Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 750 Nine-door Admiral
To the west of Chaoxihe Gate outside the Forbidden City, Wuying Hall.

The emperor summoned his ministers in the main hall, which is five rooms wide and three rooms deep, with yellow glazed tiles on the top of the mountain, white marble railings, and a corridor leading directly to Wuying Gate.

The east and west wings are Ningdao Hall and Huanzhang Hall respectively, and there are 63 corridors on the left and right.

There is also a waiting edict here, on the left is a waiting edict for chapters and words, and on the right is a waiting edict to be good at calligraphy and painting.

After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he handled military affairs in the Hall of Wuying. After he was defeated at Shanhaiguan and returned to Beijing, the hastily proclaimed emperor ceremony was also held in the Hall of Wuying.

When the Qing army entered the customs, Dorgon was also the regent director of Wuyingdian. After Shunzhi moved his capital from Shenyang to Beijing, he began to live in Wuyingdian.

Emperor Shaotian of the Ming Dynasty, who is still in the old capital, also formally summoned his ministers to discuss matters in the Wuying Hall.

The Wuying Hall is in front of the outer court, which is convenient for ministers to come and go. The overall preservation here is still very complete. Li Zicheng, Dorgon, and Shunzhi all lived there, so it has been repaired several times.

"The garrison of the capital, garrison and guards in the palace are very important, please Your Majesty to order the system."

Today's Martial Heroes Palace meeting has a higher standard. It is the first court meeting after the capital was officially moved to Beijing. All civil and military officials of the third rank and above have arrived in Beijing. There are also some important positions, and those of the fourth and fifth ranks are here. Temple Zifei.

Since Emperor Shaotian raised his troops, various systems have been different from before. Following the emperor’s decree to set up a National History Museum, and began to revise the history of the first sixteen emperors for more than 200 years, some people have begun to say that Shaotian used to be called Qianming, but now it is Houming. Although this is not an official official title, it has gradually become a common understanding.

Today's Shaotian Dynasty, just like Guangwu Zhongxing in the Eastern Han Dynasty, is different from before in every respect.

The garrison of the imperial palace in the capital is naturally the most important thing. In Nanjing and Tokyo, it was still relatively temporary, and some systems were not complete, but now it must be more formal.

Before the Ming Dynasty, there were three major battalions of the Beijing Camp, and the system of guards was implemented, and there were also guards such as the pro-military guards.

Zhu Yihai and Wen Anzhi also briefly revealed that the capital's garrison system will be replaced.

For this kind of thing, no minister would dare to take over the responsibility easily.

In the past, the imperial guard system of the Ming Dynasty was probably the pro-army, the Beijing army, and the ban army, but if it was an earlier dynasty, it was different.

After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the main force of the national army was concentrated in the Forbidden Army. The Western Han Forbidden Army was divided into two parts to directly defend the emperor's Weiyang Palace stationed in the south of Chang'an City, called the Southern Army.The southern army was divided into two parts. The emperor's personal bodyguards were all officers, and they were commanded by Lang Zhongling, called Lang Wei.The relationship with the emperor is not too close. The guards guarding the palace are called the guards and are led by the guards. The other part of the forbidden army guards the capital and the surrounding areas.

The southern army served the emperor and dispatched the police, and the northern army also assumed the role of a strategic mobile force to conquer all directions.

When the Chinese language was cold, General Wei was set up to command the northern and southern armies, second only to Sangong and higher than Jiuqing, and he was the chief of the forbidden army.In the time of Emperor Wu, the strength of the imperial army was strengthened. The Southern Army added the Habayashi Army and the Qimen Army, and the Northern Army added eight divisions, including the Zhongba and Tunqi, led by the eight school lieutenants.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, all dynasties have attached great importance to the imperial guards of Gyeonggi. In the Tang Dynasty, there were northern and southern imperial guards. In the Song Dynasty, the imperial guards spread all over the world. They were divided into three yamen to restrict each other.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was divided into Qinjun, Jingjun and Banjun.

Zhu Yihai started his career right away. Although his status as the king of Lu was very helpful to him at the beginning of the army, he was able to succeed in the end because of the imperial battalion he built to expel the Tartars from outside and subdue the army leaders from inside.

The forbidden army of each dynasty is elite, if not well controlled, it will be controlled by the government, even like the dictatorship of the eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs achieved the power to abolish the emperor by virtue of their control of the Beiya forbidden army.

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin established the Northern Song Dynasty by relying on the strength of the guards and personal soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and adding a yellow robe.He divided the imperial army in the Northern Song Dynasty into three yamen, and commanded hundreds of thousands of main forces. Each of the three yamen had commanders and envoys, but they were often not permanent, and each yamen did not interfere with each other, so as to prevent the generals of the imperial army from controlling military power and arbitrarily ruling the government.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial guard system was also relatively complicated. The pro-army was the emperor's guard force, and there were as many as 26 guards, the most famous of which was of course Jinyiwei.

In the late Ming Dynasty, it even expanded to tens of thousands or even more than [-] people.

The Beijing Army is the garrison of the capital. It mainly includes the Five Army Battalion, the Three Thousand Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion. They are collectively called the three major battalions of the Beijing Army.

Zhu Yihai's Shaotian Dynasty is now basically divided into two major systems, one is the permanent main force imperial camp towns, the other is the local patrol and garrison battalions, supplemented by reserve militias such as Tunzhen, Tuanlian, and Baojiading.

The main imperial camp is also divided into several parts, such as the three towns of the Jingying, which are stationed in the three capitals.

There are also four guards in Wunei, Xun Yi, as well as guards of Qianniu and Xuejun.

Now the capital is still in Beijing, and the temporary nature of the original flow will end.

