Speaking of Xuanhuiyuan, Qi Xuansu had also heard about it.
Qi Xuansu mentioned this when he and Shi Bingyun were talking about rectifying the atmosphere in the imperial capital.
Shi Bingyun said that in the new policies regarding Taoism and the imperial court, there are two very significant examples. One is to rectify eunuchs, and the other is to rectify prostitutes. The former is the destruction of men, and the latter is the destruction of women. Both of them should be Completely abolished.
Shi Bingyun did not mention Xuanhui Academy at that time, and Qi Xuansu did not need Shi Bingyun to waste any words. He already knew that he would go to the Imperial Palace to take up a post when he was in the Wanxiang Taoist Palace. Since he knew that he would read through the "Da Xuan Law", he naturally expected that he would do so. He has dealt with various forces such as Tianchen Division and Xuanhui Academy, so he has learned a lot about it. The collection of books in Genyuan is all-encompassing, and many Taoist secrets are hidden in it. It happens that Qi Xuansu has a good relationship with Sun Laozhen. After explaining the reason, Sun Laozhen With a wave of his hand, he let him watch as he pleased.
It's just that Qi Xuansu never expected that the prostitutes would be rectified, and the books in the Wanxiang Taoist Palace would not record it, so he asked Shi Bingyun for advice.
In terms of eunuchs, Taoist sects basically did not interfere. There are many reasons for this. Even in the previous dynasty, eunuchs mostly followed Taoism rather than Buddhism. The reason for this is said to be because a Quanzhen Taoist ancestor was practicing Taoism. He was often troubled by human desires and could never meditate, so he began to practice Taoism in his palace. During the Wei generation, although the eunuchs in the palace believed in Taoism, they did not worship Taishang Taoist, but the Quanzhen Taoist.
The eunuchs kept saying that they were followers of the Taoist sect and were the main force in the imperial family to check and balance the Confucian sect. Whether it was discussing deeds or talking about the heart, there was no big problem. If you don't look at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, the Taoist sect is really not good at all, so they just talk to each other. It was given to the court for disposal.
However, Taoism also gave its own opinion. Xuansheng hoped that after these eunuchs died of old age, there would be no new eunuchs, that is, the existing eunuchs would be retained and eunuchs would be completely abolished in the future.
Emperor Gaozu agreed with Xuan Sheng's opinion and accepted the nearly 100,000 eunuchs left over from the Wei Dynasty. He no longer expanded the number of eunuchs, abolished the original twenty-four yamen of the inner court, and established the Xuanhui Yuan for unified management.
This is the origin of Xuanhui Yuan.
Logically speaking, more than two hundred years have passed since Daxuan conquered the world, and those eunuchs of the previous dynasty are no longer alive, so there should be no eunuchs in the world.
However, things in the world are still unfinished, and ultimately they cannot be settled.
Eunuchs are like prostitutes. They wanted to abolish them, decided to abolish them, but in the end they were not abolished, but remained. However, they have shrunk a lot from the 100,000 people in the previous dynasty. Today, there are probably only less than 10,000 people left. And it only exists in the palace city, unlike the previous dynasty where it was sent out to foreigners
Various guard eunuchs and military supervisors.
The reason why this is so is that we have to mention a special inheritance that is independent of the inheritance of the six immortals of heaven, earth, humans, gods, ghosts and zombies - the hermaphrodites.
At the beginning of the founding of the Wei Dynasty, in order to protect the royal family, the Qingluan Guard and the twenty-four yamen of the inner court were established. The Qingluan Guard had thirteen eunuchs who recruited strange people and scholars for their own use. The eunuchs were trained by the royal family since childhood and awarded a The inheritance left by the Confucian masters who are proficient in the three teachings is the legendary "master in the imperial family" among the people in the world. The eunuchs also teach from master to disciple, passing it on from generation to generation, just like the sect.
This inheritance is like "Sanren", it is a pieced together and fabricated inheritance. However, Sanren can achieve immortality, but intersex people cannot achieve immortality, so there is no such thing as immortality.
