Wei Zhongxian (1 568-1627 65438+February1) was born in Suning (now Suning County, Cangzhou, Hebei Province), Han nationality, eunuch in the late Ming Dynasty.

Since entering the palace, he changed his surname to Li Jinzhong, and the gifted scholar Wang resumed his surname. After he became a eunuch, he changed his original surname and was named Wei Zhongxian by the emperor. During the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, he became Li Sibing's pen eunuch, which was very popular and trusted. He claims to be "9,900 years old", rejecting dissidents and ruling the country arbitrarily, so that people "only know loyalty and righteousness, but don't know that there is an emperor."

After Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne, he punished eunuchs, cured Wei Zhongxian's top ten crimes, ordered him arrested, hanged himself, and the rest of his henchmen were purged.

Brief introduction of Ming dynasty:

The Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) was a dynasty in the history of China, which was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang. Nanjing was founded in the early days and moved to Beijing in the Ming Dynasty. It spread to the sixteenth emperor and lasted for 276 years.

In the Ming Dynasty, the territory covered the Han Dynasty, reaching the Sea of Japan and the Outer Xing 'an Mountains in the northeast, and then shrinking to the Liaohe River Basin. North to Yinshan, retreat to the Ming Great Wall; West to Hami, Xinjiang? After retreating to Jiayuguan; Southwest to Myanmar and northern Siam, and then back to today's Yunnan; A detention center was also set up in the Qinghai-Tibet region to recover Annan.

During the Ming Dynasty, the absolute monarchy was strengthened unprecedentedly, and the multi-ethnic country was further unified and consolidated. In the early Ming Dynasty, the abolition of the prime minister and the establishment of the factory-health secret service strengthened the centralization of absolutism, but at the same time it also laid the groundwork for the eunuch dictatorship in the middle and late period. During the Ming Dynasty, the peasants' anti-feudal struggle also entered a new stage.