After Yuan Shikai trampled on the will of the people and established himself as the Hongxian Emperor, in addition to facing the rising and falling tide of opposition throughout the country, he also had a headache, that is, as an imperial family with a large population, who would serve him?
This problem was not difficult for the ancient emperors to solve, and it was enough to recruit a group of eunuchs. However, the people of the time had already undergone the baptism of democracy and republicanism, and they deeply resented this inhumane behavior of eunuchs, and Yuan Shikai also decided to abolish it. However, if you recruit strong men, you are worried that the spring color of the courtyard will not be able to stop it, and you will do something bad to customs and customs.
Later, Yuan Shikai suddenly remembered that during the Zhou Dynasty, Tianzi used the etiquette of female officials, slapped his head, and decided to restore the female official system and recruit young and strong female officials into the palace to deal with trivial matters. However, female officials are not so easy to recruit, they must have a certain amount of knowledge, know how to advance and retreat in etiquette, and cannot be pampered and habitual, and they must be women.
After consultation with Liu Shipei, the charter for recruiting female officials was formally established, and there were about eight articles:
1. Must be innocent and pure in character;
2. Be over 14 years old and under 25 years old;
Third, slightly posture and sound physique, no other dark diseases;
(4) Daughters who have not left the house or have not been employed;
(e) or widowhood or non-childbearing;
Sixth, smokeless alcohol gambling hobbies.
In addition to being young and beautiful, unmarried or husbandless, with reference to Yuan Shikai's conditions for recruiting female officials, it is not difficult for us to see that Yuan Shikai's recruitment of female officials is a careful consideration. But who would be a good woman who is truly innocent and of good character to be a substitute concubine of a false emperor? Therefore, those who came to apply for female officials generally had the idea of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix and marrying into the royal family.
Yuan Shikai thought carefully, how could he hide from those aunts and wives around him? Yuan Shikai was born with a good temperament, and there were so many young and beautiful female officials around him, how could he be at peace? So they vigorously opposed, hoping to sabotage the recruitment, but Yuan Shikai was determined and unmoved.
However, at that time, Yuan Shikai was busy preparing for imperial affairs, and it can be said that he was diligent and diligent at night, and he did not have time or elaborate to eat the nest grass, so his aunts and wives were still more at ease. Later, with the abolition of the imperial system, Yuan Shikai fell ill and died, and these female officials were also sent out of the palace and disappeared with the historical storms.