Many ancient civilizations in the world, including China, Egypt, ancient Rome, Greece, Persia, etc., have eunuchs at any time, and their appearance time is very close.
In the pyramids of Egypt, the time when Egyptian eunuchs appeared was found. When Tuthmus III came to power in BC 1424, about 3,500 years ago, when Egypt was at war with other countries, they would cut off the lifeblood of prisoners and send them to the palace to be slaves.
These slaves do some work in the palace, such as watering flowers, hoeing the ground, making tea and pouring water. Later, they slowly began to find some people from China to castrate and send them to the palace. At that time, Egyptian palaces, like China, also had many harem beauties, all of whom sought eunuchs to prevent accidents.
The difference between Egypt and China is that eunuchs are monks! Later, there was a growing demand for eunuchs. In addition to prisoners, monks also went to the market to select some boys aged six to ten for surgery. Then they were sent to the palace for various trainings. After training, he began to serve the harem concubines.
Later, the Egyptian court minister said that these people were? The best slave by the bed. Because they won't do anything ridiculous with harem concubines. So why did eunuchs appear in Egypt during Thutmose III?
It turned out that Thutmose was sent to the front by his mother at a very young age in order to prepare for the future rule of the country. Later, after he took office, in order to encourage the army to fight bravely, a reward system was implemented. At the beginning, let the soldiers cut off their hands after killing the enemy and reward them according to the number.
Later, it was found that the hands were of different sizes, and it was suspected that soldiers killed women and children and claimed military merits. So the rule no longer needs the enemy's hand, and it is changed to the lifeblood. And it is also a group of 20 tablets, sprinkled with lime and put in a box for easy carrying.
Darius, king of Persia, developed this method. Eunuchs can only be owned by the imperial court in China, which is the patent of the emperor's old son. However, during the reign of King Darius of Persia, eunuchs were introduced to the people and named eunuchs.
They choose young and handsome criminals, they must be handsome, and then castrate them and sell them as slaves. And no matter what your status is, you can buy and sell eunuchs as long as you can afford the price. After these eunuchs are bought back, in addition to doing the work that ordinary domestic slaves have to do, if they meet a man who is addicted to brokeback and is good at Longyang, they have to meet his requirements.
Not only that, King Darius also ordered the vassal states conquered by him to pay tribute to him every year. Besides gold, silver and jewels, he also sent 500 beautiful young eunuchs as tribute to the royal family.
After the eunuch spread to Arabia, the king of Arabia refined and upgraded him. They divided eunuchs into two kinds, one is black eunuchs and the other is white eunuchs. Black eunuchs are African. They were assigned to serve the concubines in the harem. Because they are all castrated, these people have no fertility and desire, so there will be no trouble in the harem.
White eunuchs, like Li and Wei Zhongxian, are the attendants of the emperor, but they are not allowed to go to the harem, which is completely different from the black eunuchs in the harem, and they are not allowed to walk around each other. Because these eunuchs from Europe are semi-castrated, they may still have some ability, fearing that something will happen to the harem if they accidentally go off.
In the Roman Empire, there was a crazy custom that was simply incomprehensible. At that time, there was a religious organization in Rome called Cybertron, which held a religious sacrifice ceremony every once in a while to attract more people to join the church.
In the sacrificial ceremony, male believers must dress up as the son of Cybertron. It is said that the immortal son of Cybertron was castrated. Therefore, in order to enter the church, these male believers will cut off their lifeblood with a stone knife (note that it is not a metal knife) at the scene of the sacrifice meeting, in an extremely happy atmosphere and in the cheers of people.
After cutting, after stopping bleeding and taking a short rest, accompanied by a group of people beating gongs and drums, these people will parade in the street with their dicks in their hands, and when they go to a certain place, they will throw their dicks into the yard of a family.
The family will be very happy to know. They will thank the thrower very sincerely, protect his penis after treatment and hang it in the highest place in the house. Then prepare a brand-new women's dress for him and treat him as? Adopted daughter? , and settled here from now on.
In Diocletian's time in eastern Rome, he used eunuchs extensively, and then eunuchs got a resounding name eunuch. Diocletian divided all the officials into eighteen grades, from one to eight grades were eunuchs, ranking ahead of civil and military officials. East Rome at that time was a paradise for eunuchs. Generally speaking, poor families will risk castration to change their lives.
However, at that time, western medicine was relatively backward, and there was no disinfection and hemostasis technology, so their mortality rate was very high. According to statistics, the death rate in Egypt is as high as 60%, and the death rate in Arabia is over 40%.