If the prefect of the seventh grade of the Qing Dynasty is not prosperous, I am afraid it will be difficult to jump to the prefect of the fourth grade. After all, the promotion of civil officials in the Qing Dynasty was orderly, and it was difficult to cross multiple ranks.
In the Qing Dynasty's magistrate evaluation system, although it was rare to skip the ranks, it was not completely impossible. When consulting the historical materials related to the assessment of local officials in the Qing Dynasty, the imperial history found several special cases and was willing to share them with you.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the assessment of local officials followed the practice of the Ming Dynasty and adopted the "full examination" system, that is, the assessment of political performance and tenure. If you want to be promoted or transferred, you must be listed with excellent performance and meet the requirements of three years of service.
In the early years of Kangxi, the magistrates canceled the completion of the examination and replaced it with the "big plan" system, that is, the assessment was carried out by the officials every three years, and the length of service was not taken as a hard condition. The overall assessment is more detailed, including the "four grids" and "six laws", which respectively evaluate the performance of ** in terms of keeping, talent, government and year.
It turns out that the "six laws" are the "eight laws", that is, greed, coolness, imperceptibility, weakness, impetuousness, lack of talent, old age, and illness. During the Qianlong period, in order to curb corruption, the two items of greed and coolness were eliminated, and it was clearly stipulated that all those who had these two items could be exposed at any time, and there was no need to wait until the year of the big plan.
The plan is divided according to the degree of excellence of the performance.
First, second, and third class, the first class is what we often call "Zhuo Wei", and those who have won this honor will get the opportunity to be promoted, while those below the third class may face demotion, stranglehold or dismissal.
However, it is not so easy to get the best because the number of places is very limited, and the average number of people in each province of the country is only four or five. In order to ensure the quality, strict thresholds are set for the evaluation of excellence, such as expiration of tenure, no additional assignment, no abusive punishment, no theft, no arrears, no deficit, people's livelihood, local improvement, etc., and at the same time, he has not been punished by fines or demotion.
Only when these conditions are met can it be rated outstanding.
The Qing Dynasty had a very strict assessment system for magistrates, even if there was a punishment for public crimes, as long as they were honest, they could also get outstanding recommendations. But this is not very common.
After understanding the assessment methods of the Qing Dynasty, we can be specifically promoted as an outstanding magistrate. One of them is to be promoted to the rank of Beijing official. Since Qianlong, there has gradually been a phenomenon in the officialdom of attaching importance to foreign officials and despising internal officials, and most of the middle and low-level ** are more inclined to serve in local positions.
However, from the institutional point of view, the status of the Beijing official is higher than that of the local official at the same level.
Although they are both from the five products, the status of the foreign officials of Sanzhou and the ministries is different. Under normal circumstances, the governor of Sanzhou is promoted to a Beijing official, and he will be transferred to the position of a member of each department.
This kind of level of local officials and Beijing officials of the same grade can also be regarded as promotion. If an outstanding magistrate is transferred to the capital, his rank will usually be improved. For example, the magistrate is promoted to the chief, and the governor is promoted.
In general, when an outstanding magistrate is promoted, there will be no overstepping of the promotion. The situation of being promoted to a magistrate is different, and if the outstanding ** is still serving outside, he may not be promoted.
This can be subdivided into three situations: off-site leveling, off-site step-by-step promotion, and off-site skipping promotion. Although it is not common to transfer to a county in different places, such as the transfer of a county in Jiangsu to a county in Anhui, it is generally transferred from a simple shortage, a middle deficiency to a major shortage, and the most important shortage.
The most typical example is the promotion of the county to the magistrate, the promotion of the county to the general judgment, the promotion of the general judgment to the same knowledge, and the promotion of the same knowledge to the prefect. However, the imperial court had a rule that the promotion of magistrates would not occur within the same province, but would be promoted across provinces, which was to prevent the formation of local forces.
The promotion of non-local skipping was more common in the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties, especially the promotion of the county to the governor. In terms of grade, the county governor of other counties is the seventh grade, the governor of Sanzhou is the fifth grade, and the governor of Zhili Prefecture is the fifth grade.
According to conventional logic, skipping promotion means that the grade is at least above the second level, but this is not applicable to the promotion of the county to the governor of Sanzhou. This is because among the local officials in the Qing Dynasty, there were relatively few posts from the sixth rank and the sixth grade, so it was stipulated that the magistrate of the county would be promoted, such as the magistrate of Jingxian County, or the magistrate of Sanzhou from the fifth grade, as well as the general judgment of each prefecture.
It is not impossible for the prefect to be promoted to the prefect, and there have been many prefects in history who have been promoted to the prefect through outstanding performance. For example, in the fourth year of Yongzheng, Jiang Chaojun, Zhou Mengjin, and Ye Shikuan were respectively recommended as Zhuoyi, and after being introduced by the officials, the emperor approved them to be promoted to the prefect.
These examples show that as long as the county magistrate performs outstandingly, he will have the opportunity to be promoted, surpassing the level of the governor of Sanzhou, and directly promoted to the prefect.
After Yongzheng, there was no case of the magistrate being promoted to the prefect because of his outstanding actions. This is mainly because after Qianlong succeeded to the throne, many new systems were introduced, including new regulations on promotion.
These regulations require that, except for special purposes, all ** must be promoted step by step in accordance with the prescribed steps, and cannot be skipped.