China from the establishment of the first dynasty to the Xinhai Revolution to overthrow the last feudal dynasty, during this period China has a period of nearly 2,000 years of feudal society, although the dynasties are constantly changing, but in essence are the country under the feudal social system, the main matters are decided by the monarch, but the ancient feudal society period technology and transportation technology are maintained by manpower, so it is impossible for the monarch to take care of all things alone.
The monarchs of each dynasty would promulgate various measures in order to strengthen the centralization of power and absolute monarchy, such as the "Tui En Order" of the Han Dynasty, the "Three Provinces and Six Ministries System" of the Tang Dynasty, etc., the former mainly weakened the strength of the princely states, and in the later period, the dynasties were set up to weaken the rights of the prime minister. However, in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang directly abolished the beggar system after establishing the Ming Dynasty, but the heavy official duties could not be completed by the emperor alone, so a unique organization of the Ming Dynasty was born.
Zhu Yuanzhang personally ordered the establishment of a military organization called "Jinyiwei", the special feature is that the leader of this organization is directly the emperor himself, its rights are relatively large, the main responsible thing is responsible for the investigation and collection of intelligence, arrest and interrogation of prisoners, and do not have to specifically report to the emperor, directly arrest people at all levels, the existence of Jinyiwei during the Ming Dynasty is like a secret intelligence organization. The history of the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei: When it is prosperous, it is not easy to ask the emperor to arrest people, and when it is declining, it is unbearable to see!
The "report card" called up in the early days of the establishment of Jinyiwei was also shocking, and the most famous "Hulan Prison" and "Empty Seal Case" in the early period all had a lot to do with Jinyiwei, and the rights of Jinyiwei were evident at that time, without the intelligence they could not catch and the people they could not catch, because the power of Jinyiwei in the later period was too large, resulting in the loss of a certain degree of control, everyone in the court was in danger, and Zhu Yuanzhang also felt that it was impossible to abolish this organization.
However, in Zhu Di's period, the Jinyiwei was restored again, and in the heyday of the Jinyiwei, it can be said that its number spread all over the country, collecting national intelligence everywhere, and the number of people was close to 97,000. In order to manage such a huge organization, the Jinyi Wei army was organized into "wei" and "suo", and there were 5,000 regular non-commissioned officers, which were divided into "thousand households" and "hundred households".
The Well-known Jinyi Guard costume is generally "Flying Fish Suit", but in fact, jinyi Guard has three kinds of clothing, divided into "Python Robe", "Flying Fish Suit" and "Bullfighting Suit", the first is actually not a formal official uniform, but a special reward given by the emperor, which is a great honor, and the latter two are officials of a certain rank to wear, not all officials can wear, these two costumes are also a reward.
Jinyiwei had great power in the early days of its establishment, but in the middle and late period, there were "East Factory" and "West Factory", the power of Jinyiwei was balanced, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was directly reduced to a vassal of eunuchs, and by the wanli years, the contradiction between the two was further deepened, the imperial court was made into a miasma, there was a villain like Wei Zhongxian who was tilted toward the opposition, and Jinyiwei became an appendage, which was also sad and unbearable.