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[Five, Wei Zhongxian, the 9,000-year-old man of the Ming Dynasty, a ruthless man who dared to castrate himself. ].

[He was the 9,000-year-old man of the Ming Dynasty, just a little less than the emperor. ]

[He could not read a single word, but he could make the whole court only know that there was a 9,000-year-old man, but not the emperor. ]

[He harmed the Donglin Party, built ancestral temples in various places, made the court a mess, and stepped on the accelerator on the downhill road. ]

[So how did Wei Zhongxian get such a huge power? ]

[How did he kill himself? ]

[Let us walk into the life of Wei Zhongxian, the first traitor of the Ming Dynasty. ]

[Wei Zhongxian, whose real name is unknown, was named Wanwu, and was from Suning, Cangzhou, Hebei. 】

[In his early years, he was a rogue who roamed the streets. 】

[During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian owed gambling debts because of gambling with a group of gangsters. 】

[In order to pay off the debt, he sold his own daughter, castrated himself in anger, changed his name to Li Jinzhong, and entered the palace as a eunuch. 】

[If you want to succeed, you must castrate yourself first. 】

[In martial arts novels, eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty often play the role of villains. They are highly skilled in martial arts, persecute loyal people, and cover the sky with one hand. 】

[But novels are novels after all. 】

[The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty in real history were not martial arts masters, but their power did not decrease in the slightest. 】

[And Wei Zhongxian is the epitome of Ming Dynasty eunuchs. 】

[Wei Zhongxian was smooth and cunning by nature, and good at flattery. 】

【Soon after entering the palace, he found himself a promising job, serving meals to Wang Cairen, the mother of the eldest grandson Zhu Youxiao. 】

【Zhu Youxiao was the future Tianqi Emperor. His father Zhu Changluo was not favored by his grandfather, and Zhu Youxiao, the eldest grandson, was also neglected. 】

【After his mother Wang Cairen passed away. 】

【Zhu Youxiao was in a situation where his father didn't love him and his stepmother didn't love him. 】

【In Zhu Youxiao's view, only his wet nurse Keshi and Li Jinzhong gave him the warmth of his family. 】

【It is worth mentioning. 】

【After Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi's ex-husband Wei Chao were jealous of each other and quarreled in the palace in the middle of the night, which alarmed Zhu Youxiao. 】

【Zhu Youxiao was not angry, but asked Keshi who she wanted to keep. 】

【Keshi left Wei Zhongxian behind. 】

【Finally, Wei Chao was exiled to Fengyang by Wei Zhongxian and killed. 】

【Zhu Youxiao's connivance with Keshi and Wei Zhongxian 677 is evident. 】

【In 1620, the Wanli Emperor, who had reigned for 48 years, died, and the crown prince Zhu Changluo ascended the throne. 】

【Unexpectedly, Zhu Changluo died before he even had a chance to sit on the throne, becoming the shortest reigning emperor in the Ming Dynasty. 】

【Zhu Youxiao, who was 15 years old at the time, ascended the throne, and Wei Zhongxian and Keshi also rose to prominence. 】

【As soon as he ascended the throne, he rewarded their families and promoted Wei Zhongxian to the Silijian as an exception. 】

【Among the twenty-four yamen of the Ming Dynasty eunuchs, the Silijian was the most prominent. 】

【The Silijian was mainly responsible for assisting the emperor in handling memorials, and needed to be able to read and write. 】

【Wei Zhongxian had never been to school in his early years, and could not read a single word, but he was promoted to the Silijian. 】

【Wang An, the eunuch in charge of the Silijian, was an upright man. Wei Zhongxian respected and feared him, and wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible. 】

【After Wei Chao died, Wei Zhongxian and Ke Shi killed Wang An. 】

【From then on, he had absolute control over the palace. 】

【The Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao liked to do carpentry, and Wei Zhongxian and Ke Shi deliberately took advantage of the emperor's carpentry to ask about political affairs. 】

【Tianqi was naturally very impatient and let Wei Zhongxian do it himself. 】

【As a result, Wei Zhongxian monopolized power. 】

【All the ministers in the court knew that Wei Zhongxian was the master of the Ming Dynasty, and they respectfully called Wei Zhongxian "Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Years Old", which was only one hundred years younger than the emperor. 】

【He was truly second to none and above ten thousand people. 】

【Wei Zhongxian's relatives and party members also rose to prominence. 】

【Some people who flattered Wei built ancestral temples for him in various places in order to please the Nine Thousand Years Old. 】

【...】

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"A local gangster has become a eunuch, second only to the emperor!"

