自朱元璋废中书省、罢宰相,到明成祖正式设立内阁,并逐渐发展成为明代替代宰相制的政治机构.虽然实际上内阁制度与宰相制度有很大不同,但内阁大学士毕竟拥有宰相的相当一部分权力,因此,人们习惯上把内阁阁臣目之为宰相,把“入阁”与“拜相”看作是同义语.内阁地位既如此重要,阁臣的选任就成为明代一项重要的政治行为. Since Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the book province and slaughtered the prime minister, he officially established a cabinet to Ming Cheng Zu and gradually developed into a political institution that replaced the prime minister in the Ming Dynasty. Although the cabinet system is actually very different from the prime minister’s system, the cabinet ministers, after all, A considerable part of the power, therefore, people are accustomed to the cabinet cabinet minister as the prime minister, the “cabinet” and “worship” as synonymous with the cabinet status is so important, the election of cabinet minister became a Ming Dynasty Important political behavior.