Although all three of them are university scholars, university scholars are also divided into seniority and the status of the palace. The cabinet consisted of Fellows of Boholden University, Scholars of Manhwaden University, Fellows of Takeeiden University, Fellows of Bunkyoke University, and Fellows of Togaku University. Chen Tingjing entered the cabinet later as a university scholar, compared to Suo Ertu and Mingzhu, whether it is seniority or trust, Chen Tingjing is still slightly inferior.
Comparison of the seniority of the three officials
Chen Tingjing was one of the most highly regarded Han courtiers during the Kangxi dynasty. After Kangxi ascended the throne, at the age of 34, he served as a brief lecturer in the Hanlin Academy. At the peak of the official rank, he was a scholar of Wenyuange University and the Left Capital Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspection Institute, the Hubu Shangshu, the Gongbu Shangshu, the Official's Shangshu, and the Punishment Department Shangshu.
At that time, the two important ministers, Suo Ertu and Mingzhu, were all typical cadres and able ministers. Nalan Mingzhu was a powerful official in the Kangxi Dynasty, and was once famous, and the peak period of official rank was that of Wu Yingdian University, Zuo Du Yushi of the Metropolitan Inspection Bureau, the General Manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Shangshu of the Punishment Department, the Shangshu of the Bingbu, and the Minister of Parliament, and he was in charge of the government of the world for 13 years in the cabinet of officials.
Heschel Soetu was the third son of Theo, an auxiliary chancellor at the beginning of the Kangxi Dynasty, who had the power to fall to the opposition, and was a key and useful minister and courtier of the Kangxi Dynasty, with important positions such as the official to the Bohol Temple, the minister of parliament, the minister of internal affairs of the consular guard, and the first class dukedom.
The first is the official rank. Chen Tingjing has experienced more than ten years of time, the grade has not moved, but the status has been improved, but it has only been in a circle from a product.
Nalan Mingzhu lived in the cabinet for thirteen years, from an ordinary bodyguard to a scholar of the Wuying Temple with his diligence and talent, and became a powerful courtier who was in charge of the government and the opposition, and monopolized the imperial program.
Hesheri Soetu held an official position for 33 years, and accompanied Kangxi for a very long time, from the teenager who helped Kangxi capture Naaobai to the conquest of Gardan, Kangxi was able to accomplish such a prominent feat, naturally inseparable from the extremely meritorious leader Suo Etu.
Secondly, official status. The two most important departments of the six ministries are the household department and the official department, and the Qing Dynasty implemented the Manchu-Han dual-track system, and the status of the Manchu Shangshu was higher than that of the Han Shangshu, and it was the official in charge of the seal.
When the Shangshu of the Han Bureaucracy was Chen Tingjing, the Shangshu of the Manchu Department was the Pearl, and when Chen Tingjing was the Shangshu of the Hubu Department, Mishan and Le Dehong were also the Shangshu of the Manchu Department, and Chen Tingjing's status was below them.
When Chen Tingjing entered the cabinet to enlarge the bachelor, there was also a ceremonial shangshu position, when the officials Ofe Manhan Shangshu were intolerant of fire and water, and they always loved to fight each other, and the uncultured Manchu Shangshu was always defeated, so that it was considered to be a "wood carving clay sculpture".
Therefore, when Kangxi set up so many university scholars, he divided the power of the prime minister equally among these university scholars, sent a special manager in each ministry, sat in the middle of the Manchu Han Shangshu to pull the frame and persuade the frame, strengthen the concentration of imperial power, and put an end to the phenomenon of the prime minister's monopoly.
In the Qing Dynasty Pavilion, if in terms of status, the status of the Bohol Hall University scholars is the most honorable, that is to say, the Bohol Hall University scholars are equivalent to the first assistant of the cabinet, then the official to the Bohol Hall University Scholar's soe map is a little higher than the status of Mingzhu and Chen Tingjing.
However, from the beginning of the Kangxi Dynasty to set up the South Study, the cabinet was emptied. During the Yongzheng period, the Military Aircraft Department was established, and the Military Aircraft Department became the center of central power, and the Military Aircraft Minister became the de facto prime minister, but at this time the university cadet system was still preserved.
During the Qianlong period, the political system was gradually perfected, and the cabinet ministers had the name of "prime minister" and the military minister had the name of "prime minister". He Yan had both identities at that time, so his power and status in the Qianlong Dynasty were much higher than those of Ji Xiaolan and Liu Yong, who were also university scholars.
Looking at the Kangxi Dynasty, although there was no military minister, there was a minister of parliament. Although Suo Etu, Mingzhu and Chen Tingjing were all university scholars, Chen Tingjing did not serve as a parliamentary minister, and Suo Etu and Mingzhu were both university scholars who also served as parliamentary ministers, and participated in almost all the military and state affairs in the middle of the Kangxi Dynasty.
