Why did Zhang Bin curry favor with Cao Huachun so much?

It's very simple, because he once carefully recalled the history of the Ming Dynasty in his mind and found an astonishing fact, that is, the ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty had a lot to do with the eunuchs.

If you count the history of the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years, you will find that:

The emperor was dictatorial, and the Ming Dynasty developed well;

The civil officials are in power, and the Ming Dynasty has also developed well;

The eunuchs fully cooperated with the emperor or the civil officials to govern the country, and the Ming Dynasty still developed well;

However, once the eunuch monopolizes the government, the Ming Dynasty will definitely experience a catastrophe, and the disaster can even last for decades!

Like the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, can be said to be a dictatorial emperor, he is quite taboo eunuchs to interfere in politics, in view of the lessons of the eunuchs of the previous dynasty, he is particularly strict with the management of eunuchs, do not let eunuchs read, do not let eunuchs be foreign ministers, do not let eunuchs wear official uniforms, do not let eunuchs exceed the fourth grade, etc.

After stipulating so many regulations, he also hung a three-foot-high iron plaque at the entrance of the palace, engraved with the words "Ministers are not allowed to interfere in political affairs, and those who are predestined will be beheaded."

Therefore, in the Hongwu Dynasty, the eunuchs couldn't jump up, and Zhu Yuanzhang was also a capable emperor, so the life of the common people was getting better and better, and the history was called "the rule of Hongwu".

Next, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was a little bad at the rules, because he was the emperor who usurped the throne, so he didn't believe in many foreign ministers, and many secret things could only be done by the internal ministers.

As a result, a very famous eunuch appeared in the Yongle Dynasty, Zheng He.

According to Zheng He's qualifications, it is not difficult for him to be in politics or even in power, because he was transferred to Yanwangfu to serve Zhu Di when he was a teenager, it can be said that he grew up next to Zhu Di, and Zhu Di trusted him quite a lot.

More importantly, he also followed Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di to participate in the "Battle of Jingyan", born and died, turned to the north and south, and made great achievements, for this reason, Emperor Chengzu even specially awarded Zheng He the military rank of "Eunuch of the General Army", which shows the importance that Emperor Chengzu attaches to him.

Fortunately, Zheng He is not an ambitious eunuch, he is quite loyal to Ming Chengzu, and he will do whatever Emperor Chengzu wants him to do, and he will definitely not discount it.

As a result, there is a "Zheng He went to the West" that has been passed down in history, and he has become a famous navigator and diplomat in history, and has made indelible contributions to the diplomacy, foreign trade, and even national security of the Ming Dynasty.

In the next two dynasties of Mingrenzong Zhu Gaochi and Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, there were still no eunuchs to interfere in politics, because at this time, Zheng He, who was devoted to diplomacy and navigation, was still there, and no one could step on him as other little eunuchs.

Xuanzong and Renzong reused Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu and other virtuous ministers to assist the government, encourage production, lenient prisons, and practice frugality, so that the national strength of the Ming Dynasty reached the extreme, and the history is called "the rule of Renxuan".

After the rule of Hongwu, the prosperity of Yongle, and the rule of Renxuan, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be rich and strong, invincible in the world, and it stands to reason that the next should be able to enjoy at least a few decades of peace and prosperity, but unfortunately, the next Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen forgot the warning of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and reused the eunuch Wang Zhen!

As soon as this Wang Zhen came to power, he immediately took off the iron plate engraved by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang at the gate of the palace with the words "Ministers are not allowed to interfere in political affairs, and the pre-emptive ones are killed", and smashed it to pieces, so as to announce that the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty have risen up!

He did rise to prominence, he colluded with internal and external bureaucrats, killed upright officials, was domineering, powerful, and invincible, and called him "Weng Father" in the court.

As a result, Da Ming was impotent.

This "Weng Father" almost gave the Ming Dynasty a plague, he instigated Yingzong to drive the expedition in person, and commanded the army to run around, 200,000 Ming troops were killed by tens of thousands of thorn cavalry, more than 100 Wenchen generals who accompanied the expedition were all killed on the battlefield, and even Emperor Yingzong was captured by the Tile Spur Department, and it was a miracle of the change of the civil fort.

The change of Tumubao almost ruined the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and the Ming Dynasty, which was once prosperous, began to fall into rapid decline, and the four dynasties of Orthodoxy, Jingtai, Tianshun and Chenghua were all affected by it, and the dynasty was corrupted, and the people were not able to make a living.

Until the Ming Dynasty Xiaozong Hongzhi year, Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu dismissed the traitors, reused the virtuous ability, strictly controlled the eunuchs, under his governance the Ming Dynasty finally improved, and the people began to live and work in peace and contentment, known as "Hongzhi Zhongxing" in history.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and his son Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao didn't care about the lesson, and reused the eunuch Liu Jin, this Liu Jin deceived the upper and lower levels, the party was the same as the other, bribes and self-fattening, specializing in government affairs, being powerful and blessed, and the people of the people, the people of the time called him "the emperor", and Wuzong was the "emperor".

The entire Zhengde Dynasty was made into a miasma by him, there were rebellions and popular uprisings everywhere, and the foreign invaders also took the opportunity to start invading, and finally passed through Hongzhi Zhongxing to breathe a sigh of relief from the Ming Dynasty and was reorganized by him The people were not able to make a living, and the disaster continued to the Jiajing and Longqing dynasties later.

After the Longqing switch, the Ming Dynasty finally slowly recovered a little vitality, and at this time there was a famous eunuch Feng Bao, but this Feng Bao was not autocratic, but cooperated with Zhang Juzheng to implement the new policy, and the Ming Dynasty embarked on the road of Zhongxing, known as "Wanli Zhongxing" in history

Later, there was a dispute over the country's capital, and Mingshenzong was extremely dissatisfied with the ministers, and began to play a temper, retaliating by not going to the court for a long time, and ignoring political affairs in the deep palace all day long, so that there were many parties in the court and China, and they were inclined to each other.

However, during this period, there were successively the Northwest Bibai Rebellion, the Southwest Banzhou Rebellion, the Dongying army invaded Korea, and the Ming Dynasty fought for many years, but all the victories were won.

Like Wei Zhongxian in the later Ming Xizong Tianqi period, he is a typical example, in order to fight for power, he wantonly killed dissidents, so that the government and government were chaotic, and internal and external troubles continued.

He did win the struggle for power, and in the late period of the Apocalypse, the entire court was almost all eunuchs, and the world only knew that he was 9,000 years old, and he did not know that there was an emperor.

However, the Ming Dynasty was finished, and then, the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty died!

Of course, there are many reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, which cannot be completely attributed to him alone, but it is undeniable that it is precisely because he caused chaos in the dynasty, killed dissidents, and almost killed the upright civil officials, which caused the incompetent ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty to be available.

Throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty, it can be seen that eunuchs can indeed influence the development of the Ming Dynasty.

Honest and loyal eunuchs combined with emperors or ministers could promote the development of the Ming dynasty, as exemplified by Zheng He in the Yongle era and Feng Bao in Wanli Zhongxing.

And once the tyrannical traitor takes power, the Ming Dynasty will have to shed its skin if it does not die, Wang Zhen of the Orthodox Dynasty, Liu Jin of the Zhengde Dynasty and Wei Zhongxian of the Tianqi Dynasty are all obvious examples.