Chapter 811 Embroidered Clothes
After beating Guo Tu, Zhang Chong's most important thing now is to improve the responsibilities and power boundaries of Xiu Yiwei.
As future generations, of course we understand how powerful the secret service is. But if the supervision is not good, it will be like the beautiful country, which will continue to be kidnapped by its secret service.
Therefore, as the founder, Zhang Chong must determine the power boundaries of Xiuyiwei.
For now, the core job of Xiu Yiwei at this stage is to guard the imperial palace.
Because Hou Er broke into the gate before, the gate still needs to be strengthened. Otherwise, as Meng Ju said, it would be really dangerous if the enemy sends an assassin to poison.
The difficulty in strengthening access control before was Zhang Chong's attitude, not technology, so when Zhang Chong's attitude relaxed, the relevant access control system was quickly established.
The specific design was by Jushou.
Based on the original access control system of the Han family, he made innovations suitable for the characteristics of the Taishan Army.
Specifically, all the embroidered guards guarding the North Palace, from the commander to the sergeant, take turns to ascend according to their respective establishments, and they cannot be replaced by others during this period.
And if someone in his team takes leave, the entire team will be replaced and replaced by another complete team, rather than just randomly replacing someone.
The reason why Jushou designed this system is to prevent strangers from entering the forbidden area.
A team eats and sleeps together and is very familiar with each other. If strangers are allowed to join the team, it will not only affect the team's cooperation, but also make the teams accustomed to seeing strangers in the ban.
What's more important is that if the team is familiar enough with each other, they can monitor the abnormalities of their teammates to a certain extent. Once someone in the team rebels, they can respond quickly.
Jushou not only asked all the embroidered clothing guards' teams to take turns to go to the palace, but also asked them to conduct detailed inspections of the people coming and going from the palace.
Every day at five o'clock when all the ministers attend the court, the governor on duty, the captain, and the warrior with the sword must enter first, and then all the civil and military officials are allowed in in turn.
If the female officials, rough envoys, and Lang Wei in the palace want to figure it out, they must first compare the copper talismans. If someone leaves the house without permission, all the guards guarding the gate and wearing embroidered clothes will be punished with a serious crime.
In addition, for those who make purchases in the palace or go on official business, the gatekeepers and embroidered clothes must also be inspected, and then record where the person went on business and what clothes they were wearing at the time in the duty document.
In short, it is necessary to formulate document management for such personnel's outings.
There is only one type of people, the Xiuyi Guards, who do not need to be interrogated. Even if they are stopped and asked about their affairs, they will be punished.
That is the official who has something important to report to the palace.
For these people, the palace ban will be released.
It can be said that the palace ban system designed by Jushou is very strict, and he likes to use severe punishments to punish. In addition, there are many key points involved. If Xiuyiweimen follows it like this when he first comes up, he will definitely suffer a lot from the team.
But fortunately, the king is currently staying in the North Palace in Luoyang. This is only a temporary palace and does not involve so many palace restrictions. It can also give the embroidered guards some time to adapt.
But this does not mean that it is easy, because compared to the two gates of the Zodiac Palace in Yecheng, the Luoyang Yangguang North Palace has three gates, and the South Palace has four gates.
It can be said that there is still a lot of palace defense work in Luoyang.
Of course, this is still incomparable with the Forbidden City in later generations. There are seven gates behind the Light Palace. But even so, the guarding force involved in guarding the three gates of the North Palace is very huge.
After all, as a palace defense force, they not only have to check people coming and going and record travel records, but they also have to resist the rebel forces seizing the palace at critical moments.
Therefore, each gate requires at least a thousand people to defend it. In this way, the three palaces will need 3,000 guards, and then if they are taken down in three shifts, a total of 9,000 guards will be needed.
These numbers are not large for the Taishan Army, but they are too redundant for a secret service department.
Therefore, if you want to defend the palace gate, it is obviously not enough to rely on the embroidered clothes to guard your own troops.
And this garrison force is already ready-made, that is, the king's personal army.
This is not talking about the Rampage Team.
During the previous reorganization, the Crossing Team had been upgraded to a re-education institution for senior generals directly under the Privy Council, and it had moved away from its purely pro-military character.
Most of the current troops under the banner are the first four armies of the Forbidden Army. These officials have the responsibility of guarding the Forbidden City. They were responsible for guarding the palace before the appearance of the Xiuyi Guards.
But now, with the embroidered clothes guard, the embroidered clothes guards are the inner guard, and the four forbidden troops are the outer guard, which together form the palace gate security.
After determining the guard regulations of the Xiuyi Guards, Jushou began to select personnel from the Twenty-Four Forbidden Army.
