Zhu Houzhao walked out of the palace, Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Zhang Mao, the British public, had been waiting here for a long time, and Chen Kuan, who was the celebrant supervisor, naturally came out with Zhu Houzhao. Although he is out of the palace on an errand, Chen Kuan is a eunuch after all, unlike foreign ministers, to be a eunuch, you must have the consciousness of being a eunuch, which Chen Kuan naturally is not lacking, otherwise he would not be able to be a celebrant eunuch.

"Ministers, see the prince!"

Under the leadership of Ma Wensheng, everyone bowed to Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao turned over from the horse, and helped Ma Wensheng and Zhang Mao up with a smile: "Everyone, Aiqing, excuse me!" Xiao Wang followed all Aiqing to tour the Beijing camp this time, mainly to take a look, follow the study, you Aiqing don't need to be polite. Saying that, Zhu Houzhao said to Ma Wensheng and Zhang Mao: "Two Aiqing, you just look at the arrangement." “

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's attitude, Ma Wensheng and Zhang Mao both breathed a sigh of relief, although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was rumored to be sensitive and studious, calm and old, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was only ten years old after all, and he liked military affairs very much, which can be seen from his dress. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a whim and has to show himself, then this matter will not be easy to handle.

Now it couldn't be better, Ma Wensheng and Zhang Mao hurriedly said: "It's so up to the ministers, please move the prince!" ”

Before the group left the palace gate, they soon left the palace, and the destination was naturally the colonel field in the army, although it was said to be a parade, but it was not to see them one by one, but to pull the team over one by one. Moreover, this time the review is not a soldier but a general, mainly to examine their strategic riding and archery skills, the so-called soldiers are bearish, will be a nest of bears, although there is no such thing in this era, but everyone knows the truth.

This time, the main ones who were inspected were the 12th Regiment Battalion, which is also known as the Beijing Battalion, which is also known as the Three Major Battalions, including the Fifth Army Battalion, the 3,000 Battalion and the Shenji Battalion. When the three battalions were first established, they were quite combat-effective. The main force was exhausted in the civil engineering change. During the Jingtai period, Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, reformed the establishment of the Beijing battalion and selected 100,000 elites from the three major battalions. It is divided into ten battalions for regimental training in case of emergency call, and is called the ten-regiment battalion.

At the beginning of the day, the ten regiments and battalions were dismissed. At the beginning of Chenghua, the old system of the 10th regiment battalion was restored, and it was relocated in two years, and it was relocated in three years, and it was increased to 12 regiments and battalions, which were called the four martial arts battalions of Fen, Yao, Lian and Xian, and the four brave battalions of daring, fruitfulness, effectiveness and drumming, and the four Wei battalions of Li, Shen, Yang and Zhen. The 12 regiments and battalions were divided by the 12 marquis, with the command of the capital and the internal ministers. Each regiment and battalion is divided into five armies, three thousand, and three battalions.

Now the names of the three major battalions are no longer accurate, and the 12th regimental battalion of the Beijing camp is more appropriate, and these people are the main force of the Beijing camp now.

In fact, Zhu Houzhao is more concerned about the pro-army 22 guards, this army is the pain in Zhu Houzhao's heart, the pro-army 22 guards originally only had 12 guards, and the pro-army upper 12 guards were the emperor's guards and forbidden troops who were responsible for escorting the left and right and guarding the palace ban during the Ming Dynasty. It was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in the fifteenth year of Hongwu.

The Yongle Dynasty added ten guards, and the Xuande Dynasty added four more guards, totaling twenty-six guards.

The purpose of the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang in setting up the pro-army was to establish a Praetorian Guard army under the control of the emperor himself. The general army, which was independent of the Governor's Office and the Ministry of War, was gradually usurped by the civilian government, especially the cabinet ministers, as the emperor's power was gradually usurped. The 26 guards of the pro-army, except for the Jinyi Guard, were gradually controlled by the military department, and were no longer an army that the emperor himself could fully control.

In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, Yingzong Zhu Qizhen led the army to conquer Warat. The pro-conquest army is known as 500,000 heavy, but in fact, including the emperor's pro-army and the generals of the generals of the generals, the total is only about 230,000 to 250,000, and more than half of the elite troops of the 26 guards of the emperor's pro-army are marching together as the emperor's entourage.

After the defeat of Tumubao, the 26th Guards of the Emperor's personal army did not go out to fight the troops that remained in Beijing, and all of them were conscripted and thrown into the defense of Beijing under the unified command of Yu Qian, the squire of the military department.

Since then, in addition to the Jinyi Guard, and Teng Xiang Left Guard, Teng Xiang Right Guard, Wu Xiang Left Guard, Wu Xiang Right Guard, the rest of the 26 guards of the pro-army have been mixed with the ordinary troops of the Beijing camp, although the name has not changed, but has been changed to be managed by the Ministry of War, no longer the Emperor personally commanded the Praetorian Guard. In terms of administration, personnel, salaries, etc., it was subject to civilian officials, and it was declining day by day, and it had little combat effectiveness in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and it was rarely mentioned.

This army once followed the Yongle Emperor to sweep away the Mongols, and it was a powerful force that the emperor held in his hands, and it was an army that was absolutely loyal to the emperor.

This can be seen from the brocade guard, the Son of Heaven is pro-army, is that talking? Everywhere you go, you have to be superior.

It's just that now except for the four guard battalions and warrior battalions of the Imperial Horse Guard, the army in the emperor's hands is gone, and there are enough troops in his hands to make the emperor confident, which has not changed since ancient times. This is also the reason why Emperor Zhengde wanted to revive the military affairs and regain the military power in his hands, but unfortunately he fell into the water and died at a young age.

Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao sighed lightly, and at the same time felt that he should learn to swim, with his current physical fitness, plus the swimming skills he learned in his previous life, the water should be good, right?

"Which battalion is coming today?" Zhu Houzhao turned his head to look at Chen Kuan behind him, and asked in a low voice, the 12th regiment and battalion naturally can't complete the tour in one day, and they have to come step by step.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, it is the Fenzi Battalion among the four martial arts camps!" Chen Kuan hurriedly explained beside Zhu Houzhao: "That one over there is the governor of the Fenzi battalion, Huaining Hou Sun Fu!" “

Zhu Houzhao listened to Chen Kuan's words, turned his head to look over, and sure enough, he saw a general sitting not far away, but he was not wearing armor but wearing an official uniform, the official uniform of a military general. Zhu Houzhao immediately frowned, as a military general and governor, wearing an official uniform without armor on such an occasion is very inappropriate, you must know that the British public Zhang Mao around Zhu Houzhao is wearing armor.

The most important thing is that Zhu Houzhao, the crown prince, is wearing armor, and this Huaining Marquis Sun Fu actually came in an official uniform.

"Your Highness, Marquis Huaining's health is not very good, he fell ill a few days ago, and this time he came by force." Chen Kuan seemed a little unhappy when he saw Zhu Houzhao, so he explained to Sun Fu.

Zhu Hou glanced at Chen Kuan and nodded slightly, this person doesn't look young, so he turned his head and didn't look at him. Zhu Houzhao will not be prejudiced against him because he is not wearing armor, nor will he have a good impression of him because of what Chen Kuan said. Everything must be told by facts, and what a master will do is known by his subordinates, and this will never change.