"For what?"

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, "The world was beaten down by me, but Hu Weiyong wantonly seized power and promoted those loyal to him to the top, and hundreds of officials were submissive to him...... He fooled me like a child!! ”

Long Yan was furious.

It scared Li Qingzhao and Lin Daiyu.

They glanced at it and saw that Chu Zhen was sitting alone, unaffected by Emperor Hongwu's anger at all, and the two of them were relieved.

Only when Zhu Yuanzhang is an old man who knows the destiny of heaven, not an emperor sitting on a dragon chair.

"Hu Weiyong deceived his superiors and acted arbitrarily towards his subordinates, so he deserves to die, right?"

Chu Zhen said with a smile.

"Not only do I deserve to die, but I also want to get rid of his henchmen!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's words have no deterrent effect in modern times, but Chu Zhen knows that once he returns to the time and space that belongs to him and sits in the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty and says this sentence, the entire Ming Dynasty civil and military officials will tremble and kneel.

"But you still haven't said what the prime minister system is for."

Chu Zhen took a sip of tea, "Is it to consolidate the imperial power?" ”

"Imperial power?"

Zhu Yuanzhang heard this word for the first time and disagreed: "The emperor has his own mandate of heaven, the son of heaven is ordered by heaven, and the hundred officials are ordered by the king, how can the imperial power come from?" ”

"Without imperial power, how can you coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes? Where did the resignation come from? ”

Chu Zhen's words hit Li Shimin's heart.

His father Li Yuan had just staged a drama of "three resignations and three concessions" with Yang Yu before finally becoming the emperor.

Chu Zhen said: "In my opinion, the abolition of the prime minister system is to classify the power of the prime minister to control hundreds of officials as imperial power, and the emperor concurrently serves as the prime minister. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a while, then nodded reluctantly: "I am the emperor, I don't need a prime minister!" ”

"I ask you, how many hours are there in a day?"

"Humph! You think I don't know what you're trying to say? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't fall into his trap, and immediately replied: "I have the energy to deal with court affairs!" ”

"Haha!"

Chu Zhen couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "You are a workaholic like Zhu Di, who took over the world, and you criticize and fold for eight hours a day, but what about other emperors?" They have lived in the deep palace since they were children, they are pampered, and the world is peaceful, do you still want to count on the emperor to be diligent in government? It's already good to be able to go to court. ”

"I, Emperor Ming...... No, those turtle grandchildren don't even go to court?! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked.

"Emperor Daming has cultivators, carpenters, and royal drivers who have been arrested, but they have not gone to court...... In the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there were 100 years when the emperor did not go to court. ”

"This, these turtle grandchildren...... The turtle grandson of the fourth child! If I go back, I will destroy the Ming Dynasty! Save yourself from death and be angry with life! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned red, and he was so angry that his beard floated up.

Li Shimin thought about it, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was admonished by the officials for more than ten days, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not go to court for a hundred years......

Chu Zhen glanced at Li Qingzhao with a smile, Li Xiaoniang's eyebrows were crooked, and she whispered: "The official family of the Great Song Dynasty went to court on the fifth day. ”

"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not go to court, but also because of Zhu Yuanzhang." Chu Zhen said.

"Lying on my head again?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was still angry, and stared at it.

Simply blame him for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, if he doesn't fight the world, there will be no fall of the Ming Dynasty, and those turtle grandchildren don't have to go to the court!!

"According to historical records, in September of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu appointed four auxiliary officials, and in fifteen years, he appointed several five-grade petty officials as university scholars, special attendants, and consultants."

"The Ming Dynasty cabinet has since taken shape."

After Chu Zhen finished speaking, he paused for a while and continued: "Although the cabinet scholars are only five-rank petty officials, according to the law, the closer they are to the emperor, the closer they are to the center of power. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and thought deeply.

Chu Zhen said again: "For example, Shangshu, in the Qin Dynasty, was only a minor official in charge of the emperor's books, and was no different from the other six Shangshang, such as Shangyi and Shangshi, and they were all just ministers in the palace.

However, as the emperor of the Han Dynasty did not trust the foreign court, that is, the civil and military officials in the court, the emperor used the people around him to ask Shangshu to draft government decrees.

