1644, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Jingshan. He did a great thing before his death: he buried Wei Zhongxian's body in Biyun Temple in Xiangshan. A dying man, why do you want to do such a seemingly useless thing and slap in the face?

As we all know, Chongzhen was located in the seventh year of the apocalypse, at the end of August. Only two months later, he began to attack Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch trusted by his brother. Revoke all positions inside and outside Wei Zhongxian Palace, and send them to the four lanes of Fengyang Zuling. Soon, Wei Zhongxian was ordered to be arrested, not deported. Wei Zhongxian was closely escorted by a security guard, and others who followed him were immediately arrested.

It is said that Wei Zhongxian was listening to a ditty in the inn when he heard the news. The arrest warrant and dismal ditty made Wei Zhongxian lose hope. Early the next morning, Wei Zhongxian hanged himself at his residence.

Emperor Chongzhen began to crusade against Yan State and began to liquidate chaotic eunuchs on a large scale.

He ordered the recall of the garrison officers stationed in the border towns, so that eunuchs no longer had military power. Emperor Chongzhen was very wary of eunuchs at the beginning of his reign, and his ban always existed. The eunuch was ordered not to leave the palace gate, which made the eunuch lose the opportunity to pay troops to foreign courts.

However, after 17, Emperor Chongzhen did something elusive and buried Wei Zhongxian alive.

In other words, Chongzhen did this because he was attacked from all directions. Eunuch Cao Huachun said: "If there is loyalty, current affairs will not come here." .

Obviously, in the eyes of eunuchs, Wei Zhongxian is more capable and pragmatic than Lin's moving ministers.

So, Chongzhen is the default?

To be sure, during Chongzhen's seventeen years in power, the biggest change was his attitude towards eunuchs. He killed Wei Zhongxian at the beginning of his reign, which shows his extreme dislike for eunuchs. In the middle and late period of his reign, his attitude towards eunuchs improved, and he returned to the strange circle of his brother, the Apocalypse Emperor, and used eunuchs again.

The emperor who hated eunuchs ordered the removal of the "dirty money" of eunuchs arrested and executed by the Apocalypse Dynasty and the release of their families. The right to defend and supervise the army was given to eunuchs. From hatred to dependence. Why is this?

It cannot be ruled out that the incompetence and disloyalty of ministers disappointed their emperor. Secondly, only eunuchs obey the emperor's orders. Emperor Chongzhen may feel that ministers are divorced from morality, and eunuchs around him are the most obedient and trustworthy.

At the critical moment of Enemy at the Gates, Li Zicheng and Chongzhen reflected deeply at the last moment of their lives. After he succeeded to the throne, the Wei Party was eradicated, which revived the Party and those who advocated Confucianism. But these people are good at empty talk, but they lack the management of the country when the country is in turmoil and the border is dangerous. Weakness, corruption and incompetence disappointed him. Hong Chengchou and other officials defected at the critical moment, humiliating the emperor who trusted him.

On his deathbed, Emperor Zhu Youjian of Chongzhen wrote a famous saying: "I am a calm and humble person, and my actions should be condemned, but all ministers misunderstood me."

Obviously, the monarch of national subjugation pushed the responsibility of national subjugation on the head of the court minister, instead of accusing the eunuch in court.

This country is in danger. What about the eunuch he trusted? According to historical records, these eunuchs actively "tapped the potential" in the last years of Chongzhen, restricted generals, eroded their salaries, avoided the enemy and harmed the people, lied about their military situation, earned income, and were locked up in the city. As a result, when Li Zicheng went to Beijing, there was a gunshot, and the huge special forces, both men and women, immediately dispersed.

History cannot be assumed, but there is more than one answer. It is true that the eunuch represented by Wei Zhongxian is a good slave of the emperor, but in this special group with physical and mental disabilities, there can be no politicians who care about the country and the people. Although these people care about protecting God, they have no intention of saving lives. They will never be "positive energy" figures in history.

History has also proved this. Qing soldiers entered the customs, and Aisingiorro occupied China. At first, the Jurchen people who imitated the Ming regime were also disgusted with the eunuchs in China. Forty years after Kangxi, the Qing Emperor ordered the Wei Zhongxian Mausoleum to be razed to the ground.

But eunuchs are no different from eunuchs in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. An Dehai, Li and other rising "post-Wei Zhongxian" figures are as important as eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty in national politics. With the rise and fall of China's dynasties, the strange circle of eunuchs "from defense to trust" kept repeating. It can be said that this is a kind of politics governing the country by blood, which originated from the imperial power system in China. This kind of politics will inevitably lose blood, decline and decline.