Chapter 73 The Strength of the Royal Horse Supervisor
Zhu Zaijing touched his chin and frowned, thinking about Huang Jin's ability.
Originally, Zhu Zaijing wanted to take advantage of the fact that the firearms camp was not as powerful as before, and by recruiting 500 firearms camp soldiers, he could also get igniters and craftsmen.
As a result, instead of getting the soldiers from the Firearms Battalion, they unexpectedly got 500 strong soldiers from the Royal Horse Supervisor.
The Royal Horse Guards and the Firearms Camp are completely different things.
Strictly speaking, the Firearms Battalion is a military force jointly managed by the Imperial Palace and the Ministry of War. For such an important force in an era when the Firearms Battalion is the dominant force, both the Imperial Household and the Ministry of War will attach great importance to it.
However, as the capital has been without police for a hundred years, the armaments within the capital have naturally relaxed.
Nowadays, the roster of the Ministry of War can still list 40,000 to 50,000 forbidden troops in the capital, but these forbidden troops are just old soldiers who have never seen weapons or simply the old, weak, sick and disabled hereditary in the capital.
It is almost impossible to expect someone to love them.
That’s why Zhu Zaijing made his wishful thinking on the firearms camp, but in the end it was the people from the Royal Horse Prison who came.
The origin of the Royal Horse Prison can be traced back to the Hongwu period of Emperor Taizu. However, the Royal Horse Prison at that time was just created, and it was still an inner court unit like a weak chicken. Even the high-ranking Royal Horse Prison eunuchs were only in the sixth grade. The Sesame Official.
But by the time of Emperor Yongle, the functions of the Royal Horse Supervisor had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Emperor Yongle not only expanded the original power of the Royal Horse Supervisor from "controlling the horses in the royal stables" to "controlling the royal horses, paying tribute, and overseeing the collection of horses and mules", but also on this basis, he also empowered the Royal Horse Supervisor Ma Jian has two major functions: military and financial.
From then on, the Royal Horse Prison was like an old hen turned into a duck - quack quack. The magnificence is such that it can keep pace with the internal officials and ceremonial supervisors.
His business has also extended from managing horses to breeding and training horses.
Also because of the expansion of power in this area, a forbidden army led by the Royal Horse Supervisor was born, namely: Tengxiang Four Guards, Four Guards, and Warrior Battalion!
And from an old document from the Hongzhi period, we can also see that the Royal Horse Prison is unique.
In the tenth year of Hongzhi, Ma Wensheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, made a brief review of the setting up of the Ming Dynasty's forbidden troops in a memorandum, and mentioned the forbidden troops led by Yu Majian.
The memorial says: My Taizu, Emperor Gao, ruled the world, governed by ancient methods, and knew the art of military preparation extremely well. Therefore, the Sixteenth Guards Pro-army Commanding Department was established, which was not affiliated with the Five Prefectures and was a forbidden army. ... In Yongle, the Twelve Guards of the pro-army command department were reestablished. He also selected the able-bodied officers and soldiers from all over the world, as well as the men who had returned from the captives, and recruited them as warriors. There were often thousands of them. Other troops.
So from this old document, it can be seen that the Royal Horse Guards began to govern the horse breeding personnel and then the forbidden soldiers in the Yongle period.
Moreover, the original source of this forbidden army was the able-bodied men selected from various guards, as well as the young and middle-aged men who escaped from the Mongolian region. From the perspective of affiliation, this forbidden army does not belong to the Twelve Guards (later called the Twenty-two Guards) under the jurisdiction of the Pro-Army Command and Envoy Division, but its status is obviously higher than that of the Twelve Guards. It is the forbidden army among the forbidden soldiers. Therefore, the duties of this forbidden soldier can be directly "changed to the highest level" and serve as a permanent guard.
It’s so arrogant!
Moreover, the staffing of the Royal Horse Prison has changed several times. In the sixth year of Xuande, this forbidden army had a quota of 3,100 people, and it also took an official name: Yulin Three Thousand Household!
Two years later, Emperor Xuande built on this foundation and enriched the Beijing army's horse-raising sergeants and the original Shenwu avant-garde officers and soldiers, and organized them into Tengxiang left and right guards, Wuxiang left and right guards, Collectively known as the "Four Guards", also known as the "Four Guards Army".
If calculated according to the establishment at that time, there were 5,600 people for one guard, then the Fourth Guard Army should consist of more than 20,000 sergeants.
This shows how terrifying the Royal Horse Supervisor’s actual strength is!
