Prime Minister, the person who was responsible to the monarch and in charge of government affairs in the feudal era of China. As the dynasties changed, the names and responsibilities also changed.
In the Tang Dynasty, the governor of Zhongshu Provincial Committee Zhongshuling, the governor of the department served as the minister, and the minister of Zhongshushe and the minister who participated in political affairs were the prime ministers. Shang Shuling will no longer appoint this official in the future, instead he will be appointed as the prime minister. After Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Shang Shupu shot only those who added the "three grades under the same school" and "Pingzhangshi under the same school" were the prime ministers. The 100 officials who participate in the state affairs are also the prime minister.
In the Song Dynasty, Pingzhangshi under Tongzhong Shumen was the official name of the prime minister, and the official name of the minister was the deputy. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty built the Yanjian period, and then changed the name of the prime minister to Shang Shu Zuo Pu She Tong Zhong Shu Men Xia Ping Zhang Shi, and the minister of political affairs became the deputy minister. After Xiaozong made his way in the Southern Song Dynasty, he again took the left and right prime ministers as prime ministers, and still participated in the deputy ministers of political affairs. In addition, Zong Zong, Ning Zong, and Li Zong all set up "Pingzhang Military State Important Matter" and "Tongping Zhang Military State Important Matter", which were held by veteran or powerful ministers to handle military affairs and were high-ranking prime ministers.
The Yuan Dynasty took Zhongshu Province as the center of government affairs. The chief official Zhongshu orders were often led by the crown prince. The next was the prime minister, and then the political affairs of Pingzhang. The deputies, the prime ministers and the governors were all prime ministers, up to More than ten people.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was also a Zhongshu Province, which left and right the prime minister. In the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380), Zhongshu Province was dismissed, the prime minister was abolished, and the emperor decided the state affairs. The prime minister system was abolished. After the emperor was overwhelmingly complex, he set up a cabinet of associate academicians. The post of the cabinet is getting heavier, the academicians are called auxiliary ministers, and the first is the first auxiliary. The cabinet has no name, but has a position; there is no right and responsibility, and the cabinet scholar is not the prime minister.
The Qing dynasty set up cabinet scholars along the Ming Dynasty. During the Yongzheng period, the military department was set up. The cabinet became the idle cao. The military minister could only "kneel down and take the transcript". The military department was only a communication room to convey the emperor's orders, and the military minister was not real. Prime minister. The Ming and Qing dynasties used to call conferring scholars a worship, but there was no official title of prime minister. The New Deal was implemented in the late Qing Dynasty, imitating the Japanese system, and the Prime Minister of the Cabinet was established as the head of the administrative organ.
There were thousands of prime ministers in China during the last 5000 years. There were as many as 1,156 prime ministers in the five dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. During Wu Zetian's 21 years in power, there were 77 prime ministers. The figure below shows the number of prime ministers in the past dynasties.
