Introduction: Interpret the real history and tell a wonderful story. Hello everyone, thank you all for coming to the horizon of history. In the previous article, we told how the JinyiWei came out of history. Jin Yiwei originated from Zhu Yuanzhang and once disappeared from the Hongwu Dynasty. So, did the Jinyiwei disappear from history? Of course not, in fact, the Jinyi Wei was once again developed in the hands of Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Cheng, and eventually became a secret service organization that ran through the entire Ming Dynasty.
Jinyiwei was once again developed in the hands of Zhu Di
In 1402, the army of Zhu Di, the King of Yan, captured the city of Nanjing, and the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao disappeared in the fire. Zhu Di seized the throne and was proclaimed emperor, and the history was called Ming Chengzu. Zhu Di was a very accomplished emperor in history, and has always been highly evaluated in historiography. However, he had a fatal stain, that is, the throne was not right.
You know, feudal society attaches great importance to etiquette. No matter how capable Zhu Di was, the feudal etiquette system faced by killing his nephew and seizing the throne, and the condemnation of public opinion, still made Zhu Di sleep and eat. In terms of personality, Zhu Di and his father Zhu Yuanzhang are the same kind of people, and they both believe that violence can solve everything.
The Jinyi Wei that set off bloody storms in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands also made Zhu Di restless, especially before the Battle of Jingnan. However, Zhu Di also discovered the great role of the Jinyi Guard. Therefore, in order to better control the court, better control of the country. Zhu Di decided to reactivate the Jinyi Guard.
Zhu Di had great trust in Jinyiwei in the early stages, and Jinyiwei's power was very large. Wherever there is an official or a commoner who shows his dissatisfaction with the emperor, he may be arrested and tortured at any time. If he is caught in prison, the lightest one will also end up with either death or maim.
However, this is not yet the most terrifying period. The horror of Jinyiwei actually originated from one person, who? Jinyi Wei commanded the envoy Ji Gang. Jinyi Wei changed from his hands into a nightmare that made the Ming Dynasty people talk about tigers.
Jinyi Wei became a real demon in the hands of Ji Gang, who commanded him
By the end of the Yongle Dynasty, Ji Gang was no longer satisfied with just being a command under the emperor. Over the years, in addition to stabilizing Zhu Di, he had long since stopped paying attention to the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu. He accumulated huge wealth by extorting and smuggling money from officials and people, and his ambitions began to stir. He even began to spend a lot of money to cultivate private armed forces, which was a major crime of rebellion against the Nine Tribes.
However, he underestimated Zhu Di. In fact, Zhu Di had never fully trusted Jinyiwei. He had already secretly deployed a secret control, and let the eunuchs keep a close eye on the Jinyi guards. In the 14th year of Yongle, Ji Gang was denounced by a eunuch who said that he was plotting rebellion. Zhu Di immediately executed Ji Ganglingchi and four years later set up the East Factory to supervise Jinyiwei.
After Zhu Di's death, the power of the East Factory was even greater, not only all departments were monitored, but even the common and trivial matters of the people were also within the scope of its collection, and The Jinyi Wei had to crawl at the feet of the East Factory from then on. During the reign of Emperor Yingzong of Ming, the eunuch Wang Zhen was deeply favored by the emperor and began to take charge of the ceremonial superintendent and control the East Factory.
At this time, Jin Yiwei commanded Ma Shun, who adopted a different strategy from his predecessor, and he tried his best to seduce Wang Zhen and do his best to help Si Lijian to attack the Qunchen. The cooperation of factory guards has enabled the eunuchs to grow rapidly, and at the same time, it has also given Jinyiwei the opportunity to develop. However, the change of the civil fort soon after caused Jinyiwei to fall to the bottom.
In the 14th year of orthodoxy, Emperor Mingying, at the instigation of Wang Zhen, personally conquered Wallachia, but was defeated and captured. At this time, the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu, who had been oppressed to the extreme by the eunuch clique, finally found a breakthrough to vent his anger. Hundreds of officials wrote letters one after another, asking Zhu Qiyu, the king of the jianguo, to order that Wang Zhenman be beheaded.
During the reign of Emperor Yingzong of Ming, Jin Yiwei cooperated with the eunuch Wang Zhen
At this time, The Jinyi Guard commanded Ma Shun, but he did not see the situation clearly, and actually defended his eunuch leader, and even reprimanded the courtiers. The hundred officials who were already excited were even more angry, and finally lost control. Furious, Wang Zhen opened his head, and then the ministers joined the group fight, and Ma Shun was killed on the spot.
This incident led to a heavy blow to the east factory forces, and the Jinyi guard even more restrained its edge. In the era of Emperor Wuzong of Ming, the grand eunuch Liu Jin once again brought the eunuch power to the peak. In order to better cultivate his forces, Liu Jin successively set up the West Factory and the Neihang Factory, and completely controlled the East Factory and Jinyiwei.
In the 5th year of Zhengde, that is, in August 1510, the right capital Yushi Yang Yiqing secretly joined forces with the eunuch Zhang Yong, intending to overthrow Liu Jin. Zhang Yong and Liu Jin were originally both members of the "Eight Tigers", and after Liu Jin gained power, the two began to disagree. This time, after receiving the support of the chancellor, Zhang Yong immediately handed Liu Jin's guilt to Emperor Mingwuzong.
The so-called wall fell on the crowd, and Ma Yongcheng, the viceroy of the West Factory, stood up at the same time as Jin Yiwei and Yu Yong, and described in detail Liu Jin's behavior of arbitrarily abusing power and disorderly government in his daily life. Emperor Mingwuzong originally did not believe it, but when he walked into Liu Jin's mansion and saw the armored weapons found, Long Yan was finally furious and immediately ordered Liu Jin lingchi to be executed.
