After all, most people can't be emperors, but everyone has the opportunity to be a chancellor, such as Zhuge Liang, a famous minister throughout the ages, who has always been respected and loved by everyone, and even Zhuge Liang's superior, Liu Bei, the emperor of the Shu Han Dynasty, has been eclipsed in comparison. The most typical is that Du Fu wrote poetry in both the Ancestral Temple and the Wuhou Ancestral Temple in Sichuan Mingming, but the latter's fame was much greater.
Of course, this is not what everyone agrees with, such as the emperors, like Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Chan after Liu Bei's death, it can also be said that he was conscientious, Liu Chan also had great respect for Zhuge Liang, after Zhuge Liang's death, he also promoted Jiang Huan as a successor according to Zhuge Liang's meaning, but the position of Xiang Xiang was not given, because the position of Xiang Xiang was too important, Zhuge Liang was trusted by Liu Bei, the two emperors of Shu Han, and was personally appointed by Liu Bei, the founder of Shu Han, and even entrusted Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang was indeed loyal. Assisted Liu Chan, but Jiang Huan did not have such prestige and trust to be a chancellor.
In particular, don't forget that in the Eastern Han Dynasty before the Shu Han Dynasty, the last and only minister was the first minister, but the famous traitor cao Cao, why Cao Cao appointed himself as a minister, is because the position of minister is the most powerful, second only to the emperor, basically can be the emperor, a proper minister.
As an emperor, for the sake of the balance of power, it is not possible to let such a strong position as the minister exist in the hands of one person, so all the dynasties have wanted to give the minister the power, or simply remove the position of the minister, or divide it into two or more, all because the power of the minister is too large.
Although in the commentary, everyone who is a civil servant can be a minister, but most of the time the position of minister is not there, but most of them are the positions of the Great Situ, Shangshu Ling, Zhongshu Ling, Shangshu Servant, Tongping Zhangshi, and Cabinet Scholar, and most of these positions are decentralized and mutually restrained, and it is difficult to achieve the core decision-making ability of the Chancellor.
Of course, the reason why the chancellor was ostracized by the emperor was not only because of this, in the early Western Han Dynasty, why the chancellor could be retained, because the so-called role of the chancellor was not to make decisions, but to regulate yin and yang, reconcile the relationship between the imperial court and the emperor, and the relationship between heaven and earth and imperial power. What does that mean? That is, the prime minister has the right, but he also has to bear the responsibility, such as an earthquake, a solar eclipse, then this is the problem of the prime minister, the prime minister must resign, this is the consensus of the government and the public.
China is so big, there will always be several eclipse earthquakes, so there is always an opportunity to change the emperor, There are 13 ministers in office, Emperor Wu of Han reigned for 54 years, the average of each minister is a little more than four years, in fact, it is not a threat to the emperor.
But later, everyone pays less and less attention to this, earthquakes, it doesn't matter, solar eclipses, normal celestial phenomena, as long as the prime minister leveled his colleagues, no one will use this as an excuse to change people.
On the contrary, the emperor is different, Dong Zhongshu is not saying that the heavens and people are inductive, so what famine earthquake eclipse is the emperor's own fault, to recognize the mistake, to sin against himself.
It turned out that although the chancellor had great power, he also had to take responsibility for the emperor and carry the black cauldron, and the emperor naturally tolerated it, but now the chancellor still has great power, but he refuses to carry the black cauldron, so what does the emperor want him to do? Naturally, it was withdrawn