The garrison system of the Forbidden City is very complicated, so complicated that the average capital bannerman would be a little confused!
Those who protect the safety of the palace can be roughly divided into two types: Langwei and Bingwei. Langwei are the guards around the emperor, and the general quota is about six to seven hundred people.
These are all people with high martial arts skills selected from the Shangsan Banners. The Xianghuang, Zhenghuang, and Zhengbai Banners are the Shangsanqi, and they belong to the direct line troops of the Aixinjueluo family!
Generally speaking, in the film and television works that people saw in later generations, the palace where the emperor lived and worked, and the guards with swords standing guard in the corridor garden at the entrance were Langwei!
Many of these guards are rewarded with yellow mantles, and they are closest to the emperor and can be easily promoted!
During the Qianlong period, Fu Heng, Fukang'an, Hailancha, etc. all once served as the emperor's bodyguards with swords!
This army is nominally under the management of the imperial minister who is stationed next to Jingyun Gate, but most of the time this army directly obeys the emperor's dispatch!
Just like in the Tongzhi Dynasty, the imperial minister and the minister in charge of the bodyguard was Jing Shou!
Who is this Jingshou? He is one of the famous Eight Ministers Gu Ming in history!
But Jingshou was the luckiest among the eight ministers, because he was the brother-in-law of Emperor Xianfeng, and he was an honest man, and his connections with Sushun and the others were not deep!
Therefore, after the Xinyou coup, he was only temporarily dismissed from his post. However, three months later, he was reinstated by Cixi, who appointed him as the imperial minister and the minister of bodyguards!
Can someone who has had such an experience imagine that they can take over power? The so-called command power over Longwei is all fictitious, they are all rubber stamps!
Apart from Lang Wei, the only other people in the Forbidden City are the military guards!
The soldiers and guards are the troops who guard the major gates of the Forbidden City, including the Guard Battalion, the Forward Battalion, the Valiant Cavalry Battalion, the Infantry Battalion, the Jianrui Battalion, the Firearms Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion... These people guard the gates of the Forbidden City, opening and closing doors every day, and teleporting Emergency military situations, etc. are all under their control!
However, the access control of the Forbidden City is also graded!
The innermost right gate, the inner left gate, the Shunzhen Gate...etc., which are closest to the harem, are still in charge of security by Langwei. Isiha is a guard with a sword, so he can receive a fat man like guarding Qixiang Gate. Difference!
You must know that Qixiangmen is the access control directly leading to the harem!
In addition to the access control of the harem, other city gates are divided into two categories. One is the coated guards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These people are the emperor's domestic slaves. They are responsible for the Longzong Gate, Jingyun Gate, Xiehe Gate, and Xihe Gate. There are main entrances to major palaces!
The Wuying Hall, Wenhua Hall, Fengxian Hall, Huangji Hall... including the gates of the three main halls are also managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs' guards!
Finally, there is the real security force of the Grand Palace Gate of the Forbidden City!
Donghuamen, Xihuamen, Shenwumen, Meridian Gate, Duanmen, Tiananmen... including the Qingmen Gate outside!
These are all the responsibility of the presidential ministers in each camp, and these presidential ministers are unified under the name of the imperial minister. To put it bluntly, Jing Shou is in charge of this as a sinecure!
However, although Jing Shou is nominally the superior of the presidents of each battalion, each battalion must also accept the hostage of the banner leaders of the Eight Banners!
The most fundamental purpose of this chaotic system is to prevent the unification of military power in the Forbidden City under the emperor!
This is a very scary thing. If the emperor is strong or healthy, then this system will ensure that everyone is loyal to the emperor alone!
But once there are special circumstances such as the emperor's illness, childbirth, or absence from the capital, etc... Such complex management rights will prevent one family from becoming dominant, thus keeping the military power of the Forbidden City in a state of mutual restraint and balance!
When the emperor no longer issued orders, the military power of the Forbidden City was concentrated in the hands of the ministers in charge of the bodyguards, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the leaders of the Eight Banners!
They all have certain jurisdiction, but none of them can become an absolute advantage, and a situation of mutual restraint emerges!
It looks very messy, but people who understand can still roughly figure out a clue, that is, Jing Shou, the minister in charge of the guards, commands the guards with swords!
Several ministers in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are jointly responsible for other access control besides the harem and palace walls!
The soldiers and guards selected by the Eight Banners were responsible for the walls, turrets and palace gates of the Forbidden City!
None of the three forces is the only one. Each force is intricately mixed with people from various factions of the Eight Banners!
There is me among you, and you among me. Who is older and who is younger, and who is loyal to whom? It’s really hard to describe!
Zai Chun has experienced the horror of this complex palace ban system since he was a child. When the imperial students attacked the imperial city, the young Zai Chun wanted to go to the city gate to see the situation, but he was stopped by the people from the guard camp!
And in the palace, once it is time to lock, even if he is the emperor, he will not even think about calling every door!
In Zai Chun's childhood, the palace gates and high walls of the Forbidden City were like prisons, locking the young emperor tightly inside with no way to escape!
At any time, as long as a slave brings out his ancestral family methods, even the emperor will have to retreat!
Zai Chun, who had a rebellious spirit very early, and then Xiao Letian's military prowess successfully escaped from the Forbidden City. This was an anomaly in the entire 200-year history of the Qing Dynasty!
Now, he is back again, but this ruthless ancestral family law has once again shown its fangs, and he is trying to put the emperor back into the small cage of the past!
Donghua Gate! Eighty-nine and seventy-two door nails, known as the ghost gate of the Forbidden City!
All funerals in the Forbidden City have to go through the Donghua Gate. Even during the Lin Qing Incident during the Jiaqing period, the rebels even entered the palace directly from here!
This is a troublesome door, even today it is causing trouble!
Emperor Tongzhi wanted to go for a run on the city wall and do some morning exercises in the morning sun, but he never expected to be stopped right here by a small rank-4 assistant!
En Guang, the assistant commander of the guard camp, was on duty to guard Donghua Gate today. That is to say, he stopped Emperor Tongzhi and prevented Wan Zai from climbing the city wall!
Enguang knelt on the road to the city and blocked Emperor Tongzhi with his body. Behind him were more than 200 soldiers guarding the military camp, densely packed on their knees on the road to the city, blocking the road and preventing the emperor from going up the city wall!
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, you can't do that! This is against the rules. How can I climb the city wall early in the morning?"
"I don't dare to obey the imperial edict even if I die! Please forgive me...Long live!"
After shouting, he kowtowed, and in the end his hat flew off and his forehead started to bleed!
Zai Chun was so angry. He really didn't expect that he, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, would be even more aggrieved after returning to the Forbidden City than he was outside!
It's just climbing a city wall. Doesn't the emperor even have this right?
But this Enguang was like crazy and refused to let the emperor go to the city!
"Your Majesty! The walls of the Forbidden City are three feet tall and three feet tall. It's really dangerous. Long live my dragon body is important. If something goes wrong, all of us slaves will lose our heads!
"Long live Lord, please stay. Long live Lord, please stay..."
