Daming Zhu Di: Father, why aren't you dead? !

Chapter 40 Check and balance, check and balance, balance on balance!
Zhu Zhanji's voice fell, and the three generations of old Zhu, old Zhu Di, and Zhu Gaochi also started brainstorming at the same time.

The eyes of the grandparents and grandchildren fell on Zhu Zhanji, and they all expressed their appreciation.

Obviously, Lao Zhu, Lao Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi all agreed with the answer Zhu Zhanji said.

"Yes, that's a good answer."

Ji Boying raised his hand and shook it, a golden shadow flew past, and Zhu Zhanji subconsciously raised his hand to grab it.

Spread out the palm, it is a golden ball, to be precise, it is a ball wrapped in gold paper.

"It's chocolate."

'chocolate? '

Zhu Zhanji was taken aback for a moment, then subconsciously dialed, and peeled off the gold paper on the outside, and there was a black 'stone' inside.

"Master Immortal, this..."

"You can eat it."

After receiving Ji Boying's reply, Zhu Zhanji stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation.

In an instant, the eyes straightened.

Chocolate was introduced to China hundreds of years later during the Kangxi period, and it was far less fragrant than later generations.

"Delicious?"

Zhu Gaochi swallowed his saliva, and subconsciously asked, he is fat for no reason.

Among the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the one who pursued eating the most was the Emperor Hongxi who only sat on the dragon chair for ten months. He could write an encyclopedia of all kinds of unofficial histories about his eating.

"Very good."

Zhu Zhanji nodded firmly.

"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat in your brain?!"

"Listen carefully to the teacher's lecture."

Old Zhu Di glared at Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaochi straightened his body and looked at Ji Boying seriously.

Ji Boying pushed back the scattered long bangs, glanced at the sky outside, and then at the four big disciples on the table. An hour is coming, and the sky in Yongle Time and Space is also getting dark.

"I don't have enough time, so I won't ask them one by one."

Ji Boying tapped the table lightly with his fingertips.

"What I'm going to say next is the key point."

Old Zhu Di, big and small Zhu all looked tense, they all subconsciously thought that the immortal master had other important matters to attend to, and only old Zhu knew what it meant to not have enough time.

"Brother, please speak."

Old Zhu took a deep breath, he had a premonition that the answer he wanted had finally arrived.

"First, establish the ancestral system. The prince and the kings are not allowed to use eunuchs, and they are close to eunuchs. No matter what their positions are, they need to be changed every three months."

Change the close eunuch every three months. In this way, no matter how scheming the eunuch is, there is no way to get close to each other for a long time, and it is impossible to gain the trust of the powerful.

For example, Wang Zhen, who is the teacher of the God of War, if he can only teach Zhu Qizhen for three months, then the God of War will never be obedient to him.

According to this practice, even after the crown prince ascends the throne, he will not feel too close to the eunuchs in the future.

"Of course, this is just to reduce the future monarch's trust in eunuchs as much as possible, and it cannot be completely eliminated."

After Ji Boying finished the first point, Zhu Zhanji felt a little uncomfortable.

The eunuchs who played crickets with him were all masters, and it will be changed every three months, where can I find new companions to play with?
Lao Zhu and Lao Zhu Di both nodded, obviously agreeing with this method.

"Second, give the cabinet the legal status it deserves, and clearly designate the chief assistant of the cabinet as the head of all the officials in the court. You decide the rank yourself, but it must be above the chief officials of the six ministries."

"My suggestion is to start with Yipin."

The growth of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty from a secretariat to the center of the empire was a gradual development process, including the gradual improvement of the status of the cabinet. The final historical choice was to let it surpass the six ministries, and it took nearly a hundred years to complete this choice.

This is like crossing a river. Instead of feeling the stones and stepping over the pits one by one, it is better to directly build a bridge across the river.

"In addition, it is necessary to establish a comprehensive evaluation mechanism for entering the cabinet. The specific evaluation requirements are determined by you. The final judgment is in the hands of the emperor. The emperor grants the authority to the cabinet ministers, institutionalizes the cabinet entry and grants imperial power, and cuts off ministers who deliberately form cliques inside and outside the court in order to enter the cabinet. At the same time, cut off the way for the inner court to interfere in the cabinet."

