Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

【We have said before that because of the Mongol Empire's military achievements, the Mongols at that time always believed that they had the superiority of their own system.

This is also one of the reasons why Kublai Khan's imitation of Han law would anger other khanates.

But even if Kublai Khan imitated Han law, he was of Mongolian origin after all, so the administrative structure of the early Yuan Dynasty was drastically changed on the basis of Han law.

For example, the two ministries and three departments of the Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan thought about the two ministries of the Privy Council and the Zhongshu Province, and used it!

However, it is best for the two ministries to have their own emperor to coordinate in the middle, so that the emperor can have more power, so with a stroke of the pen, the Censorate in charge of supervision was added!

The Zhongshu is in charge of internal affairs, the Privy Council is in charge of military affairs, and the Censorate is in charge of supervision and is responsible to the emperor. It is basically a variant of the three provinces, and the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Shangshu are useless. Kublai Khan directly abolished them with a stroke of the pen.

However, the Shangshu Province was abolished, but the six ministries were still retained, but they were moved under the Zhongshu Province. They still do what they should do, and their responsibilities are not different.

This is actually the reason why the history textbooks we studied spent a considerable amount of space to introduce the three provinces and six ministries, because no matter how the system was reformed in the past dynasties, the six ministries, which were the real job structure, remained unchanged, and the changes in the three provinces often reflected the power of the monarch at that time.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister with a wave of his hand, and the Hongwu Dynasty was still able to operate as usual. Let him abolish the six ministries with a wave of his hand.

Well, this is too far away, anyway, let's go back to the Yuan Dynasty.

The organization was determined, and the next step was to fill it with people. Because the three provinces and six ministries remained the same, the Han people at that time were more familiar with them. In each department, except for the Mongolian head, the second and third heads who ran errands and did miscellaneous work were basically Han Confucian scholars.

After this team ran for a while, Kublai Khan soon discovered the problem. This group of Han Confucian scholars were good at doing things and arguing, but they didn't know how to make money, which was not enough to support the wars he frequently launched.

Fortunately, the Yuan Dynasty at that time was a hodgepodge of ethnic groups. If you Han Confucians can't make money, there are many who can. So a Semitic named Ahama was quickly promoted by Kublai Khan.

What Kublai Khan didn't expect was that his promotion of Ahama soon triggered racial confrontation within the Yuan Dynasty bureaucracy.

On one side were native Han Confucians, and on the other side were Semitic people from Western and Central Asia who were conquered by the Mongols. The cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, languages, diets, and appearances of both sides were completely different. It was impossible for them to get along.

The two sides quickly developed from verbal disputes to physical conflicts, and soon evolved into a very Yuan Dynasty-style behavior: murder.

In 1282, while Kublai Khan was not in Dadu, someone falsely summoned Ahama on behalf of the prince Zhenjin. As a result, Ahama was hacked to death by people who had been ambushed halfway. The murderer was soon caught. The confession said that it had nothing to do with the prince and it was all personal behavior. At that time, Kublai Khan had just lost his wife and was too lazy to pursue the matter, so he hurriedly closed the case. 】

"When the Han Dynasty is unified, we can use this six-department system, and Kong Ming can have a good rest." Pang Tong said with a smile.

The frequency of the three provinces and six departments is too high, so Kong Ming and his friends have already roughly figured out the responsibilities of the six departments just by relying on those scattered names and the responsibilities of officials mentioned from time to time.

And if it really doesn't work, you can still ask His Majesty Erfeng, I believe he must know it clearly.

But Kong Ming believes that the system still needs to be tailored to the situation, so he has no intention of doing so.

And before, whether it was Jingzhou, Yizhou, Hanzhong or Guanzhong, the land was narrow and the population was sparse, so it was the most efficient to gather all matters in the central department and have two or three people decide. If six departments were really formed, the efficiency would probably be much lower.