With the defeat of Liu Jin, neihang factories and west factories were closed one after another, until the end of the Jiajing Dynasty, and the east factory eventually became the highest secret service agency, and this phenomenon continued until the late Ming Dynasty. The biggest political feature of the late Ming Dynasty was party struggle. Party strife first appeared during the Wanli Dynasty, and it reached an uncontrollable point in the Apocalypse Dynasty.
Liu Jin was defeated, and the Neihang Factory and the West Factory were closed one after another
At that time, the courtiers of the Chinese were full of benevolence and morality on the surface, but in fact they secretly formed gangs and factions, and the party was different. When the Emperor of the Apocalypse succeeded to the throne, he was faced with a complete mess. On the outside, there was the erosion of the Liaodong war, and inside there were Donglin party members who controlled the government, and the ministers only cared about fighting all day long, not focusing on state affairs. Therefore, the isolated Emperor of the Apocalypse had no choice but to use the factory guards around him to maintain order.
In the early days of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he once had great enthusiasm for the Donglin Party, hoping that the ministers would help him govern the world. However, he gradually realized that although there were many officials among the Donglin Party who were worried about the country and the people, they wanted to do practical things. But more are some mutually attacking and annihilating people, who have nothing to do with each other.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty had a post-Jinkou border outside, and there were frequent droughts inside, disaster victims were everywhere, coupled with official corruption, in fact, it was on the verge of subjugation. In a hurry, the Emperor of The Apocalypse activated his close eunuch Wei Zhongxian.
In the third year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian was appointed as the eunuch of Bingbi and the viceroy of the East Factory. With the acquiescence of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, and others, who had always had a vendetta against the Donglin Party, were recruited into the cabinet. At the same time, Zhejiang, Qi, Chu and other party members who failed in the party constitution also gathered under Wei Zhongxian to compete with the Donglin Party.
For a time, almost all of them, from the cabinet officials to the local governors, joined the castration party. Eunuch thugs such as "Five Tigers", "Five Biao", "Ten Children", and "Forty Grandchildren" also appeared in Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and this group began to control the situation. Wei Zhongxian also transformed himself into a nine-thousand-year-old who was in power and opposition.
During the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian became the Viceroy of The East Factory
Soon, Wei Zhongxian created the famous "Six Gentlemen of Donglin" incident in history. In June of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, Yuan Huazhong, Zhou Chaorui, and Gu Dazhang, six important ministers of the Donglin Party, were arrested and imprisoned. Beizhen Fusidu commanded Xu Xianchun to torture them in a terrible way.
According to the Ming history, less than a month after Yang Lian was imprisoned, his cheeks and teeth were completely broken, and he was finally crushed by a mud bag and died of steel nails through his head, and the other five people were also tortured and killed. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, that is, in 1526, Wei Zhongxian framed Zhou Qiyuan, a member of the Donglin Party, for coveting public funds.
Jin Yiwei was ordered to arrest Zhou Qiyuan, Zhou Shunchang, Gao Panlong, Huang Zunsu, and seven other key donglin party criminals. After being arrested by Jinyiwei, the fate was very tragic, which everyone knew. As a result, Gao Panlong committed suicide upon hearing the news. However, when Tian Ergeng was commanded to send dozens of Jinyi guards to Suzhou to arrest Zhou Shunchang and others, something went wrong.
Because Zhou Shunchang is a just person, he is deeply loved by the masses. When he was arrested by Jinyiwei, hundreds of thousands of people stopped the prison cart, fell to their knees, and cried out in horror. But Jin Yiwei scolded the people and threatened to kill Zhou Shunchang. The intolerable people rushed up and beat up the Jinyi guards, Li Guozhu of a thousand households was killed on the spot, and the leader Wen Zhibing and others were frightened and fled.
Another Jinyi guard was also intercepted and beaten by the crowd and fled back to Beijing with difficulty. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the old masters of the Jinyi Guards have become accustomed to showing off their martial prowess, where would they have thought that they would be hit hard? When the news reached the capital, Wei Zhongxian was stunned, until Wei Zhongxian settled down at the time when Inspector Mao Yilu reported that Zhou Shunchang and the other six were imprisoned and finally beheaded in the street market.
The JinyiWei organization continued until the end of the Ming Dynasty
However, on August 11, 1627, the Emperor of the Apocalypse fell ill and died, and Wei Zhongxian was lost. The new Emperor Chongzhen had long hated the eunuch party, and in order to stabilize the situation, the Chongzhen Emperor initially tried his best to appease Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian, in order to test the emperor, resigned as the viceroy of Dongchang. The Chongzhen Emperor took the plan into account and sent Wei Zhongxian to Fengyang.
Chongzhen saw that the eunuch party did not strongly oppose, so he immediately ordered Jin yiwei to arrest the former commander, and Wei Zhongxian immediately committed suicide after hearing the news. Subsequently, Chongzhen ordered that Wei Zhongxian's head be crushed to pieces, and all the clan members should be beheaded. The Chongzhen Emperor used thunderous means to quickly purge the castration party. Among them, Jin Yiwei commanded Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun to be beheaded together, and the people of the world clapped their hands and applauded.
This time, Jinyiwei and Dongchang were liquidated together, but would the Chongzhen Emperor abandon Jinyiwei for this? Is the Jinyi Wei, which has accompanied the history of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, really useless? The next story, we tell a story about the unknown side of Jinyiwei, like friends don't forget to click to follow, we will see you in the next story!