Wei Zhongxian (1568-December 11, 1627), the name Wanwu, was a native of Suning (now Suning County, Cangzhou, Hebei), Han nationality, formerly known as Li Jinzhong. The talented Wang family reverted to his surname, and after serving as a eunuch of Bingbi, he changed his name to Wei Zhongxian. Eunuch at the end of the Ming Dynasty. During the period of Ming Xizong, he served as the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and was very favored and trusted, known as "9,900 years old", excluding dissidents and arbitrarily ruling the country, so that people "only know that there are loyal and virtuous, but do not know that there is an emperor".

After Zhu Youzhen succeeded to the throne, he cracked down on and punished the eunuch party, punished Wei Zhongxian's ten crimes, ordered him to be arrested and punished, hanged himself, and the rest of the party was also purged.

1. Self-castration into the palace:

Wei Zhongxian's family was poor when he was young, mixed in the streets, illiterate, but he knew how to shoot arrows and ride horses, liked to gamble, obsessed with wine, Wei Zhongxian often gambled with a group of evil teenagers, once, he felt very distressed after gambling and losing, so he hated the palace, changed his name to Li Jinzhong, because he was familiar with the eunuchs in the palace for a long time, it was rumored that the whole body was not cleaned, and there was still a testicle. Later, he changed back to his original surname and was given the name Wei Zhongxian by the emperor. Wei Zhongxian was elected to the palace since the Wanli period, and was subordinate to the eunuch Sun Xian, and he entered the Jiazi library by tying him up. He also asked to be the mother of the emperor's eldest grandson, Wang Cairen, and joined the Wei Dynasty. The Wei Dynasty praised Wei Zhongxian to Wang An many times, and Wang An treated him well. The eldest grandson's nursing mother is called Ke, and has always served the Wei Dynasty in private, which is the so-called food relationship, after Wei Zhongxian entered the palace, the Hakka colluded with him, and the Hakka then met the Wei Dynasty coldly and loved Wei Zhongxian, and the two formed a deep relationship.

Second, soaring

In the first year of Taichang (1621 AD), Zhu Changluo of Mingguangzong died, and Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, which was for Xizong, and the year name was Tianqi. Wei Zhongxian and Hakka were favored. Within a month, Feng Ke was named the Lady of Fengsheng, and her son Hou Guoxing, her younger brother Ke Guangxian, and Wei Zhongxian's elder brother Wei Zhao were named Jinyi Wei Qianhu. Wei Zhongxian was soon promoted from the Salary Saving Division to the Celebrant Eunuch Bingbi and Admiral Baohe Sandian. Wei Zhongxian was illiterate and could not enter the celebrant as a rule, but because of the Ke family, he was able to make an exception.

In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), Zhu Youxiao gave the Hakka incense field by edict to Wei Zhongxian for the management of the emperor's mausoleum. Yushi Wang Xinyi advised, but Zhu Youxiao did not listen. When Zhu Youxiao got married, Yushi Bi Zuozhou and Liu Lan asked the Hakka family to be sent out of the palace, and Liu Yihuojing, a scholar, also said so. Zhu Youxiao was reluctant to give up, and said: "The queen is young, and she still needs to be cared for by the old woman, and she will talk about it after the emperor's funeral." "Wei Zhongxian monopolized the Hakka clan and expelled the Wei dynasty. He was jealous of Wang An's upholding the righteous path, conspired to kill him, and repelled all the eunuchs under his name. The Hakka family is obscene and vicious. Wei Zhongxian does not know books, but he has a good memory, and his sexual suspicions are cruel and vicious, and he is good at flattery. The emperor trusted these two people very much. The two of them were even more arrogant, and they used the celebrant Wang Tiqian, Li Yongzhen, Shi Yuanya, Tu Wenfu and others as their wings, and the people in the palace did not dare to disobey them. Later, the Hakka family left the palace, but was soon called in again. Imperial History Zhou Zongjian, Squire Chen Bangzhan, Imperial History Ma Mingqi, and Hou Zhen tried their best to discourage the matter, and they were all reprimanded. During the incident, Ni Sihui, Zhu Qinxiang, and Wang Xinyi made suggestions to Zhu Youxiao, but they were all relegated to other places. None of them have pointed to Wei Zhongxian yet. Wei Zhongxian then persuaded Zhu Youxiao to choose Wu Eunuchs, make firearms to practice in the palace, and secretly colluded with the university scholar Shen Wei to help. He also guided Zhu Youxiao to indulge in advocating excellent voice tricks and hunting with dogs and horses every day, and Liu Zongzhou, the director of the Criminal Department, first impeached him, Zhu Youxiao was furious, and he was rescued by Ye Xianggao, a scholar, so that he was spared.