Because of the special responsibilities of the Xiuyi Guards, they will need to play a supervisory role both internally and externally in the future, so those personnel will naturally need to have outstanding abilities.
Not only are their physical and military qualities required to be higher than those of ordinary Forbidden Forces, but they also need to find people with a clean background.
The so-called innocence of life experience is very characteristic of the Taishan Army.
Not only must they be from poor peasants or tenant farmers, but they must also have more than three years of military experience, and even family members must be lawless.
When this condition came out, all the generals in the army were very dissatisfied, because Ju Shou's selection criteria were simply digging into the roots of each army.
Jushou's first condition is easy to say, because 99% of the officials in the Taishan Army are from poor peasants and tenant farmers, so this condition applies to most people.
But Jushu's second point will cost the lives of all armies.
You must know that the Taishan Army has only been established for eight years. Who can have three years of military experience, who is not the backbone of the army? These people are the backbone of each battalion and the guarantee of combat effectiveness.
You want to dig out the roots of the military by setting up an embroidered clothing guard?
It wouldn't matter if it was the king's order. Anyway, our Taishan soldiers are all bricks, so we can move them wherever they are needed. But if you think so, I'm afraid you're still not qualified.
As a result, many military generals, including some of Zhang Chong's old brothers, came to the palace to meet the king and expressed their dissatisfaction with this matter.
Zhang Chong saw that there was so much resistance to this matter and felt that it was inappropriate.
After all, at this stage, the combat power of the Taishan Army must be the priority. As for why Ju Shou did this, Zhang Chong could more or less guess the reason, but it was difficult to explain.
Therefore, after Zhang Chong had a conversation with Jushou, he asked Jushou to give up the work of establishing the embroidered clothes guard, and let Meng Ju, the former general of the Fei Army, take over the job.
Meng Ju was an old brother of the Taishan Army, and he was a member of the army. At the same time, he had served in foreign intelligence work before, so the warriors had nothing to say.
But what did the literati think?
That must be dissatisfaction, but in this matter, they could clearly see that the king intended to take care of the senior generals in the army, so even if they were dissatisfied, they could only remain silent.
After all, it is still time to conquer the world, and it is not their turn to take the lead.
When Meng Ju paid homage to the Commander-in-Chief of the Embroidery Guards, he received advice from Zhang Chong, and he quickly grasped the focus of establishing the Embroidery Guards.
Why did the veteran military bosses have such a big rebound? Isn't it because the person responsible for establishing the Embroidered Clothes Guards is Jushou, who was born under his sect?
Who in the government and the public does not know the role behind Xiuyiwei? How could they not be afraid of Jushu, who was a scholar?
You must know that today's military veterans are not the bosses of the past. Thanks to Zhang Chong's teachings since he founded the army, these old brothers have the habit of reading history.
Even if some of them are illiterate, they will hire people to read history to them. Among them, the two books that these people love most are "Historical Records" and "Hanshu". They love "Historical Records" because the book is interesting and not tiring to listen to, and the historical figures in it are also lifelike, just like listening to a story.
But they don't listen to "Hanshu" for fun, but for usefulness. What happened in the previous dynasty is exactly what they want to understand.
In their position, the more they know about the past dynasties, the better they can survive in politics.
They can see the power of Xiuyiwei from history.
At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was famous enough for his decisiveness, and Prince Ru was well-established. Wei and Huo did not have a group of wingers. These people were all over the government and the public, and they were all supporters of Prince Ru.
But what is the result of the cruel prince in the end? Because of Jiang Chong's frame-up, he was forced to rebel, and was eventually hanged on the way to escape.
As a result, the meritorious sons of the early Han Dynasty were purged, and almost all the army was wiped out. After Emperor Wu, there was no one among the meritorious families who served as the three princes.
How could such an ending not make these old brothers wary?
Of course, although these people have initially escaped from the level of illiteracy, their understanding of history is still relatively shallow. They can only stay in the narrative of the text itself and cannot see the unsaid meaning of the historian through the text.
The essence of the case of the violent prince was not that a traitor acted as a monster, but that it involved a fight for the throne. It was a political strangulation by the Zhao Party, with Li's relatives as the core, against the princeling who was increasingly out of favor.
But even if they could not understand the deep meaning behind the incident, it did not prevent them from fearing that Ju Shou would serve as the commander-in-chief of the Xiuyi Guard.
Can they not be afraid? Let alone whether Jushu was one of their own, just ask, what was Jushu’s identity five years ago? He is still holding fast in Xiangguo to resist these Taishan troops.
Many old brothers in the army had participated in the battle of Xiangguo that year, and their hands were stained with the blood of Jushou's disciples and guests.
Let such a person hold such a sensitive position, the old brothers are afraid that they will not be able to sleep at night.
