Seventh place: Qing Dynasty - Sticky Pole
The sticky rod, or blood droplet, was founded by Emperor Qingshizong's love for Shin Kyora Yinchen. It was a secret service of the Qing Dynasty, officially known as the Shangyu Reserve Office. It was founded as early as when he was still a prince. After his son Emperor Gaozong of Qing, he was gradually abolished.
As the name suggests, "Sticky Pole" is a service organization specializing in sticking cicadas and catching dragonflies and fishing. When Emperor Shizong of the Qing Dynasty was still a prince, he was located near the New Bridge in the northeast of Beijing. There are some tall trees in the inner dean, and every midsummer and early autumn, there are cicadas in the lush foliage, and Yin Chan, who loves the quiet and fearful summer, orders the Hakka Ding to catch cicadas.
In the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Yin Chan was promoted from "Dorobele" to "Prince heshuoyong", and at that time, the competition among many of Kangxi's princes also reached a white-hot stage. On the surface, Yin Chan had no quarrel with the world, but secretly formulated a program and stepped up the pace of contention for reserves. He recruited jianghu martial arts masters and trained a team of jiading, which was tasked with spying on intelligence and eliminating dissidents. This is where the sticky rod comes from.
Sixth place: Song Dynasty - Imperial City Division
The predecessor of the Imperial City Division was the Wude Division set up by Taizu, who sent people to spy everywhere, even as far as Sichuan. When Emperor Taizong of Song changed his name to Imperial City Division, he later issued a decree prohibiting Imperial City Divisions from leaving the capital, and from then on, there was generally no special order, and imperial city divisions generally only operated in Beijing. The personnel of the Imperial City Division are also divided into two parts, one part is called a pro-subordinate official, who is in charge of the guards;
The other part is called the kin official, also known as the Chazi, and these people are in charge of all parts of the capital, down to Huajie Liu Lane, up to the government ministers, listening to news big and small. The number of people has also grown from a few dozen at the beginning to more than 7,000 at the peak.
Fifth place: Tang Dynasty - Meihua Inner Guard
Meihua Inner Guard is a team of secret agent assassination teams directly under the command of Wu Zetian, each of which has a plum blossom imprint on his shoulder, of which Mei, Lan, Bamboo, and Ju are the best at swords, needles, sticks, and knives, and the four people are the highest martial artists in Meihua Inner Guard. They can't choose their own destiny, they can only keep obeying orders and killing people.
This group has many members, very hidden, the group requirements are strict, the head of the inner guard is called the big cabinet collar, and each member has a plum blossom tattoo engraved on his left arm. After Wu Zetian's death, the new emperor and his ministers (led by Zhang Kamzhi) hated the Internal Guard and immediately abolished the Meihua Inner Guard Group. Some of the Inner Guard members were killed, and some of them were hidden. Because the Internal Guard only served Wu Zetian, those who knew how powerful they were were going to join forces to abolish the Inner Guard Group.
Fourth place: Ming Dynasty - Jinyi Wei
JinyiWei (金衣衛) was a ming dynasty exclusive military and political secret service agency, which was formerly known as the "Arch Guard Division" established by Zhu Yuanzhang, and later renamed "Pro-Military Governor's Mansion". The main function of the Jinyi Guard is "to directly drive the guards, patrol and arrest", and its leader is called the Jinyi Wei Commander, which is generally held by the Emperor's close military generals and is directly responsible to the Emperor. In the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the burning of jinyiwei torture equipment, and the detained prisoners were transferred to the Ministry of Punishment for trial; At the same time, he ordered all the internal and external prisons to be tried by the Three Laws Division, and abolished the Jinyi Guards. During the reign of Ming Chengzu, the Jinyi Guards were restored, and the Beizhen Fusi specially handled the prison. In the Ariake generation, Kinyi Guard has always existed.
