When the report was originally received, the Jingzhao governor, who had just received the good news of promotion, was holding Xin Na's seventh concubine in his arms in the inner room, drinking and celebrating in a hurry. As a result, as soon as he heard the news, Mr. Fu Yin, who got excited about drinking and was about to raise his gun and mount his horse, was so frightened that he almost became brothers with the young Marquis.
Afraid that his dream of promotion and wealth has not yet been realized, he will be charged with a bad governance and be driven home to eat old rice. This Lord Fu Yin can be said to be quite hardworking. The entire city of Luoyang was almost turned upside down. People from both black and white groups were mobilized to arrest people. All they had to do was to close the four gates tightly and all the cavalry came out.
If he wasn't afraid that this matter would bring trouble to the emperor, he would be even more unlucky. Since he was not allowed to mobilize the garrison unless ordered to do so, I am afraid that he had already asked the Dianqiansi in charge of the garrison in the capital for help and used the power of the garrison in the capital to catch the murderer. But even so, the entire capital was already in a state of turmoil.
Huang Qiong, the emperor back then, had secured his throne. In order to prevent the reappearance of those who take advantage of power and support the military, a major adjustment has been made to the military jurisdiction of the entire army. The division of labor between the Privy Council and the Ministry of War was re-adjusted. The Privy Council is in charge of national military affairs, border preparations, and military orders. The original power to mobilize troops according to orders and the power to mobilize military attachés was transferred from the Privy Council to the Ministry of War.
The Minister of War, who is in charge of the selection of national military attachés, military registration, ordnance, military orders, and local military affairs, will all be replaced by civilian officials who were born in the second rank of Jinshi. In other words, the operational command authority is completely separated from the peacetime management authority. Although the Privy Council is responsible for the military power of the country, it has no personnel power.
Personnel power, including money allocation, selection of officers and soldiers, ordnance manufacturing, etc., are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. Although the Privy Council also manages the various frontier troops in the north and west, there are only so many troops that can be directly commanded. Moreover, the personnel dispatch and troop mobilization of the border army also require the joint agency of the Ministry of War.
In other words, without the seal of the Ministry of War, any order issued separately by the Privy Council will not count. After doing this, it turned out that apart from the local guards, the Privy Council, which commanded all the troops in Da Qi, had quite limited powers. The military power was divided into two, allowing the emperor to directly control the military power in his own hands.
The most important thing is that without financial power, those who want to have dictatorship cannot control the military. This is a bit like the difference between the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff in later generations. The Ministry of National Defense is in charge of the national military affairs, but the command power lies with the General Staff. It's just that in this era, the levels between the two have been adjusted.
As the Chief of the General Staff, the Privy Councilor is higher in rank than the Minister of War, who is the Minister of Defense. Not only that, Huang Qiong's father also stipulated that the privy envoys, although they could also serve as counselors for political affairs, were equivalent to deputy prime ministers. However, the position of Minister of the Ministry of War cannot be held by one person. At most, military attachés can only sit as deputy envoys. The main positions must be held by civilian officials, and they must be born in the second rank of Jinshi.
At the same time, the Palace Front Division was established to garrison the most elite troops inside and outside the capital, directly under the emperor's control. As a result, it is almost impossible for both civilian officials and military generals to fully control the military power. As for the Taiwei, who was originally in charge of the country's military affairs and was still under the jurisdiction of the Minister of War, his actual position became a virtual title, and he no longer had any real power.
After doing so much, the emperor still felt it was not enough. He also repeatedly issued imperial edicts strictly ordering local officials, except for special circumstances such as suppressing bandits or counterinsurgency, to mobilize up to 1,500 people without requesting an order under the joint signature of the local pacification envoy, chief envoy, and military envoy. outside the local guards.
Including the Prime Ministers of Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council, no more than 500 troops may be mobilized without permission. As for the mobilization of more than 100 troops from the garrison in the capital, military attachés from the sixth rank and above must request an order. Any transfer without purpose will be regarded as treason. The three thousand Jinwu Guards responsible for public security and patrol in the capital were also transferred from the Ministry of War to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple.
In addition to a major adjustment to the military command structure, the four major battalions in the capital that were originally under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, the 50,000-strong army stationed in Chang'an, Xidu, and the Eighth Army of the Forbidden Army were separated. Its commander-in-chief was no longer responsible to the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, but directly to the emperor's direct military advisory body, the newly established Palace Front Department.
Even the front department, which is headed by a distinguished minister, only has day-to-day management rights over several large camps. The rest of the personnel and financial rights are all in the Ministry of War. During wartime, four major battalions were required to send troops, and orders from the Palace Front Division also needed to be signed by the Minister of War and the Privy Council. The capital commanders of the four major battalions must also accept the supervision of civilian officials sent by the Ministry of War.
There are not one but three civilian Tongzhi in each camp. The Tongzhi, who has the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Ministry of War, supervises the food, salary and military selection. In addition to the fact that the commander-in-chief and his colleagues serve more as supervisors of the troops, the transfer orders must be accompanied by names before they can take effect. The remaining two are responsible for the distribution of food and salary for each major battalion, and the recommendation and selection of vacant military attachés.
Officials at all levels in the front department of the palace are all appointed by the emperor himself from among the descendants of the founding nobles and nobles who served as military attachés in the dynasty. Not only the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, but also the Zhongshu Province and the Shangshu Province had no right to intervene. Even the crown prince and the kings were not allowed to intervene unless they were ordered to do so. The emperor made such moves, it can be said that the general power is firmly in his hands.
