Who Is Controlling and Persecuting Us? (3)
Section III
Record of Peng Sheng's Encounter with a Demon (Ghost)
I, Peng Sheng, is from Ema City. He is an accountant. In the autumn of 1997, I lived in Jiangcheng for fifteen years and only made some small achievements. I was really a "stupid" student.
However, although I am stupid, I am also a member of the intellectual class. I know that you don't talk about strange things, strength, chaos and gods. You don't talk about things outside the world. You don't believe in ghosts and gods. I really don't want to meet "ghosts" without believing in ghosts. Is there a lot of "ghosts" in Jiangcheng?
At first, I could suddenly distinguish the midnight whispers of the wall at night, and they were clearly heard in my ears, but I couldn't hear the laughter of the wall at home during the day. Why was this? Isn't it strange to hear people whispering in private when there's no one around? At that time, although I was confused, it was not a big problem, so I did not care. At that time, I was in my bedroom and heard all the relatives in the hall cursing me. I hurried out, but the sound was gone, and everyone was busy with their own things. I didn't see anyone say anything. I felt even more strange. Living in the bedroom at night is like living in a busy city. You can't sleep for several months. Isn't this the "false hearing disease" and "false hallucination disease" of medicine? After careful consideration, some people say that the city will be changed to live, can I avoid disaster? He rushed to Macheng, entered the mountains again, ran away, life and death, life and death, a total of three months, his sad state, today can not bear to explain!。
At this point, I also doubt whether my brain is damaged or not, but look for the spider's silk, check the front and back of the spider's silk--not!。Coincides with his confession, detailed description of the details, only to know that he deliberately disguised as a ghost; He pretended to be a wolf in the middle of the mountain and happily told me,"I have great skills."(I don't understand why you said that to me today. I thought later that you had a habit of exposing yourself. Or have ulterior motives?) At first I didn't believe it and asked,"Are the people of our country so skilled?"”He rebuked me, saying,"There are also people in my country who have lived before the barbarians." At that time, I suffered deeply from him and tacitly agreed.
Thanks to the kindness of my family, I didn't give up the treatment, but my heart is as clear as a mirror. How can I take medicine when the ghost is sick? Besides, the world is declining day by day, the country is in chaos, the people are poor, and the livelihood is difficult. If we don't work hard, where can we get food and clothing? Besides, as the saying goes: can't afford to offend, can afford to hide.
In the spring of 1998, I decided to go south. I thought that if I did so, it would be difficult for the "ghost" to find me. At the beginning, he fled to the source of the Yellow River in Guangdong Province, not as he wished, and then fled to Pengcheng, but still did not escape the net of the enemy. Whoosh! What should I do? For the sake of his livelihood, he was temporarily hired as a financial manager of a Taiwan enterprise. However, he was entangled like a poisonous snake and persistent like a resentful ghost. It was very annoying. I insulted his mother. He replied: 'To insult my mother, two pieces of flesh are ears', what a shocking saying.
I thought to myself, I am a law-abiding citizen, why should I suffer? So he decided to tell everyone. I once asked him,"Since you've come to this point, why don't you tell the world earlier?"”He sighed and said,"I am afraid that the hearts of the common people will not be able to bear it.”。And he said to me,"Follow him, and keep my affairs secret, and I will reward him handsomely. Otherwise, your life will be in danger." But the people are not afraid of death. Why should they be afraid of death? Besides, I've made up my mind, and I'm not going back.
In this case, I can't live in peace. The "ghost" is like his party, the loincloth is also abandoned, the thick black heart appears in front, the rogue follows behind; Whoosh! It has been more than three years, and I have suffered more than I can tell you, more than I can tell you.
Although "ghosts" are arrogant, I know them from the beginning to the end. They are ignorant,
Incompetent, shameless,
If there is nothing to do, the authorities will appoint him, and he will not disturb himself. The reason why scholars do not go out of their homes is that cocks crow and dogs steal.
My body is small, but the common people in the world are big. If I exchange my life for the common people's awareness, I am willing to do it. If there are people who don't believe me, I will not complain. As long as I keep this piece of paper, in time, the "ghost" will definitely show its true form.
A thousand-year-old proverb says: people do not become ghosts. That's what they say.
