The person who can be an official in the capital is not simple at all,

"Jingguan" is definitely a special group. Although not every official envies being a Beijing official, no one can deny that Beijing is an easy place to be promoted.

Generally speaking, Jingguan refers to officials who are officials in the capital, but in fact, it is not actually divided like this. In officialdom, everyone is not only divided into factions and factions, but also divided into venues and functions.

For example, although the officials of the Ministry of Industry have internal differences, they are more united externally, but when anyone slanders the Ministry of Industry, the people of the Ministry of Industry will be in the same spirit.

Just like the Criminal Department that Qin Tai is familiar with, there are many departments such as the Criminal Department Headquarters, Dali Temple, and the Criminal Department Prison, and the relationship between them is not good, and they even frame and attack each other.

But as soon as someone wants to attack the idea of the Criminal Department, or wants to interfere with a certain functional department of the Criminal Department, these officials will join forces to hinder outsiders.

At this time, the criminal department is not only united, but also can share resources. When there was an accident in the prison of the Criminal Department, if it weren't for Tan Lun's cleverness, Qin Tai would have already grasped some truths, and he wouldn't have been able to get involved so easily.

For this reason, Tan Lun finally took control of the prison of the Criminal Department because of this incident, and finally controlled nearly a quarter of the actual power of the Criminal Department.

At that time, some people who knew the details of officialdom were able to distinguish officialdom very clearly. The entire Ming Dynasty is divided into four major parts, the first is the magnates represented by the emperor's relatives; the second was the landlords represented by the gentry; the third is the opposition represented by literati and artists; Fourth, the broad masses of peasants are the main ones and the common people engaged in agriculture and commerce.

The rulers of successive dynasties were worried about their instability, so they have always managed the vast majority of the people by enslaving the common people and not letting the common people master too much knowledge.

Although this is easier to manage, it leads to the majority of the people not knowing the law, not being literate, and even unreasonable, and only being rude.

As the representative of the ruling class, the emperor has long had a way to deal with other strata, enslaving and ignoring the common people, co-opting and dividing the opposition people who criticize the government and politics, and controlling the representatives of the gentry.

As early as the Han and Tang dynasties, some emperors proposed

"The king and his servants rule the world together." This means that the emperor and the gentry, as rulers, govern the country and the common people together on behalf of the officials.

The gentry were given a bright future, and these gentry who had land and resources in their hands would cooperate with the rulers.

Once the officials and the emperor are together, the emperor can control the officials with his status and power, tying the officials to the rulers, so that the gentry have to be in the same league with the rulers.

In order to better control the gentry, the ruler would divide them internally by means of marriage, resulting in the gentry not being monolithic, and over time there were party disputes and factional struggles between the ministers of the court and the central government, in fact, all this was caused by the emperor's instigation behind the scenes.

The reason why they did not become officials was not that they did not want to be officials, but that they could not become officials or were unable to continue to be officials.

These people simply made a living by teaching or criticizing current affairs, and often made some remarks against the imperial court.

These people are not only educated, but also very incitative, and can easily cause chaos in a certain area.

But this is what the rulers need, so the rulers secretly acquiesce to their existence. With these people, the officials in the court did not dare to interfere too much in the internal problems of the emperor, otherwise they would be subjected to some people

"Uncover the scars". Officials not only need face, but also need a certain amount of supporters, once they are ruined, not only can they not be officials, but also affect the survival of their families.

No official joked about his family's reputation or life. These opposition people have become the dogs of the rulers, who attack whoever they want them to attack, and they say whatever they want them to talk about current affairs.

Although there are some people who are not easy to control, trying to get rid of the control of the rulers, the rulers have the means to deal with these people.

These people may not love money, or they may really not be afraid of death, but they cherish their reputation, and as long as they dare to mess around, the ruler will charge them with bad accusations, and even fabricate some false things to slander them.

They will submit to the ruler and will obediently be the ruler's dog. Even if these people come to the common people, they may be able to stir up some of the common people, but they must not become the backbone of these troublemakers.

The reason is simple, because these people are not real ordinary people. From the root, these people yearn for wealth and nobility, they have long separated themselves from the bottom, yearn for the life of the gentry, and look down on the common people, so they can't be of the same mind as the majority of the common people.

That's the classic statement

"Xiucai rebelled for ten years." This one

"Xiucai" is not necessarily a real Xiucai, but refers to educated opposition people, if they want to incite everyone to rebel, the chance of success is very small, it is simply that

"On paper". The representative figure of the ruler class is the emperor, which is the rule of all dynasties.

