As the saying goes, ancient dynasties could only have one emperor. In history, there have been "two palaces listening to the government", but there has never been a "second emperor Bingzheng". Even if there is a Taishang Emperor in the dynasty, it must be divided into high and low priorities with the current saints, and only one person can be the master. If not, it will definitely cause great trouble.
This principle is the same from a local point of view, if there are two officials with similar powers in a certain region, then there will be a tiger fight.
In the bureaucracy of the Qing Dynasty, there was a system of supervision. The so-called governor is not an official position, but a combination of governor and inspector. The governor is the highest official of a certain place, and the inspector is also the highest official of the place, and although the two are responsible for different tasks, there are many overlapping parts of their powers.
The implementation of this system makes it difficult for some governors and governors to coexist like water and fire, and friction and even conflicts occur constantly. This kind of controversy of supervision and appeasement caused a quarrel in the Golden Ruan Palace, and the emperor would often fight with the mud, and it would not be a big deal to play fifty big boards each, and never solve practical problems with both symptoms and causes.
Why did the ancient rulers set up a system of supervision, so that two supreme chiefs coexisted?
It is to prevent local officials from respecting themselves and becoming emperors of the earth. The Governor and the Inspector general can effectively prevent this phenomenon from occurring. At the beginning of the establishment of the governor system, the governor and the inspector each grasped their own work, ostensibly their work was not in conflict, the governor was responsible for the local military, and the governor was in charge of civil affairs. The governor administers the official investigation of a province or provinces, and the official title is Zhengerpin . The inspector is responsible for the development of people's livelihood in a province, the pros and cons of the reform, and the official title is from Erpin.
Although there is already a distinction between the primary and secondary ranks of the officials, the two are both feudal officials. Both the governor and the governor had the power to act alone before the emperor. Saying that it is a playing thing, in fact, it is impossible to get the political affairs that can be said on the surface, and most of them are small reports. Due to institutional omissions, many of the duties and powers of the governor and the inspector are the same, for example, the assessment of hundreds of officials in the jurisdiction is both the work of the governor and the work of the inspector. The overlap of these positions will inevitably lead to constant friction between the governors.
In the second year of Yongzheng, Tian Wenjing, the envoy of Shanxi Province, was promoted because of his outstanding political achievements and promoted to the post of Inspector of Henan. Just as the so-called new officials have three fires in office, Tian Wenjing is no exception. After taking office, he immediately carried out a drastic reform with great vigor. Prior to this, there were many redundant officials in henan, and Tian Wenjing looked at them quite unpleasantly, so he impeached all of them. Many county-level leaders, including Huang Zhenguo of Xinyang Zhizhou and Cai Weihan of Chenzhou Zhizhou, were ousted by Tian Wenjing.
Tian Wenjing was originally just to rectify the rule of officials, but he did not expect to cause public discussion among the people under the heavens, why? It turned out that the officials he had impeached were all from the imperial examination of the root of HongmiaoZheng, and they had a future of relying on meritorious achievements. Tian Wenjing was not from the Imperial Examination, he was just a prisoner before he became an official, and he bought it with money. As now, the clan from the class looked down on the non-class wild fox Zen, so Tian Wenjing's impeachment of officials made him antagonistic to the readers.
Coincidentally, Li Fu, the governor of Guangxi, was ordered to enter Beijing and receive a letter of appointment from the governor directly subordinate to him. When Li Fu passed through Henan, he specially inspected the situation of local officials. Tian Wenjing's every move was fully seen by Li Fu. After coming to the capital, Li Fu immediately made a small report to the emperor, saying that Tian Wenjing was using the pretext of rectifying the rule of officials and excluding dissidents. Li Fu did not come with an open mouth, and he also came up with some evidence. For example, Tian Wenjing's reuse of Shangcai Zhixian Zhang Qiuben is a guy who does not learn any skills, because this person recommended a guest to Tian Wenjing, so he was protected by the patrol adult.
Although Yongzheng paid attention to the rule of officials, he was not a mediocre who was partial to listening and believing. In order to find out the truth, he sent Li Fu's recital to Henan for Tian Wenjing to see. This meaning is already very obvious, Yong is telling Tian Wenjing, no matter what other people think, anyway, Shuo believes it, you consider it yourself. Tian Wenjing is not a fuel-saving lamp, and what he and his staff study the most on weekdays is the emperor's intention. Tian Wenjing is well aware that the most taboo thing for saints today is to pull gangs and gangs to engage in party struggle. Therefore, Tian Wenjing counterattacked backwards and reported and exposed Li Fu's secret collusion with indigenous officials in Henan.
Because Tian Wenjing was the same year as many Henan magistrates, Tian Wenjing insisted that what he did was to fight against the partisans. At the same time, Tian Wenjing also stressed that Zhang Qiu, who served the dish, was not a bastard, but a talent with high moral character.
After receiving Tian Wenjing's report letter, Yongzheng repeated the trick and gave Tian Wenjing's fold to Li Fu. The implication is that what Tian Wenjing said is reasonable, no matter what other people think, I think this fold is very credible, you consider it yourself. Who knows, Li Fu was not willing to compromise at all, and still wanted to compete with Tian Wenjing without hesitation. Yongzheng had no way to deal with the mud, and could only send Chincha to investigate the situation.