3. Specializing in government affairs

At the beginning, Zhu Yijun of Mingshenzong had been in power for a long time, and he was tired of political affairs, and he did not approve many chapters. The courtiers gradually established the portal, and they fashioned it as a fashion to make radical and shocking remarks, and used the dispute over the state to denounce the palace ban. Minister Zaifu was impeached and attacked by the officials, and was often forced to retire due to illness. Gu Xiancheng, the secretary of the ministry, lectured at Donglin Academy, and Dr. Haineshi obeyed him. The name "Donglin" began from here. Later, the three cases of "Strike", "Red Pill", and "Moving the Palace" occurred, and the entire court was like a lawsuit. Those who opposed the Donglin Party were regarded as evil parties. In the early years of the Apocalypse, almost all the ministers were dismissed and dismissed, and people of insight were already worried that chaos would occur if they were too radical. After Wei Zhongxian's forces were formed, his party members really tried to rely on him to squeeze out the Donglin party. And Xu Dahua, Huo Weihua, and Sun Jie first attached themselves to Wei Zhongxian, and Liu Yihuojing and Zhou Jiamo were all impeached by Sun Jie and left. But at that time, Ye Xianggao and Han Huoguang were assisting the government, Zou Yuanbiao, Zhao Nanxing, Wang Ji, Gao Panlong and other officials were in high positions, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, Huang Zunsu and others were talking about the road, they all did their best to preside over the Qing discussion, and Wei Zhongxian failed to succeed. [

In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), Zhu Youxiao commented on the Qingling Gong, and sealed Wei Zhongxian's nephew as the commander of the Jinyi Guard. commented on Shen Shiyang, Wei Zhongxian, and Hakka traffic to Hui Shiyang and Shangshu Wang Ji in the matter, and they were all demoted. It happened to be hailing in early summer, and Zhou Zongjian said that the hail was out of season, which was caused by Wei Zhongxian's slander and evil. The writer Wen Zhenmeng and the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple also said this one after another, and they were all deposed.

In the spring of the third year of the Apocalypse (1623), Wei Zhongxian introduced the private Wei Guangwei as a scholar. He ordered the imperial historian Guo Gong to attack Zhou Zongjian, Liu Yi Huojing, Zou Yuanbiao, Yang Lian, Zhou Chaorui and others to protect Xiong Tingbi, saying that they were protecting traitors and misleading the country. Zhou Zongjian refuted that Guo Gong was instructed by Wei Zhongxian, and Yu Shi Fang also helped Zongjian attack Guo Gong and Wei Zhongxian, but neither of them won. In the autumn of that year, Zhu Youxiao ordered Wei Zhongxian and Hak's son Hou Guoxing to grant hereditary succession. Dong Hanru, the secretary of the military department, the mid-range note of the matter, and the imperial history Wang Si have advised one after another, but Zhu Youxiao did not obey. Wei Zhongxian became even more unscrupulous, increasing the internal exercise army to 10,000 people, wearing armor and entering and leaving the palace, and arbitrarily acting as a threat and abuse. He falsely passed on the holy decree to give Zhu Changluo's chosen servant Zhao to death. Concubine Yu Zhang was pregnant, and the Hakka conspiracy killed her. and removed the title of Concubine Li. Queen Zhang's pregnancy, and the Hakka family planned to abort her. Zhu Youxiao therefore lacked heirs. Other victims were Feng Guiren and other palace concubines, as well as eunuchs Wang Guochen, Liu Kejing, Ma Jian and others. The secret of the forbidden palace cannot be understood in detail. In the winter of this year, Wei Zhongxian also led the affairs of the East Factory.

