At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Qing army fought a white-knife war, it often wrapped its braids around its neck to avoid knife slashing. Therefore, the braids of soldiers are thicker, such as less hair, with wigs, or black silk threads, to "strengthen their form". However, braids also have the disadvantage of braids, once caught, can not break free, can not run, can only obey the other party.
If the invisible braid is caught, it can only obey, if the invisible braid is caught, the end is not far from ten, and can only bow to the other party. Jiaqing is a master of grasping invisible braids.
When Jiaqing handled the Hezhen case, he only wanted the head of Hezhen alone, and the other members of the party were basically exempted from prosecution. At that time, an official asked Jiaqing to thoroughly investigate and join the party, and Jiaqing rebuked him. In fact, Jiaqing has his own little calculation, although he did not cut the heads of the same party as He yan, but he grabbed the braids behind their heads - evidence of corruption, who dares to jump up and down, who dares not be honest, Jiaqing will knock a stick on the brain shell of whom. After that, those who were with him were really honest, and Jiaqing's throne was thus firmly seated.
But don't think that only the superior can grasp the braids of the subordinates, in fact, the subordinates can also grasp the braids of the superiors. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, a man named Tian Xiuli spent money to buy a sesame official in Sichuan. His "way of being an official" was to send a gift, and he quickly sent himself to Chengdu Province and became a county order. After Tian Xiuli took office, he sold out his official position and fished out the financial money, causing the local people to complain.
In the second year of Guangxu (1876), Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong, was transferred to the governor of Sichuan, and the new official took office with three fires, and the first fire he burned was the positive wind and anti-corruption, shooting flies and beating tigers. When Tian Xiuli learned that he was listed in the Tiger Book, he was afraid and angry. What I was afraid of was that I was caught in a cage and cut off my head; what was angry was that there were swarms of flies and piles of tigers, so why did Ding Baozhen want to cut himself? But after he calmed down, he immediately began to resolve the crisis. His countermeasure was to grab Ding Baozhen's braids.
Of course, grasping the leader's braids requires evidence, not if you want to catch it. Tian Xiuli found that Ding Baozhen often chanted, the Shandong official was open and imposing, and his governor's palace was low and narrow. So Tian Xiuli took the construction team to the Governor's Mansion to do greening, planting ancient trees, making Ding Baozhen's office area beautiful and bright, and rectifying the "one-stop" of catering, leisure and fitness. After that, Tian Xiuli selected two girls with outstanding appearances and sent them to the palace as waiters, asking them to regularly report to them on Ding Baozhen's work and living conditions.
Not long after, Tian Xiuli learned that Ding Baozhen owed 3,000 gold to someone when he was in Shandong, and the creditor collected the debt to Chengdu, and Ding Baozhen did not have so much cash at hand. Tian Xiuli did not say a word, paid money to repay the debt, and let the creditor leave immediately, so as not to cause adverse effects.
In this way, the little tiger Tian Xiuli not only became a "good cadre", but also firmly grasped Ding Baozhen's braids and learned of some dirty things in his post as inspector of Shandong. In addition, Ding Baozhen ate and drank from others, and naturally his heart was weak, so he no longer bothered with Tian Xiuli, and Tian Xiuli's matter of spending money to buy and sell officials naturally disappeared.
The ecology of the little governor's palace reflects the ecology of the entire Qing officialdom. Between the officials, you grab my braid, I grab his braid, he grabs your braid, everyone has a braid in his hand, everybody gets caught by someone else. Whether it is conservatives or reformers, everyone cannot move, neither dare to act rashly, nor dare to show their fists and feet, but can only grasp the braids together and wait for the sinking of the giant ship of the Great Qing.