We often like to say that the Privy Council and the Tongzhong Book are in charge of civil and military power respectively. However, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the civil and military power was finally unified. The reason is very simple: the military itself is a continuation of politics, and there is no military independent of politics. Therefore, in the Southern Song Dynasty, it has become a common practice for the prime minister to know the Privy Council. Compared with the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, it is estimated that people can sit, but he can only stand, but he doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks.

The authority of the Yuan Dynasty from the prime minister, speaking of which, is similar to the authority of the Qin and Han dynasties. The chief is the Zhongshu Order. Unfortunately, the Zhongshu Order is concurrently held by the crown prince. . . This is similar to the Wei tradition in the Warring States Period... The father is the monarch, and the son is the prime minister. Of course, this Zhongshu Ling is naturally the nominal head of the hundred officials, in fact, it is naturally the Shangshu servant, and the deputy is Pingzhangshi. From the name, we can be very powerful in the Yuan Dynasty, and there is no culture. I am the real prime minister of the Heavenly Dynasty, and this group of turtles actually treats Pingzhang as a deputy. Ping Zhangshi is the deputy, who is the main job?

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the beast of power, came to power, completely ending the prime minister's power, and the prime minister system of more than 1,000 years finally came to an end.

Of the emperors in Chinese history, only Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang are two emperors who are Diaosi counterattacks. Liu Bang is a big hooligan, and Zhu Yuanzhang is a gangster.

But Liu Bang is very different from Zhu Yuanzhang, that is, Liu Bang has still mixed in the officialdom and knows how many catties and taels he has. After coming to power, he did not change much to the system of the Qin Dynasty and accepted it all. Think about it, Qin Shi Huang is so awesome, he must have made good things, plus Liu Bang still admires Qin Shi Huang very much in his heart, so the prime minister system can be retained.

The emperors after the Han Dynasty were basically from noble backgrounds, and they all received a complete education when they were young, and they knew that the prime minister system had been formed for so many years, and it was easy to change it, so they all trimmed and pruned the branches and leaves.

When Zhu Chongba, the old boy, came to power, the prime minister system completely encountered natural enemies.

Zhu Chongba, an unemployed homeless person, came to power completely by starting his own business, and Diaosi counterattacked. After coming to power, he thought, this world is all Lao Tzu, don't fuck anyone else. Didn't you intellectuals just read for a few days? You also want to share my rights?

The next thing is very simple, don't let you be the prime minister and make trouble? Then kill. In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang used bloody means to suppress intellectuals, and truly achieved the integration of imperial power and power.

In this way, the emperor's power is very great, and the big ones are incomparable. But how much power you have, how much burden and how much obligation, you Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and Prime Minister Zhu Yuanzhang have to shoulder the responsibility, and all the details of government affairs in the world must be decided by the emperor alone.

But this is not difficult for the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, isn't it just work, what's so difficult, eat less and sleep a few hours less. Zhu Yuanzhang was probably in good health when he was a child, and he worked for more than 20 years in such a high-intensity job, which is really not easy. Zhu Yuanzhang is enjoying it, he is so tired that he is afraid that his future generations will not work well. Zhu Yuanzhang also promulgated an edict that there would never be a prime minister in the future, which was the ancestral system.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised an army and took his nephew's country four years later. Immediately faced with this problem, the work intensity is too great.

Although Zhu Di and Zhu Yuanzhang are both strong emperors, Zhu Di did not suffer when he was a child, this emperor is not made by people at all, he eats less than chickens every day, does more work than cows, and sleeps later than dogs. Zhu Di was really tired in the end, so he had to give up his power to intellectuals again and use them to help him govern the country, which was the beginning of the cabinet system.

Of course, Zhu Di came to power under the banner of his father, and naturally he could not move the ancestral system set by his father, but the Chinese have always been able to exploit loopholes, isn't there no minister? Then come to a cabinet. Zhu Di was also afraid that his descendants would be doomed, and the cabinet would have too much power, so he creatively set that the cabinet members only had five grades, so the cabinet was only the emperor's secretary during Zhu Di's period.

After Zhu Di's death, the next big fat man Zhu Gaochi came to power, and died after only one year. Next, Zhu Zhanji, who is very similar to Zhu Di, came to power, this grandson does not have the two sons of his grandfather and great-grandfather, it is difficult to govern the country by himself, and he can only increase the power of the cabinet and let them help him manage the country.

Let people work to give people sweetness, but the previous emperor set the cabinet only five grades, what should I do? However, the power of people is infinite, and it is not enough to give the cabinet a part-time job, so after the proclamation of the emperor, cabinet members began to hold official positions in various ministries.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral system of imperial power and power has been destroyed, but Zhu Zhanji still feels that the emperor is not good, and he is too tired to work, delaying himself to play women fighting crickets. After giving up the right to govern the country, he ceded part of the emperor's right to approve the red to the eunuchs, and let the eunuchs and Wenchen argue, and the emperor was just a law enforcer, and the one who was disobedient went up to punish the other.