How to set up a meticulous garrison system for the capital is very urgent.

The ministers also gave some suggestions.

In the end, it was up to the emperor to decide, and the emperor reiterated first that eunuchs were not allowed to lead or supervise the army, and first excluded eunuchs from the capital's garrison system.

Zhu Yihai divided the defense system of the capital into three parts.

Beijing has the Miyagi, the Imperial City, the Inner City and the Outer City, except that the Inner City and the Inner City are superimposed from north to south, and the Miyagi Imperial City and the Inner City are a large ring within a small ring.

The palace city has four gates, the inner city has nine gates, and the outer city originally had seven gates, but two additional gates were added later, so the outer city also has nine gates.

"Admirals of the inner and outer nine gates are set up to guard the inner and outer nine gates. The nine outer gates guard the nine gates of the outer city of the capital and the south of the outer perimeter of the capital. The admirals of the inner nine gates guard the inner nine gates of the capital and the east and west sides of the outer perimeter of the capital. .

The inner and outer nine admirals each lead 5000 people, and the imperial battalion has a standard size of troops for a town, equipped with infantry, cavalry, artillery and auxiliary workers. "

The two townsmen and horses led by the admirals of the inner and outer nine gates are officially called the left and right guards of the Habayashi Army.

In the inner and outer cities, there are Jinwu left and right guards. Jinwu left and right guards each govern the left and right street envoys and the five city soldiers and horses. Their main responsibility is to manage public security in the city, and at the same time take on responsibilities such as urban management and fire protection. Be on guard, and also undertake part of the duty of escorting the emperor when he travels.

This power is still relatively large, in charge of the day and night patrols in the capital, and at the same time accompanying escorts.

The left Jinwu guard is in charge of the patrol police in the outer city, and the right Jinwu guard is in charge of the inner city patrol. Jinwu street shops are set up in all the streets of the inner and outer cities, and there are Jinwu shop soldiers on duty on a regular basis.

There are also envoys on the left and right streets of the inner and outer cities. They are commanded by patrol cavalry, responsible for patrolling the streets day and night.

Habayashi Guard set up five signal cannons on Baita Mountain. The signal cannons are mainly used to notify the capital riots, enemy situations, fires, explosions and other situations. After the Habayashi guards heard the sound of the cannon, they must immediately gather in separate areas and wait for the emperor's instructions.

In the inner and outer cities of the capital, there is another bell and drum tower signal system, which is managed by the Jinwu Guard. For general alarms in the city, the Jinwu Guard communicates with various street shops through the flags and drums of the Bell and Drum Tower.

As for the guards of the Imperial City and Miyagi, Zhu Yihai was in charge of the Qianniu Guard and the Inner Four Guards. The Qianniu Guard was divided into the left and right guards.

The Qianniu Guard followed the left and right guards, and also guarded the north of the outer periphery of the capital.

The inner four guards are also escorts, and the guards are in charge of the palace and are responsible for the safety of the royal family.

In addition, there is the imperial guard office, which is the military officer of the emperor's imperial guard, commonly known as the master of the inner circle, and guards with swords.

There is also a flag bearer office, which is responsible for handling the golden drums and flags used by the royal driver, and acts as a guard of honor.

There are not many guards and flag bearers, each with two battalions of [-] people.

The inner four guards are ten battalions with a total of five thousand.

The Habayashi Army, the Jinwu Army, and the Qianniu Army each have two guards, but each army is not subordinate to each other, and the two guards under the army are also not subordinate to each other.

The inner four guards are also divided into four guards, which do not belong to each other.

These troops add up to about [-] people, and there are three imperial guards and six guards. In fact, each guard is only about half of the imperial camp and one town, but the rank is the same as the admiral of the imperial camp and one town.

In the Gyeonggi area, there is also one town of Jingying and three towns of Yuying. Each of these four towns is [-].

These imperial guards are roughly divided into the northern and southern imperial guards, the ten guards of the northern imperial guards in the capital, and the four towns of the southern imperial guards in the outer periphery, with a total of about 12.

It's so complicated, of course, it's for safety.

The emperor first ruled out the eunuchs to lead the army and supervise the army.

Zhu Yihai did not give up the control of the imperial army. The admirals of the ten guards of the Northern Yamen, the admirals of the four towns of the Nanya, plus the admirals of the bodyguards and banner bearers, a total of sixteen admirals, all directly obeyed Zhu Yihai, the cabinet, the Ministry of War, and the Five Armies Neither the Governor's Mansion nor the Prime Minister's Office can directly mobilize these generals.

For these armies other than soldiers and horses, the Ministry of War is in charge of the military command, the five armies are in charge of commanding the military, and the emperor has the right to send troops and choose generals.

In each province, the governor-general and the provincial battalion admiral are in charge of the provincial patrol and garrison battalions and towns, and the imperial battalion admiral is in charge of the imperial battalion.

But the 12 horses in Gyeonggi are directly controlled by the emperor.

These people from all walks of life have different responsibilities.

The Habayashi Army mainly guards the city walls, gates, and outside the city, while the Jinwu Guard is mainly responsible for public security and security in the city.

Qianniuwei is mainly in charge of the palace guards.

The inner four guards are the main bodyguards and escorts.

When the various ministries are not affiliated with each other, even if they become the admiral of a town, it is almost impossible to rebel because of this, or to use this to influence the government.

The four towns on the outskirts can not only guard the outskirts of the capital, especially the Great Wall in the north, but also form a deterrent and restraint to the imperial guards in the capital.

All these troops, about 12 people, were all under the direct command of the emperor, and Zhu Yihai was equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the Gyeonggi garrison.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang no longer undertake the pro-military functions of guards and attendants, but only focus on intelligence and monitoring.

(End of this chapter)