If Zhang Juzheng did not appear in the Wanli period, but in the Ming Dynasty, if he implemented the new policy, he would not have to play power tricks and collude with the ministers to get the guarantee of reform power.

He could carry out the New Deal reforms years in advance, and he did not have to worry about being reckoned after his death, because his power was granted by the emperor and was legitimate.

The official has no power to impeach him for stealing power and misgoverning during his term of office.

The Inner Court could no longer stop the pace of its reforms.

He is one person under ten thousand people, that is, he is in charge of administrative power according to the will of the emperor.

Even if the emperor was disgusted with him, he could only remove him, not deny the legitimacy of his power.

Even if they want to punish the cabinet chief, they can only find evidence from corruption, disregard for human life, and rebellion.

Of course, this did not diminish the power of the emperor, who remained the supreme dictator.

It's just that the emperor no longer plays the role of prime minister.

Maybe it's not as authoritarian as it used to be, but it's also something that can't be helped.

The Ming Empire was no longer a purely agricultural country.

The emperor has no way to do it, and everything is on himself.

Besides, Zhu Youzhen didn't know that every generation of emperors in the future would be qualified emperors, and it would be at least better to have a legitimate prime minister, at least a cabinet chief assistant and the emperor to bear the responsibility of the empire.

In this way, it can avoid the phenomenon that the first ministers of the cabinet only cared about messing around, or even blindly curryed favor with the emperor and the civil official group.

Zhu Youzhen's vision of a cabinet leader should be able to implement an empire according to his own ideas, and make political changes, rather than following the rules.

This was the case with the cabinet chiefs after Zhang Juzheng, who not only curryed favor with the entire civil official group but also welcomed the emperor, and did not have the opportunity to display their talents, which made the empire in a state of stagnation.

The head of the cabinet is often a person who is good at finding the right and the right to the left.

Now, the head of the cabinet is directly designated as the head of the civil service group, and all civil officials in the administrative system are subordinate officials of the head of the cabinet, and the head of the cabinet naturally does not have to curry favor with the civil service group.

And because the chief assistant of the cabinet is appointed by the emperor, basically the political concepts of the first assistant of the cabinet and the emperor should be the same, if the emperor wants to be conservative, he will naturally choose a conservative person as the first assistant of the cabinet, and if the emperor wants to be radical, he will naturally choose a radical person as the first assistant of the cabinet.

At the same time, because the cabinet chief assistant controls the civilian clique, it is easier to unite the forces of the civilian government to implement new policies, and it can also counter the entire military attache clique.

Of course, this is not to say that the military attache clique will still be suppressed by civilian officials.

The military attache also had its own central apparatus, the Generalissimo's Office.

The supreme commander of the Generalissimo's Office was the emperor himself.

The command and transfer power of the army have been controlled by the Generalissimo's Office, which means that military attachés will no longer obey the deployment of the military department when fighting wars, and military attachés will no longer be subordinate to civilian officials, and even civilian personnel in the army will only accept military orders from the Generalissimo's Office.

The appointment of officials in the Generalissimo's Office also did not go through the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War controlled by the Cabinet.

The Generalissimo's Office has its own organizational department, the General Political Department.

However, there is no generalissimo in the Generalissimo Mansion, except for the emperor, there is no supreme commander, and even the privy envoy has been abolished by Zhu Youzhen at this time and is no longer established.

However, the Generalissimo's Office has its own department, just like the previous six yamen, which is in fact equivalent to the 0 military committees and 0 members, and Zhu Youzhen is the chairman.

However, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple, and the Criminal Department, that is, the Three Law Divisions, are not subordinate to the Cabinet and the Generalissimo's Office.

But he controlled the legislative and judicial powers and procuratorial powers of the Ming Dynasty, and in a sense, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple, the Criminal Department and the Cabinet were side by side with the Generalissimo's Office.

With the exception of the Emperor himself, it was impossible for any imperial official to control part of the military power as well as the judicial power, as well as the prosecutorial and administrative powers.

But the Ming Dynasty did not fully achieve judicial independence.

There were also military judges in the Generalissimo's Palace, and the emperor himself also had Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

However, Zhu Youzhen is trying to hand over the criminal personnel except for the Generalissimo's Mansion to the Three Law Division, but the supervision of the officials in the Generalissimo's Office system is not handed over to the Three Law Division, but to Jinyiwei.

The officials of the Generalissimo's Office system can only supervise the corruption of the emperor himself, and even the civil officials of the Three Law Divisions have no power to supervise and detain the officials of the Generalissimo's Office system, so they can only be detained by Jinyi Wei and handed over to the Three Law Divisions, and then the Criminal Department of the Three Law Divisions will file the case, the Dali Temple will make a judgment, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will supervise the trial.

However, Jinyiwei was only responsible for the management of the military and supervision and foreign military intelligence, and no longer participated in the supervision of the administrative and judicial systems, while the supervision of the administrative and judicial systems was only the responsibility of Dongchang.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are still Zhu Youzhen's left and right eyes to strengthen the imperial power, one supervising the army and the other supervising the administration and justice.

It is obviously no longer suitable for the current Ming Dynasty to distinguish imperial officials by civilian and military officials.

After all, there are also civilian officials in the army represented by the Generalissimo's Office, and there are also military attachés in the military department controlled by the cabinet.

The Ming Empire was now a modern capital empire, and the separation of powers had been realized under the emperor, and the officials of the natural empire were also distinguished by three different types of power.

Officials of the empire are already adapting to this change.

With the formation of the cabinet by Fan Jingwen and Gao Hongtu twice, as well as the perfect performance of the Generalissimo's Office in military coordination and command, and the independent trial of war criminals by the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, the officials of the Ming Empire have adapted to this way of rule.

"From the twenty-fourth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty abolished the theater system, changed to the province on the basis of the original Chengxuan political envoy department, and restored Gansu Province. The Inspectorate is responsible to the Governor and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the officials of the Metropolitan Command Department are selected by the Generalissimo's Office and are responsible to the Generalissimo's Office, and the Inspectorate is only responsible to the Criminal Department. ”

"In addition, Yunnan-Guizhou, Sichuan, Liangguang, Huguang, Fujian, Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Beizhili, Jiliao, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu are set up to set up theater governors and commanders-in-chief, and the governors and commanders are appointed by the Generalissimo's Office to lead the Guards troops stationed in these strategic areas, and the commanders of each province are responsible to the Generalissimo's Office to the governors and commanders in the areas under their jurisdiction."

"Before March of the 24th year of Chongzhen, the Generalissimo's Office, the Cabinet, the Criminal Department, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate completed the establishment of the subordinate institutions of the provinces and the appointment of officials, and Chongzhen began to re-elect the first assistant of the cabinet in March of the 24th year, with the governors of the provinces and the governors of each theater as candidates, and complained to me about the reasons for running for the first assistant of the cabinet, and I will announce the new candidates for the first assistant of the cabinet in May, and the first assistant of the cabinet will be limited to one election every five years, and shall not be re-elected for more than two terms, that is, not more than ten years, so as to avoid the emperor favoring one person and the appearance of powerful ministers!"

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