Zhu Yuanzhang started with a bowl, relying on a few poor brothers, and he really laid a country. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was really heartbroken for the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty.
The group of powerful generals who fought the world became unstable elements of the dynasty. Hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang, Lan Yu...... and all the Huaixi generals were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
The reason why such a thing happened, in fact, is quite simple, power is a thing, it is not easy for anyone to quit it, human nature.
Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang cleaned up the external hidden dangers, he began to extend his hand to the inside of the country. The ultimate goal of killing so many people is for the emperor's centralized power.
In order to better accomplish this arduous task, Zhu Yuanzhang changed the Yiluan Division to Jinyiwei in 1382 A.D., and scattered throughout the country to monitor officials for the emperor.
Jinyiwei was pervasive, and for a time everyone in the Ming Dynasty was in danger, and to a certain extent, the effect of centralization was achieved. Those officials who don't believe in evil and do things in violation of law and discipline with a fluke mentality have all been found out by Jinyiwei.
With the support of the emperor, Jinyiwei is like a fish in water, and his power is unprecedentedly strong. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that Jinyiwei was too powerful, and the young Zhu Yunwen couldn't control it, so after the Lanyu case, he let Jinyiwei take a bag, divert the attention of the country, and abolish Jinyiwei's power by the way.
Later, Zhu Di snatched Zhu Yunwen's throne through the "Battle of Jingjing" and became the only successful example of a prince's rebellion. Although Zhu Di sat on the throne, after all, the throne was not in the right way, and in order to strengthen the imperial power, Zhu Di began to re-enable the Jinyi Guard.
Since ancient times, emperors have relied on balancing the relationship between different groups to maintain the stability of the regime. After Jinyiwei was reactivated by him, he did not use it to abolish Jinyiwei like Zhu Yuanzhang, but re-established the East Factory to balance the power of Jinyiwei.
Zhu Di's ability to govern and his control over the court are much stronger than Zhu Yunwen's, so whether it is Dongchang or Jinyiwei, they have played a role under him, and there has been no excessive power.
However, the later monarchs of the Ming Dynasty can be described as inferior to one generation after another. When Zhu Jianshen was in power, he couldn't even use the original East Factory and Jinyi Guard, so he set out to establish the West Factory by himself, and the great eunuch Wang Zhi served as the commander of the West Factory.
However, Wang Zhi was an unworthy person, and during his reign, in order to get promoted and make a fortune, he engaged in many unjust, false and wrongful cases, which failed Zhu Jianshen's trust.
The three spy agencies, while each of them is restricting checks and balances, is still desperately brushing up their sense of existence, and they are even doing everything they can to ask for merit and rewards, resulting in many unjust, false and wrongful cases.
Xichang was almost played by Wang Zhi, he used the platform of Xichang to get promoted and make a fortune, brutalized his colleagues, and caused a lot of unjust, false and wrongful cases, not to mention, after the expansion of power, the emperor felt frightened.
Very simply, the West Factory lived intermittently for more than five years, and after Wang Zhi was overthrown, the West Factory was also disbanded.
The emperors of the old Zhu family, I don't know why, they all got into the circle of the secret service agency and couldn't get out. In the Zhengde period, the great eunuch Liu Jin began to take power again, and the eunuch power revived.
In 1506, the West Factory reopened for business, with Gu Dayong as the admiral, and was incorporated into Liu Jin's command. Although the East Factory and the West Factory were all under Liu Jin's management, Liu Jin also failed to manage the East Factory and the West Factory well, and the two departments hindered each other.
In fact, this matter is easy to figure out, even the emperor can't manage these spy agencies properly, how can the eunuch Liu Jin do it?
As a result, Liu Jin couldn't coordinate the East Factory and the West Factory, so he began to make noise about the formation of a more powerful spy agency, the insider factory, and just looking at the name felt domineering and exposed.
The great eunuch Liu Jin, since he has achieved the position of the chief manager, he has to think about two things. The first is to take the opportunity to chase fame and fortune. The second is to solve practical problems for the emperor.
Since you have to do these two things, no one is fundamentally good, originally the East Factory and the West Factory have been fighting infighting, and Liu Jin is quite handy.
Obviously, Liu Jin set up an "insider factory" in order to be able to have people who can command him. The establishment of the expert factory is similar to the original East Factory and West Factory Jinyiwei, but in terms of terms of terms of reference, it kills the East Factory and the West Factory Jinyiwei.
They have a greater scope of power, and together with the East Factory and the West Factory, Jinyi and Wei, they are within the scope of inspection of the expert factory.
At that time, the imperial power was on the sidelines, and there was a long-term tug-of-war relationship between the emperor and the cabinet, and Zhu Houzhao began to support Liu Jin to set up an insider factory in order to break this balance.
Its ultimate goal is to use the insider factory as a "-stirring stick", break the balance between each other, and finally take the opportunity to take power. According to the records of "History of the Ming Dynasty", under the leadership of Liu Jin, the insider factory is a group of people who do all kinds of evil.
Insiders often blatantly plant their eyes on whom they want to sanction, and often arrest court officials on trumped-up charges, including members of the East and West Factories and Jinyiwei.
Liu Jin originally had contradictions with the leaders of the East Factory, the West Factory and the Jinyi Guard, and while cleaning up the court officials, he did not forget to take the opportunity to attack the East Factory, the West Factory and the Jinyi Guard.
According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", the insider factory is more unique in terms of torture, and a eunuch in Dongchang, who once scolded Liu Jin, was sentenced to "washing and scrubbing" by the insider factory, and died of pain after the skin was opened.
Legend has it that if they met several people who had committed the same crime, they were able to set different punishments to torture them, and they were not the same from beginning to end.
Even the East and West Factories, which have long been notorious, try to avoid the insider factories as much as possible, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.
Although the power and cruelty of the insider factory surpasses that of the East Factory and the West Factory, its popularity is not high, so that many people have not heard of it now.
Although the insider factory was very prosperous, it, like other organizations, could not be prosperous for a long time, only jumped for five years, with the fall of Liu Jin, the insider factory was also banned and disappeared in the torrent of history.