After entering the Xuanshu Palace, the civil officials and military attaches stood on both sides in an orderly manner. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The Son of Heaven is in court, and all officials are welcome!" , a big eunuch standing beside Yang Shen shouted loudly.

The eunuch's voice was sharp, and looking at the way his belly was about to bulge, it was obvious that he had to use his strength to feed.

In the previous dynasties of the Great Chu, the people who held this special function for the Son of Heaven in the palace hall were all powerful guards of Kongwu.

Only the Great Chu changed this system a hundred years after the founding of the country, and replaced it with a eunuch, which has lasted for two hundred years.

Emperor Li's dependence on eunuchs is also a major feature of the dynasty.

The government affairs of the dynasty were mostly in the hands of the family, and most of the generals in the army were born from the family lords. Civilian officials or generals from poor backgrounds simply could not compete with them. Even with the unsparing support of successive emperors, so far, ninety percent of the officials in the court and the military have been children from families of gate lords.

Including financial power, the family has always held the most important power of the dynasty to the death, although the successive chiefs and assistants are often from the clan, but regardless of the number of other auxiliary ministers in the cabinet, or the proportion of the six chiefs, the family lords far exceed the power of the imperial family.

If it weren't for the strong support of the officials of the Changsun clan in the royal family, and the strength of the Shence Legion and the Shenwu Legion, which were two of the four main legions of the national dynasty, and the fact that some generals in the border army and the government army were always loyal to Dachu, and there were children of the Han family attached to the imperial power, there were deep contradictions and disputes between the family and the gate lords, and the Li family could not always suppress the Yang family.

The Li family has enjoyed the country for 300 years, and although the whole country has decayed, his rule is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. From the common people to the family of the gatekeepers, although they were constantly fighting with the imperial power, they had long been accustomed to his rule. Even although the Wen family is extremely close to the Yang family, if the Yang family really raises the anti-flag, they probably won't follow until the situation is clear.

This is also the reason why the Yang family is obviously extremely powerful in the army, but under the oppression of the royal family, they can only protect themselves.

Most of the court and army are not under their control, and the successive emperors of the Li family will naturally not be reconciled.

They also wanted to take various measures, such as appointing cabinet ministers directly without the recommendation of the cabinet, or appointing officials of the six ministries directly by decree without going through the cabinet, and so on. Or ignore the opinions of the Yang family and the eldest grandson family, and directly appoint generals in the army.

However, the emperor's decree was often rejected.

After Taizu Li Yunlong settled the world, in order to supervise the operation of the six yamen and check and balance the family of gate valves, he once set up six departments to give a position in the matter.

Households, rites, soldiers, criminals, officials, and workers are each set up for one person in the matter, left and right to one person in the matter, and more or less in the matter, most of which are served by the children of poor families.

The six departments are able to supervise and verify the affairs of the six ministries in the course of the matter, and the orders issued by the six ministries and yamen can be rejected if they think they are unreasonable.

In addition, they can also impeach the ministers of Kyoto, although they are only minor officials of the seventh rank, but they have great power.

Taizu ruled Kyushu and suppressed Unai, and the Li royal family at that time was at its peak, although the position in the matter would bring great trouble to the family, but the family did not dare to disobey Taizu's orders.

In the end of the Taizu Dynasty, the six departments gave this department a sharp sword hanging over the head of the family, and I don't know how many heads of the officials of the family were removed.

After Taizu's death, with the support of most of the family lords, Ye Xiaoran, the head of the Ye family, and Yang Guo, the ancestor of the Yang family who was invincible at that time, jointly played a joint performance, forcing Emperor Taizong to add a function to the six branches.

The holy decree is not reviewed by the six departments, and has no legal effect, and if the six departments think that the emperor's holy decree is very inappropriate, they can also seal it back.

Although in the end of the Taizong Dynasty, because the ancestor of the Yang family Yang Guo Feixian left, without the help of one person and the power of the world, the family not only failed to take away this department from the emperor, but always dealt with the revenge of the resentful Emperor Taizong, but as the founding of the Great Chu became longer and longer, the road to the advancement of the children of the Han family became narrower and narrower. After all, this department in the six branches of the matter still fell into the hands of the family.

Since the family mastered this department, for two hundred years, they have never let this department slip out of their hands, and if the descendants of the family are out of office, they often start with various positions in this department, and this department has also become their biggest tool against the emperor.

As long as there was an agreement between the families, it would be difficult for the emperor to issue any orders that were unfavorable to them.

As for the generals in the army, if they did not consult with the Yang family and the Wen family, even if the cabinet vote was to be passed, the six departments would not reject the matter, and the generals appointed by the emperor would all have various accidents and die without exception.

However, both the court and the army have their own factions, and the internal strife is extremely fierce.

The army factions are not complicated, and are roughly divided into four factions, the royal family, the Changsun clan, the Wen clan, and the Yang clan. In terms of strength, the Yang family and the royal family are the strongest, the Wen family and the Yang family are friendly, and the eldest grandson's family is close to the royal family.

The battle in the court is extremely complicated, and in general, it is dominated by the six major families and the royal family.

Although the six great families are headed by the Xianzhou Ye family on the surface, in fact, after three hundred years of successive emperors sparing no effort to sow discord and co-opt and suppress, the six great families are still fighting for themselves, each of them has attracted a group of small families, and has accumulated deep contradictions between them. They will only join forces when they are under great pressure from the emperor to take something that will cause great damage to all the families. The rest of the time, it's a mess.

Therefore, although the power directly controlled by the emperor and the military in the court is not too large, he holds the name of righteousness, and relies on the strategy of combining vertical and horizontal, and his voice is still the loudest.

However, the military and political power can not be fully controlled by their own hands, even the financial power is controlled by the family, the inner treasury is so poor that it can run the mouse, although it will not become a puppet, but it can not be self-respecting, many times things have to look at the face of the courtiers, the successive emperors of Great Chu are naturally very unwilling, and after thinking about it, they actually came up with a way to enhance the imperial power.

They began to appoint eunuchs.

In the army, they appointed eunuchs as supervisors of the army, and they pointed fingers at the military, and they did not succeed enough but failed more than they failed. In the middle of the court, the emperor set up a celebrant supervisor, who held the red power in his hand, charged for the emperor and competed with the cabinet.

At the same time, successive emperors sent eunuchs in the palace to various parts of Kyushu to set up cards and collect fees, and compete with the family for financial power.

This move of the emperor completely bypassed the foreign dynasty, after all, the emperor is the master of the world on the surface, and he wants to appoint domestic slaves to supervise the world, and the family gate valve cannot interfere.

I have to say that the emperor's appointment of eunuchs is a very good move, these people are slaves of the Son of Heaven, and the life and death of the Son of Heaven can be decided in a word, and only the Son of Heaven can be relied on. In addition, they have no offspring, cut off their children and grandchildren, and their hearts are often a little distorted, so when they fight with the courtiers, they use all kinds of cruel and despicable means, which has smoothed out a lot of trouble for the Son of Heaven.

The dynasty was controlled by the royal family, and the two main armies were formed from the money looted by the eunuchs.

In today's Great Chu Dynasty, the eunuchs have become a powerful political force that no one can ignore.