A Study On The Acting Department Of Cabinet Ministers In Ming Dynasty

Usually,the cabinet ministers in Ming Dynasty have the titles of six ministers or minister ministers,but this title is only an empty title to show their status.The cabinet ministers cannot lead and interfere in the Ministry Affairs because they have the title of ministry.This reflects the stipulation that the cabinet should not be autocratic in the politics of Ming Dynasty,and this kind of rule has also become the "ought to be" state of the political operation recognized by Ming people.However,in the actual operation,there have been many cases of cabinet ministers temporarily managing the departments they both have.This is the behavior of cabinet ministers acting on the Department.This situation actually formed the leadership of the six departments of the cabinet.Throughout the Ming Dynasty,Jiang Yuan,Jiao Fang,Fang Xianfu,Yan Song,Xu Jie,Li Ben,Yan Na,Gao Gong,sun Chengzong,Yang Sichang and others all had the experience of managing Ministry Affairs.Their cases appeared in various periods of the Ming Dynasty,and the reasons for their acting were different.Some of them were acting because they were trusted by the emperor,some were acting because they were attached to the eunuch,some were acting because they needed to save the crisis,some were acting because their cases were understood as acting departments by later generations,and some were acting temporarily because the successor of the original official had not yet arrived.Among them,except for the last case,which is still normal behavior,the other four reasons for cabinet ministers to act as ministers reflect the specific situation of the relationship between the cabinet and the six ministries and the development and change of the cabinet at that time.There was a conflict between the reality of the Acting Department of Ge Chen and the "ought to be state" agreed by the Ming people.In this case,the attitude of the Ming people shows their evaluation of the Acting Department of the cabinet minister.In the Ming Dynasty,people’s evaluation of the Acting Department of the cabinet ministers was changing.Generally speaking,most of the people opposed to the Acting Department of the cabinet ministers,but in the late Ming Dynasty,there was a short-term voice of support.Specifically,the main reason why Ming people opposed the acting department before Jiajing was the confusion of the status and authority of the cabinet and the six departments.After Jiajing,the main objection was to worry about the excessive power of cabinet ministers.In the era of apocalypse,there should be a brief voice of approval from the imperial court for the military dilemma.On the one hand,it reflects the development of the cabinet in the Ming Dynasty,on the other hand,through the evaluation of the Cabinet Affairs by the Ming people,it can also reflect their position on the identity and authority of the developing cabinet.