Zhu Youxiao's words seemed to comfort the children, which made Zhu Youzhen a little helpless.

How much silver the Imperial Horse Supervisor can make, he doesn't know the bottom of his heart.

But what he needs is the pasture, the horse farm, the royal shop and the imperial village under the command of the imperial horse supervisor.

As long as you have these things, it is easy to get hundreds of thousands of taels every year, how greedy the eunuchs below are, Zhu Youzhen is clear in his heart.

Just when he was thinking so, Zhu Youxiao suddenly said:

"However, my younger brother is familiar with the soldiers and horses of the Nine Sides."

As soon as he said this, Zhu Youzhen was terrified, and hurriedly explained:

"A month ago, the emperor asked his younger brother to read more military books, saying that if his brother needed it in the future, he could help his brother with advice."

"Oh?" Hearing Zhu Youzhen say this, Zhu Youxiao said with a smile:

"And what did you see?"

"I looked at some of the soldiers and horses of the towns on the nine sides, as well as the soldiers and horses of the guards in various places, as well as the number of soldiers and horses of the three major battalions of the North Zhili and the number and functions of the twenty-six guards of the Shangzhi." Zhu Youzhen explained.

"Have you even looked at the number and functions of the twenty-six guards?" Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised.

Not to mention him, Wei Jinzhong and the others were all a little surprised.

After all, the 26 guards of Shangzhi are considered to be troops stationed in important places in the imperial city and Beizhili, and their functions are complex, so it is not easy to understand.

Not to mention ordinary people, even people from the military department who are not from these departments may not be able to clearly explain the functions of these guards.

Zhu Youxiao started to take the school examination, and without waiting for Zhu Youzhen to answer, he hurriedly asked:

"Then tell me about the number of the three major battalions and the twenty-six guards of the upper ranks, as well as the corresponding functions."

"Forehead......" Zhu Youzhen paused, then his eyes rolled, and he said as if a child was asking for a reward:

"If my brother can answer, what will my brother give me?"

"Hehe, whatever you want, I'll give you what." Regarding Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youxiao was very unpretentious, and responded directly with me, or even more affectionate titles.

Zhu Youzhen thought about what he wanted, and replied directly: "Then if the number of the four guards and one battalion of the imperial horse prison is not enough to repair the imperial mausoleum, my brother will transfer the people of the four guards of Jinwu and the three guards of Yulin to repair the imperial mausoleum." ”

"Uh...... This ......" Zhu Youxiao hesitated a little, just because the Jinwu Fourth Guard and the Yulin Third Guard were the troops in charge of patrolling the Imperial City in the Twenty-six Guards of Shangzhi.

Although they have no combat effectiveness and can only save face like the Han generals of the Jinyi Guard, the Seven Guards can be said to be nearly 40,000 people.

is different from the imperial horse supervisor, the twenty-six guards of Shangzhi, when Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, and Zhu Gaochi were in power, it can be said that they only obeyed the emperor's orders.

However, from the beginning of the Xuande period, civil officials began to check their hands and enter the 26th guard of Shangzhi.

At present, among the twenty-six guards, only the four guards and one battalion of the Jinyi Guard and the Imperial Horse Supervisor can only obey the emperor's orders.

Nominally, although the Twenty-six Guards of the Upper Rank still obeyed the emperor, in reality, they obeyed the words of the civil officials more.

Therefore, if you want to transfer the seven guards from it in one go, even Zhu Youxiao may not be able to nod directly, he can only discuss: "There are too many seven guards, how about I help you transfer the three guards of Yulin?" ”

"That's fine!" Zhu Youzhen nodded, he didn't expect Zhu Youxiao to transfer him to seven guards.

It's already good to be able to get three guards to repair the imperial mausoleum.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen nodding, Zhu Youxiao also smiled and said: "Since this is the case, then I won't ask you, you can just report the functions of the three major battalions and the 26th guard of the upper straight." ”

"Good!" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen sorted out the thoughts in his mind, and after a while, he spoke directly:

"The three major battalions are the Fifth Army Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, and the 3,000 Battalion, but the 3,000 Battalion was renamed the Shenshu Battalion in the 29th year of Jiajing."

"The five military camps were originally the largest of the three major battalions of my Ming Dynasty, and they were composed of elite cavalry and infantry selected from various provinces."

