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Chapter 537 Zhu Zhanji: Rule the world with family slaves!

Ming Dynasty Jiajing Period
"That's not necessarily a good thing..."

Zhu Houcong looked at the sky with melancholy
He said quietly:
"That's not a good thing."

“There are wolves outside and tigers inside.”

"One stubbornness leads to two blocked ends."

"It's difficult..."

……

【The first is the old-fashioned anti-corruption issue. 】

【At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang hated corruption so much that he established the Censorate system. 】

[The censors of the Metropolitan Censorate held very low positions but had enormous power.]

[Seventh-rank officials can directly impeach important officials, and can supervise officials at the local level.]

【Fighting corruption is simple and efficient. 】

【But over time, this system began to have problems. 】

[The censors can investigate all officials, but no one investigates the censors.]

[Gradually, the corrupt officials figured out the trick. They were not afraid of being guilty, they just had to drag the censor into the water.]

【So they corrupted each other. 】

[At first, it was corrupt officials bribing the censors, and later it developed into the censors demanding bribes from officials, and the atmosphere became increasingly bad.]

……

The period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
"As expected of you, Zhu Yuanzhang."

Liu Che admired Zhu Yuanzhang very much.

His achievement in uniting the north and the south was no less than that of his great-grandfather.

But he really doesn't think highly of establishing systems.

Just look at the settings of the Censorate!
Be stubborn and stick to it!
If you don’t have problems, who will?

……

The period of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty
"Just like my father..."

When Liu Fuling looked at the system on the sky curtain, he thought of Liu Che.

My head suddenly felt a cramping pain.

Who is the good person who gave China and North Korea such great power?

Adding a Chinese character can make you call the wind and rain, and even look down on the generals and prime ministers.

How did he come up with this system that exists only for the purpose of centralizing power?

A genius is a true genius.

The tiankeng is really a pit!

"Just dig the hole and don't bury it."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn’t have that vision, but his own father… was extremely confident!

Then he nearly blew himself up.

"Having such a father..."

"It's difficult."

……

[In 1435, Zhu Zhanji used an excuse to exile Liu Guan, the corrupt official in the Censorate, to Liaodong.]

[Promote the honest official Gu Zuo to be the Left Censor-in-Chief.]

[Within less than a year of his taking office, he dismissed 43 imperial censors in one go, using the Liu Guan case as an excuse, and selected and recruited a number of honest and capable people.]

[The once rotten Censorate has regained its vitality and is once again shouldering the heavy responsibility of anti-corruption. ]

【Zhu Zhanji also made a revision to the system.】

[The Censorate selects censors. In the future, the Censorate will draw up a list of names, write down their specific deeds, and then submit it to the Ministry of Personnel for review.]

[If there is any problem with the censor, both the recommender and the reviewer will be punished.]

……

Ming dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the chair, picked up the teacup and took a big sip of water.

Then he looked at the sky and commented.

"This is a good idea."

"In this way, the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate will have to keep an eye on each other, and if something goes wrong, they will be implicated together."

"The admission criteria for the Imperial Censors have become stricter."

"Don't tell me, your great-grandson is quite capable."

Xu Da sat on one side with a long face.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him.

"Look at your face, it's longer than a donkey's!"

"I've already told you, the matter with Old Four has nothing to do with you!"

"What are you afraid of!"

Xu Da sighed.

"Brother... I'm worried that the prince will feel uncomfortable..."

Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling and slammed the teacup on the table.

"Tian De!"

"You have watched Biaoer grow up."

"Don't you know what kind of person he is?"

"You think he can't tolerate the fourth one?"

Xu Da looked at Old Zhu, who would fuss and glare whenever someone said something bad about Zhu Biao.

He sighed even louder.

"Brother, I'm not talking about the prince himself... I'm talking about the people on the prince's side!" Zhu Yuanzhang's face instantly sank.

He immediately understood what Xu Da meant.

One emperor and one courtier.

He can accommodate the fourth child, and Biaoer can accommodate the fourth child.

