Although I myself am also a eunuch of the inner court, I must confess that the reputation of the eunuchs of the inner court is not good. The so-called "the second son of the royal family is a scholar, the second son of a scholar is a commoner, the second son of a commoner is a pariah, and the second son of a pariah is a eunuch", the eunuch is simply inferior to a pig and a dog. Although the eunuchs of the inner court were all superior people, this did not hinder people's feelings.

In theaters, hotels, and even flyovers in Chang'an and Xi'an counties, people always treat us as laughing stock.

For example, when a restaurant storyteller performs, he always says: "Don't talk about state affairs, be careful of eunuchs." Isn't there in the Secret Service? Raise your hand if you are there! Very good, no one raised their hands, the eunuchs are not there, then let's talk about Xiao Lizi entering the cave room. People burst into laughter.

For example, the theater's commentaries are: "Twenty years ago, the eunuch party rebelled. The eighth prince entered the king of Jingqin, and the eight permanent servants fled to Shandong with the emperor Zhaoqian. Words ......"

It's not that the inner court is not fierce, and it's not that the inner court can't punish them, but the inner court seems to think so too - they think they are the "white faces" of "red faces and white faces". Another reason is that although there are tens of millions of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, the high-ranking officials of the inner court are only a few thousand people in the palace, and if you count the magistrates, there are only 10,000 people, so you can't manage them. In fact, the policy of the inner court is: you can say whatever you like, you can't move anyway, and the system of the Ming Dynasty can't change at all anyway.

In fact, if you say that a person is bad, it means that he is not bad, because you can also say that he is bad, if a person is so bad that you can't say that he is bad, he is really bad - even if a person is bad to the extreme, you have to praise him every day for always being right, always great, and always glorious!

When the factory guards rose, our reputation seemed to have deteriorated, and people always laughed at the eunuchs in public, and began to mention the eunuchs in private - in fact, the factory guards.

At night, when the child cries and does not sleep, the mother will say in the child's ear: "If you cry again, Jinyiwei will come to eat you!" The child immediately stopped crying. But if you say, "If you cry again, the eunuch is coming." The boy immediately turned from crying to laughter, and he thought that the eunuch was acting.

The "Jinyi Guard" and "Eunuch" in people's mouths mean the same thing, they think that the Jinyi Guards are all eunuchs, and the eunuchs are all Jinyi Guards - but, damn it, the Jinyi Guards are all children of the scholar clan, not even a single eunuch! This newly established Jinyiwei has nothing to do with the previous Jinyiwei!

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The brocade guard was finally established, and it quickly became everyone's nightmare.

It was an institution directly under the emperor, composed entirely of noblemen and trained by the inner court and the forbidden army. Those inner court and forbidden army belong to unknown, maybe they are loyal to the emperor, maybe they are loyal to the senate, maybe they are loyal to the prime minister and the foreign court, maybe they are spies in the inner court, maybe they are multiple spies, who knows!

At first, the commander of the Jinyi Guard was concurrently served by the prime minister Li Guozhong, who was only responsible to the emperor. It is divided into nine guards, each with 10,000 people, of which the pro-army guards are responsible for the emperor's security together with the emperor's guards and forbidden troops, and the remaining eight guards are responsible for monitoring the capital and local ministers.

Although the official establishment of each guard is 10,000 people, the temporary establishment is indeed unlimited! In other words, Jinyiwei can be expanded at will!

As for the East and West Factory, it was just built as a shelf, and it had no actual function. However, their shelves are really not small, the West Factory is in charge of Gyeonggi intelligence and operations, and the West Factory is responsible for the intelligence and operations of the provinces, and there are 100,000 officials in the two factories alone (of course, they are still on paper). Correspondingly, there are only 100 officials in the Secret Division, 500 officers, 200 officials in the Intelligence Division, and 20,000 officials.

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I went to the Jinyiwei headquarters for a while.

Jinyiwei's headquarters is a building near the Prime Minister's Mansion, which is also a nine-story model building, and there are thousands of identical buildings in Chang'an.

The entire staircase was painted in yellow and cyan hues. Yellow represents the emperor, and cyan represents the outer court, which indicates that the Jinyi guard has nothing to do with the inner court.

