Since Qin and Han Dynasties, China has been pursuing the system of relative parallel monarchy. The prime minister's power is extremely high, and his discourse power is great, which has played a very good role in restricting the monarchy. This situation did not completely change until the early Ming Dynasty, and all this originated from the famous Hu case in Hongwu period.
Hu case, also known as Hu Party, is one of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty. Hu, the protagonist of this case, won the trust of Zhu Yuanzhang in his early years. In the sixth year of Wu, Hu Jingming was recommended by Li Shanchang, the founding prime minister, and was appointed as the right prime minister. Hongwu ten years, into the left prime minister, ranking first among officials. Hu has always been conscious and brave in doing things, but at the same time he is an overbearing and independent person. With the continuous expansion of his power, he not only decides the life and death of officials at will, but also previews all the internal and external memorials and does not report anything unfavorable to him. Hu Guangzhi's henchmen, countless adherents came to feed money and silks. But for Xu Da and Liu Bowen, who have bad blood, he tried every means to kill them.
Hu's style of doing things also killed himself. He monopolized the power and acted arbitrarily, which caused Zhu Yuanzhang's dissatisfaction and Zhu Yuanzhang also had a strong desire for power. In the first month of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Tu Jie and officials from Zhongshu Province wrote a letter of rebellion against Hu. Zhu Yuanzhang betrayed and killed several people, such as vestbo, Zhong Cheng and Tu Jie. In the twenty-third year of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, issued a decree announcing the number of traitors. In order to conspire with Hu, he executed Lu Zhongheng, a descendant of Li Shanchang, a founding hero, and the late Teng Guogong.
The Hu case lasted for ten years, killing more than 30 thousand people before and after, with a wide range and shocking history. But these are not the most critical. Hu's most influential historical case is that Zhu Yuanzhang took this opportunity to influence the prime minister, abolish the Chinese book province, divide the power into six departments, and set up another cabinet. The power of the cabinet university or even the cabinet record can't be compared with that of the prime minister at all. In other words, the prime minister system that has been implemented for more than 1000 years since Qin and Han Dynasties was abolished, and Hu became the last prime minister in China. From then on, the imperial system became smaller and smaller, and the imperial power reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, while the literati class became increasingly humble and even became servants, which was quite different from the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Why did Zhu Yuanzhang kill Hu? Why are you implicated in killing the pillars of the other 30 countries? Do you really believe that they are all guilty and want to rebel? Don't! Hu let Zhu Yuanzhang see the disadvantages of excessive power, but if only one Hu is killed, then as long as he is with him, there will be the next Hu's minister of S power, so what Zhu Yuanzhang wants is to fundamentally solve this problem and completely eliminate the restriction and threat of power to the monarch. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use the Hu case to remove obstacles, abolish the massacre system, strengthen imperial power and rebuild the historical pattern. This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best to destroy the Hu party in ten years.