Chapter XXIII: The Guards

……

In the next few days, Zhao Zhe mingled with the imperial guards who had really become his descendants and could be fully controlled, and he began to prepare to actively gather various forces. After discussing with the empress and Qin Yun separately, it was decided to start with the personal guards who were already subordinate to the emperor. In that year, Taizu fought the world and established the Great Zhao Empire. The army was reorganized and reorganized, and the elite of each army was transferred and assembled in the Beijing Division as the emperor's direct army.

Taizu directly in the palace set up a pro-army capital to protect the palace. They are under the jurisdiction of the imperial guards, as well as three armies and one guard. They are the Imperial Forest Army, the Forbidden Army, the Hussars, and the Jinyi Guard. The three armies such as the Imperial Forest have four guards, such as the left guard of the Royal Forest, the hussar avant-garde, etc., a total of thirteen guards, each guard is full of 5,600 people. The entire pro-guard army has a strength of more than 70,000.

Each generation of emperors attached great importance to the pro-guard army. In the same way, after they have been in power for a year or two, they will begin to replace the henchmen they have accumulated over the years on a large scale to ensure the absolute loyalty of the pro-guard army. The Command Department of the Pro-Guard Army is even more powerful, and has the ability to select elites from any guard office under the jurisdiction of any Governor's Office to supplement or eliminate the Pro-Guard Army.

There is constant blood replenishment and elimination, plus the priority of treatment equipment, and fairly strict training. made the entire pro-guard army of more than 70,000 people, which can be called the most elite division of the Great Zhao Empire.

Let's talk about the Imperial Forest Army first, usually protecting and opening the way before and after the emperor travels, and has the function of an honor guard. However, due to the fact that when selecting sergeants, the important surnames of physique and appearance are slightly better than the combat effectiveness, so the strength of the three armies is slightly inferior. But compared to the ordinary army of the Great Zhao Empire, it can already be regarded as a strong elite.

Talking about the forbidden army, the security inside and outside the entire palace is all the responsibility of the forbidden army. This army has outstanding individual combat effectiveness, and is especially good at street fighting between small teams. The overall strength is slightly better than the Royal Forest Army.

The last army was the Hussars, which, as the name suggests, were a formidable cavalry army, also divided into four guards, stationed outside the palace on all sides, and extremely good at attacking. Under the iron hoof, it can easily trample the enemy into a pulp. Its comprehensive combat capability is also the first of the three armed forces of the Pro-Guard Army.

In addition to these three armies, there are also Reading Power One Guard, Jinyi Guard. Among the brocade guards, most of them are selected from various armies at all levels, and carefully selected people with outstanding martial arts. Extremely good at intelligence gathering, undercover, assassination, interrogation and so on. But because he is only responsible to the emperor alone, he is only loyal to the emperor. Doing things is usually unscrupulous and ruthless. Among all the military guards in the country, the Jinyi Guard is the most notorious. Moreover, because of its unique power and needs, Jinyiwei often absorbs some equally notorious people from the rivers and lakes.

But no matter what, these three armies and one guard originally belonged to the emperor's direct pro-guard army, and they were the easiest to be used by Zhao Zhe. At the beginning of the founding of the country, Taizu thought of leaving such an army that only the emperor could fully command for his children and grandchildren. The various systems and constraints are also extremely perfect. For example, the capital of the three armies and one guard has a very high status in name and is not subject to the governor's office of the five armies. But in normal times, they can only be responsible for things like logistics, training, and normal protection. Once it involves the appointment of more than 100 households, or the transfer of troops into a system, the emperor must personally issue an edict and give a military talisman.

And every one of the three armies and one guard knew that if any commander moved without authorization, he had the right to kill him and seek great merit. Therefore, the commander of this pro-guard army is conscientious in his work, and he does not dare to make any mistakes.

