Liu Jin
Liu Jin
Liu Jin (1451-1510), born in Xingping (now Wangbao village, Tangfang Town, Xingping City, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province), was a eunuch during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. His surname was tan. When he was six years old, he was adopted by eunuch Liu Shun. He changed his surname to Liu and became a eunuch.
During the reign of Hongzhi, Liu Jin committed a crime and served Prince Zhu houzhao after being pardoned. In the 18th year of Hongzhi (1505), Zhu houzhao, Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne and ordered Liu Jin to take charge of the bell and drum division. Liu Jin was officially given the official post. At the beginning of the first year of Zhengde (1506) of emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin won the favor of emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty by offering animals and birds. She was promoted several times. Since then, she took control of the imperial power, and was called the head of "eight tigers" by the time.
In the fifth year of Zhengde (1510), Zhang Yong, one of the eight tigers, took the lead in exposing the crime. Zhu houzhao, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, ordered him to be executed for the crime of "rebellion".
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Life of the characters
East Palace minister
Liu Jin is from Xingping, Shaanxi Province. His surname Tan was changed because he was attached to the eunuch Liu Shun. During the reign of Hongzhi, he committed a crime and should be executed according to law. Later, he was pardoned and served Prince Zhu houzhao in the east palace. In 1505, Zhu houzhao, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne and ordered Liu Jin to take charge of the bell and drum department.
New power
At the beginning of the first year of Zhengde of emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty (1506), eunuch Liu Jin was appointed to take charge of the "5000 battalion". In addition to Liu Jin, there were also seven eunuchs, including Zhang Yong, Gu Dayong, Ma Yongcheng, Gao Feng, Luo Xiang, Wei bin and Qiu Ju. The "eight tigers" are especially popular with the Ming Wuzong who is a teenager. Liu Jin is the most cunning. He is quite familiar with the past and the present, and he always admires Wang Zhen.
Liu Jin, in order to invite Ming Wu Zong's favor, presented some tricks and tricks to Ming Wu Zong every day, such as hawk dog, singing and dancing, and wrestling, and often lured Ming Wu Zong out of the palace to play, which was the main culprit of Ming Wu religion. In the imperial edict of emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, there was a demand for the removal of eunuchs from their posts outside the city gates. He also advised emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty to issue an imperial edict to ask the eunuchs who were supervising the army to pay the "contract fee" of "ten thousand gold" to guide emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty to make money. At the same time, Liu Jin also set up more than 300 "imperial manors" around the capital, seizing people's land, invading people and injuring things.
In the external court, the ministers began to pay little attention to the eunuchs who were brought by Emperor Wuzong from the eastern palace to Dani. They just thought that they were the people who made emperor Wuzong happy in the palace. However, these people encouraged emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty to set up "imperial manors" to make money everywhere, disturbing the people and invading the interests, so the ministers could not sit back and watch. Liu Jian, Xie Qian and Li Dongyang, the Bachelor of Arts, were not allowed to give advice for a while.
Repeatedly impeached
The court officials were tired of remonstrating, but Zhang Sheng, the Minister of state, Wang Huan, the censor of Nanjing, and Li Guanghan, the censor of geishi, all went up to discuss remonstrance one after another, and the emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty also disagreed. It wasn't until Yang Yuan, who was in charge of astrology observation, said that these eunuchs had been punished by heaven for their crimes.
The court learned that the "eight tigers" led by Liu Jin lured emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty to play wantonly and ignore the government affairs. The ministers led by cabinet bachelor Liu Jian, Xie Qian and Li Dongyang repeatedly remonstrated, but emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty did not listen. Officials at all levels, such as Zhang Sheng, the Minister of state, wrote to admonish one after another, but emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty did not listen.
