The impression of eunuchs in the history books is often extremely poor, but there is a eunuch in history whose evaluation is very high, and Ouyang Xiu even evaluates him as "great and lovely", what did such a cute and respectable eunuch do?
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the local warlords challenged the central political center. In the later years of the Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs strengthened their real power, as a red man around Tang Yizong, Zhang Juhan also once went to the front line and made some military achievements, and later because the powerful ministers purged the eunuchs in The country, he hid his name. Because of his previous military achievements, Zhang Juhan was promoted by Li Cunxun, the founder of the Later Tang Dynasty, and once again became an official.
At this time, the Later Shu forces that arose in the Sichuan region became a thorn in the eye of the Later Tang forces, and in the process of conquest, Wang Zongbi, the adopted brother of the Shu lord Wang Yan, secretly surrendered to the Later Tang army, Li Cunxun was worried that there was deception in this, although he ostensibly accepted their surrender, he still wanted to slaughter the entire Shu lord family to prevent them from rebelling again.
Li Cunxun handed the holy will to Zhang Juhan, and the edict read: "Wang Yan and his party should be killed. Zhang Juhan was very entangled in his heart at this time, on the one hand, he was loyal to the king and patriotic, on the other hand, it was the fate of Wang Yan and his party of a thousand people. In the face of human life, he compromised and directly changed the "deed" in the edict to "home", which not only achieved the effect of removing the first evil, but also saved the lives of innocent people.
Although such a benevolent act was praised by later generations, it also meant that Zhang Juhan's life's career was ruined, and in his later years he died alone in Chang'an City, and later later later people found this kind eunuch in the corner of the history books and thanked him for the decision he made that year.