The rulers of the Qing Dynasty attached great importance to the selection, appointment and dismissal of the first place, and they paid special attention to the comprehensive quality of politicians.
The ** of the Qing Dynasty was very extensive, and channels such as Kejia, Gongsheng, Jian Sheng, Yin Sheng, Yixu, Miscellaneous Streams, Donations, Officials and Students, and Junxiu were all likely to become.
Among them, the first branch includes the first lifter, gongshi, and jinshi who have passed the imperial examination. In the Qing Dynasty, the tributes and jinshi had the qualifications to participate in the selection of officials, and they could directly obtain official positions through the assessment.
In contrast, the conditions for promoting people to the government were relatively strict, and although they were considered to have obtained the qualifications to be officials, it became very difficult to promote people to the government since the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
Gongsheng is selected by the students of the prefecture, prefecture and county to study in Guozijian, and there are five categories of Gonggong, Engong, Bagong, Yougong and Vice-Gong, all of which are considered to be on the right path.
There is also an example of tribute that is not contributed. However, obtaining the qualification of a tribute student does not mean that you can directly enter the official ranks, and you need to pass a strict examination to enter the selection process of the Ministry of Officials.
Prisoners do not directly enter the country to study as tribute students, and there are four kinds of eunuchs: grace supervisors, shadow eunuchs, excellent eunuchs, and regular eunuchs. Yin Sheng obtained official positions through the merits of his grandparents, and in addition to the grace and difficulty of being imprisoned, Yin Sheng also had special shades.
Yin Sheng can invoke the example to obtain an official position. Discussion is a reward for excellence in the assessment process. The discussion is usually carried out by the local governor, and the backgrounds of these ** are more mixed, but as long as they enter the office through the supervision and protection, they are all on the right path.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were many ways to enter the office, but they can be summarized into two categories: the right path and the different path. Among them, miscellaneous streams and donations, officials and students, and junxiu are all different ways to enter the official career.
Despite the existence of various ways, in the Qing Dynasty, there was still a distinction between the right path and the other way. However, there is no historical conclusion as to what is the right path and what is not.
There is a clear difference in the definition of the right path in the Qing Historical Manuscript and the Case Studies of the Great Qing Dynasty Huidian, the former believes that only those who are born in Kejia and En, Ba, Vice, Sui, Yougongsheng, and Yinsheng are the right path, while the latter also includes excellent Gongsheng and Jian Sheng, as well as Di, Zeng, and Episheng, into the category of the right path.
According to the regulations, those who came from different backgrounds could not serve as officials of the two ministries of science, Taoism, Han, Zhan, and officials, and rites, and in the process of enforcement, they also faced more restrictions, even including some minor Beijing officials.
Therefore, the right or different path of the first has a decisive impact on their career prospects.
According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, there were three categories of people who could not hold official positions: first, those who engaged in lowly occupations, such as prostitutes, high-ranking people, errand soldiers, and low-ranking service personnel.
Because these people's professions are despised by society, they have been mixed with inferior behaviors for a long time, and their conduct is not right, and they are not ashamed.
After entering the office, it may hurt the social atmosphere and damage the majesty of the imperial court.
During the Qing Dynasty, there were many regulations that restricted the right of different groups of people to enter the imperial examination. The descendants of the unlits had to wait until after the fourth generation to participate in the imperial examinations, and domestic slaves and grandparents who had committed serious crimes were even more restricted.
Although these rules were relaxed during the Jiaqing period, restrictions on these groups of people remained.
In the Qing Dynasty's "Rules of the Ministry of Rites", several situations of grandparents' crimes were listed, such as thieves retreating, escaping from the army, delaying the warplane, ** stealing rewards, etc., if their descendants committed these crimes, they would not be able to participate in the imperial examination, unless they were authorized by the emperor.
The Qing Dynasty attached great importance to the origin of civil officials, not only dividing them into the right path and the other path, but also setting many restrictions on those who entered the bureaucracy, which was more cumbersome and strict than that of previous dynasties.