Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Great Pilgrimage 5

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However, what Zhang Jiashi then thought of was that this arrangement might not necessarily have a good effect.

After all, when many people are full of food and drink, few people have the heart to listen to such things.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Zhang Jiashi still used a way to push the boat down the river, that is, after holding the corresponding officials accountable and derogatory, he proposed a probation system.

Under the influence of this thought, Zhang Jiashi returned to his seat, and looking at his son, who was acting quite quietly, he nodded to his father-in-law.

Father-in-law Xi knew what Zhang Jiashi was doing when he signaled him, so he clapped his hands gently, and a few chamberlains came in from the side door, carrying two tables full of files.

After Chen Ping saw these two tables, he had some complicated feelings in his heart.

The files of these two tables are not directly related to them, the three princes and the nine kings, but Chen Ping and Li Zuoche, the imperial historian, know very well what the corresponding content of these files is. Because the appearance of these files is basically after their repeated review.

After the two tables were placed, Father-in-law Xi picked up the file on the table on the left, opened it and browsed it, and nodded to a young waiter beside him: "You and the other person read the above content separately." Remember not to make a big mistake, or ......"

Father-in-law Xi didn't finish his words, but these servants knew very well what Father-in-law Xi meant by what he said.

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Although Zhang Jiashi does not like to use eunuchs, he thinks that the existence of eunuchs is inhumane.

But Zhang Jiashi couldn't change this situation, all he could do was to reduce the number of eunuchs in his mansion as much as possible.

However, in addition to Gonggong Xi and some eunuchs who survived and took refuge under his command, out of some needs, Zhang Jiashi still acquiesced to Gonggong Xi recruiting some eunuchs from the people to serve as errands in the mansion.

And in the Xianyang Palace, although the Xianyang Palace has become an ornament in a certain aspect, more than not, the cleaning of some palace rooms is mainly done by the eunuchs rather than the officers and soldiers under Lang Zhongling. After all, it's a waste.

Therefore, although Zhang Jiashi did not want a large number of eunuchs to appear in the Great Qin Empire again, in fact, Zhang Jiashi reduced the number of eunuchs as much as possible, and there were still about 500 eunuchs under his command.

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Eunuchs (eunuchs) were officials in ancient China's capital city for the emperor, monarch and their families. The pre-Qin and Western Han dynasties were not all eunuchs. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, it has been all about people who lost their sexual ability after being castrated and became neither male nor female. It is also known as the temple people, the dying (eunuch) people, the people, the dying officials, the eunuchs, the middle officials, the internal officials, the internal ministers, the internal attendants, the internal supervisors, etc.;

Eunuchs were officials in ancient China's capital for emperors, monarchs, and their families. The pre-Qin and Western Han dynasties were not all eunuchs. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, all of them have been castrated and lost their sexual ability and become neutral people who are neither male nor female. It is also known as temple people, eunuch (dying) people, eunuchs, eunuchs, middle officials, internal officials, internal ministers, internal attendants, internal supervisors, etc. According to the Legend of Chu and Han, eunuchs were officials in ancient China who were exclusively used by the monarch and his family. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, they have all been castrated and lost their sexual ability. [A lot of good novels]

However, not all the eunuchs in this period have been castrated, just like Zhao Gao, after becoming a eunuch, he also has a daughter Zhao Rong, if Zhao Gao has been castrated, the identity of his daughter may not exist.

Eunuchs, also known as eunuchs, fathers-in-law, temple people, eunuchs, internal officials, internal servants, middle officials, middle officials, middle juan, inner erections, and middle nobles, refer to the men who served the royal family and castrated their external genitalia in the ancient court. Eunuchs are servants who are responsible for court chores and are not allowed to participate in state affairs, but because they get along with the royal family day and night, they can win trust or have an opportunity, so in some dynasties there are situations where eunuchs hold the power of state affairs. Early Chinese eunuchs

The officials were not necessarily eunuchs, and eunuchs were completely used as eunuchs after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Tang Zhen described the eunuch in "The Hidden Book": "Looking at it is not like a human body, looking like a human face, hearing it is not like a human voice, and observing it is not close to human feelings." ā€

The use of castrated men as court chamberlains is not unique to China. In the past, the royal families of North Korea and Vietnam also liked to use castrated men as internal treatment, and ancient civilizations such as Egypt, Persia, India, and Turkey in the Middle East have done the same. The New Testament also contains accounts of evangelism to eunuchs from Ethiopia in Africa. The word eunuch in English is transformed from the Greek word "the person who guards the bed", which shows that eunuchs were originally set up to protect the chastity of the harem and the royal bloodline at home and abroad. The Turks used black eunuchs, called female foremen, and there were also white eunuchs, but the blacks were more numerous and more powerful.

In the corresponding history, eunuchs appeared very early in China, and according to the available information, it is speculated that eunuchs may have existed in the court of **** as early as possible.

The Zhou Dynasty and the vassal states mostly set up eunuchs. There are records about eunuchs in the Book of Songs, Zhou Li, and the Book of Rites.

