明成祖以前,明朝的宦官没有权力。太祖‘鉴前代之失’,对宦官有很多限制,如规定‘内臣不得干预政事’;‘不许读书识字’;‘不得兼外臣文武衔’,‘不得御外臣冠服’;‘官无过四品’等。建文帝嗣位后,‘御内臣益严’。明朝宦官有权则开始在成祖时。这是由于‘靖难’之时,曾有很多宦官‘逃入其军,漏朝廷虚实’,对‘靖难’成功有很大帮助,因此成祖即位后,对宦官‘多所委任’。但宦官‘犯法辄置极典’。宦官有权,但不敢擅权。到英宗时,既有宦官‘势成积重’,擅权至‘跋扈不可制’。随着宦官权力的扩大,宦官对明朝的影响也越来越大,其最著者当推王振、魏忠贤和郑和。 Before Ming Chengzu, Ming officials had no power. Taizu’s “Kai’s Lost Generation” has many restrictions on eunuchs, such as the requirement that “chief ministers should not intervene in political affairs”; “not allowed to read and read”; “no foreign ministers should be able to martial arts titles”, and “no foreign ministers can be crowned”; Officials have no four products’ and so on. After Jian Wendi took the throne, “Yoshii Yoshikazu was very strict.” The rights of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty began when they became ancestors. This was due to the fact that at the time of ‘Jing’, many eunuchs had ‘escaped into their army and left the court’s reality’, which was of great help to the success of ’Jing’’. Therefore, after the imminent ancestors were ascended to the throne, they ‘took more appointments’ to eunuchs. However, the eunuchs ‘have violated the law to set a pole code’. The eunuchs have the right but do not dare to use their rights. At the time of Yingzong, both eunuchs ‘possessed to build up’ and ’sacrifice to ‘not to control’. With the expansion of eunuch powers, the influence of eunuchs on the Ming dynasty has also grown. The most important eunuchs are Wang Zhen, Wei Zhongxian, and Zheng He.