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The middle of the Ming Dynasty was an era in which the rule of civil servants was developed to the extreme, and the emperor had become a symbolic head of state, and it was the cabinet elders who really exercised the rights of the state, as well as the civil official group under their leadership.

The appointment of officials in the Ming Dynasty is not that the emperor wants to use whomever he wants, the cabinet elders and the six books have to be elected, if the emperor appoints that official, the cabinet and the six departments can refute the emperor's holy decree, and the truth is that the emperor is also subject to the constraints of the ministers.

Speaking of the Ming Dynasty's strange system in the matter, this is about to mention Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was at the bottom of the society back then, and he knew the people's suffering, so after becoming the emperor, he didn't trust his ministers very much, because Zhu Yuanzhang knew that these ministers were all coming to pry the corners of his old Zhu family.

So at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang imitated the system of the Yuan Dynasty, the establishment of the imperial history platform, to the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang renamed it the Imperial Palace, the prefect of the Imperial Court is the left and right imperial history, this official name can often be heard on TV, and the main backbone of the Imperial Court is the Imperial History, these Imperial History has a total of thirteen, divided by the thirteen provinces at that time, a total of one hundred and ten people, these people have great power, they are in charge of everything, because there is no specific affairs to deal with, they go around all day long, Either they went to the military department to check the vacancies, or they went to the criminal department to check the unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and the officials who handled the affairs were afraid when they saw them.

At this time, some people may ask, these people have so much power, what if they also bend the law for personal gain? Speaking of which, I have to greatly admire Zhu Yuanzhang, he thought of some very unique ways to standardize the behavior of the imperial history, first of all, when choosing the imperial history, he specially found those nerdy Mr. Daoxue, and admitted that he would do this business, because this job offended people and could not make money, and Mr. Daoxue was the most suitable person. Secondly, he used the method of controlling the big with the small, these imperial histories are all seven-rank officials, which can be said to be sesame officials, and giving them the right to supervise the chief makes them dare not be too arrogant.

There is an official named Bafu Patrol, everyone hears it, the patrol case of Bafu, the official must be very big, in fact, this is also a sesame official, often the imperial court is temporarily appointed to supervise the imperial history, which is equivalent to the so-called commissioner before, the official is very small, and the power is great. But that's it, Zhu Yuanzhang was still not at ease, so he set up another team to supervise the Metropolitan Procuratorate. This is the six subjects to give things.

Corresponding to the six departments of the central government, Zhu Yuanzhang set up six sections, each section is given to one person in the matter, the official position is seven grades, and the left and right are given the official positions in the matter from the seven grades. The power of these people is appalling. If they think that the edict issued in the name of the emperor is inappropriate, they can actually return it! If there is a delay in doing it, or those who are slow, they will report to the emperor in a small way, and the departments will complete the task, and they will obediently go to the six departments to write off the accounts, in addition to the year-end assessment of officials, these will also be responsible for auditing.

The characteristics of these people's behavior can be summarized as: If you want to hit me, I will scold you. This is not a joke, they never move rough (of course, this is before, it is common to do it in the later period), all the effort is in the mouth and the music, if you offend him, it will be miserable, these people scold people with extremely high kung fu, they are all full of poetry and books, scolding people also have the origin of classics, from a certain classic. If you don't read much, you think he's praising you. Maybe I went home and checked the book, and I suddenly realized when I saw a certain allusion, and even the eighteenth generation of my ancestors was scolded. This kind of scolding without dirty words is really powerful. This unique skill has been passed down from generation to generation, and the Donglin Party reached its peak at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Yuanzhang brought in this group of people, he himself quickly suffered. There is one thing that can explain the horror of the officials, during the Hongwu period, the imperial history Zhou Guanzheng inspected Nanjing Fengtianmen, here is to explain that Zhou Guanzheng is the imperial history of the city, which belongs to the lowest level of supervision of the imperial history. While he was on his way, he met a group of eunuchs leading a group of female musicians to the Fengtian Gate. According to the inner palace system of the Ming Dynasty, female music is not allowed. Zhou Guanzheng immediately stepped forward to stop him, but the leading eunuch ignored him and said, "I have a holy body!" ”

It is said that ordinary people will let him go, but Zhou Guanzheng insisted that even if there is a holy decree, he must not violate the inner palace system of the Ming Dynasty, and resolutely does not allow female music to enter. When the eunuch met such a person, he had to go back to the palace to report to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled bitterly, and then passed on the word of mouth, no longer let the female music enter the palace, and specially added, Zhou Guanzheng, you did a good job, go back and rest. No matter what you say, Zhu Yuanzhang has done his best to be benevolent and righteous, and has given Zhou Guanzheng enough face. But the unexpected happened.

Zhou Guanzheng will not leave if he dies, this nerd will not be relenting, he must Zhu Yuanzhang come out and tell him, Zhu Yuanzhang understands that these people he chooses will not be accommodating. The entertainment can't be done, so I personally put on the court clothes and went out of the palace to appease, and said to Zhou Guanzheng, you did the right thing, I have already repented, and I don't need female music. After Zhou Guanzheng heard it, he went home to sleep.

