Daming Gate is the south gate of the imperial city, but also the national gate of the Ming Dynasty, Chengtianmen (Tiananmen) is the main gate of the imperial city, the two gates are on the same central axis, Daming Gate is a part of the protrusion.

In front of the Chengtian Gate, Fang Zhenghua hurried over and said, "Your Highness, the Yongwei Battalion is still arranged to be stationed in the Shenshu Camp in the city, right?" ”

Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "Why did you go to the Shenshu Camp station?" It is stationed in the imperial city, the station of the original Yongwei battalion! ”

Fang Zhenghua said hesitantly: "Your Highness, the former station of the Yongwei Battalion was occupied by Yulinwei......"

Zhu Cihong cross-asked, "Yu Linwei? Is it the one that my father has reorganized in the past two years? ”

Fangzhenghua said with his forehead: "Exactly." ”

Zhu Cihong got the news a long time ago that Chongzhen greatly reduced the expenses of the Beijing camp, and the rest of the money was to re-replicate and build a Yongwei battalion, and he ordered to transfer 5,000 elite soldiers from the emperor's 26 guards to reorganize the Yulin Guard, which was in charge of Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Dingguo.

Chongzhen knew that if he didn't have soldiers in his hands, he would be no different from a puppet, and it would be impossible for him to master the Beijing camp.

Historically, Chongzhen was the emperor for more than ten years, and he had a strong control over Jingying, and he could change whoever he wanted, which was also the capital for him to kill important ministers many times in the later period.

Zhu Cihong's eyelids jumped, and said: "The palace has killed a lot of thieves in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are often assassinated, so I am very worried, so let the Yongwei battalion be stationed in the Shouhuang Pavilion school field outside the Xuanwu Gate, which is also close to the residence of the palace." ”

Zhu Cihong didn't wait for him to talk nonsense, and went straight into the Chengtian Gate and walked towards the Noon Gate.

When passing by the yamen such as the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and seeing the towering Wumen Tower, Zhu Cihong sighed in his heart: It's back again!

Xu Sheng opened the way in front and just wanted to enter the palace, but when he saw that the forbidden army guarding the door in front of the noon gate said that he would not let them in.

A eunuch came out and said, "Wait a minute, the palace has changed the leader, wait for me to ......."

Xu Sheng was furious when he heard this, raised his eyebrows and glared, slapped the eunuch with a "snap", and scolded: "Blind your dog's eyes, and don't look at who wants to enter the palace!" ”

He pushed the eunuch away and went to the palace gate, but saw a large number of heavily armed eunuchs flashing out of the noon gate room to stop him.

A person walked out of the Jing Army, stopped Xu Sheng, and said coldly: "Xu Sheng, you are so daring, you dare to beat the Jing Army!" ”

Xu Sheng looked at it and frowned, this person was Wang Dehua, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and he was a big celebrity beside the emperor.

Wang De was dressed in a python robe and a three-mountain hat, and squinted at Xu Sheng vividly: "Although you are a person next to the crown prince, you can't be so presumptuous in front of the noon gate!" ”

Xu Sheng arched his hand and said: "I didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of the noon gate, but the crown prince came back to the palace, and these people didn't have long eyes!" ”

Wang Dehua shouted: "Okay, you Xu Sheng, haven't seen your skills for a few years?" ”

"What's going on?"

Zhu Cihong came slowly, followed by a large group of brave guards.

Xu Sheng bowed and said, "Your Highness, they won't let you in." ”

Wang Dehua stepped forward and saluted, and said, "Back to Your Highness, Xu Sheng led people to break into the Forbidden Palace without permission, and he also beat the pure army!" ”

Pure army? To put it bluntly, it was a group of eunuchs with weapons, and at first the net army were all inferior, some people who were castrated without permission were not recognized by the imperial court, and were sent to various guards to fill the army to form a clean army, and some eunuchs who lost power were filled into the net army.

Since Wei Zhongxian became angry, he specially regained his internal exercises, organized his own pro-army, and selected 40,000 pure men in Beijing to form a "pure army", after the fall of Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen distrusted Wenchen a little and began to reuse eunuchs.

There were too many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, there were tens of thousands of eunuchs in the palace, Chongzhen selected 3,000 strong eunuchs, and reorganized the "clean army".

Zhu Cihong knew very well that this group of eunuch troops was useless, and when Li Zicheng's troops came to the city in history, Chongzhen also counted on this group of well-trained pure troops to resist one or two, but he didn't expect it to collapse directly like a grass class.

It can be said that after more than ten years of upbringing, he can't accept one person, which is a pity!

Zhu Cihong looked at Wang Dehua and said meaningfully: "Can't the pure army be defeated?" ”

Seeing Wang Dehua's face flushed, he asked again, "What about Cao Huachun?" Hasn't he always been in charge of the gates of this palace? ”

Wang Dehua said: "Eunuch Cao has already told His Majesty yesterday and returned to his hometown in Tianjin. ”

Knowing that Gao Qiqian was killed by the crown prince, all the eunuchs were angry, Cao Huachun asked Chongzhen to resign on the same day, begging to return to his hometown to retire, he, like Jiang Fengyuan, did not want to get involved in the battle between the emperor and the prince, and ran away early.

This Wang Dehua was even more angry, he and Gao Qiqian were both Chongzhen's internal servants, and they had a very good personal relationship, and now they have taken over all Cao Huachun's positions, including the position of the commander of Dongchang.

