What was the Jinyi Guard set up in the Ming Dynasty used for?

Overseeing the people and **, the emperor's minions.

The Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty was a spy agency, and the main responsibilities of the Jinyiwei were: first, to monitor the hundred officials, especially the hundred officials in the capital; second, to arrest prisoners, prisoners with serious crimes need to be arrested by Jinyi guards; Third, protect the emperor, when the emperor goes out, in addition to the Ouchi guards, there are also brocade guards to protect.

It is an institution that belongs only to the emperor to manage. The main thing is to check some things for the emperor and serve the emperor specifically.

The reason for the establishment of Jinyiwei was to help the Ming emperor better control the world, help collect information, and ensure the stable development of society. And his good or bad should be divided into two parts.

First of all, for Zhu Yuanzhang and other emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei can do a lot of things, and naturally there are a lot of conveniences, for the Ming Dynasty emperors, they can get rid of dissidents through Jinyiwei, and Jinyiwei is also an important institution to monitor society, so for the Ming Dynasty emperor, Jinyiwei is naturally more beneficial than disadvantageous.

However, for the Ming Dynasty society and the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is not a good thing, although the Jinyiwei to a certain extent to ensure the stable operation of the society, but the overall social activity has also been suppressed, many scientific and technological inventions and the free development of ideas have been affected to a certain extent.

Jinyiwei was the exclusive military and political intelligence collection agency of the Ming Dynasty, and the main function of Jinyiwei was to "drive the guards, patrol and arrest", and engage in reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation and other activities. The original intention of the establishment of Jinyiwei was good, but it was used by some people.

It is to protect the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which is actually very good, and can stabilize the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and prevent the people from having a hard time.

1. Jinyiwei was established by Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, and on May 29, 1382 (April 16 of the 15th year of the Ming Dynasty), Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the Yiluan Division and set up Jinyiwei instead.

2. Jinyi Wei is the Jinyi pro-army commander envoy, the emperor's guard organization, formerly known as the imperial arch guard set up by Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1382), Zhu Yuanzhang set up the Gong Wei Division at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, commanding the school captain and subordinate to the Governor's Mansion, serving the military institution for the emperor, and later changing the Gong Wei to take the hunger division as the Gong Wei Command Division. In the second year of Hongwu (1369 AD), Bu took the Gongwei command and renamed it the pro-army governor's mansion again, and set up the Yiluan Division under its command.

Later, the Yiluan Division was changed to Jinyiwei, and there were commanders under him, commanding Tongzhi, commanding the servants, the north and south towns, and the five positions of thousands of households, and the emperor appointed his confidants as commanders. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to take charge of the prison, gave him the power to patrol and arrest, and engaged in reconnaissance, arrest, and interrogation activities.