Jinyiwei is a unique organization of the Ming Dynasty, which was originally independent and managed by the emperor alone.

According to all recorded historical records, there are several theories about the production of Jinyiwei. First, war orphans say.

It is said that a large number of people were lost at that time, and many children were orphaned due to war and famine.

The kind and caring Queen Ma couldn't bear to see these children fend for themselves like this, so she took them in without telling her husband Zhu Yuanzhang.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet become the emperor and had no territory. For the sake of these children, Queen Ma was frugal, and all her efforts were spent on these children.

The children also treated Queen Ma as their own mother, and vowed to repay Queen Ma.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, some generals were already in harmony with Zhu Yuanzhang, and some even tried to overthrow the newly established Ming Dynasty and replace him as emperor.

For the sake of her husband and for the sake of no more turmoil in the world, Queen Ma summoned the children who had grown up and asked them to secretly go out and kill the ministers with bad intentions.

At the same time, monitor and watch over some unstable ministers, and once these people are ready to join forces, all crises will be nipped in the bud on the spot.

After Queen Ma's death, Zhu Yuanzhang learned about this organization and felt that this organization was very good, so he kept it.

The second version is that of the descendants of the martyrs. It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang joined the Red Turban Army, he used his personal charm to gather a large number of brothers in life and death.

At that time, most of the brothers did not have a family, and joined the army with the mentality of seeking wealth and wealth in danger. Their idea is very simple, either they succeed and make a fortune in the future and enjoy wealth, or they fail to land on the ground, and it is a big deal to come back in eighteen years.

In order to control and please everyone, Zhu Yuanzhang united with his newly married wife Ma Xiuying to arrange the marriage for everyone.

Whenever there is a gap between wars, or when there is time, one or two old subordinates will get married. If these people have wives, they will not leave Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang took his brothers to kill the enemy on the front line, and Ma Xiuying took the ladies to do logistics for her husbands in the rear.

As one by one the old subordinates died in battle, the children of these old subordinates became fatherless children. Some of the children's mothers left for a living, and some of the children's mothers married their husband's comrades-in-arms under Ma Xiuying's introduction.

The children gradually gathered together, and they were usually taken care of by Ma Xiuying. Zhu Yuanzhang also taught some military knowledge to the children when he was free, and in his opinion, these children were the most trustworthy soldiers.

Gradually, the children grew up, and some of them threw themselves into the battlefield and became little generals. But more children are missing, and outsiders don't know where they have gone.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang arranged them on the secret front, and some of them became businessmen and did intelligence gathering work in enemy-occupied areas.

Some stayed in the army, using various identities as a cover, spying on some generals that Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe.

Some simply became ordinary people, mixing in the common people to find out the people's views on the Ming army. If someone instigates everyone, or says something unfavorable to Zhu Yuanzhang, they will do it unconsciously.

Later, after Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, he continued to use these people. and trained their descendants to become a secret armed force controlled by Zhu Yuanzhang alone.

Knowing that Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang was in his later years, everyone knew that there was such a mysterious organization. At that time, the Jinyi Guard was already very perfect, and the personnel had grown to the point that it could become an army of its own.

Zhu Yuanzhang classified them as a guard station, and their leader officially became a government official who could get on the stage, and the rank of the commander was not high, but the real power of the commander of the Jinyi Guard should not be underestimated.

The third type of war criminal said. It is said that the predecessor of Jinyiwei was the death squad, that is, a group of prisoners who were supposed to die.

At that time, when the warlords were separating, Zhu Yuanzhang was just a small force in the south. He not only had to deal with the Mongols in the north, but also had to grab territory with Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and others.

At that time, due to war and famine, public order was particularly bad in various places, and there were murders and arsons everywhere, and looting was almost non-stop.

Zhu Yuanzhang's army was relatively well-behaved, not only did not bully the common people, but also often helped the local people.

Zhu Yuanzhang once ordered that all soldiers under his command rob or seize the property of the common people will be killed on the spot.

But as the number of soldiers in the army increases, there are always those who dare to take risks. Some soldiers who committed crimes, and some local ruffians and hooligans were gathered, and they were killed together in order to make an example.

This kind of thing was often seen at the time, and every time it happened, the place would be quiet for a while, but soon after the same thing would happen again.

Once Zhu Yuanzhang personally supervised the beheading, killing a group of soldiers who did ridiculous things because they were drunk.

Because they won a big battle, the soldiers drank too much, and several people actually bullied a girl.

The common people sued them to Zhu Yuanzhang's wife, Ma Xiuying, who mercilessly arrested the soldiers and announced that they would be executed immediately.

Zhu Yuanzhang just came back, he didn't stop his wife, he knew that Ma Xiuying did nothing wrong. The black sheep of the herd is very harmful, and it will cause a large number of ordinary people to deviate from themselves, and it will be too late to regret it.

In order to show that he attached importance to this matter, Zhu Yuanzhang personally supervised the beheading. Unexpectedly, a soldier who was about to be beheaded begged Zhu Yuanzhang to grant him a request.

