Some people only know that the Chongzhen Emperor is the king of the subjugated country, but in fact, when the Chongzhen Emperor was young, he still had some shrewd means to grasp the situation within the dynasty and his political ability, and used his strength to overthrow Wei Zhongxian. And the process during the period, you may not know very well, today Xiaobian will briefly explain it.
It is said that Wei Zhongxian was from a humble background and his family was not well-off, but if he could be a down-to-earth person, he would not actually be a eunuch, but he was a rotten person and loved gambling, obsessed with alcohol, and disgusted with reading and literacy. The only commendable thing is that there are some martial arts in the body, comparable to military attaches in riding and shooting.
However, "often walking on the side of the road where there are not wet shoes", Wei Zhongxian lost very badly in a gambling with gamblers, and suddenly had some understanding, thinking that this was not the way to go, so he made up his mind to come from the palace.
In order to reflect his determination, Wei Zhongxian also changed his name to Li Jinzhong, and then entered the palace to begin his path as a eunuch. However, it is said that at that time, Wei Zhongxian was related to some eunuchs in the palace, and he still had a hand when he purified himself, but because of the reason of the doorway, he still entered the palace as usual.
Although Wei Zhongxian was a "rotten man", but because of this, he was very skilled and very good at flattery, deception, and embezzlement and bribery, and after he entered the palace, he relied on dotting up and down, dredging up relations, and found a good errand for himself, doing the ceremonial meal of Wang Cairen, the mother of the emperor's eldest grandson, and also befriending the eunuch Bingbi, Wang An's subordinate, Wei Dynasty.
Later, Wei Zhongxian believed that if he wanted to go further, he could not rely only on official eunuchs, so he also befriended the nursing mother of the eldest grandson to be called Keshi. Originally, keshi and Wei Dynasty were related to food, but after interacting with Wei Zhongxian, they abandoned the Wei Dynasty, and the relationship between the two became deeper and deeper, and the so-called food relationship, one of which refers to the marriage of palace women and eunuchs.
At this point, Wei Zhongxian's official Lu Hengtong began to fly Huang Tengda, and with the support of someone, he plotted to calculate Wang An and the Wei Dynasty, and the people before and after the set, deceived and deceived, and deliberately let the emperor see his good side.
At that time, the reigning emperor was Emperor Mingshenzong Zhu Yijun, and because Emperor Mingshen looked at Wei Zhongxian differently, coupled with his age, he rarely read the folds and paid no attention to the affairs of the government, which gave Wei Zhongxian the opportunity to control the government.
In fact, Wei Zhongxian was illiterate, and it was reasonable to say that he could not enter the Si Li Supervisor, but in fact, during the Ming Shen Sect period, Wei Zhongxian was already the Si Li Supervisor Bingbi eunuch and the viceroy Bao and sandian, and was the eldest brother among the official eunuchs.
Wei Zhongxian cultivated many henchmen when he had capital, but in the process, it was also inevitable that contradictions would arise with the civil and military officials, or party struggles with the civilian officials clique.
At that time, the most powerful was the Donglin Party, which fashioned themselves with excessive and astonishing remarks, and used political needs to rebuke the palace ban, which made the two factions have conflicts of interest. In addition, the henchmen of Wei Zhongxian's family were not good goods, and they were fighting for power and profit in the DPRK all day long, excluding dissidents, and colluding to frame them, so the officials of the two factions were intolerable.
However, Wei Zhongxian had the emperor's trust, was a red man around the emperor, and was more powerful, and indeed harmed many officials, and not only in the middle of the dynasty, but also in the places visited, whether loyal or not, they were all arrested by the East Factory.
Falling into the hands of Wei Zhongxian, naturally not a faction, the consequences can be imagined, there is no good death, at this time Wei Zhongxian, it can be said that the power is tilted towards the opposition.
After that, Emperor Mingshenzong died, and Emperor Mingguang succeeded zhu Changluo, but less than a month later, it was Zhu Youxiao,that is, Emperor Xizong of the Apocalypse, who succeeded to the throne. Emperor Xizong also trusted and favored Wei Zhongxian and Keshi, and after succeeding to the throne, he greatly rewarded them and gave them titles, which further contributed to their prestige.