In my impression, the ancient Jinyi guards were all eunuchs, and the current Jinyi guards are actually handsome and chic children of the scholar clan.

There are red banners hanging on the building, which read: "The Royal Household Department congratulates the rebuilding of the Jinyiwei", "The Royal Ministry of Ceremonies congratulates the reconstruction of the Jinyiwei", "The Prime Minister's Office congratulates the reconstruction of the Jinyiwei", "The Royal Military Department congratulates the reconstruction of the Jinyiwei", "The Royal Sacrifice House congratulates the reconstruction of the Jinyiwei", "The Royal Army congratulates the reconstruction of the Jinyiwei", etc., these dozens of banners blocked the windows of the Jinyiwei headquarters, so they all turned on the lights during the day. However, after careful identification, there was no congratulatory banner from Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court.

The entrance of the headquarters was full of crumbs of firecrackers, and people from various departments in Chang'an came in and out, perhaps to contact feelings, or to investigate. Of course I belong to the latter.

At the door stood a row of young people, in their teens or early twenties, all dressed in flying fish suits, wearing embroidered spring knives at their waists, and wingless black gauze hats. At first glance, it looks exactly the same as the Jinyiwei of the First Ming Dynasty in the play, but our Ming Dynasty has nothing to do with the First Ming Dynasty more than 10,000 years ago, and our surname Zhu and other people's surnames Zhu have no blood at all! Each of our surnames was originally chosen randomly, just like the first emperor Zhu Zhao gave birth to a hundred children, and in the end only one son was surnamed Zhu, and all the others changed their surnames.

I bowed to them, and they returned the salute.

It's really magnificent in the hall on the first floor.

On the left is a pile of torture instruments, including a dog's head, a broken waist, an iron virgin, a dismemberment chair, a Ling Chi case, a pig cage, and I don't even know the rest.

On the right are fourteen big characters: "Don't wronged a good person, don't let go of a bad person".

People always focus on the last half of the sentence, so "not letting go of a bad person" is their purpose. It's easy to do that, just kill everyone, for better or worse - in fact, they do the same.

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I continued to walk inside, and a voice called out, "Dongfang Pony! Oriental foal! ”

As soon as I looked, Dongfang Yongyi ran over.

He has a beard, is also wearing a flying fish suit, an embroidered spring knife in his hand, and a wingless black gauze hat on his head. He was much more mature than he was four years ago, half a head taller than me, and his eyebrows reminded me of his sister.

He patted me on the shoulder and said, "I thought someone was coming, it turned out to be an acquaintance!" ”

I looked at his epaulettes and said, "Wow, Captain! You've just graduated and you're a captain. ”

He looked at the epaulettes of my colonel and said, "Are you laughing at me?" ”

Only then did he remember that I was a colonel of the Forbidden Army, and I was many ranks higher than the lieutenant of the brocade guard.

He immediately saluted me.

I smiled and said, "Don't come to this set anymore." By the way, how did you come to be a brocade guard? ”

He said: "The Minister of War recruited him directly from the Imperial University. Originally, we all thought that we were the unluckiest graduates, because the Royal Army has been so humiliating over the years, and we have no future in it. But at the graduation ceremony a few days ago, Sun Haomiao, the minister of the military department, suddenly appeared and said that he wanted to rebuild the factory guard, and everyone came over! ”

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I was talking to him when a person next to me walked over - Lu Chengzhi!

Lu Chengzhi is short in stature, has a square face, and has many scars on his face, but he looks very temperamental. He was dressed similarly to Dongfang Yongyi, but his clothes were trimmed with gold and a pistol was pinned to his waist. This guy has obviously become a high-ranking official of Jinyiwei.

