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The Qing Dynasty's system drew a lot of lessons from the Ming Dynasty. Because it was the minority nationalities that lived in the Central Plains, they did not have such a heavy cultural background, nor did they have too many complicated and trivial rules!
However, the imperial authority still needed to be restrained by etiquette. Thus, after entering the city, there was no time to change the rules one by one. Thus, there would be a gathering that would accept all the courtesies of the Ming Dynasty, including the eunuchs' system!
First pack up and receive, wait for the world to settle down and not fight, then slowly change the adjustment!
In other words, when he had first entered the capital, the eunuchs that were left behind to guard the Forbidden City, the eunuchs that had experienced Chong Zhen and Li Zicheng's master, were still alive!
These people had taught the Manchu how to enjoy being the emperor. They had kept their manners, but at the same time, they had also kept many of the eunuchs' own cultural traditions!
The eunuchs naturally had their own inheritances, and even had their own world view, outlook on life, and values!
One must know that the castrated party was a very powerful political force in the history of China!
In the last years of the Eastern Han and Western Han dynasties, the castrated parties had always been the third faction in the imperial court that could fight against the emperor and his relatives!
In the last years of Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs could control the Emperor's ruin!
In the entire Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs controlled the factories of the East and West, as well as the Embroidered Uniform Guard. It could be said that they caused the citizens of the entire country to go pale!
The eunuchs had come into contact with the heart of rights, they had tasted the sweetness of rights, and not all of them were illiterate.
In fact, many eunuchs in history had a very high level of education!
Knowledge, culture, access to the core of power, and a long history... More importantly, the eunuch himself, as an independent cultural system, did not end his generation!
This was crucial, because during the successive dynasties of the Chinese revolution, there were very few new rulers who could kill the eunuchs of the old rulers!
This was very interesting, because eunuchs were not considered humans. They were just a tool attached to the imperial power. Moreover, this tool really needed time to be trained!
You can't just take over the capital and kill all the old eunuchs and raise a new batch yourself, can you?
How many men do you have to castrate? What's the percentage of people who survive castration? The ones who survived were all newbies, who would train them?
The key point was that he had to enjoy the new emperor. He couldn't wait for a few years for the new eunuch to become capable of serving someone!
Therefore, it was an unwritten custom for the new dynasty to accept the eunuch system of the old dynasty!
It was precisely because of this custom that the secret cultural inheritance system between eunuchs did not end!
The knowledge system that was passed down through word of mouth had been quietly developing!
How can I please His Majesty? How could he observe their expressions? How to teach the little Emperor the posture on the bed curtains? How can you not hurt your body?
How does the diet match up with the master's heart? For thousands of years, how many kinds of outdated and treasured fabric clothing to cut? The use of all sorts of court tools?
The secret to the management of a eunuch's harem? Even including the torture methods passed down from the East and West factories?
Everything needed to be passed on through mouth before it could become a subculture that was both independent from the outside and dependent on the imperial power!
Don't underestimate these unremarkable knowledge inheritances. Why is it that only a single noble was born in the third generation?
Why does Mother Jia know the Soft Mist? Why didn't she recognize Wang Xifeng? There was a devil in the details!
For the rulers of the new empire to be able to become a noble and truly possess the bearing of a noble, they would need these little insights!