In the administrative system division of the Qing Dynasty , the magistrate and the magistrate belong to the upper and lower levels. After Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, when the official rank gradually took shape, the magistrate belonged to the seventh rank official. If he was the magistrate of Beijing County, he would be the sixth rank. The so-called magistrate of Beijing does not refer to the county towns around Beijing, but specifically to the three counties of Daxing, Wanping, , and Shenyang. Daxing and Wanping are counties around Beijing's capital, and Shenyang is the capital of the Qing Dynasty. The prefect belongs to the fourth rank of official rank.
If it is divided according to the theory of the Qing Dynasty, it seems to be a natural thing to be promoted to a magistrate, and the same should be true during theoretical promotion. But in the actual promotion process, it is not that simple.
This complexity is mainly related to two aspects. One is the importance of the position of the prefect of the Qing Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, the court attached great importance to the prefect, and even the emperor needed to personally assess the candidates for the appointment and removal of officials. During the reign of Yongzheng , Emperor Yongzheng often personally asked about the candidates for prefects. It is not difficult to understand that the court attaches so much importance to it. During the Qing Dynasty, the prefect was very heavy in government affairs. From finance, money, food, taxation, education, and even the promotion of education and water conservancy, the prefect needs to be directly borne by the prefect.
In this case, it means that the prefect needs to have very rich experience in handling actual government affairs. In the Qing Dynasty's administrative system, the provincial governor and governor were not responsible for handling actual local government affairs. They mainly rely on official documents to urge officials to deal with it. Therefore, the candidates for prefects are often related to the effectiveness of the implementation of the court's policies.
Among the candidates for prefects, the main ones are the recommendations of officials at the level of governor, the selection of officials of the Ministry of Personnel, and the selection of officials relying on official qualifications. Generally speaking, the candidates for prefects are often selected from local officials with relatively excellent assessments, and the selection range is generally those of the Tongzhi level officials with a lower rank than the prefect, or Beijing officials of the same level. This is also different in different periods.
During the Yongzheng period, the court often transferred Beijing officials with relatively strong abilities to local positions. At this time, the candidates for the prefect would mainly come from Beijing officials. During the Qianlong period, local officials with poor abilities would be transferred to Beijing officials. But overall, the court still tends to allow outstanding officials to serve as prefects.
From this point, many county magistrates can get stuck in their promotion path. From the official rank, the magistrate seems to be able to be promoted to the prefecture step by step. If their assessment fails and fails to meet the requirements of the court, they will naturally be out of reach.
Moreover, from the magistrate to the magistrate, from the seventh rank to the fourth rank, there are still many thresholds to cross. If you are not careful, you can only stand still, even dismissal from office or even be imprisoned, which is shocking every step.
Another important thing is that in addition to the strict requirements for the prefect, the road to promotion of the magistrate was difficult, as the redundant staff of official officials in the middle and late Qing Dynasty became more and more serious, and promotion became more and more difficult. When the Qing Dynasty was founded, due to the shortage of talents, the requirements for officials were given up at that time, and there were enough positions in the officialdom to allow these officials and those promoted to the officialdom from various channels to serve.
However, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, more and more people wanted to become officials, but the positions in the officialdom were always limited. Under this contradiction, many people have no official position to hold even if they have obtained the qualification to be an official.
By the middle and late Qing dynasties, many people could not even get into the magistrate. Because it is too difficult to get a quota for an official. Such a difficult way to become an official naturally prevents many people from being promoted. In addition, the later government corruption was corruption, and even many talented people could not be promoted. If there is no strong enough relationship, even those officials who come from the imperial examinations may be the magistrate for the rest of their lives and cannot be promoted to magistrate.
Such various situations also created various strange phenomena in the Qing Dynasty's officialdom later, which made people laugh at it.
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