If the governor wants to use the garrison to help find the murderer, he must request an order from the emperor, which means that the case must be reported. But in this way, it would be easy for the emperor to doubt the security of the capital. If the emperor remembers him like this, I'm afraid there will be no hope for him to be promoted in the future, and it would be better if he doesn't even go home early to retire.
Whether the Wuchang Marquis reported it or not was not a question he should worry about. But no matter what, I can't take the blame on myself. This guy thought about it for a long time, but in the end he still didn't make up his mind to ask the Dianqianji for help. Even the master's request for help from Jin Wuwei was rejected by him.
Fortunately, when Huang Qiong and her son were taking action, the surrounding onlookers took pictures of the power of the Wuchang Marquis, and no one dared to act bravely. When they saw the young Marquis who was accustomed to snatching men and dominating women in the capital, he was completely punished, although most people cried out inwardly. But after all, not everyone is a kind-hearted person.
When Huang Qiong's mother and son left, there were quite a few people who wanted to follow the trend, thinking that this was their chance to climb high. So they set out separately, two to follow Huang Qiong's mother and son, one to report the news to Wuchang Hou Mansion, and one to Jingzhao Mansion to report the case. There were two other people who stayed there to guard the little Marquis who had passed out.
Just after receiving a report from a brave person who spontaneously followed the murderer. The governor, who thought that solving the case had dawned again, took the chief catcher of Jingzhao Prefecture and a group of government officials and rushed to the scene where they found the two brave men. However, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, like a junior. For nine days, a basin of cold water was poured from head to toe.
In fact, it was nothing. The two stalkers didn't go far before they were knocked unconscious in an alley. And these two brothers don't know where the murderer is, even who knocked him unconscious. In other words, these two can't provide anything useful.
What kind of person is Huang Qiong’s mother? Although they were emotionally unstable at the moment, the two guys' poor tracking skills still led to them being discovered before they had gone very far. Huang Qiong's mother didn't even take action herself. She just used two small stones to make these two guys unconscious on the ground until they were woken up by a basin of water.
After losing the trace of the murderer, the governor had no choice but to send more manpower to intensify the search for the capital. On the one hand, the hotel owner and the few brave people who originally thought they could take advantage of the opportunity to climb high were tortured as scapegoats.
I just pity the shop owner who knew that something bad was going to happen when he saw this young marquis entering his shop, and hid with his waiter early. Who knew the person who did it? Even though he was beaten to death, he really had nothing to explain. In the end, he spent a lot of money and found the way of the Fu Yin's brother-in-law to save his life.
Of course, this was all happening later, and Huang Qiong's mother and son, who had returned to the inn to rest, didn't know. After returning to the inn, looking at Huang Qiong's confused look, her mother stood up and walked to the window. After thinking for a long time, she said: "Last night, the person I took you to worship was none other than you." Grandfather.”
"Although your maternal grandfather's family did not follow Emperor Taizu from the dragon family, they did make some contributions during the Southern Expedition during the Xuanzong period. There is a hereditary military attaché of the seventh rank. Your maternal grandfather has been serving in the border army since he joined the army at the age of fifteen. At the age of eighteen, he defeated more than a thousand fine cavalry of the Liao army with three hundred cavalry and was promoted to the position of captain."
"At the age of 21, when I was serving as the captain of Yanshan Prefecture, I encountered a large-scale border invasion by the Liao army. I used more than 3,000 cavalry to defeat more than 10,000 Liao troops in Yanshan Prefecture. I was promoted to the garrison of Jizhou, Yanshan, and Yunzhou. He served as the Defense Envoy of the Second Town and was later transferred to Longyou as the Commander-in-Chief of Yumen Pass. During his tenure at Yumen Pass, the weak defeated the strong and defeated the invading Tibetan and Uighur coalition forces of tens of thousands, and pursued them all the way to Qinghai Lake."
"Beheaded more than 50,000 Tibetan and Uighur armies, captured hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, and more than 100,000 men and women. We also recovered the Qinghai area that was attacked by the Tubo in the last years of Zili Zong. If we stop here, your grandfather will be considered A famous general can start well and end well. But sometimes, people are often dazzled by their own achievements."
"After the Battle of Qinghai, your grandfather was transferred back to the capital with military merit. At the age of just over forty, he first served as the left minister of the Ministry of War and the acting minister of the Ministry of War. After Emperor Sejong succeeded to the throne, due to the gradual decline of the veteran generals in the dynasty, most of the descendants of the founding nobles were corrupted. I can't even ride a horse, so I rely on your grandfather even more. Just after he turned forty-five, he became the privy envoy and was granted the title of Marquis of Huaiyang."
"When Emperor Sejong was dissatisfied that Emperor Taizong moved the capital to Luoyang, the Luoyang Palace, which was based on the Luoyang Palace of the former Tang Dynasty and only added some palaces, was too old. Although the regulations were grand and generous, it was not as magnificent as the Daming Palace in Chang'an, so he wanted to A new palace was rebuilt in the east of Luoyang City."
"It was a severe drought in the world. All ministers and workers were opposed to Emperor Sejong's idea. Only your grandfather supported Emperor Sejong. He personally went into battle and mobilized more than 100,000 craftsmen and sergeants in the name of workers' relief. It took three years Over time, Emperor Sejong built Yeongbokgung Palace with a level of luxury and sophistication that far exceeds the old Yeongchang Palace we live in now.”
"After this incident, Emperor Shizong trusted your grandpa even more. He granted your grandpa the title of Taiwei, Shangshu Zuopushe and Privy Councilor, and promoted him to the title of Duke of Huaiyang. This is equivalent to completely handing over the military power of Daqi to your grandpa. . At that time, the only Minister of War who could check and balance your grandfather was your grandfather’s old subordinate in Yanshan Mansion.”
