Ming Dynasty Eunuch Spy Judicial Inquiry,

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the feudal absolute monarchy lasting further strengthened, the eunuch system also entered the history of the heyday of its development. The eunuch institutions were large and have wide range of power, and the status of the eunuchs had also reached the unprecedented level especially during the middle and late stages of the dynasty. The forces of the Ming Dynasty eunuch extreme swelling, the apparent cause was the sovereign lazy governance and the results of the eunuch class wild ambition, while the deeper reason is the inherent defects in the feudal monarchy. In Ming Dynasty, the powerful eunuchs usually entered the Silijian and controlled the spy organization Dongchang and Jinyiwei, thus fully involved in the political life of the feudal state. Particularly, the intervention in the judicial of the eunuch was a major feature of Ming's judicial system. As a significant feature injustice, the spy organization under the control of eunuchs surpassed law and abused their power. What they did not only destroyed the normal justice and usurped the judicial power of Fasi, and made the legal system lead to the disorder of the Ming Dynasty, but also directly disturbed the original judicial system of the feudal state and seriously interfered with China's legal process, so that China's legal culture and gradually fall behind the West. The intervention in the judicial of eunuchs, as the result of strengthening the feudal autocratic monarchy, not only did not play a role in consolidation of monarchical power, but became a serious intensification of the various social contradictions. The intervention in the judicial of eunuchs undermined the effective rule of the Ming government, and made the Ming government to perish quickly.