Knowing that Cao Huachun had run away, Zhu Cihong sighed and said, "Enter the palace." ”

Wang Dehua stopped him and said, "Your Highness, please wait until the old slave reports to the emperor before making arrangements." ”

Zhu Cihong suddenly shouted: "Presumptuous! This is my house, you dare to stop the palace outside the palace gate? ”

Wang Dehua was taken aback, so he had to say: "Your Highness can enter, but others are not allowed to enter." ”

Zhu Cihong looked at him coldly and said, "What if this palace brings people in?" ”

Wang Dehua insisted: "Your Highness can bring four palace maids and two guards in, but you can't do more." ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand, and the guards of the brave guard battalion with bright armor quickly lined up, calmly and calmly surrounded Wang Dehua and all the pure troops in a fan shape.

Wang Dehua said in a panic: "Your Highness, does your Highness have to trespass on the palace gate?" ”

Zhu Cihong scolded: "What kind of thing are you? Get lost! ”

Wang Dehua gritted his teeth, seemed to have made a big decision, he suddenly took out a copper bell, and quickly rang it, and for a while, the bell around the palace gate rang loudly, and it was quickly passed into the distance, and the copper bell sounded in the distance, and it was extended far away.

Zhu Cihong's face was pale, this guy actually rang the alarm bell of the palace!

Between the walls of the palace and the canal river, there are forty guard duty rooms around the perimeter, each room is guarded by ten sergeants day and night, and there are twenty-eight brass bells around it as a warning signal, once one of them is remote, the rest of the brass bells are to warn.

In the imperial city, there are not only the Shenji battalion, but also 2,500 red helmet generals of the Shenshu battalion, 40 guards with knives and knives in the government army, 16 commanders-in-chief, 502 Mingjia generals, 2 commanders-in-chief, 8 Han generals, 3,000 fork and knife circumferents in the five military camps, 8 commanders-in-chief, 180 standard-bearers and other guards with knives, plus 1,507 emperor's personal guards Jinyi Wei Han generals, a total of more than 8,300 people.

If you add the newly formed Yulin Guard, the number has reached more than 10,000 people, and only a few hundred forbidden troops are on duty in turn outside the gate at noon on weekdays.

"Dog minion, do you still want to use force?" Zhu Cihong kicked him to the ground and shouted, "Take it!" ”

Several guards of the Yongwei battalion approached like hungry tigers and grabbed Wang Dehua's arm tightly.

Wang Dehua was pressed by several people, and he couldn't stand upright, he raised his face and shouted: "I am the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, who dares to touch me!" ”

Zhu Cihong said disdainfully: "There is only one minion!" Bundled! ”

After speaking, with a wave of his hand, several guards surrounded Wang Dehua, pushing and shoving him into a big dumpling.

Wang Dehua screamed: "I, Wang Dehua, belong to a dog, and no one recognizes it except the master!" Your Highness, you have to lead the troops to break through, and our family will never back down! ”

Xu Sheng rudely ripped off the eunuch's clothes and stuffed them into Wang Dehua's mouth.

Zhu Cihong said: "You are a popular person next to your father, and this palace will not embarrass you, so I will punish you to kneel in front of the noon gate for two hours, if you dare to jump around in front of this palace next time, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu protects you, this palace will behead you!" ”

Zhu Cihong ordered all the pure troops to collect their weapons, and let them kneel in rows behind Wang Dehua, and repent and admit their mistakes in the wind and snow.

After being busy for a while, the guards stationed in the imperial city came with two or three thousand people, one by one carrying weapons and rubbing their hands, and looked blankly at the eunuchs who knelt in several rows.

The Shenji Battalion and the Shenshu Battalion are responsible for guarding the Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate of the Beijing Division, and no one cares about the affairs in the Imperial City at all, and only a small number of people have come to the nearest Yulin Guard, and the rest are still guarding the rest of the Beijing Division.

Seeing these horses coming, Xu Shenghong said: "The crown prince disposes of the house slaves, and the idle people go back to the station!" ”

Hearing the warning, the thousands of people who came, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know why, I don't know why, I don't know what to do.

Seeing these people there, Xu Sheng suddenly shouted: "Get on the bayonet!" ”

"Yes!" The echo was earth-shattering, resounding over the palace.

The two thousand soldiers of the brave guard battalion pulled out their three-edged bayonets in unison, and the bayonets were on the guns, the spears flashed, and the armor was distinct, and they quickly lined up in a square and calmly lined up to meet the battle.

Looking at this well-trained Yongwei battalion, the people of the Beijing camp who came to support were suddenly confused, everyone looked nervous, and kept retreating, and more people had already turned around and left under the instructions of the leader.

Fang Zhenghua, who had already been frightened, turned even pale, and he said hesitantly: "You can't rebel if you want to!" ”

Zhu Cihong said lightly: "Whose rebellion is it?" He Wang Dehua's anti? Or are you square-turned? ”

When Fang Zhenghua heard this, he immediately said in fear: "The slave doesn't dare to ........"

Zhu Cihong snorted lightly and said, "Enter the palace!" ”

The order was given, and the brave guards turned around with their guns and entered the palace in a mighty manner.

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Daming Gate, on the central axis of Beijing, was called Daming Gate in the Ming Dynasty, renamed Dashun Gate after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, renamed Daqing Gate in the Qing Dynasty, and renamed Zhonghua Gate during the Republic of China.

This door was once the symbol of the national gate of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was not opened in ordinary days, it was demolished in 1954, and the original site was in the south of the Monument to the People's Heroes, and the area of the *** Memorial Hall.

The door plaque of Daming Gate is made of stone, and lapis lazuli is carved into words and inlaid in stone.

Interestingly, when the Republic of China was founded, the Daqing Gate was renamed Zhonghua Gate, and I wanted to remove the stone plaque and engrave it on the back with "Zhonghua Gate", when people removed the stone plaque, they found that it was actually "Daming Gate" three words.

It turns out that more than 200 years ago, the Qing Dynasty had already done this, with three words on the front and three words on the back, no wonder some people have always wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty......