**Ten Thousand Fans Incentive Plan Zhu Yuanzhang's abolition of prime minister was a major turning point in the history of China's feudal imperial power. The Military Aircraft Department founded by Emperor Yongzheng successfully solved the problems left over from the abolition of Prime Minister Zhu Yuanzhang and promoted a high degree of centralization of imperial power.
Therefore, Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongzheng played a pivotal role in the development of imperial power in the late period of Chinese feudal society.
The Ming Cabinet and the Qing Military Machinery Department were not statutory high-level institutions, but they were new dynastic central institutions that emerged due to the special historical background of the abolition of the prime minister system. Their informality is the main difference between them and the central auxiliary institutions under the prime minister's system.
As a product of different stages in the process of high concentration and strengthening of imperial power, there were many differences between the Ming cabinet and the Qing military department. Compared with the Ming cabinet, the autonomy of the central auxiliary ministers of the Qing Dynasty in auxiliary government affairs was significantly reduced, and the way of participating in machine affairs became more and more indirect.
Although voting was the main way for Ming Dynasty ministers and Qing scholars, the power and role of Qing Dynasty scholars had been greatly weakened. The Minister of Military Aircraft mainly assists the government through the "Palm Decree" and often waits for the emperor to summon him in the inner court, and his characteristics as the emperor's secretary are very obvious.
Although they were ordered to deliberate, they were all under the direct guidance of the emperor to "praise the machine".
Although the Ming courtiers were of low rank, they had a certain amount of power to refute, and the military ministers could not obtain this power, and they were not even as good as the bachelors in the early Qing Dynasty.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasty cabinet scholars and military ministers, there have been ministers, but in comparison, the degree of infringement of Yan Song, Zhang Juzheng and others in the Ming Dynasty is higher than that of the Qing Dynasty cabinet ministers Mingzhu, Suo Etu and others; And the Minister of Military Aircraft, Yu Minzhong, Mu Zhang'a and others did not have as much control over the imperial power as Mingzhu and others.
This shows that in the process of high concentration and strengthening of imperial power in the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the increase of the degree of imperial power intensification, the threat to the imperial power of the central auxiliary ministers of the Ming and Qing dynasties has gradually weakened.
In the early stage of the high concentration and strengthening of imperial power in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di already had plans to place the personnel of the central auxiliary political institutions in the inner court. During the Hongwu and Yongle periods, there were many similarities between the operation of the cabinet and the duties of the scholars and the ministers of the Qing Dynasty.
Originally, the Ming Dynasty cabinet was likely to develop into a central auxiliary body of the inner court similar to the Qing Dynasty's Military Aircraft Department. However, due to the propensity of Emperor Renzong and Emperor Xuanzong to be extravagant, and the fact that most of the later Ming emperors were neglectful, the direction of the cabinet's development changed, and finally it became a central auxiliary body between the inner court and the outer court, and the ceremonial supervisor partially filled the vacancy of the auxiliary government.
Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet and the ceremonial supervisor have formed a confrontational situation, the dual-track system of the central auxiliary government has been formed, the cabinet has played an important role in the operation of the imperial power in the Ming Dynasty, but at the same time it is subject to the constraints of the ceremonial supervisor, and the contradiction and struggle between the two for the power of the central auxiliary government has become increasingly fierce.
Although there were some instances of mutual exploitation between the cabinet and the celebrants, in general, the celebrants, who were more closely related to the emperor, prevailed in this contest.
The situation in the Qing Dynasty was completely different. Since the Military Machinery Department could not completely replace the functions of the cabinet, the central auxiliary organs of the Qing Dynasty formed a dualistic system, and the role of the Council of Ministers and the Southern Study in the central auxiliary government gradually weakened, and was finally abolished in the 56th year of Qianlong (1791).
Although the power gap between the Ming cabinet and the celebrant was small, the conflict between the two sides was quite intense. In contrast, the power, status, and role of the Qing Military Machinery Department far exceeded that of the cabinet.
Despite this, the cooperation between them is very tacit, with the Military Aircraft Department as the main body, and the cabinet as the auxiliary, jointly assuming the heavy responsibility of the central auxiliary government to ensure that the internal supervision will not interfere in any decision-making.
After the abolition of the prime minister system in the early Ming Dynasty, the central auxiliary government institutions of the Ming Dynasty showed a trend of transformation from the outer court to the inner court, and the cabinet appeared as an institution in between. In the Qing Dynasty, the central auxiliary government institutions developed in the opposite direction, and the military aircraft department of the inner court appeared.
This return is not a simple cycle, but shows that the supreme ruler of late feudal society in China found an effective mechanism to centralize and strengthen imperial power through the creation of a new central auxiliary political institution, the Military Machinery Department.
Although the Ming Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department of the Ming Dynasty were both secretarial bodies of the emperor, there was a clear difference in the power and status of the two. The power of the Ming Cabinet is much greater than that of the Military Aircraft Department, and the status of the first assistant of the Cabinet is also significantly higher than that of the Minister of Military Aircraft.