The second grade is in charge of the political envoy and the third grade is in charge of the inspector
In the Qing Dynasty, the political envoys and the envoys were known as "officials", and in the administrative hierarchy, the status of the second division was second only to the governor and higher than the provincial government.
New copywriting: Although the political envoy and the envoy are both officials, they are different in power and status, the former is the second rank, and the latter is the third rank. The relationship between them was complex and delicate, and the two divisions were founded by Zhu Yuanzhang to balance local forces and take charge of civil affairs, criminal prisons and other affairs.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the three divisions together constituted the supreme leadership body, but in the course of time, they found that they often could not coordinate with each other, and often passed the buck in order to shirk their responsibilities, so they introduced governors.
During the Ming Dynasty, the status of the governor and the political envoy was different, and the governor was a Beijing official, and his status was higher than that of the political envoy. In the Qing Dynasty, the position of the governor was more important, equivalent to the secretary of the provincial party committee and governor, the political envoy was the executive vice governor, and the envoy was the secretary of the provincial political and legal committee.
Although they are not subordinate and subordinate relations, and the status gap is not very obvious, the fact that the cloth and the second division are listed as "second divisions" can roughly explain the parallel relationship between the two.
In the Qing Dynasty, the status and power of the political envoy was higher than that of the envoy. The envoy is in charge of important matters such as administration, finance, and personnel of a province, while the envoy is mainly responsible for criminal and post affairs.
In addition, the political envoy also has the power of secret folding, which can report directly to the emperor, while the envoy does not. This shows that the imperial court attaches more importance to the political envoys. In addition, there were also strict regulations on the promotion of local ** in the Qing Dynasty, and only those who met the regulations could be promoted.
In the promotion process of local **, the position of governor is usually occupied by high-ranking ** such as political envoys, cabinet scholars, left deputy imperial envoys, and government ministers. As for the position of political envoy, it is usually not sent from the capital, but is promoted by the envoy.
This means that in order to become the top ** in the local government, the envoy must first go through the position of political envoy. If the rank of the envoy and the envoy in some provinces is not too different, and both work under the leadership of the governor, then the favoritism of the governor may have an impact on their status.
For example, Wang Youling, who was in the seventh year of Xianfeng, was arrogant towards Xu Youren, who was also the first in Jiangsu, because he was supported by He Guiqing, the governor of Liangjiang, and stole the limelight everywhere.
After a long period of depression, Xu Youren finally couldn't bear his anger at Wang Youling, and he meddled in money and food affairs with a piece of paper. In order to solve the contradictions between the local officials, the imperial court ordered He Guiqing to be questioned.
Although He Guiqing protected Wang Youling, he also realized that the contradiction between the two was too deep. In the end, He Guiqing's promotion made Wang Youling promoted to the political envoy of Zhejiang, and soon transferred to the governor of Zhejiang.
Although Xu Youren was angry about this, the fact that the official university crushed people to death made him have to keep this account in his heart. However, evil is rewarded. After the Taiping army broke the Jiangnan camp for the second time, He Guiqing abandoned the city and fled, all the way to Suzhou.
At that time, Xu Youren had been promoted to the governor of Jiangsu, and he refused He Guiqing to enter Suzhou City for the crime of "abandoning the city". However, due to the death of Emperor Xianfeng, the imperial court did not have time to deal with He Guiqing.
In the end, after Cixi lowered the curtain and listened to the government, He Guiqing was sentenced to death, becoming the first feudal official to be beheaded after Cixi took power. Although there are many similar cases, they all show that the Qing Dynasty's political envoys and envoys were only different in rank and division of labor, and they belonged to a parallel rather than subordinate relationship.
In the Qing Dynasty's bureaucracy, there was a clear fact that no envoy had ever been promoted to governor directly past the political envoy. This is the subtlety of the Qing Dynasty bureaucracy.