But now that the restoration of the Han Dynasty is imminent, considering the future of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, it is imperative to divide the six departments into six departments and decide the power of the center.

Cao Cao looked at the two counselors at the top, talking and laughing, watching Liu Bei laughing heartily, and Yun Chang's eyes either looking at the screen or Liu Bei...

Prime Minister Cao felt a little bitter in his mouth.

So he decided to find some interesting questions:

"Zhang Fei, how long did General Zuo live?"

Zhang Fei said lazily and concisely:

"Live longer than you."

After a short silence, Cao Cao whispered to himself:

"Before I asked Yun Chang about his end, you didn't want to say, it can be seen that it was not a good end."

"Did General Zuo avenge Yun Chang?"

Zhang Fei sighed:

"Of course."

Cao Cao nodded:

"That's good."

After a while, Cao Cao suddenly asked again:

"Did I avenge you?"

Zhang Fei snorted twice, and after a while he said:

"Of course."

Cao Cao stopped talking, just laughed twice.

Zhang Fei suddenly wanted to beat Cao thief.

【What no one expected was that three years after the Ahama case, an iron-necked censor wrote a memorial to the Yuan Emperor:

Your Majesty, you are so old, isn’t it time to consider abdicating and letting the throne be passed on to a virtuous person?

At that time, the chief official of the Censorate was the prince’s man, and he knew that if he submitted this memorial, things would probably get complicated, so he withheld the memorial. But in the end, this matter was known by a man named Dajigui Asan, who was an old friend of Ahama who was hacked to death by a sword, so he found a way to get the memorial and handed it to Kublai Khan.

As expected, Kublai Khan was furious. Although he did not punish the prince, he still called him over and scolded him severely.

In the end, the prince was straightforward, scolding me, right? Then wouldn’t it be over if I died?

In January 1286, Prince Zhenjin, who was highly anticipated by Kublai Khan, died of illness. This son, who had studied Chinese culture since childhood, was supposed to be the most important part in ensuring the smooth Chineseization of the Yuan Dynasty, but now he died suddenly. Kublai Khan Lie was hit hard.

Some people in modern times have analyzed that the deaths of Zhenjin and Zhu Biao are slightly similar. Both princes had a very strong father, and both had high expectations from their fathers. Moreover, both of them were in poor physical condition due to fatigue. Too good.

Let’s not talk about the real gold. He is obviously a Mongolian prince, but his physical condition is extremely weak. He can die of serious illness just because of fright. On the other hand, his father Kublai Khan began to overeat after losing his son at the age of 71, and the result was Made it to eighty years old.

Where is Zhu Biao? According to the statement in "Guoyan" written by Tan Qian in the late Ming Dynasty, he died of gangrene on his back.

Back gangrene is not a serious disease in modern times. It is a mild infection at best. However, in ancient times, there was no understanding of the pathology of infection and there was no way to deal with bacterial infections. Once the best treatment time is missed, it is indeed a terminal illness. The most typical one is For example, Xu Da, a strong man, died of this disease.

But Zhu Biao's back ulcer was only superficial. Modern speculation is that the deeper reason is fatigue. Starting from the 10th year of Hongwu, all government affairs must be reported to Zhu Biao first. After handling them, Zhu Yuanzhang randomly checked. Originally, it was nothing-until Lao Zhu killed him. Prime Minister.

From then on, Zhu Biao basically did the work of the prime minister plus half of the emperor. In the years before his death, he would leave the capital from time to time to go to Xi'an to investigate the capital relocation. To be honest, Zhu Biao could persist for so long before he died. Call it a miracle, but gangrene is just a small bomb that detonates it all.

To put it bluntly, Lao Zhu has always been a person who uses himself to judge others. He feels that he "has a good temperament and is less prone to illness, and he can make quick decisions and make decisions as before". Others should do the same, but he has never considered:

Lao Zhu, it’s not that others don’t work hard, it’s just that you are too outrageous. 】

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