Since the era of feudalism, the big game of throne is a game between the central and local governments.

During the Zhou Dynasty, the Emperor of Zhou enfeoffed his bloodline to the local area to protect the central government, and at the same time checked and balanced the fiefs of the heroes who were not relatives of the bloodline.

At this time, what power do the local princes have?

1. Your own army.

2. One’s own currency, that is, financial power.

3. Your own words, that is, culture.

4. Your own justice.

The princes only need to follow the Zhou rituals, respect the Zhou emperor, obey the Zhou emperor's dispatch at critical moments, and pay tribute to the Zhou emperor regularly.

This is also possible because it is restricted by ancient productivity and has formed a most powerful structure.

Under this power structure, local power is almost the power of a complete country.

After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he began to collect power.

The independent financial and taxation rights of local governments must be abolished, the isolated judicial power of local governments must be abolished, and the local texts must be abolished, and even the size of a car's wheel must be based on unified standards.

This is changing the world and recreating the universe. This is not the beginning of the feudal era, but the beginning of the imperial era.

The game of thrust in the imperial era is actually a game of power between the central and local governments.

After Qin Shihuang's death, why did Qin State be destroyed quickly?

From an economic perspective, the Qin court's various expenses were too large, the income was too small, and the finances collapsed.

From the perspective of power, the old forces of the six countries are still very powerful, and history is not used to this power structure in the imperial era. Once Qin Shihuang died, the hidden forces naturally appeared, hoping to restore to the era in the past.

So later, in order to secure the world, Liu Bang took compromise measures.

The central government had direct jurisdiction. At the same time, when the Han Dynasty founded the country, two-thirds of its territory was still granted to the princes.

Unlike Xiang Yu's concept of kingly and overlords, Liu Bang was actually the heir to the concept of Qin Shihuang's system.

During the first seventy years of the Han Dynasty, they were doing one thing: strong and weak branches.

The rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was a major outbreak until the order to express grace was released.

So what power did the Han Dynasty take from the local area?

For financial and taxation rights, the vassal states have their own financial and taxation rights.

Judicial power.

Human rights.

With the collapse of the vassal states and the rise of aristocratic families, by the time of the Tang Dynasty, the local power was much smaller than before.

Perhaps due to the influence of the Anshi Rebellion and the situation of the later vassal states, in order to further curb local force, the Song Dynasty began to use literati to govern the country.

Why did the bureaucratic verbose occurred in the Song Dynasty?

In fact, it further refined the local power structure.

For example, judicial, military power, finance? All parts are in parallel.

In addition, the central government will also send special commissioners to local governments for supervision and management, such as management commanders.

The local three-official system of the Ming Dynasty? Basically inherited the Song Dynasty.

By the Ming Dynasty? Local power was actually very small.

However, is this very small relative to the central government? Not relative to ordinary people.

Of course, compared to the funeral? The power of local officials in the Ming Dynasty was still very great.

For example? The Ming Dynasty governments established a magistrate, which was in charge of grain transportation, water conservancy, farming, horse herding, river and sea defense, etc.

The magistrate reported directly to the prefect, the magistrate uniformly reported to the governor, and the governor uniformly reported to the court.

This kind of power structure in which multiple powers are in the hands of one person? It is very easy to block various information.

If Zhang Chen really wants to solve the problem of agriculture? He must solve the problems of agricultural taxes, fertile fields, canals, etc.

However, in terms of power structure, it is also necessary to strengthen the central government's influence on local agricultural affairs, and the local government cannot continue to be so Buddhist.

The power structure of the Ming Dynasty was actually very strange.

Why do you say so?

Do you want to say that the emperor has no power?

How is that possible!

The prime minister is gone, and all matters across the country are decided by the emperor. Even if a human trafficker is executed in the local area? The name must be delivered to the emperor's table and the emperor will personally select it.

So? The power of the central government is great enough?

right!

Power is great!

But if power is used, then it is called power.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is that from all process systems, the central government has great power, but the local government still lets itself go.

Why do places still let themselves go?

Because the court is busy with party struggles!

Where does power exist objectively? The central government does not care about affairs? Of course, the local governments began to rogue.

Therefore, this second point seems to be the separation of local agricultural affairs, but it is actually the court that is about to start to manage things.

Chongzhen saw that some officials' bodies trembled a little.

Obviously, this alone has touched the interests of many people.

Just imagine, if the Agricultural Council now starts to manage agriculture across the country, it has to start measuring the actual land output of the Ming Dynasty?

And it seems that water conservancy development was also placed in the Agricultural Government Court, and the construction of canals in ancient times was also a poor choice!

In the past, these were all local prefects and magistrates came to take charge of them.

And every prefect and every county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty had people on it.

This chain of interests is complicated, and the prefect and the county magistrate must offer sacrifices regularly.

The emperor separated the agricultural affairs and established a new management of agriculture in the country, which was equivalent to taking away the income from the prefect and the county magistrate, which was equivalent to destroying the interests of the vested interests.

For example, the prefect of Jinan Prefecture originally offered you 1,000 taels per year, but now it can only offer you 900 taels, because the part of the money you get in agriculture can no longer be made.

At this time, if you want to get 1,000 taels from Jinan, you must let the people in charge of the agricultural affairs of Jinan become yours.

And this person is a new person and may be snatched away by other officials, which means that the 100 taels you originally received every year may become someone else's.

For example, Zhou Shipu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, hurriedly stepped out and said, "Your Majesty..."

He was about to speak, but was forcibly interrupted by Chongzhen: "I am here to announce the results today, not to discuss them. Just listen quietly."

"Your Majesty, it may be difficult to convince people if these people have not discussed with the ministers!"

here we go again!

I'm ready to start a war of words again.

We must not follow his words, otherwise today's new policy would not be announced, and the next step is basically a fight between the court.

It's hard to convince people?

A new policy itself is to harm the interests of most people, and the only thing that convinces them is to abolish it.

Therefore, there is no need to discuss it at all.

Chongzhen said lightly: "Don't you understand what I said?"

"Your Majesty, I..."

"You can't even understand what I said. How did you get into the position of the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue?"

Zhou Shipu was startled and knelt down quickly, put his forehead on the ground: "Your Majesty forgive me."

Chongzhen said concisely: "I don't care about how to discuss things in the past. From now on, there must be rules for discussing affairs in the court affairs! I have already said that today I will tell you! What is the purpose of you forcibly interrupting the matter in the middle of the journey?"

"I just think..."

"Do you think?" Chongzhen was unreasonable, "As long as you think, you can disrupt my words and break the court rules?"

Chongzhen's tone became significantly stronger, as sharp as a sword: "Will you replace me from the throne if you think I am a tyrant one day?"

As soon as the emperor said this, Zhou Shipu was so scared that he burst into cold sweat.

"Your Majesty forgive me!"

"Come here, drag it out and punish the pore for twenty years!"

Zhou Shipu didn't dare to say anything, because he was so distracted by being criticized.
Chapter completed!