Mr. Lu Xun also said: There are tricks to play tricks, but also effective, but there is a limit, so to achieve great things, since ancient times has not been.
May I ask where the God of Plagues is going? paper boats lit candles to illuminate the sky.
The Secret Service System of the East Chamber of the Ming Dynasty
After the Jinyiwei arrested someone, they did not bring him back to the yamen. Instead, they found an empty temple and beat him up. They called it "piling". The arrested person had to contribute his own money to bribe them. If the money was too little, these small spies would keep it for themselves. If the money was too much, the small spies would split it equally with the big spies. However, the arrested people did not have much money or could not meet the needs of these spies. Even if they spent money, they would still be brought back to the secret service agency and tortured. After the torture, they would be sent to the judicial department. Because the Jinyiwei, a special agency, was highly valued by the emperor, the local judicial institutions did not dare to say no to them. Therefore, even though they knew that many people were wronged, they did not dare to correct them. Those who were wronged would end up with nothing and even lose innocent lives.
After Wei is the factory, the east factory, the official name. During the reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, in order to eliminate the remnants of Emperor Jianwen and observe the people's feelings, on the one hand, the Jinyiwei was restored and strengthened. On the other hand, in the 18th year of Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1420), the East Jishi Factory (referred to as the East Factory) was established, which was appointed by the eunuch prefect. The power was above the Jinyiwei, and they were only responsible to the emperor. Without the approval of the judicial organs, they could supervise and arrest their subjects at will, thus opening the door for eunuchs to interfere in politics.
West Factory, official name. During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the rule of secret agents, the West Jishi Factory (referred to as the West Factory) was established in the 13th year of Chenghua of the Ming Dynasty (1477). The Chief Eunuch Wang Zhi was in charge of the factory, and his power exceeded that of the East Factory. Wang Zhi used the West Factory as his stronghold and colluded with some court officials to form a party. He eliminated dissidents and framed loyal officials. His power was overwhelming. The West Chamber spies investigated all over the country, causing opposition from the government and the people, and were later forced to withdraw. During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch Liu Jin monopolized power and restored the West Chamber. After Liu Jin fell, he was dismembered and revoked.
The big factory is the official name. During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin, the eunuch, monopolized power, so he set up a big internal affairs factory, namely the big internal factory, referred to as the internal factory for short, which was personally led by him, which was especially cruel than the east factory and the west factory. Before Wuzong, the factory and Wei were separated and replaced. At this time, Qiu Ju, the leader of the East Chamber, Gu Dayong, the leader of the West Chamber, and Shi Wenyi, the commander of the Royal Guards, were all Liu Jin's best friends. As a result, Liu Jin and Wei joined forces to spy all over the world and created severe punishments. The officials and soldiers were frightened at the mention of tigers and wolves, and people regarded eunuchs as tigers and wolves. In the fifth year of Ming Zhengde (1510), Liu Jin was killed for treason, and the West Factory and the Inner Factory were revoked.
At that time, in Tianjin City, you could always see the figures of factory guards. Even though they were a special agency, their clothing was very eye-catching and could be recognized at a glance. Both the East and West Chambers were under the charge of an admiral (the West Chamber had been set up twice, but not for long), who was a eunuch. The eunuch in charge of the East Chamber was called the "supervisor" or "master of the chamber" by the people in the factory. Under him was a thousand households in charge of punishment and a hundred households in charge of punishment, both of whom were selected from the Jinyiwei. Further below were more than forty people in charge of shifts, foremen, and secretaries, divided into twelve sons, chou, yin, and mao. Each steward wore a round hat, black boots, and brown shirts. The rest of the people wore the same boots and hats, but they wore straight bodies. In fact, the ones who were scouting outside were the sergeants and the foreign sergeants. The sergeants were also called "stall leaders". There were more than 100 of them, each of whom had twelve ugly hair. They all wore pointed hats, white leather boots, and brown clothes. He tied a small sash. Each of the sergeants commanded several foreign sergeants. The foreign sergeants were also called "foreign children" and "officers". These people were also made up of elite members selected from the Brocade Guard. Therefore, when people dressed in East Chamber uniforms or Jinyiwei uniforms appeared, the common people and local officials all hid far away, afraid that they would be picked on and arrested by these people.