In October of the first year of Zhengde (1506), Yang Yuan, the head of the five sense organs, wrote an admonition by taking advantage of the changes in the stars. Liu Jian, Xie Qian and so on wrote again and again, asking to kill Liu Jin. Han Wen, the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs, also led a group of ministers to support. Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty sent eunuchs Chen Kuan, Li Rong and Wang Yue to the cabinet, suggesting that Liu Jin should be sent to Nanjing. They went back and forth three times, but Liu Jian and others didn't agree. Shang Shu Xu Jin said, "if you go too far, things will change." Liu Jian didn't listen. Wang Yue has always been upright. He hated eight Tigers with eunuchs fan Heng and Xu Zhi. He told emperor Wuzong what Liu Jian and others had said, and said that the cabinet minister's suggestion was that Liu Jian and others were asking Han Wen and other nine ministers to fight with the court, while Jiao Fang, the Minister of the Ministry of officials, reported Liu Jin. Liu Jin is very afraid. She leads Ma Yongcheng and others to cry around mingwuzong and prostrate herself to the ground. Mingwuzong is moved. Liu Jin immediately said: "it was Wang Yue who framed the slaves and others. Wang Yue colluded with the cabinet ministers to restrict the access of Ming Wuzong, so he had to get rid of the people they hated first. What's more, the flying eagle Hound is not harmful to the state affairs? How dare these civil servants do this if the Commissioner of rites is appointed well! " In a rage, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty ordered Liu Jin to take charge of the ritual supervisor, Ma Yongcheng to take charge of the East factory, and Gu Dayong to take charge of the West factory. He captured Wang Yue, fan Heng, and Xu Zhi overnight and sent them to Nanjing to be exiled. Liu Jin sent people to hunt down Wang Yue and fan Heng on the way, breaking Xu Zhi's arm.
Deceiving
After Liu Jin was successful, he dismissed Han Wen from his post and asked to keep Liu Jian and Xie Qian's Memorial. Six of them, including Lu Ying, Liu Ying and Dai MI, were sent to Nanjing. Fifteen of them, including the imperial censor Bo Yanhui, were sent to Nanjing to guard against Zhao Chengqing, Fu Yin Lu Heng and Shang Shulin Han. They were all convicted of passing on the memorial to Lu Ying and Liu Ying. Lu Heng and Lin Han were ordered to resign and Zhao Chengqing was cut half of his salary. Chen Chun, the vice capital of Nanjing, and Chen Lin, Wang Liangchen, the vice capital of Nanjing, were demoted or beaten by staff for rescuing Dai MI and others.
Liu Jin's power became more and more arrogant. He was critical of the minor faults of the officials. He sent school captains and detectives everywhere, and he didn't allow others to help and intercede. So he specialized in Wei Fu and sent his trusted eunuchs to guard the frontier fortresses. In xudatong, he promoted the school to more than 1560 people, and passed an imperial edict to hundreds of people to confer on the royal guards.
Liu Jin falsely accused the editors of the Imperial Academy of not being able to copy clearly, which made them all condemned. Then he ordered Zhang Jun, the official of the book office of the Wenhua hall, to reprint and promote him to a higher level. Zhang Jun was promoted from the Minister of Guanglu temple to the Minister of rites. Several other officials were awarded senior officials in Beijing, and even the decorators and clerks were also awarded the official titles. He created the method of flail and gave it to Shizhong, the imperial censor Wang Shizhong, the Doctor Liu Yi and Zhang Wei, Shang Baoqing and Gu Xuan, the Deputy envoy Yao Xiang, the counsellor Wu Tingju and others. All of them were caught in a small mistake. When the flail was dying, they untied the shackles and sent to defend the border. Countless others were killed by flail. The prison of the royal guards is full of prisoners. He hated the royal guards' money officer Mou bin, who was kind to prisoners. He beat him with a staff and did not allow him to be an official again. Zhou Xi, the governor of the government, and Yang Yuan, the head of the five sense organs, were beaten to death with a staff. Yang Yuan is the one who wrote an admonition to Liu Jin with the help of astrology. Every time Liu Jin played something, she always took advantage of the fact that emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty was playing games. Mingwuzong upset him, quickly waved him away, said: "I use you for what? Don't disturb me Since then, Liu Jin has been dictatorial and no longer reports to Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty.