However, the emperor is not necessarily the actual representative of the real ruling class, once the power is lost or the emperor is too young, the representative will be the queen mother or a certain uncle.

Therefore, the ruling class is not very peaceful, and any imperial relatives who may become the next emperor cannot be underestimated.

At least they are the ones who are qualified to ascend to the nominal supreme throne of the ruler. Therefore, the greatest enemy of the ruler who ascends the throne of the King of God is not anyone else, but these relatives around them.

Rulers not only need these people of the same ancestors to support themselves, but also need to guard against these close relatives.

The common people and the opposition have been tamed by the rulers, and in the eyes of these rulers, the common people are slaves who are inferior to pigs and dogs, and the opposition are the dogs around them, and the only thing to worry about is the gentry.

For a long time, the gentry had actually been divided into three according to their respective energies.

The first type of big family, they are eunuchs, and almost every generation of men has been an official, or has been an official.

In their view, it is inevitable to become officials, and they can control some officials or local government affairs. For these big families, the ruler is wary of them while pacifying, and will find ways to suppress their power when he finds an opportunity.

Some big families are not ideal in standing in line or attitude, which leads to the disappearance or collapse of some big families.

The second is the scholarly family, and there are also people in these families who are officials, but they need to rely on some luck and their own skills.

If they can be officials, they will be officials, and those who can't be officials will cultivate and read heirlooms at home. This is the object that the ruler is most willing to woo, because they are not only easy to control, but also most in need of the ruler's approval.

Sometimes a casual word from a ruler can be exchanged for the loyalty of the entire family, which is too cost-effective for the ruler.

The third type is the small landlords, who are not qualified to be officials, and can only attach themselves to the ruler or the big family, waving the flag for them.

These people should not be underestimated, and under their instigation, they will affect a large number of ordinary people. Of course, it was these small landlords who first learned that the common people were stirring, and they were the spies that the rulers planted around the common people.

"The king and his servants rule the world together".

"Ministers" refers to all officials, including the lowest officials and officials, as well as soldiers, and so on.

According to their functions, they can be divided into civil officials, military generals, nobles and internal servants. Civil officials are well understood, that is, they refer to the civil officials in the court, including the officials, officials, and officials of the local yamen in various places; Military generals refer to the direct managers of the army, generals, officers, soldiers, craftsmen, and family members of military households; Honorable people refer to the descendants of heroes who have made special contributions during the founding of the country or important periods and have been hereditary; The inner servant refers to the eunuchs, palace maids, concubines, etc. who manage the harem, and also includes the people of Jinyiwei and Dongchang during the Ming Dynasty.

Because the military management system of the Ming Dynasty is the implementation of the military household system, that is to say, once you become a soldier, you have to be a soldier for generations, the father is old and retires, the son is on top, the eldest son is killed in battle, the younger son is on top, and the son is dead and the grandson is on top.

Once there is no male in the family, they will be deprived of military household qualifications. In this way, it is not only easy to manage, but also has continuity, and the father will tell his son about his experience, and the child has been exposed to the army since he was a child, and he does not have to worry about not understanding the rules of the barracks.

But the downside of this is:

"The tail is too big to fall," and some military households have inherited some unhealthy tendencies in this way, and this has become a malpractice that cannot be changed in the military.

Since Xungui is also a military general, Xungui can be counted with military generals. This became the most characteristic three-legged situation in the Ming Dynasty, with the greatest civil power, the military generals were so-so, and the internal servants supported by the emperor held the confidential and financial power.

Due to the ruler's fear of military generals, as well as the hatred and disdain of civilian officials for military generals, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, military generals gradually lost their political status, and even became domestic slaves of civilian officials.

Some civil officials even reprimanded the generals of the same level in public like scolding their own minions, and there were also cases of the Wupin prefect criticizing the Zhengsanpin General in public.

The ruler felt that this was not enough, and secretly encouraged the civilian officials to take away the command of the generals, and issued a series of unfair orders.

First of all, military generals only have the right to manage the army, and do not have the right to command combat orders. Second, the garrison must obey the orders of the local officials, and all supplies must be supplied by the local officials.

This puts the power of life and death of the army in the hands of local officials, and once there is friction between the army and the localities, it will lead to a situation where the army will be out of supply.

Some officers had to bow to civilian officials. This is not enough, there are more powerful killing moves waiting for the generals, as the traditional highest office cabinet, the yamen, which is directly responsible to the emperor, does not allow the military to become a cabinet member.

In other words, military generals can never enter the core of power, and can only be tools in the hands of civilian officials. This not only discouraged the enthusiasm of the military generals, but also increased the arrogance of civilian officials.