Chapter 33 The Legend of Jinyiwei

But he said that Wang Yue knew he couldn't bring up Yaofeng anymore, and if he mentioned it again, he might be in trouble.So I begged: Teachers, my paper...is broken, can you give me a new test paper? The new test paper... I might as well give it to you.The minister who invigilated the examination handed over a blank sheet of paper and looked at Wang Yue with compassion on his face: "It's just that the exam is almost over, I'm afraid you won't have time to finish it." Wang Yue gritted his teeth and said: "If you can't finish the answer, you have to answer..."He buried his head and wrote desperately, and as he wrote quickly, he saw the hourglass pouring down crazily, and suddenly heard the sound of "dong". The little eunuch said loudly: "It's time, please hand in the paper!"Following the voice, the emperor walked in, just as Wang Yue gritted his teeth and finished writing the last word, stood up and handed in the test paper.

The emperor took Wang Yue's test paper in his hand, and took a quick look: Well, you Wang Yue is not bad, and you have put forward many creative suggestions for the border military. Don't worry, you will have this opportunity. Sure enough, not long after, Wang Yue was reciting poems and odes with his friends in the capital, when he received the order of the emperor, he was appointed as the governor of military affairs, went to the border pass to fight with the generals on the battlefield, and fought with the ethnic minority brothers outside the pass.From then on, Wang Yue became a general.But you say he is a general, but his masterpieces are all poems, but you say he is a literati, he has been fighting with others on horseback all his life.

Capable of both civil and military skills, and all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, Wang Yue should be famous in history, but he is not famous at all.In the vast majority of history books, there is no name of this person at all. He often appears in folk operas, but his attire is uninspired, not to mention his ugly appearance, and there is a big hole on the tip of his nose. Block of white dye. He turned out to be a bad-faced treacherous minister. But what the hell did he do? He didn't do any bad things, he just spent his life guarding the border, fighting to the death with the ethnic minorities outside the pass, this job fell on others, they are all heroes who defend their homes and the country, but it happened to him, but What's the reason for turning him into a traitor with a bad face?

There is no one else, but the court figure who supported Wang Yue in the front line of resistance is Wang Zhi, the chief eunuch of Xichang. We know that when Zhu Yuanzhang first established the Ming Empire, he established the Jinyiwei spy system to closely monitor the officials and the people.Before Zhu Yuanzhang was about to die, he suddenly realized that such a method was wrong, so he abolished the Jinyiwei organization, smashed all the instruments of torture, and erected a plaque on the gate of the palace to strictly prohibit the eunuchs from intervening in politics. But after Zhu Yuanzhang died, his grandson Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne, known as Emperor Jianwen in history.However, Emperor Jianwen's uncle, Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised objections to this and raised troops to attack Nanjing, known as Jingnan.Because the eunuchs in the imperial palace had no position or authority at that time, they took refuge in Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and acted as secret spies to collect information for Zhu Di.Successfully helped Zhu Di defeat Emperor Jianwen.So Zhu Di, king of Yan, ascended the throne as Chengzu.

After seizing power, Zhu Di deeply realized how powerful the eunuchs are. If you don't give them real power, they will kill you unceremoniously.Therefore, in order to prevent the eunuchs from killing him, Cheng Zu Zhu Di established the East Factory and restored the Jinyiwei system. Since then, the Zhu family has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has been passed on, and finally it has been passed on to Xianzong Zhu Jianshen.At this time, Jinyiwei in the East Factory was overstaffed and huge, with serious bureaucratic habits and low work efficiency.So Xianzong thought, this won't work, how can it go on like this, is it... streamlining the organization?No, no, Jin Yiwei bastards, you dare to streamline them, they can do anything.

The organization cannot be streamlined, but work efficiency must be improved. What should we do? Or... let's set up a new organization. right! Organizations cannot be downsized, they can only be expanded, so the only way to improve work efficiency is to set up new organizations. The name of this new institution is West Factory, and it is not the slightest difference from the old East Factory.But because the organization is new, the newly recruited employees will work hard, and the work efficiency will of course be high.And the highest leading eunuch of Xichang is Wang Zhi. Speaking of the spy system of Xichang, its function is so simple that it can't be simpler. It is to act as the minion of the Emperor Xianzong and kill civil and military officials who are not pleasing to the eye for the emperor.Therefore, the work report submitted by Wang Zhi to Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen was a series of ransacking and extermination.

It is conceivable that the courtiers hated Wang Zhi and wished they could tear him into pieces. Although he gnashed his teeth and hated him, Wang Zhi had the support of Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, and the officials had no choice but to wait for the day when Wang Zhi came to the door and slaughtered his whole family.In the midst of this endless despair, great news suddenly broke out: The great, wise and correct leader Xianzong Zhu Jianshen wanted to destroy the reactionary clique headed by Wang Zhi.All of a sudden, the ministers rushed to tell each other, their faces were full of joy. So, Xichang is obviously a spy agency set up by Xianzong Zhu Jianshen himself, why did he destroy Wang Zhi?