Chapter 2200 Flower Struggle (One Hundred and Eight)

Eunuchs were not all eunuchs during the Qin Dynasty and Western Han Dynasty, but were a general term for officials who served in the imperial palace to guard the emperor and the royal family.

However, eunuchs who have been castrated can get along with the royal family day and night, win the emperor's trust, and can participate in national government affairs. Some prisoners will also be castrated due to criminal laws, such as the descendants of Lin Shuangwen who rebelled in Taiwan. Because they were young and did not

They participated in the uprising, but they were still sent to the palace, and the court punished them by "cutting off their incense".

Nick couldn't understand why the emperor could safely let these people serve him. He had heard that there were eunuchs in the Persian palace, but they did not have such a huge influence as the eunuchs in the late Han and Ming Dynasties. It was precisely because of this that the Qing palace had eunuchs.

There is a very strict palace ban system. Eunuchs cannot make friends with officials in private, nor can they enter or leave the palace at will. However, where there is a prescribed system, there must be loopholes that can be exploited. Most of them will use the opportunity of business trips to establish relationships, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs has

Set the time correctly and don't let them stay outside for too long.

In addition, they are not allowed to exchange private letters with outsiders, even family members. The young prince and Yong Rong once reminded the people that no matter how much the eunuchs begged, they should not write or deliver letters for them.

This is a bit inhumane. It is natural for people to miss their loved ones, but people in the palace do not have this normal right. This is to prevent the recurrence of what happened in the late Ming Dynasty. Palace maids are different from eunuchs. They originally had the ability to "serve"

The emperor's way of giving birth to a child "made him prosperous", but after the eighth prince Yinsu, most people stopped thinking about it. His biological mother, Liangfei, was from a humble background. In the edict written by Kangxi because of the "Eagle Killing Incident"

Mentioning this incident, this is also a stain on the life of Yinsu, who is very good at being a good person.

His biological mother couldn't survive because of this, and refused to take medicine even when she was sick, so as not to burden her son, and eventually died early.

In order to prevent concubines and relatives from interfering in politics, biological mothers could not raise their own sons. They would either give them to designated concubines for adoption like Yinsu, or send them to the elder brother's house to be raised by wet nurses and eunuchs. This formed a small family.

A situation in which a prince is closer to his wet nurse than to his biological mother.

It cannot be said that human life was taken lightly in the palace. Killing a person was as easy as killing a chicken. Cases of poisoning and murder occurred every three days. If this really happened, the imperial doctor would appear as soon as possible to find out what caused the death.

It will harm the emperor, concubines and princes.

But there are no human relations and ethics in the Forbidden City. It is understandable for palace maids to elope with guards, but it is rare for eunuchs to escape. Where else can they go besides the palace?

When chatting privately, the eunuchs said that their lifelong wish was to go to Putuo Mountain to offer incense. Burning incense and worshiping Buddha could not change the suffering fate of the palace people, but at least under the Buddhist concept of cause and effect, practicing in this life can seek good fortune in the next life.

, fleeing the world in order to satisfy religious beliefs is a kind of romance, and it is also a helpless life dream.

In the first year of Yongzheng's reign, a case of an eunuch escaping occurred. It was the first month of the year, which was traditionally the New Year's Day of the new dynasty. It was surprising that such a thing happened at the beginning of the new year. Waiting for the governor of Zhejiang to tell the man who wanted to go to Putuo

Zheng Jinzhong, the eunuch who sent Shan to offer incense, was sent back to the palace. He said that he went to offer incense on the order of Kangxi.

Generally speaking, Kangxi should have sent people to Mount Wutai to offer incense at Samantabhadra's dojo, but at that time he was already "dead without evidence." The eunuch was not executed, but was punished with a stick and went to the "Guozemen". Went to prepare fodder for the horses.

Guanyin can be found in many places, whether it is enshrined in temples, or enshrined in people's homes, or in the Guanyin Temple where the Jinyi cassock was almost stolen in Journey to the West and was managed by Elder Jinchi who colluded with the black bear spirit.

Some people may not know Arhat, but most of them know Guanyin, because among the Buddhas in the sky, apart from the goddess Absaro who plays music, Guanyin is the only female image.

The Dragon Girl in the Eight Parts of Heavenly Dragons is actually not a Buddha. In the Lotus Sutra, Manjushri Bodhisattva says that she is the daughter of the Dragon King Sakara. Sakara means sea, which means that the Dragon Girl is the daughter of the Dragon King.

Except for the sixteen dragon kings such as the Dragon King Suara and the Dragon King Nanda, all the dragons will be eaten by the Garuda. The Dragon King Suara is favored by the Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara because it can bring rain and become the Twenty-One Avalokitesvara. One of the eight tribes.

In fact, the Gandharva who spreads the auspicious flowers and fragrance is not a fairy, but a male god. He is married to the goddess who plays the musical instrument, and outlines an illusory and ethereal paradise world, which has become the "liberation" that many Buddhists long for. "The place to go after.

The "contemporary" of the Juren wrote a reply. Although many years have passed, he still remembers that on the day of the "accident" he lived in Guanyin Temple not far from Zhenwu Temple. However, there are many temples called Guanyin Temple near Shichahai, such as Huitong Temple. In the early years, it was called Zhenshui Guanyin Temple, and Haichao Temple was also called Shichahai Guanyin Temple. There are still official records. It was built by the government, privately built by private citizens, and built with donations. Shichahai is said to be named after ten temples. In fact, Zen monasteries and Taoist temples are dotted all over the place, but if we mention them at the same time, they are not mentioned at all.

