Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 560 Eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics
In the beginning of Ming Dynasty, eunuchs were strictly restricted.

Zhu Yuanzhang put up an iron sign in the palace, which said, "Officials are not allowed to interfere in political affairs, and those who violate it will be executed."

The reuse of eunuchs started from Zhu Di in Jingnan. He not only lifted the restriction that eunuchs were not allowed to interfere in politics, but also established an inner school to select smart young eunuchs to study and study.

From Zhu Di onwards, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty became more and more powerful. Dongchang, Sili Supervisor, Yuma Supervisor, Tengxiang Four Guards, Admiral Jingying, Nanjing Guard, Jiubian Guard, and even tax collection, etc., everywhere It was their shadows, and in the end they also had the power to approve reds, and were even able to override the cabinet for a time.

The cabinet votes must be handled by them.

So there were so many great eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, such as nine thousand years old.

Zhu Yihai was also well aware of the chaos of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, but at the beginning of his army, he still used Liu Chao and others. In the final analysis, these people were his domestic slaves and he was the most trustworthy.So when it is critical, reuse them.

But now that everything is on the right track, Zhu Yihai has not only won the support of the civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats, but also established a brand-new martial arts group that can balance each other, so there is no need to delegate too much power to the eunuchs, and there is no need to use The eunuchs are here to balance the cabinet and the civil servants.

There are some things that should be done, so as not to harm future generations.

"From now on, the twelve prisons, four divisions and eight bureaus will be abolished."

"Newly set up the three supervisors of the Palace Supervisor, the Internal Attendant Supervisor, and the Shaofu Supervisor. The Palace Supervisor is in charge of all aspects of the emperor's life, and the six bureaus of Shangshi, Medicine and Clothing Bureau, Shangshe Bureau, Shangcheng Bureau, and Chariot Bureau.

The internal servant supervisor is in charge of conveying imperial edicts, guarding the palace gates, sweeping the inner court, cashiers in the inner treasury, and taking care of the court's diet and daily life.

The Shaofu Supervisor is responsible for purchasing and manufacturing, the Royal Handicraft Industry, Huangzhuang Huangdian, Emperor Li Sanku, Nei Shiku, etc.It consists of the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, the Weaving Bureau, and the Military Industry Bureau. "

Zhu Yihai directly abolished the twelve supervisors, four divisions and eight bureaus, and replaced them with the three supervisors of the palace, the servants, and the Shaofu, each with a clear division of labor.

Obviously, just looking at the signature of the official, it is known that the emperor is a fan of the Han and Tang Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, there were three provinces: the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Dianzhong, and the Ministry of Secretaries, as well as the Shaofu Supervisor.

Judging from these duties, it is also necessary to allow eunuchs to resume their ordinary duties as close servants, instead of making them an internal court and preventing them from participating in the political power of the court.

The supervisor in the palace is in charge of the emperor's daily life, mainly in charge of the affairs of the imperial palace. In addition to the six bureaus, there will also be an internal performance office.

In the future, eunuchs are not allowed to directly contact foreign courts, and are not allowed to communicate directly with ministers and generals.

Even the external memorials, etc., have to set up an external memorial office outside, which belongs to the Secretary of General Affairs. After all the inscriptions are drafted by the cabinet, they are first handed over by the external memorial office to the eunuch of the internal memorial office at the gate of the palace. Point-to-point transfer.

After the emperor Zhu approved the disposal, it was also handed over from the internal affairs office to the external affairs office.

The eunuchs who are the eunuchs in the palace are restricted to the palace.

The eunuchs of the inner servants have even weaker powers. They are only responsible for sweeping the harem, guarding the palace gate, etc., and are mainly responsible for the daily life of the concubines, etc., the restricted harem.

The Shaofu Supervisor is actually the Ministry of Internal Affairs newly established by Zhu Yihai before. It is now renamed as the Shaofu Supervisor. They are in charge of the affairs outside the palace. They are responsible for the royal handicraft industry, internal treasury, and purchases.

Dianzhong Province set up an internal office, only the East Factory was retained, and the Royal Horse Supervisor previously supervised the Beijing Camp, served as the Nanjing garrison eunuch, the border guard eunuch, and the town supervisors will no longer be the case.

Not to mention the right to approve red, they are not even qualified to wear purple robes now, let alone wear boa robes casually like before, and they are not qualified to sit and discuss politics with the cabinet scholars.

The number will be greatly reduced. In the past tens of thousands, the number of eunuchs in the palace and internal servants will be limited to a few hundred. The Shaofu Supervisor will also be used as eunuchs and scholars to reduce the number of eunuchs.

Those who can do without eunuchs do not.

In the past, the eunuchs exercised the power of the emperor and acted on behalf of the emperor. Whether it was to approve the red, or to admiral the capital, etc., the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty were actually a group of civil officials who deliberately used it to limit the expansion of power. .

But for Zhu Yihai, he no longer needs to use eunuchs to balance civil servants, because he has both decision-making ability and a new group of warriors.

They can balance very well, so why use eunuchs?

Although eunuchs were loyal, they still had many natural defects. The various disadvantages produced by the eunuch system in the Ming Dynasty were also very obvious.

"The emperor is sage, with a high vision, and the servants firmly support it!"

Liu Chao, the eunuch in charge of the chief inspector of ceremonies, knelt down and loudly supported him. Zhu Yihai had communicated with him about this before.