Although the eunuchs all firmly believed that this inheritance did not come from Confucianism, but was passed down by the founder of Quanzhen Taoism who practiced immortality in his own palace. They believed that the founder had glimpsed the wonderful truth of immortality and realized the essence of the transformation of heaven and man and the growth of all things.
, but so far, no eunuch has achieved immortality.
The Taoist sect naturally looks down upon this kind of incomplete inheritance that requires self-mutilation of the body.
However, this kind of inheritance has an advantage that even the six immortals of the Taoist sect cannot match, that is, it lives by relying on the dragon's veins. It can suppress the three corpses in the body to attack life through the dragon's energy. Even if it does not lead to immortality, it can still achieve pseudo-immortality, and there is no natural disaster.
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An immortal person can live forever if he kills three corpses, but a catastrophe that occurs once every hundred years is equivalent to heaven forcing you to ascend and die. Because immortality breaks the rule that all things have life, death, and prosperity, you must either kill him or drive him away.
Choose one of the two.
But the yin and yang people took advantage of this loophole. In this regard, they are quite similar to the gods, but the gods feed on the power of incense and wishes, while the yin and yang people feed on the dragon's veins and dragon's energy.
The so-called dragon vein luck, Kunlun is not only the holy land of Taoism, but also the ancestor of thousands of mountains. The three major dragon veins in the world all originate from Kunlun. Based on the trend of mountains and rivers and the hidden dragon vein trend, from west to east, the winding terrain of the dragon vein is viewed as
It is the Feng Shui terrestrial vein and is divided into three potentials, called the Three Dragons. They are: South Dragon to the south of the Dajiang River, Middle Dragon between the Dajiang River and the Yangtze River, and North Dragon to the north of the Yangtze River.
The southern dragon and the middle dragon have collapsed one after another, leaving only the northern dragon.
The mountains of Beilong are majestic and majestic. From Kunlun Mountain to the east, Nanshan Mountain and Zhongyue Mountain stretch vertically and horizontally. The mountains are surrounded by each other, forming a series of Jinlong and Fu.
Longjia Land. The west water on the mountain side flows into the Longmenfu West River, and the east water on the mountain side flows into Youzhou and flows eastward to the sea. Beimang Mountain is the remnant of the Nanshan Mountains, so it has excellent Feng Shui and has attracted emperors and generals of all dynasties to build mausoleums here.
If Beilong is regarded as a giant dragon that walks from the river to the sea, then the tail of the dragon is in Kunlun, the head of the dragon is in Bohai Mansion on the coast of the East China Sea, the Five Elements Mountain is the reverse scale, and the Imperial City is the highlight.
If the Imperial City is the eye of the Northern Dragon, then the Imperial City is the pupil. All the spiritual energy of the mountains and rivers in the two enclosing circles outside the Imperial City are gathered here. This creates a large formation. If it can be fully opened, even the immortals cannot resist it.
The majestic power of the formation forced them to retreat.
However, this formation also has flaws. It can only block those who are connected to the way of heaven. That is, heavenly people will be restricted by the formation, while others are not restricted.
Furthermore, the dragon vein is closely related to the fate of the dynasty. If the dragon spirit is strong and strong when the dynasty is at its peak, even if the gods descend to the earth, they will not be able to cause trouble. However, at the end of the dynasty, the dragon spirit will be weak and leakage will occur everywhere, which will also restrict the immortal people.
It's not that big, at least it can't leave an immortal person helpless.
Nowadays, Beilong is also in decline. The imperial court has invited more than a hundred real people from the three Taoist sects to gather together. The big real people have reviewed the situation together and come to the conclusion that Beilong is the last dragon in the world. After Beilong, there is no such thing as dragon vein.
.The position of emperor that started from the ancestral dragon will probably end with this.
