Last time, I said that the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards the grassland has always been to fight if you can, and to bribe with money if you can't fight.

"The holy decree has arrived - Maitreya is born, and King Ming is born! The emperor of Fengtian carried the edict and said: Yuan Chonghuan was ordered to be the 'generalissimo of the conquest', and from now on, he led his generals and soldiers and horses from all walks of life to march westward to sweep the desert grassland, and anyone who disobeyed the king would be killed! In addition, I have ordered that the garrisons of the 'Nine Border Towns' should listen to the dispatch of the 'Generalissimo of the Expedition'! There are those who dare to disobey, and the sword of Shang Fang is waiting! Chin this! ————: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

In the spring of March, the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River are already full of greenery, but they are still bitterly cold in Liaodi. However, because the generals of the Ming army had already placed the Jurchen tribes in Liaodi, they were extremely excited after receiving the emperor's edict, but they wondered why they added "Maitreya came to the world, and the Ming king was born" at the beginning of the holy decree?

As everyone knows, this is also the reason why the "giant girl" decided to accept Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen as an apprentice when he deliberately taught him "Buddhism" as the main and "Taoism" as the supplement, after all, "Buddhism is boundless, and there is a fate for degree", and "Taoism is mysterious, immortal". Of course, there are very few people who "double cultivate Buddhism and Taoism" since ancient times.

Since Emperor Chongzhen obtained the "Jade Seal of the Country" from the carpenter, he was able to correspond the "Ming Dynasty National Fortune" with the "Heavenly Dao Cause and Effect", that is to say, the Ming Dynasty, which had exhausted its original qi, could not only seize the "luck" from the "successor" by passing on the crisis, but also hedge against the various sins he had created by artificially creating people's good thoughts, incense wishes, and immeasurable merits, and transfer them to the "Shinto Dharma Body", turning karma into power to help cultivation.

Of course, these "Shinto Dharma Bodies" are mainly "Luban Statues" and "Happy Buddha Statues", because the "Luban Statues" are the places where the younger brothers are urged to place their "doppelganger thoughts" to absorb faith, and the "Joyful Buddha Statues" are simply the "Shinto Dharma Bodies" when Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youzhen's brothers and their concubines enjoy the joy of men and women.

These "Luban Temple" and "Ming Wang Temple" are being built in the territory of the Ming Dynasty at an unprecedented speed, especially the original "ancestral hall" dedicated to the leader of the "Eunuch Party" "Wei Zhongxian" has been completely occupied by the magpie's nest. In this way, it is not only convenient for ordinary people at the bottom to bow and worship, but also convenient for collecting the power of faith.

Of course, for this reason, Emperor Chongzhen is ready to reopen the "West Factory" that has long been abolished, after all, he intends to let the "West Factory" be responsible for supervising the operation of the "Luban Temple" and "Mingwang Temple" in various places, and at the same time let the "West Factory" represent the Ming Dynasty to establish all mundane things related to "cultivators" and "supernatural people".

In this way, the power of the "West Factory" is far greater than that of the "Jinyiwei" and "East Factory", and at the same time, its members are basically from the "Xiuzhen forces" that are closely related to the Ming Dynasty royal family, such as "Lubanmen", "Tenglong Village", and "Wudang Mountain", and they are still in charge of the "green buildings", "brothels", "gambling houses", "border markets", "ports", post stations, etc. in accordance with the emperor's will. However, most of its "responsible persons" are currently from the "Qi Refining Spirit Disciples" of "Wudang Mountain", because they have the deepest background.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen also asked his master to urge his younger brother to see if he could send some "outer disciples" from the "Nanban Five Poison Sect" to help, but he was refused, because "immortals are different". However, the younger brother thinks that some women with cultivation can be seconded from the "old urging family" in Lingnan and Guangxi to visit the brothel.

Because although those women from the countryside are ugly and uneducated, they are all "fighting spirits" or even "qi refiners" among the "martial arts masters", lurking in the "green buildings" and "brothels" all over the country and pretending to be miscellaneous subordinates, and they can easily clean up some troublemakers at critical moments.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were two notorious "spy agencies", namely "Jinyiwei" and "Dongchang". However, in fact, the Ming Dynasty also had a so-called "West Factory" that was similar to the "East Factory". However, the "East Factory" and the "West Factory" are both "secret agencies" run by eunuchs (eunuchs), and like the "Jinyi Guard", they are both "secret agencies" that serve the imperial autocracy, that is, "government units", so they are combined into "factory and health secret agencies". However, there is a clear division of tasks between the three.

