Who were the eunuchs who were autocratic during the Tang Dynasty, and what was their end

After the Anshi Rebellion, the power of the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty began to rise, and they seized power and interfered in court politics.

In the Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs were even more reckless, flying and domineering, even to the point where they could abolish the Son of Heaven.

So what were the powerful eunuchs in the Daizong Dynasty, and what was their end?

During the Tang Dynasty, there were three eunuchs who served the autocratic power, namelyLi Fuguo, Cheng Yuanzhen, Yu Chaoen.

Li Fuguo took refuge in the eunuch Gao Lishi beside Tang Xuanzong in the early days, and was later recommended to the East Palace to become a close attendant of the crown prince Li Heng.

When Li Heng ascended the throne, he favored Li Fuguo even more, and Li Fuguo was so powerful at that time that the Li Tang clan did not dare to call him by his name.

Li Fuguo took advantage of Suzong's favor to frame Li Longji, who was already the emperor, saying that he colluded with foreign ministers and conspired to restore the throne. Clearly provoked the father-son relationship between Suzong Li Heng and Xuanzong Li Longji.

Once Tang Suzong Li Heng wanted to visit the sick Xuanzong several times, but he did not make the trip because of Li Fuguo's obstruction.

Li Fuguo's actions made Tang Suzong's third sonJianning Wang Li QiExtremely disgusted, he repeatedly told Su Zong that he should alienate the eunuchs.

But Li Qi, the king of Jianning, was born in the palace, and his status was very humble, and in the end, Li Qi did not bring down Li Fuguo, but was falsely accused by Li Fuguo, and was finally given death.

In Suzong's later years, Empress Zhang was also disgusted with Li Fuguo's dictatorship, so she wanted to unite with the crown prince Li Yu, who was later the Tang Dynasty, to get rid of Li Fuguo.

At that time, it happened that Emperor Li Longji died, and Su Zong was also critically ill, and Empress Zhang wanted to take this opportunity to summon the crown prince and ask him to help her get rid of Li Fuguo.

At this time, Li Yu did not help Empress Zhang, and Empress Zhang was so angry that she wanted to get rid of the prince and Li Fuguo together.

The second son of Lisuzong, King Li of Yue, was the crown prince, but the matter was not kept secret, and Li Fuguo sent troops to protect the crown prince Li Yu, and then stopped Empress Zhang's plan.

In the end, Empress Zhang and Yue Wang Li were executed, and Tang Suzong was also frightened by this incident, and he swallowed his breath that night.

Subsequently, Li Yu was also the emperor under the support of Li Fuguo, and he was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and Daizong was also the first emperor in the history of the Tang Dynasty to be supported by eunuchs.

Li Fuguo considered himself meritorious and more domineering.

Everyone sits inside, and the foreign affairs are handled by the old slave. Daizong was angry that he was not inferior, and he held the forbidden army in Israel and did not want to be responsible. --Old Tang Book

Soon the opportunity for Daizong came, and there was a eunuch named Cheng Yuanzhen under Li Fuguo, who was favored by Li Fuguo because he was the first to report the plan of Empress Suzong.

Cheng Yuanzhen was an ambitious man who always wanted to replace Li Fuguo, so he secretly wrote to Daizong, suggesting that Li Fuguo be weakened, and Daizong thought that the opportunity to get rid of Li Fuguo had come.

At this time, Emperor Emperor dismissed Li Fuguo from his position, and one night a few months later, Daizong ordered the Assassins to infiltrate Li Fuguo's state and kill the once authoritarian Li Fuguo.

Cheng Yuanzhen's early career was to support the succession of Tang Dynasty Sect with Li Fuguo, because he was the first to expose the conspiracy of Empress Zhang, so he was favored by Li Fuguo.

Later, Cheng Yuanzhen saw the opportunity to take refuge in Tang Dynasty Sect, and Daizong also borrowed Cheng Yuanzhen's power to overthrow Li Fuguo, and then Daizong handed over the command of the forbidden army to Cheng Yuanzhen.

As a result, Cheng Yuanzhen, who took over the forbidden army, was even more arrogant than Li Fuguo.

All the generals have great merit, and Yuan Zhen is afraid of illness and wants to harm them. --Zizhi Tongjian

In order to protect herself, Guo Ziyi could only protect herself, lived at home, and escaped a catastrophe.

And the hero of the pacification of the Anshi RebellionCome onwas not so lucky, because Cheng Yuanzhen had a request from Lai Yao in his early years, Lai Yao did not want to be with the eunuch and did not agree, so he offended Cheng Yuanzhen and was given death.

He was meritorious in escorting Tang Suzong Li Heng to the throneLi Huairang, because he was framed by Cheng Yuanzhen, he also died of depression soon after.

Cheng Yuanzhen repeatedly framed the famous generals and Yuanxun, causing everyone to endanger everyone inside and outside the civil and military affairs.

Later, Tubo invaded the border, and the border guards frequently reported urgency, but Cheng Yuanzhen turned a deaf ear, hid and did not report, neither played Daizong, nor sent troops to resist.

This made the Tubo army commander drive straight into the front of the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an, at this time Daizong was shocked to hear the news of the Tubo invasion, shocked, leaving Guo Ziyi to guard, but he died in Shaanzhou.

When Guo Ziyi learned that the number of Tubo soldiers reached 200,000, he hurriedly sent Wang Yanchang to inform Daizong and ask him to send reinforcements.

