Wei Zhongxian was an illiterate eunuch at the age of 50, fell in love at the age of 53, and reached the peak of power at the age of 55.

Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, was the most powerful eunuch in history. Historians call him 9900 years old, and he is extremely honored. Wei Zhongxian didn't know any Chinese characters, but he climbed the big tree of Ming Xizong with love. Wei Zhongxian not only has love, but also has a vigorous love triangle. He had a wife and children before he entered the palace. Legend has it that because of gambling default, his wife and children were taken to pay their debts. In order to escape the debt, Wei Zhongxian gritted his teeth and entered the palace. Generally speaking, if a eunuch wants to make a career in the palace, he must have three conditions: literacy, resourcefulness and ambition. However, Wei Zhongxian was illiterate and was often teased by some scheming eunuchs after he entered the palace, so he was dubbed as a "fool". After 30 years in the palace, Wei Zhongxian is still a talented food administrator in the East Palace, and he is often complacent about it. Why can such an illiterate fool who is satisfied at the age of 50 still sit in a high position in the future? In ancient times, Wei Zhongxian relied on Hakka dialect. Eunuchs and maids enter the palace all the year round. For their own psychological needs, they often form a husband-and-wife relationship similar to "vegetable farmers" or "opposite dishes". A phenomenon was recorded in the Biography of Yi 'an in the Ming Dynasty: "A childless court official chose his inner supervisor as his partner, which was called a' vegetable household'. They are connected to each other like a family and love each other like husband and wife. " Wei Zhongxian's cuisine is called Hakka cuisine. Hakka people are the wet nurses of Mingxizong who lack maternal love and have deep feelings for wet nurses. After climbing the Hakka, Wei Zhongxian quickly became the confidant of Ming Xizong, and at the age of 53, he became the biggest eunuch in the palace-the pen-keeping eunuch in the prison. It is recorded in the History of Ming Dynasty that whenever the carpenter emperor Ming Xizong devoted himself to carpentry, Wei Zhongxian took the paper to ask for it, but Ming Xizong casually replied, "I have heard of it, so your generation should take care of it." In this way, Wei Zhongxian slowly seized the supreme power of the country. In this love triangle, strictly speaking, Wei Zhongxian is an intervening mistress. When Wei Zhongxian first entered the palace, he served the eunuch Wei Chao, who was a Hakka. Later, Wei Chao's status became higher and higher, and things naturally became more and more. He has less and less time to meet Hakkas. At this point, Wei Zhongxian, the squad leader of the cookhouse squad, took advantage of this opportunity to become an object with Hakka for a long time. Wei Dynasty later discovered that he was wearing a cuckold husband, so he told the emperor about it. However, Ming Xizong only cares about the feelings of the wet nurse and lets the Hakkas choose for themselves. As a result, the Hakkas finally chose to stay with Wei Zhongxian. This is how Wei Zhongxian gained the trust of the emperor through the Hakka relationship. Three years after Wei Zhongxian purged Lindong Party, in order to balance the powerful Lindong Party, some courtiers began to take refuge in Dongchang Governor Wei Zhongxian, which triggered a cruel party struggle between the 55-year-old eunuch and Lindong Party. How did Wei Zhongxian deal with his political opponents at this time? According to Textual Research on Confucian Lectures in Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian was good at politics, and everyone in Da Zhi County called him Lindong party member. Cui Chengxiu, a close friend of Wei Zhongxian, wrote Comrade Lu, which recorded the opposition between the Party and the non-Party. The unique "Dianjianglu" was compiled by Wang, and Wudu Yushi was like a book of life and death in Yan's hand, while the party members arranged it according to the names of Liangshan heroes in the water margin, such as timely rain leaves, prodigal money, drums and fleas, broadsword and so on. Seventy-two earth demons, one is a wise man with many stars, the other is a green-faced beast, Zuo Guangdou, and the other is a dry land monk. So Wei Zhongxian, according to the roster, killed or demoted all those who opposed him one by one, and also killed a large number of honest Lindong Party officials. In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, after all the political opponents were eliminated, the whole court formed a unified Wei Party, and Wei Zhongxian's power reached its peak. At the same time, under the touting of everyone, he was 9900 years old. Wei Zhongxian's personality cult was 9900 years, only less than that of the emperor 100 years. This also illustrates the truth that eunuchs are always eunuchs, and no one is satisfied with their autocratic power. Wei Zhongxian could never be emperor. After all, there is no precedent for eunuchs to be emperors in history, so "going down in history" has become his life pursuit. So Wei Zhongxian's followers, who are good at observing and observing the situation, began to cater to him in succession, which triggered the fanatical personality cult during the apocalypse. According to Ming History, during the apocalypse, many scholars suggested building a shrine for eunuch Wei Zhongxian. As the ancestral temple of the living, the shrine is generally built by the people for the benefit of one party. But in order to cater to the above meaning, Pan Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang Province, performed at Jiansheng Hall in Wei Zhongxian for the first time. The notes of the Ming Dynasty, first recorded, recorded the letter written by the governor Pan to the emperor: "Wei Zhongxian, East Factory, is loyal to the country, cares for the people, and has endless virtues. Please build a temple. " Ming Xizong not only agreed, but also awarded the plaque as the first temple. The first flatterer, Governor Pan, was promoted to be the minister of Nanjing punishments, while Zhejiang Patrol arrived one day late and was dismissed. As soon as the case was opened, Jiansheng Temple was flooded, and even Lu Sheng Wan Ling imperial academy was unique. He suggested building a hall of life in imperial academy, and compared Wei Zhongxian with Confucius. I believe all readers will find this place quite ironic. An illiterate eunuch should be compared with Confucius, who is a model for later generations. I'm afraid Confucius will jump out of the grave with anger when he finds out. According to historical records, it was disgusting to flatter Wei Zhongxian at that time, except that Lu Wanling advocated putting Wei Zhongxian next to Confucius in the imperial academy. At that time, Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jilin Province, built seven shrines for the 9900-year-old man. Governor Liu Zhaoxing not only built a shrine, but also made five obeisances and three buckles; In order to curry favor with Wei Zhongxian, Wei Guangwei, the official department minister, respected him as a brother at first, but later degraded himself and called him an uncle. Gu Bingqian, a minister of does, is old and wants to recognize Wei Zhongxian as michel platini. However, considering that his beard is white, he made his son Wei's grandson. In other words, according to seniority, Grandpa White Beard became Wei Zhongxian's adopted son.