In Chinese history, Yongzheng is not unique in the use of secret detectives to control subordinates, and the one who has gathered the culmination in this regard is Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang solved the dead end in the work of the secret agent, he used his genius creativity to solve the administrative problem of "black under the lights", under normal circumstances, for each party, Zhu Yuanzhang would send three groups of detectives, these three groups of people are unaware of each other, are repeating the same intelligence collection work.
But it is clear that Zhu Yuanzhang used the tactics of the sea of people and invested unlimited human resources into intelligence work. As Yongzheng, he would never use this method. Even in the historical data, we can not see the Record of the Qing Dynasty's rampant lawlessness similar to that of the Jinyi Wei in the Ming Dynasty.
But these spies are real.
If we admit that the secret agent system was indeed established in the Yongzheng era, then we must face such a mysterious force composed of many large living people, who must have an organizer responsible for handling the recruitment, interview, business training, induction, attendance, promotion and reward and punishment, commendation and criticism, salary payment, subsidy allowance, logistics administration, accounting cashier, canteen food and a series of other problems, such a complicated organizational system, it is absolutely impossible to conceal.
Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, in order to solve these problems, had no choice but to make his secret agent team public and establish the Jinyi guard system. And here in Yongzheng, the records of these things cannot be seen in the historical materials, and even the most basic financial expenditures cannot be found, is this not a strange thing?
It is precisely on this basis that orthodox historians refuse to recognize that there was any secret agent system in the Yongzheng era, unless they believe that the secret agents of the Yongzheng era were swordsmen and wizards who did not eat human fireworks, ate the river with their bare hands, and walked on the wall.
In fact, the secret agent system of the Yongzheng era is fundamentally different from that of Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, and what Yongzheng uses is an open secret agent system - the secret folding system.
The secret folding system was not created by Yongzheng, but was formed as early as the Kangxi Dynasty. This system authorized some of the trusted officials to pass the news to the imperial court in the form of secret reports, and there were more than 100 officials who received this authorization during the Kangxi Dynasty. By the Yongzheng era, this force had expanded to 12 times, and the number of people exceeded 1200.
These authorized officials are extensive, including envoys, envoys, and scholars. The scope of the secret report is almost all-encompassing, from people's livelihood, customs, weather, personal privacy, gossip, secrets of the rivers and lakes, and secret affairs of the officialdom, all of which must be reported to the Yongzheng Emperor.
This set of secret folding system of Yongzheng is even higher than the System of Jinzhang Jinyi Guard, and this small-cost, fast-acting secret agent system has always been loved by Yongzheng, and its future kings have also been used, which can be described as a merit in the contemporary era and a thousand autumns.