However, what Guo Ziyi never expected was that at the time of the crisis in Beijing, Cheng Yuanzhen, who covered the sky with one hand, refused to meet Wang Yanchang.

Soon after, the Tubo occupied the Tang capital Chang'an, and after burning and looting for several days, the Tubo army did not stay in Chang'an for too long due to the climate.

After Chang'an recovered, Dr. TaichangLiu Yananalyzed that the blame for this humiliation was all on Cheng Yuanzhen, and demanded that Cheng Yuanzhen be killed.

Daizong also knew that he couldn't protect Yuanzhen this time, so he issued an edict to cut off all the officials of Cheng Yuanzhen, but Cheng Yuanzhen was not dead, and he sneaked back to Beijing in women's clothes, in a vain attempt to see Daizong, in order to make a comeback.

However, it was discovered by the imperial history, and the Tang Dynasty was forced to exile him, and when Cheng Yuanzhen traveled to Jiangling, he was killed by the enemy.

Yu Chaoen was the supervisor of the famous general Li Guangbi in the early days, and later when the Tubo invasion, Chang'an was lost, and the Tang Dynasty ordered all parts of the country to raise troops to Qin Wang.

As a result, for more than 40 days, not a single envoy came to the rescue, and even the famous general Li Guangbi did not move.

Tubo entered the Kou, Yuan Zhen did not play at the time, causing embarrassment and luck, and issued an edict to recruit all the soldiers, Li Guangbi and others were jealous of Yuan Zhen in the middle, and there was no one who came. --Zizhi Tongjian

Daizong was tired and hungry, and the situation was extremely embarrassing, and at this time, he was stationed in Shaanzhou to watch the armyFish Chaoen, rushed to the rescue non-stop.

Li Yu, who was hungry and cold, suddenly had mixed feelings, the civil officials were unreliable in times of crisis, the military generals were unreliable, and the eunuchs were the most intimate, so Yu Chaoen became a celebrity around Daizong.

After Cheng Yuanzhen lost power, a new generation of eunuch Yu Chaoen began to gradually take power.

Yu Chaoen's power is not inferior to Li Fuguo and Cheng Yuanzhen.

The ban on the army is extremely favored, and the upper authorities often discuss military and state affairs, and the government and the opposition are tilted. --Zizhi Tongjian

Yu Chaoen thinks that he is both civil and military, so he likes to preach the scriptures and teachings in the lecture hall of Guozijian.

Once Yu Chaoen explained the Book of Changes, and the prime ministers present at that time were Wang Jin and Yuan Zai.

Yu Chaoen took the opportunity of the lecture to insult them for being incompetent, Wang Jin was immediately angry, but Yuan Zai was complacent.

Afterwards, Yu Chaoen said to his subordinates: "The angry, the normal, the laughing, the unpredictable." ”

Yu Chaoen thinks that Wang Jin's joy and anger are colorful, this kind of person is relatively easy to deal with, and Yuan Zai, who is humiliated and should be angry but not angry, is unfathomable and worth beware of.

Yu Chaoen's judgment is not wrong, Yuan Jae is indeed a person worth watching.

Yu Chaoen's domineering behavior gradually did not take Daizong into account, and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs to Daizong must be decided by Yu Chaoen.

He himself said with satisfaction: "I am in charge of all the affairs of the world." These words reached Daizong's ears, and Daizong slowly began to dislike Yu Chaoen.

Yu Chaoen was set up in the forbidden army in order to collect money"Dungeon"., organized a large number of social ruffians and hooligans to fabricate charges.

framed the rich people in Chang'an City, confiscated their family property, and put the looted money into their private pockets.

Daizong, who learned about this, was shocked, and while Zhengdaizong was angry and angry, Yu Chaoen did another thing that made Daizong completely unbearable.

Although Yu Chaoen is a eunuch, he has raised a lot of godsons on weekdays, and his youngest godson is called Yu Linghui, who has just turned ten years old and serves in the palaceGiving things insideWear green.

Once Yu Linghui had a big quarrel with his colleagues, and when he came back, he complained to Yu Chaoen.

The next day, Yu Chaoen was very angry and led Yu Linghui into the palace, and in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, he told Daizong that his godson's official position was too low and he was often bullied by his colleagues.

So he asked Daizong to give the fish Linghui purple clothes, which are equivalent to official positions above the third grade.

Daizong felt that it was too ridiculous for a stinky child to have an excessively high official position and not conform to the etiquette law, but he didn't expect Yu Chaoen to order the relevant departments to prepare purple clothes and order Yu Linghui to wear them on the spot.

Daizong was very unhappy in his heart, but the matter had come to this, Daizong had to force a smile and praise Yu Linghui for wearing purple clothes is very suitable, and at this time Daizong had already killed Yu Chaoen in his heart.

And this scene was seen by Won Jae, who thought that the opportunity to get rid of Yu Chaoen had come, and a few days later Won Jae secretly played it in Daizong.

Towards grace, please get rid of it. --Zizhi Tongjian

After the banquet, Daizong left Yu Chaoen alone, and sharply reprimanded Yu Chaoen for being pampered and arrogant, and had intentions.

Yu Chaoen wanted to defend himself, but Daizong did not give him any chance, and in the end, Yu Chaoen was hanged in the Inner Servant Province.