The Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, these three dynasties, have all suffered from the monopoly of eunuchs, and in people's impressions, these three dynasties are also the era of eunuchs flying and wandering.
But the Song Dynasty gives people the feeling that it has always been an era without eunuch dictatorship, the entire history of the Song Dynasty, the situation of eunuch dictatorship is not much, but in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a big eunuch Tong Guan, placed in the background of the Song Dynasty and The Joseon Dynasty, which is particularly abrupt.
The right to speak in ancient times has always been in the hands of scholars, and they naturally have a dislike for eunuchs, first, because eunuchs have betrayed the most basic filial piety of Confucianism, and more importantly, they can withstand it with a knife, and the literati have been suffering from the cold window for more than ten years, so the Confucian group has no good feelings for eunuchs at all.
But to be fair, there are also good eunuchs, and historically, the power of eunuchs comes from the emperor, and the eunuch's flying and flying is essentially representing the emperor, and most eunuchs belong to a link in the power system, just like the bureaucrats under the countless bureaucratic systems, just an ordinary position.
Originally, according to the system of the Song Dynasty, it was not easy to appear a large number of powerful ministers, let alone eunuchs in power, but starting from the Song Shenzong, because he wanted to change the law, he needed to concentrate all his power to do great things.
As soon as this precedent was set, the emperor behind him could draw a gourd, and the power of the emperor was getting bigger and bigger, breaking the tradition of balance that the Song Dynasty had always had, and with the expansion of imperial power, the power of eunuchs representing imperial power also rose.
Tong Guan, this person, initially relied on Cai Jing, good at guessing the emperor's heart, the two people smell the same, are trying their best to cater to the emperor as their mission, under the strong recommendation of Cai Jing, Tong Guan began to move smoothly.
However, Tong Guan was a bit of an outlier, actually holding a military position, and he also had a beard and a tall horse, which was very different from the traditional obscene image of a eunuch.
However, these appearances can still not be changed, and his harsh conditions as a traitorous minister can be said to be Tong Guan, who completely ruined the last chance of the Song Dynasty to turn over.
Although we can't put all the responsibility on a eunuch, as the direct commander of the army, Tong Guanfu's most direct responsibility belongs to the first responsibility.
This event is the famous "Northern Expedition" at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, which may be an opportunity for the Song Dynasty to agree to jointly attack the Liao State after reaching an alliance with the Jin Dynasty on the sea.
The Jin Dynasty attacked the main force of the Liao State, while Tong Guan led an army of 200,000 to attack Yanjing, which was the first time since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty that the Northern Song army had set foot on this land.
But unfortunately, Tong Guan's army could not even defeat the remaining remnants of the Liao state, and in the end, it was the Jin people who took Yanjing, plundered the city, and left an empty city to the Northern Song Dynasty.
And it was this battle that made the Jin people see that the Northern Song Dynasty was actually strong in the outside world, and had completely decayed, laying the groundwork for the shame of Jing Kang in the near future, and this absurd recovery of the land of Youyan actually became the merit of Tong Guan, and looking at this history carefully, this is not a merit at all, but a complete shame.
Tong Guan's other feats are not worth mentioning, and the pacification of Fang La is just an ordinary victory in the Song Dynasty's internal warfare, and Tong Guan does not have any outstanding performance.
As a military commander, he not only wasted his last chance, but also at the last moment, he threw away his armor, but let him garrison Taiyuan, which was a super heavy minister in the north of the Song Dynasty, and as a result, when the Jin soldiers went south, they actually fled into the wilderness, such a person is definitely a sinner of the Song Dynasty.
Internal dictatorship, external incompetence, Tong Guan was eventually ordered to be executed by the emperor, but this was already a time of chaos, Tong Guan also kept his evil until the last moment, after death people said that even if he was chopped into meat sauce, it was not enough to offset his evil.