Dongchang, known as Sè Change, is the largest spy agency in history.

Whether you know the history of the Ming Dynasty or the history of the Ming Dynasty, the word "Dongchang" is really like thunder, or it is known in the streets and alleys.

Thanks to the portrayal of Gonggong Cao and the four stalls in "New Dragon Gate Inn", Shi Dayong instinctively panicked about the sudden visit of Dongchang, and subconsciously thought that the matter of killing Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou had been leaked, and Dongchang had come to take him.

But Cao Bianjiao and Jiang Wanli and others on the side were not afraid of the gods at all, but showed disdain on their faces, Cao Bianjiao was even more arrogant to take the driving sticker from Dongchang, and threw it on the table without looking at it, and shouted at the people in a loud voice: "You people from Dongchang don't stay in Beijing, what are you doing in Tongzhou?" Aren't you afraid of punishment? (Author's note: The driving sticker, that is, the arrest warrant, is also used as a business card.) ）

Is Cao crazy?

Cao Bianjiao's arrogance scared Shi Dayong out of goosebumps, and secretly said that Xiao Cao really didn't know anything, can the people in Dongchang be offended casually? What's more, the people of Dongchang are densely spread all over the country, and even North Korea and Jiaozhi vassal countries also have their own Dongchang institutions, so how can there be a saying that they will go out of Beijing to bear the blame. Xiao Cao is talking to the people of Dongchang like this, it's too much... Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. They Dongchang are the closest people to the Son of Heaven, if they offend them, can they have good fruits to eat!

Hades is good, but the east factory is difficult to grind.

The fate of offending Dongchang, Shi Dayong's scalp was numb when he thought about it. With a mouth, you have to accompany the smiling face and make amends to the visitor. I don't want the three people from Dongchang to be angry at all, but they are still cheeky and laughing there, where is the slightest bit of majesty.

Did the sun come out in the west? When did Dongchang become so good at talking? Shi Dayong was puzzled, and he intuitively felt that this thing was strange.

The Dongchang Fanzi led by is a middle-aged man, his appearance is very ordinary, he belongs to the type that will not be remembered at a glance when he is put in the crowd, and there is even a little shame in his eyes, like a child who has done something wrong. Regarding Cao Bianjiao's rudeness, he and the two sons behind him directly ignored it, and did not answer, only bent on finding the right master, so he asked very politely: "May I ask which one is General Shi?" "It's a bit too polite, and it's best to describe it in a low voice.

It's late, I'll be in Tongzhou tonight, and I'll just enter Beijing tomorrow, so Shi Dayong and his subordinates have changed into civilian clothes, originally to find a restaurant to eat and drink, so the people in Dongchang can't tell which one is Jinzhou General Shi Dayong from the clothing. There are a lot of martial artists in front of him, although he thinks that most of the people wearing copper masks are Shi Dayong, but he is not very sure, so he can only ask first, so as not to recognize the wrong person and miss the big thing of Gonggong Cao.

"The last general is Shi Dayong, dare to ask why his father-in-law came?"

Shi Dayong didn't dare to be as presumptuous as Cao Bianjiao, and cautiously made a series of words and deeds at the other party, his words and deeds were very respectful, and when he saw them, all his subordinates on the side didn't think so, even the three Dongchang fans were surprised, as if they were flattered.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." In a hurry to return the salute, this series almost bowed to the ground, and then raised his head, and glanced at the driving sticker on the table with some embarrassment, and stopped talking.

Shi Dayong came to his senses, hurriedly picked up the driving sticker, opened it and looked at it, and was immediately shocked, it turned out that the middle-aged man in front of him who was not good-looking turned out to be Jia Hong, the commander of the East Factory.

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The full name of the East Factory is the East Investigation Factory, in addition to the admiral eunuchs commonly known as "Factory Gong" and "Governor Gong", it is in charge of punishing thousands of households and punishing thousands of households, in other words, this Jia Hong is the third in command of Dongchang.

The third-in-command of the dignified East Factory deigned to come to see him, a little general, and he was so respectful, without half of his majesty, and even with the meaning of stammering, which made Shi Dayong stunned for dozens of seconds, and the second monk was puzzled.

I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out at all, it's completely the bull's head and the horse's mouth!

