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The Study Of The Monitoring System Of The Ming Dynasty Military Officer

Posted on:2012-06-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330338962910Subject:History of Ancient China
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The Ming Dynasty military officer groups both large and complex. The so-called large is that the amount of military officers has increased dramatically,because of the hereditary, WuJu, military exploit overcharging sealing and so on. To mid Ming dynasty, that has been as high as 100 thousand people, and th number is more than four times that of the early Ming. The so-called complex is that compared with previous generations, The Ming Dynasty military officer groups can be divided into several kinds, for example, the hereditary officer and the flow official, the new official and the old officer, the officer with postiond and the officer only with salary, han officer, local officer and Da officer. Huge personnel quantity, complex personnel structure has resulted in the groups itself illnesses and problems increasingly exposed and sharp,such as corruption, enslaving soldiers, killing civilians, reporting false imformations destroying disciplines, treason and so on. Additionally, since ancient times because of the military leadership of autocratic monarchy ultimate ownership, the monarch has always been difficult to achieve with the military officer real mutual trust, which further intensified the conflict between the two. Therefore, in order to maintain the stability of within the ruling classes to achieve long-term ruling the ultimate goal of Ming dynasty, Monitoring System of the Ming Dynasty military officer for shipment is born.No doubt, the system surpassed the previous generations of achievement, and fully mobilize the imperial internal all resources and parties political forces, even including the military officer group's internal force. For example, the imperial groups are going to buying,netting and crackdowning the military officer group through political, economic, military and other means. These measures not only has a strong policy guidance, and far-reaching impact on future generations, but also quite realistic effect. Supreme ruler of the Ming Dynasty also uses the civil groups and the eunuch groups to suppress the military officer group as well as splits its various military power. These measures culminate in the formation of the military officer monitoring system.Of course, this tight control system gradually over time too far toward the opposite of its original intention, leading to the political forcesd and social status tends of the Ming Dynasty military officer to sink. In order to compete for limited political arena and economic interests, there are breaking out bloody war between the military officer group and various political forces.It consumes a great strength of the rule of the empire. Moreover, with metamaterials pressing, the group lost bygone combat passion and fighting capacity. Most generals yied to power, wealth and enjoyment. This trend has accelerated the collapse of the Empire's military.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Ming Dynasty, The Military Officer, Monitoring System, Eunuch, The Supervisors of Army
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