Fourth, the Donglin party struggle

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624), Fu Mukui befriended Wei Zhongxian's nephew Fu Yingxing as a brother, and wrote a letter to falsely accuse Wang Wenyan of Zhongshu, and connected Zuo Guangdou and Wei Dazhong. Wang Wenyan was thrown into the Zhenfu Division Prison and will be charged with trumped-up charges. Liu Qiao, who was in charge of the Zhenfu Division, accepted Ye Xianggao's teaching and did not convict Wang Wenyan. Wei Zhongxian was furious, removed Liu Qiao from his post, and replaced him with a private Xu Xianchun. At this time, the imperial history Li Yingsheng gave advice on the matter of internal exercises, and gave Huo Shoudian advice because Wei Zhongxian begged for a plaque in the ancestral hall, and Liu Tingzuo of the imperial history gave advice to Wei Zhongxian to indiscriminately add shade and seal, and Shen Weibing gave advice to Shen Weibing in the matter, and Wei Zhongxian was reprimanded for falsely preaching the holy decree. So Yang Lian, the deputy capital of Yushi, was very angry and impeached Wei Zhongxian for the twenty-four major crimes. After the performance was submitted, Wei Zhongxian was frightened and asked Han Huoguang for mediation. Han Huoguang didn't agree, so he ran to Zhu Youxiao to cry and resigned from the East Factory. And the Hakka family explained to him from the side, and Wang Tiqian and others also protected him together. Zhu Youxiao was stunned to discern the truth, so he comforted him gently, and the next day he called back Yang Lian's recital and reprimanded him bitterly. Yang Lian was reprimanded, and more than 70 people, including Wei Dazhong, Chen Liangxun and Xu Yuqing, Zhu Guobi, Marquis of Funing, Chen Daoheng, Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, and Yue Yuansheng, the waiter, played Wei Zhongxian's illegal deeds one after another. Ye asked Weng Zhengchun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to send Wei Zhongxian back to his private residence to quell public accusations. Zhu Youxiao did not allow it.

At that time, Wei Zhongxian was very angry and wanted to kill all the dissidents. Gu Bingqian secretly recorded the people Wei Zhongxian hated and handed them to him, asking him to denigrate them one by one. Wang Tiqian also proposed to use the court staff to threaten the courtiers. Soon, Langzhong Wan Huojing of the Ministry of Industry wrote a letter accusing Wei Zhongxian, and he was immediately killed by the cane. Wei Zhongxian insulted Ye Xianggao on the pretext of the imperial history Lin Ruzhuo, Ye Xianggao resigned because of this, and Lin Ruzhuo was also beaten with a cane, and the courtiers were very afraid. For a time, those who were reprimanded were Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry, Gao Panlong, the imperial history of Zuodu, Chen Yuting, the servant of the ministry, and dozens of people before and after Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, and Wei Dazhong. Later, he expelled Han Huoguang and Li Banghua, a squire of the military department. When an upright man leaves the court, he shakes the leaves of a dead tree. Wei Zhongxian then falsely preached the holy decree and used the old example to transfer the Taoist officials. With Zhu Tongmeng and Guo Yunhou as the servants of Shaoqing, Lu Pengyun and Sun Jie as the Dali Temple, Huo Weihua and Guo Xingzhi as the middle of the matter, Xu Jinglian, Jia Jichun, and Yang Weiyuan as the imperial history, and Xu Zhaokui, Wang Shaohui, Qiao Yingjia, Xu Shaoji, Ruan Dacheng, Chen Eryi, Zhang Yangsu, Li Yingjian, Li Song, Yang Chunmao and others as his minions. Soon, Cui Chengxiu, who was to be sent off, was appointed as the imperial history. Cui Chengxiu then fabricated "Tianjianlu", "Comrade Record", etc., and Wang Shaohui also fabricated "Dianjianglu", all of which were headed by Zou Yuanbiao, Gu Xiancheng, Ye Xianggao, Liu Yihuojing, etc., and all the people who were not attached to Wei Zhongxian were snagged in, and they were pointed out as Donglin Party members and dedicated to Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian was very happy, so these villains flattered Wei Zhongxian even more, and joined hands to attack the Donglin Party.