At this time, the cabinet was still not as good as those prime ministers of the previous dynasty, they were just the emperor's secretaries. However, as long as it is a system, it must develop and grow, and after nearly 100 years of development, the cabinet system has finally borne such a fruit as Zhang Juzheng. At this time, the power of the cabinet has been greatly stronger than that of the prime ministers of previous dynasties, and even reached a degree greater than the imperial power, and Emperor Wanli saw that Zhang Juzheng still had to stand and speak. If Zhu Yuanzhang sees his descendants being bullied like this, he doesn't know what to think?

Zhu Hongsan, an unscrupulous descendant, now thinks that it is to completely and completely end the cabinet system, this system is a strange thing in Zhu Hongsan's eyes, and the cabinet minister is obviously a person with five people and six products, and this kind of system can also happen in magical China.

But Zhu Hongsan doesn't want to restore the previous prime minister system, he wants to make it a bit like the professional manager system in later generations. If this country is an enterprise, the emperor is the chairman, but what if the chairman wants to make a female secretary and doesn't have so much energy to manage the company? Quite simply, find a professional manager in the talent market and give him some kind of incentive to manage the business. If this is not done well, then it would be good to change the manager, and the chairman will not have to bear any responsibility at all.

Of course, in the future generations, it is estimated that no one will come to this company to be the general manager, nothing, tired to death for a day, and have to carry the black pot if something happens. But now Daming has a lot of talents to compete for this general manager. Why? Intellectuals are cheap, and their hearts are full of a sense of justice, and they feel that they have to do something for the country and the people, so as to leave a name in history.

Zhu Hongsan also planned to use the moral sense of justice of these stinky old nine to let them work for themselves. Therefore, this kind of system has been formed in Zhu Hongsan's mind for many years, and it was just a lack of time before, but now Zhu Hongsan has become a prince in the actual sense, and he is naturally ready to implement his own plan.

But I didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to reinstate the proposal of prime minister, and Chen Zizhuang did not agree.

Chen Zizhuang was very excited at first after hearing about Zhu Hongsan's plan, and asked which intellectual didn't want to be prime minister. But when you think about it, that's not the case at all.

"Prison country, your majesty does not agree with the proposal to reinstate the prime minister!"

Zhu Hongsan was stunned, there are still people who don't like to leave a name in history? It's a real wonder.

"Mr. Chen, can you explain the reason?"

"Jianguo, from a personal point of view, of course the subordinates want to restore the prime minister, but that scholar doesn't want to be the prime minister? But from the great cause, the subordinates still have to prevent the prison country from doing this, at least not now! ”

"Please tell me more about Mr. Chen!"

Chen Zizhuang organized his language and tried to use gentle words to say: "Jianguo, there are no less than five or six vassal kings in the whole of South China who have the strength to compete with His Highness, and you don't seem to be in front of you in terms of blood and legal system. If you want to surpass them and claim the emperor, the only thing you can do is to oppose the legitimacy of Zhu Di's martyrdom back then, but in doing so, you have to emphasize the importance of the ancestral system, and only by emphasizing the ancestral system, the other eunuchs cannot compare with you in terms of legitimacy, because they are all descendants of Zhu Di, the king of Yan. But back then, Emperor Taizu Gao had an edict promulgated in the world and would never reinstate the prime minister, if you made this suggestion at this time, wouldn't you slap yourself in the face? ”

After hearing Chen Zizhuang say this, Zhu Hongsan scolded Zhu Yuanzhang in his heart, what kind of ancestral system do you have to get if you ask for food? Now this cheating father's ancestral system has delayed the great cause of the uncle.

Seeing that Zhu Hongsan's face was not good, Chen Zizhuang hurriedly said: "Jian Guo, this is not completely hopeless!" ”

Hearing that there was still hope, Zhu Hongsan hurriedly asked, "Sir, say it quickly!" Where is the hope! ”

"Now the reputation of the prison country is not obvious, if it can prosper the Ming Dynasty in the future, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. The status of the prison country is comparable to that of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and when the time comes, the whole world will submit to the prison country, and naturally any ideals of the prison country can be implemented smoothly. ”

Chen Zizhuang means that you Zhu Hongsan now only have one province, and only five prefectures listen to you, so you still want to change the ancestral system? Dream on! But you will succeed in the future, the whole world will be yours, and of course you will do whatever you want to do at that time, and no one will dare to object.

After listening to Chen Zizhuang's words, Zhu Hongsan also suddenly realized, too, his current strength may be the weakest in the country, at least on the surface, that is, Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, also occupies Fujian, Jiangxi, Huguang, Yungui and other places. It seems that he is a little anxious, and it is important to increase his strength at present.

"Thank you Mr. Chen for solving the doubts of this king, this king almost made a big mistake!"

"There, it's just that the time has not yet come, and this matter is not yet ripe."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Please keep this matter confidential from Mr. Chen, don't spread it!" ”

"It's nature!"

Watching Chen Zizhuang say goodbye and go out, Zhu Hongsan also put down the things in his hand, today is already December 20, and it will be Xiao Nian in a few days. Zhu Hongsan stipulated that after the new year, all yamen began to have a holiday, and they would start work on the fifteenth and sixteenth of the first month. At this time, each yamen did not work except for the staff on duty.