Taking Measures To Govern And Precaution Robbers During The YongZheng Period

The problem of robbers is inevitable in every dynasty and must to be deal.The robbers wants something for nothing and their greed are the most fundamental factors that why they have this evildoing.Or they forced by life also is a reason to be robbers,like the natural disaster and government’s oppression.In terms of degree of social harm,its not only impact the social order but also endanger the stable regime.In the terms of social order,the larger influence including bandit and the most serious situation is killing people for money.According to the difference of robber’s criminal area,they could be divided into pirates,robbing in the river and robbing on the land,all of this are the rulers have to solve.For Qing dynasty’s emperors,kept a stable social is great importance problem.They paid attention to eliminate robbers start from Shunzhi period,so they had to do a lot of works to guard against robbers,such as put a severe punishment and implement Baojia system.However,the forgiving governing idea in Emperor Kangxi’s later period made a lot of disadvantages to their bureaucracy,government’s officials couldn’t try hard for local affairs,some officials also hid the case of robbery and never reported to their superiors.So,its easily lead to robber’s wanton disregard and made robbery cases much serious.When Emperor Yongzheng came to power,he changed the ruling style of Emperor Kangxi and all strictly,he also had a get-tough attitude to robbers.So Emperor Yongzheng ordered subordinates to revise the law in the early of he ascend the throne.Besides supplemented the law of punishing robbers,its also was a key point to solve that local government’s working attitude about robbers.Emperor Yongzheng knew local officials deceive his superiors and hide the local robbery cases,so he often rebuked the governor to pursue robbers responsibly and had a severe punishment for local government’s disciplinary action.At the last,Emperor Yongzheng taken some measures to prevent the robbers,for example,enlightened people to be good and pragmatic,Emperor Yongzheng also fully implemented Baojia system to strengthen the control of people,so the local government could easily know the robber’s trace.Of course,Emperor Yongzheng also promoted local officials who sincerely dealt with robbery cases.Compared with Emperor Kangxi,Emperor Yongzheng had a more strict request to robbers,people and local officials.Under the seriously renovation by Emperor Yongzheng,the local officials had a great improvements,the robbery cases was reduced under their cleaned up.Although,the robbery cases cannot be vanished,but the measures of Emperor Yongzheng had a great influence,its improved the efficiency of official’s governance and strengthened the control to people,so its have a positive effect to social security.To some extent,this measures lay the foundation for the ‘Kang-Qian Grand Era ’,its also have much practical significance and reference for our society.