At the beginning, the courtiers debated the three cases and the Jingcha and Xiong Tingbi cases in Xinhai and Guihai in the past two years, and Wei Zhongxian did not participate. His party members wanted to use Wei Zhongxian's power to squeeze out those upright people, so they successively joined Wei Zhongxian, claiming to be their righteous son, and said: "The Donglin Party will want to harm your old man." Therefore, Wei Zhongxian also wanted to be happy. Yushi Zhang Ne, Ni Wenhuan, Li Lusheng in the matter, Cao Qincheng, the director of the Ministry of Works, etc., competed to retaliate against good people, and Yushi Liang Menghuan revived Wang Wenyan's case and tortured him to death in the Zhenfu Division. Xu Xianchun compiled the documents of the prisoners' confessions, and the words were connected with more than 20 people, including Zhao Nanxing and Yang Lian, so that they were either removed from their posts or sent off. He also arrested Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, Zhou Chaorui, Yuan Huazhong, Gu Dazhang and other six people, implicated them in the Xiong Tingbi case, threw them into prison, and tortured them to death. He also killed Xiong Tingbi, beat his in-law Wu Yuzhong to death, and removed more than 50 people, including Shangshu Li Zongyan, Zhang Wenda, and Shilang Gongnai, from their posts, and the DPRK and China institutions were empty. And specially summoned Qi Shijiao, Liu Shuzu and others as the imperial history. Anyone who has a personal relationship with Wei Zhongxian has to be promoted, so Wei Zhongxian's henchmen are all over the government and the opposition.

Fifth, the scourge of the world

At that time, the arrest personnel of the East Factory were rampant, and all the places they visited, regardless of whether the situation was false or real, were all in shambles. Cousin Li Chengen, the son of the eldest princess of Ning'an, had utensils given by the princess in his home, and Wei Zhongxian falsely accused him of stealing forbidden items such as Chengyu clothing and sentenced him to death. When Wu Huaixian read Yang Lian's recital, he high-fived and praised, and the house slave denounced him, but Huaixian was killed and his home was raided. Wu Ben Jiang Yingyang sued Xiong Tingbi and was immediately executed. Occasionally, the folk words offended Wei Zhongxian, and they were arrested and killed, and even skinned and tongues cut, and the number of people killed was innumerable. This year, remembering the merits of the door, Wei Zhongxian got the third class of grace, and the governor of the shade was also known. He also appointed his uncle Wei Zhide as the governor. Fu Yingxing was promoted to the governor of Zuodu, and his mother was commended, and Wei Liangqing was appointed as the secretary of the brocade and the guard, and was in charge of the affairs of the Fusi of Nanzhen.

