A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 187
Beimen Tunying expanded.

It was originally called Tunying, also known as Flying Cavalry. Later, a hundred cavalry was produced, and then a thousand cavalry was produced. Now there are a hundred cavalry, a thousand cavalry, flying cavalry and Tunqi (divine machine), a total of eight battalions.

When Li Shimin was in the early court, he was sprayed by Wei Zheng again.

To be honest, Wu Huaiyu stood on the steps of the palace leaning on his sword, and he couldn't stand it any longer. Spraying every day, it became an unshakable repertoire.

As soon as the official position is established, Wei Zheng will leave the class to remonstrate, which is endless.

He is now Shangshu Zuocheng, and he is no longer an admonisher, but he has to come to this matter every day, and Li Shimin is tired of it.

But Li Shimin is also ruthless and does not punish Wei Zheng. If you remonstrate with you every day, I will continue as usual.

Not only is he still training the soldiers in rotation at the square of Xiande Hall every day, but he also needs to expand the Forbidden Army at the North Gate.

The left and right Flying Cavalry, the left and right Qianqi, and the left and right Shenji, each with 5000 people, totaling 3 people.

There are a thousand horses on the left and right, a total of 2000 people.

The first six battalions are nothing unusual, mainly the original 1000 forbidden troops, but this time the battalions were re-divided from the left and right battalions to six battalions. They are still on duty five times, with 6000 people in each battalion. [-] people are stationed at the north gate.

The biggest change is Baiqi. In the past, 100 guards were selected from the flying cavalry, but now the number has to be expanded to [-], and bad children must be selected from the Tibetan households.

Criminals, sons of slaves, real delinquents, how could they choose two thousand of them as the emperor's personal guards?

Wei Zheng's saliva splashed everywhere, and his opposition was extremely fierce.

Li Shimin maintained a smile on his face, and after Wei Zheng finished spraying, he said slowly, "I know."

He still wanted to spray again, but Sun Wuji, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, stood up just right, and started to play the next thing.

Ending early.

Li Shimin immediately went to change into a military uniform, and all the soldiers who were transferred to Xiande Palace for training today also arrived.

"Your Majesty, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, use the blade of a weapon to strangle those who are in charge!" Wei Zheng unexpectedly followed.

Li Shimin said to Wu Huaiyu, "Please ask the man from Julu County to go to the Shangshu Province to work on duty."

"Yes."

Wu Huaiyu stopped Wei Zheng with a Qianniu knife.

"Duke Wei, the early court has ended, please return to the Imperial City Shangshu Province immediately, and do not stay in the palace!"

"I want to appeal to His Majesty!"

Wei Zheng looked at the hundreds of soldiers in front of the square of Xiande Hall, holding knives, bows and guns, and looked a little frightened. If one or two of them really had evil thoughts here, how can we prevent it?

This is no different from the Qianniu of the Zuofu Mansion. They are all the sons of famous and noble ministers, and their identities and backgrounds have also passed many checks. There are so many soldiers in the capital, it is impossible for everyone to know the background.

Wu Huaiyu hates Wei Zheng very much now.

He slammed the five-foot-five thousand-ox sword on the ground, "Wei Zuocheng, are you disobeying the imperial decree?"

Wei Zheng gasped heavily and stared at Wu Huaiyu with red eyes, "Wu Huaiyu, as an official of the imperial court, you don't know how to admonish the king and guide people to be good, but only know how to flatter and flatter you. You are lucky to be a villain and a sycophant!"

Wu Huaiyu directly pulled out a section of the Qianniu knife, "Wei Zheng, I am warning you for the first time!"

Wei Zheng stared at Wu Huaiyu and continued to spray him.

Huaiyu pulled out another section of the knife, "Wei Zheng, I am warning you a second time now!"

Seeing that the smell of gunpowder was getting stronger and stronger, Zuo Qianniu An Yuanshou, who was also on duty, came over, directly set up Wei Zheng and walked out, with a smile on his face while he was doing it, and his mouth was full of nice words.

Huaiyu inserted the knife back, and gave a cold snort of disdain.

He went back to report to Li Shimin.

"Wei Zheng is just the stone in the latrine, smelly and hard." Li Shimin cursed, but although the curse was right, the emperor didn't mean to blame Wei Zheng, and it's fine to drag him away.

Li Shimin seemed to deliberately keep Wei Zheng, let him spray himself every day, so that he could wake up.

"The Chen Sheng you recommended to me is not bad. He is good at riding and shooting. He has extraordinary physical strength. What's rare is that he also understands the art of war and the formation map. I have already recorded it as a hundred cavalry. Unfortunately, there are few such brave men."

