When everyone compares the Ming Dynasty with the Qing Dynasty, there is a point that will often be compared with each other. In my impression, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty except for the previous emperors and Chongzhen, the other emperors were all representatives of non-business.
The emperor of the Qing Dynasty was just the opposite, everyone worked diligently, studied all kinds Xi of knowledge hard when he was young, and became an emperor who got up early and was greedy for darkness to review and review, and the best of them was Emperor Yongzheng.
This gives us such a wrong concept, the political situation of the Ming Dynasty must be a mess, and the people are even more miserable under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, while the Qing Dynasty has made remarkable political achievements, and the people have no worries about food and clothing. But is this really the case?
The real situation is that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have some diligent and some negligent, but in the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, the huge machine of the Ming Dynasty was able to operate normally.
So why was the Ming emperor, who had a bad impression, able to maintain the huge country of the Ming Dynasty?Shouldn't every emperor be like the Qing emperor and work hard to achieve such an achievement?This involves the difference in the cabinet system of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Although the Ming Dynasty had already removed the prime minister during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, as time went by, when the emperor dealt with government affairs, he found that there were too many government affairs to deal with at all, which created a cabinet system. Although it is said that the imperial power has reached the highest level in all dynasties, the power of the cabinet is essentially greater than the power of the prime minister, which can be seen before and after Zhang Juzheng's death, and Wanli's attitude towards him can be known.
When Zhang Juzheng was alive, all aspects of Wanli had to be restricted by Zhang Juzheng, on the one hand, because Wanli was still young, and the imperial power had not yet fully returned to Wanli's hands, but on the other hand, it also reflected that Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, had a lot of power and could even interfere with the emperor.
So even if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had carpenters;and some were taken captive by Warat;There are alchemists;There are those who have not been in court for decades. And when the cabinet makes decisions about the country, it is quite often discussed and decided by several people together, so that the opinions of the majority of people can be adopted, so as to make the best decisions, no matter what the emperor is doing, so as long as the cabinet mechanism is there, the Ming Dynasty can still run smoothly.
This created Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, even if he was taken away by Wara, what could he do?I will change the emperor and continue to fight with you, even if Emperor Jiajing alchemy, what can he do?Yan Song and Xu Jie were still able to deal with a large part of state affairs, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were actually not as bad as everyone thought.
Zhu Zhanji is called the Emperor of Crickets, but don't forget, he can not only gallop across the field, but also write a good hand, and draw a good picture, he does not only love to fight crickets, but can only say that he has all-round development. Similarly, Jiajing is known as the most politically skilled emperor, this is not groundless, he is the ministers under his control properly, in fact, there are not a few such emperors in the Ming Dynasty, I will not list them one by one, probably because they were hacked too miserably by later generations, so that most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in our impression are not good.
Therefore, in everyone's opinion, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who neglected his government was also the real king of the world.
On the contrary, for the Qing Dynasty, he could only do it himself by the emperor, who did not trust the Han gentry in their bones and could cooperate with them, but it was absolutely impossible to delegate power to them.
Although the Qing Dynasty said that there was a military aircraft department evolved from the cabinet system, this is only equivalent to the emperor's secretary, what the emperor says you can execute, you have no power, it is not good to say that the ministers of the dynasty are indeed ministers, and the ministers of the Qing Dynasty can only be said to be slaves.
Military Aircraft Division. The power of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty has reached the highest peak of feudal society, Kangxi went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, visited the ancestral tomb three times, toured the north five times to visit the north Taishan Mountain, etc., Qianlong is even more than that.
Try it in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao wanted to go out to play, but the civil official group opposed it one by one, even if Emperor Jiajing wanted to posthumously crown his father. From here, we can see that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty have their own ideas and integrity, and the ministers of the Qing Dynasty can be said to be the emperor's slaves.
If it weren't for the two emperors Kangxi and Qianlong, there was a Yongzheng in the middle, and there were such two emperors who loved to spend money in a row, no one knew what the Qing Dynasty was going to.
So in general, the Ming Dynasty emperor's slack of government can still maintain the country's operation because there is a cabinet mechanism for the emperor, they have this condition, and the Ming Dynasty emperors are not all greedy for pleasure, on the contrary, they have Zhu Qiyu's power to turn the tide after the civil fort, and the martyrdom of Emperor Chongzhen.
And the Qing Dynasty had no choice, neither had the corresponding mechanism and system to cover it, nor did it believe in the Han gentry, so they could only put all the burden on themselves, which was no way.