In February of the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), the emperor's honor guard was formed, and Wei Zhongxian was able to shelter the governor of the city, and he sent his henchman Li Yongzhen to pretend to be the Zhejiang thief Li Shi to play, arrest and punish Zhou Qiyuan, the former governor of Yingtian, and Gao Panlong, Zhou Zongjian, Miao Changqi, Zhou Shunchang, Huang Zunsu, Li Yingsheng, etc., who had resigned and returned to their hometowns. Gao Panlong threw himself into the water and died, and Zhou Shunchang and others died in prison. When the people of Suzhou saw that Zhou Shunchang was arrested, they were very upset, so they killed two school captains, and the governor Mao Yilu arrested Yan Peiwei and five others and executed them. Xu Zhaokui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, managed the prison case, and anyone who Wei Zhongxian hated was sentenced to a heavy sentence. Wei Zhongxian listened to Huo Weihua's advice again, and ordered Gu Bingqian and others to edit the "Three Dynasties Classics", and tried their best to slander the Donglin Party. Yushi Xu Fuyang asked to demolish the lecture academy to eliminate the roots of the party. Yushi Lu Chengqin asked to erect the Donglin Party Monument. People at home are holding their breath. Huo Weihua then taught Wei Zhongxian to take credit for taking credit in the border defense.

Wu Changchun, a man from Liaoyang, visited a prostitute, said some nonsense, and was captured by Dongchang. Xu Xianchun tortured him and punished him, deliberately exaggerating and saying: "Changchun is an enemy spy, if he is not captured, there will be chaos, Lai Dongchang's subordinates are loyal and witty, and have made miraculous achievements." "Zhu Youxiao enshrined Wei Zhongxian's nephew Liangqing as Su Ningbo, gave him the mansion, Zhuangtian, and awarded the iron coupon. Wang Shaohui, the secretary of the ministry, please respect his ancestors, and Zhu Youxiao decreed that Wei Zhongxian was given the four generations as Su Ningbo. Wei Zhongxian also sent his henchmen eunuchs Liu Yingkun, Tao Wen, and Ji Yong to guard Shanhaiguan and collect military power. and then give him a meritorious service, one of the governor of the shadow and one of the hereditary Jinyi Guards. Pan Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, asked Wei Zhongxian to build an ancestral hall. Xue Zhen, the governor of Cangchang, said that the grassland caught fire, and Lai Wei Zhongxian rescued him and was able to do harmless. As a result, people who sang praises for him continued one after another, and ancestral halls in various places began to be built from then on.

Sixth, crack down on dissidents

The editor Wu Kongjia had a grudge against his fellow clansman Wu Yangchun, so he induced Wu Yangchun's slave to denounce his master for occupying Huangshan, and Wu Yangchun's father and son died in prison. Wei Zhongxian sent the director Lu Xiawen and the commentator Xu Zhiji to Huizhou to raid his home, which was very cruel. The prefect Shi Wancheng couldn't bear it, cut his hair and left, and Huizhou almost caused a disaster. His henchmen, Zhang Tiqian, falsely accused Liu Duo, the prefect of Yangzhou, of plotting to release Chen Chengen on behalf of Li Chengen, and colluded with the warlock Fang Jingyang to curse Wei Zhongxian, and Liu Duo was beheaded. He also falsely accused Wang Guoxing, the son of the Marquis of Xincheng, the official of Jinyiwei, sentenced him to death, and dismissed the principal Xu Shiqi. Yu Shi Menke Xin falsely accused Gu Tongyin and Sun Wenyun, who were from Wu County, of writing a memorial to Xiong Tingbi, and the two were convicted of the crime of evil words and beheaded. He also arrested the squire and killed him in prison. All those whom Wei Zhongxian has always hated, such as Han Huoguang, Zhang Wenda, He Shijin, Cheng Zhu and others, although they have left their posts, they must be removed from the official register, and the heavy ones will be confiscated into the army, and the dead ones will be recovered and their families will be ruined. Some Wei Zhongxian accidentally forgot, his henchmen must have pursued the past, arousing Wei Zhongxian's anger.

