"The king dies, and the Son of Heaven guards the gates of the kingdom." This is the most hard-core country in the history of our country, and this country has not cut land, paid compensation, and made peace from the beginning to its demise. A word of discord is to open up, and the barbarians everywhere dare not look up, this is the Ming Dynasty.
But such a hard-core emperor has advantages and disadvantages, and during the reign of the Ming emperor, most of the country was peaceful and peaceful, and the life of officials was not good. With such a hard-core emperor on the stall, these officials have to tie their heads to the waistband of their pants every day.
And all this is due to a department, that is, the Jinyi guard. Jinyi Wei belonged directly to the emperor, played the role of supervising hundreds of officials, and each martial arts was strong. But many people don't know, since Jinyiwei is so powerful, where did Jinyiwei go when the Ming Dynasty fell?
The beginning of the Jinyi Guard
He visited young and poured himself out. Jinyi slaughtered ninety million people in blood, and only because of this order was he ordered to serve the emperor. Jinyiwei was a bloodthirsty existence in the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei was established in the Ming Dynasty during the Taizu period, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious because of official corruption, so he set up Jinyiwei.
Jinyiwei belonged directly to the emperor, and the three provinces and six ministries could not control Jinyiwei, because Jinyiwei was founded to supervise hundreds of officials. At that time, there was a saying, that is, the notoriety of Ning Ya Xiang, Mo Ya Jinyi, and Jin Yi Wei resounded throughout the north and south of the river.
The functions of the Jinyi Guard are four, one is to check hundreds of officials, the second is to protect the emperor, the third is to search for intelligence, and the fourth is to be the prison department. The above four items are the responsibilities and obligations given by the emperor when Jinyiwei was founded, so Jinyiwei was synonymous with the emperor in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.
During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, Jin Yiwei did a lot of things for Zhu Yuanzhang. According to rumors, the Jinyi Guard at that time was a demon who could stop the children from crying at night, and the reason why the Jinyi Guard was so frightening, in addition to his supervision of hundreds of officials, there was also a point that the Jinyi Guard had a prison director in his hands.
The Prison Department is a department unique to the Jinyi Guards, and there are countless torture methods in it, and what nails are pulled out and thousands of knives are bloody. Once the official was targeted by the Jinyi guard, it was probably not a good thing, and no one was willing to have contact with the Jinyi guard at that time.
But there is nothing wrong with the fact that rights can cause a person to lose his heart. In the beginning, Jinyiwei was indeed loyal and loyal, and there was never anything wrong with using power for personal gain. But as the power of the Jinyi guards grew, they gradually could not extricate themselves.
In history, there is no clear record of the first command history of Jinyiwei, but the first history of Jinyiwei's command recorded in historical records is Mao Jun. This man was fierce and cruel to the prisoners, which could be described as doing everything to the extreme.
At that time, the Jinyi guards could be said to be in power, and even when hu Weiyong, the chancellor of the dynasty, saw them, he had to take a detour. What made Jinyiwei really reach the peak of his power was the case of Hu Weiyong, and after Hu Weiyong's conspiracy to rebel, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Jinyiwei to investigate.
However, such an investigation has investigated a total of 50,000 people, from the high officials of the current dynasty to the peddlers who deliver letters on horseback. And these 50,000 people were eventually cut off by Zhu Yuanzhang, not including those who were brutalized to death by Jinyiwei.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who killed a total of 50,000 people, was scolded by the people to the point of spewing dog blood, because many of these 50,000 people were innocent victims and suffered great grievances. So they joined hands to resist this brutal atrocity.
But how could the emperor admit his mistake? Therefore, the man with the butcher knife personally destroyed his own butcher knife, and in order to calm the anger of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the execution of Shi Maohua, the commander of jinyiwei. But at this time, The Jinyi Guard had gradually deteriorated.
As the power grew, so did the means of the Jinyi guards. The second commander of Jinyiwei was Jiang Yong, who was also a great killer. The Blue Jade Conspiracy case that shocked the government and the opposition was handled by him personally.
In the Blue Jade case, Jiang Yong and Jin Yiwei let Zhu Yuanzhang really see what it meant to use power for personal gain, but all the officials who bribed Jiang Ou survived, but some officials who did not bribe Jiang Ou were all raided. In the end, the Blue Jade case involved 40,000 people, many of whom were unjust, false and wrongly decided.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry, and he thought that the majesty of his Son of Heaven had been taken by them to the fox fake tiger Wei and did something dirty. Therefore, after the execution of Jiang Yong, twenty years after Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang personally closed the jinyiwei organization.
East Factory and Jinyi Guard
Until Ming Chengzu Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, in order to search for information Zhu Di once again opened the Jinyi Guard. However, in order to divide the rights of the Jinyi guards, Zhu Di also set up the East Factory Organization, and the members of the East Factory were all eunuchs.
In ancient times, eunuchs belonged to the emperor's close subordinates, and many elderly eunuchs were even treated as relatives by the emperor. The emergence of the East Factory not only divided the rights of the Jinyiwei, but also made the Jinyiwei a vassal of the East Factory.
Jinyiwei's life under the pressure of the East Factory was not smooth sailing, and they could no longer show off their might. Although he still supervises hundreds of officials, he can no longer be as arrogant as he used to be. The appearance of a eunuch completely took away the last power of the Jinyi guard.
He was Wei Zhongxian, and as the last great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, he was known as Wei Qiansheng. In the East Factory under Wei Zhongxian, there was no evil in burning and looting, but no one dared to speak out and dare to oppose.
Even if in the end Wei Zhongxian ambushed him, and the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu You's inspection was corrected, Jinyi Wei would never regain his former glory. Eventually, Jinyiwei went from being the largest intelligence organization in the early Ming Dynasty to a group of only 150,000 people, many of whom were indiscriminate.
The fate of the Jinyi guard
The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian, could actually be called a Ming Emperor, but the social impact brought by Wei Zhongxian was not something that a newly succeeded emperor could eliminate. At that time, the contradiction between the imperial court and society was getting bigger and bigger.
Eventually, Li Zicheng broke through the gates of Beijing, and Zhu Youjian hanged himself in the palace. And these well-known Jinyi guards, of course, are dead and flee. And death does die standing, and fleeing is fleeing on your knees.
In that hardcore era, there were naturally hardcore officials. Some of the Jinyi guards were indeed loyal and patriotic, and when Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, they fought desperately to cover the people and the emperor, and eventually spilled blood on the ground.
Some of the people in the Jinyi Guard are greedy and afraid of death, and they join the Jinyi Wei only to gain the charming rights. At that time, many of Li Zicheng's army were from Jinyiwei, and after they surrendered, Li Zicheng did nothing evil in the city.
Finally, there was another kind of person, who had the enthusiasm for restoring the country in their hearts, and after Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, they urgently mobilized soldiers and horses, ran to the south with the emperor's heirs, and established the Southern Ming. These people have their own responsibilities and obligations.
epilogue
It was inevitable that there would be loyalists and courtiers in every age. After all, the emperor is also a person, they also need a sense of security, and what the Jinyi Guard represents is the emperor's so-called sense of security. He needs to serve the people, and those who disobey will be cleaned up.
But even so, many people in the future Qing Dynasty still yearn for the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty is the most diverse dynasty in Chinese history. In the 267 years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 16 emperors were handed down, none of them surrendered, no one betrayed the country, this is the most bloody dynasty in our country!