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Note: This chapter and the following chapters contain detailed descriptions of the cleansing process of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, which are intended to depict various aspects of society in the late Ming Dynasty, which may cause discomfort to the reader, and are hereby reminded. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSkipping this chapter will not seriously affect later reading.

The smoke-filled clean room was just in front, and Wang Ergou felt a burst of heat, which was the raging flames in the clean room. Purification is to remove the yang parts of a man's body, so it is possible for the yin energy outside to enter the body, and the heat of the flame must be used to force out the yin qi and external evils, but even so, three or five of every ten people who are purified will die, which makes Wang Ergou a little nervous.

But if you stay at home and have no food to eat, sooner or later you will die, so it is better to come out and break through, at least you can mix up a full dead ghost.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were many ways to become eunuchs, and there were almost seventy or eighty thousand eunuchs in the entire Forbidden City. Although these were poor people with no offspring, there were still people who wanted to become eunuchs.

It stands to reason that anyone who wants to become a eunuch should first go to the government to register, and then get permission before purifying. However, the facts and regulations of the Ming Dynasty have never been consistent. Although the imperial court has repeatedly ordered that no self-palace is allowed, and all purification must be done by people from the government, but the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty are powerful, and this kind of thing is also repeatedly prohibited. Although Grandpa Hongwu, Grandpa Yongle, and Grandpa Xuande all ordered that they were not allowed to leave the palace, they were all repeatedly banned, and even if they were to be punished by Dapi, it would not work, which shows the power of this eunuch.

If he is smart and clever, with red lips and white teeth, he may be favored by the emperor of the concubine, and the workshop owner will give him a clean body, which is also an investment, and if the latter is developed later, it is necessary to take care of the workshop owner. These people come from many backgrounds, including urban teenagers who are trying to jump into the dragon gate, down-and-out literati who have no ambitions, and children from poor families. Sometimes the weather is really bad, and there is even a village where hundreds of people enter the palace together!

Although the imperial court later knew that it was impossible to prohibit it, and recruited a large number of people who had left their own palaces to enter the palace, there were still many people who failed to enter the palace. These poor people had already broken their roots, but now they can't even enter the palace, which is really pitiful. Even if the imperial court sent them out to fill the army or garrison the border, there were still many people who fled back to Beijing and asked to enter the palace, and even some people saw that there was no hope of entering the palace and entered the palace and the house of the powerful ministers to serve. As for those who really can't enter the palace and are not accepted by other magnates, they can only be reduced to beggars on the streets, and the eunuchs in the palace are generally contemptuously called "beggars".

This makes Wang Ergou very incomprehensible, they are also poor people who have no roots, and it is not enough to help each other, so why look down on them?

Perhaps, this is also their way of maintaining their poor and sensitive self-esteem.

The uncle took him and waited outside, and kept babbling to him about various precautions, hoping that Wang Ergou would survive. Wang Ergou knew that the uncle was cultivating power for himself, and he was recruited into the palace by the uncle, so he was naturally a member of the uncle's faction, which was also a way for the eunuchs to cultivate power.

You must survive! Wang Ergou said to himself.

Soon it was his turn, and the uncle led him to a eunuch, bowed and said, "Master (Note 1), this is a little nephew, please take care of me." ”

This eunuch was about thirty years old, with a white face and a bearded face, and his facial features were upright, and it was obvious that such a person was more likely to win the favor of the nobles in the palace. He has a crown of hair on his head, a python dragon coiled on it, a forehead below, two long pheasant tails on the left and right, and a python robe, which is bright yellow, obviously has been transgressed, but at this time, it is common for the eunuchs in the palace to transgress their clothes, as long as the dragon robe is not put on the body, no one will come to find fault in the idle time.

The eunuch glanced at Wang Ergou, and seemed to think that Wang Ergou looked quite good, nodded quietly, and then asked, "What's your name?" ”

Wang Ergou was about to speak, but the uncle had already answered for him: "If you go back to your master, you will be called Wang Ergou." ”

"Hmph, in this deep palace, how can there be such cats running around and dogs barking?" The eunuch frowned, seemed to be a little dissatisfied, then thought for a while, and said, "In that case, let's give you a name!" ”

The uncle was overjoyed, and hurriedly said to Ergou: "The master wants to name you, don't kneel down and thank you!" ”

Ergou has been ignorant from the beginning to the present, the uncle asked him to go, he left, let him kneel, he knelt, so he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you for your name, the little one is grateful!" ”

This sentence was also taught to him by his uncle, otherwise how would he know what to "give a name" and be "grateful" as a rural child!

"Our eunuchs are all people without a queen, and they all rely on the emperor's grandfather to have these glory and wealth, thunder and rain and dew, if it is not Jun'en, our family will give you a name "Wang Chengen". The eunuch said, writing three words on the paper in front of him.

Since then, Wang Ergou is gone, and some are just a little eunuch named Wang Chengen.

After reporting the name, it is time to purify. Cleansing is done in late spring and early summer, when the temperature is not too low and not high enough for mosquitoes to breed, making it suitable for cleansing surgery. Wang Chengen pressed his handprint on a life and death document in a daze, and then was taken into the clean room by two tall eunuchs.