The results showed that tian Wenjing did nothing wrong, but Zhang Qiu, who Li Fu said, was indeed a bastard who did not learn and had no skills. The two men each made a mistake and played fifty boards each. However, Li Fu's alliance with the party made Yongzheng somewhat alert, and also laid the foundation for what happened later. In fact, Li Fu and Tian Wenjing's confrontation was really a stinky chess move that ignited the fire.
The battle of overseers on this side has just ended, and the overseers on the other side have fought again.
Cai Wei, who had served as the governor of Directly Subordinate To, came to the emperor to report and expose that Yue Zhongqi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, had a rebellious heart. Yue Zhongqi's personality, Yongzheng is well known. Cai Xi's words were purely framed, and yongzheng would be a little annoyed if he said more. Yongzheng told Li Fu to stay away from a villain like Cai Huan. Li Fu had a good personal relationship with Cai Wei, and instead of staying away from Cai Xi, he defended him. Yongzheng felt more and more that Li Fu's alliance with the party for personal gain was not out of thin air.
Not long after, Zhejiang went to supervise Yushi Xie Jishi's impeachment of Tian Wenjing, and the content of the song was exactly the same as Li Fu's previous report letter, and even framed Tian Wenjing for killing people and killing people. After Yongzheng sent people to investigate, he found that there was no such thing, so he firmly believed that Li Fu, Cai Qi, Xie Jishi and others were secretly colluding to form a friend party. A furious Yongzheng beat Cai Qi and Li Fu to death row. At this point, the political storm caused by a dispute over supervision has come to an end.
During the Kangxi Dynasty, something similar happened.
Although the great corrupt official Ka Li was greedy and embezzled countless things, his ability to do things was good, and he was deeply used by the Kangxi Emperor. In the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Gari was appointed governor of Liangjiang. In order to avoid the excessive power of the Gari, Kangxi also sent the Qingliu minister Zhang Boxing to serve as the governor of Jiangsu. In Kangxi's view, these two people, one clean and one corrupt, one Manchu and one Han, complement each other's checks and balances. Unexpectedly, after the two people who were diametrically opposite worked together, their contradictions were even more terrible.
After Kalli took office, he also lit three fires in the district. The officials, Yu Zhun, the governor of Jiangsu, and Yi Sigong, the envoy of the government, were all ousted from power because they were caught by Gali with their pigtails. However, in Zhang Boxing's view, Gali established his power in order to eliminate dissidents. Zhang Boxing was a straightforward man, and he approached Gali and debated with him. After many quarrels, Zhang Boxing realized that This guy Gali was a big tiger that he couldn't bring down, and he was very depressed.
Therefore, Zhang Boxing asked Kangxi, hoping that he could retire early and enjoy happiness, away from the open and secret struggle in the official field. However, how could Kangxi allow the painstakingly constructed "Tai Chi" to be broken? Zhang Boxing's resignation letter was returned, and he could only continue to negotiate with Gali. Two years later, when the Jiangnan Keju fraud case occurred, Zhang Boxing found out the truth and immediately paid tribute to Kangxi for impeaching the culprit. Zhang Boxing's investigation idea was very clear, and even the amount of money that Gali received from others was clearly clear.
When the official raided the house, he found half a million unidentified assets from The Gali family. Kangxi scolded Gali, who naturally denied the source of the money and falsely accused Zhang Boxing of colluding with bandits to harm the people. At this point, Kangxi was a little puzzled, who of these two guys said was true? Simply get rid of both of them, find out the truth, and then make a decision.
In order to investigate the situation, Kangxi successively sent three Chincha to Jiangsu. The earliest official Shangshu did not dare to offend the powerful Gali, so he reported to Kangxi that Gali was no problem. Kangxi did not believe it, and sent Hubu Shangshu and Gongbu Shangshu to Jiangsu to investigate the situation, and the two adults also wanted to curry favor with Gali, saying that Gali was not suspected of cheating in the field.
A few days later, the test takers in Jiangsu went to the capital and denounced the ceremony. Kangxi angrily rebuked the three Chincha, saying: "The people who reported Gali have all come to the capital to petition, which is also called no problem?" As a result, Kangxi made a final judgment, dismissing Gali from his post and Zhang Boxing to remain.
On the surface, the outcome of this matter was all happy, the big corrupt officials were dismissed, and the clean officials were reinstated. However, this is not the case.
Although Zhang Boxing has a "line" in his name, his ability to do things is really "not ok". It is estimated that Zhang Boxing's skill points are all on incorruptibility, so the level of governance is quite lacking. Although he had the support of the Kangxi Emperor, Zhang Boxing, who had offended Gali, became afraid. The old forces of Gali still had only one hand to cover the sky in the Jiangsu territory, and Zhang Boxing was afraid that if he went out one day and was stabbed to death, he simply would not go out.
Once Kangxi asked him to visit Changzhou, Zhang Boxing insisted on finding a bunch of reasons to shirk, and Kangxi was furious. On this occasion, Kangxi began to miss the benefits of the Gali. The impeachment of Zhang Boxing's ineffective work has been piled up on the table, if Gali is there, where will these problems arise? Later, the more Kangxi thought that Zhang Boxing's boy was really "not OK.". Such a person, or cool and stay.
As a result, Kangxi transferred Zhang Boxing to an idle post and no longer gave him important work. At the end, Kangxi did not forget to give Zhang Boxing a comment:
"Although the ethics are clear, they are confused and have no talent to do things."
Resources:
[Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Eighty-One Chronicles, Draft history of the Qing Dynasty, Lectionary 52]