There is such a scene in the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty": It is said that in the early years of Yongzheng, Sun Jiacheng, the head of the household department, had a dispute with the court officials over the money making of the new dynasty, so that he was reprimanded by Yongzheng on the surface. But then Yongzheng thought that this person was upright and upright, and he was a material for imperial history, so he ordered Zhang Tingyu to go to Sun Jiacheng's house to pass on the decree. Yu Yu: Sun Jia honestly supplemented the imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate, and the official was promoted to the third grade.
Of course, this is just set up in the TV series to promote the storyline, so what is the real supervision of the imperial history, and what is it for? Today, I would like to share one or two with you.
The supervision of the imperial history was set up in the Sui Dynasty Sui Wen Emperor two years, that is, in 582 AD, from the inspection of the imperial history to the supervision of the imperial history, the supervision of the imperial history grade is not high, for a long period of time only eight products, but the scope of authority is very wide, specifically responsible for the supervision of hundreds of officials, inspection of counties, correction of prisons, rectification of the court and other affairs.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the abolition of the imperial history of the establishment of the Imperial Inspectorate, the main responsibility is to ** and suggestions, the Metropolitan Procuratorate mainly set up the following**, respectively, the left and right imperial history, the left and right deputy imperial history, the thrifty imperial history, in addition to the supervision of the imperial history. The supervision of the imperial history is generally divided into different roads, so they are named after a certain place.
So what are the supervised imperial histories of the Qing Dynasty? First of all, the main prefects of the Imperial Court are the first rank of the left and right imperial history, the second rank of the left and right deputy imperial history, and the third rank of the thrifty imperial history, and although the rank of the supervising imperial history has been improved compared with the past, it is still not a petty official from the fifth grade.
Therefore, the supervision of the imperial history mentioned in the TV series should be five products, and Sun Jiacheng was the head of the six products of the household department before, so it is reasonable to be promoted to five products. But having said that, it is not ruled out that Yongzheng wants to match Sun Jiacheng with Sun Jiacheng and let him do the work of supervising the imperial history, but the grade is three grades, which is also possible.
The Qing Dynasty's supervision of imperial histories was generally placed at the imperial court or at the local level, and the main purpose was to check and balance the local administrators. Moreover, the power of supervising the imperial history is very large, not only can it be given the power of direct trial by the supreme ruler for violating the law, forming a substantive supervision of the prefecture and county roads and yamen, and even the local shortcomings can be directly reported to the emperor. It is a typical position with small officials and big power, so no matter what it is, most of them are in awe of the imperial history.