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Lemonpeach :
I thought Jingyi Wei was just a movie starring Donnie Yen. Just now, a JP professor from Kyoto University explained to me the assassination bureau and intelligence service of the Ming Emperor. It was all real.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2011-02/24/content_12072289.htm
The Eastern Factory controlled by the eunuchs of the Emperor, and the Western Chamber by the Grand Empress.
The external intelligence service were used often against the domestic central intelligence service. The Empress had her network of confidants, informers and besties to control, monitor the entire imperial structure. She placed her people in strategic position so that she could take over in the event of a coup or the Emperor fallen ill.
When the Ming dynasty was overthrown by the Manchus, the latter continued the Brocade Guards in a new structure.
It is not just in wuxia that Jingyiwei existed but in our real world, in history. Many Donnie Yen, Eastern Factory, western chambers around.
https://forums.fuckwarezone.com.sg/threads/had-a-fantastic-briefing-on.6614517/
Transcendent :
The Embroidered Guard were authorized to overrule judicial proceedings in prosecuting those deemed as enemies of the state, granted with full autonomy in arresting, interrogating, detaining them without trial and punishing them, without going through due process. They were bound to the service of the emperor and took direct orders from him. They also served as political commissars for the Ming armies in times of war. In the later years of the Ming dynasty, the Jinyiwei were placed under the control of the Eastern Depot/Dong Chang faction. As the government sank into corruption, the Jinyiwei was constantly used as a means of eliminating political opponents through assassinations and legal prosecutions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embroidered_Uniform_Guard
Lemonpeach :
Scary. I thought it was just movies, but it was real. When the Ming Dynasty was in decline, the elites used the Jingyiwei against political opposition, halted interference against the court and exterminated anyone who was not on the side of the court as traitor. They killed the whole family, clans, relatives including
yummie :
TS came out from which cave in Middle East???