It's a story for the ages! The emperor's dictation is not enough, and he actually has to come out and apologize in person! While we admire this nerd, shouldn't we also admire his courage and integrity, the Ming Dynasty is precisely because of these people who adhere to principles, it can continue to prosper for two hundred years, it should be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's supervision system is quite good.

Since ancient times, there have been the setting of speech officials, these people do not care about specific matters, their task is to put forward opinions, and the feudal dynasties have always formed a tradition - not to kill speech officials. No matter how mediocre the emperor in history, there are few who dare to kill the official. Therefore, there is often such a situation in the court, where the official says that the emperor is not, does not save face for the emperor at all, and is still complacent, which is a bit of the courage of what you can do with Lao Tzu. And the emperor can only listen to it from above, gritting his teeth, thinking that he will transfer you to a position tomorrow and then rectify you.

In addition to the normal restraint of officials, there is a more important task, that is, to limit imperial power. Therefore, in history, there have been strange things such as Hai Rui scolding Jiajing's family for being clean, and Yu Yuren scolding Wanli for being wine and wealthy.

As a member of the Ming Dynasty clan, Zhu Hongsan's identity did bring him a lot of benefits after he raised his army. But after obtaining Zhu Yuanzhang's political legacy, he also inherited some dross. In fact, at the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the system in the matter, it was not a bad thing, but the system will completely change after 200 years. In the past, Zhu Hongsan could make a holy decree alone to decide on the appointment of some officials, that was because Zhu Hongsan was under the banner of Zhongxing Mingjun, and Zhu Hongsan had done well in recent years, no matter how he dealt with the Manchu Qing Dynasty or Yongli Zhu Youlang, he could win victories one after another.

Therefore, those imperial historians turned a blind eye to Zhu Hongsan's nonsense, anyway, as long as they were not out of line. But if it's really going too far, these imperial historians will not be stingy with the power in their hands.

This time, Wang Yuan dared to stand up and speak because the imperial historian supported him again, because half of the imperial historians in the court were from eastern Zhejiang, and now the emperor wants to mess around, these guys naturally can't look at it.

Zhu Hongsan also knew that these guys hated it, so in order to bypass these people, he set up a military aircraft department in the inner court at the beginning of the emperor, and the idea was the same as that of Emperor Yongzheng in later generations, as long as your ministers kneel and accept the transcript, don't care about anything else, it's my emperor who is in charge. However, if it is called the Military Aircraft Department, it will be in charge of the military, so at present, the functions of the Military Aircraft Department are limited to the military, and other political affairs have no right to intervene.

Today, this Wang Yuan jumped out to oppose Zhu Hongsan, but Zhu Hongsan still can't clean him up, because the monarch's power must be restricted, what if the holy decree is refuted in the matter? That's a shame for adults!

When Zhu Hongsan and Wang Wei were in a stalemate, Hou Sui on the side had already finished eating the big meat steamed bun and drank up the bowl of soup. ”

Zhu Hongsan watched Hou Sui come out of the round, and said haha: "Haha, good!" It's been a long way to go, and Mr. Hou is also a little tired, so let's go down and rest! ”

After Hou Sui got up, he came to Wang Yu's side and said, "Wang boy, the old man sees that you are in good spirits, help the old man to go down and rest!" ”

Hou Xun's identity and status are not a little stronger than Wang Yuan, Wang Xun's teacher is Chen Zilong, Chen Zilong's teacher is Huang Daozhou, and Huang Daozhou is only a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and Hou Sui is the forty-fourth year of Wanli. Therefore, Wang Yun did not dare to refuse, and hurriedly helped Hou Sui down.

Seeing that Wang Yun was gone, Zhu Hongsan lost his interest in lewd * wives and daughters, and waved his hand to let Jinyiwei take these Manchu officials down and escort them back to Nanjing to be handed over to Dali Temple for disposal.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the figure of Wang Yuan walking out, he knew that although Wang Yuan was only a fourth-grade official, he just didn't dare to punish him at will, because behind Wang Yuan stood the entire civil official group, which developed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, formed in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and basically matured in the Ming Dynasty, they are the enemies of their lives. As for the infighting between the Manchus, the Spaniards, and the clans, these are all elbow troubles, and only these literati are the inextricable enemies of the imperial power. If Zhu Hongsan wants to be a great king, he must suppress the literati group. Of course, if Zhu Hongsan just wants to be a big shopkeeper like Wanli, such a literati group is exactly what he needs.

Zhu Hongsan secretly said in his heart: Lao Tzu said when he was the emperor that he would rule the world with the literati, but these literati kicked their noses and faces, and they became more and more disagreeable.

What Zhu Hongsan didn't know was that with the elimination of domestic opposition forces one by one, the fall of the Manchu regime in the north was a foregone conclusion, and his main opponent had changed from an external contradiction to an internal contradiction between the scholars and doctors, that is, the struggle between the monarch and the relative power that could not be reconciled for more than 3,000 years in ancient China. How to solve this contradiction has long been decided in history, either it is a big killer like Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, or a puppet emperor like Zhu Youzhu and Zhu Yijun, and in the end, Zhu Hongsan can choose which path to go on?