>Castrate advisors and servants so they can't start a dynasty and seize power for themselves>They scheme against you and plot to overthrow you anywayWhat was the point?
>>18430013>literally having an army of trannies surrounding youSounds like hell.
>>18430013>believing mandarin propaganda
>>18430158I agree, The Tangerine sources were better
>>18430013>Castrate advisors.Civil Bureaucrats were not castrated, nigger. Voluntary males & purchased slaves were the ones that got snipped.>so they can't start a dynasty and seize power for themselvesNot the point nigger. Male servants of the Imperial Household were castrated so they can't coom into an Imperial princess, get her pregnant, and become an unsanctioned member of the Imperial Family.>plot to overthrow you anywayAmbitious Eunuchs did not overthrow their Emperors, nigger, they asspuppetted them. Having a gullible Emperor is how you get power as a Eunuch, especially when you were their male nannies back when they were princess.
>>18430475>coom into an Imperial princess, get her pregnant, and become an unsanctioned member of the Imperial FamilyThat kinda happened in the 18th century when a Chinese emperor really liked one official and allowed his son to coom into imperial princess. That official ended up abusing his power and royal relation to embezzle equivalent of $270 billion from the state. Even when the next emperor cracked down on it his ties to imperial family meant that he was allowed to commit honorable suicide and his son who was actually fucking the princess got away with his part in it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heshen
>>18430475>Male servants of the Imperial Household were castrated so they can't coom into an Imperial princess, get her pregnant, and become an unsanctioned member of the Imperial Family.That wasnt a problem, just dont acknowledge the childs real father. Motherhood was the only certainty before DNA tests.
>>18430498Chinese Emperors literally keep a record on which of their women they fucked and on when. It was one of the jobs of the Imperial Affairs Office (part of the bureaucracy that records Imperial Household concerns).If a Harem lady gets preggo without the Emperor nor the Record Keepers knowing when the intercourse happened bullshit alarm start ringing in the Imperial Household.
>>18430481Ngl the Manchu had a very different political culture from the Chinese so I don't believe it's fair to just lump them in.
>>18430533Lolno, Concubines are basically just the Emperor's legal sex companions, not actual wives. It's a status afforded to these women so their children are acknowledged as legitimate.However the Emperor could instruct them to have sex with other people for whatever reasons. In the Sima Jin dynasty for example, Emperor Wu of Jin was so disappointed at his young Crown Prince's ineptitude in having sex that he ordered one of his concubines to teach the kid how to fuck a woman.
>>18430541I meant that it's not fair to lump them in into "Chinese emperors" as if they're just another genre of chinaman.I wasn't disputing anything about the status of concubines. I just don't believe you can attribute Manchu shenanigans to Chinese political culture, fully at least.