defend those who belong to one 's own faction and attack those who don 't
In March of the second year of Zhengde (1507), Liu Jin summoned all the officials to kneel down to the south of Jinshui bridge, and then announced the list of traitors. Ministers include Liu Jian and Xie Qian; Shangshu includes Han Wen, Yang ShouSui, Zhang Puhua and Lin Han; subordinate officials include Li Mengyang, a doctor, who is in charge of Wang Shouren, Wang Lun, sun pan and Huang Zhao; CI officials include Liu Rui, who is in charge of self-criticism; Yan officials include Tang Lijing, Chen Ting, Xu ang, Tao Xie, Liu Ying, AI Hong, Lu Fu, Ren Hui, Li Guanghan, Dai MI, Xu Fan, Mu Xiang, Xu Xian and Ren Xian Liang Bi, Ge song, Zhao Shixian, censor Chen Lin, Gong Anfu, Shi Liangzuo, Cao min, Wang Hong, Ren Nuo, Li Xi, Wang Fan, Ge Hao, Lu Kun, Zhang Mingfeng, Xiao Qianyuan, Yao Xueli, Huang Zhaodao, Jiang Qin, Bo Yanhui, pan boring, Wang Liangchen, Zhao you, he Tianqu, Xu Jue, Yang Zhang, Xiong Zhuo, Zhu tingsheng, Liu Yu, etc. are all known as loyal and upright people at home. He also ordered the officials of the six branches to work in the North Korea in time, and to leave the North Korea at the right time, so that they could not rest, so as to punish them.
Zhu Chenhao, king of Ning, bribes Liu Jin and asks for protection. Liu Jin gave it to him, so that Zhu Chenhao could carry out the rebellion plot. Liu Jin didn't study. Whenever she commented on the Zhangzuo documents, she took them back to her home and discussed with her brother-in-law, sun Cong, the Minister of rites, and Zhang wenmian, Huating's crafty disciple. The words were very vulgar and lengthy. Afterwards, Jiao Fang embellished them, while Li Dongyang only nodded.
Power dominates the world
Liu Jin took advantage of her power and wantonly embezzled. He advised emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty to order all provinces to lose to the capital and embezzle a lot of silver. He openly took bribes, demanded bribes, and engaged in the trade of money and power. Officials from all over the country paid bribes to him when they made pilgrimages to Beijing, which is called "meeting gift". It costs thousands of taels of silver, and some as much as 5000 taels. In order to offer bribes, some people had to borrow money from the rich in Beijing, which was called "Beijing debt" at that time. All officials who are promoted to their posts and return to Beijing to report on their work must be given gifts. In addition, he sent his cronies to work in local areas to collect money for him.
At that time, a prisoner drowned and sentenced censor Kuang Yi. He once asked Wu Yan for bribes, but he couldn't get them. He also listened to Liu Yu's slander and hated Yang Nanjin, the imperial censor of Duyu. He took advantage of the opportunity to examine the foreign officials to slander them and remove them from their posts. Yang Bin, the chieftain of Bozhou, was appointed as Sichuan's envoy, and his husband was appointed as the governor of Shandong Xuezheng. Since the Duke, honorary officials, and relatives, they dare not compete with him. Every time they meet Liu Jin in private, they kneel down one after another. The chapter played by the subjects was first presented to Liu Jin with a red poster, which was called the red version, and then the Secretary for communications, which was called the white version. Zhangzuo called him eunuch Liu, but did not name him. Liu Jin's name was mistakenly written in the duchayuan's prison case. Liu Jin angrily scolded them. Tu Zhen, the imperial censor, led his subordinates to kneel down and apologize. That's all. He sent envoys to inspect the frontier warehouses. They were all censors Zhou Nan, Zhang Nai, Ma Zhongxi, Tang Quan and Liu Xian. The following officials, sun Lu, Mao Zheng, Fang Ju, Hua Fu, Jin Xianmin, Liu Xun, Guo Xu and Zhang Yi, as well as Doctor Liu Yi and Wang Hong, were arrested for the new crimes and the old crimes together. They were punished for the border food. Liu Xian died in prison
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