It was originally called Tuen Ying, also known as Fei Qi. Later, a Hundred Cavalry was created, and then a Thousand Cavalry was created. Now it is a Hundred Cavalry, Thousand Cavalry, Fei Qi and Tun Qi (Shenji), a total of eight camps.
When Li Shimin went to court early in the morning, he was sprayed by Wei Zheng again.
To be honest, Wu Huaiyu stood on the steps of the palace with his sword in his hand, and he couldn't stand it anymore. Squirting every day has become an unbreakable repertoire.
As soon as the position of the hundred officials was established, Wei Zheng would leave the class to give admonitions, endlessly.
He is now the Minister Zuocheng, and is no longer the official admonisher, but he has to do this thing every day, and Li Shimin is tired of it.
But Li Shimin was also ruthless and did not punish Wei Zheng. I will continue to admonish you every day.
Not only are the soldiers still being trained in person every day at the Xiande Palace Square, but they are also expanding the North Gate Forbidden Army.
There are flying cavalry on the left and right, thousands of cavalry on the left and right, and magical machines on the left and right, each with 5,000 people, for a total of 30,000 people.
There are hundreds of cavalry on the left and right, one thousand each, for a total of two thousand people.
There is nothing unusual about the first six battalions. The main reason is that the original 30,000 forbidden troops were re-divided this time, from the left and right camps into six battalions. They are still on duty in five divisions, each battalion has a thousand men on duty, so the total number is still the same.
Six thousand people guarded the north gate.
The biggest change is in the Hundred Cavalry. Originally, one hundred people were selected from the flying cavalry to serve as bodyguards. Now, the number has to be expanded to two thousand, and unscrupulous children must be selected from the feudal households.
Criminals, sons of slaves, real delinquents, would choose two thousand of them to serve as the emperor's bodyguard?
Wei Zheng salivated and objected extremely fiercely.
Li Shimin kept a smile on his face, and after Wei Zheng finished spraying, he slowly said, "I understand."
He wanted to complain again, but Sun Wuji, the Minister of Civil Service, stood up at the right time and started to play the next thing.
Morning ends.
Li Shimin immediately went to change into a military uniform, and the soldiers who were rotated to Xiande Palace for training today also arrived.
"Your Majesty, it is a law of the Tang Dynasty to use the sword to kill anyone who is in the imperial palace!" Wei Zheng unexpectedly followed him again.
Li Shimin said to Wu Huaiyu, "Please ask the man from Julu County to go to Shangshu Province to work on duty."
"yes."
Wu Huaiyu stopped Wei Zheng with a Thousand Ox Sword.
"Wei Gong, the morning court has ended. Please return to the imperial city immediately and do not stay in the palace!"
"I want to remonstrate with His Majesty!"
Wei Zheng looked at the hundreds of soldiers in front of the Xiande Palace Square, holding knives, bows and spears, with a bit of fear. If there were one or two here who had evil thoughts, how could they be prepared?
This is no different from the Qian Niu in the Left and Right Mansion. They are all the children of distinguished ministers, and their identities and backgrounds have also passed numerous checks. There are so many soldiers in the government who have entered the capital, and it is impossible for everyone to know everything.
Wu Huaiyu now hates Wei Zheng.
He slammed the five-foot-five-long Thousand Ox Sword on the ground, "Wei Zuocheng, are you disobeying the imperial edict?"
Wei Zheng gasped for breath and stared at Wu Huaiyu with red eyes, "Wu Huaiyu, as a court official, you don't know how to admonish the king or guide people to do good. You only know how to flatter the emperor. Fortunately, you are acting like a villain!"
Wu Huaiyu directly pulled out a section of the Qianniu Sword, "Wei Zheng, this Qianniu is warning you for the first time!"
Wei Zheng stared at Wu Huaiyu and continued to spray him.
Huaiyu pulled out another section of the knife and said, "Wei Zheng, I am warning you now for the second time!"
Seeing that the smell of gunpowder was getting stronger and stronger, Zuo Qianniu An Yuanshou, who was also on duty, came over, directly picked up Wei Zheng and walked out, with a smile on his face and some nice words in his mouth.
Huaiyu inserted the knife back and snorted disdainfully.
He went back to report to Li Shimin.
"Wei Zheng is like a stone in a latrine, smelly and hard." Li Shimin cursed, but although he scolded him, the emperor had no intention of blaming Wei Zheng, so he just walked away.
Li Shimin seemed to intend to keep Wei Zheng around and let him spray him every day to keep him alert.
"The Chen Sheng you recommended to me is pretty good. He is good at riding and shooting, has extraordinary physical strength, and what is rare is that he also understands the art of war and understands formation diagrams. I have already registered him as a hundred knights. It is a pity that there are not many such brave men."
