Assistant minister, an ancient official name, belonged to a kind of Langguan in Han Dynasty and was originally a court attendant. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shang Shu became an official. He was called a doctor at first, Shang Shulang for one year and assistant minister for three years. Since the Tang Dynasty, all ministries in Zhongshu, Xiamen and Shangshu provinces have taken assistant ministers as their deputies, and their official positions have gradually increased. It is equivalent to the current ministerial level and deputy ministerial level.

brief introduction

The Han Dynasty was a kind of Langguan, and it was originally a servant of the imperial court. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was a minister of history, first appointed, a businessman for one year, and an assistant minister for three years. Later, with the increasing power of Shangshutai, assistant ministers became more and more important. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were six departments in Beijing, namely, officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments and workers, which were in charge of state affairs. Among them, each department has an assistant minister, who is the actual executor who assists the chief official of Shangshu, and is equivalent to the second minister of this department.

The adjutant of Zhongshu Province is called Zhongshu Assistant Minister, and the adjutant of Xiamen Province is called Xiamen Assistant Minister (Huangmen Assistant Minister). Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties will not change. 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, promoted six assistant ministers to be the three products. After that, the Qing dynasty followed the old system and set up assistant ministers, one in Manchu and one in Han, that is, there were four assistant ministers between the six ministries.