Emperor Xizong was a less capable emperor in history, and there was no threat to Wei Zhongxian, and the emperor did a vague job. He once asked Wei Zhongxian to falsely pass on the holy will, and put Zhu Changluo's chosen attendant Zhao Shi to death, causing chaos in the palace and harming many harem concubines.
Fortunately, Emperor Xizong did not reign for a long time and died in the seventh year of the Apocalypse. However, it is ridiculous that before his death, he specifically told Zhu Youjian, that is, the Chongzhen Emperor, that Wei Zhongxian was a great talent and loyal and dutiful.
Although the Chongzhen Emperor did not believe it in his heart, Wei Zhongxian was powerful and full of various battles, and the situation in the DPRK and China was very chaotic, and the Chongzhen Emperor could only bear it.
It is said that on the day chongzhen succeeded to the throne, his heart was very afraid, and after entering the palace, he did not sleep all night, did not dare to eat the food in the palace, and only ate the wheat cake hidden in his sleeve.
After Chongzhen waited until the throne was slightly stable, he openly followed his brother's instructions and still treated Wei Zhongxian and Keshi as before. However, Wei Zhongxian could not understand Chongzhen's thoughts, and his heart was very afraid, so he designed to test the Chongzhen Emperor.
Wei Zhongxian once used beautiful palace women to test Chongzhen twice, but Chongzhen was not lustful and therefore did not have a plan, but he accepted all the beauties sent by him, so as to conceal Wei Zhongxian, and then searched the palace women, and found that some palace women hid an aphrodisiac that could be naturally volatilized, called "Ecstasy Incense".
This plan failed, Wei Zhongxian wanted to retreat into the advance, and calculated Chongzhen again, the above table Chongzhen said that he was immoral and incompetent, and asked to stop building a shrine for him, chongzhen pushed the boat along the water and said: "It has not been built, and you are willing to stop, then as you wish." ”
Chongzhen's move not only left Wei Zhongxian speechless, but also could not find a reason to be angry, and the dprk also saw Chongzhen and did not favor Wei Zhongxian. Therefore, the hundred officials of the DPRK and China began to have other ideas, and some officials also reported Wei Zhongxian in order to protect themselves, of which the earliest force was Yushi Yang Weiyuan.
Yang Weiyuan impeached Cui Chengxiu, and Cui Chengxiu was a soldier Shangshu, a high-ranking and powerful person, and Cui Chengxiu's son was illiterate and could enter the army in high school, which can be seen from this. On the contrary, both Cui Chengxiu and Yang Weiyuan were Wei Zhongxian's henchmen, which was unexpected.
After that, Cui Chengxiu was removed, and when the hundred officials saw that Wei Zhongxian had lost power, they began to target and retaliate against Wei Zhongxian, while Chongzhen sat firmly on Mount Taishan and watched the tiger fight. Later, when a Jiaxing gongsheng, Qian Jiazheng, impeached Wei Zhongxian for ten major crimes, Chongzhen thought that the time was ripe and brought down Wei Zhongxian in one fell swoop.
In fact, the so-called ten major crimes, Wei Zhongxian did sit firmly, not false accusations, he was directly sent to Fengyang, but on the way he still raised a group of outlaws, Chongzhen was furious when he learned of it, and ordered Jinyi Wei to go and arrest him.
However, the Keshi henchmen had not yet fallen, and they quickly sent someone to secretly report Wei Zhongxian, and after Wei Zhongxian received the news, he knew that he would not be able to escape death, so the Keshi Hotel drank until midnight and then committed suicide.
After that, Chongzhen did not appease the Ke clan, and put her to death in the Huan Clothing Bureau, and found in the Copyist clan that the palace maids who had cultivated themselves were likely to imitate Lü Buwei, which could be described as ambitious.
It can be seen from here that when Chongzhen was young, he was alert and wise, and he was both strong and soft in political means, and compared with the later period of his reign, it was indeed more wise at this time, and he eliminated the traitor Wei Zhongxian in one fell swoop.