Thought About The Effectiveness Of The Ming Government

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Introduction
Thought about the Effectiveness of the Ming Government
The Ming Dynasty that is also known as the Empire of the Great Ming was able to rule the currently known as the Republic of China for 276 years that is between 1368 and1644; and the Ming Dynasty rose to power after the collapse of Yuan dynasty that was led by Mongol. Most importantly to note is that the Ming Dynasty was characterized by an effective governing and social stability. As compared to the previous dynasties that had been there in China, the Ming Dynasty was only having one department and that was the Secretariat. The secretariat was controlling the six ministries. Each and every ministry was headed by a minister and the daily affairs of these ministries were under the charge of a Director and were all under the direct control of the Emperor himself (Chʻoe and John, 5).
The Consorate
In the year 1430, the emperor was able to re-establish the Consorate and was institutionalized. Before being named to be Censorate, initially they were being referred to as the censors and for that matter those who held this post were referred to as the Censors-in-Chief. These Censors were very powerful personalities or bureaucrats in the society and they could directly get access to the emperor without many problems. The provincial administrators that were working under the Ming Dynasty were answerable to the travelling Inspector was being sent by the Censorate. It is important to remember that these provincial administrators were conferred with the powers to impeach the officials for the dereliction of different duties (Chʻoe and John, 5).
The Six Ministries and the Grand Secretariat
For the past 2000 years, the civil administration of China was changed. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty government had to appoint the Grand Secretaries to assist him with the paper work. Basically, the work of the secretariat was merely to coordinate the functions that were taking place between the six different ministries that had been created by the emperor. Some of these ministries included; the ministry of Personnel that was in charge all of the issues that had to do with the government employees that rang...