In film and television dramas, we often see a person standing next to the county official's judgment, and this person is the master. If you think that the master is at best a secretary, then you are wrong.
To say that the most similar crowd to the master is to say that it is a disciple of the Spring and Autumn And Warring States period. It is to eat you and take you, and even have to do things for you, saying that there is more than one doorman, and there are many masters!
In the past, a yamen basically covered all the government departments now, such as a yamen not only to deal with administrative, judicial, financial, and educational matters, but also to carry out border fighting and armaments. So many affairs, just one big master can't handle it. The master will handle the specific work for you, so the master is not just a secretary, at least a vice president.
There is more than one vice president, and the master is the same. For example, the criminal master who helps the big old man to try the case is called the criminal master, the laws and regulations must be familiar, and the old man must be convicted according to the criminal law. There is also a person who specializes in assisting the old man in handling financial affairs, called Master Qiangu. Some high-ranking officials often need to fold the emperor' folds, and they also have to have a special master of the chapter. In fact, there is no distinction between the masters and masters, because the masters are not officials, there are no formal procedures, and there is no Lulu, mainly depending on who is close to the adults. But the county magistrate is not as good as the current management!
During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a young master of the Eight Banners who became the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. But he never paid attention to politics, just ate, drank, and had fun, leaving all affairs to the master to handle. This master's name was Peng Peilin, and he made the entire northwestern official field a miasma of black smoke. The lawsuit was treated as a business, and the defendant ate the plaintiff. Don't say that it is a young master of the Eight Banners to be the governor, even if you change to an ordinary official, you can't do everything.
During the Qianlong period, there was a famous master who had been a criminal master for twenty-six years, named Wang Huizu, who was given the nickname "Wang Qifu". By chance, he found that there was a case that was not right, but it had been tried, but he felt that there was a problem, so he told the old man. But the presiding judge did not think that there was a problem with his trial, so they were on the bar, and finally the old man could not twist him, and the truth of the trial was reissued.
If you want to say that this Wang Huizu is an official, he must be a Qingtian Grand Master, but he has been a master for thirty years, not because he has not taken the examination, but he has not been admitted until he is forty-six years old. He was also dismissed from his post because of his promotion and injury.
At that time, poor readers generally had two ways out of the exam: one was to teach, and the other was to be a teacher. Wang Huizu himself has a book "George's Medicine", which mentions: "Han Shi apprentices, after months of cultivation, are less than a few gold, and more than a dozen gold." "This means that after a few months of teaching, there will be only a few silver or two, and more than a dozen or two." At that time, twenty-two was enough for a family of four to spend a year, how many people did Wang Hui's ancestral family have? Eight mouthfuls! This is clearly not enough. What if you were a master? In the "George's Medicine", it is said: "The people who travel to the curtain, the monthly repair or to dozens of gold." "A few dozen taels of silver a month, that's certainly enough."
In the previous part, we said that the officials below the six pins of the Qing Dynasty did not even have a pension, so did the master have a future?
In fact, being a master also looks at his own ability, and his ability is not prominent, he can only work for others in obscurity, and when he is old, he will rely on his previous savings to retire. If you are like Wang Huizu, who is famous, it will be difficult to starve to death. To say that the best mix among the masters is also one of the "four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty", Zuo Zongtang. People don't care about money, they don't care about adjudicating cases, they don't write or write, they specialize in fighting wars. Mainly to help the imperial court deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was a military and strategist, but despite this, when it was the turn of other things, he had to ask the master to help. Master also asked Master to help, which is really incredible.