Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 82 82He is a pessimistic defeatist

The Xing Zhongshu Province in the Yuan Dynasty was separated from the Zhongshu Province. Its powers were too heavy, and in the later period, it was beyond the reach of the officials and almost impossible to control.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to create absolute centralization of power.

There are two chief envoys on the left and right, each responsible for the political orders of a district.

The Chief Envoy is responsible for civil affairs, which is completely different from the Yuan Dynasty's Xingzhongshu Province.

Chief envoys are representatives and envoys sent by the imperial court to local places. They adhere to the imperial court and promote government orders.

The country is divided into twelve chief envoys offices in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Beiping, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang and Shanxi. In the 15th year, the Yunnan chief envoys office was added.

Moreover, in terms of status, provinces are located in local areas based on the institutions of the capital and provinces.

Chief envoys are envoys sent by the imperial court. The former means that the central government decentralizes power to the local governments, while the latter means that the local governments centralize power to the central government. The meanings are completely different.

In addition, the local authorities in charge of judicial administration also have the Department of Punishment and Prosecution. The chief officer is the Prosecution and Prosecution Commission and is in charge of the investigation of criminal names in a district.

The Second Department of Bu, the Second Department of Press, and the Department of Command and Envoys in charge of military affairs are collectively called the Third Department. They are the three special commissioners sent by the imperial court to the local areas.

The three political powers of civil affairs, justice, and military affairs were independent and directly under the command of the imperial court, in order to facilitate control and rule.

Under the chief envoy, the real local government is divided into two levels. The first level is the prefecture, and the chief is the prefect; there are Zhili prefectures, that is, the prefectures directly under the chief envoy, and the chief is the prefect. The second level is the county, and the chief is the magistrate of the county; there is a state, and the chief is the magistrate of the state.

Prefectures and counties are political units directly connected to the people.

Nanjing (South Zhili) does not have an official envoy department and is under the direct jurisdiction of Zhongshu Province, hence the name "Zhili". Zhu Yuanzhang was going to take action on the bureaucracy of the Ming Empire.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, many systems were based on the Yuan system.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, everything was a matter of crossing the river by feeling the stones.

The memorials submitted by the ministers must first go through the Zhongshu Provincial Department, and two-thirds of the memorials are directly handled by the Zhongshu Provincial Department.

Then, according to the opinions annotated by the prime minister, they were sent to the six ministries of official affairs, household affairs, rituals, military affairs, punishment, and industry, as well as the governor's office and the censor's station and other relevant functional departments.

If the memorial involves major military and political matters and the prime minister has no influence on the matter, then it must be forwarded to the emperor for the final decision.

All official memorials cannot fly past the Zhongshu Province level and be placed directly on the imperial court.

In the opinion of the prime ministers, official memorials need to be classified into different levels and treated differently.

What content can be reviewed by the emperor and what content does not need to be reviewed by the emperor does not depend on the emperor's likes and dislikes, but is decided by Zhongshu Sheng, that is, by the prime minister.

As prime ministers, this is one of the political benefits they are most happy to enjoy.

But for Zhu Yuanzhang, this is the most intolerable thing!

Damn it, the prime minister has already done all the work that we should have done, is that okay?

Who is the emperor!

With our iron-blooded skills, there are still a large group of civil servants who dare to take advantage of us and exploit our Ming Dynasty.

If any unworthy descendant becomes an emperor like Biao'er's son in the future, will he be controlled by civil servants and become a puppet, extending the knife to his own family?

Zhongshu Sheng was the office of the prime minister and the center of the imperial court, so it became the focus of attention of the emperor and ministers.

Zhu Yuanzhang could feel the potential threat from the Huaixi Group headed by Li Shanchang. He hoped that Liu Ji would replace Li Shanchang and play a balancing and restrictive role.

Liu Ji was good at guessing Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts. He didn't want to get involved in the power struggle for fear of causing death, so he decided to leave.

Now that no one in the East Zhejiang Group can check and balance the Huaixi Group, Zhu Yuanzhang is ready to end the war himself.

In the ninth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang changed Zhongshu Sheng to the Provincial Envoy Department, taking the first step towards abolishing the prime minister system.

What he saw and heard in the fairyland this time made him feel extremely safe, and he was very happy in his heart.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang more and more certain that the fairyland was beneficial to him.

Although it was only a glimpse of the secret, and although Wang Buli, the clerk, missed women every day, overall the advantages outweighed the disadvantages. With the emperor's new order, the court set off a huge wave.

But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about this or that. He was the emperor, and everyone in the world had to revolve around him.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was getting more and more cruel because of the deaths of his wife and son, and his blood was getting colder and colder.

Although he is still highly sensitive and alert, he still has human warmth in his heart and still has illusions about some things.

Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have restricted Wang Buli with the Ming Law. He was just a little angry and did not want to kill Wang Buli.

As Zhu Yuanzhang swept away the heroes and won the country, countless literati, military generals, and scholar-bureaucrats kowtowed and praised him enthusiastically.

Dong Zhongshu's statement that kings' power is granted by heaven was accepted by him.

With the blessing of traditional culture time and time again, Zhu Yuanzhang also believed that he was the son of heaven.

What is the Son of Heaven?

The emperor combines many national powers into one body, and his power is not restricted or restricted by any other authority or social institution.

The will of the emperor is the law of the world!

The emperor's word is the law of the world!

Zhu Yuanzhang probably did not understand a truth from Wang Buli's explanation of Ming law.

"The system is dead, but people are alive."

Every system has loopholes.

But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe this. He just wanted to formulate a law to ensure that the Ming Dynasty would last forever.

Because he fought his way from the bottom to sit on the throne of the emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well that this layer-on-layer pyramid structure was not reliable.

He is too sad!

This worry comes from the deep pursuit of long-lasting peace and stability in the Ming Dynasty and the unification of the royal family for all eternity.

Since he can snatch the kingdom from others, others can also snatch the kingdom from him.

He was wearing the emperor's clothes, but subconsciously he was still the beggar who was driven to despair, and he was still the rebel who sucked blood from the blade of his knife.

In the early years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, every time Zhu Yuanzhang woke up, he didn't know what night it was or where he was waking up.

It is said that the butt determines the head.

And his head always felt like the dragon chair under his butt was shaking.

Since ancient times, the world has suffered losses due to invasions from foreign enemies and internal struggles within the ruling group.

As a large group of people being ruled, such as farmers and small and medium-sized landowners, they will not revolt as long as there is possible living space.

On the other hand, there are careerists in the bureaucracy who want to usurp the throne at any time.

Now he is still following his vision to build a system that is conducive to the permanent inheritance of the Ming Dynasty.

First of all.

He abolished the prime minister, a civilian leader.

Zhu Yuanzhang's transformation from mud-legged to emperor was nothing short of extremely successful.

But deep down he seems to be a pessimistic defeatist.

Power not only brings status and wealth, but also spiritual growth for people.

No one is willing to take a call.

Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong are both like this.

(End of this chapter)