The classic verse "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people" has been sung to this day, and people can't help but sigh that everything in the world is prosperous and will decline or whether it is extremely Tailai, so that everyone has a unique life course under the cycle! Some people accumulate thick and thin, first poor and then rich first weak and then strong, some people sit and enjoy their success, sit and eat mountains and empty first get rich and then poor, first strong and then weak! Even the kings of antiquity were no exception! For example, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, a cattle herder, counterattacked and became the supreme emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and the emperor who later ascended the throne was not as good as a generation, and after experiencing 16 emperors, he finally enjoyed the destruction of the country in 276 years! And it is rumored that when the Ming Dynasty fell, there were actually 150,000 Jinyi guards, why did they disappear in the Ming Dynasty? Where did they go? Let's find out today!
During the period of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the official position of Jinyi Wei began to appear, and the department under it was called "Gongwei Division", which was a unique institution created by the Ming Dynasty! The duty of the Jinyi guard was mainly to help the emperor search for intelligence and had the right to arrest and interrogate, and anyone except the emperor was within the scope of his arrest, interrogation, and arrest, including the emperor's relatives and state relatives, including the imperial court! As a result, another institution, the "Prison Of Commandments", was established. It is a place where the people arrested by the Jinyi Guards are specially imprisoned.
For small roles, they will not pay attention to them at all, and the officials they dispose of are at least the level of scholars, and they are only responsible to the emperor! All the prisoners arrested were interrogated in secret, because except for the emperor, they had the greatest power, so there were often cases of beating or beating prisoners to death, so Jinyiwei became the nightmare of all officials in the official arena at that time, as long as they encountered Jinyiwei, nothing good would happen! The famous Hu Weiyong case and the Blue Jade case in the Zhu Yuanzhang period implicated a total of 40,000 people, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, and the initiator was the infamous Jinyi Wei!
Because of its fierce and brutal martial arts and mysterious institutions, it is also rumored that such characters as the Thirteen Taibao are favored by wild history or film and television dramas, and there are still many film and television dramas about Jinyiwei circulating on the Internet! But the prosperity will decline, such a terrible institution, only obey the emperor's orders, if the emperor dies, who can hold it hostage? Therefore, The Kinyi Guard is slowly beginning to be cancelled or replaced!
No matter how powerful the Jinyi Wei was, at best, it was only a tool used by the emperor to rule! However, if the emperor feels that he cannot control it or that there are uncontrollable factors, he will decisively reduce it! In Zhu Yuanzhang's period, it was because the power of Jinyi Wei was getting stronger and stronger, and the case of Lanyu Hu Weiyong who had connected more than 40,000 people was a best example, and a fool could see that there were more than 40,000 people who deserved to die and have more than enough to do? This was obviously an abuse of power by these Jinyi guards, and even the people were afraid of the court, which was not conducive to long-term peace and long-term rule, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the burning of Jinyiwei's torture equipment and handed over all prisoners to the Punishment Department for punishment! Since then, Jinyiwei has briefly withdrawn from the stage of history!
Or is that sentence that the extreme thing must be reversed to the pole Tailai, and the existence is reasonable! Later, after Zhu Di took the throne, the system of Jinyi Wei was newly introduced, which can also be understood. Why? Because Zhu Di's throne was taken from his nephew, and even more against Fang Xiaoru, who accused him of usurping the throne, he exterminated the Ten Tribes, and there are still rumors circulating about Zhu Di's usurpation of power, Zhu Di can't say that there are people who oppose him, just argue with the other party's reasoning, he doesn't have that energy, Jinyi Wei others are not afraid of that effect, then Zhu Di wants that effect! Later, Zhu Di felt that the effect he wanted was almost the same, and the Jiangshan he had originally seized was criticized, and if JinYiwei made another big incident similar to the "Blue Jade Hu Weiyong Case", Jiangshan might not be able to save it!
So Zhu Di established the East Factory to replace the Jinyi Guard, and even the power of the Jinyi Guard's personnel appointment and removal was also in the hands of the East Factory, and the Jinyi Guard became the work of the Emperor's bodyguard and Luan Driving Guard! In the ming xianzong period, he was afraid that the East Factory was the only one, so he set up the West Factory to check and balance each other, so you see that when an emperor was also afraid of wolves all day long, he could live a long life! Despite this, during the Chongzhen period, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that there were still 150,000 Jinyi guards, so why did the Ming Dynasty fall into the country, or did not appear?
The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, although he also wanted to pull the crumbling Ming Dynasty up from the abyss of corruption with a passion for blood, but that was just his wishful thinking or he did not have that ability, after all, Daming was already in ruins at that time! Along with the continuous rise of dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty, the peasant uprising represented by Li Zicheng spread rapidly throughout the country for a time, and Chongzhen had to clean up the mess of the Ming court, resist the invasion of HouJin on the other hand, and suppress Li Zicheng's peasant uprising.
In March 1644, Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, changed the name of the country to Dashun, and after Chongzhen Cang fled the coal mountain, he hanged himself on a crooked neck tree, and left a blood letter when he was dying, telling Li Zicheng to treat his people kindly, and it was also a benevolent king, but he was born at the wrong time! Some people have to say, then didn't the Ming Dynasty still have 150,000 Jinyi guards led by Luo Yangsheng, who commanded the Jinyi guards? Why not resist Li Zicheng? In fact, the real history is that Chongzhen ordered a letter from Feishu to let Luo Yangsheng, who was stationed in Tianjin, escort him with troops, and Luo Yangsheng had selfish intentions to wait and see again, but before Luo Yangsheng arrived in Beijing, he heard the news that Daming had died And Chongzhen was dead, so he surrendered to Li Zicheng, and also paid 30,000 taels of silver to avoid death, but Luo Yangsheng's two younger brothers died at the hands of Li Zicheng's subordinate Liu Zongmin!
Because after Li Zicheng led his troops into the Beijing Division, he ordered that Ming officials must pay a prescribed amount of gold and silver to avoid death, which is known in history as "torture and plunder". The Ming Shi Vol. 253 records that "the thief ordered the cabinet to be 100,000 gold, Jingqing and Jinyi 70,000, or 530,000, to give the matter, the imperial history, the official, and the Hanlin 50,000 to 10,000 differences, the ministry Cao thousands, and the Xunqi indefinite number." According to historical records, Li Zicheng only had more than 20,000 troops after he captured the Jing Division, and if Luo Yangsheng really held an army of 150,000, would he surrender and not establish himself as emperor? Will he watch his two younger brothers die tragically? Will he humbly pay Li Zicheng 30,000 yuan? In fact, according to relevant historical records, the real strength of Luo Yang is about 5,000 people!
Conclusion: Regarding history, we can't assume or speculate, we must have a rigorous attitude, Jinyiwei, as a secret service agency of the Ming Dynasty that collects intelligence and arrests and interrogates officials, although it is described in film and television dramas and wild history as very exaggerated, but he is only an institution or unit set up by the emperor, and does not have the elements of the army in dispute, such as weapons and equipment, armor, logistics and mail, etc., whether it is the suppression of it since the establishment of the East Factory and the West Factory, or from the number of personnel. Or from the nature of the work, it is impossible to save Daming from destruction! What do you think about that?