Could it be that all kinds of records about Dongchang in later generations are nonsense, and are the legends about those fathers-in-law attached to them by later generations? Could it be that the rampant domineering of the East Factory is all framed and framed, and the sewage poured is not successful! Otherwise, why would he have seen such a low-voiced third-in-command of the East Factory?!

Shi Dayong didn't think that Jia Hong and the others were respectful to him because he was a hero of Jinzhou's great victory, because he knew that the Dongchang of Ludao was a spy agency that didn't even pay attention to the first assistant.

What was happening in front of him was completely different from his cognition, far beyond Shi Dayong's cognition, and was already beyond his own consciousness that he could not understand.

However, Cao Bianjiao, Jiang Wanli, and Shao Wu understand one by one, they don't take this Dongchang punishment of thousands of households Jia Hong in their eyes at all, because they know that the current Dongchang is not the Dongchang of the past!

The reason for the respect of the three of Jia Hong is only that they no longer have the power they used to have, and the factory guard building has collapsed four years ago!

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In the time and space of Shi Dayong's previous life, when it came to the Ming Dynasty, almost everyone was scolding the factory guard, it can be said that in the Ming generation, the factory guard was the most frightening and the most criticized, so that many people blamed the reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty on the rule of spies and the factory guard. [ ] In fact, however, this is not the case at all.

The reason why the factory guards left a reputation for eternity is that the Manchu Qing Dynasty slandered the factory guards in order to achieve ulterior motives!

What does Jinyiwei and Dongchang do?

In later generations, everyone was following the thinking of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and scolding Jinyiwei for being bad and Dongchang for being bad, but they didn't even understand the essence of Jinyiwei and Dongchang!

Jinyiwei is an institution that supervises hundreds of officials, spies on the movements of hundreds of officials for the emperor, investigates whether there is corruption and rebellion among hundreds of officials, and of course it is also an institution to protect the emperor, which is equivalent to the National Security Bureau and Anti-Corruption Bureau in later generations.

Is such an institution good or bad? Self-explanatory.

For officials, the existence of Jinyiwei is really bad, and it is best not to have it, but for the people and the country, the existence of Jinyiwei is too important and good, the so-called peace of the country and the blessing of the people.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei never carried out a single suppression mission on the people, and their task was to target hundreds of officials.

The establishment of the East Factory can be said to be the most special and practical innovation of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to prevent Jinyiwei from being co-opted and corrupted by courtiers, Ming Chengzu established the East Factory, and the objects of supervision in the East Factory were in addition to the hundred officials and Jinyiwei.

However, the East Factory does not have the right to enforce the law, so it is often necessary to cooperate with the Jinyi Guard, so the world has always associated the two together, collectively known as the "Factory Guard"

It can be said that the existence of the factory guard is the suppression of the official group, and their existence has shocked the official group to a large extent and ensured the interests of the people.

The survival of a dynasty lies in the economic foundation and political foundation, the people of the Ming Dynasty were very rich, and the records of many Western missionaries can prove it, but for what the people were rich turned into the financial bankruptcy of the Ming Dynasty, and the people became the country's poverty, which is a problem with the political foundation.

The most important thing in politics lies in the balance of power, and at the same time, there must be a supervision and feedback mechanism in place, which are the basic elements of scientific management.

The Chongzhen period was completely unbalanced in these two points, the minister could kill the generals, the emperor could not get the truth, and the emperor's orders were often not implemented, and the specific facts can be said from Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong, Chongzhen and a certain Shoufu: "What I want to do you don't want to do, I don't think it's appropriate to do what you want to do." ”

Including the edict: "Hundreds of officials mistakenly die." ”

This clearly illustrates the two major elements of the management of the Chongzhen Dynasty, balance and supervision, after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the contribution of the officials of the Chongzhen Dynasty can be seen that these officials have accumulated a lot of money for corruption! These riches were accumulated by them without supervision at all, and they were greedily accumulated under the premise of sacrificing zhōngyāngzhèngfǔ and forcing the people to rebel!

Chongzhen is very frugal, but why would an official embezzle so much? The reason is simple - power without oversight is necessarily **.

The world is Chongzhen's, of course Chongzhen will not embezzle his own family, but officials are different!

There is no Son of Heaven or a country in their eyes, they only have themselves in their eyes.