Zhang Chong took these concerns of his old brothers into consideration and asked Ju Shou to withdraw from the work of establishing the Embroidery Guard.
In fact, in fact, Zhang Chong never formally appointed Jushou to this position. It was Jushou who was meticulous and good at organizing work, so he was temporarily used by Zhang Chong to form the Embroidery Guard.
But even such behavior could arouse a backlash from the old brothers in the army, which Zhang Chong did not expect.
However, from this incident, Zhang Chong could see the uneasiness in the hearts of the old brothers.
As Taishan's army became stronger and stronger, and the territory it conquered became larger and larger, these old brothers who had sacrificed their lives and blood with Zhang Chong became more and more worried about the future.
Han Xin's words at that time, "When the cunning rabbit dies, the lackeys cook it; when the flying birds disappear, the good bow is hidden" can be said to be a curse that has always lingered in the hearts of the meritorious officials.
It can be said that the Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty set a very bad start for future generations. Even if Guangwu who revitalized the Han Dynasty treated the meritorious officials well in the future, he could not erase this curse from the minds of the meritorious officials.
But now, it seems that Zhang Chong's move to establish the Embroidery Guard has stepped on the sensitive nerves of the old brothers.
If you are an ordinary wise person, you will definitely be more suspicious of these old brothers at this time.
What are you people like? If you are so scared, do you already have a plan in mind?
As a result, he used even more methods to punish these old brothers and would not stop until a group of them were cleared.
But Zhang Chong understood the backlash of the old brothers. He knew that this was precisely because they were insecure and worried that they would not start well and end well.
In fact, if you think about it from another person’s perspective, anyone who is under a heroic master like Zhang Chong can’t help but think about this;
"If I or my children change in the future and become a powerful family, will we also be purged by the king?"
And based on their understanding of the king, the answer must be yes.
Therefore, in addition to restraining their children more, the old brothers also followed the king closely and never dared to fall behind.
In this kind of psychological state, it is normal to be confused.
That's why Zhang Chong compromised and replaced himself with Meng Ju to appease the hearts of his brothers.
As expected, no one in the army spoke after this replacement.
Because they understand the king's attitude, being able to change people means that the king has never thought of targeting old brothers like them.
As a result, the army was at peace.
Therefore, to a certain extent, Zhang Chong still loves and cares for his old brothers who have been with him through life and death.
Otherwise, which hero would change someone just because the people below him object? If Qiankun is not arbitrary, how can he still be called a hero?
Of course, the premise of this love is that these people do not make principled mistakes.
As the saying goes:
"To treat your comrades, you need to be as gentle as gentle breeze and drizzle; to treat your enemies, you need to be as cruel as a storm."
Therefore, please be sure to be one of King Zhang’s own people.
Meng Ju received these teachings from Zhang Chong and knew the whole story, so he quickly understood the spirit.
When it came to selecting candidates for the Xiuyi Guards, Meng Ju did not use a single member of the army, but started a new process and selected them directly from the civilian population.
Meng Ju recommended the powerful ones from the local communes to go to Luo, and then went to Kyoto for centralized training. In the process, the backgrounds of the warriors were screened, and those who finally passed the test were incorporated into the embroidered clothing guards.
Meng Ju reported this suggestion to Zhang Chong, and Zhang Chong immediately understood the advantages of this method.
In the Taishan Army's rural commune system, those who can serve as a commune official are themselves innocent.
When the Taishan Army cleaned up rural local tyrants, these people were almost all front-line activists, otherwise they would not have been appointed as village officials by the Taishan Army.
Therefore, selecting candidates for the Xiuyi Guards from the township community is equivalent to selecting from the basic base of the Taishan Army. Naturally, there is no chance of selecting people who hate the Taishan Army.
In addition, Mengju requested that only those with strong strength be sent from the local township commune.
Strong strength basically means a strong body, and you can master military skills with a little preparation. After all, the embroidered guards not only need to guard the palace gates, but also need to hold books and ceremonial guards on weekdays. Without strength, it will definitely be impossible.
Finally, rural officials themselves are also quite suitable to be embroidery guards, because these people are rooted in the grassroots, can carry out work, and are well-versed in people and world affairs.
After all, Xiuyiwei is a secret service agency, and the personnel it requires must be smart and capable, and this is even more important than personal bravery.
Those with suitable conditions will be trained again in Kyoto, and will undergo background checks. The candidates selected through repeated screening will definitely be trustworthy.
It was because of Meng Ju's selection suggestion that Zhang Chong was completely relieved and handed over the establishment of the Xiu Yiwei to Meng Ju.
And Meng Ju became the first governor of Xiu Yiwei.
The Sword of Damocles is ready.