Why did there be so many parties in the Ming Dynasty?

The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty shared the monarchy to a certain extent, and the emperor relied on the cabinet and could not see the actual situation, and the cabinet was composed of many people, so naturally there were different ideas and parties.

The Ming Dynasty had an unprecedented economic prosperity, the budding of capitalism, and economic affluence encouraged people to pursue something ideologically; The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty shared the power of the monarch to a certain extent, and there was a tradition of emphasizing literature over military force, which made the literati of the Ming Dynasty have more right to speak.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, felt that the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown because the system was too loose, so he was very strict in the management of the country, and took the right of management into his own hands, and set up a cabinet to directly obey his orders.

One role is that more parties are sent to monitor the people and the people, so as to consolidate the emperor's rule according to the trend and strengthen the centralization of power, that is, to be more controlled by themselves for their own rights.

Mainly after the abolition of the prime minister, all the departments were in the hands of the emperor himself, which led to people in various places wanting to seize power, and the changes were more severe.

Because the Ming Dynasty abolished the prime minister, the emperor directly controlled the six ministries. This has caused a lot of ** to stand in line, and it has also made a lot of ** not very satisfied.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, and the power was divided into six departments. The emperor directly commanded the six ministries, and the monarch's power was highly strengthened. When he became an ancestor, a cabinet of scholars was set up to prepare for the emperor's advisers (one to seven), and the cabinet system gradually took shape, and the head and assistant of the cabinet had the power of the prime minister.

The advantage of the cabinet system is that even if the emperor is not there, the imperial court can still operate, which is why the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Jiajing and Wanli, were able to avoid the court for many years. And its disadvantage is that it is easy to form gangs, and then form party disputes. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the party struggle developed to the highest peak in history, and it was still fighting in the country until its demise.

The Qi Party was known to the Qi Poetry Sect, and the Qi Poetry Sect fell into the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty during the period when the Qi Poetry Sect was an official. In 1614 A.D. (the forty-first year of Wanli), Fang Congzhe entered the cabinet as the minister, and there were many dependents. Qi Shijiao is a disciple of Fang Congzhe and the leader of the Qi Party.

The Donglin Party was a bureaucratic political group dominated by Jiangnan scholars in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. It was founded by Gu Xiancheng in the Ming Dynasty and lasted nearly 40 years until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system in the Ming Dynasty, there was no prime minister to preside over the major events of the imperial court. There is also because the emperor Wanli at that time was very lazy and did not go to court for decades. ** They all formed factions, and whoever had the loudest voice was justified, so it became more and more intense later.

The reason why the internal rivalry between friends in the late Ming Dynasty intensified. This mainly starts from the Wanli period, the Wanli monarch did not go to court for a long time is the fundamental reason, which led to the increasingly fierce dispute between the friends of the **, and later some eunuchs began to make trouble, accelerating the pace of the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Third, the king's mediocrity is the reason for the intensification of partisan rivalry.

But as long as there can be a capable king, the dispute between friends and the eunuch dictatorship will not be so powerful, this is mainly because of the incompetence of the king, since the Wanli king, the Ming Dynasty did not have a few capable kings, in the face of these thorny things, they have no way to start, maybe they have the heart to solve, but in the end there is more than enough and not enough, just like this, the backlog from generation to generation, things are getting more and more difficult to solve. These partisan rivalries and the situation of the eunuch dictatorship can only be allowed to intensify.

Because every political party at that time had its own interests and demands, and it was impossible to compromise or reconcile, and there was no possibility of reconciliation, so it was so.

Because in the later period of the Ming Dynasty, the management of the state was already in a very relaxed state, and each party was developing its own power behind the scenes.

It had a lot to do with the social environment at the time, and it can be said that many people had their own ideas, and there were conflicts between various parties.

It is mainly a product of the development of the times, and it may be that dynasty adapted to this kind of party.

Because at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Many people want to strengthen their own power, which is why this kind of political party appears.

This should have something to do with the school of thought of the time. It has to do with personal ambitions.

Because at that time, Emperor Wanli did not go to court for many years, and the government became very corrupt.

Because the government was corrupt at that time, this situation occurred.

The Ming Dynasty was a two-party system, one was the imperial party, the representative figure: the emperor, and the other was the traitorous party, the representative figure, Li Zicheng.