Chapter 516: Status

After a long period of peace, this word is a great thing for the people and merchants, and it is a disaster for the army. Without combat, the army's combat effectiveness will not be trained. More importantly, the necessity of their existence cannot be revealed.

Because the Mongols in the north disappeared, many people felt that there was no need for even the nine border towns, and they had to vigorously abolish them. This was the case with the border troops, let alone the officers and soldiers of the Beijing Guards and the Military and Masji Office in the capital. Although Zhou Lin only controlled 2,000 people and some servants and servants in the homes of the Xi Party officials, they only had about 3,000 people together, but these 3,000 people easily controlled the Nine Gates of the Capital.

Of course, the guards of the city gates in the capital had heavy troops, but these soldiers were all Zhou Lin's subordinates. They took out the arrows and documents, and many people didn't want to resist. Another thing is that even if they could fight, they could not defeat Zhou Lin's two thousand border troops brought by Zhou Lin in Shaanxi. The officers and soldiers guarding the city had long had no will to fight, and they had wiped out their sharpness during the peaceful season.

A few lucky enough to climb over the wall from the ministers' mansion and head straight to the Imperial Horse Supervisor to mobilize troops. They saw that the pedestrians on the streets of the capital were all in a hurry and hurried towards their homes. Just now, the cavalry of the Beijing Guards shouted loudly in the city. No one was allowed to stay on the street. Otherwise, if they were killed in an hour, no one would dare to stay on the street? These people who were going to mobilize troops seemed particularly abrupt on the street. Fortunately, no one paid attention to them, so they ran over so carefully.

Finally, I arrived at the gate of the Imperial Horse Prison. The Imperial Horse Prison was a true imperial guard. It turned out that only eunuchs from the inner court had the right to take charge. There were three thousand military camps near the Forbidden City. After the investigation of the land case, several cabinet ministers jointly submitted a memorial saying that eunuchs were in charge of soldiers and were a bad policy. At that time, Jiajing also felt that eunuchs were the source of chaos, so he immediately approved the memorial and handed over the management rights of the Imperial Horse Prison to the Ministry of War.

When the Ming army went out to fight, the military supervisor was a eunuch, but the commander-in-chief was a civil servant. This was also a prescribed rule, but the Ministry of War distorted this rule and used it on the Imperial Horse Supervisor. The three thousand soldiers and horses in the Imperial Horse Supervisor became the direct leader of the civil servant, which was equivalent to putting a sharp blade directly on the emperor's neck. Emperor Jiajing was trembling and kept hiding his thoughts carefully until his performance had already confused everyone, and this was the activation.

The Imperial Horse Prison turned out that even in the Ming Dynasty, it was one of the most powerful troops. The eunuchs regarded this as their lifeblood, carefully cared for it, and practiced hard every day. After this civil servant led the army, the civil servants would train differently in different ways. It seems that after Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with Taoism, the civil servants in charge of the Imperial Horse Prison camp were too lazy to pay attention. They ignored everything except withholding military pay.

These horse-supervised camps, which were originally brisk soldiers who escaped from Mongolia, are now extremely loose and have no soldiers at all. They even work in the workshops of merchants in the capital to make money, which shows how corrupt it is.

Corruption is corruption. At the critical moment, these soldiers still need to be used. The Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the thousands of households were all trusted members of the East Party who were later replaced. As long as they talked about the matter, these people took action and controlled the imperial city. At that time, they asked Emperor Jiajing to issue an order to quell the rebellion. Regardless of whether the current soldiers of the Beijing Guard had the emperor's will or not, they could say that they were intending to rebel and had bad intentions. When necessary, they could even transfer soldiers from Xuanhua and Baoda to Beijing.

The few people who came to send the message arrived at the destination panting. When they saw the gate of the Imperial Horse Supervision Military Camp, they all felt relaxed. Then things turned around. Everyone thought so. There was not even a gatekeeper at the gate of the Imperial Horse Supervision Military Camp. It can be seen how the military discipline was corrupted.

The person who was the leader of the letter was tidying his clothes. When he was about to enter, he suddenly heard the sound of roaring in the mountains and seas, "Long live. Long live, long live." As soon as the shout came out, the few people outside couldn't help but be so scared that they almost lay on the ground. The soldiers who were not guarding the gate touched them.

As soon as you enter the camp, you are facing the military field of the Imperial Horse Supervision. You can see a dirt platform not far away. There is a man wearing bright yellow clothes on the dirt platform, and a group of people standing there. What is even more terrifying is that the soldiers are kneeling in the dust and saying "Long live the rest".

