In many Qing Dynasty film and television dramas, it is often possible to hear a series of official positions such as the yellow flag being unified. For the official position of metropolitan government, many people are very modeled. Because although the Central Plains Dynasty once held the official position of du tong, it was not the same thing as the qing dynasty's du tong. During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, all the high-ranking officials of the Eight Banners were all Yipin officials and belonged to high-ranking officials. In the early days of Qing rule, the Eight Banners were once very powerful. So, how does the Eight Banners weaken the power of the Banner Lord?
The official position of Du tong appeared during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but it belonged to the military attaché position. Therefore, although the Central Plains Dynasty once had a capital unification, it was completely different from the capital unification of the Qing Dynasty. If you want to understand the establishment of the capital system, you need to first understand the Eight Flags system of the Qing Dynasty. In the process of nurhaci's gradual rise, for the convenience of command, four flags of yellow, white, blue and red were established. Later, with the increase of strength, there were yellow flags, blue flags, white flags and red flags. According to the rules of the time, each flag had a flag owner, who was responsible for all aspects of the work of the entire flag, and even the army could be mobilized, and the actual power was very large. Generally speaking, the flag owner has a prince or a county king. Therefore, it was referred to as the Banner Lord Wangye, and in the early period of the Qing Dynasty's rule, the Banner Lord Wangye formed the deliberative king system.
The rules of the Eight Banners of Deliberation appeared in the Nurhaci period, because the banner lords and princes had a certain amount of real power, which caused great restrictions on the imperial power. During the reigns of Emperor Taiji and Shunzhi, the princes of the banner often jointly interfered in the emperor's decisions. In the early days of the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, this situation continued. The Kangxi Emperor was very shrewd, in order to break the restrictions of the banner lords and princes and consolidate his imperial power. The Kangxi Emperor established the System of Eight Banners, which was a high-ranking official from Yipin. The capital is responsible for the training, equipment, and civil affairs of the entire flag, and the actual power is very large. These tasks were originally the work of the Eight Banner Lords, and after the Eight Banners were all responsible for the actual work of each flag, the Banner Lords were gradually lifted. With the loss of power, the monarchical system also existed in name only. After the Yongzheng Emperor came to power, the reason why he was able to establish a military aircraft department was because the system of deliberating on the government and the king had become an empty shelf.
The power of the Eight Banners was given by the emperor, and it was naturally directly responsible to the emperor himself. In this way, the emperor no longer indirectly controlled the Eight Banners, but directly controlled the Eight Banners. In the early days of Qing rule, the Eight Banner Army still had combat tasks. The choice of the Eight Banners is also very strict, and the unification must be skilled in bowing and horseing, because it may go out at any time. However, in the later period of the Qing Dynasty's rule, because the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banner Army had been seriously reduced, there was no way to fight. As a result, the power of the Eight Banners has also declined dramatically. By the end of the Qing Dynasty's rule, the Eight Banners had become a venue for arranging idle nobles. Although he is nominally a member of the Ichipin Clan, he seems to be in a good mood with the ministers of the military aircraft. In fact, compared with the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Minister of the Interior of the Consular Guard, the power of the Eight Banners is not great. The Eight Banners gradually became the official who handled the civil affairs of each flag, only of high rank.
Such a situation did not only occur in the Eight Banners, but in many important cities across the country, the Qing Dynasty left the Zhenshou general. For example, General Xi'an, General Jiang Ning, General Hangzhou, and so on, these Zhenshou generals are all high-ranking officials. Nominally, the status of the town guard general was higher than that of the governor and the inspector. But in real history, the situation of the town guard generals and the Eight Banners everywhere is very similar, and they are all empty shelves of officials. For the Eight Banners, he had a very important job, that is, to select a woman for the emperor. As for combat tasks, since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banner Army has lost its combat effectiveness. Whether it was the Unification of the Eight Banners or the town guards everywhere, they could not be counted on at all. In addition to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, some special areas have also established capital unification, such as Rehe Capital, Chahar Capital, and so on. These are all subordinate to local officials, but the management model is different from that of the governor and the governor.