Which big eunuchs were there in Ming Dynasty?

Wang Zhen, male, was born in Yuzhou (now Yuxian County, Hebei Province) in the Ming Dynasty. He had a little knowledge of Confucian classics and learned a lot. Later, he became a teacher. However, it is too difficult for him to win the honor of being a juren and get into the imperial examination. So he castrated himself and entered the palace. History called Wangzhen a "cunning" and was the first generation of authoritarian eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty.

In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy (1449), Vara invaded on a large scale. Wang Zhen encouraged the emperor to make a personal expedition and invited Yingzong to visit his Yuzhou mansion, so that he delayed his trip and went to Civil Fort (now Huailai East, Hebei Province). He was chased by Valla soldiers and wiped out. Yingzong was captured and Wang Zhen was killed.

2. Wei Zhongxian (1568 ——1627),

Wei Zhongxian, whose real name is Wan Wu, was born in Suning, North Zhili, Han nationality, and was a eunuch in the late Ming Dynasty. Since entering the palace, he changed his surname to Li Jinzhong, and the gifted scholar Wang resumed his surname. After he became a eunuch, he changed his original surname and was named Wei Zhongxian by the emperor. During the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, he became Li Sibing's pen eunuch, which was very popular and trusted. He claims to be "9,900 years old", rejecting dissidents and ruling the country arbitrarily, so that people "only know loyalty and righteousness, but don't know that there is an emperor."

After Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne, he cracked down on the eunuch party, cured Wei Zhongxian's top ten crimes, ordered him arrested, hanged himself, and the rest of the party members were purged.

3. Zheng He

In the second year of Yongle (1404), Zheng He was promoted to eunuch in the supervision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ranking second only to Si. Zheng He was resourceful and learned how to fight. Ming Chengzu trusted Zheng He very much.

From 1405 to 1433, Zheng He made seven voyages to the Western Ocean, completing great feats in human history. In April of the eighth year of Xuande (1433), Zheng He died in Guri on the west coast of India, and his ashes were buried in the underground palace of Hongjue Temple in Nanjing, which is now the tomb of Zheng He in Niushou Mountain in Nanjing.

4. Liu Jin (1451-1510)

Xingping, Shaanxi, eunuch of the Ming Dynasty. Tan, whose real name is Tan, was adopted by eunuch uncle Liu Shun at the age of six and became a eunuch after entering the palace.

During Hongzhi's reign, he served Zhu Houzhao after pardoning crimes, won the favor of Ming Wuzong, and worshipped eunuch Li Si. After taking power, he took the opportunity to specialize in state affairs, governing the country for the sake of happiness and harming the people. He is the first of the "Eight Tigers". At that time, it was called "Emperor" and since then, it was called "Emperor". After Liu Jin was arrested, millions of gold and silver were found at home, as well as forged seals, jade belts and other contraband. He was regarded as "the richest man in the world" at that time.

5. Zhang Yong (1465 ——1529)

Baoding, Hebei; The eunuch of Ming Wuzong, one of the Eight Tigers, held a grudge against Liu Jin, who was going to send him to Nanjing, so he confronted the emperor-Zhang Yong beat Liu Jin, and Wu Zong used the valley to buy wine for peace.

Zhu Jian, the king of Anhua, rebelled. Ming Wuzong sent governors of Yang Yiqing, Ningxia, Yansui and Zhang Yong provinces to supervise the army in Yang Yiqing. Soon, Zhu Jian was captured by Yang Yiqing, and Zhang Yong and Yang Yiqing conspired to get rid of the traitors for the country. Zhang Yong reported Liu Jin's crimes to Wu Zong when he offered prisoners. Ming Wuzong ordered Zhang Yong to lead the imperial army to capture Liu Jin, and Liu Jin was finally executed in this year.

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Anecdotal allusions

The bad king built a Millennium monument and left a stigma.

In the first month of the eighth year of Jingtai (1457), Emperor Zhu Qiyu of Jingtai was ill in bed. General Shi Heng, Minister Xu Youzhen and Eunuch Cao Jixiang took the opportunity to launch a coup, stormed the Nangong, took Zhu Qizhen to the Fengtian Hall, beat gongs and drums, summoned officials and announced the reset. History is called "the change of grabbing the door."

After the restoration of Zhu Qizhen, instead of taking the fiasco of the "rebellion" as a warning, he continued to employ eunuchs, killing his brother and heroes, and rehabilitated Wang Zhen, the chief culprit of the "rebellion", becoming more fatuous and perverse.

First, after the emperor's name of his younger brother Zhu Qiyu was cut off by law, the eunuch Jiang An was sent to strangle him. Secondly, he killed Yu Qian, a hero, and Fan Guang, a deputy general who made great contributions to defending Beijing, for treason.

What is even more outrageous is that when Yu Qian was killed, his competitors cut off his hands and feet first. Third, the imperial edict corrected Wang Zhen's name, and made Xiangmu a statue of Wang Zhen, offering sacrifices to evoke the soul. In the first year of Tianshun (1457), Yingzong took the lead in setting up the Jingzhong Hall for Wang Zhen in the north courtyard of Beijing Zhihua Temple, which was dedicated to the dead.

Zhu Qizhen's abnormal behavior didn't last long. In the eighth year of Tianshun (1464), Zhu Qizhen died, and his son Zhu Jianshen succeeded Ming Xianzong. After Xian Zong acceded to the throne, he immediately resumed the title of Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu and avenged the wrongful death of Yu Qian and other ministers.

At the same time, taking Yingzong's fault as a mirror, it showed Wang Zhen's evil, and when Huailai was ordered to keep the official and rebuild the civil temple, he erected a monument to admonish him, making Yingzong a far saint and using treacherous court officials, which led to a painful lesson of humiliating the country and teachers, and made various words to warn future generations. Let Qian's statue stand in the temple of civil engineering, set up a monument and write an article praising his merits. On the day of the completion of the shrine, Xian Zong personally wrote an inscription and inscribed the memorial tablet.

In July of the seventh year of Qing Qianlong (1742), Shandong Daojian Shen went to Beijing on business. When passing through Lumicang, I found that the monuments of Zhihua Temple were intact, so I went to the temple for sightseeing. When I entered the Jingzhong Hall in the backyard, I saw that the statue of Wang Zhen was still there. Outside the hall, there were still tablets praising the loyalty of the British Sect and the virtue of Li Xian. I can't help being angry.

After returning to Shantung, he wrote a letter to Gan Long, listing Wang Zhen's sins and demanding that the statue of Wang Zhen be demolished and the memorial tablet be demolished. Qianlong gave the order and sent someone to smash the statue and stone tablet. But the memorial tablet erected by Ming Yingzong was only scraped off and not damaged.

Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia _ Wang Zhen