A Survival Guide to the Qing Harem

Chapter 24 Unspoken rules have never disappeared (2)
But this personal maid was alone after all, and the rest of the maids and eunuchs were newly assigned after entering the palace. Some of them may be young people who have just entered the palace, and some may have worked for several years. experienced.The important thing is that you are not familiar with them. They serve you obediently out of work needs, but you cannot see whether their hearts are really loyal to you.You can see that in many palace fighting incidents, the concubine was betrayed or killed, wasn't it all because the people around her were bought by the opponent?

what to do?Of course you have to find a way to capture their hearts.The simplest and crudest way is to use your courage to kill and make an example of others, so that everyone will be loyal to you because they are afraid of you.However, there must be resistance under high pressure. People may obey you on the surface, but they may not necessarily obey you on the inside.If you suffer a little more grievance, you may be "comforted" by other people and become a hidden danger buried around you.

For these people who serve you every day, in fact, the best way is to convince them with virtue.Servants have the least status in the palace, and they are also the most pitiful group. If you can treat them as human beings and treat them better, you will win over them emotionally first.There are some rewards on weekdays, small favors and small favors can be regarded as caring for servants, and they will naturally be loyal to you.

Of course, in the intriguing harem, nothing can be taken lightly, and proper precautions should be taken.

The second category is the people who give you the pulse and prescribe medicine, that is, those doctors in the Tai Hospital.Since ancient times, in the harem murder case, there are very few people who can break away from the imperial physician. After all, they are "capable people" who can control people's life and death. They can heal people, and of course they can kill people invisible.

Mastering this type of person does not mean that you will deliberately murder someone, but it is very necessary to have a relationship in the hospital. First, the doctor can treat you with more dedication; second, they can also help you identify whether there is someone want to murder you.Especially during pregnancy, the role of imperial physicians is even more important. There will always be people who worry that the fetus in your womb will endanger their status, and there will always be people who don't want you to give birth smoothly and become prosperous.They may use various means to hurt you, making you hard to guard against.For example, it is often shown on TV, and you put some chronic poison in your tonic.

Although the imperial physicians have a very strict process for seeing the doctor and prescribing medicines for the emperor and concubines, and all illnesses and prescriptions are recorded one by one. After the people in the hospital and the eunuchs have tasted one portion, the other can be delivered to the emperor or concubine.But no matter how strict the rules are, there will be loopholes. As long as you bribe two people at the same time, you can change your medicine without anyone noticing, and you can even more unknowingly turn the medicine dregs into normal ones for filing.

In the palace, illegal methods can be described as various, but using medicine to harm people is the most simple and direct but also the easiest to hide.But not everyone knows some medical science and medical skills. If there is a reliable and medical-savvy person by your side, things will go much smoother.Therefore, it is very necessary to buy a doctor.

But this type of person is different from your valet.As the imperial hospitals in the Qing Dynasty grew stronger day by day, and the working hours and systems became increasingly strict, it would take some time if you wanted to bribe one of them.Why do you say that?
Let’s take a look at the shift system of Tai Hospital first.When no concubine is pregnant in the palace, and no one is seriously ill, the envoys and judges usually lead their medical officers to be on duty in groups according to their respective departments. The order is subject to change at any time. Ting is called "Shi Zhi".These are divided into "palace value", that is, the personnel on duty in the palace; and "six values", that is, the personnel on duty in the outer court.While waiting for the summons, for the concubine and above masters, regular physical examinations are also required. Of course, the inspectors are not fixed. The purpose is twofold: first, to ensure a comprehensive health check and monitoring of the masters ; Second, to prevent the fixed imperial physician (man) from contacting the concubine for a long time, and put a green hat on the emperor.

Of course, this is just the usual rotation system. If any master feels unwell, he can send someone to invite the imperial physician to diagnose and treat him at any time.Please, you can only invite imperial physicians who are on palace duty.

According to these systems, if you want to buy an imperial physician, you must first get a concubine, so that with regular medical check-ups, you can judge which imperial physician has a better understanding with you and is more suitable to be cultivated as a "best friend" .Then when you have selected your target, first of all, don't rush to start, you should send trusted people around you to inquire about all the circumstances of this imperial physician, the so-called knowing yourself and the enemy.

Then, you can find time to feign illness.Find out the date when the imperial physician is on duty, and you tell the imperial physician that you are not feeling well.

