Abstract: The Six Offices of Scrutiny was a system of control and surveillance during the Ming and Qing dynasties that greatly contribute to cleaning up government． The Collected Statutes had little to say about the system in the Shunzhi reign． This essay examines official and private records to attempt a preliminary
investigation of the establishment of the Six Offices of Scrutiny during this period and the method for selecting officials，while simultaneously probing into the changes in the Six Offices of Scrutiny that occurred during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition．