Brother Rong of Red Mansion

Chapter 16 Socializing in Small Circles

Today’s protagonist is Jia Rong.

After entering the small circle and chatting briefly, someone took the initiative to ask Jia Rong about his future career path. This is also the part that interests them the most. Decide what political attitude they will use to face Jia Rong in the future.

When traveling through time, Jia Rong had already decided on a self-rescue route. There is no change now, let alone hiding his path to political advancement.

"I'm going to Beijing Camp."

Jia Rong said with a smile.

In an instant, everyone's expressions changed slightly. Some were relieved, some frowned slightly, some had joy in their eyes, and some looked calm and indifferent.

All kinds of brilliance come from one place to another.

Niu Junjie, in particular, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that when Jia Rong went to the bodyguard office, there would be an inexplicable competitor for "minister of the imperial bodyguard".

The Jia family has passed down the tradition of guarding for two generations, and everyone in the guarding department has inherited the affection of the Jia family. However, there is only one generation in the Zhenguo Palace. If Jia Rong really goes to the bodyguard's office, it's hard to say who the "minister of the imperial bodyguard" will be in the future.

Now that things are going well, Jia Rong decided to go to Jingying to restore the glory of his ancestors. It really happened as everyone wished.

Just when Niu Junjie got his wish, Jia Rong also received an unexpected surprise. Suddenly, a "future colleague" in the Beijing camp expressed goodwill to him and secretly extended an invitation to a private gathering.

This person is the grandson of the Marquis of Dingcheng, a hereditary second-class man and a Beijing-based guerrilla Xie Jing!

As soon as I heard Xie Jing's title, I knew that his family was also a "radical". Otherwise, according to the order of inheritance of the descending hereditary titles of Duke Bozinan, this person should be a viscount, and he should still be treated as a first-class noble. But now there are only second-class men, and at first glance they are marginalized people that the emperor does not want to see.

But marginalized people are easy to win over! After all, Xie Jing also has a military career as a Beijing-based guerrilla. This is a camp officer, in charge of three thousand people in the capital camp. The proper "real power faction" must be won over first.

Moreover, Xie Jing’s upper limit has been fixed. If nothing else happens, it will most likely be difficult for him to achieve a promotion in his position and then move up a level.

But Jia Rong is different.

The ancestors of the Jia family, Ningguo Gong Jia Yan and the second generation Jia Daihua, were both the governors of the Beijing camp. In other words, the entire Jingying camp is made up of disciples of the Jia clan. Including the current Jingying Jiedushi Wang Ziteng, he also relied on the political resources of the Jia clan to reach this position.

Otherwise, it would be simply unreasonable for a mere descendant of an earl to seize the position of Jiedushi of the Beijing Camp!

Therefore, if Jia Rong enters the capital camp, it will restore the glory of his ancestors, and the probability of becoming the governor of the capital camp is very high.

Even if he can't be the governor, Jia Rong still has a high say in Wang Ziteng. Unlike Xie Jing, he was not even qualified to meet Wang Ziteng.

Therefore, as soon as Jia Rong revealed his feelings, Xie Jing secretly surrendered and decided to seize this opportunity.

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  The army of the Zhou Dynasty is mainly divided into two systems: the imperial army and the garrison army (border army).

The garrison guards the provincial and state capitals, and the military jurisdiction is divided according to the southeast, northwest and northwest directions, and is governed by the four founding kings with different surnames. During the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Taizu, in order to prevent the four princes from separatizing the region from becoming larger, he followed the old system of the pre-Ming Dynasty and established the Five Army Governor's Office in Shenjing to control the world's troops. Among them, four governors with different surnames served as governors-general.

It has been more than a hundred years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the world is generally at peace. On the three borders of the southeast and west, there are occasional disturbances and conflicts by rioters, bandits, barbarians, pirates and other minor troubles, but large-scale wars have not occurred for a long time.

Only the Tatars in the north have been a serious problem for the empire since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty. Every autumn and winter, "autumn defense" is carried out. A large number of squadrons are mobilized to garrison the northern border pass castles, patrols are strengthened day and night, and border rangers are killed to guard against a large-scale southward invasion by the Tatars.

Therefore, among the four princes with different surnames, the Prince of Beijing, who guards the north of the empire, has always been deeply trusted by the royal family, and has been passed down for hundreds of years and is still the prince.

This is an overview of the garrison (border army) system of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Simply put, the garrison is the headquarters of the "Four Kings". Except for the few people that the royal family can place in place, ordinary duke-hou Bozinan, divine and mighty fourth-grade generals, etc., cannot be regarded as the basic base and passed down from generation to generation.

The Forbidden Army is different.

Compared with the garrison (border army), the Forbidden Army is the headquarters of the Duke Bo Zinan and the divine and mighty fourth-grade general.

Functionally speaking, the Forbidden Army is divided into two systems: the pro-army system and the Jingwei system. Those who guard the emperor are called "guards and soldiers" and are divided into "langwei" and "military guards" according to their functions. Lang Wei is the emperor's personal bodyguard, including the bodyguard office and the pro-military camp. It is divided into two parts, led by the Imperial Guard Minister and Long Jinwei. The military guards are responsible for the emperor's ceremonial guard on various occasions. There are various yellow umbrellas when going to court, and various carriages, horses and sedans when going out to patrol. Luan Yi Guards are set up, and the Minister of Luan Yi Guards is responsible.

These three ministers, together with the emperor's royal guards and guards, guarded the imperial city.

In ancient feudal society, the emperor was the sole authority. The closer you were to the emperor, the more trust and power you represented. Therefore, depending on the distance between them and the emperor, the value of these three ministers will naturally be different.

The inner court security of the emperor and the concubine is headed by the imperial minister. In charge of the guards of Qianqing Gate, Neiyou Gate, Shenwu Gate, Ningshou Gate and the emperor's traveling retinue. He has the most powerful position. Not only can he have an audience with the emperor at any time, but he also serves as the "Grand Governor of the Chinese Army" in the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies.

He was the head of the pro-military system and the head of the Jingwei system. He was the first person with a military position (not a title) in the Zhou Dynasty.

Not only can he compete with the four major princes of different surnames, but he also has to respect the prince and princes, and those who are ambitious must win over him secretly.

And this was originally the position of Rongguo Gong Jia Yuan. After that came Jia Daishan.

As a result, after the Yongxing Incident, the Jia clan was involved in the struggle between princes and lost the trust of the Supreme Emperor. They lost their position and military power and began to decline. Replaced by the hereditary first-class Bo Niu Jizong of the Zhenguo Palace.

That's why Niu Junjie was extremely concerned about Jia Rong's rise and would not hesitate to break the rules to suppress him.

Just because the imperial minister has a high and powerful position, Niu Junjie has regarded it as his own. How could he allow Jia Rong to come and seize power?
  As everyone knows, Jia Rong has no interest in this at all!

The closer you are to the emperor, it represents the emperor's trust and higher power. But under the emperor's nose, the channel for downward development and extension was also lost. Jia Rong has no respect for the imperial power, and has long had the idea that "my fate is up to me". It is too late to hide, so how can he rely on it? Unless he has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses and feels safe, he will approach the palace.

The Guards Department is responsible for the security of the inner court, and the security of the outer court outside the Gate of Supreme Harmony is handled by the pro-military camp Long Jinwei. The "Long Jinwei Commander's Office" was established, under the control of the Long Jinwei Grand Commander.

In the thirteenth chapter of the original work, Jia Zhen bribed Xiang Dai Quan in the Ming Dynasty palace and donated 1200 taels of silver to buy the official position of the fifth-grade dragon forbidden captain. This is it.

The full name of Minister Luan Yiwei is "Minister of Health in charge of Luan Yiwei", which is the highest rank among military positions. But compared to the Imperial Minister and the Commander-in-Chief Long Jinwei, the gold content is lower.

The imperial guards in the imperial city are responsible for these three military systems. As for the soldiers and horses of the Royal Horse Supervisor, that is another system and has nothing to do with martial arts, so I won’t go into details.

It is worth mentioning that.

In the former Ming Dynasty, the "Jinyiwei" who was in charge of directing the guards and patrolling and arresting was inherited by Emperor Taizu, the founder of the Zhou Dynasty. The old Hongwu system was restored and called the "Pro-Army Duwei Mansion". Deprived of the function of being in charge of the emperor's ceremonial guard and bodyguards, he continued to engage in reconnaissance, arrests, interrogations, and participation in collecting military information and instigating rebellion against enemy generals. It became a military and political intelligence collection and supervision agency corresponding to the Supervisory Yuan's civil and military functions.

In particular, after Emperor Long'an ascended the throne today, spy politics flourished. The functions of Jinyi Mansion were brought into full play. In Long'an, the sun is in the sky, and the children have stopped crying at night. Gradually there are signs of restoring the old system of guarding the emperor and being responsible for ceremonial duties. He often accompanied the emperor on his tours, which aroused the fear of the imperial ministers, the commander-in-chief Long Jinwei and the minister Luan Yiwei.

Outside the imperial city, there is the entire Shenjing City, which also has a military and horse defense system. Such as the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, the Admiral Nine Gate Infantry Patrol Patrolling the Fifth Battalion (the infantry commanded the Yamen), etc.

However, these yamen were neither close to the power center of the imperial city, nor were they stationed outside to fight in all directions. He is only responsible for the security of Shenjing City. It is not taken seriously in the Forbidden Army system at all. He only acts as a "doormat", doing chores for the powerful and powerful, and doing thankless work. Unless... there is a mutiny, it will be remembered!

Outside Shenjing City is the highlight of the Forbidden Army.

It is also the main military force in the entire Jingwei system, except for the military attache yamen such as the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, the Infantry Commander Yamen, etc., that defends the entire hinterland of the capital and suppresses the four major military forces - the Jingying Camp and the 12th Regiment Battalion!

The army establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty inherited the "provincial town camp military system" from the previous Ming Dynasty. That is to say, the battalion system is the core, and below the battalion are departments, divisions, teams, and corps. (There are 5 people in the team, 50 in the team, 500 in the department, 2500 in the department, and 5000 in the battalion.)
  Functionally speaking, it is divided into regular barracks, surprise barracks, reinforcement battalions and guerrilla battalions, which are respectively led by generals, deputy generals, staff generals and guerrilla commanders. Among them, the main camp directly under the jurisdiction of the governor, fu, and general soldiers is also called the "model camp" because it is the elite of the entire army. There is a battalion general to lead the troops in combat (the generals directly under the command are deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, governors, guards, thousand, commanders, etc.), and the central army may have one person in the camp (or it may be divided, or the central army may concurrently lead the camp) ) to convey military orders.

Taking Beijing Camp as an example, the camps were first organized independently according to the types of arms, divided into eight battalions: Xiaoqi Battalion, Forward Battalion, Guard Battalion, Infantry Battalion, Jianrui Battalion, Firearms Battalion, Shenji Battalion, and Tiger Spear Battalion. Later, Shanpu Camp was added, with a total of nine camps.

Under each battalion type, there are regular barracks, surprise barracks, reinforcement battalions, and guerrilla battalions.

Each battalion will have a camp officer (garrison, guerrilla, staff general, deputy general, general soldier), who has relatively independent personnel appointment and removal rights and military control over the military affairs in the camp.

Therefore, Jia Rong attaches great importance to Xie Jing, who secretly works for him, and tries his best to show goodwill to Xie Jing, so that Xie Jing can feel the attention from the Jia clan.

Although the guerrilla general is just a small battalion officer in charge of 3000 people, he is not ranked high in the Beijing camp. But he has independent control, which is what Jia Rong values ​​most. The guerrilla generals add up to the combat power of the guerrilla battalions. When these people are bound together, they become a considerable force, enough for him to cause trouble in the capital camp.

Jia Rong will not give up this rare opportunity.

In addition to the generals of the Beijing camp, there were also people among the Spyker disciples present who had inherited the position of the 12th regiment camp.

The Twelve Regiment Battalions were established by Emperor Taizu, the founding emperor of the People's Republic of China, and were modeled after the military establishment during the Chenghua period of the former Ming Dynasty. Each battalion has 10,000 people, carefully selected from the Ban Army (Shibing Guards Station), the Border Army (Garrison Army), and the Beijing Camp (including the Wucheng Military and Horse Division and the Admiral Jiumen Infantry Patrol Fifth Battalion and other military attache offices). The elite soldiers came out. Then they were organized into camps, led by the twelve founding princes. The defenses were deployed throughout the entire Gyeonggi region. In fact, they were responsible for the defense of the Gyeonggi region. They were also one of the most elite combat forces in the Zhou Dynasty.

The Beijing Camp and the 12th Regiment Camp are not a military system.

The former was under the control of Ning Guogong, and the latter gave birth to the Twelve Marquises. It seems that there are high and low titles, but there is no subordinate in the official position, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior.

Therefore, these people did not react much to Jia Rong joining the Beijing camp. Not as eager as the grandson of Marquis Jingtian, Qiu Liang, the military commander of Wucheng, and the uncle of Jinxiang, Han Qi, and others.

After all, Jia Rong entered the Beijing camp and was at least a camp official. You can pull out your soldiers to cooperate with them, build some gardens for the homes of the Supreme Emperor and the nobles, earn some money, and contribute to the infrastructure of Shenjing City to the best of your ability.

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  Understand the military organizational system of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the power base of each Spyker family.

Jia Rong has a clear mind when dealing with the network of interpersonal relationships, just like a cook trying to solve the problem of cattle, he can instantly analyze the complex network of ancient social relationships clearly.

Be enthusiastic when you should be enthusiastic, indifferent when you should be cold, and stand on the opposite side when you should be hostile.

Figure out who your friends are and who your enemies are.

Then he inquired about his welfare, showed off his abilities, laid out a big pie for the political promotion route, and attracted many of his friends to his side. Then call on friends to use a certain ideal goal as a guiding belief, and use the division of interests in actual rights as a bond to form a network of relationships to trap the enemy, knock the enemy's bones and suck out the marrow, eat him dry and wipe him clean, and send him to hell for eighteen years. You will never be reincarnated for eternity!

In this way, the revolution succeeded.

"Brother Mingzhu, let's go and shoot another round!"

After chatting for a while, Jia Rong took Xie Jing, Qiu Liang, Han Qi and other aristocratic young men whom he had just made friends with, and strode towards the archery target area.

(End of this chapter)