After entering the Xuanshi Hall, the civil servants and military officers stood on both sides in an orderly manner.
"The emperor has come to court, and all the officials are here to greet him," a great eunuch standing beside Yang Shen shouted loudly.
The eunuch had a sharp voice, and looking at his belly that was about to bulge, it was obvious that he had to exert all his strength to feed himself.
In the several dynasties before the Chu Dynasty, those who held the job of shouting for the emperor to go to court were all powerful guards in the palace hall.
Only Da Chu changed this system a hundred years after the founding of the country and replaced it with eunuchs.
This has lasted for two hundred years.
The Li emperor's reliance on eunuchs was also a major feature of the dynasty.
The government affairs of the country were mostly controlled by aristocratic families, and most of the military generals came from powerful families.
Civil servants or military generals from poor backgrounds simply cannot compete with them.
Even with the unswerving support of successive emperors, so far, 95% of the officials in the court and the military are held by children of wealthy families.
Including financial power, the aristocratic families have always tightly controlled the most important rights of the dynasty.
Although the successive chief ministers often come from clans, no matter the number of other auxiliary ministers in the cabinet or the proportion of the six chief officials, the aristocratic families have always It far exceeds the power of the royal family.
If it weren't for the strong support of the officials of the Changsun family in the royal family, and the fact that the royal family controls the Shence Corps and the Shenwu Corps, two of the four main legions of the country, the strongest in the world, plus there will always be some in the border army and the government army.
The generals are all loyal to Chu, and there are also children from poor families who are attached to the imperial power.
There are deep conflicts and constant disputes between the aristocratic families and the powerful families.
It is impossible for the Li family to suppress the Yang family all the time.
The Li family has been in power for three hundred years.
Although the entire country has become decayed, his rule is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
From the common people to the aristocratic families, although they constantly struggled with the imperial power, they had long been accustomed to his rule.
Even though the Wen family is very close to the Yang family, if the Yang family really raises the flag of rebellion, they may not follow until the situation is clear.
This is also the reason why the Yang family is obviously extremely powerful in the army, but they can only protect themselves under the oppression of the royal family.
Most of the court and the army are not under their control, and the successive emperors of the Li family will naturally not be willing to do so.
They also wanted to take various measures, such as directly appointing cabinet ministers without going through the cabinet, or directly appointing officials of the six ministries by decree without going through the cabinet, etc.
Or directly appoint military generals regardless of the opinions of the Yang family and Changsun family.
However, the emperor's edicts were often rejected.
After Taizu Li Yunlong established the empire, in order to supervise the operation of the six yamen and check and balance the powerful families, he once established the six departments to give a post in the affairs.
Each subject of household, rituals, military, punishment, official, and work was assigned to one person from Shizhong, and one person from Shizhong was assigned to the left and right.
There were more or less people from Shizhong, and most of them were held by children from poor families.
The Six Sections can supervise and verify the affairs of the Six Ministries.
Any orders issued by the Six Ministries' Yamen can be rejected if they deem them unreasonable.
In addition, they can also impeach ministers in Kyoto.
Although they are only seventh-rank officials, they have great power.
Taizu unified the nine provinces and suppressed Yu Nei, and the Li royal family was at its peak at that time.
Although giving the position in the matter would bring great trouble to the family, the family did not dare to openly defy Taizu.
Order.
In the reign of Taizu, this department in the Sixth Section was a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the noble families, and it took off the heads of many officials from the noble families.
After Taizu's death, with the support of most of the aristocratic families, Ye Xiaoran, the head of the Ye family, and Yang Guo, the ancestor of the Yang family who was unrivaled at the time, jointly submitted a memorial, forcing Emperor Taizong to add a function to the Six Sections.
The imperial edict has no legal effect unless it is reviewed by the Liu Ke Shi Zhong.
If the Liu Ke Shi Zhong thinks the emperor's imperial edict is inappropriate, they can also seal it back.
Although at the end of Taizong's reign, Yang Guo, the ancestor of the Yang family, passed away, and without his help, who single-handedly dominated the world, the family not only failed to wrest the department from the emperor, but was always dealing with resentment.
Emperor Taizong's revenge was on his mind, but then As the founding of the Chu Kingdom took longer and longer, the path for advancement for the children of poor families became narrower and narrower.
Even if they entered the court, they would often be attracted by the major families because of their fame and wealth.
Slowly, a hundred years after the founding of the Chu Kingdom, six After all, this part of the science and technology affairs is still under the control of the family.
Since the aristocratic family took control of this department, they have never let this department slip away from their hands for two hundred years.
If the direct descendants of the aristocratic family become officials, they often start from various positions in this department, and this department has also become their The greatest tool against the Emperor.
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As long as the families reach an agreement, it will be difficult for the emperor to issue any orders that are not beneficial to them.
As for the acceptance of the fate of the military generals, if there is no consultation with the Yang family and the Wen family, even if the cabinet vote is approved and the six subjects are not rejected, the generals appointed by the emperor will without exception have various accidents and die.
However, both the court and the army have their own factions, and internal fighting is extremely fierce.
The military factions are not complicated, and are roughly divided into four factions, the royal family, the Changsun clan, the Wen clan and the Yang clan.
In terms of strength, the Yang family is the strongest with the royal family, the Wen family is close to the Yang family, and the eldest grandson's family is close to the royal family.
The battles in the court are extremely complicated.
Generally speaking, the six major families and the royal family are the main ones.
Although the six major aristocratic families are ostensibly headed by the Ye family of Xianzhou, in fact, after three hundred years of efforts by successive emperors to sow discord, win over and suppress each other, the six major aristocratic families are still fighting on their own, each of them has attracted a group of small aristocratic families, and each other has Deep conflicts have accumulated.
They would only join forces when they faced extreme pressure from the emperor and wanted to take measures that would cause great harm to all the families.
The rest of the time it's basically a mess.
Therefore, although the emperor's direct power in the court and the military was not too great, he still had the loudest voice because of his righteousness and the strategy of uniting vertical and horizontal forces.
However, the military and political power cannot be entirely in one's own hands.
Even the financial power is controlled by aristocratic families.
The internal treasury is so poor that it can run away.
Although it will not become a puppet, it cannot be self-centered.
Many times, it depends on the face of the ministers.
The emperor was naturally unwilling to do so.
After thinking about it, he actually came up with another way for them to enhance their imperial power.
They began to appoint eunuchs.
In the army, they appointed eunuchs to supervise the army and give instructions on the military affairs.
They failed to accomplish much but more than failed.
In the middle of the court, the emperor established a ceremonial supervisor, who held the power of criticizing the red people and charged into battle for the emperor and competed with the cabinet.
At the same time, successive emperors sent eunuchs from the palace to various places in Kyushu to set up card collections and compete with aristocratic families for financial rights.
This move of the emperor completely bypassed the outer dynasty.
After all, the emperor was the master of the world.
He wanted to use domestic slaves to monitor the world, and the noble families could not interfere.
It must be said that the emperor's move of appointing eunuchs was very clever.
As the emperor's slaves, these people could decide life or death with a single word, and the only one they could rely on was the emperor.
In addition, they had no descendants, had no descendants, and often had twisted minds.
Therefore, they resorted to all kinds of cruel and despicable methods when fighting with the courtiers, which solved a lot of trouble for the emperor.
The two main legions of the dynasty were controlled by the royal family and were formed with the money collected by the eunuchs.
In today's Chu Dynasty, eunuchs have become a powerful political force that no one can ignore
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