What did the East Chamber, the West Chamber and the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty do? Which is the most powerful?

One, Jin Yiwei

Jin Yiwei was initially established as a relatively simple military system, the basic unit is the guard and the guard, each guard has five thousand regular soldiers, the guard set up, including a hundred households and a thousand households. Forbidden army *** jurisdiction of the guards forty-eight, Hongwu fifteen years, Zhu Yuanzhang reform of the forbidden army, the establishment of the pro military guards twelve, the most important belongs to the jinyiwei.

The chief of the Brocade Guards was usually a military general trusted by the emperor, and his duties were ? to take charge of the direct driving guards, inspections and arrests? Jin Yi Wei is actually divided into two departments with different functions, one of which is responsible for the guards, displaying ceremonies and accompanying the emperor on his tours, the same as the duties of the traditional imperial guards.

The other department is responsible for inspections and arrests, which is the real difference between the Jin Yiwei and the other imperial guards. Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been killing meritorious officials and found the traditional judiciary and Da Lisi impractical, decided to upgrade the Jinyiwei's defense function, turning it into the emperor's own private police force, with separate prisons, where he could make arrests, carry out executions, and so on, without having to go through the normal judiciary.

One of the more well-known functions of the Jinyiwei was to ? the execution of the court scepter. The scepter system was a form of torture reserved for the emperor to teach disobedient scholars, and was carried out by the Jinyiwei together with the eunuch in charge of the Palace of Justice.

Two, East Chamber

Established by Zhu Di, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di set up the East Chamber as an authoritarian institution in order to consolidate his power due to the rumors from time to time that Emperor Jianwen was not yet dead and the lack of support for the new government from the ministers in the court. Why were eunuchs chosen? Because monks and eunuchs contributed a great deal to Zhu Di's rise to power, so Zhu Di inwardly considered the eunuchs to be reliable.

The duties of the East Chamber? Visiting the treasonous and demonic rumors of great treachery, etc., and the Jin Yiwei equal power? The East Chamber in its heyday, even the Jinyiwei commanding officer to see the director of the East Chamber have to kneel and kowtow.

Three, the West Factory and inside the factory

West Factory only existed for a short period of time, was set up by Emperor Xianzong, an internal organization, the leader Wang straight. Officers of the West Factory are selected from the forbidden army of outstanding talent, these people and then choose their own subordinates, within a short period of time, the West Factory rapid expansion, the power of the East Factory. West Factory's initial duty is to spy for the emperor, but Wang Zhi for personal gain, desperately set up a big case, once found suspected officials inside and outside the capital, immediately captured, but also not to be asked to torture to force confessions, is committed to making the case big, resulting in the number of cases and the speed of the East Chamber and the Jin Yiwei greatly exceeded. West factory this move to engage in the national up and down the fear, leading to the dynasty in the auxiliary ministers collective petition for the abolition of the West Factory, Emperor Xianzong had no choice but to dismiss the West Factory. A month later, at the instigation of a treacherous minister Dai Jin, Emperor Xianzong restored the West Chamber.

Wang straight after his death, the big eunuch Liu Jin in power, Liu Jin **** with in charge of the East Factory and the West Factory, but the two units between the two often tear each other down, do not cooperate with each other, so Liu Jin set up his own insider factory, the function of the same as the East Factory and the West Factory, the world of the world for a period of time, the uproar. Five years after the fall of Liu Jin, Wu Zong ordered the abolition of the Inner Works and West Works.