Daming: Refining zombies at the beginning, Lao Zhu was shocked

What Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect was that although Lao Jiu did not abolish the so-called eldest son inheritance system in name, the system of establishing eldest sons has become a decoration for Lao Jiu!

Because in Lao Jiu's eyes, there seems to be no distinction between direct descendants and concubines!

For example, Zhu Xiaye was born to the Li family. Legally, he was just a concubine prince, but Lao Jiu valued him as much as his direct descendants Zhu Xiaqiu and Zhu Xiaqiang!

Even at certain times, he would deliberately take more care of Zhu Xiye, a bastard!

Zhu Yuanzhang even suspected that if it weren't for Zhu Xiaqiu or Zhu Xiaye who were already seventy, and if Zhu Xiaqiu had also died young and Zhu Xiaqiu and Zhu Xiye were still young, Lao Jiu would have been among the other two. Choose one of your sons to inherit your throne!

And compared to Zhu Xiaqiang, who is more capable in the military, Zhu Xiaye, the concubine prince, will be more comprehensive in ability!

When it comes to the position of emperor, one has to choose between Zhu Xiaxuan and Zhu Xiaye. In terms of suitability, Zhu Xiaye, who was born as a concubine, is probably more suitable!

It is precisely because the second and third sons are old, and everyone can see that Lao Jiu might be able to give away all three sons, so the position of crown prince was finally determined to be the grandson Zhu Jiantang. !

For Zhu Yuanzhang, this should be said to be a subversive choice!

According to the original plan, if Zhu Biao died young, Zhu Yuanzhang's first thought was to choose one of Zhu Biao's sons to be the heir apparent, and the grandson he chose was Zhu Yunwen!

In his opinion, this is a matter of course!

Of course, this was a matter of course. After he saw Zhu Yunwen's life simulator, he denied it!

He, Zhu Yuanzhang, could naturally choose to continue to support Zhu Yunwen in power according to his original plan!

But in the end, Zhu Li will still be the emperor!

However, Zhu Yuanzhang really didn’t want things like Emperor Jianwen’s reduction of vassals and the Battle of Jingnan to happen in the future!

Not to mention shaking the country's foundation and causing innocent casualties, those who were crippled and died were all his own sons!

Since the throne belongs to Lao Jiu in the end, why not prevent those tragedies from happening at the root?

Wouldn't it be better for him, Zhu Yuanzhang, to get it right in one step and pass the position directly to Lao Jiu?

After such an idea formed in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, he couldn't get rid of it!

At the moment, for Zhu Yuanzhang himself, the only knot in his mind may be the choice between the system of establishing direct descendants and establishing elders!

Because Lao Jiu is also a concubine!

Comparing this with Lao Jiu's own attitude towards the distinction between legitimate concubines and concubines, Zhu Yuanzhang even began to doubt himself!

Are we really wrong?

Zhu Yuanzhang was very entangled in his heart, because he found that a series of systems and national policies he had once seemed to have been gradually overturned one by one after Lao Jiu came to power!

Among them, what surprised Zhu Yuanzhang the most was the secretarial department system formulated by Lao Jiu!

Ever since Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the Hu Weiyong case in the thirteenth year of Hongwu to abolish the prime minister system that had been passed down for thousands of years, all major military and state affairs, no matter how big or small, basically fell on the emperor and the prince!

This business volume is not small!

He, Zhu Yuanzhang, considered himself to be the most diligent emperor in all dynasties!

Of course, Zhu Biao is also the most diligent prince!

But the father and son will also face a problem, that is, whether future kings, and even princes, can be as diligent as the father and son!

Zhu Yuanzhang was originally worried about this aspect, but he never expected that after Lao Jiu ascended the throne, he directly convened a group of capable ministers and directly formed a secretarial department!

And this secretarial department consists of five people in total!

They are the five positions of Secretary-General, Secretary-General, Secretary-General, Secretary-General and Secretary-Assistant!

The secretary-general is a senior member of the first rank, the secretary envoy and the secretary-general are Cong first rank, and the secretary staff and assistant secretary are the second rank!

Even if it is the second grade, it is on par with the six ministers!

And these five official positions are all top talents admitted by the Royal Guard Academy, and they are also known as the five auxiliary ministers!

However, these five auxiliary ministers only have the power to make suggestions. Although they have high official positions, they have no actual power that they can exercise!

Their daily job is to help the emperor and the prince review the memorials sent by various departments, and then, under the auspices of the secretary-general, give out instructions for processing and approval!

As for whether to adopt it in the end, it must be submitted to the emperor or the prince, and the emperor and the prince will decide!

To put it bluntly, these five people are equivalent to the emperor's book boys!

They shared the emperor's work and gave them the best solution. In the end, they only needed to let the emperor make the decision whether to implement it or not!

In other words, the five people only have the right to give opinions, but the one who makes the final decision is the emperor!

Of course, in terms of government affairs, it is impossible for the emperor to decide everything, so these government affairs are also divided into levels!

For example, only memorials submitted by officials of the third rank and above need to be submitted to the imperial court, while memorials submitted by officials below the third rank only require the final decision of the Secretary-General!

Although the Secretary-General is the head of the five people, he is not the same person. When the five members of the Secretariat have differences of opinion, they use a voting system, that is, at least three people agree to pass the resolution!

There is also a veto power. When there is a veto, it does not mean that it is rejected directly, but that the resolution must be placed directly in front of the prince or even the emperor, and directly handed over to the Holy Judgment!

Only when the majority of people support it and no one objects, can the Secretary-General’s decree be approved!

Moreover, the emperor and the prince would also take the time to randomly check some of the government affairs that the secretary-general makes decisions on weekdays to prevent the secretary-general from making mistakes or using power for personal gain!

Of course, in order to fundamentally eliminate this hidden danger, Zhu Yue also set a number of years for the position in the Secretariat!

It will take up to five years. After five years, the secretary-general will be rotated!

The Secretariat will also add new blood. Of course, if you do well, there is a very small chance that you can be re-elected!

It can also be said that Zhu Yue has formulated quite complete rules and regulations for the Secretariat, allowing them to help the emperor and the prince handle government affairs, while also avoiding the secretariat's excessive power and exposing the emperor to "relations" to the greatest extent. The possibility of a 'right' threat!

"This Royal Guard Academy is really a good place!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sigh.

The people in this secretariat are all political talents selected from the Imperial Guard Academy, and the standards of study and assessment are very different from the imperial examinations of the current imperial court!

And this Imperial Guard Academy was also established by Zhu Yue, the ninth elder, after he ascended the throne!

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ps: Because it was recommended by Sanjiang, the author decided that as long as you get ten monthly passes, you will get one more chapter and forty chapters after it is released!