Pang Tianshou, Li Guofu and other great eunuchs were not willing to delegate power, but eunuchs are attached to the imperial power, even if they are nine thousand years old like Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, the emperor can get rid of them immediately.

This is their natural shortcoming and weakness. They have no capital to compete with the emperor. It is also the reason why the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty are far inferior to the eunuchs of the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty despite their reputation.

The eunuchs in the Han and Tang Dynasties were really able to abolish and establish. The biggest capital of the eunuchs in the Han and Tang Dynasties was that they had a lot of forbidden troops, especially the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang Dynasty, the imperial court could really fight against the forbidden troops. in their hands.

Not to mention abolishing the establishment, or even killing the emperor, it is all a matter of one thought.

Song Zhipu is the chief assistant and the prime minister.

He not only has the right to draft votes, but also participates in important military and state affairs, and he is the absolute confidant of the emperor.

In fact, the cabinet has changed a long time ago. In fact, the cabinet is now only in charge of general government affairs, major military and state affairs, and is usually decided by the emperor at the meeting of the prime minister's office. The prime minister does not replace the cabinet, they It's just a temporary part-time job, equivalent to the emperor's staff.

The power reduction of the cabinet is reflected in several aspects.

For example, the emperor stipulated that impeachment memorials from the Court of Remonstrance and the Metropolitan Procuratorate could be submitted directly to the Palace Gate without going through the cabinet.Later, another article was added, that for urgent military and state affairs, there is no need to go through the Secretary of General Administration and the Cabinet according to the procedures, but directly to the palace gate.

Later, the emperor abolished the memorials for officials' private affairs, and only kept the inscriptions for officials' official affairs.However, many officials were granted the right to publish secret documents, and the secret documents of these officials were also sealed and presented directly to the emperor for personal viewing, and no one could see them.

Even only those who write secret books are allowed to write by themselves, and they are not allowed to ask the master to write for them, and they are not allowed to discuss with other officials.

From business to private, say whatever you want.

In the past, regardless of public or private matters, be it Beijing officials or local officials, even the inscriptions and memorandums of Ke Dao officials had to go through the cabinet.

But now many of them bypass the cabinet, and the important manifestation of the power of the court is actually exerted through these official documents and reports.

Coupled with the fact that the emperor now makes decisions in his own hands, at the meeting of the Prime Minister's Office, the academicians in the Prime Minister's Office are often directly asked to draft bills in front of the imperial court.

Of course, the emperor did not intend to abolish the cabinet, but the power has indeed declined. They are now mainly in charge of daily government affairs, and major decisions are already in the prime minister's office, all in the hands of the emperor.

However, Song Zhipu, the first assistant, did not object to this, and even supported the emperor all the time. Fang Fengnian, Chen Meng, etc. who wanted to make trouble in the cabinet before were dealt with by Zhu Yihai.

So no one had the guts and idea to do it again.

Now that the emperor has formally abolished the Supervisor of Ceremonies and others, and took back the right to award awards, he thinks it is no problem.

It is also the first time to stand up and support.

"Then ask the first assistant to draft a ticket!"

Just let Song Zhipu start drafting this matter, and then Ting sent it to be announced and implemented.

Originally the most popular eunuch in the hands of the chief inspector of ceremonies, and even the admiral of Dongchang, but now he has suddenly been reduced to a fourth-rank eunuch in the palace and can only wear scarlet robes, but Liu Chao doesn't care at all.

He is eggless, what color official robes he wears, he is an official of several ranks, and he is still the emperor's servant, so why do he care about those extraneous things?

"Liu Chao, you are concurrently the eunuch of the internal affairs department, Pang Tianshou and Li Guofu are the junior supervisors of the palace, and Li Guofu is also the admiral of the East Factory."

It turned out that both Pang Tianshou and Li Guofu played the role of the emperor more than once, hoping to restore the four guards of Tengxiang and rebuild a horse breeding army of 2 people.

Zhu Yihai never agreed.

Now they are even directly deprived of their qualifications to supervise the Beijing camp and supervise the towns.

Restore the original duties of the eunuchs and completely withdraw from the political center of the court.

This move was firmly supported by ministers such as Song Zhipu and Xu Shiqi, and even Liu Zongzhou and Liu Dapao excitedly spoke good words to the emperor.

Hong Chengchou and Qian Qianyi flattered him even more, and even Zheng Zhilong thought of a bunch of words to flatter him.

Zhu Yihai just laughed it off.

He has been planning this for a long time.

This matter is different from Chongzhen’s clean-up of the eunuchs after defeating Wei Zhongxian at the beginning of his succession. Chongzhen had no foundation at that time. What's more, the government has become even more corrupt.

In the end, the eunuch had to be reused again and again.

But before Zhu Yihai made his move, he had already made preparations and had sufficient conditions.

The 20 elite imperial camp Beijing Camp is the emperor's greatest reliance.

Of course, although Zhu Yihai took the initiative to abolish the four divisions and eight bureaus of the twelve prisons, the newly installed third prison still retains a lot of power, especially the Shaofu prison, the Royal Handicraft Industry, Huangzhuang Huangdian, and even the Royal Inner Curry. library, but they are still firmly in their hands.

Even the Son of Heaven must have a small treasury, and it must be full. You can't expect to get money from the treasury Taicang, which will disturb the order and be easily attacked by ministers.

How could it be better to cultivate some cash cows by yourself and get a small treasury at ease?
If you have money, you don't need to ask the court for money, and you can even often reward ministers, soldiers, etc. with the money in the internal treasury, so you have the confidence.

(End of this chapter)