The chamberlain's face was white and beardless, and his voice was clear and sharp, and it was indeed the kind of characteristic that came from the great power in the west—the eunuch.

Maybe many Chinese people don't know whether there were eunuchs in ancient countries other than China, and in the end, it was from the intelligence director in the American drama "Game of Thrones" - the eunuch Varys that suddenly understood that there were eunuchs in foreign countries.

In fact, there are many striking similarities in the development of the history of world civilization.

Many ancient civilizations in the world, including China, Egypt, ancient Rome, Greece, Persia, etc., also used eunuchs in the past feudal era, and the time point of appearance was very close.

Archaeologists have found the approximate time of the appearance of Egyptian eunuchs in the pyramids of Egypt.

When Thutmose III came to power in 1424 B.C., about 3,500 years ago, when Egypt was at war with other countries, they would cut off the life of the captives they captured and send them to the royal palace as slaves.

These slaves did some work in the palace to water flowers, hoe the ground, make tea, and pour water, and later, when there was no war, they slowly began to find some people from the country to castrate and send them to the palace.

At that time, the royal palace in Egypt was the same as in China, and there were many harem beauties, and the eunuchs were also found to prevent accidents such as the king's "old king next door".

The difference between Egypt and China is that the eunuchs were operated on by monks!

Affected by this.

Except for some of the more bizarre dynasties in the West, which will make the eunuchs greased and whitewashed like a court servant to make people happy, there are also some short periods of power eunuchs covering the sky with one hand, but usually they are more like ascetics with pure hearts and few desires, after all, they are just servants of very low status who serve the upper nobles.

Even the bald intelligence chief in "Game of Thrones", the eunuch Varys, is often dressed in monk's robes.

Later, as the demand for eunuchs increased, the monks would go to the market to select boys between the ages of six and ten to perform the operation.

Then he was sent to the palace for various training, and after training, he began to serve the imperial concubines.

Later, the royal ministers of Egypt said that these people were "the best slaves at the bedside," because they would not have any ridiculous things with the royal concubines, even if they watched the king and the concubines have fun every day, there was nothing they could do.

So why did eunuchs appear in Egypt during the time of Thutmose III?

It turned out that at a very young age, Thutmose was sent by his mother to fight on the front lines in order to prepare for the future rule of the country. Later, after he came to power, in order to encourage the army to fight bravely, a reward system was introduced.

At the beginning, the soldiers were asked to kill the enemy and chop off their hands, and they were rewarded according to the number of meritorious deeds.

Later, it was found that the hands they got back were of different sizes, and they wondered if the soldiers had killed women and children to take the lead in the army, so they stipulated that the hands of the enemy were no longer needed, and they were changed to men's "lifeblood". And they were to be made in groups of 20, sprinkled with lime and packed into a box to make it easy to carry on the march.

As for the eggs and eggs, I won't mention where they ended up for the time being. (poof~~~aha...... As soon as I thought of the piles of eggs and whips in the military tent after the battle, I couldn't help but laugh unkindly. ）

King Darius of Persia even carried forward the eunuch profession.

In China, eunuchs can only be owned by the court, that is, the patent of the emperor Lao'er.

However, in the era of King Darius of Persia, the eunuch was pushed to the people and named him eunuch.

They chose young and handsome criminals, who had to be handsome, and then castrated them and sold them as slaves. And no matter what your status is, as long as you can afford the price, you can buy and sell castrations.

After these eunuchs were bought, in addition to doing the work that ordinary slaves do, if they met a male master with a broken arm and a good man in Longyang, they had to meet his requirements.

Not only that, but King Darius also ordered the conquered vassal states to be given to him every year, in addition to gold, silver and jewels, and 500 young and handsome eunuchs as tributes for the royal family.

The legion of the Unsullied in "Game of Thrones" controlled by Daenerys Targaryen, the "Mother of Dragons", is almost the real source of the folk castration trade during this period. Because the trained eunuchs are stoic, loyal, and have little desire, they are very good dead soldiers and guards. The Unsullied's other aspects of military force are modeled after those of the ancient Greek hoplites or the ancient Roman warriors. Equipped with good equipment such as spears, short swords, shields, etc., strict discipline, and highly trained in military affairs.

After the eunuch slave spread to Arabia, the Arab king refined and upgraded him.

They divided the castrations into two types, one was the black castration and the other was the white castration.

Black eunuchs are Africans, and they are assigned to the harem to serve the imperial concubines, because they are all castrated, so these people have no reproductive ability and desire, and they will not be in trouble if they are put in the harem.

The white eunuchs, like Li Lianying and Wei Zhongxian, accompanied the emperor, but they were not allowed to go to the harem, and they were clearly distinguished from the black eunuchs in the harem and were not allowed to move around each other.

Because these eunuchs from Europe belong to the semi-castration situation, they may still have a little ability, afraid that if the gun goes off and something happens to the harem.

What's even more bizarre is ......

In the days of the Roman Empire, there was a mad custom that was even more incomprehensible than the deformation surgery of modern people.

At that time, there was a religious organization in Rome called Sebel, and every once in a while a religious sacrifice ceremony was held to attract more people to the Church.

During the ritual, male devotees had to dress up as the son of Saibel, who is said to have been castrated. Therefore, in order to become a believer, these male believers would cut off their own lives with stone knives (not metal knives, note) in the midst of the cheers of the people in the midst of the extreme joy of the sacrificial assembly.

After cutting it off, after a short rest to stop the bleeding, in the company of a group of people beating gongs and drums, these people will march through the streets and alleys with their lifebones in their hands, and when they come to a certain place, throw their lifebones into the courtyard of a house.

When the family finds out, they will be very happy, and they will reverently thank the person who threw it, and they will treat and protect his life, and hang it in the highest place in the house. Then prepare a new set of women's clothes for him to wear, recognize him as an "adopted daughter", and settle here.

In the era of the Eastern Roman Reform Emperor Diocletian, who established the co-governance system of the four emperors, he used and reused a large number of eunuchs to control the court, and then the eunuchs had a resounding name - eunuchs.

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