In some periods of the Ming Dynasty, the reason why the chief inspector was able to manipulate the cabinet was because the cabinet lacked a complete cabinet entry system, so that these eunuchs could take advantage of loopholes and support their own people to enter the cabinet, thereby achieving the point of manipulating the foreign court.

Because although the Supervisor of Rituals has the right to approve the red, it must be drafted by the cabinet, otherwise his red and white papers?
Part of the reason why cabinet ministers deliberately go to the court to form cliques is because they need the support of these party members to join the cabinet. However, if the right to join the cabinet comes from the system, not personnel, then some honest ministers do not need to form cliques and can still join the cabinet to serve the country.

In this way, there will still be cliques in the Ming Dynasty, but there will be much fewer.

After Ji Boying's second point, Zhu Zhanji asked again. This kid obviously got the sweet spot.

"Master Immortal, I have a question, if the chief assistant of the cabinet is clearly defined as the head of the hundred officials, what is the difference from the prime minister? Isn't it going back to the old way?"

Before Ji Boying could answer, Zhu Gaochi who was beside him spoke.

"Zhanji, why didn't the immortal master listen carefully?!"

Zhu Gaochi took on the attitude of a strict father.

"Master Immortal has made it very clear before that the cabinet only has the right to discuss the state affairs, and the chief assistant of the cabinet is designated as the head of the hundred officials. This is to clarify the legal principles of the cabinet and to make the various ministries of the court operate more effectively. Why go back to the old way?"

Ji Boying looked at Zhu Gaochi in a little surprise, this big fat man really has a good head.

"Da Zhu is right."

"Determining the head and assistant of the cabinet as the head of the hundred officials can make the six ministries operate more effectively, but the cabinet has no essential powers to superimpose, only to discuss power. It can be understood in this sentence, there is a false name for a prime minister, but no real power for a prime minister."

'There is a false name for a phase, but there is no real power for a phase. '

Both Lao Zhu and Lao Zhu Di's eyes lit up, and the father and son looked at each other in amazement.

"The third point is that the chief assistant of the cabinet is given the power to face the emperor directly without the report of the ministers."

"This is the core of the outer court's ability to counteract the inner court when the eunuchs are in trouble. The eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty are different from those in the Han and Tang Dynasties. The eunuchs in the Han and Tang dynasties were in front of the emperor, but the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty did it because the emperor didn't care about things. But doing nothing doesn't mean that the emperor is a fool. Looking at the later kings of the old Zhu family, although there are many weird ones, most of them are smart people."

Even Zhu Houzhao, when he learned that his Mr. Yang was taken to Nanjing by Liu Jin's malicious revenge, he immediately reprimanded Liu Jin. This kind of dictatorship can happen to a large extent because the cabinet cannot see the emperor in the first place.

If the cabinet was given the right to confront the emperor in the system, then as long as Liu Jin used the power of approving reds to retaliate against Yang Yiqing, the cabinet would be able to meet the emperor immediately, and this transfer order against Yang Yiqing would not be effective at all.

To put it bluntly, the setting of this system is to use the ceremonial supervisor to check and balance the cabinet, and at the same time give the cabinet the conditions to counter the ceremonial supervisor under extreme circumstances, adding balance to balance.

"Of course, this situation is only limited to the eunuchs having signs of monopoly. If the emperor just doesn't want to see people, but is still in charge, then it doesn't matter."

After all, Mr. Wanli did not go to court for 26 years. When he set foot on Fengtian Temple for the first time in 26 years, the ministers under him didn't know what the emperor was like, and Wanli didn't know these ministers, but it still didn't matter.

After Ji Boying finished speaking, Xiao Zhu spoke again.

"Master Immortal, why can't you just cut off the appearance of the right to approve red?"

Ji Boying glanced at Xiao Zhu and smiled.

Zhu Houzhao: "My father has worked as a cow and horse all his life, what's wrong with me enjoying it?" '

(End of this chapter)