The Ming Dynasty, which had just emerged from suffering, was gradually developing in a good direction. First of all, the treasury was unprecedentedly filled.

As the private silver mine case was approaching, a large number of officials involved in the case were executed. The officials and officials in the capital were one of the Qing dynasties. Emperor Chongzhen played an important role in it.

A large number of corrupt officials were investigated and punished, and the Jinyiwei began to become bloated. At present, the Jinyiwei in the staff has reached a terrifying 500,000 people.

This is extremely terrifying. The number of people in the imperial edict who overtakes the law has reached 500,000.

Of course, the 500,000 organization here does not mean that the capital city is 500,000. If that is the case, something will happen. The standing army in the capital is only 200,000, and the 500,000 Jinyiwei cannot support the capital city.

This refers to the number of Jinyiwei staff scattered across the country, with an astonishing 500,000 people. And such a bloated independent department naturally inevitably appeared some black sheep.

This is inevitable. In order to completely implement an iron-fisted anti-corruption campaign, Emperor Chongzhen listened to Zhu Cixuan's suggestions and spread the Jinyiwei Organization across the country.

These Jinyiwei went deep into the local area with the purpose of collecting evidence of corruption among officials. If you don’t check it, you will know it. If you check it, you will be shocking.

Nearly 3,000 imperial officials across the country were dealt with. Among them, 817 were executed. The remaining ones were punished according to the size of their crimes.

However, such a huge organization has also caused the Jinyiwei to accept bribes with his own pockets and even create unjust, false and wrong cases for political achievements.

For example, Ling Zhuo, the governor of Ningguo Prefecture, was wronged by Duan Sicheng, a Jinyiwei sent to the local area, saying that he had accepted bribes.

For this reason, Ling Zhuo was imprisoned and severely tortured. His family was also arrested.

Duan Sicheng was crazy and insulted Ling Zhuo's daughter in prison. His daughter could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide by hitting the wall. However, Ling Zhuo was cut off by Duan Sicheng, and his eyes were dug out and thrown into prison were worse than death.

Finally, Duan Sicheng ordered his subordinates to forge evidence of Ling Zhuo's confession in order to cover up his crime, and then secretly executed his whole family.

Ling Zhuo was tortured to death in prison and failed to get the day when he was unjustified until his death.

At the beginning, when Emperor Chongzhen was furious when he was told by the Ningguo Mansion, he ordered Duan Sicheng to investigate strictly. Duan Sicheng reported Ling Zhuo's case, but later Emperor Chongzhen found something was wrong.

First of all, Ling Zhuo embezzled 170,000 taels of silver. In the end, no whereabouts of this batch of silver were found. Duan Sicheng's statement was that this person sacrificed his life and refused to give up money. He refused to confess the whereabouts of this batch of silver until his death, and even died of torture in prison.

Chongzhen realized that something was wrong, so he summoned Zhu Cilang to the Qianqing Palace to discuss matters.

As soon as Zhu Cixuan arrived at the Qianqing Palace, he saw Duan Sicheng's memorial and found a huge loophole: "Father, there is something else wrong with this case. I'm afraid there is another hidden truth in the corruption case of the prefect Ling Zhuo."

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned: "Why, do you think so?"

Zhu Cilang nodded in pain: "Father, son minister, son minister seems to have done something. The Jinyiwei should not be so let go. At least, they should be subject to corresponding supervision. Otherwise, if this continues, it will inevitably lead to a disaster."

That's right, any party in history is actually a double-edged sword. Once there is no constraint, it will become a disaster.

The Jinyiwei Prison has extremely poor sanitation conditions, and rats are prevalent. At night, the big rats will come out to bite the prisoner. There are countless unjust, false and wrong cases caused.

In essence, the Jinyiwei is still a garrison and a military organization. However, this garrison is a bit special compared to other garrisons. From the perspective of organization, an ordinary garrison usually has 5 garrisons, commanding more than 5,000 people, while the Jinyiwei has 17 garrisons, and the number of garrisons can reach about 10 times that of an ordinary garrison at the maximum.

Judging from the role of the commander, the others are military generals, and only the commander of the Jinyiwei is served by the emperor's confidants. Although the Jinyiwei has something special, when viewed as a ward, it seems that the simple word "spy" is used to label it.

The "Ming Hui Dian" records the functions of the Jinyiwei, "They belong to the North and South Town and Fu Offices, and the fourteen offices. They also have generals, strong men, school lieutenants, etc. Their duties are in charge of the commander, guard, patrol, arrest and arrest.'

Judging from the records in the "Ming Hui Dian", we can understand the four functions of the Jinyiwei: duty guards, guards, inspections, and arrests. However, these four functions are not all the responsibilities of the Jinyiwei. In addition, they combine military, diplomacy, supervision, and judicial functions.

The reason why the Jinyiwei has been criticized as a spy agency for many years is largely because it has two major functions: detective and judicial functions. "Secret Collection", "Silent Fraud", Jinyi Prison is famous for its strict and cruel laws. It has various punishments such as weapons, shackles, sticks, skinning, sucking the intestines, hooking the back, big shackles, erecting the shackles, broken spine, falling fingers, and pricking the heart.

Some prisoners have very strict mouths and cannot be pried open. For this reason, the Jinyiwei invented countless kinds of tortures, the most terrifying of which is the "playing the pipa".

When interrogating the prisoner, the Jinyiwei first used a sharp knife to scratch the prisoner's chest a few times to expose their ribs. Then, he used a special knife to scrape the prisoner's ribs back and forth. Whether it is the blood vessels or the periosteum, they will be scraped off, and even the bones will be scraped out with dents. It is very terrifying to say just.

Once this organization with mixed reputations loses its original ability to eliminate violence and safeguard evil, it will immediately become extremely vicious. They are cold-blooded and cruel, frame loyal and honest, and kill innocent people indiscriminately. Such examples are everywhere.

The Donglin Party is actually the most distinctive example. Originally, the Donglin Party members were all a group of knowledgeable people who serve the country and the people. As a result, after the fall of the eunuch party, they dominated the whole family, and the black sheep came.

The same is true for the Jinyiwei today, which has expanded to 500,000 people at once. Naturally, without control, they become lawless.

Originally, this was an illegal organization, but with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to cancel the Jinyiwei organization. After all, someone must clean up the collapse of the government, and Jinyiwei played this role very well.

However, the Jinyiwei cannot be controlled by the Jinyiwei. It is necessary to find an organization that can restrict the Jinyiwei.

Emperor Chongzhen and Zhu Cilang had the same idea, and then the two hit it off.

Chongzhen knew his son's thoughts very well: "Emperor, what do you mean is to rebuild the East Factory?"

Zhu Cilang nodded: "It's not just the East Factory, but also the West Factory. The East Factory is not in communication with each other. They are in conflict with the three-legged tripod of the Jinyiwei, and they don't know what the father thinks."
Chapter completed!