The Real Royal Guards in History
Wei Jinyi was a famous secret service in Ming Dynasty. Its predecessor was "Gong Weisi" set up by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of Ming Dynasty, and later it was renamed as "Pro-military Dudufu", which was in charge of the ceremonial duties and guards of Yiluan and the emperor. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu (1382), the pro-army Dewey House and Yiluan Division were abolished and changed to Royal Guards. As the military organization of the emperor's bodyguard, Zhu Yuanzhang specially put him in charge of the prison in order to strengthen the centralized rule, and gave him the power to inspect and arrest. He also set up the town supervision department to engage in reconnaissance, arrest and interrogation.
Zhu Yuanzhang set up a Royal Guards to destroy heroes, while Luo Zhi took the lead and killed innocent people. Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that the next generation of emperors would not be able to control the civil and military heroes after his death, so he went to prison several times and slaughtered all the civil and military heroes who helped him conquer the world for several reasons. "Records of Criminal Law in Ming Dynasty" records: "There are 40,000 cases of Hu and Lan Yu." You can see how cruel it is. The beginning of the figurines is the product of the emperor's sinister intentions, so its sequelae are particularly serious.
In the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the burning of Jin Yiwei's instruments of torture, and the detained prisoners were transferred to the Ministry of Justice for trial; At the same time, all internal and external prisons were ordered to be tried by the Third Law Department, and the Royal Guards were abolished. However, it is difficult to eradicate the disadvantages caused by bad mentality from the beginning. After Judy, the prince of Yan, rose up and seized the throne, Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, restored the Royal Guards in order to consolidate his rule.