Li Shimin originally planned to recruit 2000 new Baiqi soldiers, use the original Baiqi as officers, recruit delinquent youths from the official slaves of the Tibetan households, and train them himself, but now he finds that there are not many brave and delinquent youths who meet the conditions.

But Li Shimin is still unwilling to choose from the soldiers of the government, especially the old Yuan of the Supreme Emperor from the forbidden army. He hopes that this hundred-riding battalion can be more special.

"I plan to select a brave young man from the Hu tribe of the foreign kingdom to recruit as a hundred cavalry. What do you think?"

Wu Huaiyu is now on duty for one day and two days. When he is on duty, he basically follows Li Shimin's attendant. The monarch and his subjects are also used to it. Because of his past achievements, Li Shimin also likes to ask him for some opinions. This is also a convenient opportunity for the emperor to serve him. If there is Ability and talent, if the answer satisfies the emperor, points will be added, and promotion will be just around the corner.

"Beirong, Xidi, Southern Man, Dongyi, among the tribes of the vassals, many of them are very brave. It is a kindness to them to choose the children of the chieftains of the tribes as the guards of the Baiqi. Rewards can be achieved in one fell swoop, Your Majesty is wise."

Li Shimin was very comfortable with Huaiyu's flattery, because the flattery was of high quality, and Li Shimin really thought so.

Using the children of the foreign race who belonged to them or the children of the nobles of their leaders as bodyguards is equivalent to a kind of reward to the feudal vassals and wins the relationship between the two parties. Even these children of foreign nobles are in Beijing. They do not have any complicated background relations. The emperor It is actually more reliable to use these people as entourage guards.

After all, Yang Guangjiang was murdered, and it was the Xiaoguo army who did it, and the Xiaoguo was led by the noble sons of the court.When Li Yuan and his son raised troops in Taiyuan, many of their confidantes were also the three guards of the Sui Dynasty.

The palace change three months ago is the same.

Zhou Shaofan is a general of the Forbidden Army. On the surface, he voted for the construction earlier, but secretly he is Li Shimin's people, as well as Jing Junhong and Chang He who are in the camp.

Li Shimin is well aware of this.

The children of the chiefs of foreign tribes would not have such a complicated relationship.

Even the children of the feudal lords can restrain each other.

Huaiyu also suggested in the same way that in the left and right camps of Baiqi, Turkic guards, Khitan guards, Tuyuhun guards, Dangxiang guards, etc. can be organized.

Throughout the ages, monarchs at home and abroad have actually had some well-known alien guards, which is not uncommon at all.

Before Li Shimin wanted to select unscrupulous youths from the official slaves of the Tibetan family to be the Baiqi, in fact, he didn't want to be surrounded by the children of nobles and relatives, and wanted a simpler and more loyal guard.

"Come and bet on Baiqi," Li Shimin said suddenly.

"Your Majesty, I feel very exhausted by Zuo Qianniu's errand now, and I really dare not accept this errand."

Li Shimin just laughed, "You Zuoqianniu did a good job betting on the Shenji Camp, but now the Shenji Camp has to expand from 2000 people to [-], and your qualifications are still insufficient, so you are not suitable to bet on the Shenji Camp again. Bet on the left battalion of a hundred riders, Xu Luoren bet on the right battalion of a hundred riders."

There were 24 Qianniu Beishen and 24 more, all of them were high-ranking bodyguards, and all of them were from very high backgrounds, not to mention there were many generals of higher ranks, but Li Shimin finally thought about it and decided to Let Wu Huaiyu bet on Baiqi Zuoying.

Compared with the other six battalions, the two battalions of Baiqi only have 2000 people, but these 2000 people are on duty regardless of the time, but they are superiors, stationed at the north gate for a long time, and they just take a break for a while. The entire riding battalion can be quickly mobilized.

The other six battalions have 3 horses, and usually only 1000 people are in each battalion, but after all, the first battalion commands [-] people, so the level must at least be led by a general of the twelve guards or a part-time general.

The day.

Wu Huaiyu then received a new decree, Tong Shisheren came to proclaim the decree, went to the general, the founding son of Daling County, Wu Huaiyu Jiasan General, the guerrilla general, Zuo Qianniu of Zuo Fu, and the Zuo Baiqi camp, so that he was exempted from the errand of the Shenji camp .

Wu Huaiyi, on the other hand, no longer concurrently served as a hundred cavalry. He was transferred to the Qianqi Battalion and became the commander of the Qianqi Battalion to command the army.

"Congratulations Erlang, you have been promoted again."