But what about Biao'er's son, the minister who protects the prince's lineage?
"Tian De, let me ask you, do you believe me?"

Xu Da looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a serious expression.

The heroic look on his face turned into majesty, but the confidence remained the same as before.

"I always believed in Big Brother."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, then stood up and walked out.

"We'll get this sorted out."

"Your girl, my stinky boy is going to marry her!"

Xu Da stood up to see Zhu Yuanzhang off, and his face turned dark when he heard this.

What a bandit's rhetoric!
No...he's a bandit!
……

[Because the position of prime minister had been abolished during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the power was nominally communicated between the emperor and the six ministries responsible for specific government affairs.]

[However, even the extremely energetic Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di found it difficult to handle the heavy daily management affairs.]

[Not to mention Zhu Zhanji, who had extremely poor physical fitness. ]

……

Ming Dynasty Yongle Period
"Am I in poor health?"

Zhu Zhanji pointed at his nose in disbelief and asked the three people in amazement:

Zhu Di looked him up and down, shook his head and sighed.

Zhu Gaoxu bent his arm and said disdainfully:

"The only difference between you and a woman is that you have a beard."

Zhu Zhanji clenched his fists.

Zhu Gaochi on the side was also worried:

"You do look frail."

Zhu Zhanji was helpless.

Dad, with your body shape.

Everyone looks thin!
……

Ming Dynasty and Xuande period
I have just recovered from the grief of my own untimely death.

Zhu Zhanji was hit hard again by the words from heaven!

"You are the weak one!"

"I did that to take some time to relax!"

"It's about combining work with rest!"

……

【Thus, the power vacuum was filled by the cabinet.】

【But the cabinet officials were not just willing to be the emperor's messenger machines.】

[They had to obey the emperor's will, but also obey Confucian discipline.]

【Use Confucianism and ancestral laws to test whether the exercise of imperial power is appropriate.】

[If there is any inappropriateness, the cabinet will also come into conflict with the emperor. ]

【This is the institutional factor that prevented the emperor from acting recklessly.】

……

Ming Dynasty Yongle Period
Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Boss?"

Zhu Gaochi lowered his head silently.

He does have the idea of ​​delegating power to cabinet ministers.

No other meaning.

It's really because people like his father and grandfather are too terrible.

These two are capable rulers. What if they met emperors like those in the Northern and Southern Dynasties?

The Ming Dynasty spiraled into heaven!

"Dad, yin alone cannot produce anything, and yang alone cannot sustain anything."

"Only when yin and yang are balanced can life continue forever."

……

【But Zhu Zhanji was a smart man. 】

[In order to better reflect the imperial power and avoid excessive restrictions by the cabinet. ]

【He introduced the system of the Imperial Household Department and the Ministry of Rites jointly assisting the government into the imperial power-cabinet system. 】

[The cabinet would propose opinions on how to deal with various memorials through "votes", and then the emperor would make the decision and approve them (with red ink)]

[At the same time, the eunuch in charge of imperial ceremonies was authorized to sign and approve the cabinet's draft on behalf of the emperor.]

[Under this system, "the cabinet's draft bill must be approved by the eunuchs"]

【The cabinet was controlled by the Imperial Household Department, which represented the imperial power.】

[The power of the emperor and his household slaves, the eunuchs, was further expanded and strengthened.]

[In order to make the domestic slaves better serve the imperial power, Zhu Zhanji began to transfer them to senior civil servants and teach them to read and write. ]

[In April 1426, Zhu Zhanji established the Inner Study Hall.]

[Eunuchs now have a legal and fixed channel to acquire knowledge.]

[Evaluation C+, 2.5 points]

……

{Your Majesty rules the world with your own slaves!}
{So, those emperors who were lazy about government affairs and indulged in pleasure.}
{In the future, you can safely use your servants to control the cabinet and thus control the political situation.}
{This is really thanks to Zhu Zhanji's system design.}
{This is Zhu Zhanji's true character. It cannot be called a flaw, but rather a failing.}
(End of this chapter)