"Dongchang", "Xichang" and "Jinyiwei" are the Ming Dynasty emperor's "criminal department", "Duchayuan", "Dali Temple" outside the three "judicial organs" set up directly obey the emperor's orders and take charge of the "edict prison" spy agencies, with independent legislative, judicial, trial, imprisonment, punishment and other privileges, similar to the "three law division".

"Jinyi Guard" is the emperor's guard body, and its predecessor was the "Imperial Gong Guard" established by Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1369), the "Great Inner Pro-Military Governor's Office" was reestablished, and in the fifteenth year of Hongwu (1382), the "Jinyi Guard" was established as a military institution for the emperor's guards.

The leader of the "Jinyi Guard" is called the "Commander" (or "Commander Tongzhi", "Commander Servant"), and is generally held by the emperor's close confidant Wu Future, and rarely by the eunuch, so it belongs to the "foreign minister". The leaders of the "East Factory" and the "West Factory" are "eunuchs", that is, "eunuchs", who are responsible for managing the affairs of the Great Interior and are "internal ministers".

In terms of the relationship with "Jinyiwei", "Dongchang" came later. Because the "overseer" ("factory duke") of the "East Factory" had a closer relationship with the emperor and was in the palace, it was easier to gain the emperor's trust. Therefore, if the "Jinyi Guard" wants to report to the emperor and has to play a sparse performance, the "East Factory" can be directly spoken.

The emperor also gave the "Governor of Dongchang" the power to supervise the personnel of the "Jinyi Guard". Therefore, the relationship between "Dongchang" and "Jinyiwei" has gradually changed from a horizontal level to a superior-subordinate relationship. Especially in the era when the eunuchs were in power, the "Jinyi Guard Commander" even knelt and kowtowed when he saw the "Dongchang Governor".

"Xichang" only existed for a short time in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and a new "inner court institution" - "Xichang" was established during the Chenghua period of Ming Xianzong. Its power even surpasses that of its predecessor "East Factory". Although the "West Factory" was abolished only five months after its establishment, only one month later, Xianzong resumed the "West Factory".

After Ming Wuzong succeeded to the throne, the great eunuch Liu Jin took power, and the power of eunuchs rose again, so the "West Factory" was reopened. But not long after, Liu Jin fell, and Ming Wuzong ordered the abolition of the "West Factory". As a "temporary product", the "West Factory" disappeared in the history of another time and space, but it was reopened in this time and space.

The common denominator of the "East Factory", "West Factory" and "Jinyiwei" is to monitor, investigate, and suppress the illegal acts of officials, that is, "inspection and arrest", but they are also responsible for the review and surveillance of the people of the world, and everything that is not conducive to the rule of the imperial court must be eliminated, and speech that is not conducive to the emperor must be banned!

In short, out of the internal needs of the imperial autocracy, the emperor needed a force independent of the bureaucracy at his disposal. As a result, "special agencies" such as "East Factory", "West Factory" and "Jinyiwei" that specialized in serving the "imperial power" came into being, and the "business scope" became more and more extensive.

"Jinyiwei" was founded in the fifteenth year of Hongwu (1382), is a unique military and political intelligence collection agency in the Ming Dynasty, the main function is "guard of honor" and "patrol and arrest", its leader is called "Jinyi Wei Commander" (Zheng Sanpin), mostly by the emperor's cronies and generals, directly responsible to the emperor.

The "Jinyiwei" can arrest any suspected person and interrogate him in closed custody in the Imperial Prison, and the "Three Law Divisions" ("Criminal Department", "Dali Temple", and "Metropolitan Procuratorate") have no right to interrogate. "Dongchang" was founded during the reign of Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, because Zhu Di felt that compared with the "Jinyi Guard" outside the palace, the eunuchs around him were more reliable, and the eunuchs were in the palace, and the connection was more convenient and flexible than the "Jinyi Guard".

So, in December of the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), Zhu Di set up a new "secret agency" called "Dongchang Factory" (referred to as "Dongchang"), and his henchman eunuch served as the leader of Dongchang, that is, "Eunuch of Dongchang". The personnel in the factory are respectfully called "overseers" or "factory officials".

