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Chapter 82 The Inhuman Moment 1
The whole process of eunuch's "transformation" revealed
The "eunuch" culture has always attracted people's attention, how this special group of people went from men to eunuchs, and what kind of physical and mental torture they experienced during the period.Compared with adults who go to purify themselves as eunuchs, it is even more tragic for those five or six-year-old, or even infancy, boys who have no sense of resistance to be purged.

According to the notes of the Qing Dynasty "Chenyuan Miscellaneous Knowledge", anyone who is willing to enter the palace as a eunuch must be recommended by a high-ranking eunuch, and a marriage contract must be signed, which means that he will marry himself into the palace as a woman. , you will never leave the palace.

There is also a clause in this marriage letter that there must be no complaints between life and death, and all the consequences will be borne by oneself, which is equivalent to signing a life and death document, indicating that it is a voluntary cleansing, and that life or death will not be pursued in the future, so as to avoid trouble and lawsuits in the future .The eunuchs who entered the palace as eunuchs were all children from poor families, so the 10 taels of silver needed for the purification was naturally unaffordable.Therefore, they have to sign a contract, and wait until the child is well-off in the palace, and then repay the loan on a monthly basis until the money is paid off, which is equivalent to today's mortgage payment.

It takes few months to repay the money, but the interest is very high. If you are a bad eunuch, you will probably repay the debt for life.In addition to paying this debt in advance, there are two other things that must be brought with you. One is a gift for the knife maker, usually some meat or a bottle of water and wine, and the other is the items used during the operation, including 30 A few catties of rice, a few baskets of corn cobs, a few loads of sesame straw and half a knife of window paper.

Thirty catties of rice are the rations for the next month, and the rest are used to keep warm. After castration, they are afraid of getting wind and cold, so they have to prepare these things. Corn cobs can be used as firewood to heat the kang, and the windows The paper is used to paste the windows, and the ashes of the sesame straw are used to pad the kang.In addition to preparing these, the knife maker should prepare two fresh pig gall, smelly cannabis soup and straw.

Pig gall and stinky cannabis soup can relieve the pain of the operation, and the role of the straw is to help urinate.When everything is ready, it is necessary to choose a day with consistent weather, and let the person clean up the feces first, because it is best to try one month after the cleansing, for fear that the excrement will infect the wound and cause death.

Before the operation, there must be a dialogue before proceeding to the next step. When the person being operated is blindfolded, takes off his clothes, and lies on his back on the bed in a half-lying position, his hands and feet are like a "big" character. After the binding is firm, someone will use white cloth to tie and fix the lower abdomen and the upper part of the double thigh of the patient with white cloth.

The man who performed the operation asked, "Did you do it voluntarily and never regret it?"

The operated person replied: "Yes."

The person who performed the operation asked: "Is it okay to cut off children and grandchildren?"

The operated person replied: "Yes."

Only in this way can castration be performed. The castrated person cannot drink water or eat for three days after the operation, so as to reduce excretion and prevent wound inflammation.People often die during this period due to unbearable thirst and pain.Those who have survived these three days also need to recuperate for about a hundred days to recover.

Once those younger children are sent to the palace as eunuchs by their parents, they will be taken care of by a special nanny. They will use a special technique to gently rub the baby's small testicles three times a day, and As the baby grows, the intensity is gradually increased, and his reproductive function is slowly destroyed in this way, so that the child's genitals will gradually shrink. Sharp, swaying when walking.

A eunuch was born in this way.And those cut penises are called "treasures".Usually the knifesmith will hide this thing and will not give it to the person who is being purified.Then after some processing, put these "treasures" into jars, then wrap them with red cloth, and place them in a high place in the room, which means "high rise."

After those eunuchs are prosperous, they will be redeemed with silver money, so that the knife maker can earn two sums of money from one person.And those eunuchs who redeemed their own "treasures" also regarded this process very solemnly, as happy as marrying a daughter-in-law, and the eunuchs called it "returning the flesh and blood to the family".

After the death of the eunuch, this "treasure" will be buried together with the eunuch, which means that although he was not a complete person before his death, he can still be buried in the earth intact after death, and he can still be a man after rebirth in the next life.From this point of view, castration has to experience both physical and mental torture, but judging from the past dynasties, there are not a few people who voluntarily enter the palace as eunuchs.

Some poor families, because they couldn't afford the operation fee of a few taels of silver, simply used a knife to perform their own palace. This operation is extremely risky, and it means a one-shot transaction.If you are lucky, the castration is successful, and you can get the love of those concubines in the harem, then you have won the bet. Not only can you win the rest of your life, but one day you may be able to control the power and call the wind and rain.

However, there were also some people who were still unable to enter the palace after castration. Most of these people ended up miserable and lost the ability to work.

In ancient times, the death rate of castration surgery was quite high.During the Tianshun period of the Ming Dynasty, Ruan Rang, the eunuch guarding Huguang and Guizhou, selected [-] captured Miao children at one time, castrated them, and prepared to send them to the court.As a result, [-] young children died of pain and illness.Later, Ruan Rang bought another group of young children. A total of [-] children were castrated, and the death rate was close to [-]%.Such a concentrated and large number of deaths is obviously related to the failure of the castration operation or the complications after the operation.

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