This soldier followed Zhu Yuanzhang at the age of eighteen and struggled on the battlefield for many years. He asked Zhu Yuanzhang to let him die on the battlefield and finally do something for everyone.

When the soldier said this, the other soldiers said the same thing, even some of the hooligans who were going to be beheaded together.

Zhu Yuanzhang held a try-and-see mentality, organized these death row prisoners into a death squad, let them rush to the front, and instructed the other soldiers to kill them on the spot if they wanted to escape or betray.

Almost half of these condemned prisoners died in a battle, and the credit for their death was particularly great, and they almost all killed the enemy with the determination to die.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who discovered this benefit, was secretly overjoyed and secretly went to the cell to test everyone. Unexpectedly, the vast majority of criminals are willing to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

These people are not bad breeds, they all committed things because of the impulse, and these people already regret it.

When they heard that once they were on the battlefield, as long as they dared to fight with the enemy, they would be exempted from death if they killed one enemy, two enemies would be spared from imprisonment, and three enemies would be directly exempted from crime, and everyone sat up.

When Zhu Yuanzhang promised everyone that the more enemies they killed, the greater the reward, and even solved their future life problems, almost all the criminals stood up.

These criminals have been transformed into death squads, rushing to the forefront of the war. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang still used this method to gather some death row prisoners and felons, brainwash them together and train them, and turn them into slaves who finally left him alone.

Because these people had bad records in the past, they were not valued by outsiders, and they couldn't live a stable life, so they had to work hard for Zhu Yuanzhang in order to survive.

Gradually, these hooligans, murderers, family members of traitors, and others have played an unexpected role, using some means that cannot be put on the table, and have completed one impossible task after another.

Zhu Yuanzhang not only made use of their specialties, but also asked them to hand over all their specialties to more people without reservation.

Gradually, a mysterious and unpredictable organization was formed. They are like a pair of invisible eyes, watching everyone at all times.

It's more like a human shadow, looming behind everyone. At one time, several ministers played mahjong together, and while playing mahjong, they discussed the government.

There was a missing whiteboard, and everyone didn't care at the time. Unexpectedly, when he went to court the next day, Zhu Yuanzhang took out the missing whiteboard on the spot, which scared the ministers so much that they almost didn't have a heart attack on the spot.

From then on, these ministers not only did not dare to discuss the government in private, but also did not even dare to play mahjong together.

It can be seen that these brocade guards are powerful, and it can also be seen that they are capable and careful. Since the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di was in his old age, he ordered a part of the people from Jinyiwei to set up the Dongchang supervised by his cronies and eunuchs.

Jin Yiwei's power gradually decreased, and soon became a yamen controlled by eunuchs, a close confidant of the emperor.

Although the Jinyiwei brand is old and has a deep foundation, there is no scenery of the East Factory. Because the commander of the Jinyi Guard asked to see the emperor, he had to report through the eunuch and get the emperor's permission before he could meet the emperor.

However, the person in charge of the East Factory was a eunuch himself, and he was the eunuch closest to the emperor. They didn't need to report when they went in and out of the emperor's side, and of course they were more favored by the emperor than Jinyiwei.

Therefore, the contradictions between Jinyiwei and Dongchang continued, but no large-scale incidents occurred. This balance was completely broken in the early years of the reign of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.

But Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu belongs to an emperor who has no foundation, whether it is the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant or the commander of Dongchang, he is not the person of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.

These people did not fully treat the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi as their master, at least not fully dedicate their loyalty.

For this reason, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi had no choice but to divide it and use his confidant Lu Fang to control the eunuchs. But Lu Fang's age and qualifications are not enough, so he can't be the celebrant and the eunuch in charge of the seal, nor can he be the commander of the East Factory.

Besides, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi couldn't do without Lu Fang, and he felt that the eunuchs and palace maids around him were not credible.

So he had to arrange another cronie, Lu Bing, to be the commander of Jinyiwei, and acquiesced to Lu Bing's strength to strengthen Jinyiwei, and if necessary, he could compete with the people in Dongchang.

In the palace, Lu Fang was used to contain the eunuchs who were the eunuchs of the master of ceremonies at that time, and Lu Bing was used to balance the eunuchs of Dongchang outside, giving Emperor Zhu Houxi the opportunity to stabilize the overall situation.

From now on, but Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi made the right move, and he did it well. In less than ten years, Lu Bing not only controlled and strengthened Jinyiwei, but also made no one dare to underestimate Jinyiwei.

Lu Fang even squeezed out the eunuch who was the master of ceremonies and became a ******** himself. The rear is stable, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu can finally deal with the ministers in the court, and those who go against Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu and do not listen to Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu's greetings are either imprisoned or relegated to the local area, and some people are forced to return to their hometowns.

Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi only took 12 years to become an emperor who completely controlled everything from an outsider who was nothing, the lucky person who ascended the throne as the emperor with the so-called paper order, and I have to say that he has a certain ability.

Of course, the credit of Lu Bing and Lu Fang is also very large, outsiders may not know, but Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi himself knows very well.