This is a major change that has not happened in three thousand years. However, if the Daxuan royal family can cope with it properly, retreat to a relaxed place, travel for a long time, receive the courtesy of the people of the world, and escape from the strange circle of death and annihilation of the heavenly family and the family of the previous royal families, it will not be wrong.
A blessing.
At that time, the big tree of the royal family cannot protect itself, so the eunuchs who originated from and were attached to the royal families of all dynasties will naturally die together.
It is precisely because of this that you will prosper and you will perish. This is the right principle of heaven.
But before that, the eunuchs can still survive. As long as they don't leave the imperial capital, they can live forever. Legend has it that there are several old monsters deep in the palace that have lived for more than two hundred years, and they are old people from the previous dynasty.
He is already on the verge of decay, like a living dead, but his cultivation is unfathomable. As long as he is inside the palace, he can still fight even against an immortal.
This is also one of the reasons why the Daxuan royal family went against the ancestral decision and reintroduced eunuchs.
The Immortal Immortal, who has a respected position and is the leader of the three religions, how can he be willing to be a slave? But these old eunuchs are different. They feed on the dragon's energy and can barely survive.
In the hands of the emperor, no matter how unfathomable their realm of cultivation is, these old eunuchs must obey the emperor's orders and protect the emperor's safety. The temptation for the emperor is really too great. Especially after Beilong fell into decline, the imperial capital formation also
With each passing day, it becomes worse than the last. It is already like the last years of the dynasty. The dragon energy is declining and the wind is leaking everywhere. At least there is no way for an immortal immortal to be captured.
Although the Taoist sect has comforted the royal family, this is just the decline of the Dragon Vein and Dragon Qi itself, and has nothing to do with the national destiny of the dynasty. The national destiny has since turned from obvious to hidden. In the future, there will no longer be a saying that magicians can judge the trend of the national destiny by looking at the Qi, but the royal family is still worried.
As the formation gradually becomes ineffective, these eunuchs become more and more important.
Another point is that the eunuchs are not willing to sit still and wait for death.
Just like the cruel official, the emperor uses the cruel official to attack the enemy, and then throws the cruel official away. All the blame belongs to the cruel official. But the cruel official is not stupid. He does not want to be abandoned by the emperor, so he will try his best to make the emperor anxious and make the emperor think that he is in a bad situation.
During the crisis, the emperor was encouraged to raise major cases, so they had another place to use their skills, such as the case of brutalizing the prince.
The eunuchs had the same mentality. Seeing that the imperial court was reduced and the overall situation of abolishing the eunuchs was decided, many old eunuchs were anxious. So the eunuchs played a fishing trick.
At that time, the overall situation of the world was initially settled, people's hearts were unstable, and undercurrents were surging. Some Confucian forces still had a resistant attitude towards the new dynasty, especially the Daxuan court's new policies such as measuring the world's fields, clearing out the fields, and dividing the land into acres.
It harmed the interests of these traditional gentry who relied on the land for their livelihood.
The eunuchs were aware of the attitude of the gentry, and sent people to sneak into them, disguised as radical Confucian disciples, secretly linked up, plotted to prepare dead soldiers, launched a rebellion during the Taizong period, and attacked the imperial city. Even the ministers of the court responded.
This caught Emperor Taizong unexpectedly. At this time, Taoism was fighting fiercely with Buddhism, and even the Confucian forces that had surrendered to Daxuan were involved in the battlefield in the Western Regions. The situation was quite critical.
At this time, the eunuchs showed extremely high loyalty and protected the emperor regardless of their own safety. They suffered numerous casualties and finally successfully suppressed the rebellion.
This move naturally won the approval of Emperor Taizong. Although he did not openly reset the twenty-four yamen and let eunuchs take part in politics, he also stopped reducing and suppressing eunuchs, so that Xuanhuiyuan continues to this day.
As for the inside story, it was only during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of this dynasty that people gradually became aware of it. At this time, Emperor Taizong was no longer alive, and there was no need to deceive the emperor. The key was that the royal family could not do without eunuchs, so it was left to nothing.