It's hard to say whether you want to be a model in another industry. But whether he will be emperor or not, facts tell us that Ming Chengzu can play for real, but playing for a lifetime can still ensure the stability of state affairs. More importantly, even though these emperors had cramps in their legs, they remained firmly in power. At this point, these playful guys are actually going to be emperors.
But when it comes to laziness, I don't know what Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, will think when he knows. His son and grandson are so lazy, which is really not what he expected.
But you know, in fact, several emperors in the early Ming Dynasty were always very busy, because Zhu Yuanzhang designed an unprecedented autocratic monarchy system in ancient China for the Ming Dynasty.
First of all, China's thousand-year-old traditional prime minister system was abolished, and the six ministries were directly responsible to the emperor himself. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's own words, the emperor should sit in the court and manage the government. Since then, government decrees have been unblocked and promulgated without hindrance. At the same time, such a powerful eunuch group in the Han and Tang dynasties was also devastated in the Ming Dynasty. The eunuch institutions in Ming Dynasty were numerous and complicated, and various departments restricted each other. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang set up an iron sign at the palace gate, forbidding eunuchs to intervene.
The hidden dangers of the local buffer region were also cut off by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the local administrative power was divided into three. Every province has a political envoy to handle civil affairs, a judicial department to handle judicial affairs, and a headquarters to handle military wars. This is the local "three divisions" system with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty. The three divisions are not related to each other and are directly responsible to the emperor himself. The issue of military power, which is most likely to directly cause rebellion, was also dismembered by Zhu Yuanzhang. In the Ming dynasty, the army carried out the "station-keeping" system, that is, the state allocated land for the army to cultivate, and the army cultivated the land itself to support itself. Without spending state money and food, the state can firmly control soldiers' rice bowls by controlling land.
At the same time, in terms of the subordinate relationship of soldiers, the Ministry of National Defense of the Ming Dynasty had the power to appoint officers and mobilize troops, but it had no direct jurisdiction over the troops. The Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, the military organ of the Ming Dynasty, had jurisdiction over the army, but it had no personnel right and dispatch right. As a result, the two sides contained each other, and no one could control the army independently, so they could only be honestly responsible to the emperor.
This system has many advantages. With the abolition of the prime minister system, it is impossible for the former prime minister to bully the emperor. With the establishment of the three-point system, it is impossible for the former vassal state to leave the central government, and it is impossible for the former eunuch to take power or even manipulate the emperor to abolish it. The dismemberment of military command and judicial power, the special forces of the former powerful ministers, and the rebellion of the central government are even more impossible to stage. In this way, all possible real power departments and powers were overthrown by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the whole bureaucratic system restricted each other, and no one could dominate it. All powerful officials can only be honestly responsible to the emperor, and no one can go beyond the emperor's own path, so no one can threaten the Zhu Zhu family.
However, when you really become an emperor, you will find that it is not easy to monopolize power. It's like modern society, when a person just opens his eyes in the morning, even when he is still sleeping, his mobile phone starts to think of me.
Emperors before the Ming dynasty, especially the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and Yongle emperor Judy, were all such workaholics. According to Zhu Yuanzhang himself in Shi Minglu, he got up before dawn every day and didn't return to the palace until sunset. Even when he sleeps, he often suffers from insomnia. When he often thinks about state affairs, he suddenly wakes up. When he woke up, he got dressed and got up. He wrote down the state affairs that need to be dealt with during the day and implemented them one by one after work. Even when you suddenly think of something while eating, you can find a note to write down and stick it on your clothes. Many times, when Zhu Yuanzhang summoned the minister, the minister would be surprised to find that his clothes were covered with all kinds of notes, all of which were state affairs.
Now, there is such a statistic: Zhu Yuanzhang handled 1600 copies of the memorial for eight consecutive days. He carefully reviewed each memorial and summarized the main contents. From 1600 memorials, 3200 things were extracted and summarized. If a memorial needs a separate chapter, the format of the memorial in Ming Dynasty should be at least 1000 words.
