Let's talk about the Eastern Han Dynasty first, the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty were all young and ascended the throne, the youngest of them was just 100 days old when he ascended the throne, and Emperor Huan was older when he ascended the throne, but he was only fifteen years old. Whenever the little emperor came to power, because he was young and ignorant, the state affairs were often in the hands of the queen mother, and the queen mother often relied on her relatives for power, resulting in a situation of dictatorship of her relatives. When the emperor grows up, he naturally wants to take power in person, and this will inevitably form a conflict of interest with his relatives. In the struggle between the emperor and his relatives, the emperor was lonely because he was young and deep in the palace, and he could rely on the eunuchs who got along day and night, and these eunuchs were not good birds, helping the emperor get rid of his relatives, but he took the opportunity to control the power, such as the great eunuchs Hou Lan, Su Kang, and Guan Ba in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The relatives of the eunuchs and their henchmen occupied all levels of official positions from the central to the local, and most of the Tai students and local Confucian scholars were blocked from progressing, and the government became darker and darker. Hansu is as white and turbid as mud, and Gao Diliang will be as timid as a chicken. In this way, it aroused a lot of Qingliu disdain, and in the first year of Yongkang, after the death of Emperor Huan of Han, Empress Dowager Dou and her father Dou Wu Yingli Emperor Ling of Han ascended the throne. At that time, Emperor Ling was only thirteen years old, and the Empress Dowager Dou was in charge of the dynasty, and the general Dou Wu and Taifu Chen Fan supported the system. Both Dou Wu and Chen Fan hated the eunuchs' dictatorship, so they plotted to eradicate the eunuchs. With the support of Empress Dowager Dou, they killed the eunuchs Guan Ba and Su Kang, who were in power in the court. Dou Wu also planned to get rid of the eunuch Cao Jie and others, but the eunuchs knew about it because of the lack of secrets. Seeing that the situation was not good, Cao Jie and others hurriedly led people into the palace to kidnap Emperor Ling of Han and Empress Dowager Dou, and falsely passed on the holy decree and sent troops to arrest Dou Wu. Dou Wu hurriedly avoided the barracks. The eunuchs Cao Jie, Wang Fu and others gathered more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Dou Wu, and finally killed Dou Wu, his relatives and guests, and the Empress Dowager Dou was imprisoned. After Chen Fan learned the news that Cao Jie and other eunuchs had captured and killed Dou Wu, regardless of his old age and infirmity, he summoned more than 80 subordinate officials and students to rush into Chengming Gate with knives, and was encountering Wang Fu, the eunuch who was arresting and killing Dou Wu and returning to the palace. Chen Fan was killed because he was outnumbered.

After Dou Wu and Chen Fan were killed, the eunuchs rewarded themselves and added officials to the rank of knight, completely controlling the government of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Ling was young and ignorant at the beginning of his reign, and he was a eunuch. When he became an adult, he indulged in pleasure and wealth, and the eunuchs did what he liked, and the chaos and corruption of the government can be imagined. The mother of the eunuch Hou Lan and her family did all kinds of evil in their hometown of Shandong, and Zhang Jian, a famous man in Shandong, wrote a letter of impeachment. The angry Hou Lan instructed the scoundrel Zhu and falsely accused Zhang Jian of forming a party with 24 people from the same county in an attempt to rebel. The unknown Emperor Ling issued an edict to hunt down Zhang Jian and others. On the way to escape, Zhang Jian was taken in by many people, and then successfully escaped. The eunuchs took advantage of this to arrest Zhang Jian's party members on a large scale, and all those who helped Zhang Jian escape were included in the ranks of the party members, and many people were implicated.

Later, the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty under the control of eunuchs became even darker. The courtiers wrote to accuse the eunuchs of plotting misdeeds, and the mediocre Emperor Ling of Han did not know what "misdeeds" were. There are 12 people such as Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong who are always on the side of Emperor Ling, and most of them are called "ten permanent attendants". They watched the courtiers' chapters and controlled the government, but Emperor Ling was willing to be subject to the eunuchs, and openly despised him: "Zhang Changshou (Zhang Rang) is my father, and Zhao Changshou (Zhao Zhong) is my mother." "The emperor and the eunuchs worked together to exploit the people, sell their official positions, and the government became increasingly corrupt, which eventually led to the Yellow Turban Uprising in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Compared with the Eastern Han Dynasty, the official eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty were better than those of the Han Dynasty, and batches of eunuchs forced the palace to kill the emperor, and the dictatorship was rampant, and all kinds of evil were done. The great eunuch Li Fuguo entered the palace as a eunuch during the reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Later, because of his dedication to serving the crown prince Li Heng, he became the prince's confidant. In the fourteenth year of Tang Xuanzong Tianbao, the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out, and wherever the rebels went, they were invincible, approaching Chang'an, Kyoto, and Tang Xuanzong fled in a hurry. The crown prince Li Heng was ordered to pacify the people in the future, and the people who had relocated to the land hoped that the prince would stay behind to fight the rebels. Li Fuguo persuaded the prince to stay and resist the enemy with the righteousness of the country, and the prince and Xuanzong's soldiers split up and went north to Lingwu. Li Fuguo also persuaded the prince to quickly become emperor in order to reassure the people. In 756 AD, the crown prince Li Heng ascended the throne as Tang Suzong, and respected Tang Xuanzong as the emperor. Su Zong was a cowardly character, and when he saw Li Fuguo's loyal support, he regarded him as his left and right arms, and gave him the name "Protector of the Country", and later changed his name to "Auxiliary Country", entrusting him with all major military and political affairs.