The eunuchs were kind to Wang Chengen, who was about to be purified, perhaps because they had experienced the same pain, so they had some pity for each other. A fat-faced eunuch said to Wang Chengen: "Your kid is lucky, he can't be humane at the age of ten, that thing hasn't developed yet, and it will bleed less after being cut, so it's easier to survive." ”

"Oh," Wang Chengen nodded ignorantly, this was taught to him by his uncle, in the palace is not as good as at home, once he offends a nobleman, he may be killed, it is better to be cautious and careful. After Wang Chengen said this, he thought about it and asked again: "Does this pure body hurt?" ”

What he said was in the country dialect, and it sounded like there was still some gap between it and the official dialect, and the eunuch who was talking to him just now frowned and said, "It hurts, why doesn't it hurt!" But that's how everyone comes, stretching out the head is a knife, shrinking the head is also a knife, just bear with it. But your country accent has to be changed, the palace is full of nobles, all speak this Beijing official dialect, your country dialect, if the nobles are unhappy when they hear it, you will be miserable! ”

Wang Chengen nodded again, although he still didn't understand why the nobles would be unhappy when they heard it, but he could still tell the difference between the accent and his life.

Purification is not free, it is necessary to pay money to the palace. Fortunately, this money can be repaid year by year, which makes Wang Chengen somewhat relieved. Although the money can be paid later, the gift to the knife maker is absolutely indispensable, after all, this is a matter of human life, if the knife maker is slightly broken, the small life will be gone. These gifts were paid by the uncle with the help of the uncle, a total of a pig's head, a bottle of sorghum wine, and thirty catties of rice for the operation, which was for Wang Chengen to eat, five baskets of corn cobs, which were used to light the fire, three loads of sesame straw, which were used to burn into ashes, and half a knife of window paper, which was used to paste the windows. These things must not be missing, otherwise there is a high chance of death.

Wang Ergou was taken to a wooden bed, the temperature in the room was very high, and he was a little nervous, so he sweated a lot. The knifesmith of the main knife wore a blue robe with blood stains, his face was expressionless, he did not smile or speak, this person has always been Wang Chengen's nightmare, and he has continued to torture him for several years. Even if he didn't need to be stabbed a second time in the future, the situation at that time still made his heart palpitate.

The light in the room was very dim, only two oil lamps as a light source, and the windows were so tightly glued that no light could penetrate a little, which made Wang Chengen very afraid, and he felt that such light was likely to cause the knifeman to cut the wrong thing. But then he thought, anyway, everything underneath has to be cut, and what else can be cut but these things? And this knifesmith is like a pig killer

It's the same, it's definitely been doing this all year round, and it's definitely skilled.

Wang Chengen has seen the pig killer kill the pig, he first asked the pig to tie up the four hooves, and then drew the knife around the pig, watching the pig can't stop wailing, and then looking at an opportunity, it is a knife to go up, it must be a white knife in and a red knife out. A good pig killer never needs a second knife to kill a pig, which is also the capital of their livelihood.

Although it is a little painful to think of himself as a pig under the pig slaughterer, as long as he can reduce the pain, Wang Chengen is still willing.

The knife maker first made Wang Chengen drink a medicinal soup, which was dark in color and exuded a bitter smell, and it was said to be made with stinky marijuana, which could anesthetize people and relieve diarrhea. Wang Chengen has never drunk medicinal soup, because their family is so poor, how can they afford to hire a doctor? If you have a disease, most of them are carried by yourself, and if you carry it, you will continue to live in this painful world, and if you can't resist it, you have to be a good man again after 18 years.

The first time I drank medicinal soup in my life turned out to be a purification, which made Wang Chengen feel very ironic.

He then went to the toilet again to urinate and defecate. Touching his little brother, Wang Chengen muttered: "I'm sorry, brother, it's not that I want to cut you off, it's just that if I don't cut you, I'm going to starve to death!" ”

The knife maker made him lie on his back with his legs apart, and ordered his deputy to tie Wang Chengen's abdomen and limbs with a white cloth, which was to prevent him from flapping indiscriminately because of the pain, and for his good. A person stretched out his hand and pressed Wang Chengen's waist and abdomen, his hand was hard and powerful, making the thin Wang Chengen unable to resist at all. Another man brought a basin with a potion called "hot and spicy soup", which was used to clean the castrated area.

The effect of the potion is very strong, and the part where Wang Chengen was cleaned is hot and painful, but Wang Chengen thinks that this pain is not the same level as the pain that he is about to bear.

The knifesmith took out the knife, which was golden and shimmered golden in the dim light, a curved, sickle-like knife, said to be made of gold and copper, not particularly sharp, but which could kill viruses and prevent people from getting infected.

The knifesmith roasted the knife on the oil lamp, and then walked towards Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen is going to say goodbye to a part of his body.

Note 1: In the Ming Dynasty, Quan Jue or the steward eunuch was called "Ye" by the little eunuchs, but at the same time, the Son of Heaven was called "Grandpa" or "Grandpa So-and-so" by the eunuchs, and at the same time, the folk called various gods "Grandpa", which shows that "Ye" was a common title for Venerable in the Ming Dynasty.