The celebrant eunuch, signed by the official, was one of the twenty-four yamen of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty. All daily chapters, in addition to the emperor's personal approval of several copies, for example, by the eunuchs with a red pen in regular script, that is, on behalf of the emperor"Batch red", and then the Cabinet drafts an edict and issues it.
The most favored by the emperor among the eunuchs of Bingbi was often in charge of the East Factory. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the celebrant was in charge of secrets, reviewing and reviewing chapters, and had the power to leave the cabinet.
Wang Zhen in the orthodox period, Liu Jin in the Zhengde period, and Wei Zhongxian in the Apocalypse period, all of whom were the eunuchs and eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, were the representatives of the eunuch dictatorship in the Ming Dynasty.
The three cases of the late Ming Dynasty, namely the Attack Case, the Red Pill Case, and the Palace Removal Case, played a role in aggravating the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty.
In May of the forty-third year of Wanli (1615 AD), a man named Zhang Cha, armed with a wooden stick, broke into the Ciqing Palace where the crown prince Zhu Changluo lived, injured the eunuch guarding the door, and was captured when he fled to the front hall.
After interrogation, he confessed that he was instructed by Zheng Guifei's eunuchs Pang Bao and Liu Cheng, and some courtiers suspected that Zheng Guifei wanted to murder the prince.
Shenzong and the crown prince were unwilling to investigate deeply, so they killed Zhang Cha for the crime of madness and traitor, and then killed Pang Bao and Liu Cheng, which is called"Assault case"。
In the first year of Taichang (1620 AD), Guangzong suffered from a serious illness soon after ascending the throne, and Cui Wensheng, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor and the eunuch in charge of the imperial pharmacy, entered the laxative, and the condition became more and more serious after Guangzong took it.
The courtiers raised ** Cui and Li, and some also suspected that Zheng Guifei instructed the poisoning, which caused controversy and said"The Red Pill Case"。
The case of the transfer of the palace"refers to the time of Guangzong, the prince Zhu Youxiao was raised by Li Xuanzhi. In the first year of Taichang (1620 AD), Guangzong died. The Li family planned to live in the Qianqing Palace and wanted to control the government. In order to prevent her from interfering in the government, Yang Lian, Yushi Zuo Guangdou and others forced him to move to Luan Palace.
After the accession of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty (1620-1627 AD), that is, Zhu Youxiao (1605-1627 AD) to the throne in the first year of Taichang (1620 AD), this matter caused controversy and became part of the factional struggle of the bureaucracy.
Ming Xizong changed the Yuan Tianqi in the following year, when Liaodong was repeatedly defeated in the Houjin (Qing), the White Lotus Sect rose up in Shandong, and the extravagant Chongming and An Bangyan rose in the southwest, and Xizong was still a good dog and horse, favored the nursing mother Keshi and the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, and connived at its large-scale attack on the ** Donglin Party and wrongly interfered in the military strategy of Liaodong.
In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626 AD), the Shaanxi Wanderers Uprising broke out, and died of illness the following year and was buried in Deling.