The six ministries are the general name of the ministries of mandarins, households, rituals, military, penal, and labor.

1, the Ministry of mandarins

The Ministry of mandarins for the management of civilian officials of the authorities, the system of rank and file ambassadors, the party of the examination and deputation, sealing and granting of the code of reward, the final system of the law. The Ministry of mandarins set up four divisions: the Ming and Qing Dynasties for the Division, check the seal division, the Division and the Division of the audit of the merits of the examination. The Department of Civil Service was in charge of the examination of civil service grades and the listing, examination and award, selection, promotion and transfer, and handling of monthly elections. The Department of Seal Inspection is in charge of matters such as titles, titles, honorary titles, difficult titles, requests for seals, and donations for seals.

2, Ministry of households

Ministry of households in charge of the national territory, fields, household registration, taxes, salaries and all financial matters. Its internal handling of political affairs according to the regional division of labor and set up a division, Ming thirteen Division: Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Fujian, Yunnan, Guizhou. Qing Dynasty added Jiangnan Division, for fourteen divisions. In addition to the division in charge of checking the province's money and food, but also part of the other Yamen's common affairs, the duties of many cross.

3, the Ministry of Rites

The Ministry of Rites in charge of ceremonial affairs and schools, the imperial examinations. Examination of auspicious, Jia, military, guests, the five rites of passage; management of the national school affairs and the examination and examination of the feudal and foreign affairs. Ministry of Rites under the four divisions, the Ming and Qing dynasties are: ceremonial Qingliang Division, in charge of Jia Li, military rites and management of school affairs, the imperial examinations; ancestral worship Qingliang Division, in charge of auspicious rites, foul rites affairs; guest Qingliang Division, in charge of the guest rites and the reception of foreign guests affairs; fine meals Qingliang Division, in charge of the feasts and banquets and government grants and rations and livestock prison affairs.

4, Ministry of war

Ming job in charge of the national military guards, military officer selection, training of the decree. Qing dynasty institutions in charge of the national green battalion military registration and military officials. In charge of internal and external military officials in addition to authorization, sealing of the code, ride, postal system, screening, the concise formula, the number of soldiers, the actual military. Ministry of war under the four divisions: the martial arts selection of the Qingliang Division, the assessment of the grade of the military officials and the selection, promotion, inheritance, grant matters, and the management of the land division.

Car and Driver Clearance Division, in charge of the national horse and stagecoach and other things; job square Clearance Division, in charge of the military officials of the classification of merit, verification, pensions, military and travel of the brief reading, inspection, patrols and other things, and the management of the Customs and the prohibition of the sea; the Treasury Clearance Division, in charge of the country's military records, weapons and martial arts exams.

5, the Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice in charge of the national penal decrees and review of criminal organizations, and the Inspectorate in charge of inspection, the Da Lisi in charge of major cases of the final hearing and review, **** for the "three law system". The specific duties of the Ministry of Justice were to finalize various laws, to review the criminal cases sent to the ministry from all over the world, to hear the death penalty cases of the "Supervisors and Waiters" in conjunction with the Nine Ministers, and to hear the cases above the pending crimes in the Gyeonggi area directly. The internal organization of the Ministry of Justice is set up in accordance with the provincial division, the Ming thirteen divisions, the name and the Ministry of Household Department of the same division.

6, Ministry

The Ministry of Public Works for the management of national engineering affairs. The system of construction of civil engineering, the use of artifacts, drainage and weir drainage law, the mausoleum for a hundred million of the code. Where the country's civil engineering, water conservancy projects, machinery manufacturing projects (including military equipment, arms, military equipment, etc.), mining and metallurgy, textiles and other government-run industries, and is responsible for a portion of the financial and monetary and unified weights and measures.

Ching Ministry of Criminal Division in addition to the division of the province of criminal name, the duty of other provinces and Yamen part of the receipt and issue of paperwork and some of the day-to-day political affairs. In addition, the Qing dynasty set up arrest division, in charge of the supervision and arrest of flag fugitives; Autumn trial, in charge of the verification of the autumn trial, the trial of the case; reduce and so on, in charge of remittance verification of the provinces and the present trial of the case of the case of amnesty reduction and other things.

The prison hall, in charge of prison guards, inspect the north and south of the prison criminals, the issue of prison clothes, food and drugs; stolen punishment library, in charge of the case of the current trial and confiscation of stolen money and confiscation of various objects, and the custody of the Department of the silver and the Hall of the seal; redemption of punishment, in charge of the punishment of crime; laws and regulations, in charge of the revision of the law. Similar to the current Ministry of Justice and the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Guangxu thirty-two years, the Qing government announced that "imitation of constitutional government", the Ministry of households was renamed the Ministry of the Department of the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of Industry and the new Ministry of Commerce merged with the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, the original Sanctuary was renamed the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Penal Department was renamed Ministry of the Ministry of Law, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of the Ministry of the Postal Service. Will be established in the temple, the temple, the temple and Honglu Temple into the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Rites in the internal organization of the addition of Chengzheng, Senate two halls, ceremonial system, the temple, the three departments and the Rites of the library, the Rites of the Museum.

To the Xuantong three years (1911) in April, the Qing government set up a responsible cabinet. In May, the responsibility of the Cabinet promulgated the official system, the establishment of the system of enjoining, ambassadors and other bureaus, the Ministry of Mandarins was withdrawn. In June, the Ministry of Rites into a ceremony, became the Qing government specializing in the court altar and temple, mausoleum rites and music and the manufacture of guardian matters, and in charge of repairing the rites and music, more fixed chapter system of the authorities. The system of the six departments, and then changed.

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