What is the Tong Ren Palace, but the concubines are terrified when they hear the name, no one wants to come?

Tong Renfu is an authoritarian agency that manages people in the imperial court, and this place also often appears in Qing dynasty palace movies. When the plot of the film develops to the climax, there will often be a line "dragged to Tong Nhan Phu".

So what is this place doing after all? Why did it become a "horror hell" in Qing Dynasty archery movies?

Where is the Qing Dynasty's Tong Renfu?

Especially in history, Tong Nhan Phu is not as scary as in the movie. Tong Ren Phu originally originated at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty - the period of King Zhou Yuanzhang. Zhou Yuanzhang in the 3rd year of Hongyu, that is, in 1371 established the Tong Renfu of the Ming Dynasty. Originally called the Great Tong Zhengyuan, it was an agency specializing in managing affairs within the imperial court, mainly because after Zhou Yuanzhang became emperor, the size of his Zhou family expanded more and more, until the 3rd year of Hong Yu, although the Ming Dynasty was not completely unified at that time, the Zhou family also increased not a little. Many of Zhou Yuanzhang's concubines have given birth to countless children, the number of people is too large, and there needs to be a specialized body to manage, so the Great Tong Zhengyuan has been established.

By the 22nd year of Hong Yu, that is, in 1390, the size of the Zhou family had expanded several times compared to the first years of Hong Yu, and Zhou Yuanzhang's nephews and nieces were also extremely numerous. At this time, Zhou Yuanzhang changed the name of the Grand Sect of the Zhengyuan to the Sect of the People's Government, and at the same time expanded the functions and structure of the Sect of the People's Government.

In the time of Zhou Yuanzhang, the highest-ranking chief official was Tong Nhan Ling, subordinates included Ta Tong Zheng, Huu Tong Zheng, Ta Tong Nhan, Huu Tong Nhan... The official ranks are all first-class officials, belonging to the high-level category. The highest chief official is the Tong Nhan Ling, usually held by the Zhou family's royal family. At this time, the main responsibility of the Tong Nhan Phu is to register, make a book, and record the information of full name, date of birth, title, title, and title,... of members of the royal family, is a human resources and civil status management agency of the royal family.

In addition, the Tong Renfu also needs to serve and handle a lot of daily affairs within the imperial court. For example, arranging and paying for filial piety, childbirth, education, rewards, and rewards,... of members of the royal family. At the same time, the Tong Nhan Phu is also in charge of writing the royal genealogy and the emperor's history, recording the merits, crimes, and expenses of the members of the royal family, along with sanctioning members who make mistakes, collecting the situation of the members of the imperial family, periodic reports to the Emperor.

Later, in the 18th year of Yongluo, also in 1421, the Ming Cheng Ancestor Zhou De moved the capital to Beijing, so the agencies in Nanjing also became decorations. At this time, there was also a Tong Renfu in Nanjing, but it was basically managed by the Tong Renfu in Beijing, and the Tong Renfu in Nanjing became a place where it was not necessary to exist, usually leaving unimportant people or the elderly and sick to stay in charge of governing the Tong Renfu in Nanjing.

From then on, both Tong Renfu in both sutras were no longer managed by the people of the imperial family, but were mainly in charge of foreign ministers, no professional officials were established, and at the same time, the Tong Renfu was attributed to the Ministry of Ceremonies, and all work could only be carried out through the Ministry of Ceremonies. In the whole Ming Dynasty, although the Tong Renfu was an agency that managed the affairs of the imperial family, it was a national agency with a corresponding rule regime.

Later, when the Manchus entered the country (attacked the Central Plains), they inherited the entire set of regimes of the Ming Dynasty, including the Tong Renfu. However, the Tong Renfu of the Qing Dynasty combined the original regime of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the characteristics of the Eight Qi regime of the Manchus, constantly expanding and supplementing the functions of the Sect of Humanity.

The functions and positioning of the Qing Dynasty were not much different from those of the Ming Dynasty, still mainly in charge of the daily affairs of the royal family and the work of recording demographics and civil status,... of the imperial court. But the Qing Dynasty's Tong Renfu broke away from the Ministry of Ceremonies and became a special agency directly managed by the Ai Xin Jiao La clan itself.

The genealogical notebook of the Qing Dynasty imperial family is called Ngoc Diep, mainly recording information such as genealogy, princes, princesses and family backgrounds of relatives who are related to the imperial family, the birth of the eight-god god,... it is also necessary to clearly record which period the person belongs to, what title, marital status and birth and death.

Secondly, the Tong Renfu of the Qing Dynasty was mainly in charge of formulating and complying with the clan's regulations, etiquette, laws, and reward and punishment regimes. Finally, there is the temple of sacrifice, symbolism, and symbolism,... of the royal family. Later, because the concubines and courtiers in the Qing Dynasty harem were all selected from the Ba Ky Dynasty, so compared to the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty Tong Ren Fu had an additional job of managing the Ba Qi people.

In charge of governing the Tong Ren Fu of the Qing Dynasty, it was mainly Xu Lek who had royal blood, and at the same time set up an additional Han person to take on the position of Tong Ren Fu. Because the documents in the Tong Ren Fu needed to do some translation work, any document that had a Manchu script also needed a Chinese script.

The Qing Dynasty, after inheriting the Jiangshan of the Ming Dynasty, also learned the lesson because the number of people in the imperial family was too large, so it finally collapsed the whole dynasty. The Qing Dynasty at that time also made a rule, in addition to the 8 Emperor Mao Zi Wang, other Qing Dynasty nobles, if they could not make merits, would be demoted by one rank in each lifetime. For example, the first generation is the King, if there is no merit, the second generation will be reduced to Xue Lek, the third generation will be reduced to Xue Zi, and the subsequent generations will no longer have rank.

These early apostles to later generations will be constantly demoted, they will be further and further away, making these families enjoy less and less subsidies and national benefits. Although there are also a few descendants of the Qi Master through their own efforts, glorifying the family, but most of the people in the Eight Seasons have gradually disappeared, without promotion, even to the point of poverty and misfortune. And many imperial families and miracles were also gradually kicked out of their daily records, and the category of consolidation in the Sect of the Emperor in the next life was becoming more and more distant. Only when recruiting, Tong Renfu reminded him to participate on time.

Although the ruler of the Qing Dynasty always paid attention to controlling the increase in the population of the imperial family, by the time of King Kangxi, there was still a situation of insufficient money to spend on the royal family. Therefore, in the 41st year of Kangxi, Khang Xi took 60,000 taels of silver from the Ministry of Households and handed it over to the Patriarch to send to the treasury (like today's bank deposits), the profits obtained would be used by the apostles, used to spend their joyful expenses. Since receiving financial support from the Kangxi period, Tong Renfu has gradually gained a secondary source of income based on his own business. Later, in addition to weddings and funerals of important members of the imperial court, the Tong Nhan Phu was basically able to pay for ordinary members of the imperial family.

Finally, regarding the scenes in the palace movie, the Tong Nhan Phu also has corresponding sanctions for members of the royal family who violate the rules and the law, as long as they do not commit major crimes such as treason, surrendering to the enemy, they are usually handled by the Tong Nhan Phu and not handed over to the Ministry of Photography.

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