Si Li Jian, the highest official office in the imperial city.
At this time, Wang Chengen, the eunuch who was the leader of the yamen and extremely loyal to Emperor Chongzhen, was pruning flowers with a pair of scissors in the yard, very focused.
"Your Majesty, I have been serving you day and night, never leaving. How come I have so much free time today?" Chang Yu entered the inner courtyard and looked aside 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 grandmaster. Please come quickly, please come quickly." Wang Chengen turned around with a smile on his face and said slightly apologetically.
"Where, where? Our family is having nothing to do. I heard that the prince called 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 has 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 San 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 no 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 Chengen looked at the trees in the yard and sighed: "But it won't take a while, these spring branches will sprout." ".
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 think of 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 could also grow back, and if he was not careful, he would lead to adultery 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 that way, if the young eunuch behaves like this, Xiao Jiujiu will stop growing and slowly shrink like wheat, making him useless.
This is because the technology of cutting jiji was not yet mastered at that time, and one would often die. It was not until the Qianlong period that this technology was mastered, and with just one click, the descendants were in full numbers, and the world was peaceful!
Therefore, before the Ming Dynasty, most eunuchs had Jiji. However, after their balls were cut off, their desires became smaller and no longer developed. Just because they were smaller does not mean that they were not there at all. Everything has accidents. It is true that eunuchs committed adultery in the palace. Quite a few
Historical records record that in the late Hongwu period, when Shi Yunzhang was in charge of inspecting the affairs of Henan Province, he once went to private visits in private and heard sad cries coming from a family. When he inquired about it, it turned out that the daughter of this family had been eunuched because of humiliation. And committed suicide.
Shi Yunchang reported this matter to the court, and Zhu Yuanzhang accurately reported it 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 the eunuch Wei Lizhuan raped the wife of a certain military officer. When the wife refused, Wei Lizhuan beat the officer to death with a cane. Emperor Daizong Zhu Qiyu 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, so he sent people 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 lower-status eunuchs or eunuchs who served as low-level servants in the palace often went out to visit prostitutes. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a place called "West Courtyard" in the brothel school of the capital, which was specially designed to receive eunuchs and ordinary eunuchs in the palace. Such prostitutes are despised by their peers in fireworks. Most of the people who come here are dismissed eunuchs or young eunuchs. Not only do eunuchs with a certain status refuse to go to the "West Courtyard", but if they hear that any eunuch goes to prostitutes, they are severely punished, and some are even punished. 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 the same as normal people, except that they had two fewer eggs and were not as vigorous.
(Note: However, the plot of this book requires that the protagonist and most of the eunuchs have their penises 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 in spring, and old branches can sprout new shoots. It’s also common in humans, so I’m sure the princes and father-in-law are familiar with 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.
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 Eunuchs are inspected and castrated twice every year. 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, reached out and cut off a branch: "Since the prince has asked, our family dare not lie. 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. Who can bear it when cutting leeks?
"Your Majesty, our family is dedicated to serving the country and is loyal to the Emperor. We have never been greedy for adultery. I just ask the Emperor to say a few kind words in front of the Emperor and leave our bodies to serve the country. If the Emperor Don’t worry, 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 will certainly sympathize with 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 servant for the rest of your life.”
"What Eunuch Wang said is that our family is neither an official nor a general, which does not affect our loyalty to the Ming Dynasty or the Emperor! But I would also like to ask Eunuch Wang to say a few words in front of the Emperor. This matter for our family 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?"
News of what happened last night reached the palace this morning, and Chang Yu was not surprised at all. Although he could mobilize the Jin Yiwei, after all, their master was Chongzhen, and everything, no matter how big or small, was 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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