Huaiyu smiled, "The envoy of the Shenji Battalion has been changed to the Battalion of the Zuo Baiqi, nothing has changed."

"Isn't Erlang awarded the title of Guerrilla General?"

"It's just a casual general. It was originally awarded to military attaches without a job. I'm still in charge."

"A thousand cows are only at the sixth rank, but a guerrilla general is at the fifth rank."

The two brothers chatted in the East Palace.

Compared with Huaiyu who actually only awarded the rank of General San of the fifth rank, Huaiyi was promoted to command the army by other generals this time. Although this was awarded to the commanding army of the lower government, it was also a rank of lower rank. Even if the title of General San was not awarded, this time Huaiyi had actually taken a crucial step forward.

However, Wu Huaiyu's transfer from Shenji Camp to Baiqi Camp did not change much. Now he can stay more focused in the East Palace.

The Xiande Hall was turned into a lecture hall by Li Shimin, and the square in front of the hall became a martial arts arena.

Every day, soldiers from various ministries in Chang'an took turns to receive training.

The expansion of Baiqi is also going smoothly. There are not enough brave and bad boys from the family of officials and slaves in the affluent households, so they should be selected from the children of the leaders of the Rongdi barbarians.

There are still a lot of these barbarian children in Chang'an City, and many of them are after the vassals were attached, the Tang Dynasty bestowed official positions on these leaders, and then called their children to Beijing, arranged to study in the Imperial College, or worked as errands in the Three Guards, in fact, they came to plate gold In order to close the relationship, it also has the meaning of being a hostage. Even the children of the chieftains of these tribes in Beijing can bring a lot of money to promote consumption in Chang'an.

Now Li Shimin chooses from these children to enter the left and right hundred cavalry camps, such as Turkic, Khitan, Tiele, Kumoxi, Mohe, Silla, Dangxiang, Tuyuhun, Jihu, and even Gaochang, Qiuci and other feudal lords in the Western Regions.

Wu Huaiyu and Xu Luoren, the two chiefs of the Baiqi Battalion, accompanied Li Shimin in the selection and assessment every day, and the [-] Baiqi battalion was quickly filled.

Of the eight battalions at the north gate, their second battalion of hundreds of riders is the most special.

Less than [-]% are the children of honorable nobles, [-]% are the children of officials and slaves, and [-]% are the children of barbarians and vassal states.

Many of the barbarian sons of the vassal states have very honorable status in their respective tribes, and some even have titles such as princes, no matter whether they are arrogated or not.After they came to Chang'an, they realized how small they were. Even if they were from Turkic or Gaochang, they were very different from Chang'an. That's great.

In the eyes of Chang'an people, although these barbarians are quite rich, they are nothing but sticks that are despised by others.

Now, they have been selected as the followers of the emperor's bodyguards, and they are all very excited.

It's just that their chief Wu Huaiyu looked at this group of people and called them ghosts and snake gods. It's not an exaggeration to call them ghosts and ghosts. Khitan people and Xi people with hairy hair like to shave off the top of their heads, and then keep a photo here and a circle there Yes, weird.

The Mohe people in Baishan and Heishui wear big braids.

Turkic people like to hang their hair in pigtails.

Dangxiang people and Xiqiang people also like to shave their hair, and they shave off a lot of hair on their heads, but they are different from Xi and Qi's scorpions in details.

As for the raccoon, liao, and man from the south, they generally have tattoos with broken hair, short hair, many tattoos on their bodies, and left and right lapels on their clothes. Anyway, they have various styles.

Huaiyu did not ask them to uniformly change the hairstyles and costumes of the Han people in the Tang Dynasty. Instead, according to the emperor's instructions, these people from various tribes were organized into teams of the same clan, and they were weaved together. Not only did they keep the original hairstyles and costumes, but they were even equipped. customary weaponry.

Wu Huaiyu's only requirement is that they have to learn Chinese well. If they can't speak Mandarin Chinese well, then how to communicate and how to command.

It can be seen that many of these ghosts and monsters are still quite dissatisfied with the officer Wu Huaiyu, thinking that he is too young, and even a little too 'thin'.

"We Baiqi Zuoying Xinli, why don't we have a martial arts show first, everyone come to compete, try horse riding, archery, foot shooting, weight bearing, running, etc., the top three will be rewarded, those who fail to pass, and the last Hundreds, fine!"

As soon as Huaiyu's words came out, everyone was eager to try, and a big man Xifeng Heishi from the Dangxiang Xifeng tribe asked Huaiyu if he would also join.

"Of course!" Huaiyu chuckled, and if he didn't show his hand in front of them, these people would not obey him.

(End of this chapter)