If the power of the factory guards still exists, do these officials dare to embezzle so unscrupulously?

The answer, I'm afraid everyone understands

During the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the factory guards faithfully performed their duties and ensured the smooth operation of the Ming Dynasty.

But all this was disrupted after Chongzhen took power, and Chongzhen brought down Wei Zhongxian and also brought down the factory guard.

This consequence will be placed in future generations, just as the president of the procuratorate and the director of the anti-corruption bureau were also corrupt, and while punishing them, zhōngyāng also abolished the procuratorate and the anti-corruption bureau!

After Wei Zhongxian's death, under the "initiative and praise" of the Donglin Party in the Manchu Dynasty, Chongzhen reduced the powers and responsibilities of the factory guards, and Jinyiwei even directly degenerated into the emperor's bodyguard, fulfilling his most basic duty - the general of the Han Dynasty, standing on the temple like an ornament. Sometimes he was also sent to protect a certain civil official who went out to patrol (out of town), such as Zhang out of the customs, and there were brocade guards such as Dong Kaiguo to protect him.

Dongchang was even more pressed by the civil officials to the point that only a dilapidated yamen remained, and even the fans couldn't even get out of the capital.

Without the help of the factory guards, Chongzhen naturally can't control the hundred officials, and his own policy can't be implemented, in this regard, he tried to get out of the predicament by constantly replacing the first assistant, but the position determines the action, and the original obedient officials are not the same thing when they are put on the cabinet first assistant, so Chongzhen's behavior of constantly replacing the first assistant will inevitably end in failure.

Without the eyes, ears and hands and feet, the imperial power could not control the hundred officials at all, so the hundred officials became the spokesmen of the business group, the richest people did not have to pay taxes or paid very little taxes, and the poorest peasants had to bear the main taxes of the whole country, in this case, the finances of the Ming Dynasty naturally went bankrupt.

Wisdom governs things, governs people with wisdom, and governs the law wisely

The weakening of the factory guard further accelerated the pace of the demise of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent. No one knows all this, Shi Dayong doesn't know the way, Jiang Wanli, Cao Bianjiao and they don't know the way.

Frankly speaking, Cao Bianjiao hated Dongchang, and the downfall of Dongchang was something they were happy to see, so Cao Bianjiao treated Jia Hong unceremoniously and had to kick the other party out.

Shi Dayong didn't know that the Dongchang of Ludao was no longer the Dongchang of the year, and the owner of the body was really a dog butcher, too stupid about what happened in the court, and had no keen sense of smell, so he couldn't provide the latter owner with some opinions with reference.

In addition to doubts, he was still puzzled, and under doubts, he was eager to know the purpose of Jia Hong's visit, and after signaling Shao Wu to arrange for someone to serve tea, he politely invited Jia Hong and the three of them to take a seat, and asked with a smile: "I don't know what Jia Qianhu is looking for the last general?" ”

After the death of Father-in-law Wei, Jia Hong was the first time to see a military general who was so respectful to Dongchang, he could see that the other party really respected him, and he was not pretentious at all, which couldn't help but warm his heart much warmer, and after glancing at Cao Bianjiao and them, he coughed lightly, which meant that there were many people and it was not easy to speak.

Shi Dayong hurriedly waved his hand to his subordinates and ordered, "You all go down." ”

Cao changed his mouth quickly, seeing that Shi Dayong was still so polite to the broken settlement of the East Factory, he was a little angry, and shouted: "General, it is important to eat and drink" Before he finished speaking, he was pulled by Jiang Wanli, and the rest of the words had to be swallowed.

Jiang Wanli is not as reckless as Cao Bianjiao, although he doesn't disdain Dongchang, but when the other party comes to see the general, he thinks that it is something important, and it is better to let the general know. They glanced at Li Dashan, and then dragged Cao Bianjiao out of the alley.

After everyone went down, Jia Hong was a little embarrassed, glanced at Shi Dayong, squeezed out a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said: "It's not that our family wants to find a general, it's my family that has something to ask for a general." ”

Our family?

Hearing this title, Shi Dayong was stunned again: What, this Jia Hong is a father-in-law?

Instinctively, he looked at the other party again, and this careful look, through the light shè, only to find that the other party really didn't have a beard, and he was indeed a father-in-law!