Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 150 The Cabinet

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People in later generations may not know much about the imperial city of the Ming Dynasty, thinking that it was about the same size as the palace city of the Qing Dynasty.

But the difference between the two is really far.

The imperial city of the Ming Dynasty was about ten times larger than that of the Qing Dynasty. [

Nancheng, Xiyuan, and Longevity Mountain are so large that they include the Forbidden City and the government offices of the central government, plus several royal gardens. It is really not comparable to the imperial city of the later Qing Dynasty.

Take the Forbidden City as an example. The Huangji Hall was several times larger than the later renamed Taihe Hall. Later, it was burned down and rebuilt in the early Qing Dynasty. There was no large golden nanmu, so the regulations were reduced.

In this Forbidden City, it doesn’t matter whether you are an important official who lives in eight houses and builds a government office, or an eunuch who speaks of the constitution of heaven and is good at being a powerful eunuch, or a cabinet scholar who controls Wenheng and manages yin and yang, and is known as the prime minister. Everyone, you have to hold your breath, everything revolves around the person called the emperor. The Ming and Qing Dynasties are similar and different, but one thing is the same. The imperial power is indeed a master since the Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, even though the Ming Dynasty was more enlightened and civilized than the Qing Dynasty, the imperial power was supreme, far from the situation in the Han Dynasty when the royal family and the aristocratic clans were divided into rival courts, and in the Song Dynasty when the royal family and the scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together.

Take Wenyuan Pavilion not far from Huangjimen, for example, the cabinet system had already matured in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was not far away during the reign of Shenzong. Simply ignore it.However, the government and the opposition are actually living in peace, and the world is peaceful. It is not what later generations said. The Ming Dynasty died under Shenzong. This is actually an insult and contempt for the cabinet system.

If it’s time to fill in the officials, then fill in the officials, and do whatever you want. If the local affairs are not working, it’s because the Ming Dynasty’s bureaucratic system and financial system are not good enough. Under the cabinet system, this broken car has been able to move forward as much as possible, and it can do things again. And it cannot threaten the imperial power. No matter how important the cabinet is, it is not a real prime minister. The power of the prime minister cannot be increased.

For a simple example, the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty were in charge of the Zhongshu Province, and the Zhongshu Ling led Zhongshu Sheren and other officials who served the edict. The central government orders were all issued by the Zhongshu.

The left and right servants receive the ministers, and the six departments are directly led by the prime minister. They are directly responsible for everything to the prime minister and are subordinate officials to the prime minister.

The Zhongshu Ling is the middle, the servant is the assistant, and the political affairs are the assistant.

In the Song Dynasty, because of the power of the prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, the Great Song Yizu overlapped the bed and built a house, and changed the official system of the Song Dynasty into a mess. All political affairs were carried out by the two governments, and the prime minister Yitong and the three divisions lost high power, and the respect was still among the princes. In terms of etiquette, there are hundreds of bureaucrats. In terms of power and honor, they are actually not inferior to the Han and Tang Dynasties.

It's just that in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's desire for power was too strong, and the Han dynasty was soaked in Hu Feng after a hundred years of Mongolian Yuan rule.

Abolishing the prime minister system that has existed for thousands of years is a very obvious assumption and failure.

Because Lao Zhu apparently overlooked one thing, that is, his descendants will never have his political skills and ruthless heart, let alone his strong spirit of working for more than ten hours a day without getting tired.