In ancient China, the emperors really made great efforts to strengthen their centralized rule, not only set up a hierarchical class system, dividing ordinary people into upper, middle, and lower slaves, and their occupations were also three, six, and nine; by the beginning of the 17th century, the Qing Dynasty was established, the official system was more and more perfect, and in order to divide the rights of ministers, even the officials of the "upper nine streams" were divided into nine grades and eighteen grades.
For example, people often say that Zhixian or County Ling is a small "seven-pin sesame official", but the famous Qing official Bao Zheng in the Northern Song Dynasty also climbed and fought in the position of county order in 1027 and after the first. In 1036, Ouyang Xiuyin, a scholar of Hanlin, also served as a county magistrate for a period of time in the defense of Fan Zhongyan.
However, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhixian was a zhengqipin, and there were several levels of officials such as county clerks and master books under his hands, and many people who had passed the entrance examination had to start from Zhixian County, so although Zhixian was small, it was not yet to the point of being breathless.
Of course, these nine pins and eighteenth levels are not just applause, each level of officials has strict framework restrictions, even if the head is iron, it must not be surpassed. Leaving aside the scope of duties of officials at each level, the number of fenglu, and the uniform system for each of their rank officials has strict regulations.
When people see the palace drama, people can see that even the harem concubines wear the wrong clothes or costumes that do not belong to their own grades, and the light is boarded, and the heavy will be imprisoned in the cold palace. Under the obscenity of the imperial power, so did the ministers of the imperial court, who had strict requirements for their clothing patterns and accessories in different classes and on different occasions.
In order to further divide the ranks of the ministers, the Qing Dynasty also made a fuss about crown ornaments. Careful companions can often see in the TV series that when ministers come to the court, some officials always wear a long tail on the crown. Officials with "tails" walked with their heads on their toes, as if they were peacocks looking at everyone.
Yes, this "tail" is made of peacock feathers, but this feather is also divided into grades, there are two major categories of ordinary blue feathers and flower feathers. The blue plume is an ordinary feather with no pattern, which is generally only rewarded to low-level officials; and the flower plume is only qualified to be worn by officials with more than five products.
It is divided into three levels: single eye, double eyes and three eyes, of which three eyes are the most precious. If you want the emperor to reward the three-eyed flower plume when you are an official in the dynasty, you must first be a nobleman born in the "Three Banners of Manchuria", and then you must serve in the central imperial court, and you must be an important minister of officials and Yipin.
With these hard conditions is not enough, but also to make a great contribution to the country, to be recognized and respected by everyone, in order to get the three eyes. However, this rule was too strict, so gradually the Qing court also gave up the requirement of blood. Even if the restrictions were relaxed, only 7 people in the entire Qing Dynasty had obtained the Three-Eyed Plume in the two hundred years, which was even rarer than the number of emperors.
During the Qianlong period, when it was extremely popular, it could be called "under one person, above ten thousand people" and he tried his best to please the emperor, that is, he wanted to get the three-eyed flower plume, and Qianlong just wouldn't give it. However, He yan's younger brother, the general Helin, was awarded the Three-Eyed Flower Plume for his bravery on the battlefield and his repeated military achievements. He lin was killed in battle in 1796, taking the first step of his brother and Yan, so the fall of He Yan 3 years later did not affect his honor before his death.
In addition, Fu Heng, the younger brother of Empress Xiaoxianchun in the Qianlong period, Fu Heng's son Fu Kang'an, and the elder of the Daoguang period, all three were generals who had made great military achievements on the battlefield and were admired by the people, and all of them were from prominent nobles and were given three eyes. The remaining three were all important ministers in the middle of the dynasty, with the minister Xi En during the Daoguang period and the ministers Xu Tong and Li Hongzhang in the late Qing dynasty.
The latter two were Han courtiers, and they were able to make great contributions to the country, so that the Qing Dynasty broke with tradition and awarded them the Three-Eyed Flower Plume. In addition to these 7 people who have three-eyed plumes, there are more than 20 people who have been given two-eyed plumes, which is also quite rare.
However, in the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government was always required to pay compensation for the cession of land, and the national treasury was empty. In order to maintain the normal operation of the country, the ministers could only be disguised to donate money to fill the deficit, and Hua Ling became a thing that could be bought and sold, and its value plummeted.