When someone saw the subject, they said, "You're going to curse again," and I said, "No." Although Wei Zhongxian was extremely evil, he could exist and become popular for a while, and naturally there was a reason or reason for him. Yu is just like a crow in the throat, and it is just a spit out! ”
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Wei Zhongxian's real name was Wei Si, and later his stepfather's surname was Li, named Li Jinzhong, a native of Suning, Hejian Province (present-day Suning County, Hebei). In the second year of the apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao gave him the name "Zhongxian" and granted permission to restore his original surname, and from then on he was known as "Wei Zhongxian".
Wei Zhongxian was born a scoundrel, did not study or do business since he was a child, but he was very treacherous and good at flattery. When he grew up, he was a good drinker, and he was more addicted to gambling and fighting in the gambling field.
According to historical records, Wei Zhongxian's decision to become a eunuch was stimulated by a gamble: "With the evil of the masses, he is invincible, he suffers from it, and he is in the palace." That is, others forced the debt tightly, and Wei Zhongxian was forced to give up the two taels of meat in the crotch. When Wei Zhongxian purified, he was already twenty-two years old, and he had previously married his wife and had a daughter.
After becoming "undefeated in the East", Wei Zhongxian found that although the job of eunuch was not as good as the national public official examination, there were too many applicants and the competition was fierce. He didn't know a single word, he didn't drive a car or sweep the floor for the leader, and he didn't want to rely on power to make a career.
In order to survive, he begged for food and did chores, and later went to work as a servant in the house of Sun Xian, the eunuch of the eunuch Bingbi. With this near-water platform, Wei Zhongxian naturally performed desperately, won Sun Xian with his "five good performances", and became a coveted eunuch in the palace in the seventeenth year of Wanli (1589).
However, life in the palace was not quite what he imagined. The number of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was huge, reaching 100,000 at its peak. But there were only dozens of people who could surround the emperor. Many eunuchs could not see the emperor in their entire lives. Because he had no culture, he poured the toilet for more than ten years.
Later, he met Wei Chao, the first great nobleman in his life and a high-ranking eunuch who was his future rival, and the two became brothers because of their similar temperament. With the help of the Wei Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian was able to become the canon of the Eastern Palace, that is, to manage the food of the harem.
It is known that the Wanli Emperor (Emperor Mingshen Zhu Yijun) did not like the crown prince Zhu Changluo. If it weren't for the minister's strong opposition, Zhu Changluo would have been driven out of the East Palace long ago. The father lived a precarious life, and the son had no status in the palace. Only Wei Zhongxian, the official of the Eastern Palace, was like a dog, faithfully serving one of his young imperial grandsons and his mother Wang Cairen (the woman of the crown prince Zhu Changluo. Her son, Xiaohuangsun, was later the famous first carpenter of the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty).
Zhu Youxiao has not received much education since he was a child, he is not very active, and he does not like to read and read. Wei Zhongxian was by his side, telling him stories outside the palace and finding him the toys he wanted.
At this time, Wei Zhongxian's future seemed bright. Unfortunately, Wang Cairen died soon after. So he followed and changed masters, this master was Zhu Changluo's favorite wife Li Xuanxiang.
At this time, Wei Zhongxian had been in the palace for 30 years. In his 50s, he could not let go of this opportunity. He exhausted his strength to eat, sneak around and sycophant, and finally became Li Xuan's henchman.
In July of the forty-eighth year of Wanli (1620), Emperor Mingshenzong died, Zhu Changluo succeeded to the throne, Li Xuanshu became a candidate empress, and Zhu Youxiao became crown prince. However, only a month later, Zhu Changluo died, and Zhu Youxiao succeeded him as emperor.
In order to deal with the Donglin Party and realize his ultimate ideals, he needs a strong assistant. Therefore, he chose the emperor's nursing mother, the Hakka clan.
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the prince grew to be six years old, and the nursing mother had to leave the palace. However, the Hakka not only lived until Zhu Youxiao became an adult, but also did not leave the palace, and was named "Lady Fengsheng". Sweet talk, sending luxury goods, spending 500 taels of silver each time to invite the Hakki to eat, the Hakka could not resist the full set of kung fu, and became Wei Zhongxian's "right food". To eat is to eat. But in the palace, it means the nominal husband and wife of eunuchs.
Became the "right food" of the emperor's nanny, his life was like riding on a rocket, and it didn't take long for him to be promoted to eunuch of the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi and mastered the East Factory. Zhu Youxiao was not a good emperor, but he was a master carpenter, and the screens he made could be sold for 10,000 taels. In addition, when he was working as a carpenter, he hated that there were national events that bothered him the most.
Wei Zhongxian grasped this characteristic of him, and every time he was most interested in carpentry in Zhu Youxiao, he went in to pray about national affairs. Once, twice, the emperor was annoyed and asked him to watch it first. As soon as he "looked at it", the power fell into Wei Zhongxian's hands.