Li Shimin originally planned to recruit 2,000 new Hundred Riders, use the original Hundred Riders as officers, recruit delinquent boys from official slaves in the households, and train them himself, but now he found that there were not many brave and delinquent boys who met the requirements.
But Li Shimin was still unwilling to choose from the imperial army, especially since the Supreme Emperor's Lao Yuan chose from the Forbidden Army. He hoped that this Hundred Cavalry Battalion would be more special.
"I plan to select brave young men from the Hu tribe who have surrendered to the Fan state and recruit them as hundreds of riders. What do you think?"
Wu Huaiyu is now on duty. When he is on duty, he basically follows his attendant Li Shimin. The monarch and his ministers are also used to it. Because of his past achievements, Li Shimin also likes to ask him for some opinions. This can be regarded as some convenient opportunities for the emperor's close servants. If there is such a thing
If you are capable and answer questions to the emperor's satisfaction, you will get extra points, and promotion to an official position is just around the corner.
"Beirong, Western Di, southern barbarians, and Eastern barbarians. Many of the vassal tribes were already very brave. It was a favor to them to select the sons of their tribal chiefs and chiefs as Baiqi bodyguards, not only to use their bravery, but also to win over the vassals.
Rewards are obtained in one fell swoop, Your Majesty is wise."
Li Shimin felt very comfortable with Huaiyu's flattery, because the flattery was of high quality, and Li Shimin really thought so too.
Using the children of foreigners who have surrendered or the children of their leader nobles as bodyguards is equivalent to a kind of reward to the vassals and to build a relationship between the two sides. Even if these foreign nobles are in Beijing, they do not have any complicated background relationships, and the emperor
It is actually more reliable to use these people as bodyguards.
After all, Yang Guangjiang was killed, and it was the Xiaoguo army that took action, and the people who led Xiaoguo were the noble sons of the imperial court. When Li Yuan and his son raised the army in Taiyuan, many of their confidants were also the three guardsmen of the Sui Dynasty.
The palace changes three months ago were the same.
Zhou Shaofan was a general of the Forbidden Army. On the surface, he had already voted for the construction, but secretly he was one of Li Shimin's men, as well as Jing Junhong and Chang He who were stationed in the camp.
Li Shimin knew this very well.
The children of the leaders of foreign vassals would not have such complicated relationships.
Even the disciples of various vassals can restrain each other.
Huaiyu also suggested that in the Baiqi left and right camps, Turkic guards, Khitan guards, Tuyuhun guards, Party guards, etc. could be organized.
Throughout the ages, Chinese and foreign monarchs have actually had some famous foreign guards, which is not surprising at all.
Li Shimin had previously wanted to select delinquent boys from the official slaves of the feudal households to serve as hundreds of knights. In fact, he did not want to be surrounded by the descendants of nobles and nobles, and wanted a simpler and more loyal guard.
"Come and escort Baiqi," Li Shimin suddenly said.
"Your Majesty, I'm feeling very strenuous now at Zuo Qianniu's job, and I really don't dare to take it up."
But Li Shimin just laughed, "You Zuo Qianniu did a good job in the Shenji Camp, but now the Shenji Camp has to expand from 2,000 to 10,000 people, and your qualifications are still insufficient, so you are not suitable to be in charge of the Shenji Camp anymore.
Instead, let's charge Baiqi's left camp, and Xu Luoren, charge Baiqi's right camp."
There are twenty-four Qianniu guards, and there are another twenty-four guards, all of whom are very high-level guards, and all of them are of high origin, not to mention there are many generals with higher levels, but Li Shimin finally thought about it
Go, I still plan to let Wu Huaiyu escort Baiqi Zuoying.
Compared with the other six battalions, the two battalions of the Hundred Cavalry only have 2,000 people. However, these two thousand people are not divided into duties. Instead, they are senior and stationed at the north gate for a long time. They are just one day off and two days off. This is really going to cause trouble.
, the entire Hundred Cavalry Battalion can be mobilized quickly.
The other six battalions have 30,000 men, and each of them usually has only 1,000 men in the camp. But after all, one battalion commands 5,000 men, so the level must be at least a part-time commander of the Twelve Guards Lieutenant General or General.
that day.
Wu Huaiyu received a new order, and Tongshiren came to announce the order. He went to the general. Wu Huaiyu, the founding son of Daling County, added Sanjiangjiang, a guerrilla general, and Zuofu Zuoqianniu to escort Zuobaiqi camp, so that he was exempted from the errand of escorting Shenji camp.
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Wu Huaiyi no longer held the position of Baiqi. He was transferred to the Qianqi Battalion and became the commander of the Qianqi Battalion. His promotion from a separate general to the commander of the army was also a big step up.
"Congratulations, Erlang, for being promoted again."
