Early Ming Tingyi Study

'Tingyi' is called the conference of the courtiers, which is the basic form of the central decision-making in ancient China that under the despotism centralization system, and constantly 'Tingyi' accompanied by the strengthening and developing of the centralization.'Tintyi' budded in the pre-Qin period, formed in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the dynasties of Tang and Song is the development periods of tingyi .Yuan and Ming dynasties tingyi achieved perfection. However, in qing dynasty , it was replaced by the conference yizhengwang and the Junjichu.It was the centralization of despotism that developed into an unprecedentedly intensify in the Ming Dynasty. After the zhuyuanzhang became the emperor, he canceled the zhongshusheng, and abolished the prime minister system. So the state power was concentrated on the emperor alone. In order to make up of the emperor's personal intelligence and deficiency of the ability, and to strengthen the autocratic of the imperial power, Mingtaizu implemented tingyi in the central decision-making system and took advantage of the collected wisdom, which can help him to make the excellent decision for his ruling. Just as the emperors expected, during the early ming dynasty, Tingyi played the important roles in the decision of the country's politics, such as economy, military and culture. Tingyi produced an significant influence in the country's decision-making.This article discussed the reason why the emperor exerted the Tingyi in the country's government central decision-making. And also, elaborate the chief ways and contents of the Tingyi decision system. In addition, this article shows the tingyi decision had a significant impact on politics, which can be known from the relationship about the Tingyi with the imperial and the cabinet power.