The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

The military generals used their military power to force the court and used their military power to intimidate the world!

This is the current situation in the Zhengde court!

What really frightened all the officials was that the Zhengde Emperor did not regard this military general as a scourge, fear him, or even suppress him. Instead, he helped him grow, regarded him as a confidant, and relied on his power!

This situation is unprecedented throughout history.

Such a strange and unbelievable combination is now overwhelming the civil and military officials in the court, and they are all breathless.

Even if they have a hundred wits and use all kinds of means, even taking risks and committing treason, trying to use food to threaten the Zhengde Emperor to give in, who could have thought that Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao not only recovered the Hetao in one battle, but also directly defeated the Mongolian main force, captured the Mongolian prince alive, and carried an invincible momentum to force the gentry to bow their heads and surrender.

What will a huge interest group do when it is pushed into a corner?

This question has been lingering in Tang Hao's mind for many days.

He participates in government affairs all day long, so he knows everything clearly.

To put it bluntly, as those gentry said, they don't want to see a strong emperor.

The root cause is the conflict and contradiction between imperial power and ministerial power!

The current situation is under the deterrence of Tang Hao's military and Zhu Houzhao's drastic measures.

The imperial power of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which has been lost for many years, is about to rise again!

The rise of imperial power will inevitably be followed by the decline of ministerial power!

In all dynasties, the struggle between imperial power and ministerial power has been endless.

In the Qianqing Palace, Tang Hao and Zhu Houzhao are chatting.

"The power of the prime minister, which represents the power of the ministers, and the power of the emperor, which represents the power of the emperor, are originally checks and balances and cooperate with each other."

"For example, in the early years of Emperor Wu of Han, the relatives of Empress Dowager Dou had long controlled the government. Emperor Wu of Han wanted to rule the country himself, so he had to choose his own relatives as prime minister to counter the power of Empress Dowager Dou's relatives. For example, the famous Tian Fen was Emperor Wu's uncle."

"With the assistance of Tian Fen, Emperor Wu of Han gradually cleared the Dou family relatives in the court. When Empress Dowager Dou died, Emperor Wu of Han promoted Tian Fen to be prime minister and officially began to rule the country himself. However, Tian Fen soon relied on his own As a relative of the emperor and a prime minister above ten thousand people, he became more and more arrogant. He used the thirteen Caos under his jurisdiction to sell official positions and even exercised the power of conferring rewards on behalf of the emperor. This was an overstepping of the emperor's power. "

"Then there was the open and covert struggle between Emperor Wu of Han and Prime Minister Tian Fen. In the end, Tian Fen died of illness. Emperor Wu of Han tried his best to suppress the power of the prime minister. He would change a prime minister every once in a while. Few of them had a good end. Eleven of the thirteen prime ministers died in an unnatural way. "

"This is the most typical struggle between the power of the prime minister and the power of the emperor!"

Tang Hao gave an easy-to-understand example, the story of the love-hate relationship between Emperor Wu of Han and his uncle Tian Fen.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Tian Fen was able to succeed as prime minister because Emperor Wu of Han intentionally promoted him, but after succeeding as prime minister, he was arrogant and overstepped the emperor's power, which led to a fight with Emperor Wu of Han.

Zhu Houzhao listened with great interest. He rarely heard these stories mentioned.

Even those great scholars would never tell Zhu Yuanzhang these things.

Literati and scholars are the main body of ministerial power. They are crazy and stupid to remind Zhu Houzhao that you should suppress the power of the prime minister and strengthen the imperial power!

So now Tang Hao's words are like a heavy bomb, which makes Zhu Houzhao excited.

"Go on!"

"This can be seen as the earliest struggle between the power of the prime minister and the power of the emperor!"

Tang Hao licked his lips and continued: "During the reign of Emperor Wu, the reason why the situation like Tian Fen occurred was because the power of the prime minister was concentrated in the hands of only one person. If all prime ministers could be like Chen Ping, no one would try to weaken the power of the prime minister."

"But people are different. Who can guarantee that their prime minister will always be a wise prime minister? Later dynasties took some measures to deal with finance. For example, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, invented the system of three provinces and six ministries. In this way, there will never be a situation where a prime minister can cover the sky with one hand. The heads of the three provinces are the three prime ministers. They supervise each other. No one wants the other to become big and monopolize the government. In this way, no one has the ability to directly confront the imperial power."

"Song Taizu established the Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, and made Canzhi Zhengshi the deputy prime minister to divide the power of the prime minister. However, after Wang Anshi's reform was implemented, the three provinces were merged into the Shangshu Province. In this way, the power was monopolized by the prime minister again. The power of the prime minister once again competes with the power of the emperor. "

"Our Ming Dynasty inherited the system of the previous Song Dynasty, so the problem of the power of the prime minister came up. For example, in the early Ming Dynasty, Yang Xian was corrupt, accepted bribes, and sold official positions. That was because he had the decision-making power, administrative power, and political power as the left prime minister. So when his orders were issued, such as the simplest personnel transfers, the six ministries and hundreds of departments would think that this was normal, or that it was the will of His Majesty the Emperor, so they would not go into it or question it! "

"After Yang Xian, it was Hu Weiyong, who became the left prime minister , ranking first among all officials. As his power continued to grow, he became increasingly arrogant and domineering, arbitrarily deciding the life and death of officials, colluding with Zhongcheng Tu Jie, Yushi Dafu Chen Ning and others to form a clique for personal gain! "

"Hu Weiyong relied on the favor of Emperor Taizu Gao, deceived his superiors and bullied his subordinates, formed a clique for personal gain, did whatever he wanted, manipulated the power of life and death, and finally attracted the bloody purge of Emperor Taizu, who killed Hu Weiyong and abolished the Zhongshu Prime Minister. Since then, the power of the prime minister has been declared a complete failure in the struggle with the imperial power! "

Where does the power of the minister come from?

It has always existed!

But since the time when Hongwu was in power and the ministers were like ants, the emperor was angry and millions of people were killed.

Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang used the power of the founding emperor to suppress all officials and whip the world. Even if he killed people with blood flowing into rivers and heads rolling, the gentry could only endure it, and at most they would curse him behind his back as a "tyrant" and "dictator".

The Hongwu era was an era when the emperor ruled the world, and there was almost no power of ministers.

The Jianwen era was an era of the revival of ministerial power, and the gentry once again emerged to take charge of the government.

In the Yongle era that followed, Prince of Yan Zhu Di Jingnan won the world. He was also the emperor on horseback, holding great power, and the ministers were no different from ants!

In the Hongxi and Xuande eras, civil and military officials could still compete with each other, and the power of ministers and the emperor was stable at a certain level.

However, prosperity must decline. In the Zhengtong era, a civil war caused heavy losses to military generals and nobles. Even the military base of the Beijing Camp fell into the hands of civil officials and gentry. During the Three Yangs' reign, the cabinet re-condensed the power of the prime minister, surpassing the six ministries and becoming the representative of the power of the prime minister!

And then, the long history was written about the struggle between the power of the ministers and the power of the emperor!

How many people worked hard to hold the power in their hands, and put the imperial power that could take people's lives and shake the world in a thought into a cage, and locked it in the deep palace!

Now...

Xin Guogong Tang Hao personally released the imperial power!

But who is willing to let life and death be decided by the thoughts of others?

Who is willing to change from a chess player who overlooks all living beings to a chess piece that is driven by others and whose life and death are decided by a thought? !