There is an old Chinese saying that "people are as their names", and when elders name their children, they also hope that their children will become people like the meaning of his name in the future. The word "Ji Gang" originally referred to the outline of the net, and was extended to the program and the law. In history, there was also a person named Ji Gang, who did exactly to maintain the "Ji Gang", and finally when he violated the Ji Gang, he also ended up with a very tragic end.
Ji Gang was a native of Linyi, and at first he was just a poor Confucian. When the beacon fire of the Battle of Jingnan reached Linyi, Ji Gang felt that this was a good opportunity to change his fate, so he took the initiative to run to Zhu Di's horse and asked for his life. Although Ji Gang was a Confucian, he was good at riding horses and archery and was cunning and eloquent, and was quite appreciated by Zhu Di and granted him the official position of a thousand households.
Ji Gang
After Zhu Di's usurpation of the throne was successful, he knew that it was difficult to convince the public that he had gained the throne, so he resurrected the Jinyiwei who had been deposed, and appointed Ji Gang as the commander of the Jinyiwei, asking him to help him engage in secret rule. At this time, there was already a capital Yushi Chen Ying in the court who was doing things (tens of thousands of ministers loyal to Zhu Yunjiao and their families were destroyed, and many famous tragedies were committed by him), and as the main person in charge of Zhu Di's secret service rule in the people, Ji Gang certainly could not be left behind.
Zhu Di
Ji Gang deeply understood and implemented Zhu Di's guiding ideology, fully enlarged and strengthened the Jinyiwei organization, spread eyeliner widely throughout the country, and collected information on whether the subjects were dissatisfied with Zhu Di all day long, and then immediately reported it. Because of the fact that the people who were arrested and even wrongfully killed by the wind and shadows were countless for a time, and with these people as stepping stones, Ji Gang became more and more favored by Zhu Di, and gradually became Zhu Di's confidant, and promoted him to be a commander (similar to today's deputy military region-level cadres).
Ji Gang in film and television dramas
After his promotion, Ji Gang was very grateful to Zhu Di for his kindness and decided to work harder to repay the emperor. The specific work performance is to cultivate more disciples and grandchildren to inherit and carry forward his secret service cause, and to increase the number of hearsay to frame Zhongliang. At first, the arrest of people was at least procedural, at least evidence, and then directly arrested for the sake of arresting people, and tried every means to weave a crime to pit people. Tangtang Zhejiang's envoy (secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission), a government official who was specially responsible for supervising discipline inspection, was executed by Ji Gang's subordinates on a casual charge.
The famous great talent, Xie Jin, was thrown into the exclusive cell of Jinyi Wei by Zhu Di because he was involved in the dispute between the king of Han and the crown prince. One day, when Zhu Di was looking through the list of prisoners, he saw The name of The One, so he asked, "Why is Xie Jin still on this list?" Ji Gang, who immediately understood, knew that Zhu Di would immediately go to the prison to invite Xie Jin to dinner. Xie Xue, who thought that he was about to be released from prison, drank drunkenly and drunkenly under Ji Gang's unceasing persuasion, and was drunk and unconscious. Ji Gang saw the situation and ordered his men to drag this great talent into the snow and throw it down and bury it, and in a few moments, the great talent who was responsible for compiling the Yongle Canon became a frozen ghost.
Unravel
Xie Jin is just one example, there are many officials like him who died under the clutches of Ji Gang and his Jinyi guards. Over time, Ji Gang gradually developed a system of seeking wealth and killing people: first the officials were arrested by his subordinates, and then they pretended to say good things in front of the emperor, so that the prisoners mistakenly thought that the Ji Gang was helping themselves, and quickly took out the family's money and bribes. When the prisoner's family money was almost empty, Ji Gang pushed the prisoner out and killed him.
Ji Gang, whose appetite is growing, is no longer satisfied with pit people, he must have a higher pursuit. He forged edicts and extorted four million quintals of government-run salt works, as well as hundreds of official ships and ox carts, all of which became his own private property. He also murdered hundreds of big businesses and appropriated their family wealth for himself. Ji Gang even dared to put his hand on the prince's body, and the family property of the deceased King of Jin and King Wu became all his, and even the royal robe was worn on his body.
