Emperors of all dynasties will be very careful to choose the heir, although China's ancient imperial throne is said to be inherited by the eldest son, but there are also many cases where the eldest son cannot succeed to the throne, the Ming Dynasty has such an example, Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Biao died when he did not succeed to the throne, because of his love for his son Zhu Biao, he decided to establish the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Yunjiao as the heir to the throne.
Compared with Zhu Biao, Zhu Yunjiao could not convince the ministers who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world in terms of seniority or prestige, and Zhu Yuanzhang also took this into account, so he tried to find various excuses to kill the important ministers who might pose a threat to the ascension of the emperor's eldest son to the throne. But Zhu Yuanzhang could not have imagined that it was his own son Zhu Di who was competing with Zhu Yunjiao for the throne.
At first, Zhu Di had no opinion on his eldest brother Zhu Biao becoming emperor, but it was unreasonable to let his nephew Zhu Yunjiao become emperor. In addition, after Zhu Yunjiao became emperor, he began to kill his uncles, which made Zhu Di even more intolerable. After making full preparations, he created a nephew's rebellion and finally seized the throne, and Zhu Di, who became emperor, was similar to Zhu Yuanzhang in terms of governance methods, and was decisive and very resolute.
After ascending the throne, Zhu Di was quite ruthless in governing his criminals and enemies, and he established the East Factory on the basis of Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the Jinyi Guard, using these two departments to supervise officials. For those who disobey orders or to execute or distribute the frontier, the treatment of the wives and daughters of these sinners is even more cruel, and in order to consolidate their rule and make the ministers dare not disobey their orders, a special department has been set up to insult the wives and daughters of the sinners and the enemy.
The department in charge of the special management of these criminal courtiers and the wives and daughters of the enemy is called the "Jiaofang Division", in fact, this department appeared as early as the Tang Dynasty, but it was mainly responsible for performing songs and dances to the royal family and nobles. When zhu di arrived, it became an "official green building" that specialized in managing and insulting criminal subjects and enemy wives and daughters. Ordinary women are also not eligible to enter, only the wives and daughters of the minister of crime will be sent in, and the women who enter are almost without a good end.
Whether it was the princes and nobles or the common people, as long as they had money, even the relatively low-status merchants at that time could go in and insult these women, and after these women were sent in, they would be insulted every day, and the end was very miserable. If these women give birth to children, men will be treated as slaves, and women will continue to be humiliated like themselves.
This department was not abolished until the Qing Dynasty, and throughout the ming dynasty, many women in this department were sent in, and only a small number of these women were taken away for special reasons, and the fate of others was more tragic!