Chapter 17 Political System

All races other than the human race are extremely advocating simplicity, one is that they are incomparably simple regardless of the level of social civilization, and the other is that they cannot learn the incomparably advanced and developed civilization of the human race; of course, they are neither able nor willing to do it.

Here's a quick rundown. Legend has it that the first emperor of the ancient (Zero Realm) human race established the Great Qin, and considered himself to have surpassed the three emperors and five emperors of ancient times, so he called himself the emperor; The first is to identify yourself as the first place to start, and the second is to hope that your descendants can "have a beginning and an end" and pass it on.

1. Implement the emperor system. The system of the emperor's exclusive respect, the supremacy of imperial power, and the hereditary throne was established.

2. Set up the prime minister, the captain, and the imperial doctor. The three are not subordinate to each other and are all responsible to the emperor. In this way, the power of the state was concentrated in the emperor.

3. Conquer demons in the south, attack the beasts in the north, and build the Great Wall. It laid the basic territory of a unified multi-ethnic centralized state for the human race.

4. Unify text, weights and measures.

5. Implement the county system.

6. In order to consolidate the unity of the country, build a water and land transportation line with Xianyang as the center.

7. Burning books and pit Confucianism, and strengthen ideological and cultural control.

Since then, the political system has been evolving and improving. The general trend is to become more and more complex, the division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, and the management of governance is becoming more and more elaborate and specific from top to bottom. In later generations, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, made great reforms, and they were relatively innovative.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the prime minister was too authoritarian, so he abolished the post of prime minister and set up a cabinet in imitation of the Song Palace. The Ming Dynasty set up six departments, five temples, secret service agencies, three ministers, three divisions, three outer prisons, and twelve inner prisons in the center.

1. Six parts

The Ming Dynasty set up six departments in the center: officials, households, rituals, workers, criminals, and soldiers, and compared with the previous generations, the Ming Dynasty initially added one Shangshu Shilang in each department.

After Hu Weiyong's case, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the post of prime minister and cancelled Zhongshu Province. As a result, the status of the six ministries has been enhanced. There is only one book in each department, two squires, and the original books of each subject are reduced to Langzhong. The official ranks of the various ministers and squires also rose.

Among them, the Ministry of Officials (in charge of the promotion of civil officials) is the most important, and the Ministry of Household has the largest number of personnel. The Ministry of Rites (in charge of the sacrificial ceremonies) and the Ministry of Works (in charge of public works) had a lower status.

2. Supervisory bodies

Thirteen years before Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty also followed the supervision system of the previous dynasty and set up the Imperial History Observatory, with one left and one Imperial History Doctor.

Thirteen years after Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the imperial historical platform. Two years later, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a new supervisory body, the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Under the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a number of people were set up to supervise the imperial history, and they patrolled all provinces across the country, which was called the Twelve Inspectors of the Imperial History. There are three to five people in each province who supervise the imperial history, and the scope is roughly a province. However, the supervising imperial history is stationed in Beijing, and if there is something to do with the seal, he will return to Beijing to pay the seal. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the supervision of the imperial history was divided into thirteen provinces, with a total of 110 people.

3. Six subjects

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was only set up in the middle of the matter. In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, the capital was set up for six people, divided into six sections: officials, households, rites, workers, criminals, and soldiers, with one person in each section.

This system is basically inherited from the Tang Dynasty's Menxia Province system. Although the rank of the officials of the six sections is low, the authority is very high. They could disagree with the emperor's will. And this system has also played a certain role in improving the government.

4. Five temples

The five temples include Dali Temple, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Taifu Temple, and Honglu Temple. Dali Temple, together with the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, were combined into three legal divisions, and their functions and powers were similar to those of today's Supreme Court. The head of Dali Temple is called Dali Temple, and it is also one of the Nine Qings.

The other four monasteries have lower powers. Taichang Temple is responsible for sacrifices, Taifu Temple is responsible for horses, Guanglu Temple is responsible for birthday banquets, and Honglu Temple is responsible for receiving foreign guests.

5. Cabinet

After the abolition of the prime minister system, Zhu Yuanzhang personally took care of government affairs and was deeply tired for a while, so he set up a four-auxiliary system to assist in political affairs.

However, this system has not been effective. Hongwu was deposed seventeen years later. After that, Zhu Yuanzhang invited several Hanlin scholars to help assist, and the official positions of these Hanlin scholars were appointed as "XX University Scholars". This is also known as a cabinet body.

6. Secret Service Agency

The Ming Dynasty practiced strict spy politics. The main secret agencies included Jinyiwei, the East Factory and the West Factory, and there was also an insider factory for a time during the Wuzong period.

Jinyiwei was established in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, directly under the orders of the emperor, and could arrest anyone and conduct private interrogations.

After the establishment of the East Factory, the power of Jinyiwei was weakened.

Dongchang was established in the eighteenth year of Yongle and was established by Ming Chengzu to suppress political opposition. The location is located in the north of Dong'anmen in Beijing.

The main duties of the East Factory were to monitor various political forces such as government officials, celebrities, and scholars, and had the right to report the results of the surveillance directly to the emperor. According to the information obtained from the surveillance, for those opposition parties with lower status, Dongchang can directly arrest and interrogate them; As for the opposition who are high-ranking government officials or have the status of royalty and aristocrats, Dongchang can also arrest and interrogate them with the authorization of the emperor.

