In "Palace Scheming", the biggest villain is the eunuch general Ma Yuanzhen.
Ma Yuanzhen went through five dynasties and held the power of the Shence Army to protect the Beijing Division. All kinds of guards, generals, civil officials, etc. in the palace are his protégés. General Ma can manage everything, internal affairs, diplomacy, harem, military, and justice. The emperor and the queen mother, when they saw him, they also had to give three points.
He adhered to the tenet of "only doing bad things, not good things" all his life, which is also difficult for ordinary people to do. Domineering, arrogant, unreasonable, ferocious and greedy, ignoring imperial power...... All derogatory terms are not used on him too much.
Narrow-minded, the eyes will be rewarded
Ma Yuanzhen is in a high position, but he has no heart, just because of the disobedience of the little people, he will be killed.
Japanese chess players came to Datang to challenge and make an appointment with Gao Xianyang to play a game of life and death. In order to curry favor with Emperor Wuzong and let Gao Xianyang win without a fight, Ma Yuanzhen instructed Liu Sanhao to send poison to the Japanese chess players. Liu Sanhao sternly refused, and Gao Xianyang also said that he did not want to use this means to win.
Since then, Ma Yuanzhen has hated the two of them, and has repeatedly targeted them, either assassinated, or framed them for defiling the palace, and wanted to put them to death. After Ma Yuanzhen's treacherous schemes failed again and again, he turned to kill their father. He ordered people to poison the tea, and Liu Sanhao and Gao Xianyang's father both died in Huangquan.
The once beautiful Empress Dowager Guo was locked up in the cold palace, and Ma Yuanzhen ran to humiliate her again. Empress Dowager Guo, who had been strong all her life, thought very highly of herself, so how could she endure the humiliation of a eunuch? She ridiculed her lips and ridiculed Ma Yuanzhen as a eunuch who had no children to send to her death.
Ma Yuanzhen was annoyed and ashamed, knocked the Empress Dowager Guo to the ground with a slap, and then pushed the Empress Dowager Guo to the stone pillar. Empress Dowager Guo's skull cracked and died on the spot.
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Ma Yuanzhen regarded the treasury as his private property, and put all the gold, silver, treasures, and foreign tributes into his private treasury. The private treasury was full, and the treasury was empty, so that there was a drought in many places, and the emperor had no money for disaster relief.
The emperor and Gao Xianyang sang a double reed, singing and harmonizing, leading Wan Jianfeng to speak, and asked the emperor to open a warehouse for disaster relief. The emperor pushed the boat down the river, and in response to Wan Jianfeng's advice, he ordered the treasure trove to be counted for disaster relief.
Although Wan Jianfeng is a protégé of Ma Yuanzhen, he is upright by nature and loyal to the monarch and patriotic. He still has value for Ma Yuanzhen, Ma Yuanzhen didn't want Wan Jianfeng to recognize his true face for the time being, so he had to suffer a dumb loss and return the treasures in his private treasury to the treasury, secretly hating Wan Jianfeng for being stupid.
Ma Yuanzhen was unwilling to get the silver in his hand and flew again, so he even bought off the bandits and robbed them on the way to escort the disaster relief silver. Fortunately, Wan Jianfeng was able to lead the troops to exterminate the bandits and snatch back the silver.
Cross the river and dismantle the bridge, and throw it away when it is finished
For Ma Yuanzhen, all people are just pawns for him to compete for power and profit, and as long as there is no use value, he will immediately become an outcast.
Ma Yuanzhen's personal eunuchs helped him do many bad things, and they were loyal to him. Because of the poisoning of Gao Yaoan and Liu Songbai, Ma Yuanzhen stabbed him to death in front of the emperor.
During the Wuzong period, Concubine He Hui was favored, and Ma Yuanzhen recommended a Taoist priest to Concubine He Hui, so that she could offer a golden pill that could prolong her life to the emperor, the purpose was to take advantage of the emperor's dragon heart to be happy, and Concubine He Hui could help herself say more good things in front of the emperor, so that her power and status could be more stable.
However, the effect of the golden pill was too violent, and the emperor suddenly vomited blood and fainted after taking it for a few days.
The Empress Dowager was furious and found out about Concubine He Hui. naïve, she also used this as a threat to ask Ma Yuanzhen to save her, but Ma Yuanzhen didn't give her a chance to see the Empress Dowager at all, and killed her on the spot, pretending to be like she committed suicide in fear of crime.
Only recognize rights, not six relatives
General Wan Jianfeng's wife is Ma Yuanzhen's cousin. Because he was framed by Yao Jinling, he was sentenced to be hanged, and he will be executed on the same day.
At that time, Ma Yuanzhen went out to patrol Mount Tai, and General Wan escorted the disaster relief silver to Hanzhong. General Wan's daughter hurriedly sent letters to two places, asking them to come back as soon as possible to save her mother.
Ma Yuanzhen received the letter first, and he rushed back to the capital to save his cousin, but when he was close to the capital, he received a secret letter, he bought the bandits, and the disaster relief money he wanted to rob was taken back by General Wan.
