Chapter 12: The Spiritual Scepter

Liu Yunxi cried until his throat was hoarse, and his whole body was weak and weak, and he was helped into the room by his family.

It's really called "hoarseness".

When he entered the room, he collapsed on the bed, his eyes glazed and his expression blank, no matter how much his family comforted and persuaded him, he didn't seem to hear it.

The family was naturally worried, and they didn't dare to leave the left and right. From the afternoon to the beginning of the evening, no one ate dinner.

At the second quarter of the first day, Liu Yunxi suddenly sat up and said that he was fine, and said that he was hungry and wanted to eat. The Liu family was overjoyed and hurriedly lit a fire to cook.

The food was served, and I saw that the old man was swept away and ate very deliciously.

After the meal, Liu Yunxi said that he was too tired and wanted to sleep well, asked people not to disturb him, and then fell asleep.

At first, the family was still not very reassured. After a cup of tea, I saw Liu Yunxi snoring like thunder, and I really fell asleep, so I was relieved. So they dispersed, and Mrs. Liu also went to bed.

In the middle of the night, she vaguely heard a "poof" sound, and woke up in shock, and saw a person hanging on the beam of the room, who was swaying. In a blink of an eye, his soul was scattered, he crawled with a roll, rushed out of bed, hugged Liu Yunxi's legs, and screamed.

When the family heard the sound, they rushed over and relieved Liu Yunxi.

Fortunately, the "poof" that Mrs. Liu heard was the sound of Liu Yunxi kicking down the stool, and there was almost no delay from finding out that the old man was looking for a short sight to relieving him. Liu Yunxi coughed violently, finally relieved himself, and then cried loudly again.

In the dead of night. The devil cries wolf. Naturally, the neighbors woke up.

The Liu family is up and down. I was so anxious to jump my feet, at this time, it was no longer a question of whether I was embarrassed or not, but - "from above" scolded you a few words, and you hanged yourself and wiped your neck?! This is not just "absurd", but an outright "rebellion"! If you know it to the "above", the lightest is to the end and chase back to your hometown. "handed over to the magistrate for strict control"; If the "top" is a bad temper, it is not uncommon to go to the prison and tie up the vegetable market!

How good is that?

Liu Yunxi did not seek death again, but the news he surrendered could not be hidden, after all, it was leaked, and the "above" finally knew.

Courtiers and scholars naturally inevitably sighed sadly, but the reprimand of Liu Yunxi itself was not responsible, and the eunuchs "increased" separately, which was also an "unspoken rule" for two hundred years; Meantime. On the issue of "proclamation and reprimand", as long as you are a courtier. There is a suspicion of melon fields and plums, so on the table, no one can hold grievances for Liu Yunxi.

Everyone just stared at the "top", look at this time, is the "top" pretending to be stupid and not knowing about Liu Yunxi's throwing in the matter and letting him go? Or will he be given a more severe punishment? Or even-

The reaction of the "above" shattered everyone's glasses.

Guan Zhuofan made an excerpt, saying that Liu Yunxi's performance was absurd, and the emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces only gave him the punishment of reprimand, which was really "lenient and generous", although Liu Yunxi was confused, he couldn't help but be "grateful". However, Liu Yunxi, as a "protégé of the Son of Heaven and a minister of state", "shouldn't he be humiliated by eunuchs"? This matter was not handled by me properly, "losing the dignity of the court", and asked the emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces to give me heavy punishments, "to set an example".

Liu Yunxi was a jinshi of the Renxu branch in the first year of Tongzhi, so Guan Zhuofan said that he was a "protégé of the Son of Heaven".

Then, when the drama came, Guan Zhuofan said that in order to "respect the national system and save the dignity of the scholars", please abolish the system of sending eunuchs to send edicts and reprimands, and if there is a will to reprimand in the future, please send the ministers of the court to Xuanda.

Liu Yunxi was added to punish Shenma, but he didn't mention a word.

This excerpt, the shock caused, can be said to be at the level of a nuclear explosion.

It even surpassed the previous "making Chinese a lingua franca".

"Define Chinese as the lingua franca", and those who benefit from it are first at the level of ethnic groups; The abolition of the eunuch decree reprimand system benefited all the individuals who were in Beijing, including all the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners.

All of them were holding their breath, their hearts pounding.

The queen mother of the two palaces "hesitated again and again", and Guan Zhuofan "insisted on repeating it".

Most people think that this is a "top" posture, and the monarch and the minister co-starred in a double reed. But they were wrong, this time, the queen mother of the two palaces was really "hesitant to decide".

Without the permission of the superiors, how could the eunuchs dare to insult the ministers? Even if I gave them ten more dares! The "other blame" in the eunuch reprimand system is, of course, secretly supported by the superiors, and it is by no means the self-determination of the minister.

In fact, the eunuch's reprimand for "separate blame" was one of the most secret and important "ancestral systems" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and one of the most important means for the Manchu aristocracy to "train" Han scholars and scholars and Aixinjue Luo to maintain their own rule.

Zhu Ming dealt with the scholar doctor and sent him with a court staff; Qing Chengming system wisely avoided this absurd corporal punishment, but, in a sense, the eunuch's reprimand for "other reproach" can be regarded as a kind of "spiritual court staff".

With the physical rod, it is still possible for the inmate to maintain his personality and self-esteem; Receiving the "spiritual staff", it is difficult to maintain a complete personality and self-esteem. After being "punished", the denounced people are weak and depressed, and over time, they naturally no longer have the mind of being external to the superior.

In the Qing Dynasty, the obedience of Han scholars to the Manchu Qing Dynasty stemmed to a considerable extent from the eunuch reprimand system, which was inconspicuous and undewy in history.

Of course, the eunuch's reprimand of "another reproach" does not look at people's dishes, if the relatives of the Eight Banners are reprimanded by a decree, they will be generally scolded, and the price of being free from humiliation will be higher. This sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of all the ministers. However, because the Eight Banners pro-nobles regarded themselves as "slaves" in front of the emperor and the queen mother, it was not very difficult for the master to scold the slaves, so the main target of this system was still Han scholars.

In the original time and space, it was not that no one had made an effort to abolish the eunuch reprimand system, but without exception, they were all politely rejected by the "superiors". The last one to propose the abolition of the eunuch reprimand system was Zhang Zhidong, which was already after the establishment of the imperial cabinet, Zhang Zhidong was terminally ill, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was already on the eve of its demise, and countless systems had been changed, but this eunuch reprimand system still couldn't be touched.

Finally, the eunuch reprimand system and the Qing Dynasty were "consistent".

At this point, we can understand why Guan Zhuofan's request to abolish the eunuch reprimand system caused such a huge response in the court, and why the queen mother of the two palaces "hesitated again and again".

But the queen mother of the two palaces finally allowed it, and the eunuch reprimand system for nearly two hundred years was abolished.

In history, for King Xuan, "the world's scholars have returned to their hearts since then".

*(To be continued......)