We are all a little tired of hearing this sentence, but there is no denying that knowledge can really change the fate of us ordinary people. One life, two blessings, three feng shui, four products and five virtues. Although reading ranks fifth, the top four are invisible and intangible. Only reading is true. It can make you feel the power of knowledge and make you play a great role when the opportunity comes.
We see a lot of eunuchs in many history books or movies and TV series, but literate eunuchs are rare, right? Most people have the impression that eunuchs are people who do odd jobs in the palace. As for educated eunuchs, that's not nonsense. Those who have knowledge and culture will enter the palace as eunuchs. Isn't that because their heads were caught in the door? To tell the truth, there really is a "head squeezed by the door". He was the first eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Zhen.
Wang Zhen
This guy is different from those autocratic eunuchs in history. Everyone else entered the palace innocently from childhood and stepped onto the peak of imperial power step by step. But Wang Zhen was a "monk" who became a monk halfway. No, he was a "clean man" who became a monk halfway. He was a Confucian scholar before he entered the palace. What is a Confucian scholar? He just entered the intellectual circle of the Ming Dynasty, but it will be extremely difficult to go further. Maybe I haven't read home yet, and I haven't even got the qualification of a scholar. I try again and again. Desperate, he felt that the court was unfair to him. Why didn't I get in, just like Huang Chao did? But Huang Chao was very angry and created the rebellion of Datang. Wang Zhen is not Huang Chao, so he is helpless. He accidentally did something illegal and was exiled. It's harder for a man who wears a guilty body to stand out.
Sometimes it is so wonderful, just when you feel that life is completely hopeless, an opportunity will soon be placed in front of you. After Wang Zhen banished the army again, he was surprised to learn that the current emperor Judy was going to recruit some Confucian scholars to teach ladies-in-waiting. Isn't he a real Confucian scholar? But here's the problem. If you want to enter the palace, you have to meet one condition. Otherwise, this is impossible.
Wang Zhen, who is hesitant, is faced with a choice: whether to become a real man or gain power, and entering the palace does not mean that he can really climb up. Wang Zhen, who has experienced all kinds of setbacks, feels powerless, which is more painful than being a pure person. Even if the chance is slim, he won't think about his original life again. So he resolutely "entered the exam."
Wang Zhen, who has read several books of sages in the palace, knows clearly what role eunuchs have played in history, especially in this dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding father, made an irrefutable evidence to prohibit eunuchs from interfering in politics. But that was before, after being a eunuch in the palace for more than ten years, the real opportunity came.
After Zhu Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne, in order to let the eunuchs in the palace read sage books, he set up a eunuch school called Neishutang. Not only that, he also specially equipped them with officials from imperial academy to teach these eunuchs to learn knowledge.
Although I have tried many times, I have read sage books for several years. Although I am not as good as those academicians in imperial academy, I still have some knowledge compared with those eunuch students, that is, the short general La. Such a prominent "eunuch" quickly caught the attention of Zhu Zhanji. Why haven't you found such a literate eunuch before? Open your resume, oh, it turns out to be a Confucian scholar, not bad. In this way, instead of doing odd jobs, I went to the East Palace to serve the prince in his studies and duties. Serve the prince, that is, the future emperor can be a eunuch beside the prince and have a successful career in the future. In this way, a "Miss Wang" became a prince, the first teacher in Ming Yingzong's life in the future.
Zhu Qizhen, Ming Yingzong.
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty died after ten years in office, and Zhu Qizhen, who was less than ten years old, became king. Because the emperor is underage, Zhu Qizhen's grandmother, Zhang Taihou, is at the helm, and Sanyang (Yang Rong, Yangpu and Yang Shiqi) is in charge. At that time, although Wang Zhen said that because of Zhu Qizhen, he became the handprint of Li Si's supervisor, the Queen Mother and Sanyang were still alive. He is still very disciplined and dare not make mistakes. Sometimes he cooperated with the Cabinet and urged Zhu Qizhen to be a promising emperor in the future. These superficial jobs amaze civil servants.
"It's a blessing to have such a good eunuch."
It is ridiculous that all these people have been cheated by him. In the empress dowager, she is dead, and Sanyang is on the throne. Spring belongs to Mr. Wang.
When Zhu Qizhen was a child, Wang Zhen was his first teacher. He has been in the East since he was a child, and only Wang Zhen is around to talk. Over time, in addition to the relationship between monarch and minister, there are also some relationships between teachers and friends. As long as Wang Zhen wants to do something, Zhu Qizhen will support it.
With the emperor's trust and dependence on him, he not only controlled the central government by approving the throne and conveying the imperial edict on behalf of the Si Li supervisor, but also extended his military power to the Royal Guards and Beijing Camp. In order to establish prestige for the power system of the Ming Dynasty, he took every opportunity to suppress courtiers. Any official who has a problem with him is either dismissed or exiled. He wants to tell the ministers that those who follow me will prosper and those who oppose me will perish. As long as you are attached to my Wang Zhen and have a bite of meat to eat, you will have a bite of soup to drink, but those who oppose me will wait and see!
At that time, absolute monarch Wang Zhen was in power. Although some people have to be attached to him because of his power, he is still a eunuch. No one knows how to scold him in secret except his cronies. I think one day Tianwang Town fell out of power, and the first people who attacked him were those who attached themselves to him. And Wang Zhen may not always be an absolute monarch, because his power comes from the emperor Zhu Qizhen. As long as Yingzong Zhu Qizhen no longer trusts him and starts to doubt him, Wang Zhen may lose everything because of a small piece of paper. No matter how severe Wang Zhen is, he can't jump out of Wuzhishan in Zhu Qizhen.
Wang Zhen, who is in full swing, feels that this is not enough. It is not enough to truly master the military power of Daming and climb to the peak of power. Only when he leads Daming's army to win the battle can he truly establish his prestige in the army. To this end, he encouraged Zhu Qizhen to lead 100 more than 100,000 civil and military officials and more than 500,000 Daming troops to March northward to Walla. But if you want to fight, you can't win the war. In an unguarded moment, 500,000 Daming troops were completely annihilated in the civil fort, and Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of Daming, was also captured by the Walla army. Such a fiasco made the remaining defeated soldiers very angry. In order to vent their emotions, they pointed the finger at Wang Zhen. If you hadn't encouraged the emperor to go north, we wouldn't have suffered such a fiasco and the emperor wouldn't have been captured! In a rage, Fan Zhongyan, the general of Hu Wei in Zhu Qizhen, killed Wang Zhen on the battlefield.
Changes of civil castles
A powerful eunuch died on the battlefield. If it weren't for him, the change of this civil fort wouldn't have happened. Later, after the restoration of the British Sect, I remembered the kindness of "Teacher Wang" before and made a public sacrifice for him. He dedicated Zhihua Temple to him and gave him a heavy burial. I have to say, Wang Zhen still has a conscience, at least he is sincere to Zhu Qizhen, otherwise Zhu Qizhen won't miss him so much.