Why didn t Wei Zhongxian, who held real power, dare not claim the title of emperor himself?

Wei Zhongxian was loyal to the emperor.

The dog is also the main force in the frenzy.

Because Wei Zhongxian knew that if he dared to be the emperor, then he would be attacked by the masses immediately, and he would be spurned by the people of the world.

And Wei Zhongxian also does not have the desire to be the emperor, because Wei Zhongxian himself is a eunuch, he has lost his right as a father, and without descendants, he has no point in doing these things. So he won't go and do this thankless job.

And Wei Zhongxian deeply understood a truth, a eunuch in a position like him was able to reach this height because he was favored by the emperor.

He was just a minion of the emperor, and he could never get past the emperor and become the leader of a country. It is also because of the emperor's favor that he can have his current position, and he can trample those who looked down on him in the past.

Facts have proved that Wei Zhongxian's idea is correct, after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, this emperor was very dissatisfied with Wei Zhongxian.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian quickly lost the power in his hands, and after his death, he could not even have a complete corpse.

Because if he kills the emperor, he will be killed by someone else. He is actually a parasite, he can only parasitize on the host province of the emperor, and when the host dies, he is finished.

Keep the emperor, and he will be able to be powerful and blessed under the emperor's favor. When the emperor dies, he is nothing. In the final analysis, he is just a eunuch, even if the power is leaning towards the government and the opposition, it is also a eunuch with the power of the government and the opposition.

Kill the emperor, to whom does he pass it on?

On the one hand, as a eunuch, he has no one to rely on, so he has no capital to resist. He is a eunuch, and he can't be the emperor himself, even if he is nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years old, and the difference of one year is a world of difference. It's easy to kill Chongzhen, but it's hard to set up another Chongzhen, if he dares to kill the emperor, then the new emperor will either not come, or he will be the first to kill him.

So he didn't dare to go back. On the other hand, Chongzhen was quick enough to not give him time to think fully. He didn't have the time to think fully, and he didn't have the capital to take a risk, so he had to wait for death.

The Ming Dynasty's control over eunuchs was still very strict, and there was no serious phenomenon of eunuch dictatorship like the Tang Dynasty. Although Wei Zhongxian has great power, he still has to rely on the power of the emperor, so as long as the emperor doesn't trust him, he has nothing to do.

For example, he controls Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei is the emperor's personal guard, if the emperor wants Jinyiwei to kill Wei Zhongxian, Jinyiwei will definitely carry it out.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen took advantage of the opportunity that Wei Zhongxian was not too defensive against him when he first came to power, and made full preparations, and Wei Zhongxian's perverse behavior also caused public outrage, so his actions would be very smooth.

It is a fact that he leans towards the government and the opposition, and it is also a fact that he has many members of the party.

But when others scold him, not the person who scolds him, but the person behind him... Emperor.

When others know that he has no backer, this is the only way he ends...

Wei Zhongxian (1568, December 11, 1627), a native of Suning (now Suning County, Cangzhou, Hebei), was a eunuch at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Since the palace, he changed his name to Li Jinzhong, and the surname was restored by the talented Wang family, and after serving as the eunuch of Bingbi, he changed back to his original surname, and the Emperor Orange Chan gave him the name Wei Zhongxian.

During the period of Ming Xizong, he served as the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and was very favored and trusted, known as "9,900 years old", excluding dissidents and arbitrarily ruling the country, so that people "only know that there are loyal and virtuous, but do not know that there is an emperor". After Zhu Youzhen succeeded to the throne, he cracked down on and punished the eunuchs and punished Wei Zhongxian's ten crimes. In November of the seventh year of the Yuancavity Apocalypse (1627), he ordered Jinyiwei to arrest Wei Zhongxian and escort him back to Beiyuan's capital for trial.

Wei Zhongxian knew that he would not escape death, and hanged himself when he arrived in Fucheng, and the rest of the party was also purged.