清军入关建立封建王朝后,重用汉人,迅速因袭前朝统治者的治国方略,继续推行中央集权制,内廷选用一些明朝的宦官仍旧服务皇家,又从民间招募一些幼童净身后作为补充。不过,清朝的宦官数量远没有明朝庞大,区区数千人,且管制较为严厉,因此清初的宦官没有多大势力,只是到了清末,统治日益腐败,才出现了众所周知的大太监安德海、李连英、崔玉贵、小德张之流。清朝的宦官势力虽然没有发展到像 Following the establishment of the feudal dynasty by the Qing army, the Han people were reused, rapidly following the strategy of running the country by the former rulers and continuing to promote the system of centralized power. The Inner court chose some Ming eunuchs to serve the royal family and recruited some young children from the private sector to serve as a supplement . However, the number of eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty was far from the huge Ming Dynasty, a district of thousands, and more stringent control, so the eunuch did not have much power in the early Qing Dynasty, but in late Qing dynasty, the increasingly corrupt rule emerged before the well-known big eunuch An Dehai, Li Liangying, Cui Yugui, small German Zhang flow. Although the Qing eunuch forces did not develop to like