Si Li Jian, the highest official office in the imperial city.
At this time, the chief eunuch of the yamen, Wang Chengen, who was extremely loyal to Emperor Chongzhen, was pruning flower branches in the yard with a pair of scissors, very focused.
"Your Majesty, you have been serving your Majesty day and night, never leaving. Why are you so excited today when you have time?" Chang Yu entered the inner courtyard and looked around for a while, then broke the silence and walked over with a smile.
"Hey, Eunuch Chang is here. I was a little distracted just now and didn't pay attention to the arrival of your Majesty. Please come quickly, please come quickly." Wang Chengen turned around with a smile on his face and said slightly apologetically.
"Where, where, our family has nothing to do. I heard that the prince summoned me and came to have a drink of tea. But I don't know what the prince is looking for in our house?" Chang Yu glanced at the tea sets placed on the corridor and asked with a faint smile.
"Your Majesty is busy with government affairs today and doesn't need the servants to serve him. He just had half a day to spare. He prepared some good tea and the father-in-law came to chat." Wang Chengen said with a gesture of invitation, and the two of them walked towards the corridor.
Just as Fang Sangang was about to go over to serve him, Wang Chengen raised his eyes and glanced at him: "You go and play outside in the yard. Our family wants to chat with Eunuch Chang about some trivial matters."
Fang San didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly said yes and left in a hurry.
Only then did Chang Yu realize that there was not even a single eunuch serving in the huge inner courtyard. Now that he had sent Fang San away, it seemed that Wang Chengen's search for him today was not as simple as chatting.
Wang Chengen helped Chang Yu make tea, "This is the finest 'Beiyuan Tea'. It has been a royal tribute since the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, and now the four dynasties. When the Ming Dynasty was just founded, Lord Hongwu ordered this tea as a tribute..."
"
Chang Yu listened to his eloquent talk, toasted and praised him repeatedly, but in his heart he kept thinking about what Wang Chengen was going to say when he came here to find him.
"Spring has been here for a while, but it's still very cold here in Beijing." After seeing Chang Yu taste it a few times, Wang Cheng'en looked at the trees in the yard and sighed: "But it won't take a while, these spring branches will sprout."
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Chang Yu nodded in agreement.
"So, before they germinate, these flower branches need to be pruned first." Wang Chenen said, turning his head and looking at Chang Yu with a half-smile: "These flower branches can still sprout new buds after they are cut. What if someone cuts off their arms or something?"
It can’t grow new ones!”
Hold the grass!
Chang Yu was shocked, it turned out to be this, he was obviously here for his little Jiji.
In fact, after he stabbed himself to prove his innocence that night, Chang Yu knew that a suspicious person like Emperor Chongzhen would soon come up with this key point, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.
To put it simply, he was worried that since Chang Yu had such a miraculous self-healing function, Xiao Jiujiu would be able to grow back, and if he was not careful, he would end up in the palace!
In fact, since ancient times, eunuchs who entered the palace were not cut off as rumored. Before the early Qing Dynasty, most eunuchs only cut off their balls so that they would not secrete male hormones and have less sexual impulse, just like the castration of animals.
In this way, if it is a young eunuch like this, Xiao Jiujiu will stop growing and slowly shrink like wheat awns, making him useless.
This is because at that time, the technology of cutting jiji was not yet mastered, and one would often die. It was not until the Qianlong period that this technology was mastered, and only then could there be a click, a litter of descendants, and a peaceful world!
So before the Ming Dynasty, most of the eunuchs had Jiji, but after their balls were cut off, their desires became smaller, no longer developed, and they could not have sex. Just because they were smaller did not mean that they were not there. There are accidents in everything. The eunuchs had sex in the palace.
There's really a lot going on
Historical records record that in the last years of Hongwu, when Shi Yun was in charge of inspecting eunuch affairs in Henan, he once went to private visits in private and heard mournful cries coming from a family. When he inquired, it turned out that the daughter of this family had been raped by an eunuch.
committed suicide out of humiliation.
Shi Yunchang reported this matter to the court, and Zhu Yuanzhang reported it accurately, and arrested the eunuch and sentenced him to death.
In the first year of Jingtai (1450), Xu Gui, the right-hand counselor of Datong, reported that Wei Lizhuan, the eunuch in charge of the army, took advantage of his power and raped the wife of an officer. When the wife refused, Wei Lizhuan beat the officer to death with a cane. Emperor Zhu Qiyu
I asked the censor to inquire, but there was no result.