Therefore, the position status of Soetu and Mingzhu is higher than that of Chen Tingjing, if in terms of the order of university scholars, Mingzhu is slightly inferior to Soetu, after all, SuoEtu's Bohol Hall university scholar is the first assistant to the cabinet and the most respected among university scholars.
Again official powers. Chen Tingjing relied on his own efforts to work hard in the official field, not only to survive the years, but also to fight for strength, through hard work, has been from the rank of a pin official. Although Chen Tingjing can also be regarded as a leading figure in the Hanlin Academy, the main work of the Hanlin Academy is to revise books and history in various museums, and rarely involves the core of power, so there is not much power.
The Minister of the Interior of the Imperial Guard was responsible for protecting the Personal Safety of the Emperor. However, the emperor was concerned about personal safety, and the emperor could not entrust it to one person, because the palace had more forbidden guards who were directly under the emperor's orders, and the minister of the interior of the leading guards at this time had only the responsibility of dispatching.
But in fact, without the emperor's words, others could not be mobilized, so the original duty of the minister of the interior of the guard was actually in name only.
The pearls held official positions with actual power in the official field, the head of the ministry of internal affairs was responsible for controlling the emperor's private finances; the left capital of the Metropolitan Inspection Bureau was responsible for supervising officials at all levels of the country; and the official Shangshu was in charge of the personnel minister, who was in charge of personnel transfers.
These positions have great power, so in terms of job rights, Mingzhu is the first, Suo Ertu is second, and Chen Tingjing is the last. If not, in the early Kangxi period, Mingzhu and Suo'etu fought with each other, and Suo'etu had completely gained the upper hand, and if kangxi had not supported him, it would have been difficult to resist Mingzhu.
Final status and knighthood. Soetu was the third son of Sonny, the head of the "Four Great Ministers" of the Kangxi Dynasty, and Kangxi's wife Empress Hesheli was his niece, who had the status of "relative of the emperor and the state" and had a first-class dukedom, so Soetu's status was more noble than that of the pearl without a knighthood.
Mingzhu was born in the Yellow Banner of Upper Manchuria, although Mingzhu was born less than Suo Ertu, but after all, it was also related to the emperor's relatives, Mingzhu's grandfather Jin Taiji was the uncle of Emperor Taiji, his cousin niece was Kangxi's Huifei Nala clan, plus Mingzhu married the daughter of the British prince Azig, in terms of generations, Mingzhu was also Kangxi's cousin.
In terms of status and title, although the pearl is not as strong as Soetu, compared with the Han minister Chen Tingjing, the background and identity of the pearl are indeed much higher than him. Therefore, Chen Tingjing's identity as a Han Chinese is indeed a hard wound compared with the two "imperial relatives and state relatives" Suo Ertu and Mingzhu.
The degree to which the three were trusted
The TV series gave Chen Tingjing a title of "Chen Xiang", which is even more unworthy of the name! Although Chen Tingjing was a scholar and official of Wenyuange University and an official Shangshu, in the era when the Kangxi Dynasty first revered Manchuria, manchuized the Han Dynasty, and preached that "since ancient times, the world is as righteous as my dynasty", han scholars and Shangshu did not have much real power. Therefore, compared with Suo Ertu and Mingzhu, Chen Tingjing's position in Kangxi's heart was still slightly inferior.
Chen Tingjing was an authentic Han Chinese, who entered the army at the age of twenty, his original name was Chen Jing, and during the Shunzhi period, he was deeply appreciated by Shunzhi, and Shunzhi personally changed his name to Tingjing, hoping to serve the imperial court. Chen Tingjing is very talented, but he is arrogant and arrogant, and he cannot help but offend people, although he is a young man who has achieved success, but he is not smooth.
It was not until the seventeenth year of Kangxi that Chen Tingjing had a turning point, Chen Tingjing joined the South Study, which was the core institution of the emperor, at which time Chen Tingjing had the opportunity to discuss state affairs with Kangxi and became a close minister of the Kangxi Emperor.
In the twenty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Chen Tingjing was promoted to zuodu yushi and hubu shangshu, that is, to manage money and wealth, but also to supervise hundreds of officials, at this time, although the power was quite large, but did not enter the cabinet to become a university scholar. Since then, he has been circling back and forth between Zuo Du Yushi, Gongbu Shangshu, Hubu Shangshu, and Punishment Department Shang.
In the forty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Kangxi relied heavily on Chen Tingjing and officially entered the cabinet as a university scholar and official Shangshu, but at that time there were already Scholars XiHana of Wenyuange University, Shimaqi of Wuyingdian University, Xihana and Maqi were all Manchus, and Chen Tingjing of Hanchen was still ranked later.
At this time, Suo Ertu had already been convicted and imprisoned, and the pearl had already fallen, although it was still in the official field, but it had completely lost Kangxi's trust and had no chance to turn over, at this time Chen Tingjing officially received Kangxi's trust.
Therefore, in the position power and status of the kangxi in the middle period before the Kangxi Dynasty, Chen Tingjing was not the same as Suo Ertu and Mingzhu.