Suzong's replacement of Xuanzong was a wartime need. In the forty years of Tianbao, Tang Xuanzong returned to Chang'an. At first, he lived a life of idleness, but he was still free. Both Suzong and Li Fuguo were afraid of Xuanzong's reinstatement, so with Suzong's acquiescence, Li Fuguo pressed Xuanzong step by step. At first, he took back most of the 300 horses that Xuanzong liked, leaving only 10 horses; then he forced Xuanzong to move to the inner palace of the palace, leaving a few old, weak, sick and disabled people to serve Xuanzong; and then exiled Gao Lishi, a confidant and eunuch who was loyal to Xuanzong, and forced Xuanzong's close official Chen Xuanli to give his respects. In this way, Emperor Tang Xuanzong, who had completely become a loner, completed his life in loneliness and desolation. Su Zong wanted to visit Xuanzong who was seriously ill several times, but he also failed to make the trip due to Li Fuguo's obstruction. Li Fuguo's power can be imagined from this.

Li Fuguo was in power, and almost all the major affairs in the world were decided by Li Fuguo, and the things played by the courtiers often passed through his hands before they were informed to Suzong. In order to have a more accurate understanding of the movements of the ministers of the DPRK and China, Li Fuguo also specially sent dozens of people to supervise the officials' every move. Severe crackdowns on disobedient officials. Li Fuguo dealt with lawsuits throughout the country according to his own likes and dislikes, and flaunted the emperor's will. The local jiedu envoy was also appointed by Li Fuguo. Li Fuguo's power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and the prime minister and the ministers of the court and the central government had to go through Li Fuguo's arrangement to see the emperor, and the emperor's edict also needed Li Fuguo's signature before it could be implemented, and the ministers did not dare to put forward different opinions. When Li Fuguo traveled, the momentum was incomparable. Out of awe of Li Fuguo's arrogance and power, the nobles of the clan also respected him as "Wulang", and the prime minister at that time, Li Kui, called Li Fuguo "Five Fathers". There are also some upright people who are not ashamed of Li Fuguo's behavior, and Li Xian of the clan has repeatedly told Su Zongchen about Li Fuguo's illegal behavior. Although Su Zong was vigilant, under the manipulation of Li Fuguo, he still demoted Li Xian from Beijing. Li Fuguo, who covered the sky with one hand, tried to be the first eunuch prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. The move was fiercely opposed by Prime Minister Xiao Hua. Li Fuguo held a grudge and framed Xiao Hua in front of the emperor many times, and coerced the emperor to replace Xiao Hua with his confidant Yuan Zai, and finally expelled Xiao Hua from the capital.

The reason why Li Fuguo did whatever he wanted also benefited from his collusion with the Empress Zhang of Suzong. Empress Zhang and Li Fu corresponded at home and abroad, controlling the zhì regime. They are quick to get rid of those who are not good for them, whether they are high-ranking officials or dignitaries. Su Zong's second son, Li Yan, the king of Jianning, was very clever and devoted himself to assisting the crown prince Li Yu, the king of Guangping, and won the emperor's favor. The narrow-minded Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo slandered King Jianning in front of the emperor many times, slandering King Jianning for being disgruntled and preparing to murder the crown prince. The mediocre emperor actually issued an edict to give the king of Jianning death.

Li Fuguo and Empress Zhang's wolf bèi were in adultery for their own interests. But it is impossible for two people who want to monopolize power to live together in peace forever. During Suzong's serious illness, Li Fuguo and Empress Zhang finally clashed sharply over who should inherit the Great Treasure. Li Fuguo supported the crown prince Li Yu to ascend the throne, and Empress Zhang had a gap with the crown prince, so she secretly planned to succeed King Yue so that she could continue to meddle in the political situation in the future. Empress Zhang conspired to murder the crown prince, and her conspiracy was discovered by Li Fuguo's comrades, who first protected the prince, and then stormed the palace and captured more than 100 people of King Yue and his supporters. Empress Zhang fled into the seriously ill Suzong's dormitory and was captured by Li Fuguo. Su Zong died the same day due to fright. Li Fuguo took advantage of this chaotic opportunity to behead Empress Zhang, King Yue and the participants. The crown prince Li Yu ascended the throne under the support of Li Fuguo and was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

After Daizong came to power, because of his merits, he canonized Li Fuguo as the secretary of the office, and Li Fuguo finally realized his dream of being a prime minister. Li Fuguo was even more arrogant, he once said to Emperor Daizong, "Everyone sits inside, and foreign affairs are handled by the old slave." In fact, let Daizong entrust all the military affairs to him. This move naturally caused Daizong's dissatisfaction, but because Li Fuguo held the military power, Daizong had to swallow his anger but couldn't do anything, and then, there were Ju Wenzhen and Wang Shoucheng who forced the palace to kill the emperor, Qiu Shiliang who experienced six generations of emperors, Tian Lingzi, who was known as the emperor's "father", and Yang Fugong, Liu Jishu, and other people who were eunuchs when Tang Zhaozong. These people are all illustrious in life, and the notorious eunuchs after their deaths have all done things that have brought disaster to the country and the people, plus the persecution of many scholars, over time, these messy accounts are also more than the pen of the literati, counted on the heads of the eunuchs, after the propaganda of the history books of the past dynasties, in China, a country that takes history as a mirror, the reputation of eunuchs is finally notorious, especially the world's scholars, and it really has no good impact on these men and women who have no roots.

Scholars don't look down on eunuchs, and eunuchs also look down on these readers, in their eyes, these are more things than themselves, except for reading a few words of the sage, the readers are not much better, there are bad people in the eunuchs, and there are no good things in the literati who are full of poetry and books, and the prince Yue who is loyal to the country is not really in the hands of Jin Bing, but died in the hands of Qin Hui, it can be seen that this scholar has all the things, and his heart is not very dark.

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