At that time, all the internal and external power belonged to Wei Zhongxian, and in addition to Wang Tiqian and others, there were more than 30 eunuchs, including Li Chaoqing, Wang Chaofu, Sun Jin, Wang Guotai, and Liang Dong, who supported them left and right. Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ji, Wu Chunfu, Li Kuilong, and Ni Wenhuan were the main conspirators of the foreign court, known as the "Five Tigers"; while the military ministers were Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Sun Yunhe, Yang Huan, and Cui Yingyuan, who were the main conspirators, called the "Five Biao." There are also Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of the ministry, Cao Qincheng, the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, and others, known as the "Ten Dogs". There are also names such as "ten children" and "forty grandchildren". And there are countless people who are under Cui Chengxiu's gang. From the cabinet and the six ministries to the governors and governors of the Quartet, they are all full of his dead friends. He hated Empress Zhang in his heart, and in the autumn of this year, he falsely accused Empress Zhang's father Zhang Guoji of committing a slave offense, and then falsely passed on the will of the Middle Palace in an attempt to shake Empress Zhang. Wei Zhongxian was not satisfied, and sent Liu Zhixuan, the Cheng of Shuntianfu, and Liang Menghuan, the imperial historian, to expose Zhang Guoji's crimes in turn, and said that the queen was not Zhang Guoji's daughter. It happened that Wang Tiqian was dissuaded by dangerous words, and Wei Zhongxian was just that.

In the winter of the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), the three halls were completed. Li Yongzhen and Zhou Yingqiu played Wei Zhongxian's exploits, and Zhu Youxiao then made Wei Zhongxian the lord of the Shanggong and the third class of grace. Wei Liangqing had been promoted to the Marquis of Suning at that time, and at this time he was promoted to the Duke of Suning, and Shilu was issued according to the official regulations of the Wei State, and then the commander of the Yin Jinyi Guard was one person and one person was also known. Xue Fengxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, played to Wei Zhongxian and gave the mansion. Soon the eunuch Tao Wen played the Xifeng Pass to be built, the supervisor Wang Zhichen played the Shanhaiguan City, the criminal department Shangshu Xue Zhen played the great thief Wang Zhijin Prison case, the construction of the filial piety tomb in Nanjing was completed, Ganzhen played the Jie, and Zhang Yongzuo of the Fan Education Department captured the thief, they all said that it was due to Wei Zhongxian's planning and strategy. Wei Zhongxian himself played the credit for the arrest for three years, and Zhu Youxiao issued an edict to praise him. In the past six months, Wei Zhongxian has four Jinyi guards commanding envoys, three Tongzhi, and one servant. He also gave his nephew Ximeng hereditary Jinyi Wei Tongzhi, nephews Fu Zhicong and Feng Jixian as governors, and promoted Cui Chengxiu's younger brother Cui Ningxiu to the deputy chief soldier of Jizhen. Famous utensils have been abused by usurped people, and they have reached the extreme. All his comrades sat in Ji, Liao, as well as Shanxi Xuanfu and Datong. The general soldier Liang Zhuchao, Yang Guodong and others have dedicated famous horses and treasures to him every year, and they have never stopped.

Seventh, the sea flattering

In the spring of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), he sent Cui Wensheng to the governor Caoyun, Li Mingdao to the governor of Hedao, and Hu Liangfu to guard Tianjin. Cui Wensheng used to serve Guangzong and took medicine, but was attacked by the Donglin Party. The domestic and foreign ministers such as Yan Mingtai, Liu Zhao, Li Jingbai, Yao Zongwen, etc., competed to praise Wei Zhongxian and set up a shrine, and they were all hustle, fearing that they would not be able to. Under and the martial arts, businessmen and villains. The scoundrels also built shrines for him. These ancestral halls were built with great skill, and no one dared to accuse them of encroaching on the people's fields and houses, and cutting down the trees in the cemetery. And the prisoner Lu Wanling even asked Wei Zhongxian to sacrifice Confucius, and Wei Zhongxian's father to sacrifice Qi Shenggong.