The eunuch Chang Yu of the Qin State was favored by the Queen Mother, and her power was prominent, and she was named the Marquis of Changxin. Eunuchs were generally played by people of humble status. The source of this was either filled by the sinners who were sentenced to the palace punishment, or it was chosen from among the young children of the common people. After the Qin and Han dynasties, the eunuch system became more detailed, and the eunuch, as a special political force, had a significant impact on the political situation of many dynasties.

After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, the eunuchs were under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, in view of the lessons of the death of Qin, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, occasionally used scribes to serve as regular servants to suppress the power of eunuchs. After Emperor Yuan, the power of eunuchs resurged.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the eunuchs served as the emperor's attendants. They conveyed edicts, took charge of documents, and influenced the emperor's hearing and hearing.

At that time, the relatives were powerful, and the emperor often used eunuchs to contain his relatives, which often caused a **** situation of the eunuch group.

In the case of the recent famous eunuch Zhao Gao, the eunuch is not useless, because in addition to the power of the Great Qin Empire, Zhao Gao was a capable minister during the period of the First Emperor.

When Zhao Gao was young, when he was still the reign of King Qin, he heard that he was diligent and proficient in law, so he promoted him to be the commander of the Zhongche Mansion Emperor Cheyu, and asked him to teach his young son Hu Hai to judge the case and break out of prison. Because Zhao Gao was good at observing words and colors, and flattering him, he quickly won the appreciation and trust of Qin Shi Huang and his son Hu Hai.

Zhao Gao once served as the "CRRC Government Order".

Later scholars believe that all the books "all call the Qin officials 'Chefu Order', and Zhao Gao is the sole name of the 'Chefu Order', and Gai Yi Gao is the Chinese person". It means that after Zhao Gao took up the official position of Chefu Ling, because he could freely enter and leave the palace, he added "Zhong" before the official name of Chefu Ling, which was called "Zhongche Fu Ling". However, according to the mud sealing of the "CRRC Fucheng", it can be seen that in addition to the official car government order of the servant, there should be another organization of the CRRC government. The CRRC Mansion should be the same as the Middle Stable, and belong to the same Queen's Palace official system. The middle stable, or the main horse, or the car, or the main car.

And before this, Zhao Gao must have made certain meritorious deeds to be able to hold such a dangerous position.

And if it weren't for Zhao Gao's humble background, I'm afraid Ying Zheng would have chosen to let Zhao Gao take the position of imperial servant. After all, Zhao Gao is not a castrated person, and in the Great Qin Empire, where the official system is prevalent, his background is probably also the reason why his official position cannot be greatly improved.

In the history of the Great Qin Empire, Zhao Gao had a great influence on the revision of the Qin Law, but because the detailed records of many aspects of the Qin Law are no longer available, Zhao Gao's achievements in this area are basically ignored by later generations in the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located.

And his merits are that he gradually evolved into one of the main editors of the "Little Seal":

After Qin unified the world, he used small seals to unify the characters, so he ordered Li Si to write seven chapters of "Cangjie", Zhao Gao to make six chapters of "Calendar", and Taishi Ling Hu Wujing to make seven chapters of "Erudition" as national standard scripts, all of which were based on the fifteen chapters of the Great Seal "Shi Zhou" during the reign of King Xuan of Zhou.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Luli calligrapher combined the three chapters with six crosses as one chapter into the "Cangjie Chapter", with a total of 55 chapters. During the Western Han Dynasty, it was also known as "Cangjie", "Calendar", and "Erudition" as the three cangs. However, due to various reasons, most of the text of the "Cangjie Chapter" has been lost.

In terms of sins, Zhao Gao has many places that can be regarded as difficult to write:

Zhao Gao's repeated slander and indiscriminate killing of innocents caused the Qin Dynasty to lose a large number of civil servants and military generals, which accelerated the demise of the Qin Dynasty.

Li Si commented on Zhao Gao: Today's high has the ambition of evil, and the opposite is dangerous, such as Zihan Xiang Song Ye; the wealth of the private family, Ruotian's Yu Qi also; and the rebellion of Tian Chang and Zihan robbed His Majesty's prestige, and his ambition is like Han Xi for Han Anxiang.

Emperor Zhao Gao's virtuous literature evaluation of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty: In the past, Zhao Gao had no outstanding ambitions, but occupied the position of ten thousand people, and he was a disaster for overthrowing the Qin State, and he lost everything.

Kong Rong commented on Zhao Gao: And the people who were tortured don't think about life, they are determined to die, and they tend to be evil, and they don't return to justice. The sand is chaotic, Yi Erzae Song, Zhao Gao, Yingbu, is a great disaster for the world.

Chen Lin commented on Zhao Gao: Zhao Gao: the ruler, the strong Qin and the weak lord, Zhao Gao is in charge, the **** dynasty power, the prestige is up to himself, the people of the time are coerced, do not dare to speak up, and finally hope to be defeated, the ancestors will be burned, and the humiliation will be forever a lesson for the world.

Tang Taizong commented on Zhao Gao: As Zhao Gaozhi died II, Dong Zhuo's Yu Hongnong, people and gods were sick, and different generations were angry.

