Men who dare to self-castrate and are mentally mature, how ruthless should they be? Ordinary people can you knife yourself? How strong is their lust for power?

The first eunuch who made a career of self-castration was Wang Zhen, Wang Zhen was a native of Weixian County, Hebei Province in the early Ming Dynasty, a little bit of scriptures, and later became a teacher, but failed, after the failure, he was unwilling to fall, and found a shortcut to act on behalf of the heavens and enrich the world in countless examples of eunuchs in history, that is, self-castration.

In order to embark on the road of wealth and nobility, Wang Zhen also worked hard, really took his body and personality as a bet, and entered the palace at the cost of self-castration.

After Wang Zhen, how many people are definitely a shortcut to rise, and they began to castrate themselves into the palace, not to survive, but to win a fortune, and for this wealth, they dare to do anything. They can't talk about loyalty to the emperor, and pleasing the emperor is just for their own wealth, and they dare to do things that they deceive and conceal for this.

Liu Jin also castrated himself as an adult, and his idol was Wang Zhen, he felt that he could do Wang Zhen's level, but he would not fall into Wang Zhen's fate.

People sometimes just feel that others can't do it, and when they hear something, they give an evaluation: if this is me, then I, in fact, no matter who it is, the result is already doomed.

It's just that when everyone is in the center of things, it is difficult for him to understand these problems, but Zhu Houzhao is not concerned about this problem, but Liu Jin, how to deal with Liu Jin. It can be seen from the examples of Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian that the powerful Ming Quan eunuchs are basically self-castrated into the palace as adults, and they are ruthless to themselves and even more ruthless to others.

They don't have any sense of good and evil and right and wrong in their hearts, in order to get ahead, unlike the eunuchs who grew up in the palace since childhood, so loyal and simple, but many times, many things, you just need these people to do.

In the past few days, Zhu Houzhao has actually felt the nervousness of Liu Jin and the others, obviously Zhu Houzhao's closeness to Wenchen and the eradication of the beastyard made them feel that their status was threatened, and they naturally had ideas. Of course, the idea is definitely not to kill Zhu Houzhao, but to think of other ways to make Zhu Houzhao happy and get Zhu Houzhao's favor from the new.

There is naturally no drama in terms of women, Zhu Houzhao is only ten years old, although Daming has no taboos in this regard, and it is normal for men to have sons at the age of fourteen or fifteen, but if anyone dares to stuff a woman next to Zhu Houzhao when he is ten years old, then the result is very simple, it will definitely die. If the direction of the woman can't go, then you can only take other paths, the prince doesn't like the beast park, isn't there a martial arts arena?

These days, these eunuchs are very attentive to the martial arts arena, and they are all staring at the martial arts arena when they are building, and they can't have any dissatisfaction with it.

The mace that Zhu Houzhao asked to build was also carefully created, and at the same time, the eunuchs were also very attentive to the sparring partners that Zhu Houzhao was looking for, and they chose capable fighters from the four guard battalions mastered by the imperial horse supervisor. You must know that arranging people to compete for favor around the prince is not only a matter for Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao's personal eunuch Liu Jin, but also for the entire eunuch group.

As for the combat power of the four guard battalions mastered by the Imperial Horse Supervisor, it has been proven by actual combat, and this army should start from the Imperial Horse Supervisor, who was the first institution to herd horses for the emperor and was one of the twelve eunuchs. Later, the Imperial Horse Supervisor expanded from "in charge of the horses in the imperial stable" to "in charge of the imperial horses and the affairs of the tribute and the collection of horses and mules from the shepherds", and then derived into two major functions: military and financial.

Since the Imperial Horse Supervisor is in charge of the Imperial Horse, there are naturally horse breeders and horse trainers, which gave rise to a forbidden army led by the Imperial Horse Supervisor - Tengxiang Four Guards.

The original source of the forbidden army was the elite men selected from various local guards, as well as the young men who fled back from the Mongolian region. This forbidden army does not belong to the upper twelve guards (later the twenty-two guards) under the jurisdiction of the pro-army command envoy, but its status is obviously higher than that of the upper twelve guards, and it is the forbidden soldier in the forbidden army.

In the sixth year of Xuande, there were 3,100 forbidden soldiers, and they were given a regular name: "Yulin 3,000 Households". Two years later, on this basis, the guards and horses of the Beijing Army and the former Shenwu avant-garde officers and soldiers were enriched, and they were organized into Tengxiang Left and Right Guards, and Wuxiang Left and Right Guards, collectively referred to as the "Four Guards", also known as the "Four Guards". If, according to the establishment at that time, 5,600 men were one guard, then the fourth guard army should have more than 20,000 sergeants.

During the Jingtai and Chenghua periods, the three major battalions of the Beijing Army were reorganized into regimental battalions. The warriors and strong banner troops of the Tengxiang Four Guards were transferred, and the warrior battalion and the Four Guards Battalion were also formed, and the battalion officers were selected from among the four guard commanders.

From this time on, the forbidden army under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Horse Supervisor has Tengxiang Four Guards, Four Guards Battalion and Warrior Battalion, although the Imperial Horse Supervisor commanded the forbidden army from Yongle and Xuande, but its real role and attracted the attention of the people of the time was after the fourteenth year of the orthodox civil engineering change.

At that time, the Wara cavalry went straight to the Beijing division, and the defense of Beijing lasted for five days under the organization of Yu Qian, and the fiercest battles took place at Xizhimen and Changyimen. Due to the fall of the three major battalions of the main force of the Ming army, the three battalions of the Beijing army, guarded the Xizhi Gate by Liu Ju, the nephew of the imperial horse eunuch Liu Yongcheng, and the four guards and banner army who stayed in Beijing of the imperial horse supervisor who took the initiative to attack the Wara army at the Changyi Gate.

The combat effectiveness of this army is visible to the naked eye, and in the last years of Chongzhen, it was the warrior battalion that escorted King Fu, who later became Emperor Hongguang, to flee to Nanjing.

In the ninth year of Zhengde, Wuzong selected the elite in the 12th regiment battalion of the Beijing Army, organized into the front and rear two battalions, and practiced in the Xiguan Hall with the warrior battalion and the four guard battalions, which was the "selection of the front". This army has also been expanded to more than 40,000 people, which is also the army of Emperor Zhengde to show his martial arts, which can be regarded as the pro-army of the Son of Heaven.

The eunuch has the power of the monarch, but the execution of the eunuch is still a matter of the emperor's words, I have to say that this kind of thing is in the Ming Dynasty, if it is placed in the late Tang Dynasty, it is the eunuch left and right abolished, the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen period, Wei Zhongxian was also cut down, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty's civil gentry group is also very powerful.

In Xianyang Palace, Zhu Houzhao finished his day's work and sat in the room to rest, while Liu Jin diligently commanded people to lift things up.

It is a mace of about 1.5 meters, but it is different from the shape of the regular mace, although this is a normal short-handled mace, but it is very thick, especially the big head above the grip, which looks more like a hammer. The weight of the whole mace reached eighty pounds, and it was carried up by three people on a wooden shelf, and it was very difficult to walk.