At the beginning, Pan Ruzhen was the first to write the book, and Liu Zhi, the imperial historian, was one day late and was removed from his post. And Hu Shirong of Jizhou Dao was thrown into prison and sentenced to death because he did not have the books and texts of the ancestral hall, and Geng Ruqi of Zunhua Dao was thrown into prison and sentenced to death. Therefore, the atmosphere of the world, no matter how big or small, praises Wei Zhongxian. Clans such as Zhu Hua, King of Chu, Zhu Shenjian, Zhongshu, meritorious relatives such as Li Yongzuo, Marquis of Fengcheng, courtiers such as Shangshu Shao Fuzhong, Li Yangde, Cao Sicheng, Governor Zhang Ixu, Sun Guozhen, Zhang Yiming, Guo Yunhou, Yang Weihe, Li Shixin, Wang Ruoji, He Tingshu, Chen Weixin, Chen Eryi, Guo Ruyan, Guo Xiyu, Xu Rong and others, are all full of words and shame. Wei Zhongxian also often rewarded them with favors. All the scribbs called Wei Zhongxian a "factory minister" instead of his name. When the scholars Huang Liji, Shi Fenglai, and Zhang Ruitu drafted the holy decree, they would also say "I and the ministers", and no one dared to write Wei Zhongxian's name directly. Shandong produced a unicorn, and the governor Li Jingbai drew an image and reported it to the imperial court. Huang Liji and others drafted the holy decree and said: "The factory ministers cultivate virtue, so the benevolent beast arrives." "This is the end of the deception. Zhu Youxiao gave him countless commendation orders before and after, and the edicts issued were all imitation of Jiuxiwen.

From spring to autumn this year, Wei Zhongxian took the lead of Wang Yaobi to capture the credit of Aban Luo Tie, and the total number of commanders of the Jinyi Guard reached 17. His clan grandsons Xikong, Ximeng, Xiyao, Xishun, Pengcheng, in-laws Dong Fangming, Wang Xuan, Yang Liuqi, Yang Zuochang, the governor to the left and right, and the governor Tongzhi and the governor. Hakka's younger brother Guangxian was also crowned as the governor. Wei Fumin was transferred from Jinyiwei to Shang Baoqing. And Wei Zhongxian's wish has not yet been reached, just as Yuan Chonghuan played Ning Yuan's good news, Wei Zhongxian ordered Zhou Yingqiu to play his grandson Wei Pengyi as An Pingbo. Remembering the three major project merits, he named his nephew Liangdong as the Marquis of Dong'an, Liangqing as the Taishi, Pengyi as the young master, and Liangdong as the prince Taibao. So he generally rewarded his ministers, and used Cui Chengxiu as the secretary of the military department and the imperial history of the left capital, but the credit of Yuan Chonghuan was discarded. At that time, Peng Yi and Liangdong were still in infancy and couldn't walk. Liangqing even offered sacrifices to the northern and southern suburbs on behalf of the Son of Heaven and sacrificed to the Taimiao. So the whole world suspected that Wei Zhongxian was going to usurp power.

Zhu Youxiao is clever, good at using axes, saws and painting and other things, and he has been tireless for many years. Every time he was pulling the thread and sharpening the ink, Wei Zhongxian's generation often came to play. Zhu Youxiao was very bored and said absurdly: "I already know, you can do it yourself." Therefore, Wei Zhongxian let his own wishes carry out his blessings. He traveled many times a year, and every time he always sat on Wenxuan, with feather curtains and green covers, four horses like flying, the sound of cymbals and drums, and the sound of cymbals and drums, with the rumbling wheels, hidden in the flying loess. The brocade guard official school has a jade belt around the waist, and the boots are boastful, and the knife is followed, and the left and right are clamped, and there are tens of thousands of people who follow the cooks, excellent lings, hundred operas, and slaves. The recitals of hundreds of officials can only catch up with fast horses. Everywhere he passed, the scholars and doctors covered the way and bowed, cheering 9,000 years old, and some people simply called him "9,900 years old", "the one who raises the court, but worships the godfather, performs five bows and three prostrations, and calls the 9,900-year-old grandfather." [20] And Wei Zhongxian still looked left and right, ignoring it. The Hakka family lived in the palace, coerced the queen, and brutalized the palace concubines. Occasionally going out of the palace to return to the private house, the attendants are prestigious, illuminating the road, and it looks like the emperor's honor guard. Wei Zhongxian turned out to be stupid and had no strengths, so his henchmen taught him day and night, and the Hakka clan was the master, so the gang raged and poisoned the sea.