Liu Zongyuan commented on Zhao Gao: Hu Hai appointed Zhao Gao and Li Si was dead, and the old was not enough to rely on. Yuan Zhi criticized Zhao Gao: He is a high Zhao Gao, and the murderer of the eunuch is also a deceitful eunuch, and Fu Zhi uses the art of cruelty and thieves, and says that the world is noble, and he is respected when he sees his face. It is because everyone in the world is not stupid, and Hu Haigu can no longer distinguish between beasts and animals. Zhao Gaozhi intimidated the world, and Hu Haigu was already secluded in the deep palace.

Tang Zhaozong commented on Zhao Gao: "The prosperity of eunuchs originated in Qin and Han. Zhao Gao and Yan Le actually destroyed Yingzong, and Zhang Rang and Duan Qi fell into Liu Zuo. ā€

Su Shi commented on Zhao Gao: The first emperor's way of causing chaos is using Zhao Gao. The scourge of the husband and the eunuch is like a poison beast, and there is no one who does not break the liver and bladder.

Liang Qichao commented on Zhao Gao: The next ones are clever words, flattering the master, stealing the country's authority, and poisoning the people, such as Zhao Gao of Qin, the ten permanent servants of the Han Dynasty, Lu Qi and Li Linfu of the Tang Dynasty, Cai Jing of the Song Dynasty, Qin Hui, Han Wabi, Liu Jin of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian, and wearing a bucket basket, which is incomparable.

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Of course, Zhang Jiashi's feelings about Zhao Gao are very complicated, because Zhao Gao's identity is very delicate, as Zhao Kuo's son, Zhao Gao's identity, it is not surprising to do those things. However, since Zhang Jiashi did not plan to confess to Zhao Gao, he did not intend to agree with Zhao Gao, because no matter how he said it, Zhao Gao was a person who Zhang Jiashi hated very much.

After all, at the beginning, Zhao Gao did not harm him less, and even after Zhang Jiashi arrived in Liaodong, he caused trouble for him from time to time.

However, Zhang Jiashi knows that Zhao Gao is indeed a great talent, if Ma Sikuo's situation is analogized, Zhang Jiashi has to sigh, Zhao Kuo's bloodline is also proper in a sense.

The reason why Zhang Jiashi did not want to use eunuchs on a large scale was mainly because there were good people and bad people among the eunuchs. But once the eunuchs do not have enough soil for growth, then it is obviously impossible for the eunuchs to harm the government.

As far as the situation of the Song Dynasty is concerned, many eunuchs during the Song Dynasty basically did not have enough authority, that is, in the hands of Zhao Ji, the faint monarch, the authority of the eunuchs reached a certain height.

Not to mention that in the early days of the dynasty, the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty suppressed the eunuchs, and even the Ming Taizu erected a monument to warn future generations:

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was strict in the management of eunuchs, stipulating that eunuchs were not allowed to read and write, lowering their official ranks, prohibiting them from concurrently serving as civil and military titles of foreign ministers, and hanging iron plaques on the palace gate, clearly indicating that they were not allowed to interfere in politics.

It's just that from the beginning of the Yongle Dynasty, eunuchs have gradually been reused. Eunuchs close to the emperor were often sent out to serve as overseers. In the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), the East Factory was set up, which was run by eunuchs, engaged in spy activities, and reported everything directly to the emperor. When Xuanzong was announced, the ancestral system of eunuchs who were not literate was changed, and an inner study hall was set up in the palace. Ling Xueguan taught the little eunuch to read. In the thirteenth year of Chenghua (1477), the West Factory was set up in addition to the East Factory, and the eunuchs were appointed as commanders to strengthen the rule of spies. In addition, the eunuch service organization expanded, and there were 12 eunuchs in the court, such as ceremonies, internal officials, royal officials, priests, and imperial horses. 4 divisions such as salary, bells and drums, treasure banknotes, and mixed halls, and 8 bureaus such as soldiers and silver, collectively known as the 24 yamen, each has a full-time palm seal eunuch.

The number of eunuchs surged to tens of thousands by the end of the Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Yingzong, the eunuch Wang Zhen in power recruited some bureaucrats as party henchmen to form a eunuch party, and the eunuch **** of the Ming Dynasty was the forerunner. Since then, the disasters of eunuchs have arisen one after another. Wang Zhi in the Chenghua period, Liu Jin in the Wuzong period, and Wei Zhongxian in the Xizong period were all powerful eunuchs who leaned towards the government and the opposition and had prominent power. They were tyrannical and domineering, excluded dissidents, took advantage of the plunder, and repeatedly set up prisons, which aggravated the political situation of the Ming Dynasty and brought endless disasters to the people.

Of course, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were mainly dependents of the imperial power, and if they lost the trust of the emperor, the eunuchs would quickly lose their authority, or even end up miserable.

Of course, many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty were not all very dark, in the case of Wei Zhongxian in the Ming Xizong period, if there were no Wei Zhongxian's measures, but let the literati party struggle worsen, I am afraid that the Ming Empire would have to perish some time early.

That is to say, the situation of eunuchs cannot be generalized. And Zhang Jiashi did not completely eliminate castrated eunuchs, and he also had this consideration.

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