What if you are Kangxi and finally get the "Hundred Officials' Explanation"?
(The "Hundred Officials" in the film and television drama)
There are many analyses of the Yongzheng Dynasty, many of which are profound works, and this article will not do much analysis. Let's just talk about how embarrassing this "hundred official statements" really are.
First of all, the so-called "Hundred Officials' Deeds" is a fiction of February River and does not exist in history. According to the description of the TV series, the hundred officials came from a person named Ren Bo'an, who used the convenience of having complete information at hand to collect various bad deeds of the hundred officials and compile them into a book when he was a minor official in the official department. The four boxes of "hundred officials' deeds" have become the most important means of blackmailing hundred officials.
Of course, in the end, the old fourth Yin Chan burned the Hundred Officials' Deeds with a torch, and the matter came to an end.
First of all, we must ask a question, does Ren Bo'an really have the ability to write a "hundred official deeds"?
(Official Information)
Officials controlled the appointment and dismissal of officials throughout the country, examinations, and rewards, but the rule of the Qing Dynasty was concentrated in the hands of the emperor, and the appointment and dismissal of middle and high-ranking officials was completely directly issued by the Military Aircraft Department in accordance with the emperor's will. Among them, the bureaucracy only plays a basic clerical job. However, the qualifications of lower-level officials and other issues have limited manpower in the bureaucracy, and in the face of a large group of lower-level officials, they basically handle the clerical procedures in accordance with the rules.
As a formal institution, where did the bureaucracy get the "bad deeds of a hundred officials"?
It should be known that the basic work of the official department is the promotion and assessment of officials, and the "official documents" are handled every day. In other words, all they can see is a "journal" of the same file. For example, when and where did a certain official hold what position, how many years he had been working, whether he had been dealt with by his superiors during his term of office, and when he should be transferred according to the regulations... There are also the obvious things such as the handover of officials, the worry of Ding, the filling of vacancies, and so on, where did they get the "bad deeds of a hundred officials"?
The work of the bureaucracy is the clerical work of the promotion, appointment and removal of officials, and it is basically impossible to involve more in-depth content. Even if there is some inside information about buying and selling officials, it is impossible for a low-level official like Ren Bo'an to know.
Otherwise, the "bad deeds of a hundred officials" are all blatantly placed in the archives of the officials, and whoever has time can sort out a copy of it, so can't everyone in the bureaucracy have the "Hundred Officials' Deeds"?
Therefore, if there is really a bare end, it is also a secret service agency similar to the "sticky rod", and ordinary people cannot touch it at all.
Below, we do not consider the provenance of the "Hundred Officials" and let him really exist.
(Burn the "Hundred Officials' Narrative" in film and television dramas)
Everyone has a dark side, and ninety-nine of the hundred officials have bad deeds, but the severity is different. Therefore, in theory, it is indeed possible to spend money and time, and it is indeed possible to come up with a set of "hundred official statements".
But is it really significant to say that the hundred official statements are significant?
If Old Fourth Yin Chan did not burn this batch of things, but directly gave it to Kangxi, what should Kangxi do?
You know, it is easy to kill a corrupt official, if the Manchu court is a corrupt official, can it kill them all?
If you really follow the setting of the Hundred Officials' Behavior, then most of the officials in the imperial court are bad deeds. Even in the hands of Kangxi, he understood that this thing was no longer meaningful: if you really wanted to punish, then you would empty most of the imperial court, not only was it not only disgraceful, but also needed a "big change of blood" to do it - if the imperial court wanted to run smoothly, it depended on these officials, and the whole system was replaced by a new system, what if there was a problem in operation?
Therefore, there is only one way ahead, and that is to completely forget this matter. If you send the Hundred Officials to Kangxi, he will also burn it.
There's an asshole under your hand, pull it out and cut it. There are all kinds of bastards under the hands, then you can only pretend to be deaf and dumb, and then slowly deal with it...