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Officials above Grade 4 in Qing Dynasty have one thing in common. They don't want the emperor to be too diligent. Why?

I've watched many dramas of the Qing Dynasty in recent years, but how unreal and fake they are. Today, it is not easy for the emperors of the Qing Dynasty to get up early every day. How early? Guys, it's not like we get up at six or seven to wash the pace of work. The emperor of the Qing dynasty wanted to go to court, and the time for going to court was usually three or four o'clock. What time do you think the emperor gets up every day?

In fact, ministers are the same. They get up earlier than the emperor. All the officials of the Qing Dynasty lived outside the city, and every day they entered the imperial city from Donghuamen of the Forbidden City and went to court. Of course, not all officials will go, only those who are old enough to go to court every day. For example, a military minister like He Kun must go. Isn't there a joke about Liu Yong and Kun kicking a bridge outside the palace gate? There is also a passage in the cross talk that Liu Yong went out to make up his mind to file a lawsuit for his four or five grooms in their seventies and eighties. I wonder if you have heard this passage.

What we see in film and television works is that a large group of people go to court every day, which is only made up by writers. In Qing Dynasty, only a few talents went to court. It's not like this every day. In the Qing dynasty, college students, military ministers and heads of departments always went to court. In Beijing, four officials are qualified to go to court, and foreign officials don't come to Beijing for nothing. The emperor can come whenever he wants. So in the Qing Dynasty, there were only twenty or thirty people in the imperial court.

Let me say something here. Officials are particular about litigation. What's the point? Let's talk about the court time. I said three or four o'clock above. In order to prevent fire, ministers can't light lamps on the road. You know, it was already dark at that time, and officials went to the imperial city by feeling dark. Some people fell into the ditch because they couldn't see the road clearly.

Another official went to court and wanted to kneel on the ground and tell the emperor something. Sometimes it takes a long time to kneel, what's more, there are people waiting outside, and this kneeling is also fatal. Therefore, many senior officials in the Qing Dynasty had a cushion on their knees when they went to court. It is estimated that many men and women who have knelt on the washboard will know this trick.

One more thing, you can't eat before court. Who doesn't feel bad about getting up early and not eating? Why don't you eat? Officials were afraid that if the court ate too much, it would be terrible to go to the toilet or something. In that feudal society, such a thing would be taken into account, which is unseemly. Maybe you will lose your life. I can only eat at home.

According to the records of the Qing Dynasty, several emperors were diligent in going to court, such as Kangxi, Qianlong and Yongzheng, who did fairly well and went to court frequently. Therefore, it is cruel to meet such an emperor as an official. Kneel every three to five days. It doesn't matter if something big happens, but it will suffer. So I said, the bigger the official, the less I want the emperor to be diligent.

Let me tell you a little story. When we are young, we can have lice. If it doesn't mean you haven't been to the countryside. Anyway, when I was a child, I was in the soil all day, and it was common to play in the water without paying much attention to hygiene. It is said that this official in the Qing Dynasty had no lice. Why? Because in the Qing dynasty, when you go to court, you have to take one step, that is, shine the soles of your boots and shake them three times at a time. You can think about that posture. Are all the lice shaking? Ha ha. This is a small joke in a cross talk to share with you.