All of this in front of me illustrates the problem. There are no other people on the stage besides the emperor, and it is completely impossible to transfer troops. Several people who reported the news seemed quite prominent in the school ground where all of them were kneeling down. At least they were far away, and everyone was shouting long live the mountain. No one noticed them. These people hurriedly ran out. These people couldn't even go back to their own mansions, so they could only find some way out by themselves.

In the Forbidden City, or the tallest building in the entire capital, is a terrace built by Jiajing to seek immortality. Standing on the terrace, you can basically see the West and South City. On the terrace, there is always a little eunuch collecting dew there.

The capital was dry and the things were dry, so it was quite troublesome to collect the dew, so there were always little eunuchs on duty. However, since the day before yesterday, the little eunuch on the terrace had no eyes on the copper plate for collecting dew, but had been staring at the Jingwei Admiral's Mansion in the west city. The Jingwei Admiral's Mansion was erected at the moment, and it looked quite conspicuous.

At noon today, a black flag was hung on the flagpole of the Admiral's Mansion. The little eunuch ran down hurriedly, and there were only a few steps to be the emperor's retreat. When he ran outside the door, the little eunuch whispered:

"Long live the king, the black flag is raised."

Emperor Jiajing, who was breathing cross-legged in the clean room, stood up suddenly. There were more than a dozen Taoist worshippers in the palace around him, all of whom came to the palace to preach in the past few days, and they all followed him. Emperor Jiajing glanced at him, nodded, and said:

"Follow me to the Royal Horse Supervision Camp, your wealth is today."

The Taoists had a firm expression on their faces, but their eyes flashed with a firm look. They nodded and took off their Taoist robes one after another. The Taoist robes were covered with the costumes of the palace guards. On the table worshiping the Sanqing, there were more than a dozen peach wood swords for rituals. These Taoists walked up to them and picked up peach wood swords one after another.

The sword body collided but made a metal sound, which was simply a sharp blade. However, no one had ever checked these Taoist priests who entered the palace and were already tired. They were obviously prepared for it. The strong eunuchs in the palace gathered together with ceremonies and other guards and stood by outside the door.

Emperor Jiajing walked to the door and looked at the soldiers beside him who had become Taoist priests. The eunuchs who looked a little panicked and still were with him were inexplicably sad. He felt that he was such a coward, and he was unique in the years of the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Di valued eunuchs, his ministers advised him that he valued eunuchs. The disaster of the Han and Tang Dynasties was a lesson for the past, and Zhu Di's answer was straightforward. The eunuchs had no roots and no factions, and they could only rely on the power of the emperor. These people were the ones who were most loyal to me. Their glory and wealth were in my hands, so why should they be afraid of disasters?

Emperor Jiajing was quite slandering when he was Xingxian's palace. Looking at Wang Zhen and Liu Jin's disaster, this is the end of believing in the eunuchs. But today, Emperor Jiajing discovered that he could rely on these eunuchs. Since civil officials controlled the power of the world, the power of eunuchs was too small, but these people were still loyal to the emperor.

In fact, when the officers and soldiers in the Beijing Guards started to take action, they had already discovered that on weekdays, the civil servant who commanded the Imperial Horse Guards camp thought that the dust here was too big and they were all rude warriors. When they came every day, they sat in the middle hall. Tang Muri was even more unwilling to come and went to have fun. Without the constraints of the upper peak, the people below were also wandering around the capital.

When they saw the officers and soldiers of the Beijing Guards taking to the streets, a few alert people ran back to report the news. The thousands of households in the military camp immediately exploded the camp. They were all officers arranged by civil servants. Naturally, they knew what the consequences would be if civil servants outside collapsed.

Several people discussed it all over the place, and finally decided to gather the troops first and send a team to ask the Minister of War Gu. If there were any problems, it would be too late to take action. However, these soldiers were already scattered, and it took more than an hour to gather together. Finally, they all gathered together. Before the officers made any arrangements, they saw that the back of the team was in chaos again.

Qianhu, who was in charge, was immediately furious and wanted to arrange his personal soldiers to overwhelm. At this time, he heard the chaotic place shouting Long Live, and was immediately shocked.

These soldiers did not know that civil officials were now controlling the government affairs. The emperor was still the supreme existence to them. Seeing the emperor wearing bright yellow dragon robe and full of ceremonial guards appear behind him, everyone's first reaction was to kneel down and say long live.

More than three thousand soldiers separated to both sides as the tide receded. Emperor Jiajing walked up to the officers with high spirits. Several thousand and Baihus standing there were stunned, until the eunuch beside the emperor shouted angrily:

"The emperor is here, why don't you kneel!"

This was when I woke up and knelt down dejectedly. Jiajing knew that from now on, the situation in the capital had been settled.
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