Me: "Haha, you're here again." ”

Dongfang Yongyi: "Teacher Lu is the deputy commander of Jinyiwei. ”

Me: "Wow, you're so unrelenting. ”

Lu Chengzhi looked at me: "Dongfang Ju, colonel of the forbidden army, deputy governor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and director of the harem, a scholar of the Dongfang family in Liangzhou, a native of the Central Plains. ”

I said, "It's just mixed rice." ”

Lu Chengzhi: "What are you doing here?" Is it also on behalf of the chief steward to congratulate? ”

Me: "I'm here to inspect on behalf of the Governor and give you some advice." ”

He laughed: "Then mention it! ”

Me: "I heard that at night the mother called the child to come home, and they all said: 'Hurry home, it's getting dark, Jinyiwei has eaten you!'" ’”

He smiled and said, "That means we're not bad." What do you think? ”

Me: "Making others afraid of you and only caring about temporary silence is the worst way to rule, and you actually say it's not bad!" ”

He blinked his eyelids and asked me, "Tell me what you think." ”

Me: "The worst way to control a person is to force it, as you do now." You arrest people, and others scold you behind your backs, but you have to give in. The medium way is to control. Whatever you want your subjects to do, they can do. They restrain themselves, they catch themselves. The best way is to rule by homeopathy, to change their humanity or even to erase it. Just like tables and chairs, you don't have to worry about tables and chairs rebelling against you, right? ”

He frowned and said, "What do you think of yourself, or what the inner court does?" ”

Me: "Neither, it's written in the Book of Rule." ”

He shouted: "The first banned book of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Me: "Yes, we forbid it, forbid you to see it, only for us to see it." ”

Him: "How did you do this?" ”

I pouted, "Trust me, we didn't do anything. We ate mixed rice, trust me, really. ”

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Lu Chengzhi looked into my eyes and said, "There are many forbidden soldiers and imperial officials in the inner court who have come to us, are you interested in coming?" ”

Me: "You know our rules, everything is up to Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court." But I wonder how you persuaded those people to come to you, and how are you going to convince me? ”

He: "I will first bring a few high-ranking imperial officials to meet them and tell them that we already have a lot of forbidden troops and imperial officials. ”

Me: "First of all, take advantage of people's herd mentality, which is good. However, you are talking about the emperor's imperial eunuchs and royal pro-army, and those are not the core of the inner court. ”

Him: "How do they know?" I also told them that the future is unpredictable, life is unpredictable, and who knows which faction will lose power that day, so it is necessary to have wine today and get drunk tomorrow. Instead of being a petty official in the inner court and the forbidden army for a lifetime, it is better to join the newly established Jinyiwei and develop together. ”

Me: "Take advantage of people's greed." Very good. ”

He: "I also found the people of the Senate, the real Senate, and told them that the Senate is much more powerful than the Inner Court, and the head of the Inner Court is promoted to become a member of the Senate." I told them that the Senate had turned in favor of the emperor and the outer courts, and had begun to deal with Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court. These people had heard of these things more or less, so they no longer had any doubts, and from then on they followed Jinyi Wei with all their hearts. ”

Me: "Introduce more authoritative and powerful forces." Not bad. ”

Him: "I don't know if I can convince you?" ”

Me: "I'm thinking about it." ”

He smiled and said: "The road is easy to walk when there are more friends, whether we are colleagues or not, we are also friends!" ”

I smiled and said, "yes, I have a lot of friends, too." ”

Him: "Let me show you around the headquarters." ”

Me: "It's better to be respectful than to obey!" ”

He took me around the Jinyiwei headquarters.

Even though I just took a look at their headquarters, I must admit: they are much more formal than the Secret Service and the Intelligence Service.

On the first floor is the Jinyi Guard Prison, which is responsible for detention and interrogation.

The first floor is the lobby, which is responsible for the reception.

On the second floor is the conference room, where a meeting is taking place.

On the third floor is the Personnel Division, which manages all the officials and officials.

On the fourth floor is the Training Section, which is responsible for the training of all new officials.

On the fifth floor is the Reconnaissance Section, which is responsible for intelligence investigations.

On the sixth floor was the Weapons Section, which was responsible for the development and manufacture of weapons, and I even saw heavy machine guns inside.

On the seventh floor is the Intelligence Section, and I actually saw a telegraph in it!

On the eighth floor is the office, where officials work. The ninth floor is the library with a large number of banned books.

After reading it, I thought to myself, no wonder there is competition to be motivated.

With this formation, it is a matter of minutes for Jinyi Wei to catch up with the two places!

It's time for us to prepare.