In the early years, when I watched the "Yongzheng Dynasty" sister article "Li Wei as an Official" series, I remembered that the most important institution around Yongzheng was called "Sticky Pole Place", because I felt that this name was too sloppy, I thought that this was the brain hole of the screenwriter, in the existing cognition, the names of the ancient departments were still very solemn, and after growing up to pay attention to history, I learned that the original "Sticky Pole Place" was a real institution that existed in history, and had a far-reaching influence in the Yongzheng Dynasty.
The name "Sticky Pole Division" looks ordinary, but it is a real underground secret service, just like the East Factory, West Factory and Jinyi Wei in the Ming Dynasty, whose main role is to spy on intelligence and supervise hundreds of officials, which can provide the emperor with a lot of convenience and intelligence, which is very conducive to the emperor's more comprehensive control of the court.
Today we will talk about whether the "Sticky Pole Office", a secret service agency set up by the Yongzheng Emperor himself, is really so powerful that it can make people feel frightened.
Was the "sticky rod" of the Qing Dynasty really a frightening existence?
A person named Zhao Yi of the Qing Dynasty wrote such a thing in his book "Miscellaneous Records of Eaves Exposure", there was a minister in the Qing Dynasty named Wang Yunjin, who played leaf cards at home with relatives and friends during the Spring Festival holiday, which is actually similar to the long cards we play today. Playing and playing, this card is one less, several people can't find it, and they don't care.
The next day, when the Yongzheng Emperor seemed to be chatting and asked Wang Yunjin what he did during the holiday yesterday, Wang Yunjin was also a real person, and immediately returned to the court, yesterday he went to play with relatives and friends for a while, the Yongzheng Emperor nodded, praised his honesty, and gave him the leaf card that Wang Yunjin could not find all over, and after Wang Yunjin took it, he was glad and afraid. Fortunately, he returned truthfully and did not anger the emperor, and what was afraid was that the emperor even knew that he played leaf play.
The Yongzheng Emperor was able to know all this, and he all relied on his own intelligence agency, the Sticky Pole. In other words, the pervasiveness of the sticky rod also made Yongzheng's ministers tremble and tremble and did not dare to make waves.
The sticky poles not only watched their targets in the shadows day and night like ghosts, but they often also served as killers, removing some eye nails and flesh thorns for the Yongzheng Emperor. Their methods are fierce, cruel and ruthless, and their goal is often to leave no living mouth, and neither old nor young women nor children can escape their poisonous hands, so they also have a name, called "blood droplets".
In some wild histories, some records of blood droplets killing people can often be seen, and some claims that the eighth and ninth brothers of the Yongzheng Emperor died at the hands of blood droplets. Although there is no real evidence for these claims, they can circumstantially prove that in the hearts of people at that time, the sticky rod was indeed a murderous and rather terrible existence.
The original intention of the "Sticky Rod Division"
The prototype of the "sticky pole department" existed before the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, and the members of the sticky pole department were basically Yin Chan's wrapped slaves, who were the people who followed Yin Chan from childhood, and the sticky pole department was only responsible for taking care of a series of life chores of The Crown Prince Yin Chan at the beginning of its establishment.
At that time, many trees were planted in the mansion of the fourth prince Yin Chan, and in the summer heat, there were many cicadas chirping in the trees, which made Yin Chan, who liked to be quiet, very annoyed, so he ordered the slaves in the palace to take the poles and glue down the cicadas that were chirping on the trees, so that they could rest quietly.
Not only that, but the sticky rod can also provide Services such as catching dragonflies and catching bait for Yin Chan, which is just a living department. Because the pole sticks to the cicadas and dragonflies on the tree, this department is called the "sticky pole place".
Later, Yin Chan participated in the dispute between the nine sons and the concubine, and the sticky rod department also changed its nature, ostensibly continuing to stick cicadas, but secretly these people helped Yongzheng spy around to spy on the news, co-opt the ministers, and eliminate dissidents, in fact, it was already a small secret agent intelligence organization.
Although Yin Chan did not compete with his brothers on the surface, the sticky rod did help him a lot.
Yongzheng became emperor, and the sticky pole department made a lot of merit, in order to thank these people, Yongzheng under the ministry of internal affairs, the sticky pole department was specially set up as a department, the person in charge of the sticky pole department was called "sticky pole guard", and the members under him were called "sticky pole worship Tang".
These people were all old people of the Yongzheng Emperor when he was in the Imperial Palace, and they were deeply trusted by the Yongzheng Emperor, and although these people did not have high official positions, they were all close subjects of the emperor.
Probably because the name of the sticky pole is not formal enough, the reputation is not very good, so the Yongzheng Emperor gave him a more high-end atmospheric name called "Shangyu Reserve Place", in the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, the sticky pole was very valued.
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Sticky rod at the place of return
If the "factory guard" of the Ming Dynasty was the emperor's measure to strengthen the imperial power, then the "sticky pole" was that Yongzheng set up a secret service organization to strengthen the imperial power, and its functions had many similarities with the Factory guard of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, compared with the Jinyi Guard, the official position of the sticky rod is small, does not attract attention, and acts more quietly and pervasively. Their every move is under the gaze of others, so the thought makes people tremble and tremble.
During the Yongzheng administration, the implementation of the New Deal touched the interests of many privileged classes, and reform was therefore difficult to carry out, and the "sticky pole" played a huge role in the process of Yongzheng promoting the New Deal.
So, what is the final outcome of such a secret service organization?
After the Qianlong Emperor succeeded to the throne, he took over the sticky rod left by his father and continued to use him to monitor hundreds of officials in the court, including ministers from other provinces. In the early days of his reign, the Qianlong Emperor did not like Yongzheng's iron-fisted policy, so he adopted a relaxed governing concept, which led to the corruption of officials and the dissatisfaction of the people with the imperial court.
In order to strengthen the imperial power, Qianlong had to learn from Yongzheng to carry out harsh politics, openly suppressing officials and ordinary people through the "literal prison", and secretly using sticky rods to do some unseemly things.
In his later years, Qianlong may feel that the reputation of the sticky rod is not good, and after using it for a long time, it will damage his reputation after a hundred years, so he gradually reduces the use.
After the Jiaqing Emperor succeeded to the throne, in order to calm the people's hearts and straighten out the imperial program, during the great funeral of the Qianlong Emperor, he immediately killed the corrupt official and the emperor, and also cleaned up the sticky pole together.
Probably because Hezhen's hand was stretched out too long, reaching the sticky rod next to the emperor, so the Jiaqing Emperor, while eradicating Hezhen, also cleaned the infamous sticky rod together, and the remaining human hands were no longer used, and the secret service agency of the sticky rod disappeared from the world.
Since ancient times, the way of "checks and balances" has been a very important part of the emperor's mental art, and the emperor usually takes some measures to ensure that the emperor cannot become a minister. Whether it is the Jinyi wei during the Ming Dynasty or the sticky pole of the Qing Dynasty, it has played such a role.
But such a frightening sticky pole has been annihilated in the long river of history, leaving behind some mysterious stories that people can't help but explore.