jin, and finally became an emperor who likes to play and does not like officials, just to achieve Liu Jin's purpose, and even in order to get more decision-making power, Liu Jin often went to talk about political affairs before Zhu Houzhao was looking for fun, Zhu Houzhao was often disturbed, and he was really bored to ask Liu Jin to make his own decisions, without asking himself.
As Liu Jin's status in the palace became higher and higher, and he also became the "Eight Tigers" with Ma Yongcheng, Gao Feng, and others, he acted recklessly in the middle of the dynasty, causing dissatisfaction among Liu Jian and others, and finally Liu Jian joined forces with Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Jiao Fang, and others to impeach the Eight Tigers.
Zhu Houzhao, in anger, finally ordered to send the Eight Tigers to Nanjing, away from himself, but just when the matter was about to develop to the next step, Jiao Fang rebelled, he secretly went to liu jin and others to ventilate the news, so that Liu Jin was prepared, Liu Jin quickly went to find Zhu Houzhao, crying bitterly, pouring out his loyalty to Zhu Houzhao and how he had served Zhu Houzhao before, Zhu Houzhao recalled the past in Liu Jin's crying, suddenly felt pity, and chose to continue to believe Liu Jin.
In the end, Liu Jin not only had nothing to do with each other, but also sent Wang Yue, the original grand eunuch of Si Lijian, to Nanjing as a scapegoat, and Liu Jin was fortunate to become the grand eunuch of Si Li Jian, and instead of descending, he rose, and those who impeached Liu Jin at the beginning, such as Liu Jian and others, were later cruelly picked up by Liu Jin.
These people were either punished by Liu Jin indiscriminately, or disposed of by him using a random stick, and the ending was quite bleak, but Zhu Houzhao did not seem to care about all this, Liu Jin became more and more arrogant in the dprk, and many people were worried that they would be targeted by Liu Jin, and for a while people were panicked.
Liu Jin stepped down
As the saying goes, if you live well, many acts of injustice will kill yourself, and Liu Jin's life just fully proves this truth. Liu Jin was so arrogant in the court that Zhang Yong, one of the members of the Eight Tigers who had followed him, had long been dissatisfied with Liu Jin, feared and hated him, and wanted to replace Liu Jin and prevent him from being persecuted by Liu Jin.
Just when the King of Anhua in Gansu was forced by Liu Jin to rebel helplessly, which attracted the attention of Zhu Houzhao, he specially arranged for Yang Yiqing to suppress the rebellion, Yang Yiqing had not yet gone to Gansu, and the rebellion of the King of Anhua had already been suppressed, so Yang Yiqing picked up a bargain, and on the way to escort the King of Anhua back to Beijing, Yang Yiqing began to win over Zhang Yong and try to catch Liu Jin.
After returning to the capital, Zhang Yong went to find Zhu Houzhao and told him a lot of Liu Jin's guilt, Zhu Houzhao was furious when he heard that Liu Jin intended to rebel, and Daniel Zhang and others added more oil and vinegar, zhu Houzhao finally ordered the arrest of Liu Jin.
After Liu Jin was arrested, Zhu Houzhao arranged for someone to raid his home, and in the process of raiding his home, he found a lot of contraband, such as armor and dragon robes, and found a lot, Zhu Houzhao now completely believed that Liu Jin wanted to rebel, and in a fit of anger, he ordered Liu Jin lingchi to be executed.
Liu Jin was executed by Ling Chi
To say that Liu Jin was executed by Ling Chi is indeed unprecedented, he is the one who will be slashed with 3357 knives, and the executioner must complete in three days, and before the number of knives is over, it is theoretically impossible to let Liu Jin die.
Everyone heard that Liu Jin was going to be executed by Ling Chi, it can be said that everyone was very happy, at that time, there were many people who went to join in the fun, everyone cheered and waited for Liu Jin to be slashed with a thousand knives, and the executioner was worried that Liu Jin's life would soon end, so on the first day, he only cut 357 knives, and every time he slashed a knife, Liu Jin shouted, and later said a lot of ugly things about Zhu Houzhao.
After the end of the first day, Liu Jin did not die, and drank a bowl of porridge at night, as for the tragic situation at that time, I don't think I need to say more, everyone can imagine, and when the executioner began to cut Liu Jin the next day, he continued to speak wildly and said some of Zhu Houzhao's court secret history.
In order to prevent Liu Jin from continuing to speak ill of Liu Jin, the executioner blocked his mouth with walnuts, and after blocking his mouth, without cutting a few knives, Liu Jin died, and later the executioner completed the number of knives in the back when Liu Jin was already dead, and when the 3357 knives were successfully completed, the people below could not wait.
In the end, the meat that Liu Jin was cut off was also snatched away by the people, some people had a vendetta against Liu Jin, some people were killed by Liu Jin, they took these things back to comfort the spirit of the victims of heaven, from the scene at that time, Liu Jin did offend too many people.
epilogue
Liu Jin's life, to say how bad, from a historical point of view, can not be said to be bad to the point of execution of Ling Chi, can only say that in a special historical stage, everyone for their own interests, the official struggle is too serious, never the eternal victor, are one after another, once Liu Jin how to succeed in ascending to the throne, now is how to be ousted by others, but unfortunately he is in such an era of "human blood steamed buns" rampant, and finally will be executed by Ling Chi, from his life, It is not difficult to draw some useful conclusions: when you are in a favorable position, you must leave a line in doing things, otherwise you will ultimately harm yourself!
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