Anyone who has read history should know that eunuchs can always gain the trust of the emperor, and after the research of countless historians, it can be roughly attributed to the following three reasons.

1. The eunuchs and the emperor have been together for a very long time, and they can often guess the master's intentions, and then do what they like and win favor. Not to mention foreign ministers, even the royal relatives and those queen concubines can't compare.

2. Since this position of the emperor is very special, whether it is the ministers of the court, relatives, brothers, or sons, they may not be able to stand the temptation of that kind of power, as for betraying the emperor himself. In contrast, for well-known reasons, eunuchs were far less of a threat to imperial power than others, allowing the emperor to feel at ease with them.

3. The eunuch group is a very good tool for political struggle, and it is very easy to gain the trust of others. In Chinese history, once the emperor was ready to fight against the group of relatives, the eunuchs would basically appear, especially the little emperor, because he had been with the eunuchs in the palace for many years, so he trusted them more.

The eunuch politics of the Hengling era is a typical example, in this era, the relationship between the eunuchs and the emperor is so close that we ordinary people are far from imagining.

In the era of Emperor Heng of the Han Dynasty, in order to fight the general Liang Ji, the emperor had already made a bloody alliance with the eunuchs, and finally canonized five Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhonghou, and even had an adulterous affair with the eunuch Zhang Rang. By the time of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the emperor's favorability towards the eunuchs had completely exploded, and it was simply a rhythm of obedience. In the early days of Emperor Ling's reign, Wang Fu and Cao Jie were deeply trusted by Liu Hong, and Liu Hong followed Cao Jie's advice in history to launch the second party rebellion, when Cao Jie was seriously ill, Emperor Ling of Han appointed him as a general in order to comfort him, although he was removed from the post of general after he recovered from his illness, but after Cao Jie's death, he was still posthumously awarded as a general of the cavalry.

After Cao Jie's death, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong took the place of Wang Fu and Cao Jie's position in the heart of Emperor Ling, "Zhang Rang is my father, Zhao Zhong is my mother" This historical-level joke came out of Emperor Ling's mouth at this time, let us think of the relationship between Emperor Heng of Han and Zhang Rang, the relationship between Emperor Heng and Emperor Ling is really not ordinary.

Emperor Ling trusted the eunuchs so much, how could the eunuchs live up to Emperor Ling's kindness! So they had the money to contribute and the power to contribute, and hurriedly built a big house for themselves in the city of Luoyang (that is, Luoyang), and the specifications and seats were all modeled after the royal family. Once, Emperor Ling was about to go to Yong'an Waiting Platform to climb the heights to watch Luoyang City, but the eunuchs were anxious and actually persuaded Emperor Ling: "The Son of Heaven is not suitable for climbing, and if you ascend, the people will be scattered." Then Emperor Ling actually believed it, and even stopped going to the pavilion from now on. Can you believe it? The eunuchs themselves couldn't believe it!

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Han Dynasty faced a critical moment, in order to unite the forces, Emperor Ling listened to the suggestion to lift the party, and at this time, some eunuchs still went their own way and continued to play the small black form of the scholars, saying that the party was plotting wrong, or should be ordered to be imprisoned, but it was found out that the eunuchs had colluded with Zhang Jiao in the past.

Emperor Ling of Han asked angrily: "You often say that the party members plotted against each other, ordered them to be imprisoned, and some were killed, and now the party members have become useful talents for the country, and you have fornicated with Zhang Jiao, can this be killed or not?" Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others all kowtowed and said, "This is done by Wang Fu and Hou Lan, who were often servants in the former middle school." "Emperor Han Ling didn't pursue it anymore, yes, you read that right, this matter is basically over.

Now everyone can understand, in that era, as long as Emperor Han Ling was alive, the eunuchs were invincible. In fact, the eunuchs in the era of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty had great power, strong power, and a long time, which made the history of the Han Dynasty unprecedented.

[Sick Loyalty]

In the entire Hengling era, we can say that the eunuchs were poisonous and loyal, did all kinds of evil, and caused chaos in the world, but compared with the domineering relatives and the ill-intentioned scholars, at least they were relatively loyal to the emperor himself, whether it was the "Five Marquis" or the "Ten Standing Servants", there was basically no great eunuch who had a major disadvantage to the emperor himself, but it was a pity that their loyalty was pathological.

The group of eunuchs is abnormal in itself. On the one hand, due to their physical defects, the humility of their status, coupled with the fact that they are like tigers, they have a strong sense of inferiority and revenge; On the other hand, because of the day and night with the emperor since childhood, coupled with the emperor's trust and indulgence in them, they have a deep affection for the emperor. In the era of Hengling, the relationship between the emperor and the eunuchs reached a historical peak, and the Hengdi Emperor also slightly suppressed the eunuchs who were mainly based on the "five marquis" out of the need to maintain the imperial power, and when it came to the Lingdi, the eunuch group dominated by the "Ten Standing Servants" won the unprecedented trust of the emperor, completely overwhelming the group of relatives and scholars.

But it was precisely this group of eunuchs who had the absolute trust of the emperor and did not betray the emperor that pushed the Han Dynasty further into the abyss of destruction, precisely because the loyalty of the eunuchs was a pathological loyalty. Eunuchs are the emperor's domestic slaves, for them to get the favor of the master is the most important, and the best way to get the emperor's favor is to take a shortcut to satisfy the master's selfish desires, and this will generally make the emperor more dizzy, from the perspective of a dynasty, the eunuchs' loyalty, is not a more complete betrayal.

【The Root of Sin】

The eunuchs were psychologically abnormal due to their physical defects. For them, the only thing they can pursue is money and power, so they have a possessive desire for money and power. For this purpose, eunuchs can have no lower limit at all and do whatever it takes, so that it is not uncommon for eunuchs to play tricks, play with money, seize the army, and seize power in history. Moreover, the eunuchs had a low level of education, which made them short-sighted, and they only knew how to seek short-term personal interests, regardless of the long-term peace and stability of the country. Since they were still servants of the emperor and were not subject to the scrutiny of others, their abuse of power was often more intense than that of the bureaucrats.

But we have to understand that the sins of the eunuchs were not because of their physical defects, they were also victims in this regard. The power of the eunuchs comes from the emperor, and the eunuch system itself is one of the derivatives of the imperial power. The root of the evil of eunuchs is the evil of the feudal autocratic emperor.