Li Lianying, Han nationality, was born in 1848, formerly known as Li Jinxi. She became a eunuch in the fifth year of Xianfeng and entered the palace the following year. In the sixth year of Tongzhi's reign, he was granted the title of Second General Manager. Empress Dowager Cixi gave her the name Lianying, which is commonly known as Lianying. The chief eunuch during the Cixi period of the Qing Dynasty, he accompanied the Empress Dowager Cixi for nearly fifty-three years. He was the most powerful eunuch in the late Qing Dynasty and the first person to call the Empress Dowager "Lafayette".
Li Lianying had no money and no connections. According to legend, she won the favor of the Empress Dowager Cixi by combing her hair with one hand, and then she became a celebrity in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Although Li Lianying has a bad reputation, he is different from Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty who brought disaster to the country and the people, killed princes, and harmed loyal ministers. Li Lianying was a cautious person. He treated Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi on both sides. Even the little eunuchs in the palace, concubines and concubines who made mistakes, he would always protect and cover up in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Therefore, Li Lianying was very popular in the palace. In Li Lianying's epitaph , someone once summed up the secret of his survival in the palace for decades: "Be respectful in everything you do, and be lenient in everything you do below. If you go on like this for many years, you will never slack off."
As Empress Dowager Cixi, Li Lianying A "loyal dog" under the family, he has a special hobby, that is - money. In order to be greedy for money, Li Lianying made friends with locals, opened connections for others, accepted bribes, and cut costs and embezzled money. Li Lianying had indeed done all these dirty things, but he had never done any major evil things such as "betraying the country".
Li Lianying was neither greedy nor greedy. He once wrote a letter to a merchant (Master Wang Qi) who provided goods to the palace to borrow money. In fact, he was asking for kickbacks. This letter became the only thing Li Lianying left behind. calligraphy works in the world.
The editor asked a calligrapher friend for advice. The friend first shook his head and then nodded at Li Lianying’s calligraphy. He told the editor that Li Lianying’s calligraphy on this letter was both good and bad. Not without merit. In addition to her good handwriting of her own name, Li Lianying also wrote seven other characters with great skill - one thousand five hundred taels of silver notes.
The number of bank notes and the amount of silver demanded is written much better than other words. It can be seen that Li Lianying must have written too many such words behind his back. It is conceivable that he was extorting and embezzling. The means are truly astonishing.
Li Lianying was very tactful and knew how to get things done. When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, Emperor Guangxu, Empress Dowager Cixi and Li Lianying fled together. Emperor Guangxu had no bedding and was too cold to sleep at night. Li Lianying learned that Seeing the situation, I couldn't help but hug the sad Emperor Guangxu's thigh, cry with heartache, and said: The crime deserves death! He took his own bedding and let Guangxu use it. When Guangxu later recalled this period of history, he once said: "Without Li Anda, I would not be alive today."
After the death of Empress Dowager Cixi, she It was more than 200 miles from the capital to the Tomb of the Qing Dynasty in Malanyu, Zunhua. At that time, Li Lianying was already in her 60s, frail and suffering from many diseases. He was the only one who accompanied Cixi hobblingly. The Queen Mother's coffin went all the way to the old eunuch in Malanyu.
After Cixi's death, Li Lianying observed mourning for 100 days and left the palace, preparing to return to the courtyard in Mianmian Hutong for retirement. However, on March 4, 1911, the 64-year-old Li Lianying died of a sudden illness. Some people said that he died of a sudden illness. Dysentery, some people said that he was killed by his enemies. In 1966, Li Lianying's tomb was opened. A teacher who opened the tomb at that time found that in Li Lianying's coffin, there was only Li Lianying's head and a braid, but his body was not in the coffin. Body, Li Lianying's head was once kicked as a ball by local students, and finally kicked into the cesspool by a daredevil. A teacher at the school named Zhao felt that a dead person could not be treated like this, so he He fished out the head with a manure scoop, and then found a deserted hillside and buried it hastily!
Li Lianying has been greedy for money all her life, but she has the life to make money, but not the life to spend it. This is really a great irony.
Some people may ask, how could Cixi tolerate such an arrogant eunuch? With Cixi's shrewdness and sophistication, it was impossible for her not to know that some of the eunuchs around her were misbehaving, but as long as they did not interfere in political affairs and served her comfortably, the eunuchs' greed for money was nothing to her.
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