Whenever the emperor sacrificed or paraded, the lieutenant of the Jinyi Guard who was a servant had to wear a flying fish suit and an embroidered spring knife around his waist. The flying fish dress is a grand dress second only to the python robe, and officials can only wear it when they reach a certain grade. The embroidered spring knife is light and short, and cannot be worn without permission unless it is given by the Emperor. They were directly subordinate to the Emperor and could arrest anyone, including relatives of the Emperor, and conduct closed interrogations. He also participated in the work of collecting military information and plotting against enemy generals, such as collecting a large amount of Japanese military information in the Wanli Korean War. It was not until 1661 that Ma Jixiang and the head of the guard Ren Zixin were killed in the 290-year-long history of the Jinyi Guards of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
Third place: Ming Dynasty - East Factory
The founder of the East Factory is Ming Chengzu Zhu Di. After the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di took the throne. On the one hand, rumors that Emperor Jianwen was not dead appeared from time to time, and on the other hand, many ministers in the imperial court were not very supportive of the new regime. And Zhu Di also distrusted the imperial court ministers.
He felt that the Jinyi guards located outside the palace were not very convenient to use, so he decided to establish a new institution. In the process of Zhu Di's army, some eunuchs and monks had made great efforts (such as the famous Zheng He and Daoyan), so in his mind, he still felt that eunuchs were more reliable, and they were in the imperial palace, and it was more convenient to contact them. Therefore, Zhu Di reversed Taizu's prohibition that eunuchs should not interfere in political affairs and reused eunuchs.
Dongchang monitored various political forces such as government officials, celebrities, and scholars, and had the right to report the results of the surveillance directly to the emperor. According to the information obtained from the surveillance, for those political opponents with lower status, the East Factory can directly arrest and interrogate them without judicial trial; As for the opposition who served as senior government officials or had the status of royal nobility, Dongchang was also able to arrest and interrogate them after obtaining the authorization of the emperor.
Second place: Ming Dynasty - West Factory
Xichang only existed for a short time in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and during the chenghua years of Emperor Xianzong of Ming, there was first a mysterious case of "demon fox night out" in the capital, which made Emperor Xianzong deeply aware of the lack of detection power. So wang zhi, a clever little eunuch beside him, was selected and sent outside the palace to inquire about the news. Wang Zhi seized this opportunity and went around catching wind and shadows, collecting a lot of so-called "secret information" reports to Xianzong. Xianzong thought that these news were very valuable, and he was very satisfied with Wang Zhi's performance, and asked him to continue to do it.
The west factory, the leader is Wang Zhi, the factory site is located in front of the Lingji Palace, with the old ash factory as the headquarters of the factory department. The officers of the West Factory were mainly selected from the Janissaries, and these people then selected their own subordinates, and in just a few months, the personnel of the West Factory were greatly expanded, and their power even exceeded that of the old predecessors, the East Factory. Xichang set up a reconnaissance network throughout the country, mainly targeting officials inside and outside Beijing, and as soon as someone was suspected, they were immediately arrested, without the consent of the emperor in advance, and then of course it was torture to extract confessions, and strive to make the case as big as possible. For ordinary people, as long as their words and deeds are slightly inappropriate, they will be severely dealt with by Xichang for the crime of demonization.
Under these circumstances, only 5 months after the establishment of the West Factory, it made the people of the government and the public panic, and the auxiliary ministers headed by the university scholar Shangrui (that is, the talent of the three yuans in the middle school) collectively wrote a letter to Emperor Xianzong to complain about the harm of Chen Xichang and reported the illegal things handled by Wang Zhi one by one. Emperor Xianzong was shocked when he received the song, so he cancelled the West Factory and dismissed the personnel of the West Factory.
First prize: Han Dynasty - embroidered clothes point directly
Usually to wear embroidery clothes, "directly refers to the embroidery messenger" in the "History", "Book of Han" is also called "embroidery of the royal history", "embroidery of the direct finger", "embroidery law enforcement", "embroidery messenger", sometimes simply referred to as "direct finger", meaning "the fate of the direct point", or "refer to the matter"
The titles are different, but the meaning is the same, all refer to the officials sent by the central government (the emperor) to carry out special missions such as "catching thieves" and "curing prisons". That is, he was responsible for hunting down bandits active in the capital on behalf of the emperor and the imperial court, and at the same time was responsible for supervising the violations of officials and princes and nobles, and had the power to mobilize the army, which could kill local officials. Its nature and function are different from those of other kinds of messengers. In the history of the Western Han Dynasty, the traitor Jiang Chong served as a messenger of direct finger embroidery.