Wanli 1592

Chapter 763 Strange Switching
Because of his busy work, Shen Yiguan took care of Shi Xing these days, and gave Shi Xing a token to enter and exit Miyagi at night, allowing him to leave the city and go home late at night.

This gave Shi Xing a lot of convenience, allowing him to take shortcuts through some palace gates outside the Forbidden City.

This has been the case for the past few nights. Shi Xing worked overtime very late and went back very late, but it was smooth, but the carriage stopped two or three times tonight. It didn't matter to Shi Xing once or twice. Unable to bear it anymore, he lifted the curtain beside the car and looked out.

"What's the matter? Stop and go?"

Shi Xing asked the attendant outside the car.

"Ministry, there are several teams of soldiers and horses blocking our way. They are not wearing black tiger armor. They look like Jingying guards. From the looks of it, they seem to be going in the direction of Dong'anmen."

"Beijing soldiers? Dong'anmen? Isn't the guard of the imperial city in the inner city in charge of the four guards of Tengxiang? What do the guards of the Beijing camp take care of?"

Shi Xing felt strange, why did these military horses appear in the inner city in the middle of the night?He secretly became suspicious, so he asked his attendants to come forward and ask, don't reveal his identity, just say that he is the official of the Ministry of Rites.

Not only the Ministry of War has been busy these days, but also the Ministry of Rites. Some officials of the Ministry of Rites have also obtained temporary tokens for entering and leaving the palace.

The entourage will be back soon.

"Budang, those are indeed Jingying soldiers, Jinwu Zuowei and Habayashi Zuowei, they said they were ordered to transfer a routine defense, told us not to go through here, and asked us to take a detour, Budang, did we issue this order? "

Shi Xing frowned upon hearing this.

"Absurd, why did the officer give this order? And how could Jinwu Zuowei and Habayashi Zuowei switch defenses with Tengxiang's four guards? Isn't this a joke?"

Shi Xing is very clear about this point. This is a fundamentally impossible thing to happen. After the Tumubao, the civil official group got involved in the military power and gradually stripped the imperial guards founded by Zhu Yuanzhang from the emperor's control.

Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention of founding the Forbidden Army was to build a powerful army that the emperor could personally control. At first, there were twelve guards and horses. Later, in Zhu Di's period, because Beijing was in a place prone to war, ten guards and horses were added.

During the Xuande period, in order to further expand the emperor's military power, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty selected elite soldiers from various guards in the world, as well as strong men who had escaped from the Mongolian region. Together they formed the Tengxiang Four Guards, which were added on the basis of the original 22 guards. Four Guards Horses.

The meaning of the Tengxiang Four Guards is the same as that of the Jinyiwei. Unlike the other 21 guards, the Jinyiwei belongs to the commander-in-chief of the Jinyiwei, and the Tengxiang Four Guards are managed by several eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the degree of closeness is even closer to the Jinyiwei.

Therefore, the four guards of Tengxiang can be regarded as the forbidden soldiers among the forbidden soldiers, the real guards of the emperor, and the last line of defense.

After the Civil Fortress, the power of the civil official group expanded, and gradually the 21 guards, including the Jinyiwei and Tengxiang Four Guards, were stripped of the emperor's direct control, while only the Jinyiwei and Tengxiang Four Guards were returned to the emperor's control of the 26 guards.

The remaining 21 guards declined quickly, with no fighting power. The mission of guarding the inner city and the imperial city fell on the four guards of Tengxiang.

Later, during the Xianzong and Wuzong periods, both Zhu Jianshen and Zhu Houzhao tried their best to strengthen the number and combat effectiveness of the Tengxiang Four Guards within a limited framework. By the time of Wuzong's heyday, the Tengxiang Four Guards had a total of [-] soldiers and horses. He went out several times, and his reputation was so great that the civilian government was overwhelmed.

However, after Wu Zong fell into the water and died, after experiencing Jiajing Longqing and the early Wanli period, the current Tengxiang Four Guards has only 500 people. four guards.

However, as the emperor's last psychological defense line, the civil official group will not instruct the remaining 21 guards to try to control the guarding power of the inner city and the imperial city, but will give it to the four guards of Tengxiang as the last stand between the monarch and his ministers. A veil of warmth.

The remaining 21 guards were mainly in charge of guarding in the outer city, and had never been mobilized into the inner city. Unless there was a serious event, the cabinet could only mobilize the 21 guards into the inner city or even the Forbidden City after obtaining the emperor's permission.

Before Zhang Juzheng, the power of the cabinet was not very prominent, so the dominant power of the Beijing camp was with the Ministry of War. Battalion dominance.

The current Beijing camp is basically military general Xungui as the governor of the army and the distributor of benefits, and the minister of the Ministry of War or the minister concurrently serves as the minister of military affairs, acting as Wu Xun's deputy, and actually controls the Beijing camp.

Originally, this situation would have some unpredictable changes due to the appearance of Xiao Ruxun, and Shi Xing was also worried about it, because the emperor had issued an edict to him several times, asking him not to restrict Xiao Ruxun too much, but to cooperate in all aspects Xiao Ruxun, this made Shi Xing very difficult.

Even so, Shi Xing didn't know at all that Beijing soldiers entered the inner city to change defenses with Tengxiang's four guards tonight.

This is simply nonsense!

Is it the emperor's permission?why?Why didn't you notify yourself?
As the Minister of the Ministry of War, he didn't know about this matter. Shi Xing felt that the problem was a bit serious, so he stopped hiding his identity, got out of the car, walked quickly to the marching army over there, grabbed a man who looked like an officer, and asked.

"Which part of the team are you? Who ordered you to switch defenses in the middle of the night?"

The officer looked at Shi Xing for a long time, saw that he was wearing a big red robe, he should be a high official, so he tentatively asked: "I don't know who you are?"

"Military Minister Shi Xing!"

Shi Xing directly revealed his identity.

The officer obviously didn't expect the Minister of the Ministry of War to appear in front of him, and was so frightened that he quickly knelt down on one knee.

"The last general pays his respects to the Ministry!"

"Get up, you haven't answered my question! What's going on?"

The officer stood up and said cautiously: "When we go back to the hall, we have received an order from the cabinet. The cabinet ordered us to switch defenses with the soldiers and horses guarding here."

"Cabinet? Tengxiang Four Guards and Warrior Camp are the commanders-in-chief of the Yumajian. Did the Yumajian cooperate at the same time? Is this an order from His Majesty?"

The officer hurriedly said: "These generals don't know. The generals only know that when they came here, there were only a few officers from the Black Armored Army waiting for us to change defense here. As soon as we arrived, they left, and we took advantage of the opportunity to switch defenses." Yes, we are also following orders."

"Absurd! To mobilize the army to change defenses, even if it is an order from the cabinet, you should inform the official, and don't say anything, what is this? Is it a display for me to be the Minister of the Ministry of War? Does Shen Yiguan still have the Ministry of War in his eyes?! "

Shi Xing was very dissatisfied with this, and severely reprimanded the officer. The officer had no choice but to say, "Then, how about asking Shi Butang to ask the cabinet? Our order is issued by the cabinet. Someone else is on duty."

Shi Xing stared.

"You don't need to say it! Come on, let's go to the cabinet and ask Shen Yiguan to find out!"

Shi Xing returned to the carriage indignantly, and his attendants immediately drove the carriage towards the cabinet.

(End of this chapter)