You may be scared.This is obviously not sick, so it's okay to pretend to be a layman, but when the imperial doctor comes, won't he reveal his secrets?You don't have to worry about this issue.Although imperial physicians can be regarded as civil servants in the palace, after all, you are the master and he is the slave. If the master says he is sick, the slave will not dare to refute.Anyway, if you want to talk about dizziness and flusteredness, it’s not a serious illness. Even if the imperial doctor thinks you’re not sick after the diagnosis, he still has to prescribe a prescription for you.

Maybe you are still worried: "Then if I always complain about being sick and summon the imperial physician, will people be suspicious?" You don't have to worry about this.Looking around, which of these concubines in the harem is not pampered, eating is the best, exercising is the least, and things that make people uncomfortable due to overnutrition happen every day, so they can summon them openly, without being timid Trembling.

But for these imperial doctors, it is not something you can handle with a little soft policy.Although they are often scolded by their masters and have no dignity at all, they are not the people around you after all, and they have the opportunity to come into contact with the masters of the palaces. A little "emotional card" may not be able to impress them.If you want to give, you still have to give something real.This valuable thing naturally needs to be rewarded, and it is necessary to pick up those valuables with no obvious target to reward.You said that if you reward someone with a few bolts of precious satin and bring them home to please your wife, they must dare to take them from you in a fair manner.

In addition to rewarding, grasping the other party's weakness is also a good way to let a person do things for oneself. Although it seems a bit low-key, it is also a helpless way. In the world of intrigues, you can only survive if you are ruthless.However, you have a weakness in your hand, and you must know how to use it. If you press every step of the way, it is likely to force the opponent to jump over the wall.The combination of kindness and strength is the classic trick to control people.

The third type of people, who are also the third type of people in the palace, are the eunuchs.In this harem, although there are many eunuchs with the same characteristics, they are also divided into ranks.Needless to say, there are those who serve you by your side, there are also those who run imperial errands and those who take care of various affairs in the palace. Younger concubines are stronger, so bribing one or two famous father-in-laws is beneficial and harmless to you.As for why we should pay attention to this type of people, we will talk about it in detail next.

Don't "see people as inferior with dogs' eyes", they are the ones who can speak | The particularity of eunuchs

Remember the story of "pointing at a deer as a horse"?
The old eunuch Zhao Gao assisted Qin II in governing the country, but he only thought about how to deceive the emperor and take power by himself.But everything was as he wanted, Hu Hai obeyed him, in order to prove the mystery of the royal family, he hid in the huge palace all day long and spent his days drinking and refusing to see the courtiers, so he threw the whole country to Zhao Gao, who has not read many books and has a big heart. Narrow and extreme eunuchs to take care of.In order to prove to Hu Hai that the emperor has the final say on everything and is a high-ranking person, he deliberately put on a good show.

Zhao Gao ordered a deer to be placed in the palace, and then asked the courtiers to tell His Majesty what kind of animal it was.At this time, Zhao Gao covered the sky with one hand, everyone looked at his face and acted, and dared not speak nonsense.At this time, a cannon fodder stood up and said, this is a deer.Zhao Gao immediately screamed, "How could this be a deer? It's obviously a horse!"

For a moment, the entire hall was a little stunned, even the expression on Hu Hai's face couldn't hold back, he tried his best to hold back his laughter, and whispered to Zhao Gao, "How can you talk nonsense?"

Zhao Gao ignored it and looked at the ministers silently. After a few minutes, everyone replied in unison, this is a horse.While Hu Hai was shocked, he also felt unprecedented satisfaction. It turned out that everyone was so surrendered to him, so he was more at ease in abandoning the government and enjoying himself.

It is absurd to refer to a deer as a horse, and Hu Hai is also a fool, but in fact, what I want to talk about is Zhao Gao's problem.So many years ago, as a special group of people serving in the palace, they had already put the cart before the horse to rule the world and harm the country and the people.However, in later dynasties, the kings may have realized the danger of such people, but had to continue to use such people.Because in the harem, such people are indispensable.The harem is the emperor's home, and the emperor is the lord of the world. How can others be allowed to sleep soundly in the "back garden" of the lord of the world?There can only be one and only man, the emperor, in the harem!
Think about it, if the eunuch is not an eunuch but a normal man, then the emperor has three thousand beauties in the harem, how many are free, and how many are lonely in the deep palace. He crushed to death!

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