In the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs had many yamen, mainly: The twelve prisons, four divisions, and eight divisions were collectively known as the twenty-four yamen. Among them, the Si Li Jian was the chief yamen of the twenty-four yamen of the Ming Dynasty eunuchs and the highest commanding organ of the Ming Dynasty's secret service. The spies of the East Chamber were directly under the command of the Emperor. The eunuchs sent to preside over the East Chamber were all trusted aides of the Emperor. The customs (also known as work permits) issued by them were more authoritative than other eunuch yamens. The eunuch's orders for customs were all the words "the customs of a certain internal official." Only the seal characters of the East Chamber were "the imperial envoy, the governor of the East Chamber, the official school, and the eunuch's customs."
In addition to scouting the officials and civilians of the capital, the East Chamber also scouted the Royal Guards. As the East Chamber was also responsible for investigating the situation in various parts of the country, the number of special agents dispatched was the most extensive. The eunuchs sent out were either to supervise the army, which was called Jianjun. Or to collect taxes, called tax supervisor; There was also the Commander-in-Chief's camp, supervising the warehouses, purchasing goods, and so on. They were all over the country, and all had the responsibility of investigating.
The Third Factory was even more dangerous than the Jinyiwei. First of all, their authority was above the Jinyiwei, and the greater the power, the greater the harm. In addition, the eunuchs in power were all physically and mentally unsound, so one could imagine how cruel they were. Some people said that eunuchs were vicious because they were feminine, but that was not the case. This was completely the poison of the thousands of years of male superiority and female inferiority in China. Eunuchs were evil because their nature was suppressed by people. They were perverts. A man becoming feminine would be perverted, but a woman becoming masculine would be the same. The most venomous feudalism of women's hearts can be put to an end.
The appearance of the factory guards represented the further strengthening of the feudal central power system, and the power was more fully concentrated in the hands of the emperor. The factory guards had the power of justice, judgment, and execution. They were not restricted by any department and were directly responsible to the emperor, making ordinary people and officials pale at the mention of them. On the other hand, it also showed that the emperor had lost confidence in controlling his officials. It was impossible to achieve his goal by normal methods, so he had to resort to special means. The drawbacks of this method were also obvious. Only the emperor could directly control the huge organization, and obviously could not cover all aspects. In addition to faithfully carrying out the tasks assigned by the emperor, no one could restrict the actions of these high-ranking spies. The emperor could not do everything himself, so he could not put an end to the emergence of public revenge and power for personal gain. In fact, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty basically did not care about the misdeeds of his minions. For example, if someone raised a vicious dog, he would let it guard the house or attack the opponent when it was used. When it was not used, it would be released to let it hunt for food. He did not care if it would bite people. Moreover, the factory guard spy was far from being as simple as a dog. It was comparable to a wolf, tiger, and leopard. Countless good people and upright officials died in the hands of the factory guards. The factory guard spy system had become a symbol of the dark and cruel political situation of the Ming Dynasty.
However, the factory guard system established by the emperor in order to control his power obviously did not have any good effect. The dark and cruel political system, coupled with the absurdity of several emperors, finally came to an end for the Ming Empire. The people who had no way to survive could not bear it anymore and rebelled. The raiders in the mouth of Emperor Chongzhen invaded Beijing and became the emperor himself. Unfortunately, the Dashun Dynasty was short-lived, and another unified minority regime after the Yuan Dynasty-Qing Dynasty stepped onto the stage of history.
