Hearing Jiang Zijun's words, Emperor Hongzhi's eyebrows moved slightly, and he had an extremely strong sense of disgust for this imperial history Jiang Zijun in his heart.

As an emperor, Emperor Hongzhi didn't deal with these imperial histories for a day or two, and he really knew too well the urine nature of these imperial histories and said that they were mad dogs, which was still a compliment, to be precise, these imperial histories were not as good as mad dogs many times.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the management of the country, especially in order to supervise the hundred officials, clean up and rectify, and establish an extremely complete supervision system.

Specifically, on the basis of the supervision system, six new departments were added, and thirteen supervision imperial histories were set up in thirteen provinces across the country, forming a unique system of Taiwan admonition in the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, this supervision of the imperial history was not founded in the Ming Dynasty, it first originated in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but it was in the Ming Dynasty that it was really carried forward.

In the Ming Dynasty, the supervision of the imperial history was subordinate to the Inspectorate, and the highest official was the inspector of the imperial history, which was the second product, ranking one of the nine secretaries, but the ordinary imperial history official position was not high, just the seventh grade, but the power was unprecedentedly large, whether it was a major national event, such as foreign wars, imperial examinations, education, etc.

or trivial matters, such as the emperor marrying a daughter-in-law, the prince leaving the cabinet, etc., the supervision of the imperial history can be advised, and they can be directly played to the emperor.

This is the most typical embodiment of the Ming Dynasty's characteristics of small and large, and the founder Zhu Yuanzhang tried to maintain the rule of officials in such a way, and at the same time allowed the emperor to have more sources of information.

This seems to be a very good system, which not only supervises hundreds of officials, but also allows the emperor not to be deceived by the courtiers below, so as not to fall into the power list and become a puppet emperor.

But it backfired, and the imperial history of the Ming Dynasty was still able to play some role at the beginning, but as time went by, these imperial histories slowly became a tool to be used.

These civil officials of the Ming Dynasty used the power in the hands of the imperial history to constantly write to the emperor, saying today that the emperor should not eat too much in one meal, and tomorrow saying that the emperor should not take a nap, it should be a diligent government affairs that does not rest all day long, and the day after tomorrow will say that the emperor's walking posture is not majestic enough, and there is no emperor's appearance.

In short, these imperial histories are full of food and have nothing to do, staring at the emperor every day, even if it is a trivial matter, they can also make a big fuss, these people are all literati, all of them are literati, and they are all brilliant, and they don't scold people with a little dirty words, if they don't have a little level, they can't even see what the other party is saying about you.

They can make a big fuss about very small things, and they will not be bullshit about what the emperor says, and even dare to spray spit on the emperor's face in front of the emperor.

But the emperor of the Ming Dynasty couldn't help these imperial histories, because the power in the hands of the imperial histories was given by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and they were doing their own thing.

Sometimes it's really uncomfortable to be scolded, and the emperor will be angry, which just fulfills these imperial histories, these imperial histories are very small, I wish to rely on this to become famous, it is best to be killed by the emperor, so that I can also leave a reputation that dares to speak directly.

Originally, it was specially to supervise hundreds of officials, but in the end it became an existence dedicated to finding fault with the emperor, and several emperors who were unwilling to go to court in the middle and late Ming Dynasty in history were also affected by this.

Anyone who goes to work every day, no matter what they do right, they have to be told about it, but you have no way to take these mad dogs, and the party struggle above the court is getting more and more intense, everyone is forming parties with each other, attacking each other, fighting for power and profit, and no one is doing practical things at all.

Faced with such a situation, these emperors in the middle and late stages have gradually lost control of the whole world, unable to collect taxes, the treasury is empty, and they can't do anything, and they can't change anything.

Even if there are a few powerful emperors, relying on eunuchs can temporarily take back part of their power, but soon these civil officials can take back power again, after all, the emperor who grew up in the deep palace compound and grew up in the hands of women will lose to these courtiers who are experienced in political struggle.

In the end, the emperor's power is still in the hands of the emperor on the surface, but in fact, the emperor can't do anything, he wants money without money, he wants no people, and the deceased Emperor Chongzhen has changed dozens of cabinet chiefs and assistants, and it is still inevitable that he will hang the crooked neck tree.

In addition to constantly attacking the emperor, these imperial histories can easily become very sharp attacks because of their small rank and great power.

Because the higher-level and even much larger officials have no way to take the imperial history, they have gradually cultivated the phenomenon of these imperial historians attacking people indiscriminately.

As long as there is a need, whether there is a need or not, these imperial histories can find all kinds of things to attack the big people of the court, and in many cases, these big people of the court and the big people of the court will also be attacked if they don't actually commit any mistakes, because this is the need of the power struggle.

Therefore, whether it is the emperor at the top or the courtiers below, everyone is tired of dealing with these imperial histories, which greatly wastes the energy and time of the emperor and courtiers.

Sometimes the early dynasties, court discussions, etc. have almost become vegetable markets, and have become the places where these imperial historians scold the streets, and the emperor has no way to take them, and the important ministers of the court who are many levels older than themselves have no way, and even after being attacked by them, they have to find ways to explain.

This seriously affected the efficiency of the office of the emperor and the ministers of the court, Emperor Chongzhen was very diligent, very diligent, in the face of internal and external troubles, he worked hard, but he spent a large part of his time dealing with the courtiers in the court using the imperial history to attack each other.

Because the power of the imperial history is too large, the grade is small, and it is natural and peaceful, everyone likes to use these imperial history to make a fuss, what to do when they encounter opponents, and let the imperial history under his command attack the people of the hostile faction.

Many times, the courtiers want to save face, and some ministers will often submit their resignation to the emperor if they are included in the imperial history, and if the emperor really approves it without knowing the reason, it is definitely someone else's favor.

Therefore, the existence of these imperial histories also intensified the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the middle and late periods, all kinds of party struggles intensified, and one party after another attacked each other, fighting for power and profit, that is, no one wanted to do something practical for this court.

They have formed a large group of people linked by geography, and these groups have used the imperial history to make a big fuss, not just attacking their competitors.

More often than not, they constantly attacked the emperor, so that the emperor's energy was focused on these inconsequential and trivial things, and slowly forced the emperor to hand over the power in his hands to these ministers, expanding the power of civil officials.

Of course, the wise emperor will use another force to fight against them, and this force is the eunuch power, and use these eunuch forces to compete with these civil officials.

As for some stupid emperors, such as Chongzhen, he stupidly believed the words of these literati, abolished his martial arts, pulled out the power of eunuchs, and finally couldn't escape becoming a hanged ghost under the crooked neck tree, as for the literati he believed, he knelt on his knees, tied his hair in braids, and immediately welcomed the new master.