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Historical box Ming dynasty
Because the two dynasties had different fundamental attitudes towards officials, it was precisely because of this situation that they were different. In fact, the history of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a history of the struggle between the civilian group composed of scholar-officials and the imperial power group of the emperor. The scholar-officials in the Ming Dynasty took the overhead emperor as their highest goal. The so-called "the emperor was ruled by the emperor" just wanted to put the emperor there as a symbol. Like the Japanese emperor, the actual power was in the hands of the literati. But the emperor, as the supreme ruler of the country, naturally did not want to give up his power, so the struggle was bound to begin. One of the keys to the struggle is military strength. After Ming Yingzong seized the civil fort, the military power was gradually controlled by the scholar-bureaucrat group. If the officials of the whole regiment unite, the emperor will be tied behind his back. For example, six subjects of imperial edict can be banned. For example, officials who are not directly promoted by the cabinet emperor dare not even take office as civil servants.

Officials are even proud of being beaten by the emperor, because it represents their struggle against the imperial power of the emperor for their own literati group. Therefore, there is a very strange phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the emperor often did not go to court for a long time, but the political affairs were not chaotic, in fact, because the emperor was often overhead. More importantly, in the Ming Dynasty, even several emperors died in an unknown way. For example, the death of Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zheng De, an emperor who always liked personal expedition and tried to regain the relieving power, was so ill that he couldn't even change to cure too much. The final cause of death is a mystery.

Faced with such a group of literati, Ming Chengzu had to reuse the secret service, that is, the famous factory guard as a supplement to the imperial power, to fight against the literati and civil servants. This is the famous Royal Guards, East Factory and West Factory. In the Ming Dynasty, it was demonized to a great extent because it was dealing with literati who controlled public opinion. However, why didn't these secret agencies appear in the Qing Dynasty? In fact, this is inseparable from the Qing Dynasty's Manchu rule.

Civil servants in Ming dynasty were literati, suppressing imperial power and military attache. However, in the Qing Dynasty, civil servants were only slaves. Of course, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty would not let the military power fall into the hands of civil servants, and the Eight Banners could not be suppressed by Han Chinese civil servants. They never thought about refuting the imperial edict, refused to accept the promotion of the emperor, and thought about the imperial staff, which was at the mercy of the Ming emperor. The Qing emperor will cut off your head, or send you to Ningguta, let you transform yourself and let you know what a real slave is. In the Ming dynasty, the literati wanted to put the emperor on the air and become the master of the country, while in the Qing dynasty, the Manchu was the master. In other words, all the banners of Manchu people can be regarded as organizations such as Royal Guards and Dongchang in Ming Dynasty. Whoever wants to be unfavorable to the rule of the Qing Dynasty will die.