明朝的宦官专权与厂卫肆虐,是极端专制主义中央集权政治的产物,造成中国封建社会政治史上最黑暗的年代。明朝初年,朱元璋鉴于前代宦官专权的弊病,规定宦官“不得兼外臣文武衔,不得御外臣冠服,官无过四品,月米一石”;又立铁牌于 The eunuchs’ eunuchs and factory guards wreaked havoc in the Ming dynasty, a product of the radical despotism of centralization politics and the darkest era in the political history of the Chinese feudal society. Early Ming Dynasty, in view of the previous eunuch eunuch Zhuzhang Zhang ills the shortcomings of the provisions of the eunuch “not subject and foreign military and civilian titles, no royal minister crown service, no official four products, a meter on the moon”