Chapter 36 The eunuch’s dictatorship is caused by the emperor’s incompetence! After Ling Han heard this, he quickly asked: "Teacher Xiao Chen, tell me, which emperor destroyed such a good system?
I really want to hear what wrong behavior he committed that made the eunuchs behind him so lawless. "
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao also wanted to know which unworthy descendant dared to destroy the system that they had established for eunuchs not to be literate.
He was extremely numb by now.
He believed that the various systems he had formulated and the ancestral precepts of the Emperor Ming Dynasty that he had worked hard to write were very useful.
Children and grandchildren will definitely also be able to implement it.
But according to what Chen Han said, before the fourth and fifth generations, not only the self-established rule that eunuchs should not be involved in politics was completely destroyed.
Even the eunuchs who could not read were destroyed.
These seemingly small things, but because of these small things, have laid huge hidden dangers for the future.
Chen Han fumbled, picked up the cup on the side, took a sip of water, and then said: "The person who broke this rule was Zhu Zhanji, the great sage grandson of Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, also known as Emperor Xuanzong.
And the reason why he wants to destroy it is because the cabinet ministers during the period of his father, Emperor Renzong, Zhu Gaochi, were too powerful. "
Ling Han didn't even understand what it meant. He looked confused: "Isn't it good to be powerful? It can help me."
Chen Han smiled and said, "That's good. His father's ministers include Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and other former ministers of the East Palace.
Yang Shiqi was the minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of Huagaidian at that time.
Yang Rong is Taichang Qing and a bachelor of Jinshen Palace.
Later, these two people became ministers.
These two people were both teachers of Emperor Renzong and ministers in the court. They were well-known in the court and public, and their status was respected. Their joining the cabinet invisibly increased the power of the cabinet.
By the time it was passed to Zhu Zhanji, the power of the cabinet was already very stable, and the cabinet ministers were either ministers or ministers, and their prestige was very high.
A large number of decisions must be submitted to the cabinet.
Of course Emperor Xuanzong was not angry, but it was the same reason as before. He did not have the courage and ability of Zhu Yuanzhang and his grandfather Zhu Di.
He could only come up with a crooked idea, which was to let the eunuchs restrain the cabinet ministers. "
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao gritted their teeth when they heard this.
As the power of the cabinet increases, you have to use eunuchs to contain it. You are too hopeless. Are you a loser? The decision-making power is in your hands. Are you missing a brain?
Chen Han continued, “The cabinet’s operating process is like this.
The cabinet writes its opinions into a piece of paper and affixes it to the memorial. This is called a draft.
Then the eunuch in charge of rituals presented the cabinet's opinions to the emperor.
When the emperor approves his opinions, he writes down his decision and sends it to the cabinet, which then hands it over to the various ministries for execution.
Originally there was nothing wrong with this process, but since there was an extra transmission process in the middle, Emperor Xuanzong was very good at taking advantage of it.
In order to enable the eunuchs to understand the writing on the tickets, he specially set up a small school in the palace to teach the eunuchs how to read and calligraphy.
After the eunuch became educated, he could replace him in approving celebrities, which made a very bad of the later emperors were so diligent. In many cases, only a few major matters were reviewed by the emperor himself when the cabinet ministers sent them votes.
The remaining large number of tickets were all handled by the eunuchs who were in charge of rituals to help the emperor.
Even the ones who criticized the emperor were not the eunuchs in charge of the rites, because the eunuchs in the palms had to accompany the emperor to eat, drink and have fun, so most of the criticism was handled by the eunuch Bingbi.
In other words, the decision-making power that should have been in the hands of the emperor was actually divided by the eunuchs to a certain extent.
As a result, the cabinet ministers were very passive, because the votes they submitted might not reach the emperor's if the eunuch wants to punish you, there is nothing you can do about example, if the eunuch doesn't submit your ticket, what can you do? For this reason, cabinet ministers often have to curry favor with eunuchs in order to complete government affairs.
Emperor Xuanzong saw that the cabinet ministers were not as arrogant and domineering as before and did not dare to resist. He thought that power was back in his hands.
Cabinet ministers can only be cautious, because you don't know what these eunuchs can do.
Just because those eunuchs can help the emperor make decisions, and sometimes such decisions come entirely from the eunuchs themselves. The cabinet bachelor cannot control the eunuchs, and sometimes must make flexible changes, such as discussing with the eunuchs. Perform one thing.
As a result, those eunuchs gained great authority, causing the eunuchs to appear from behind the scenes and begin to show off their power.
These eunuchs are originally mentally gloomy people. Once they have such important power, they can trample under their feet the civil servants who despise them like scum. The backlash will be stronger than that of any normal person.
After the later emperors tasted the benefits, they even formed a whole set of institutions in the inner court to compete with the outer court.
The outer court has the Cabinet, the Chief Secretary, the Inspector General, and the Dusi; the inner court has the Supervisor of Ceremonies, Dongchang, Xichang, and Jinyiwei.
The outer court could send governors and governors to other provinces; the inner court could send eunuchs to oversee the army and guard eunuchs to other provinces.
From this, a power struggle began to form inside and outside, and they competed with each other. "
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and his son were sweating coldly after hearing this.
Now that they are dealing with a financial tax system, they have seen that even among the six ministries, they can push each other and fight for the money bag because of the slightest interest.
Not to mention that later on, civil servants will have to compete with abnormal eunuchs for power. Will the world be in chaos?
In the early stage of the dynasty, because of sufficient foundation or a few strong emperors to lay a solid foundation, the entire court could still sustain it.
Once it reaches the end of the period, taxes cannot be collected and uprisings continue in various places.
This set of mechanisms will be the last straw that breaks the entire dynasty.
When Chen Han said this, his expression became more serious.
"How did the great eunuch Wang Zhen have such power during the Tumu Fort Incident? It was because Zhu Qizhen's father, Emperor Xuanzong, put the eunuch in power, and Zhu Qizhen, a loser, allowed Wang Zhen to take over the power. At that time, the entire court Zhen, the dog eunuch, was the second emperor, and many civil servants worshiped him as their adoptive father.
Wang Zhen controlled the power of approving the Red Army and oppressed the academicians in the cabinet to the point where they could not hold their heads up. He tricked Zhu Qizhen into personally recruiting the emperor, and this was how the Tumu Fort Incident happened, which shocked both the government and the public, and brought humiliation to the Han people. "
After Chen Han finished speaking, there was no trace of color on the faces of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and his son.
Chen Han said before that many emperors among his descendants were simply unqualified.
The reason why eunuchs were able to intervene in politics was because the cabinet was becoming more and more powerful, and the emperor was lazy and ineffective in governing, and was unable to control the entire situation.
So if you bring this group of abnormal people to compete with the civil servants, all the subsequent things that will cause endless harm will happen...
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