In many film and television dramas, the Ming Dynasty period is a dynasty that is very prone to secret service agencies, and everyone is familiar with Jinyiwei, East Factory, West Factory, and a name, Six Doors. However, the six doors sound more like the existence of martial arts dramas, which seems to be relatively rare in history, so do the six doors really exist? What kind of organization is Six Doors, why is it called Such a strange name, what is the difference between Six Doors and JinyiWei, and who is more powerful?
From the name point of view, the six doors naturally mean the six gates, which refers to the collective name of the three Fa Si Yamen during the Ming Dynasty. Because the gate outside the yamen is very exquisite, no matter where it is, it can only be three open rooms, each room is installed with two doors, adding up to a total of six doors, it is precisely because everywhere is the same, so for a long time, the three Fasi Yamen have also been crowned with the nickname of "six doors", when it comes to six doors, everyone knows what is said.
The first of the three divisions was the Qin State's "one judge in the middle of the palace, one judge and official in the imperial history, and one judge in the prime minister", which became the Punishment Department, the Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Inspection Court in the Ming and Qing dynasties. However, this is the six doors in history, in the folk, the six doors are mostly talking about a special institution like the Jinyi Guard, which is a side branch of the Yamen Catcher, they only manage the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and there are important criminals who have been wanted by the government, and they have contacts with the various gate factions in the rivers and lakes, and the imperial court and the rivers and lakes have high power.
But what we're talking about today is the six doors of history. In contrast, the power of the Jinyi guards is actually greater, after all, the Jinyi guards command envoys are people that the emperor trusts very much, or military generals, directly responsible to the emperor, and the six doors are not so, they are scattered everywhere, managing local affairs, rarely able to participate in the core area, from this point alone, it can be seen that the power of the Jinyi guards is greater than the six doors, and the six doors can be said to be the smallest of all the secret service agencies, only in folklore they are more powerful.
However, because Jinyiwei has basically been accompanied by the development of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, there will be some changes in the middle of the way, and the specific situation needs to refer to the emperor and the situation at that time, such as Jinyiwei will also have times when it is inferior to the East and West Factory, and there will also be a struggle between the East and West Factories. And because these are secret service agencies, they have also left a lot of imagination space for many people, and the film and television works that we can see now are also the imagination processing of future generations.