Isn t Jinyiwei from Dongchang Jinyiwei and Dongchang mean the same thing?

Jinyiwei is not Dongchang, Jinyiwei and Dongchang both appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and they were both directly controlled by the emperor and used to maintain security and monitor hundreds of officials and people. The Jinyi Guards were mainly those who knew martial arts, similar to the Imperial Forest Army, while the East Factory was mainly controlled by eunuchs.

In these two institutions, only the head of Dongchang is a eunuch, and the others are normal people. The head of the East Factory is called the factory man, and there are generally big eunuchs who serve as celebrant eunuchs, eunuchs with pencies, etc.

The east and west factories are in charge of a commander (the west factory has been set up twice, but the time is not long), by the eunuch to serve, the eunuch who presides over the east factory is called "the superintendent" or "factory duke" by the people in the factory, he has a person in charge of a thousand households, a hundred households under the punishment, both of whom are selected from the Jinyi Guard. Below are more than 40 people in charge, foreman, and secretary, divided into 12 sons, and the steward wears a round hat, soap boots, and a brown shirt. The rest of the men had the same boots and hats, but wore straight bodies, and these people were also made up of elite elements selected from the brocade guards.

Therefore, when people wearing Dongchang costumes or Jinyiwei costumes appeared, the common people and the local magistrates hid far away, for fear of being caught by these people.

And Jin Yiwei is basically a normal person, and the leader is called a commander. Generally, it is a military general trusted by the emperor.

Dongchang and Jinyiwei are actually not official positions, they are just the emperor's spies, and they are the emperor's personal dogs. Specifically:

In terms of the relationship with Jinyiwei, Dongchang is the last. Due to the close relationship between the owner of the Dongchang factory and the emperor and the fact that he was in the palace, it was easier to gain the emperor's trust. The relationship between Dongchang and Jinyiwei gradually changed from a level to a subordinate relationship, and in the era when the eunuchs were in power, Jinyiwei commanded the envoy to see the owner of Dongchang and even knelt and kowtowed.

The right is on the brocade guard.

No, Jinyiwei is under the management of the East Factory, if you want to learn history, you might as well take a look at "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".

Jinyiwei is the emperor's pro-army.

Dongchang is a fan However, Dongchang is very powerful, and for a long time, the commanders of Jinyiwei are all cronies of the governor of Dongchang.

Jinyi Wei refers to the military and political intelligence agencies that have the duties of guarding the accommodation, supervising hundreds of officials, collecting internal and external intelligence, investigating and arresting, and hearing edicts and prisons, which are directly led by the emperor, set up outside the palace gate, and independent of the law.

Dongchang refers to the privileged supervision agencies, secret services and secret police organs that have the duties of supervising hundreds of officials and brocade guards, collecting internal and external intelligence, investigating and arresting, and hearing edicts and prisons, which are directly led by the emperor and led by eunuchs close to the emperor at the palace gate, and are independent of the law.

Jinyiwei has the responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, including six departments, five temples, and hundreds of officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dongchang has the responsibility of supervising Jinyiwei and hundreds of officials.

No, Jinyiwei is a military and political intelligence collection agency established by Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and its main function is to "drive the guards, inspect and arrest", and engage in reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation and other activities. He also participated in the work of collecting military intelligence and plotting against enemy generals.

Dongchang is a spy agency called "Dongchang Factory" set up by Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Dynasty, in order to suppress political opposition, referred to as "Dongchang", and is headed by a favored eunuch. The establishment of the East Factory also has the intention of monitoring Jinyiwei. Its power is above the Jinyiwei.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang both belonged to the Ming Dynasty reconnaissance institutions.

The Jinyi Guard was an extremely important military unit in the Ming Dynasty, and was the emperor's guard and honor guard, composed of generals, captains and wrestlers.

In the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), Zhu Di set up the East Factory. The purpose of the establishment is mainly responsible for spying on intelligence, and if there is something to report directly to the emperor for instructions, the office is located in Dong'anmen.

Since the establishment of this institution, not only the officials of the imperial court have been unlucky, but even Jinyiwei has been depressed, because they were originally spies, but the people in Dongchang have become spies who monitor the spies, and Jinyiwei's status has been greatly affected. These pervasive people not only monitor the hundred officials, but also their peers, the Jinyi Guard, which shows the great power of their power.

Dongchang is directly responsible to the emperor, and its leader, Dongchang palm seal eunuch, is a person close to the emperor, and the relationship with the emperor is not ordinary, nor is it comparable to the leader of Jinyiwei, the commander of Jinyiwei.

Therefore, in the subsequent historical development of the Ming Dynasty, the Jinyiwei and Dongchang, who were originally at the same level, gradually became a relationship between superiors and subordinates, and some Jinyiwei commanders even knelt and kowtowed when they saw the eunuchs of Dongchang's palm prints.

In general, the factory is a eunuch institution led by the celebrant eunuch, and the guard is a military institution led by the commander. As for the subordinate officers in the factory, such as the punishment, arrest, and service, the good round ruler is transferred from the officers and soldiers of the Jinyi Guard. It can be seen that there is an inextricable connection between the factory and the guard, and the two are regarded as important pillars of imperial power in the Ming Dynasty and are highly valued by the emperor.

In the more than 200-year history of the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei has always played a special role. It obeyed the emperor and was subject to the eunuchs; It has made great contributions to the strengthening of imperial power, and it has a bad record because of its reckless behavior; It tried to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but it also planted the root of the Ming Dynasty's demise.

In themselves they are cooperative relations, and they exist to better help the emperor deal with various affairs, but people are ambitious, and the heads of Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang all want to make their institutions the most trusted by the emperor, so while working together, they also have a competitive and even hostile relationship in private.

Jinyiwei was the first institution composed of the emperor's guards, and at the beginning its main role was to be responsible for the emperor's security and patrol and arrest, which was an institution directly subordinate to the emperor, and the power of Jinyiwei was very large at the beginning.

Any suspect, even a relative of the emperor, can be arrested directly. Of course, in addition to these roles, Jinyiwei also needs to participate in the national war, and even has the function of a spy, collecting information, and plotting against the enemy generals.

The responsibilities of Jinyiwei and the East Factory and the West Factory

Dongchang was set up by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, the leader of Dongchang is called the governor, because the origin of the throne of Ming Chengzu is not honorable, the reason why he established Dongchang is to better supervise the civil and military officials and the people, then this civil and military officials include Jinyiwei. The overseer of Dongchang is generally the emperor's most trusted celebrant eunuch.

If Dongchang wants to get rid of a person, in addition to showing evidence, it is also possible to "make a small report" to the emperor. The West Factory was established by Zhu Jianshen of the Ming Dynasty, and after the appearance of the East Factory, the status of Jinyiwei plummeted, and after the appearance of the West Factory, the power surpassed that of the East Factory, and its leaders had more rights in the court.

It is precisely because of this that it later led to the boycott of the civil and military officials, so that the glory of the West Factory only lasted for two terms. And Ming Xianzong himself set up the West Factory to better control the situation inside and outside the capital, but the owner of the West Factory used the West Factory to eradicate his opponents, and even brutalized Zhongliang, so it was finally abolished.