The ministers of the court trembled when they saw it! Why were the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty so te

Because the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty not only held the ruling power of the East and West Factory, scouted all kinds of intelligence, acted as the emperor's thugs, and cracked down on the civil official group, they could even take the court away without reporting to the emperor.

Because the playful emperor gave them almost all the power, and even had the real power of life and death over **, so it was so terrifying.

Because the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty held the power of the imperial court, the eunuch dictatorship can be said to be quite serious, and they can even decide the power of life and death.

The key to this question is to understand the ruling system of the Ming Dynasty, what forces the eunuchs and civil officials represented, and who is behind them.

The Ming Dynasty was the most serious dynasty in history when eunuchs interfered in politics, and there were many well-known eunuchs from the Ming Dynasty such as Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, and the East Factory and West Factory controlled by the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty were also notorious spy agencies. But if you compare carefully, you can find that in history, the eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty controlled the same power, but with the eunuchs of the late Han Dynasty or the end of the Tang Dynasty who could depose the emperor and regard the emperor as their protégé, although the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were high and powerful, they were easily beaten to the dust, whether it was the emperor Liu Jin or the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian, once they lost the trust of the emperor, then there was no resistance.

The power of eunuchs was attached to imperial power, and to some extent, they were an extension of imperial power, especially in the Ming Dynasty. The struggle between the court in the Ming Dynasty was basically a power struggle between the imperial power and the civil officials and doctors. In the Ming Dynasty, many times, the group of civil officials and doctors was working hard to overthrow the emperor, so in the Ming Dynasty, there were often cases where the emperor did not go to court for more than ten years.

Naturally, a single civil official cannot do anything to the emperor, but if all civil officials are united, the entire court can be paralyzed. The dispute between Emperor Jiajing's great rites is actually a power struggle between the imperial power and the scholar group, and the key to the dispute between the two sides is actually who speaks.

But the emperor naturally didn't want to be set aside by the civil officials like this, so the emperor of the Ming Dynasty used the so-called factory guards to restrict the civil official group, that is, the famous East Factory and Jinyi Wei, and the East Factory was controlled by the Tai. Therefore, eunuchs are equivalent to the tools used by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to deal with the civil official group, so once they leave the emperor's support, the eunuchs will immediately fall into the dust.

But it is not entirely correct to say that the eunuchs are supporting the Ming Dynasty and the civil officials are digging the foot of the wall. From the standpoint of maintaining imperial power, this is true, but it is not so simple. After all, the Ming Dynasty and the emperor's imperial power are not completely equated, the notoriety of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty is not only the civil official group in hacking them, but the scholar group represented by the civil officials, because they have the privilege of not paying taxes, so they have become the vampire of the Ming Dynasty This is really good, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is digging the foot of the wall, but it is not that no one among the civil officials recognizes this problem, and tries to change it, such as the famous reformer Zhang Juzheng is one of the representatives.

Therefore, no matter what, you can't overturn a boatload of people with a single shot, and neither civil officials nor eunuchs can generalize.

Because at that time, the emperor listened to the opinions of the eunuchs, and it was the eunuchs who presided over the overall situation, and many civil officials used one of their own powers to dig into the wall, wanting to let their power slowly expand.

Because in the late Ming Dynasty, basically eunuchs had a lot of power. The other civil officials were particularly afraid of these eunuchs. The emperor was still weak.

Because the role of eunuchs was pivotal in the Ming Dynasty, the existence of eunuchs made the Ming Dynasty exist for so long.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty established an unprecedented factory guard system, all the eunuchs were only for the emperor to serve, only obeyed the emperor's orders, but the civil officials were very greedy, all the benefits in their own pockets.