I send the system behind the scenes

Plane No. 1, Ming Empire, Fengtian Temple

Zhu Yuanzhang quietly flipped through the two reports in his hands. The current Fengtian Hall has almost become Zhu Yuanzhang's private study room. All kinds of books are sorted and neatly arranged.

Officials, cabinet ministers, or the royal family entered Fengtian Hall less and less frequently. Now, under Zhu Yuanzhang's intentional or unintentional guidance, the government affairs center of the Ming Empire has been moved to Wenyuan Pavilion not far away.

At present, the government affairs process of the Ming Empire is roughly that the memorials from various places are sent to Wenyuan Pavilion, and the cabinet ministers discuss and vote, and decide the final solution according to the principle of the minority obeying the majority.

It sounds cumbersome, but it’s just that. There are only single-digit cabinet ministers, and there are not many votes. Voting is not about raising your hand to turn on the lights.

What's more, they are all officials of Ming Dynasty, and they are all veterans. They have rich experience in handling government affairs, and the solutions they give have a high pass rate.

It's all for Daming, whatever is good for Daming, they come here, there is nothing to argue about, as long as their own interests are not involved, they are more fair and strict than anyone else.

In the voting process, although the chief assistant, like other cabinet ministers, has only one vote, he has the right to decide, the right to suspend and the right to veto, and the three powers are added.

After voting, the chief minister must nod his head in agreement, and it will be considered as the final conclusion. If the chief minister does not nod, the voting will not be considered as the end, and the decision is in the chief minister's hands.

If you don’t nod, you can choose to put it on hold, and deal with other government affairs first before discussing this matter. You can also use a veto to directly reject this resolution. To a certain extent, the chief assistant plays the role of referee, and the cabinet is well-deserved the first.

But as long as one vote of veto is used, the relevant content of this resolution must be reported, and the chief assistant must also face the saint to explain the relevant situation in person, waiting for His Majesty's divine judgment.

So far, Zhu Yuanzhang’s cabinet team has not used the one-vote veto power even once. It’s not that the cabinet doesn’t want to use it, but the resolutions that the cabinet wants to reject are all proposed and insisted by Zhu Yuanzhang himself. They don’t have the courage to know.

After the voting is completed and a consensus is reached on the treatment, the memorial can be approved and handed over to the six departments for implementation. After the meeting is over, a summary of the treatment report needs to be submitted.

Zhu Yuanzhang will take the time to read this report. He may read it by himself, or he may summon a certain cabinet minister to read it together. By the way, he will ask about politics. Who he summons is random. It may not be the chief minister of the cabinet. My mood.

Of course, there are also people in Wenyuan Pavilion who are not affiliated with the civil official group, such as the supervisor of ceremonies. They will become the link between the cabinet and His Majesty, and play the role of a sounding board. The report of the cabinet will also be submitted by the supervisor of rites to the His Majesty.

Supervisors cannot participate in any government affairs, nor can they speak. Their duty is to sit at the side of Wenyuan Pavilion, record everything that happened in the cabinet, and submit it to His Majesty together with the cabinet's handling report.

There is a screen between the cabinet ministers and the inspector of ceremonies, and the two sides cannot see each other. Zhu Yuanzhang's meaning to the inspector of ceremonies is very straightforward. Kill the supervisor of ceremonies.

After the cabinet memorandum is processed, the supervisor of ceremonies needs to submit the report of the cabinet and the report written by himself to His Majesty. The cabinet has no right to view the contents of the records of the supervisor of ceremonies, and the records can only be seen by your majesty.

If there is anything that cannot be discussed, or if it is too relevant, the cabinet can write down the situation and suggestions as appropriate, and let the supervisor of ceremonies forward them to His Majesty for his approval and decision.

Looking at the entire government affairs process, one can perceive a very obvious point, that is, the power of the cabinet is too great. The decision-making, deliberation, and execution of the three major powers are all occupied by the cabinet.

The cabinet proposes a solution by itself, and then votes for a decision internally, and it’s over. The decision-making power and deliberation power are like the left and right hands—they are one.

After deliberation and approval, the cabinet is directly handed over to the six ministries for implementation, and the elders of the cabinet sometimes also serve as ministers of the six ministries, so the executive power, that is, the administrative power, is also held in his hands.

Separation of powers?Sorry, the current cabinet directly integrates the three powers into one. In history, there was only such a period of time during the Ming and Ming Dynasties.

But during Zhang Juzheng's period, the decision-making power in Zhang Juzheng's hands, that is, the drafting of bills, and the deliberation power in the hands of his good comrade Feng Bao, the eunuch, that is, the approval of reds, were combined, but at least they were separated, and they were respectively controlled by the cabinet and the ceremonies. In the hands of both parties.

But now, the deliberative power of the chief inspector is gone, and it belongs directly to the cabinet. No, it cannot be said that the cabinet of this plane appeared in advance, and the chief inspector has never owned it, so it doesn't matter if it is lost.

During Zhang Juzheng's reform period, there were many opponents of Zhang Juzheng's reform in the six ministries, and there were a lot of stumbling blocks secretly. There was executive power, but the intricate network of interests, the protection of officials and officials, Zhang Juzheng's grasp of administrative power was not thorough.

But now, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's authority deterred all the young people, the interest network has not yet developed, and the six ministries are united in one mind. Since it is the cabinet created by His Majesty, and the power bestowed by His Majesty, the orders of the cabinet must be fully implemented. Executive powers are the same as those of the cabinet itself.

In the face of the cabinet, the supervisor of ceremonies, which was originally balanced in history, now only has a useless supervisory power. If the three powers of the cabinet are combined into one, you can only stare blankly. This supervisory power does not affect the supervisor itself. easy to use.

If you insist on talking about the current advantage of the Supervisor of Rituals, it is easier to contact the emperor than the cabinet. Well, maybe this is the core of everything.

Zhu Yuanzhang single-handedly promoted such a structure, and he must have felt the "weakness" of the imperial power. No one knows better than the parties involved, especially those who have a strong desire for power. But now it seems that Zhu Yuanzhang enjoys it.

Indeed, the power of the cabinet is indeed very powerful, but Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't care about that now, because the efficiency and quality of handling government affairs in such a cabinet are infinitely close to perfection, and the Ming Empire is thriving and unstoppable.

The disadvantage is that it is an extreme test of the emperor's level. What needs to be controlled is a colossus with a system and a large scale.

But, facing Zhu Yuanzhang, who would dare?Don't talk about backlash, if you dare to violate the yin and yang, Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't mind letting their family be neat and tidy. Zhu Yuanzhang, the military power, has never let go of it for even a second.

After reading the two reports in his hand, Zhu Yuanzhang got up, moved his body a little, and arranged for the cabinet to discuss the matter, which caused an uproar in the cabinet, but after the intense discussion, he chose to implement it after all.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang very satisfied. As long as the cabinet handled things with peace of mind, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't mind giving them so much power.

The current Zhu Yuanzhang has long stopped focusing on the political games in the court, let alone the possible changes in the court after his death.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the whole world, and even the other world. Time is limited, and government affairs can never be finished. The bigger the territory, the more government affairs, then decentralize. The cabinet ministers get power and status, and Zhu Yuanzhang gets time and energy, two-way win-win.

But now, Zhu Yuanzhang walked outside the gate of Fengtian Palace. Now that the cabinet discussion has passed, then go to Wenyuan Pavilion to sit and visit those high-ranking elders.

Especially the cabinet minister who wrote "The Analects of Confucius·Comments", I always feel that it is a waste of talent to make him a cabinet minister.