According to the usual practice, Zhao Zhe, the emperor, has already begun to replace his henchmen with the leaders and backbones of the pro-guard army. It's a pity that he has been here for less than a month, so where can he cultivate too many henchmen? These are all things that need to be cultivated over the years before they can be cultivated slowly and gain their trust.

In the absence of talent, rather than making some mess and people you can't fully trust to master the pro-guard. It's better to appoint the old people. At least, under the management of the previous emperor, at least some of the pro-guard army's loyalty to the emperor can be guaranteed. Although many of them were confidants of the previous emperor. But after all, the previous emperor has already died, so he can't be so charming that he lets these henchmen chase him underground, right? This seems to be something that only Taizu can do.

What's more, maybe the governors and commanders in the pro-guard army are still nervous, worrying every day that the new emperor will gradually remove them. Military attachés in this mentality, as long as they are well connected, I believe that as long as there are no broken brains. Duo will transfer his loyalty to the previous emperor to his new emperor.

For a few days, Zhao Zhe used all kinds of deterrence, Huairou and other means. It is considered that he has initially established a fairly good relationship with the high-level of the pro-guard army, and he has not inserted anyone into the pro-guard army for the time being. Of course, obtaining their verbal sworn allegiance is an indispensable step. For this pro-guard army whose bloodline is quite pure. Not to mention that their combat effectiveness is much less than that at the beginning of Taizu's army, but at least under the current circumstances, they can be regarded as able to initially trust.

In particular, the two left and right commanders of Jinyiwei made Qian Biao and Gao Qi Zhao Zhe spend a lot of effort to win them over. made these two people swear allegiance to Zhao Zhe. Of course, there is also the credit of Qin Yun and other imperial guards. Jinyiwei, a special force, is a unit with strong individual combat effectiveness selected from various armies. And the imperial guards are the masters of the masters selected from the brocade guards. The two teams are also in the same vein, and they are familiar with each other.

In this way, Zhao Zhe can also be regarded as having more than 60,000 elite combat troops, a perverted army of Jinyi Guards that makes people extremely frightened and headaches. Even if something happens, I can barely protect myself. And if the brocade guard is successfully retracted, information or something will continue to come. I'm not blind anymore.

Of course, in order to completely familiarize themselves with the pro-guard army, it will take a certain amount of time to explore and run in with each other. But Zhao Zhe's heart has a lot of confidence. Similarly, it is certain that in this pro-guard army with a total of more than 70,000 people, it is impossible for everyone to be loyal to Zhao Zhe. But so what? As long as it is slowly cleaned and replaced, one day, this pro-guard army will become extremely pure.

It's been a few more days. Gradually, he became a little familiar with the political system of the Great Zhao Empire, and he was ready to start trying to really enter politics. did not go directly to the court to face the civil and military officials, first asked the celebrant eunuch to notify all the front-line leaders of the civil bureaucratic system, and went to the imperial study where he had been staying recently, preparing to make a small court meeting first.

It has been winter for a long time. In the imperial study, several charcoal stoves were lit around it, as if to expel the cold winter breath from the outside. The civil officials, who were fat or thin, obscene or upright, were standing in the small hall of the imperial study. Or stand alone in a contemplative state, or whisper something in twos and threes?

But to a greater or lesser extent, there are some concerns. It is said that after the emperor broke his head, his surname changed greatly, and it seems to have become more tyrannical than before. In particular, the three imperial guards were convicted of rebellion, but during this period of time, it was bloody, and everyone was in danger. I am afraid that I will be interrogated by the imperial guards and the criminal department because of my involvement with those three families. But for a while, some people were in danger.

"The emperor has arrived~" With the sharp voice of the little eunuch, the ministers immediately restrained their expressions. Turning around, the moment Zhao Zhe stepped into the study, he knelt down and bowed down: "The ministers see my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live." ”

……

(Recommend the platinum author's new book "Huan Hai Fengyue", 1623706, the portal is as follows)

[bookid=1623706,bookname="The Wind and Moon of the Eunuch Sea"]

;