Ep. 267 | Eunuchs in Chinese History (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
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Emperor Juan - The Last Emperor of China
The instability and distress at the an court was presided over by liangji until the death of the young emperor gir at the ripe old age of eight. After the usual painful shake out period, a new emperor was chosen, and this was han juan di. Emperor shun invited the lang family into the ruling equation, and live to regret that the langs were the family of emperor schuns empress here. By shund eunuchs were already starting to consolidate some of their new found gains, like the one in one 35 that allowed them to adopt children whom they could one day place in positions of power and act as their proxies.
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