Juren took off his decent summer clothes again and put on commoners. Although he once criticized his compatriots for not being able to move brooms on the first day of the first lunar month, changing clothes seemed to bring him good luck. Liuhe is farther than the capital. There were many, but the person who was Juren was the first to reply at the same time. Later he sent another letter, and this time the capital responded quickly, but they did not receive the letter from Juren.

Letters often get lost. Not only letters, but also memorials may be lost.

There is no need to be distracted by this matter. Only when Juren can concentrate on handling the work of the staff. One person cannot multi-task, and a country must avoid multi-front operations. Even if the problems of piracy and coastal defense are serious, the primary problem of the Qing court at present is the White Lotus Sect. They did not have the energy or finances to send out the navy to destroy pirates like Kangxi did when he regained Taiwan.

Some people may think those White Lotus believers are ignorant, but the difference between "kingly way" and "hegemonic" is this. Chinese people value education very much, which is the focus of kingly way. Chen Hongmou's political achievements in Yunnan include education and fair trade in addition to Tongshan. , however, this kind of educational resources has not been popularized. The vast majority of civilians, including the bannermen in BJ City, are still illiterate. What they are most exposed to is drama, and after Qianlong's deletion, there is not much substantial educational content.

Nezha pulled out the dragon skin of the third prince of the Dragon King, pulled out the dragon tendons, and wanted to make a set of armor for his father. However, the Dragon King of the East China Sea sued the matter to the heaven. With an excuse, the dragon kings could make trouble and use Chentangguan.

The lives and deaths of the people were threatened, and in the end Li Jing had to hand Nezha over to them.

Nezha picked off the bones, cut the meat and gave it back to his parents. If he didn't raise it when he was alive, he could return it after cutting off his fingers.

Qianlong was only responsible for feeding his people, but not educating them. As Mencius said, he was a tyrant who "uses strength to pretend to be benevolent." A tyrant must have a big country. It is a father's fault to raise people without educating them, but he was a very good person.

A father who pays attention to the education of "his" son.

According to the general law of history, long-term unity must divide, and long-term division must unite. The Qing Dynasty just captured the country in that moment, which caused the Ming Dynasty not to fall into the Three Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties and other separatist eras like the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, many fewer people will die. Likewise, people will not experience the feeling of war and chaos every day, and they will not be very eager for peace.

The weakness and incompetence of the Qing court is already known to the world. Not only the subjects understand it, but foreigners also see it. The Manchus are preventing the people's intellectual progress. It is very simple for a smart person to rule a group of uninformed and ignorant people.

Not only the Qing court understood this, but other cult leaders also knew that the solution required a lot of financial, manpower, and material resources. It was not only laborious and slow to produce results, but also exposed the Manchu emperor to more threats. Those trained talents

He will not use it for himself, but will join the ranks of those who oppose him.

The emperor can also be deceived. He is also an ordinary human being and can get smallpox like ordinary people. In this regard, a eunuch is equal to the "Long Live Lord".

If the eunuchs and palace maids are unable to escape but are desperate for life, they will choose to drown themselves in the river near Xihua Gate and the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition, there are also people who hang themselves in the Imperial Garden, which looks elegant and gorgeous in the Forbidden City.

The Royal Garden is the cemetery of eunuchs. In other words, if the palace maid who wants to meet the emperor in the garden and fly up a branch to be a phoenix really raises her head, she may see a eunuch hanging on a branch, fluttering in the wind.

's corpse.

Emperor Chongzhen was also hanged on a coal mountain. No matter how crazy this belief is, it is essentially the same as the Temple of the Pouch Empress. Only those who don’t want to die worship him. Find a "substitute" instead of someone who worships him.

Originally, the world view and knowledge system of the rural community had no intersection with the royal family and bureaucrats, but because of the group of eunuchs and palace maids, they lived in a city called the "Forbidden City".

If the royal family ignores them, it is very likely that the emperor will be placed under house arrest by the eunuchs and assassinated by the palace maids.

Of course, there are precedents in history, and some people say it can be prevented, so what if the gates of the Forbidden City are opened wide and White Lotus Sect believers are allowed into the palace?

Not only did the gate guards show up at half the capacity, but they were also drunk, and cult believers would not write marks on their foreheads to identify themselves like "sheep thieves".

No nation in Europe would want to conquer China for a long time, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi did, and he also had a fatal intention, which was to convert the people of China to Catholicism.

He did not allow the Japanese to believe, but told the Portuguese priests that the purpose of conquest was to leave a name for future generations. His goal was to make the Chinese surrender to Japan. He himself did not want that territory. After conquering China, he would become Japan.

He ordered the establishment of Catholic churches throughout China and ordered all Chinese people to convert to Catholicism. Priests could promote it there. This was also the condition he set out to gain support from Europeans.

Non-religious people may scorn and ridicule, but they may not understand the true intention of Nick's expression...

"They need a reason to gather around the kang table to discuss, and then find an excuse to take action." Georgiana read out the sentence, then looked up at Bonaparte, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

"I don't need that much sleep," he said haughtily.

She looked at this "Corsican monster". No matter how tired he was, he seemed to recover after taking a short bath.

"Come here." She patted the sofa next to her. "This book just mentioned the monster we encountered."

"What monster?"

"Naga and Garuda." She said with a smile, "But I prefer to call them magical animals."
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