In the ancient Chinese political system, the purpose of the system was to consolidate the rule of the feudal dynasty. Among the earliest three ancient kingdoms, the Zhou Dynasty used the sub-feudal system, thus emerging as a country within a state. Zhou Tianzi is the lord of a country, and the princes of the world must submit to him, and whenever there is anything that is ordered of the princes, the princes must also answer. However, in the late Zhou Dynasty, the power of the Son of Heaven was emptied, and the power of the princely states gradually became stronger, which led to the collapse of the Eastern Zhou, and in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the Zhou Dynasty basically ceased to exist.
Divide the kingdoms
After the Qin Dynasty ended the Warring States Rebellion and unified the world, the Qin Dynasty absorbed the demise of the Zhou Dynasty, believing that the division of princely states was weakening the power of the central government, and in order to achieve centralization, a new system was established. That is, the earliest county system, in the Qin law, stipulated that the term of office of each county's county order would not exceed five years, thus weakening the rights of the localities, and under this system, it was possible to consolidate the central power of Great Qin. In the process of dynastic succession, the system of each dynasty will also be somewhat different. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty abolished China's thousands of years-old beggar system in order to consolidate his power. And the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang is a famous model worker in history, he did the work of two people alone, that is, the work of the emperor and the work of the chancellor, all of which were blocked into his arms, and the workload was unimaginable. However, he is a model worker, and there is no guarantee that his descendants will also be model workers.
Qing Dynasty official
Later, because the other emperors of the Ming Dynasty could not do so much work, a new political system was established to share the workload of the emperor, that is, the cabinet system unique to the Ming Dynasty. There are generally five cabinet ministers, one of whom is the first assistant minister and the others are the second assistant. The power organ of the cabinet is equivalent to the former minister, that is, to undertake the work of the minister, but it just decentralizes the power a little. But in addition, the most typical is the six-part system, which is also a very representative one. By the qing dynasty, its system continued the system of the previous dynasty and made some improvements to the system of the previous dynasty. The system of the Qing Dynasty was divided into nine products and eighteen grades, and the nine products were one product, two products to nine products. A product is the highest, but each grade has a positive and subordinate point, which is equivalent to the current position of the main and vice points.
However, these nine products were still divided into two categories, mainly at that time, they were civilian and military generals in ancient times, and like the civilian positions held by wenchen, they were naturally mainly in the household department and the official department. The military generals are in the military department, and some are the guards who protect the royal family. There is a product for civilian jobs, and there is also a product for military posts, and we will compare them next, if these positions are placed now, what positions are they in?
For example, in the Hanlin Academy, when he was a scholar, he was mainly responsible for writing articles to the emperor and the like, and had no actual rights, although his status was very high, but there were not many powers, compared with the current zhengguo level. And what Zheng Yipin led the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Minister of Guard of Luan Yi, what he did was to defend the work, and now he was the director of the Central Organ Affairs Bureau, the director of the Central Guard Bureau, and so on, and the Zheng Yipin who had some real power had General Ili and General Suiyuan. Like Taifu, Taishi, and Taibao, these Zhengyipin officials are only famous and have no power, while the Six Shangshu are from Yipinguan, which is equivalent to the current ministers, and this kind of real power is relatively large. This is also the position system of some officials in ancient China.