Ji Gang, who is getting more and more stubborn, no longer plays the pit of yin, and directly and openly cannot get by with people. Someone else bought a beautiful female Taoist priest as a concubine, and Ji Gang took a fancy to it and directly used a sledgehammer to almost kill the person. The other commander did not avoid Ji Gang because he was ill, and Ji Gang framed him for taking credit and directly killed him. Even the son of the famous rich man Shen Wansan could only throw himself under his door because of his family's fall, and became Ji Gang's dog leg.
Statue of Shen Wansan
Ji Gang liked to wear royal robes and let people play music that only the imperial meal could use to eat. He also castrated hundreds of virgin boys, like eunuchs in the palace. Even when the emperor chose a concubine, Ji Gang dared to intervene and adopt many women that the emperor favored as his own. Ji Gang, who was no longer satisfied with being Zhu Di's dog-legged son, recruited outlaws, and took advantage of his position to get a lot of swords, guns and weapons, and was ready to learn from his master to change the throne and sit on his ass. In order to test his prestige, he imitated Zhao Gao's finger deer as a horse, and deliberately failed to shoot the wicker in the Dragon Boat Shooting Willow Competition, and let his men fold the wicker down and shout that Ji Daren shot it. None of the people present dared to say a word, and Ji Gang felt that he was even more powerful than Zhao Gao at that time (Zhao Gao still had opposition when he pointed out that the deer was a horse), so he was eager to try to prepare to move.
It's just that there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Ji Gang is so arrogant, it is inevitable that some wind will leak out. A eunuch who usually had a bad relationship with Ji Gang found out that Ji Gang was plotting against him and immediately reported him. As soon as this head opened, the civil and military officials who usually dared to be angry with Ji Gang and did not dare to speak out immediately impeached. Deeply shocked, Zhu Di immediately ordered the Metropolitan Inspection Bureau to investigate, and found that the sentences reported below were true.
What awaited Ji Gang was the fate he had inflicted on countless people: he was slashed in the downtown area with a knife, all the men, women and children of his family, young and old, were sent to the border to charge the army, and his comrades were sentenced to death or exile according to the number of evil deeds.
Although Ji Gang and his cohorts were all subordinate, the head of the secret service rule that he had begun did not break. Zhu Yuanzhang initially set up the Jinyi Guard only as a court honor guard, but later gradually used it as a secret agent, and in the last year of his reign, he gradually realized the undesirable rule of secret agents, and ordered it to be banned. In order to block the mouths of the people of the world, Zhu Di re-implemented this evil government and created countless unjust cases. Although Ji Gang died, the JinyiWei did not die, but on the contrary, it existed as a permanent institution until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Not only that, Zhu Di also cultivated the Eunuch Secret Service Agency East Factory, as an institution supervising the Jinyiwei, its power also quickly surpassed the Jinyiwei. During the Xianzong period, the West Factory, which supervised the East Factory, was opened; during the Wuzong Period, a new Neixing Factory was added. As the minions of the Ming Emperor's secret service rule, these factory guards created white terror everywhere throughout the country, and the proud bones of Huaxia Shizi were trampled by Mongolian iron horses and then damaged by secret agents, and finally disappeared.
Jinyi Wei
Ji Gang's rebellion was actually the bitter fruit planted by Zhu Di himself. Zhu Di pushed Ji Gang, a poor scholar, step by step to the largest secret service leader in the country, and his power in his hands was getting bigger and bigger, and his appetite was getting bigger and bigger. Absolute power breeds absolute corruption, and the absolute power that Ji Gang has given through the process of history and the struggle of self has finally made him absolutely corrupt. When the department in charge of supervision itself rots to the root, how can it be expected to play a role in supervision? However, the rule of secret agents overemphasizes blocking the mouths of the people, does not pay attention to dredging up public opinion, and does not understand the principle that "the mouth of the people is better than the defense of Sichuan.", in addition to bringing ji Gang, a big secret agent who is extremely corrupt, the rule over the regime will only play a role in reducing life.