When Ma Yuanzhen got the news, he hated Wan Jianfeng. Now that Wan Jianfeng has caused him to lose his silver, he wants Wan Jianfeng to taste the pain of losing his wife, and he can also provoke the relationship between Wan Jianfeng and the emperor.
The frenzied Ma Yuanzhen, Mrs. Wan is his cousin, for her own selfish desires, she clearly sacrificed her cousin's life, and she also chanted smugly: "Cousin, cousin, your life is worth it." ”
Wan Jianfeng is Ma Yuanzhen's protégé and his cousin-in-law. Just because Wan Jianfeng exchanged the reward promised by Ma Yuanzhen for exempting Ruan Cuiyun from punishment, and refused to allow Ma Yuanzhen to install cronies in his army, Ma Yuanzhen ordered someone to poison him. Fortunately, one of the deputy generals pretended to defect to Ma Yuanzhen and reduced the weight of the poison, Wan Jianfeng was not poisoned, but he couldn't speak, and his whole body was paralyzed.
The eunuchs under Ma Yuanzhen asked if he wanted to give General Wan a decision, and Ma Yuanzhen said cruelly that it would be better to let General Wan live than to die.
General Wan's daughter, Concubine Xian, is Ma Yuanzhen's goddaughter. Ma Yuanzhen kept saying that he loved her the most, but he recommended her as a concubine, just because he wanted to give birth to a prince in the future, so that he could set up the baby as the new monarch and better control the government.
Later, Concubine Xian was killed by Yao Jinling, and Ma Yuanzhen not only did not avenge Concubine Xian, but also colluded with Yao Jinling and became allies.
Treat imperial power as nothing
Ma Yuanzhen said "not to kill horses, but to slay dragons", blatantly poisoned Emperor Wuzong, forged a will to pass on to King Guang, and let the Tang Dynasty change the land.
Ma Yuanzhen relied on the merits of supporting the emperor to ascend the throne, controlled the government, and did whatever he wanted, and the imperial power was like nothing in his eyes.
Originally, he thought that the Light King was a fool who could be played with in the palm of his hand and be his puppet. But he didn't expect him to look away, and the King of Light was not only not stupid, but very wise.
Ma Yuanzhen sarcastically ridiculed the emperor for "spending a lot of thought over the years" and laughed at himself for falling into the middle. He also threatened the emperor: "I will do everything for self-protection, for example, if the minister knows that someone is not good for me, the minister will be unkind to him." "Tell the emperor not to unload the mill and kill the donkey, cross the river and tear down the bridge.
The emperor has just ascended the throne, and all the troops are in the hands of Ma Yuanzhen, so he can only be false and swallow his anger. Although it was later found out that the emperor was pretending to be stupid, Ma Yuanzhen still wanted the wind to be windy and rainy.
Ma Yuanzhen forcibly replaced the emperor's decree and named Wan Jianfeng as the general of Huaihua.
In front of the emperor, he fought against Li Deyu, the old minister and prime minister of the Five Dynasties. The emperor can only protect Li Deyu by demoting officials and distributing them. Ma Yuanzhen also came to ask the emperor why he let Li Deyu out of Beijing without telling him, and asked the emperor to recall Li Deyu back to Beijing as soon as possible, and he was punished to death. There was not the slightest respect that a courtier should have for the emperor.
Ma Yuanzhen insisted on punishing Liu Sanhao, but he needed a banquet from the Queen Mother and the emperor, and pleaded with him in a low voice before he agreed to reduce the degree of punishment.
Ma Yuanzhen was even more arrogant that he asked the emperor for Dingfeng Mountain, the birthplace of the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty, as a fief, and after being rejected by the Empress Dowager Zheng, he asked for the emperor's fief Zhongnan Mountain.
Ma Yuanzhen found that the emperor was becoming more and more difficult to control, so he had the heart of killing the king. He only waited for Concubine Xian to give birth to a prince, then killed the emperor and made the newborn baby the emperor.
Fortunately, the emperor grasped the opportunity, made a desperate bet, left the palace to ask King Qi for help, and returned to Chang'an.
The death of Ma Yuanzhen
The most ironic thing is the death of Ma Yuanzhen.
Ma Yuanzhen thought that the emperor was dead, so he colluded with Yao Jinling, falsely claiming that Yao Jinling was pregnant with the emperor and planned to find a child to be a puppet in the future. He didn't expect that the emperor not only didn't die, but also returned to the capital so quickly, so he wanted to flee in a hurry.
Concubine Yao Jinling and Ma Yuanzhen were embarrassed, killing the Queen Mother and harming Concubine De, she knew that the emperor would not let her go, so she wanted to follow Ma Yuanzhen to escape.
But with Ma Yuanzhen's personality of "throwing it away when it is used up", he will not take Yao Jinling, who has no use value, as a burden. Yao Jinling erupted in great anger in despair, and she pulled out her sword and pierced Ma Yuanzhen's body.
A generation of heroes and traitors Ma Yuanzhen simply died like this, which is really unexpected.