At the beginning of the establishment of the East Factory, the eunuch served as the commander, and later it was usually the second and third eunuch in the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch.

The West Factory was established in the Xianzong period, and the leader was Wang Zhi. It was deposed after 1482. Later, it was briefly restored by Wu Zong. The inner factory was set up in the Wuzong period, the leader was the eunuch Liu Jin, after Liu Jin was ambushed, the inner factory and the west factory were abolished at the same time, and only the east factory remained.

All the political systems of the Terran race in the past could not be absolutely perfect, but they only seemed perfect at certain stages, and then they would inevitably expose new problems and shortcomings.

However, tens of thousands of years ago, when the human race was at its peak, it overwhelmed all the races in the Zero Realm and reigned as the hegemon for thousands of years. The Zero Realm clans united to fight back, and at first they were completely defeating the enemy army; the Terran army generally used hot weapons, while the allied forces of all races still relied on cold weapons, how to fight?

The Terran army is also too superior in terms of strategy and tactics, and the allied armies of the various races are almost scattered, almost a rabble, and the disparity in pure military strength is too great; that is to say, even if there is no difference in weapons between the two sides, the coalition army is likely to be inferior to the enemy army.

In the end, the defeat of the Terrans was basically due to internal friction, and the Terrans were particularly "good" at infighting, which allowed the Terrans to take a big advantage.

After the allied forces of various races won by luck, they desperately attacked the Terrans. The Terrans' system of technological civilization, which had been developed for tens of thousands of years, was brutally destroyed for hundreds of years, and was almost completely destroyed, and now only a very small part remains.

The unified kingdom of the Terran race was the first to perish, and hundreds of millions of Terran elites were almost wiped out, most of them died in battle. At that time, the traditional conservative forces of the Terran race, which was only dragging the Terran army behind, were basically preserved.

All of this is for the direction of the civilization of the Zero Realm, whether it is to return to the traditional cultivation of truth, or to rush to the unpredictable future of science and technology?

In that earth-shattering war in ancient times, conservatively estimated, the overall casualties were as high as 10 billion! After the war, the population of the Zero Realm dropped dramatically, from nearly 20 billion to less than 10 billion. The Terrans were originally the most populous race, numbering more than three billion people before the war, but falling to more than one billion after the war.

Another 20,000 years have passed, and the races of the Zero Realm don't even have much memory of that great war now, but the vast majority of the human races should not forget it.

After 20,000 years of recuperation, the total population of the Zero Realm has once again recovered to nearly 20 billion. This figure still refers to the population within the rule of each country, and certainly cannot include the barbarian tribes in the wilderness, deep in the mountains and rivers; in fact, their strength and power are greater.

Twenty thousand years is too long, so long that all races have long become accustomed to the fact that the (mostly) Terrans are very obedient, very capable, and very easy to use;

No one counted them carefully, and in fact the total population of the Terran quietly recovered and grew. However, their status can only be slaves, and some of them may be promoted to inferior commoners.

Only those who are fortunate enough to be promoted to an inferior civilian can cultivate martial arts, and they are allowed to reach the high level of martial arts at the highest level. Twenty thousand years ago, it was stipulated that any human race must be enslaved, and it was absolutely forbidden to cultivate martial arts;

Over the past 10,000 years, those rules have gradually loosened little by little. The status of the human race gradually and slowly improved, and this change was imperceptible, and the sluggish races basically did not notice. People just feel that they can't do a lot of things without the Terrans.

Farming is inseparable from human slaves, and if you plant your own, it is too hard to say, and the crop yield is still very low, and the slaves do it much better. Winemaking can only rely on the human race, and you can only get vinegar by brewing it yourself. Many of these weaving and clothing making depend on the Terrans, and the Terrans are needed for forging and the Terrans for medicine and medicine......

All in all, almost the vast majority of service industries need Terrans. The other ethnic groups mainly eat, drink and have fun, and then join the army to fight and obtain military merits.

Now joining the army is inseparable from the Terrans, and most of the auxiliaries are Terrans; the three low-level squads, the gangster squad, the transport squad, and the barracks squad, are basically Terrans, and no one of the other races likes to go to those three places, and they have too few military merits and are too hard.

The Terrans have completely become a vassal race of the Zero Realm. However, the various races generally do not study history very much, and it seems that the human race was more than 100,000 years ago, which is very similar to the current situation.

The recruitment in Ningfeng Town went well. At this moment, Tong Yinxin is waiting for his new weapon, and many new soldiers are also waiting for this time. The town's blacksmiths are all in full swing, working overtime to make weapons. Custom-made for Tong Yinxin is a giant mace weighing 200 kilograms.

There were two maces in the arsenal, both weighing only forty kilograms, and Tong Yinxin felt that they were too small and too light. He played with the stone locks earnestly, and everyone watched the situation for him, and it was agreed that it was indeed necessary to use two hundred kilograms.

The soldiers' new weapons are also important, so they need to be customized in a planned way.

Everyone has the right weapons, and after a short intensive training, they have to hurry to the state.