In the first year of Tianshun (1457), Huo Xuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, also reported that whenever Wei Lizhuan held a banquet, he would find prostitutes to accompany him, and he would also forcibly marry the daughter of a subordinate military officer as his concubine. Yingzong was very angry.
Then someone was sent to arrest Wei Lizhuan and punish him according to law.
Those who were able to marry, keep wives, eat in pairs, have fornications with concubines, or use their power to rape women were mostly eunuchs with a certain status and eunuchs with a certain power. Those eunuchs with lower statuses or those who held lower-level servants in the palace
Eunuchs often went out to visit prostitutes. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a place called "Xiyuan" in the imperial palace of the capital, which was specially designed to receive eunuchs and ordinary eunuchs in the palace. Such prostitutes were despised by their peers. Come here.
Most of the people walking around were eunuchs who had been dismissed or young eunuchs. Eunuchs with a certain status not only refused to go to the "West Courtyard", but if they heard that any eunuch went to prostitutes, they were severely punished. Some were even tortured to death.
After the trend of eating in pairs became popular in the palace, some eunuchs fell in love with a prostitute outside and officially married her back home.
During the Chongzhen period, the imperial court issued an edict prohibiting inmates from marrying wives and sleeping in prostitutes outside the home, but in the end they were not able to ban it.
It can be seen that in fact, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were almost like normal people, except that they had two fewer eggs and their ejaculation was not as strong.
(Note: However, due to the plot of this book, the protagonist and most of the eunuchs had to have Jiji cut off)
Wang Chengen stared at Chang Yu, not letting go of his expression. However, although Chang Yu was a bitch on the inside, he was as stable as an old dog on the outside. He picked up the tea cup and took a sip: "As the old saying goes, dead trees can still bloom, and old branches can sprout new shoots.
It’s also common among people, and I’m sure the prince is no stranger to this.”
What Chang Yu said makes sense. The human body has a self-healing function. If nothing else, even if the penis is cut off, it will grow back again.
The Qing Dynasty took the Ming Dynasty as a lesson. After mastering the castration technology, all three members of the eunuch's family were castrated. However, officials later reported to Qianlong that the eunuchs could still grow to a certain length in many cases and needed to be reviewed. Qianlong accepted the suggestion, and then
Every year, eunuchs are inspected and castrated twice. This is the origin of "stubble washing".
Wang Chengen felt a little embarrassed when he heard this, nodded slightly, looked at Chang Yu and said, "What about Eunuch Chang?"
Chang Yu chuckled, stood up, picked up the scissors on the table, walked to a flower branch on the porch, stretched out his hand to cut off a branch: "Since the prince has asked, our family dare not tell lies. Our family has special talents.
It’s easy to create new branches, but every time they are cut off and every time they grow, our family’s body cannot bear this cycle even if it is iron-clad.”
Wang Chenen frowned and nodded slightly, Chang Yu was right, you cut it when it grows, and it grows again, and who can bear it when you cut leeks?
"Eunuch, our family is devoted to the country and is loyal to the emperor. We have never been greedy for adultery. I just ask the prince to say a few kind words in front of the emperor and leave our body to serve the country. If the emperor
If you are not worried, we can let our family stay in the military camp and not set foot in the imperial city."
Chang Yu's words were concise and concise. Firstly, he expressed his true feelings. Secondly, he revealed that Wang Chengen's intention to find him was actually Chongzhen's intention. Thirdly, he actually wanted to leave the palace and go to the military camp.
"Eunuch Chang's loyalty can be seen from the sun and the moon. The emperor knows it, and he must be considerate of Eunuch Chang's inconvenience. However, our family also has something to say, Eunuch Chang, we are all eunuchs, and we are not allowed to be officials or generals.
If you are a royal servant every day, you will be a royal servant for the rest of your life.”
"What Eunuch Wang said is that our family is neither an official nor a general, which will not affect our loyalty to the Ming Dynasty or the Emperor! But I would like to ask Eunuch Wang to say a few words in front of the Emperor about this matter."
Don't dare to cross the thunder pool even half a step" Chang Yu quickly said with his hands.
"Of course, of course." Wang Chenen nodded, beckoned Chang Yu to sit down, and made tea: "Actually, I was just chatting. By the way, I heard that you encountered some trouble outside last night?"
What happened last night was reported to the palace this morning. Chang Yu was not surprised at all. Although he could mobilize the Jin Yiwei, their master was Chongzhen after all. All matters, no matter how big or small, were reported.
As Chongzhen's closest confidant, Wang Chengen naturally knew a lot of confidential information, but it seemed that he was just curious when he asked.
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