Compared with the Han dynasty, Kangxi still trusted and reused the Manchurian nobility more, and with the relatives of the Emperor suoetu and Mingzhu, Chen Tingjing's start was far from them. Suo Ertu was also the uncle of Prince Yinrong, and the prince had been on good terms with this uncle since childhood, and Kangxi also had high expectations for Prince Yinrong.
In the early days of Kangxi, Suo'etu and Mingzhu were at odds with each other, and they were fighting with each other, and Suo'etu was almost always inferior, if it were not for Kangxi's sleek support in it, otherwise Suo'etu would have been killed by Mingzhu long ago. Pearl has a very high emotional intelligence and is good at reading people's minds, unlike Suo Ertu, who is obedient and suppresses people who do not obey him and Yin.
The pearl is a honey belly sword, the appearance is good at winning people's hearts, for those who do not obey him, secretly make bad, so in the imperial court deeper popularity, but also very pleasing to Kangxi.
Therefore, in the middle of the kangxi period, Mingzhu was very popular in the official arena, and won the trust and importance of Kangxi, especially when the Three Domains were abolished, Mingzhu resolutely sided with Kangxi and supported Kangxi. However, Mingzhu's resolute support for Kangxi shows that Mingzhu will read Kangxi's mind, and since then, Mingzhu has won Kangxi's trust and love.
However, Mingzhu fell not long after gaining power, mainly because Soetu and Mingzhu were in a party dispute, involving the crown prince Yinrong, and Mingzhu used the power in his hands to suppress Yinrong and Soltu's subordinates, and at the same time used his power to commit corruption and wealth, which caused Kangxi to be extremely dissatisfied, and kangxi twenty-six years later, Kangxi decided to completely cut off Mingzhu's henchmen, so Mingzhu was deposed.
Shortly thereafter, during Kangxi's conquest of Gardan, Mingzhu was reinstated as an official, but the power of Mingzhu at this time was incomparable to that of before. In the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Mingzhu died of illness, and in the twenty years, Mingzhu failed to be reused by Kangxi, and only ended his career in the kangxi dynasty officialdom.
After the fall of the pearl, Soetu became the most powerful minister of the Kangxi Dynasty, but after experiencing the case of the pearl, Kangxi's attitude towards Soetu was not so clear, there was no complete trust and dependence, it was always supported and suppressed, after all, Kangxi did not want to appear a second pearl again, and the relationship between Soeitu and Yin rong was very close, Kangxi was worried that Soetu was too powerful, resulting in the future dictatorship of foreign relatives, so Soetu was not as powerful as Pearl at the peak of power.
However, at this time, Suo Ertu did not realize his danger at all, and still helped the crown prince Yinrong to breed the prince's power, which eventually led to the threat of the prince's imperial power to the Kangxi dynasty. In the forty-second year of The Kangxi Dynasty, Soe-E-tu secretly formed a henchman, endangering imperial power, Kangxi imprisoned Soe-e-tu on the grounds of instigating Yin Rong to form a private party and discuss state politics, and Kangxi completely eliminated Soe-E-tu's henchmen, and Kangxi did so, both to knock out the mountain and shock the tiger to warn Yin, but also to remove a potential threat.
After Being imprisoned and starved to death, Suo'etu zhi captured Aobai, Pingsan Domain, took Taiwan, conquered the desert north, and resisted the Russian invasion, etc., which was completely denied by Kangxi, and even put on the hat of "the first criminal minister of this dynasty", which shows how much Kangxi hated and disliked Soetu.
After Suo Etu's death, Chen Tingjing officially became the protagonist and was further promoted and reused by Kangxi, but after experiencing the abuse of power by Suo Etu and Mingzhu, Kangxi began to balance the power of these important subjects, using the Manchu and Han dual-track system, reusing the Hanchen Chen Tingjing and Li Guangdi at the same time, and also promoting the Manchurian nobles Tong Guowei and Ma Qi, although the power of the two was great, but not as good as the original Suo Etu and Mingzhu. Therefore, even if Chen Tingjing became a scholar of Wenyuange University, compared to the Manchurian nobles, Chen Tingjing still ranked last.
Therefore, Chen Tingjing, as a Han courtier, was the most relied upon minister in the Kangxi Dynasty, but compared with the Manchurian nobles' Soetu and The Pearl, Chen Tingjing's position in Kangxi's heart was slightly inferior.
epilogue
It can be seen that the first position is Suo Ertu, followed by Nalan Mingzhu and Chen Tingjing last. All three were university scholars in the first and middle periods of the Kangxi Dynasty, and they were extremely popular subjects, and they were deeply trusted by Kangxi. However, the official eunuch sea has always been a place of ups and downs, with twists and turns, and it is difficult to predict. Although Suo Ertu was honored and prestigious, his position was prominent, and he was finally imprisoned, and Mingzhu was extremely gracious and extremely intelligent, but in the end he was deposed and stripped of power, but chen Tingjing, the Hanchen, rode the official field for 50 years, and finally became old.
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