"Just because he dared to castrate himself, he is a ruthless person!"

"A gangster, a gambler, selling his daughter to pay off debts, can such a scum enter the palace as a eunuch?"

"Come on, the Ming Dynasty has another carpenter emperor who doesn't like to deal with government affairs and likes to do carpentry."

"......"

The ancients were a little shocked.

How come this person is similar to Heshen and looks so much like an inspirational story?

They must have misunderstood!

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Qin Dynasty.

After reading the history of Wei Zhongxian's rise to power, Ying Zheng couldn't help but think of Zhao Gao.

According to the development trajectory of the original history, this minister around him quickly controlled Hu Hai after his death.

He also became a person who was second only to the emperor and above all others.

He even made a move of calling a deer a horse!

There was only one difference, Zhao Gao was not a eunuch.

Ying Zheng glanced at Zhao Gao who had been removed from office, and at this moment he even wanted to castrate him to vent his anger.

Zhao Gao felt the gaze sweeping over him, and his crotch felt cold.

He could not help but clamp his legs together.

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Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he laughed!

Having experienced the double torture of the Ming Dynasty's God of War and the most playful emperor Zhu Houzhao.

He actually felt that the emperor liked to do carpentry, which seemed to be barely acceptable? ?

Compared with the previous two, this one at least did not do anything that harmed the heaven and earth and harmed the people.

But he indulged the eunuchs to do evil!

Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't stand this!

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "Before, the great eunuch Wang Zhen almost destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and now there is another Wei Zhongxian!"

"Pah!"

"I can't see where you are loyal and virtuous!"

"You reveal an ugly face of a villain everywhere, which makes me sick!"

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[For a time, the Ming Dynasty was in chaos because of Wei Zhongxian. 】

【The Donglin Party considered itself to be a clean party and refused to be involved in corruption with Wei Zhongxian, so it was brutally suppressed by Wei Zhongxian. 】

【Party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty were already fierce. 】

【Under Wei Zhongxian's rule, political persecution reached a frenzy. 】

【In 1624, Yang Lian impeached Wei Zhongxian for 24 major crimes to Emperor Tianqi, and Wei Zhongxian panicked immediately. 】

【But Keshi was deceived by Tianqi, and the young emperor obeyed your mother. 】

【Wei Zhongxian passed the test smoothly. 】

【Yang Lian was scolded by Tianqi. 】

【Soon, Yang Lian and others were dismissed from their posts by Wei Zhongxian. 】

【Faced with Wei Zhongxian's persecution, the Donglin Party had no power to fight back, and the cabinet was controlled by the eunuch party. 】

【Oppositionists were often beaten to death by Wei Zhongxian in court. 】

【In order to persecute the Donglin Party, the eunuch party listed 108 Donglin Party members as a list of generals in imitation of Water Margin, and carried out encirclement and suppression according to the list. 】

【In 1625, Yang Lian, Wei Dazhong, Zuo Guangdou, Yuan Huazhong, Gu Dazhang, Zhou Chaorui and six others were sent to the Jinyiwei Beizhenfu Division. 】

【They were tortured in prison and eventually died tragically in prison. 】

【After the case of the six gentlemen, there was the case of the seven gentlemen. 】

【Li Shi, the eunuch of Hangzhou Weaving, wrote a letter to attack Huang Zunsu, Gao Panlong and seven others. 】

【Wei Zhongxian immediately ordered people to arrest them. When Zhou Shunchang, one of the Seven Gentlemen, was arrested in Hangzhou, the people were outraged. Five of them stood up to resist the eunuch party, but were killed by the eunuch party. 】

【Of the seven, Gao Panlong committed suicide before being arrested, and the other six died in prison. 】

【In sharp contrast to the party struggles in the court, the situation in Liaodong became increasingly corrupt. 】

【Wei Zhongxian could not read a single word, and he used people entirely based on his ownLikes and dislikes, whoever can please him will be entrusted with important tasks, whoever dares not to buy his account will be severely criticized, and even persecuted to death. 】

[In the second year of Tianqi, Guangning was lost, Xiong Tingbi became Wei's scapegoat and was sentenced to death. 】

[After that, Sun Chengzong took over the important task, recovered the lost territory, and built the Ningjin defense line. 】

