There is such a scene in the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", it is said that in the second year of Yongzheng, the deputy chief examiner of Enke, Li Fu, who presided over Enke, discovered the phenomenon of selling exam questions in Bolun Building by chance, and when he opened the test papers after the exam, he hit them one by one. Li Fu was stunned, but he had no military power and no power to restrain the chicken, and at the suggestion of the third prince, he came to the mansion of Li Wei, the governor of Jiangsu, who went to Beijing to report on his work.
At this time, Li Wei was scratching his ears and scratching his cheeks to write an excerpt to the emperor, and the soldiers outside the door stopped Li Fu from entering. At this time, Li Fu said unceremoniously: Ci Jinshi was born, and Li Fu, the current cabinet bachelor, wants to meet Master Li Wei. There is a question here: how big is Li Fu's cabinet bachelor, and what exactly does he do?
We know that the Qing Dynasty had a cabinet of scholars, who lived in three halls and three pavilions, for the Baohe Palace, Wenhua Palace, Wuying Palace, Wenyuan Pavilion, Tiren Pavilion, East Pavilion, and the bachelors of the three palaces and three pavilions became the "middle hall", and they were also the nominal prime ministers, and the official residence was a product.
As for the Cabinet Bachelor, compared to the Cabinet Bachelor, there is one big word missing, which is a thousand miles away. The cabinet bachelor is a subordinate official of the cabinet scholars, and there was no fixed establishment until the twelfth year of Kangxi, when six people were positioned and four people were in Han. The rank of the cabinet bachelor is from the second grade, because of the fact that they are often born in Hanlin and the nature of the work, the cabinet bachelor will be added to the rank of squire of the Ministry of Rites according to the custom.
This is somewhat similar to the feudal officials, governors, and governors. The governor and governor are respectively the second rank and the second rank according to their ranks, and the rank of secretary of the military department and the rank of squire of the military department are promoted to one level respectively, becoming the first rank and the second rank.
After the end of the scientific expedition, Yongzheng appointed Li Fu as the governor of Hubei and became a feudal official in order to praise Li Fu's outspokenness. In this way, it is easier to understand, Li Fu was a cabinet bachelor before, and his official rank was from the second rank, and serving as the governor of Hubei was also from the second rank, and the rank of the governor of Hubei and the military department was the second rank.
What's more critical is that from the cabinet bachelor to the governor of Hubei, although the grade has not changed much, he is a full-time feudal official from the Qingshui Yamen, which is a proper promotion and reuse of Li Fu by the court and the emperor. Within a few years after this, Li Fu was promoted to the governor of Zhili, becoming a member of the first rank and the highest status among the governors.
Speaking of cabinet bachelors, what exactly do cabinet scholars do?The answer is to convey the official edict and the recital. The specific division of labor is that when the full bachelor is in charge of the imperial door to listen to the government, he is the emperor's reader, and the Han scholar is in charge of the "inscription", and Li Fu is the Han scholar, that is to say, his main responsibility is to report the documents to the emperor inside and outside. Although the status is respected, it is actually an errand and service job.