"Each battalion of the five military camps has 12,000 men, 5,600 infantry soldiers, 3,000 cavalrymen, and 3,400 baggage soldiers, including 2,000 horses, 9,000 military horses, and 1,000 camp vehicles, for a total of 5 battalions and 60,000 men."

"The Shenji Battalion has 5,000 people per battalion, 3,600 infantry with firearms, 400 artillery men, a total of 4,000 people, 3,600 equipped with firearms, 160 generals at Zhankou, and four battalions of the whole army, a total of 16,000 people."

"After that, 5,000 battalions were added to the Shenji Battalion, which was for the fire cavalry, with 5,000 people in the whole battalion, 5,000 fire guns, and 15,000 military horses."

"The Shenji Battalion plus 5,000 battalions, a total of 21,000 people."

"The last 3,000 battalions, after being changed to the Shenshu battalion, the battalion system has been changed several times, abolishing the names of the central army, the left and right posts, and the left and right sentry boards, and setting up three battle barracks, car barracks, and guard barracks, and one deacon battalion."

"The Shenshu battalion has one deputy general on the left and right, two generals for training bravery, two generals, two guerrilla generals, and two auxiliary generals, leading ten battalions, with a total strength of about 70,000 soldiers."

"The three battalions have a total of 151,000 men, and they are the men and horses who protect the capital and the surrounding Gyeonggi area."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but complain in his heart, estimating that there were 151,000 people, not even 10,000 capable of field battles.

Otherwise, when Huang Taiji entered the Central Plains from Xifengkou in the second year of Chongzhen, he would have been cleaned up by the three major battalions.

"Good ......" Hearing that Zhu Youzhen was able to explain the establishment of the three battalions so clearly, Zhu Youxiao first applauded, and then said to Wei Jinzhong:

"Look at it, the people in the military department and the Jingying Rongzheng are not as good as my ten-year-old brother who knows the Jingying, no wonder they only know Suo Xiang, but they don't know the establishment."

"Long live what I said is that the Fifth Highness is indeed smart, and he knows more soldiers than the hundred officials." Wei Jinzhong nodded and praised Zhu Youzhen flatteringly.

His careful thinking was very simple, and Zhu Youzhen could see it at a glance, it was nothing more than wanting to use the Hakka family and himself to sit firmly under Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youzhen needs this guy to help him carry the black pot in the future, so naturally he will not refute him, but continue to say to Zhu Youxiao:

"Brother Huang, Shangzhi Twenty-six Wei still say?"

"Say! Of course I have to say it. Zhu Youxiao was very interested, he was very concerned about side affairs in history, and he was good at riding horses, so it can be seen that he was very interested in military things.

"The brother continued." Seeing Zhu Youxiao say this, Zhu Youzhen continued:

"The pro-army has twenty-six guards, namely: Jinwu Avant-garde, Jinwu Rear Guard, Jinwu Left Guard, and Jinwu Right Guard, and they are responsible for guarding the north of the Imperial City."

"The second is the Yulin Three Guards of the Yulin Avant-garde, the Yulin Left Guard, and the Yulin Right Guard, who are responsible for guarding the east side of the Imperial City."

"Further down are the government guards, as well as the left guards of the government army, the right guards of the government army, the front guards of the government army, and the rear guards of the government army, which are responsible for guarding the south side of the imperial city and patrolling the gates of the capital."

"After that, the tiger guard was in charge of the inspection of Miyagi."

"The Jinyi Guard is the guard, the scepter, the arrest, and the prison, and has the most power."

"The standard-bearer guards the flag and the snare drum and has the least power."

"Later, the Yanshan Left Guard, the Yanshan Right Guard, the Yanshan Qianwei, as well as the Daxing Left Guard, Jiyang Guard, and Jeju Wei were all responsible for the guards of some important cities around the capital."

"Tongzhou Wei is responsible for guarding Tongzhou, and patrolling the Tongzhou granary by the way."

"The rest are the Teng Xiang Left Guard, Teng Xiang Right Guard, Wu Xiang Left Guard, and Wu Xiang Right Guard."

"Five thousand six hundred men for each body, a total of one hundred and forty-five thousand six hundred."

"If you add the 28,000 people who are responsible for the security of the capital, the fire ban and its dredging channels, and the cleaning of the streets, etc., the soldiers and horses of the five cities."

"Then in the north of Zhili, there are 324,600 soldiers and horses garrisoned."