Gradually, Shangshu, who was in power, became the prime minister and the head of the hundred officials.

During the Tang Dynasty, because of Li Shimin, the left and right servants of Shangshu Province were equivalent to the prime minister. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned again.

The mentioned Li Shimin is also thinking about why the left and right servants should add the title of "Pingzhang Shi under the Tongzhong Shumen" to be the prime minister?

He is now Shang Shuling, and the adjutant is a servant on the left and right.

But he is the king of Qin, Shang Shuling is just a false position, and the prime minister is still Shang Shu's left servant Pei Lian.

Chu Zhen continued: "The Ming Dynasty abolished the prime minister and established a cabinet, just like the Han Dynasty Shangshu, the cabinet closest to the emperor also became the head of the hundred officials, called the cabinet chief assistant. ”

"The first assistant of the cabinet has become the prime minister again?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was cold.

dared to toss and turn him, and endured Hu Weiyong for so many years, but in the end, the prime minister was not abolished.

"No, the head of the cabinet is the head of a hundred officials, but his power is far inferior to that of the prime minister."

Chu Zhen said: "The prime minister controls hundreds of officials, and can appoint below the fifth grade——"

"It's six pins!" Zhu Yuanzhang corrected.

"Okay, it is the sixth grade, the prime minister can appoint the six-grade officials, and the officials pay attention to the grace of knowledge, resulting in the promoted officials only looking at the prime minister's horse, and then linking up into the party, which is one of the sources of party contention."

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't wait to slap his thigh, he just couldn't see that all the officials were headed by Hu Weiyong and ignored him, the emperor.

Chu Zhen continued: "And the head of the cabinet does not have this power, and he cannot control officials, so he is not the prime minister.

There is only Zhang Juzheng alone, he is the emperor's teacher, and he has the right to approve the red of the celebrant supervisor, and then he has the right to vote for the cabinet, and finally deters hundreds of officials with the examination method, so Zhang Juzheng is not the prime minister, but his power is the first person in the prime minister, except for the abolition of the emperor, he can do anything. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's scalp was numb.

Where did this Juzheng come from? Is he the first phase of the ages?

He abolished the prime minister, and the result was that the Ming Dynasty was the first in the ages?

“…… What is the celebrant supervisor's right to approve red? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang held back for a long time before he had a problem.

Listening to the history of the Ming Dynasty made him feel too aggrieved!!

Chu Zhen smiled and said: "Because the first assistant of the cabinet is not the prime minister, and the Ming Emperor has great power, what is the seal of the emperor's instructions?" ”

"The official edict uses a jade seal, and the ordinary fold is stamped with my seal."

Zhu Yuanzhang replied, with a very bad expression on his face.

"Yes, the palm seal eunuch will do this, replace the emperor's seal, write Zhu Criticism, called the eunuch of the palm seal of the celebrant and the eunuch of the palm seal, and the status is higher than that of the eunuch Bingbi, these two eunuchs and the head of the cabinet are equivalent to the prime minister."

Chu Zhen said: "The vote is intended to belong to the cabinet, and the Zhu approval belongs to the eunuch, and the throne of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai, and he can be in power without going to the court." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression finally softened, and he smiled smugly: "It's still a bit useful to abolish the prime minister!" ”

Originally, he thought that abolishing the prime minister was a clever move, but when Chu Zhen said this, he only dared to say "a little useful".

"Back to the previous topic."

Chu Zhen took a sip of tea, "What is the prime minister for?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned again and pondered.

"Consolidation of imperial power? But in my opinion, this led to the Ming emperor's neglect of political affairs, and he could take power without going to the court, and manipulated eunuchs and ministers at will.

But what? The world will not get better because the emperor seized power, the emperor is in power in the Forbidden City, but the officials of the provinces below are wantonly accumulating wealth, annexing land, oppressing and exploiting the people, and finally leading to the death of 'Ming Shi in Wanli'! ”

Wanli did not go to court for 30 years, and was praised as having great power.

But the government was so desolate and rotten that it was not like words, and in the end, Chongzhen was unable to return to the sky.