And this is not even counting the peak moment of Yumajian. In Jingtai and Chenghua, the three major battalions of the Beijing Army were reorganized into regiment camps. The warriors of the Four Guards of Tengxiang and the strong flag troops were mobilized, and the Warrior Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion were formed, and the camp officers were selected from the commanders of the Four Guards. During the periods of Hongzhi and Zhengde, the number of the two battalions was more than 40,000.
It can be said that it is a super forbidden army that surpasses all the forbidden forces in the capital! However, with the deterioration of the Ming Dynasty's finances, naturally even the emperor could not afford to support such a large imperial eunuch.
So after many subsequent rectifications and changes, the quota of the Yuma Prison was also set at more than 6,500 people, but even so, no one dared to underestimate the Yuma Prison of strength.
After all, the Royal Horse Guards are completely private soldiers of the palace, and all personnel's salaries and military pay are directly provided by the palace. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the emperor's concubines.
And the weapons and equipment they are equipped with are also the best and most high-end in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, with such an awesome configuration, if it was just a show-off, it would definitely not be taken seriously.
So the Royal Horse Prison also had its highlight moments in history.
In the 14th year of Zhengtong, Emperor Baozong and his close comrade Wang Zhenren were addicted to food, which led to the Tumubao Incident. Not only Baozong himself was captured, Wang Zhen was killed, and even the main force of the Ming army The three major camps were all in mourning.
At this critical moment, the Royal Horse Supervisor stepped forward.
The Oara army took advantage of the victory and attacked the capital. The defense battle of Beijing lasted for five days under the organization of Uncle Yu Qian. The fiercest battles took place at Xizhimen and Zhangyimen.
The soldiers guarding these two gates are the main force of the Royal Horse Prison. The one guarding the Xizhi Gate is Liu Ju, the nephew of the Royal Horse Prison eunuch Liu Yongcheng. The Four Guards Warriors and Flag Army who stayed behind in Beijing under the supervision of Superintendent Ma.
After this battle, everyone suddenly discovered that in addition to the three major battalions that were wiped out by Baozong, the Ming Dynasty also had a powerful force-Yu Ma Jian!
From then on, Yu Ma Jian received more and more attention. Even when Baozong was restored, Baozong was worried about killing Yu Ma Jian and replaced him with a wave of eunuchs. After five years in Tianshun, At that time, Cao Jixiang, who supported the restoration of the Baozong, rebelled. It was also the warriors of the Four Guards and the Banner Army of Yumajian who made great efforts to put down Cao Jixiang's rebellion.
Later, in the ninth year of Zhengde, Emperor Wuzong selected elites from the 12 regiments of the Beijing Army and organized them into the front and rear battalions. They trained together with the Warrior Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion in the West Official Hall to "select the front". It can be seen from this that the Royal Horse Supervisor is a force with extremely strong combat effectiveness.
But now Huang Jin has brought him five hundred well-trained horse guards. How could this not make Zhu Zaijing reconsider Huang Jin's true power?
He can actually interfere with the power of the Royal Horse Supervisor. This is really terrifying!
You must know that the Yuma Jian belongs directly to the emperor's personal armed forces. Although the eunuchs of the Yuma Jian are not as prominent as the eunuchs of the Si Li Jian, their actual status and power are not at all inferior to those of the Si Li Jian.
So even if Huang Jin was the eunuch in charge of the Li Supervisor and the admiral of the East Factory, he could not bypass Emperor Jiajing and directly dispatch the troops of the Royal Horse Supervisor.
But now the people Huang Jin hired for Zhu Zaijing were from the imperial horse supervisor. This had to make Zhu Zaijing rethink his partner. It was too strong. He would still have to move around more and hug his thighs tightly in the future. That's it.
In Zhu Zaijing's perception, the princes and princes of the Jiajing Dynasty were not as popular as the princes and princes of other periods. The old Jiajing emperor was a superstitious emperor who believed in "two dragons never meet". Jin's thighs, what if he is bullied and the old Taoist priest from Jiajing doesn't stand up to support him?
After all, some histories that are not true or false also say that whether King Yu in history could have money to spend depends on Yan Shifan's face, otherwise he would not even receive the prince's salary.
So Huang Jin's thigh must be hugged tightly, so that he can resist external risks to the greatest extent.
"Meng Daban, go to the accountant and bring out 10,000 taels of silver to give to Huang Jin, saying it is a special dividend!"
Thinking of this, Zhu Zaiping screamed and called Meng Chong outside, and prepared to draw closer to the intimate relationship between himself and Huang Jin.
(End of this chapter)