Huaiyu smiled and said, "Oshenji Camp was changed to Ozuo Baiqi Camp. There is no change."
"Didn't Erlang get the title of guerrilla general?"
"This is just a casual general. It was originally awarded to military attachés without official duties. I am still carrying a thousand oxen."
"Qian Niu is only at the sixth level, but the guerrilla general is at the fifth level."
The two brothers were chatting in the East Palace.
Compared to Huaiyu, who was actually only awarded the rank of Sanjun of the fifth rank, Huaiyi was promoted from a general to commander of the army this time. Although he was awarded the rank of commander of the army under the lower government, he was still a junior official of the fifth rank.
Even if he was not given the title of Dismissal General, this time Huaiyi had truly crossed a critical step.
Wu Huaiyu's move from Shenji Camp to Hundred Cavalry Camp did not change much. He can now focus more on staying in the East Palace.
Xiande Hall was turned into a martial arts lecture hall by Li Shimin, and the square in front of the hall also became a martial arts performance venue.
Every day, soldiers from various departments in Chang'an took turns to receive training.
The expansion of the Hundred Cavalry has also gone very smoothly. There are not enough brave and delinquent young men from the official slave families of the Tibetan households, so they will be selected from the children of the barbarian leaders of Rong and Di.
There are still a lot of barbarian children in Chang'an City. Many of them came after the vassal vassals surrendered. The Tang Dynasty awarded these leaders official positions, then called their children to the capital and arranged for them to study in the Imperial College or work as servants in the Sanwei. In fact, they came to plate gold.
, to close the relationship, it also has the meaning of being a hostage. Even the sons of these Tibetan leaders in Beijing can bring a lot of money and promote consumption in Chang'an.
Now Li Shimin selected from these disciples into the left and right Hundred Cavalry Camps, such as Turk, Khitan, Tiele, Kumoxi, Mohe, Silla, Dangxiang, Tuyuhun, Jihu, and even Gaochang, Qiuci and other vassals in the Western Regions.
Wu Huaiyu and Xu Luoren, the two commanders of the Hundred Cavalry Battalion, accompanied Li Shimin in the selection and assessment every day, and the two thousand Hundred Cavalry were quickly filled up.
Of the eight battalions at the north gate, the second battalion of Hundred Cavalry is the most special.
Less than 10% were descendants of distinguished nobles, 30% were delinquent sons of officials and slaves, and 60% were descendants of barbarian vassals.
Many barbarian children from vassal states had a very distinguished status in their respective tribes, and some even had titles such as princes, regardless of whether they were trespassing or not. But after arriving in Chang'an, they realized how insignificant they were. Even if they were from Turks, they were from
Gaochang is also very different from Chang'an. Although in Huaiyu's view, the current Chang'an city is actually very backward, in the eyes of these barbarians, it is very great.
In the eyes of the people of Chang'an, these barbarians, although quite wealthy, are nothing more than scorned and despised sticks.
Now, they were selected as the emperor's personal entourage, and all of them were extremely excited.
It's just that their commander Wu Huaiyu looked at this group of people and said that it was not an exaggeration to call them ghosts and snake gods. The Khitan people and Xi people with long hair like to shave off the hair on the top of their heads, and then leave a photo here and a circle there.
Yes, weird.
The Mohe people of Baishan and Heishui have big braids.
Turks like to wear their hair in braids.
Dangxiang people and Xiqiang people also like to shave off a lot of hair on their heads, but they are different in details from Xi and Qi's hair.
As for raccoons, raccoons, and barbarians from the south, they generally have tattoos on their hair, short hair, many tattoos on their bodies, and their clothes have left and right hems, anyway, in various styles.
Huaiyu did not ask them to uniformly change their hairstyles and clothing to the Tang and Han people. Instead, according to the emperor's instructions, he organized these people from different tribes into the same clan and organized them together. Not only did they retain their original hairstyles and clothing, but they were even equipped with equipment.
Customary weapons and equipment.
Wu Huaiyu's only request is that they learn Chinese well. If they can't speak Tang Mandarin well, how can they communicate and command.
It can be seen that many of these monsters and monsters are quite dissatisfied with the commander Wu Huaiyu, thinking that he is too young and even too 'thin'.
"We have a hundred cavalry Zuoying newly established. Why don't we have a martial arts performance first? Let's all have a try, including horse riding, riding archery, infantry archery, weight-bearing, running, etc. The top three will be rewarded, and those who fail will be the last.
Hundreds of people, punished!"
As soon as Huaiyu's words came out, everyone was eager to give it a try, and a big man from the Dangxiang Xifeng tribe, Xifeng Heishi, asked Huaiyu if he would also participate.
"Of course!" Huaiyu chuckled. If he didn't show his hand in front of them, these people wouldn't obey him.