[This temporarily eased the crisis. 】

[But because he refused to follow Wei Zhongxian, he was squeezed out by the eunuch party and had to leave Liaodong. 】

[In the sixth year of Tianqi, Yuan Chonghuan defeated Nurhaci and was eventually squeezed out by Wei Zhongxian. 】

[Since the seventh year of Tianqi, the civil unrest in the northwest has intensified, gradually becoming a prairie fire, and the Ming Dynasty, which has been established for 250 years, has been on the decline. 】

[And Wei Zhongxian's role is to step on the accelerator hard on the downhill road. 】

【However, no matter how powerful Wei Zhongxian was, or how small his title of "Nine Thousand Years Old" was, he had a master that he could not overstep, and that was Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao. 】

【All of Wei Zhongxian's power came from Tianqi's trust. 】

【In order to control the emperor, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi even persecuted the concubines in the harem. 】

【The two often slandered Empress Zhang in front of the emperor, and sent Zhang Yufei and Li Chengfei, who had offended them, to the cold palace and cut off their food. 】

【Zhang Yufei was starved to death. 】

【Li Chengfei hid food in the cracks of the wall in advance, and finally survived. He was sent by Keshi to be a slave and sweep the floor in the palace. 】

【Wei Zhongxian and Keshi had a one-handed control over the harem, and wanted Tianqi to favor the women they sent to the palace, so as to control the future heirs. 】

【However, all of Tianqi's children died, and none of them survived. 】

【His only close relative was his half-brother, Prince Xin Zhu Youjian. 】

【In 1627, Tianqi was seriously ill. 】

【Wei Zhongxian wanted to bring a pregnant woman into the palace and persuade Tianqi to make her the heir to the throne, so as to continue to monopolize power. 】

【Empress Zhang hurriedly summoned Prince Xin to the palace and persuaded Tianqi to let Prince Xin succeed to the throne according to the ancestral precepts. 】

【Tianqi asked Prince Xin that his brother Wu should be Yao and Shun. 】

【Even if Wei Zhongxian had great power, he could not go beyond the ancestral precepts set by Zhu Yuanzhang. 】

【Two days later, Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao died, Zhou Youjian ascended the throne, and changed the reign to Chongzhen. 】

【Wei Zhongxian's good days were finally over. 】

【As soon as Chongzhen ascended the throne, he began to purge the eunuch party, demoted Keshi to the laundry bureau, and beat her to death. 】

【Wei Zhongxian was exiled to Fengyang and hanged himself on the way to be escorted. 】

【...】

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“The treacherous minister is finally dead!”

“He died well, it was a good thing for him, he was hanged and left with a whole body.”

“Every time a new emperor is replaced, the most powerful ministerAll officials will be liquidated. ”

“......”

The ancients felt relieved after reading this.

Just reading the evil things Wei Zhongxian had done can make people hate him, but fortunately he finally died.

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Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang let out a heavy breath and cheered: "Good death! ”

This sentence naturally has two meanings. Wei Zhongxian deserves to die, but the Emperor Tianqi who ignored state affairs and only wanted to do carpentry also deserves to die!

An emperor gave all the power to a eunuch and concentrated on carpentry!

Can he still be considered an emperor?

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he wanted to rush to Zhu Youxiao and slap him hard to wake him up!

Another period.

Zhu Youxiao, who was busy doing carpentry work, accidentally looked up and glanced at the light curtain.

At this moment.

Wei Zhongxian trembled in front of him, and suddenly knelt down with a plop, hugging Zhu Youxiao's thighs with tears.

"Your Majesty, I deserve to die, but I am loyal to Your Majesty!"

"This heart can be witnessed by heaven and earth. ”

“Please, Your Majesty, let me go home to retire for my poor old age...”

Since seeing his own end, Wei Zhongxian immediately wanted to quit.

Plus, the light curtain has exposed his various behaviors. It can be expected that the officials of the Ming Dynasty will work together to deal with him.

Zhu Youxiao tilted his head and thought for a while, then nodded slowly: "Well, you can go home."

"Pass on my decree, no one should hurt Wei Zhongxian, let him go home in peace."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty..." Wei Zhongxian kowtowed desperately.

Zhu Youxiao ignored him at all. What he was thinking about now was who should he find to replace Wei Zhongxian to help him handle government affairs.

He had to do carpentry work, and obviously he didn't have time to deal with complicated government affairs.