People who have seen the movie "Embroidered Spring Knife" know that as a characteristic intelligence agency of the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei can be described as mysterious and pervasive. But every move of the DPRK and Chinese officials could hardly escape their eyes.
In the first month of 1457, the great general Shi Heng conspired with the eunuchs Cao Jixiang ( 曹吉祥 ; ) , the governor Zhang Yi ( 張軏 ) , the governor of the capital , Yang Shan ( ) of the Left Capital , Xu Bin ( Xu Bin ) of the TaichangQing ( 太常卿 ) , and Xu Youzhen ( 徐有贞 ) , the vice-governor of the Imperial Household , in order to restore the throne to the throne of Zhu Qizhen , the Emperor Taishang of the Imperial Palace.
On the evening of the 16th day of the first month, Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and the like led nearly a hundred people to knock open the gate of the Nangong Palace, invited zhu qi town, surrounded him and went straight to the palace, the guards guarding the palace gate saw Zhu Qi town, and did not dare to stop it, and everyone entered the Fengtian Gate of the emperor's court, helped Zhu Qizhen to the throne of the Fengtian Temple, and sat on the throne again, and then Yu Qian and other famous courtiers were retaliated and killed, which is known as the change of the gate.
(Jinyi Wei)
What makes people wonder is why JinYiwei, who knows every move of the Qunchen well, is unaware of the conspiracy of Shi Heng and his gang, allowing Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang to easily seize the change of the door and restore Zhu Qizhen.
1. Pervasive surveillance
The Jinyi guards we see in film and television dramas are usually dressed in flying fish suits, wearing embroidered spring knives around their waists, strong in martial arts, and flying cornices on the wall, which is simply handsome to the extreme.
As a secret service intelligence agency directly responsible to the emperor, Jinyiwei was not subject to the jurisdiction of any judicial organ, and the composition was very simple, commanding one person, the official rank was Zheng Sanpin; there were two Tongzhi, Jinshi, Zhenfu, and Fourteen Thousand Households, which constituted the leadership team of Jinyiwei.
(The Change of The Door)
As the emperor's exclusive bodyguard, in addition to protecting the emperor's safety, they were also responsible for the collection of intelligence and private interrogation, they received centralized training and loyal ideological education from an early age, and they were all astute, skilled, and loyal, and had no second thoughts.
Jinyiwei has great authority, not only can monitor all suspects, but also skip the Punishment Department and Dali Temple, directly arrest and interrogate, have the right to use all torture equipment and means, and even cut first and play later, so Ming Officials talk about Jinyiwei all talk about tiger discoloration.
If you are an official in the dprk and are angry at home, then the next day the emperor may ask you why you were angry yesterday, and if you can't remember, the portrait of jinyiwei's behavior at that time will be placed in front of you, so no one can escape jinyiwei's eyes.
(Ming Yingzong Zhu qi town)
Second, rectify the self-endangerment of everyone
Even the Jinyi Guards, who knew everything about the ministers' invitations to dinner at home, did not know anything about the many gathering plots of Shi Heng and Cao Dixiang, which was indeed strange.
In fact, the reason why the Jinyiwei did not play a role in the change of the door was related to a person, who was Yu Qian's son-in-law, and the Jinyiwei commander at that time made Zhu Jun.
Not a family, not to enter a door, Zhu Jun, like his father-in-law, said that the good point is to be upright and upright. It is not good to say that the emotional intelligence is low, the leadership style is simple and rude, and it is not good at winning people's hearts.
(Secretly arrested Jinyi Wei)
After Zhu Jun served as the commander of the Jinyi Guards, he carried out internal rectification in view of the long-standing undesirable phenomena within the ranks, strictly investigated corruption and corruption, punished abuse of power, and cut down and imprisoned a large number of Jinyi Guards.
At that time, when Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty was seriously ill, and the time bomb of Zhu Qizhen of Emperor Ming Yingzong was still there, Zhu Jun was so internally rectified that everyone in Jinyiwei was in danger, and even had the leisure to monitor the every move of the civil and military officials, and some people even wanted Zhu Jun and Yu Qian to fall.
This gave Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang and their gang an opportunity to discuss the plan privately many times but did not have the Jinyi guard to monitor and find, and finally easily seized the door and achieved amazing achievements.
(Embroidered spring knife of Jinyi Wei)
Third, the end of the loss of trust
After Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill and bedridden, he was always suspicious of ghosts, and began to suspect Yu Qian, who was in a high position, worried that Yu Qian would seize the throne when he was seriously ill, at this time he summoned Shi Heng and asked him to restrain Yu Qian, of course, he would not ask JinYi wei to monitor Shi Heng.
Moreover, Jinyiwei commanded Zhu Jun, who was also Yu Qian's son-in-law, and no longer trusted Zhu Qiyu, who was already in Qian, and of course lost trust in Zhu Jun and the Jinyiwei under his jurisdiction.
Under the suspicion of this monarch, Jinyiwei completely lost its role, and due to the careful planning and strict preservation, Shi Heng and Cao Jixiang and their gang successfully supported the restoration of Zhu Qizhen and rewrote the history of Daming.