It was not true to say that the widely circulated Qing Dynasty blood guillotine was completely fabricated. In fact, it had a prototype. The prototype of the blood guillotine was a quasi-spy agency in the early Yongzheng period-- There were many cicadas in the summer in Beijing, making noise to disturb people's rest. As the name suggested, the task of sticking the pole was to stick the cicadas on the tree with a long bamboo pole to eliminate the noise pollution. However, Yongzheng gave this institution an additional task, which was to appear in the streets, tea houses and wine shops to listen to folk discussions and report to the court. Before Yongzheng ascended the throne, he also shouldered the task of collecting information on other princes to prepare for Yongzheng's fight for the throne. Why did he say that he was a quasi-spy agency? First, he only had the right to collect intelligence, but no right to act or dispose of it. This was different from the Ming factory security system. Second, he did not exist for a long time. He disappeared soon after Emperor Yongzheng ascended the throne. The reason was unknown. Perhaps it was because he knew that Emperor Yongzheng had too many secrets in his early years and it was not appropriate to keep them. The bloody description of the Flying Guillotine in the novel was completely artistic. During the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, the control of the bureaucrats was extremely strict, and the officials and gentry were greatly touched by the interests of the bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats. The right to write history was often in their hands, and it was inevitable that Emperor Yongzheng became a tyrant in their mouths. In fact, Yongzheng's policy was very brilliant, and the lives of the lower class people were not bad. It was indeed a bit of injustice to be called a tyrant just because the emperor was strict. Of course, his reputation as a tyrant was largely due to the notorious literary prison, which has nothing to do with our topic, but it was indeed a big stain on Yongzheng.
The Qing Dynasty had not set up a spy agency in the strict sense. The secret memorial system objectively played a part in the role of some spy agencies, but it was not a spy after all. In view of the Ming Dynasty several eunuchs monopolizing power to bring disaster to the country, the Qing emperor also paid great attention to this aspect. The management of eunuchs was extremely strict, often using non-conventional means to kill the eunuchs who violated the rules. Eunuchs had no status in the Qing Dynasty, and even some upright officials in the palace did not take them seriously. Cixi's favorite An Dehai committed a crime in Jinan. Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong Province, received an edict from the front door and killed people from the back door. Even Cixi could not save his life, which also reflected the status of eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty set up an iron plaque in the palace: Concubines and eunuchs who lied about interfering with politics were killed without mercy. Unfortunately, the implementation was not thorough. First, there was Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who was a wise female politician who made great contributions to the stability of the early regime of the Qing Dynasty. Finally, the Empress Dowager Cixi appeared and pushed the Celestial Dynasty into the abyss of eternal damnation.
It was absolutely correct that eunuchs could not interfere in politics. Once these people with incomplete bodies and personalities held power, they would inevitably bring disaster to the country. However, some people felt that it was unfair and that it was discrimination against women. Actually, that was not the case. Because the women of China had been oppressed for a long time, they had few opportunities for education. Even if there were, no one would educate them on how to govern the country and the people. Instead, they would learn some female classics. The objective conditions determined that it was difficult for ancient women to produce discerning and capable politicians. Wu Zetian and other outstanding female politicians 'status itself was a struggle, to be able to obtain this status itself proved their ability, so it was not universal. This was different from the idea of equality between men and women. It was a correct policy to prohibit concubines from interfering in politics.
To be objective, just in terms of the secret service agencies, the Qing Dynasty was much more advanced than the Ming Dynasty. Until the death of the Qing Dynasty, there was no establishment of a secret service agency in the full sense (but in the late period of the Republic of China, under the rule of Jiang Jie, there was a well-known Zhongtong and Juntong). In view of the Ming Dynasty eunuchs harm the country, the Qing Dynasty eunuch control is also very strict, no matter how popular in the palace, want to interfere in political affairs is still unlikely. However, the absence of a spy agency did not mean that there was freedom of speech and politics. In order to suppress the Han people's resentment against the alien rule, the Qing Dynasty spared no effort in imprisoning their thoughts. The largest literary inquisition in history and other measures created a large number of submissive people without self-awareness. The imprisonment of intellectual freedom of thought led to the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty. As far as the achievements of the academic community were concerned, the development of ideas and science and technology had stagnated. The author believes that this is an inevitable development of history. The Changwei of the Ming Dynasty and the Wenzhi of the Qing Dynasty were actually a measure taken by the feudal system to extend its life and hinder social change at its peak. The suppression of ideas and the imprisonment of speech maintained the continuation of the stable regime of the feudal society, but it also delayed the development and laid the root of the backwardness of the modern Chinese dynasty. However, covering one's eyes did not mean that the world did not exist. The result of standing still could only be abandoned by the times. When the Western ships and cannons woke up the dream of China, the factory guard system and the literary prison would inevitably be abandoned into the garbage heap of history and written into the shameful history of human civilization.
History is a mirror. The progress of China's democratic and legal system is far from over. There is still a long way to go.
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