Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 50, the unique censor of the Ming Dynasty
Hearing Jiang Zijun's words, Emperor Hongzhi's eyebrows twitched slightly, but he felt an extremely strong sense of disgust for this censor Jiang Zijun in his heart.

As an emperor, Emperor Hongzhi did not deal with these censors for a day or two. He was too aware of the peeing nature of these censors. To say that they are mad dogs is still a compliment. To be precise, these censors often even have mad dogs. Not as good.

The censor of the Ming Dynasty was actually a very deformed supervision system. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established an extremely complete supervision system in order to strengthen the management of the country, especially to supervise the officials and clean them up.

Specifically, on the basis of the supervision system, six new departments were added, and thirteen supervisory censors were established in [-] provinces across the country, forming the unique Taiwan admonition system of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the supervisory censor was not founded in the Ming Dynasty, but originated in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but it really flourished in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, the supervisory censor was subordinate to the Inspectorate, and the highest officer was the inspector censor, the second rank, and one of the nine ministers, but the ordinary official censor was not high, only the seventh rank, but the power was unprecedented. Whether it is a major national event, such as foreign wars, imperial examinations, education, etc.

It is still a trivial matter, such as the emperor marrying a daughter-in-law, the prince leaving the court, etc., the supervisory censor can make suggestions, and they can directly submit memorials to the emperor.

This is the most typical manifestation of the Ming Dynasty's characteristics of small system and big. The founder Zhu Yuanzhang tried to maintain the cleanliness of officials in such a way, and at the same time, it also allowed the emperor to have more sources of information channels.

This seems to be a very good system. It not only supervises the officials, but also allows the emperor not to be deceived by the officials below, so that he will not lose power and become a puppet emperor.

But things backfired. The censors of the Ming Dynasty could still play some role at the beginning, but as time went by, these censors gradually became tools used by people.

These civil officials of the Ming Dynasty used the power in the hands of the censor to continuously write letters to the emperor. Today they said that the emperor should not eat too much at one meal, and tomorrow they said that the emperor should not take a nap. It should be a diligent government that does not rest all day long. The day after tomorrow, it will be said that the emperor's walking posture is not majestic enough, and he does not have the appearance of an emperor.

In short, these censors are full and have nothing to do. They stare at the emperor every day. Even if it is a trivial matter, they can make a big fuss. Level, you can't even see what the other party is saying about you.

They can make a big fuss about even small things, and they even dare to spray saliva on the emperor's face in front of the emperor.

But the emperor of the Ming Dynasty couldn't help these censors, because the power in the hands of censors was bestowed by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and they were doing their own things.

Sometimes it is really uncomfortable to be scolded, and the emperor will be angry, which happens to fulfill these censors. These censors are all of low grade. They wish to be famous by this, and it is best to be killed by the emperor. It can also leave a name that dares to speak out.

It was originally intended to monitor the officials, but in the end it became an existence dedicated to finding fault with the emperor. In history, several emperors who were unwilling to go to court in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were also affected by this aspect.

Anyone who goes to work every day, no matter what they do is right or wrong, they will be told, but you have nothing to do with these mad dogs, and the faction in the court is intensifying, and everyone is forming cliques and criticizing each other , Fighting for power and profit, there is no one to do practical things at all.

Faced with such a situation, these emperors in the middle and late stages have actually gradually lost control of the entire world, unable to collect taxes, empty treasury, unable to do anything, and unable to change anything.

Even if there are a few powerful emperors who can take back part of their power temporarily by relying on eunuchs, these civil servants will soon take back their power again. The emperor will lose to these courtiers who are experienced in political struggle.

In the end, the power of the emperor is still in the hands of the emperor on the surface, but in fact the emperor can do nothing. If you want money, you have no money, and you have no people. ending.

In addition to constantly attacking the emperor, these censors can easily become very sharp attacks because of their low rank and great power.

Because the senior officials, even the senior officials, have nothing to do with the censors, and gradually develop the phenomenon of these censors attacking people indiscriminately.

As long as there is a need, whether there is or not, these censors can find all kinds of things to attack the high officials in the court. In many cases, these high officials in the court have not committed any mistakes and will also be punished Attack because that's what power struggles call for.

Therefore, whether it is the emperor at the top or the courtiers below, everyone is tired of dealing with these censors, which greatly wastes the energy and time of the emperor and courtiers.

Sometimes the early courts, court conferences, etc. have almost become vegetable markets, and become places where these censors scold the streets. After the criticism, I had to find ways to explain it.

This has seriously affected the efficiency of the emperor and the ministers in the court. Emperor Chongzhen was very diligent, very diligent. Facing the situation of internal and external troubles, he worked hard, but a large part of his time was spent dealing with court officials in the court. Censors attack each other.

Because the censors have too much power and low rank, they are naturally safe. Everyone likes to use these censors to make a fuss. What to do when encountering opponents, let the censors under him attack the opponents.

Most of the time, courtiers want to save face. Some ministers will often submit a letter of resignation to the emperor if they are referred to by the censor.

Therefore, the existence of these censors also intensified the party struggles in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the middle and late periods, when all kinds of party struggles intensified. One party after another on the left kept attacking each other, fighting for power and profit, but no one Think about doing something practical for the court.

They formed cliques with each other and formed huge groups linked by regions. These groups all used the censor to make a big fuss, not just attacking competitors.

Most of the time, they kept attacking the emperor, so that the emperor's energy was devoted to these irrelevant and trivial matters, and the emperor was slowly forced to hand over the power in his hands to these ministers to expand the power of civil servants.

Of course, the wise emperor will use another force to fight against them, this force is the power of eunuchs, and use these powers of eunuchs to compete with these civil officials.

As for some foolish emperors, such as Chongzhen, he foolishly believed the words of these literati, abolished his martial arts, and pulled out the power of eunuchs. In the end, he could not escape becoming a hanged ghost under a crooked neck tree. As for him The literati who believed in it knelt down on their knees, tied their hair into braids, and immediately went to welcome their new masters.

　The censor of the Ming Dynasty is indeed a big failure~~ What do you think?
　　
　
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