In other words, in eight days, Zhu Yuanzhang's total reading volume was at least 6.5438+0.6 million words, with an average of at least 200,000 words per day. Moreover, this is not a skimming speed, but a careful deliberation, a summary of thinking, and a solution to the problem. Its work intensity is like that of college entrance examination students now, who have to do reading comprehension questions with a total length of up to 200 thousand words every day. And you must make sure that every question can't go wrong, and all the answers must be 100%.
What's more, if the candidates do something wrong, the most serious consequences will be only a few minutes. If Zhu Yuanzhang approves the wrong memorial, the consequences will be more serious. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's own words, the delay may be a thousand dawns, so every word of the officials must be carefully checked.
Judy, the Yongle emperor, has a clear timetable for her work: she gets up at four o'clock every morning. After breakfast, before going to court, you should seize the time and go over the state affairs to be dealt with that day in your mind. Then we started the early dynasty. According to Shi Minglu, the beginning time of the early Ming Dynasty is equivalent to five o'clock in the morning today. After the end of the early dynasty, Judy will begin to deal with state affairs and review various memorials. He reviews the memorial hall every day, often late at night and often goes to bed in the early hours of the morning.
In this way, he sleeps less than six hours a day. Moreover, Judy stipulates that in case of emergency military affairs, even if he is sleeping, he should be woken up immediately. Otherwise, there will be crime. This kind of tossing also made Judy feel bitter. On her last expedition to the grasslands in northern Mongolia, Judy hosted a banquet in honor of the ministers. During the dinner, he said with great emotion: "I have worked hard every day since I took office, and I dare not slack off." And the emperor's hard work was deeply realized after he became an emperor.
A minister named Ru Tai Su wrote him a letter and wrote a thousand words on it. It was not until the fifth thousand words that he got to the point. Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry and ordered someone to beat him up. Afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang comforted Ru Taisu and complained to him: "Do you think I am willing to hit you? What can be explained clearly in 500 words still needs to be written in tens of thousands of words. Is it easy for me to be an emperor? " I can't stand watching your memorial service all day!
Even Zhu Yuanzhang can't stand it. Not to mention other emperors. When Judy was in power, she set up the Wen Yuan Pavilion and began to assist the emperor in handling state affairs. The official of Wen Yuan Pavilion is a fifth-grade college student. Later, this new machine, which was originally set as the secretary of the emperor, became the "prime minister" of the Ming Dynasty. With the establishment of the cabinet system in Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the imperial power, the power of eunuchs was gradually strengthened from Zhu Zhanji, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, resulting in the phenomenon of "eunuch's exclusive power" which was talked about by later generations.
From then on, the cabinet power of civil servants, the power of eunuchs and the imperial power above them became the iron triangle of the highest emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The autocratic system painstakingly established by Zhu Yuanzhang in his early days also had new effects. With the maturity of cabinet system and eunuch ritual system, the originally scattered administrative system of Ming Dynasty was better integrated. This system, which can't function without imperial power, can operate in an orderly way under the dual-track control of ritual supervision and cabinet.
In this way, the emperor of the Ming dynasty relaxed, and he did not have to get up before dawn to approve the throne, as Zhu Yuanzhang did in that era. He only needs to instruct the cabinet to draft opinions and agree to these opinions, and only needs the seal of Director Li Si, which is called approval. As an emperor, as long as you listen to the report and nod, the country can operate normally.
Historical materials always say that the Ming emperor did not go to court for many years. However, it is an indisputable fact that even emperors who have not been in court for decades can still effectively control vassals and realize the normal operation of the court, and its institutional root lies in this.
This highly autocratic system in the Ming Dynasty greatly strengthened the imperial power and was revised by emperors in previous dynasties. Under the guise of not changing the "ancestral system" on the surface, only minor adjustments were made in key parts, and finally the original intention was changed: the emperor wanted to be busy, but he was idle.