The function of the "East Factory" was to monitor various political forces such as officials, celebrities, and scholars, and had the right to report the results of the surveillance directly to the emperor. Therefore, the scope of investigation of the "East Factory" is very wide, from the imperial court to the trial of major cases, to the various yamen of the imperial court have Dongchang personnel on duty to monitor the officials' every move.

Although "Dongchang" and "Jinyiwei" belong to "parallel institutions", there is no relationship between superiors and subordinates. However, because the "East Factory" is closer to the imperial power, its authority is higher than that of the "Jinyi Guard". Especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs of the Admiral Dongchang leaned towards the government and the opposition, such as the famous Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Feng Bao, Wei Zhongxian, and Cao Huachun. Therefore, "Jinyiwei" is invisibly shorter than the "East Factory", and there is even a "Jinyiwei Commander" who takes the initiative to worship the "factory father" of the East Factory.

In the twelfth year of Chenghua of Ming Xianzong (1476 AD), there was a "demon road" called "Li Zilong" who pretended to be a ghost in the capital, and later colluded with the eunuchs, and walked around the deep palace in a grand manner, and as a result, the Chenghua Emperor was scared a lot, and felt that the "Jinyi Guard" and "Dongchang" were unreliable.

Emperor Chenghua was very suspicious, and in order to strengthen the rule of the spies, he gave his "Imperial Horse Eunuch" Wang Zhi a task. Therefore, in the thirteenth year of Chenghua (1477), a special agency called "Xiji Factory" (referred to as "Xichang") was set up near the "Lingji Palace" in the west of the Forbidden City.

The function of the "West Factory" is to investigate the words and deeds of subjects and people, and can detain and torture suspects. Soon after the establishment of the "West Factory", with the strong support of the Chenghua Emperor, it surpassed its predecessor "East Factory" in power in just a few months, and acted more and more arrogantly, even infiltrating the army.

At that time, there was a famous saying in the "West Factory": "If you can't solve the case in the East Factory, I will solve it in the West Factory; If you don't dare to kill people in the East Factory, I will kill in the West Factory; What you don't dare to take care of in the East Factory, I will take care of it in the West Factory. In a word, what you can manage in the East Factory, I can manage in the West Factory; What you can't manage in the East Factory, I have to take care of in the West Factory! Chop first, then play, imperial privilege! Later, under the strong opposition of the ministers, the "West Factory" was forced to be withdrawn. In the first year of Zhengde (1506), the west factory was reopened.

Five years later, Liu Jin, the "Eunuch of the Admiral West Factory", fell, and the "West Factory" was revoked again. In another time and space, as a short-lived "spy agency", "Xichang" only has two "admirals", namely Wang Zhi and Liu Jin. But in this time and space, the "Admiral of Xichang" is served by Wang Chengen, and the members are all "cultivators".

In addition to the "Jinyiwei", "East Factory" and "West Factory", there was also a spy agency called "Neixing Factory" in the Ming Dynasty, which was set up by the eunuch Liu Jin.

In a different time and space, in addition to supervising the subjects and people, even the "Jinyiwei", "East Factory" and "West Factory" are also in their "supervision", and their power is above that of the East and West Second Factories. However, after the fall of Liu Jin, the "insider factory" and the "western factory" were abolished at the same time, and only existed for "five years" before and after.

Although these major secret agencies of the Ming Dynasty effectively maintained and defended the supremacy of imperial power, at the same time, because of the excessive authority of these secret agencies, they often abused lynching and created countless unjust, false and wrongful cases, resulting in their very poor evaluation in the Ming Dynasty society, but there are exceptions to everything.

At the same time that Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of Chongzhen, vigorously opened the "Four Seas Pawn" of the "Daming Money Village" in all parts of the country, he also restored the "insider factory" again to manage the national financial system and supervise the financial and taxation of various localities, and the person in charge, that is, the "factory official", is still Wang Chengen, the general manager of the Da Nei, and its purpose is to "act cheaply".

Since Wang Chengen was forcibly transformed by the three sisters of the urging family and Zhu Youxiao when they first met, he suddenly found that the various "power supervisors" and "power ministers" who he had been in awe of were not worth mentioning in front of the "cultivators", so he also practiced martial arts to strengthen his body while doing his job with all his heart.

The reason why the prince is so persistent is because Emperor Chongzhen once promised him that if he could collect all the world's goods and goods to the Ming court, he could consider teaching him a set of "cultivation methods", but the premise was that "usury" could not be used to exploit the people and merchants, and could only be achieved through the development of foreign trade and foreign wars.

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