Eighth, the end of the eunuch

In the autumn and August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), Zhu Youxiao died, and Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, ascended the throne. Zhu Youzhen was familiar with Wei Zhongxian's crimes, and he was deeply guarded, and Wei Zhongxian's henchmen began to be afraid. Yang Suoxiu and Yang Weiyuan first attacked Cui Chengxiu to test Zhu Youzhen's mind, and the principals Lu Chengyuan and Qian Yuanyu, and Shi Gongsheng, a member of the staff, then discussed Wei Zhongxian one after another. But Zhu was hidden and did not send it.

So Jiaxing Gongsheng Qian Jiazheng impeached Wei Zhongxian for ten crimes: one is tied with the emperor, two is contemptuous of the queen, three is to manipulate military power, four have no two ancestors, five grams are knighted by the vassal king, six are no saints, seven are indiscriminately rewarded, eight cover up the side work, nine exploit the people, and ten traffic joints. After the recital was submitted, Zhu Youzhen summoned Wei Zhongxian and asked the internal officials to read it to him. Wei Zhongxian was very frightened, and hurriedly bribed Xu Yingyuan, the eunuch of the Xindi, with a heavy treasure, and begged him to save him. Xu Yingyuan is Wei Zhongxian's former gambling friend. Zhu Youzhen knew about this, so he reprimanded Xu Yingyuan. In November, Wei Zhongxian was sent to Fengyang to settle down, Wei Zhongxian on the way to Fengyang, still raised a group of outlaws, Zhu Youzhen was furious when he heard about it, and ordered Jinyiwei to arrest him and escort him back to Beijing for trial. [22] When Li Yongzhen learned the news, he hurriedly sent someone to report to Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian knew that he could not escape death, and when he arrived in Fucheng, when he heard the latter order, he and his accomplice Li Chaoqin drank bitterly until the fourth watch at the Keshi Hotel in Nanguan, Fucheng, and finally hanged themselves together. Zhu Youzhen's edict ordered Wei Zhongxian ** to hang his head in Hejian Mansion. Whipped the Hakka to death in the Huanyi Bureau. Wei Liangqing, Hou Guoxing, Keguangxian and others were all executed, and their bodies were violently killed on the streets, and their homes were raided. When raiding the Ke family's house, there were eight palace maids, probably wanting to imitate Lü Buwei's actions, so people especially hated her.

In February of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Zhu Youzhen ordered Han Huoguang, a scholar of the university, and others to examine and approve the reverse case, which expelled all Wei Zhongxian's henchmen, and the Donglin party members were able to enter again. Those involved in the rebellion plot day and night for revenge. Later, Wen Tiren and Xue Guoguan came to power one after another, and they secretly excluded upright people to prepare for the reversal of the rebellion case. Zhu Youzhen also hated the courtiers forming parties for personal gain, so he appointed eunuchs, and Ruan Dacheng and others in the reverse case finally poisoned Jiangzuo until they perished.

9. Relatives and members

Spouse: Hakka

Uncle: Wei Zhide

Nephew: Wei Liangqing

Nephew: Fu Yingxing

Grandchildren: Wei Xikong, Wei Ximeng, Wei Xiyao, Wei Xishun, Wei Pengcheng

In-laws: Dong Fangming, Wang Xuan, Yang Liuqi, Yang Zuochang