What is the difference between ancient prime ministers and prime ministers? Are they the same level?

During the feudal period in ancient China, the emperor seemed to have great power. In fact, the chief executive in charge of ruling power is not an emperor, but a prime minister. China's ancient prime ministers had great power. We often see such prime ministers in TV dramas, and many people will be confused and often confused. They even think that the prime minister and the prime minister are the same official position, but this is not the case.

The prime minister and the prime minister have a lot in common in official positions. For example, they all have the right to supervise and discuss political power, and they can participate in the deliberation together with the emperor. When doing some decision-making affairs, both the prime minister and the prime minister can play the role of inspection and supervision. It is conceivable that the prime minister and prime minister have great power, but it is not so easy to be a prime minister and prime minister of a country. They must start from the lowest level of small officials and improve step by step, so most of the ancient prime ministers and prime ministers were old ministers. The emperor attaches great importance to prime ministers and prime ministers, because they can be the emperor's right-hand man in governing the country. But what is the difference between a prime minister and a prime minister?

First of all, they appeared at different times. As early as the Xia and Shang Dynasties, there were many official positions, such as witch history and Taishi, whose duties were to assist the emperor in managing government affairs, which can be said to be the embryonic form of the later prime minister. The Prime Minister only appeared in 309 BC and was founded by Qin Wuwang. In the Qin dynasty, there were both prime ministers and prime ministers, but the status of prime ministers was higher than that of prime ministers. Until the thirteenth year of Hongwu, influenced by the Hu incident, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister and the prime minister ceased to exist.

In ancient times, in order to prevent the prime minister's power from being too large, the prime minister's power was divided and the multiphase system was adopted. It can be said that the prime minister is just a title of the prime minister system. In the Ming dynasty, the prime minister was completely replaced by the cabinet, but the prime minister system still existed, so the prime minister was included in the prime minister, but the prime minister could not replace the prime minister. They are subordinate.