He refused to bow and scrape to every customer.
He likes people on their own. The more people bow and scrape in front of him, the more disgusted he is getting.
They bow and scrape like slaves to the foreigners, willing to sell the country for their own selfish ends.
Never flatter from great minds, but little tricks, they try to put their bow and scrape, narrow, in order to ingratiate oneself to the character of life into their core.
To bow and scrape is not necessarily a good thing. Silence is a great person.
The empress expected everyone to bow and scrape to her.