Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Regardless of what the nobles think, the reform of the capital's guards must be carried out.

Zhu Youjian had already decided to regard the Wei Suo as the foundation of his strength, and certainly could not allow the nobles to become corrupt and allow the Wei Suo to continue to degenerate.

So he decided to introduce civilian military officers and establish a new system in order to completely eliminate the malpractices that had accumulated over the two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

This naturally requires giving them power and allowing them to deal with the nobles.

As for whether civilian military officers will become more powerful in the future and want more power.

Zhu Youjian had full confidence in the hereditary officials of the guards:
These people may be incompetent after being corrupted, but their loyalty to the emperor cannot be doubted.

Their wealth and status depended on the emperor. Even after more than 200 years of infiltration by civil officials, they were not able to completely seize the power of the garrisons.

With these people in the garrison, Zhu Youjian would not worry about completely losing control of the army.

Moreover, after the reform of the guards is completed in the future, he will make further adjustments and divide the powers among various parties.

After the three gates and eight blocks of the East City Bingmasi were determined, the next to be determined were the three gates of the North City Bingmasi.

Compared with the East City, the area of ​​the North City is not large. Zhu Youjian decided to merge the districts in the city and set up a district to manage each gate:

"Chongjingfang and Lingchunfang were merged into the new Chongjingfang, just like the Jiaozhongfang and Zhaohuijinggongfang in Zhongcheng were merged into the new Jiaozhongfang."

"It, along with the Andingmen Outer Quarter, is under the charge of the Andingmen guards."

"Jintaifang expanded westward to the Qianfo Temple area, and together with the Beilumen Outer Fang, it was under the charge of the Beilumen Guards."

"Faxiangfang and the southern part of Rizhongfang, which is the area south of Shichahai Street in the future, will be merged into Jiqingfang in the middle city."

"The remaining areas will be merged into the new Jiqingfang, and together with Deshengmen Waifang, they will be under the charge of the Deshengmen guards."

"Arrange three guards at the three gates and six quarters of the North City."

Zhu Youjian did not arrange for his own troops to guard these three places, because the camp of the Tengxiang Four Guards was in the area of ​​the Bell and Drum Tower.

The soldiers and horses of the Tengxiang Four Guards were mainly selected to join the Four Guards Camp, but Zhu Youjian would also arrange some people to stay behind to control the road out of the city from Bei'anmen.

Finally, the Xingwu Guard and Fuyu Guard of the Houjun Military Governor's Office were assigned to guard Anding Gate and Beilü Gate, while the Wude Guard of the Youjun Military Governor's Office was assigned to guard Desheng Gate.

Next is the West City Bingmasi, which is also responsible for the three city gates.

The changes in the Fang in this area are also the biggest. The Fang was previously divided by the east and west of Caohe River, but now it has been changed to the north and south for gatekeeping. The layout of the Fang has changed a lot, and many of its names have changed:
"The south side of Rizhongfang was named Guangpingfang after Guangpingku."

"With Chaotian Palace as the dividing line, Guangpingfang is to the north and Chaotianfang is to the south."

"Guangpingfang and Rizhongfang are on both sides of Xizhimen East Street, and together with Xizhimen Waifang, they are managed by the Xizhimen guards."

"What do you think of the guards of this square?"

Now the ministers understood that the emperor had no intention of assigning his personal guard to be in charge of Xizhimen.

Just like the guards at Dongzhimen, the Dragon and Tiger Guards of the Zuojun Military Governor's Office were arranged.

The nobles who had been involved with the garrison finally stood up. Zhu Guobi, Marquis of Funing, said:

"The Huizhou Guard of the Rear Army Military Governor's Office is in Jiqingfang, so we can go there nearby."

Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, not caring about what he was planning.

As a superficial appeasement to the nobles, he arranged for Huizhou guards to guard Xizhimen. If they did not do a good job, he would replace them later.

Then he assigned the Jizhou Guard of the Imperial Guard to take charge of Fucheng Gate in the south, and also adjusted the jurisdiction of Jinchengfang, Xianyifang, and Fucaifang south of Fucheng Gate.

Xianyifang expanded westwards to the Fuchengmen city wall, while Jinchengfang was responsible for the south.

Fucaifang is fully responsible for the south side of West Chang'an Street, narrowing the scope of its jurisdiction.

Zhu Youjian had originally planned to use his personal guards to guard the Xilu Gate, but Yuan Keli said:

"Your Majesty has the Tiger Guards Left Guard guarding the Donglu Gate. I think the Tiger Guards Right Guard should be used to guard the Xilu Gate."

"The safety of Chang'an Avenue will be ensured by the brave warriors. People will also feel more assured about the newly opened city gates."

The capital had three new gates, and it was impossible for the officials not to worry. However, the Donglu Gate and Xilu Gate were very convenient for officials, and the Beilu Gate was also very convenient for nobles.

So they approved the proposal to open city gates and did not strongly object to the emperor's arrangement of a guard at each city gate.

Yuan Keli planned to strengthen the Huben Zuowei and Huben Youwei, the two corps guarding the east and west gates of Chang'an Street, by assigning more soldiers to them.

All the ministers agreed with this and thought that it was indeed very appropriate for the Huben Youwei to guard the west gate.

Zhu Youjian couldn't ignore their opinions, and he didn't value Xilu Gate as much as Donglu Gate. So he nodded and said:
"Then as Yuan Qing said, the Xilu Gate will be guarded by the Tiger Guards of the Right Military Governor's Office."

"Now, of the garrisons in Beijing directly under the jurisdiction of the Right Military Governor's Office, the only one left is the Right Guard."

In each of the Five Military Commanderies, there is a garrison guard.

This Wei Zhu Youjian did not move at all and planned to stay in the Five Military Commandery.

After the barracks of the Five Army Camps were determined, the five guards were moved there to be responsible for the vicinity of the barracks.

After all these were decided, the guards for the nine gates on the east, west and north sides of the inner city were preliminarily determined.

However, whether these guards can stay depends on how they perform.

If they did anything wrong behind the city gate, Zhu Youjian would never tolerate them.

Moreover, the government affairs of the inner city are managed by the government offices of Dongcheng District and Xicheng District:
"After the adjustment of the inner city lanes, the original 28 inner city lanes were increased to nine outer city lanes."

"Four wards have been reduced, namely Baoda ward, Zhaohui Jinggong ward, Lingchun ward and Rizhong ward. In addition, Mingyu ward, Hecao West ward and Chaotian Palace West ward have been changed to Chaotian ward and Guangping ward has been reduced by one. A total of five wards have been reduced."

"After this change, it became the Thirty-Two Quarters."

"The wards are numbered in order. Wards 05 to 09 in the Central City, 10 to 17 in the East City, and 18 to 21 in the North City are all assigned to the East City District. There are a total of wards under the jurisdiction of the East City District."

"After that, wards 22 to 32, as well as wards 01 to 04 in the middle city, were all transferred to Xicheng District. There are a total of wards under the jurisdiction of Xicheng District."

"Do you have any objection to this division of jurisdiction?"

Of course not, because the division between the east and west urban areas is basically based on the central axis.

However, because of the existence of Shichahai, the eastern part of the north city was assigned to Dongcheng District, especially the two districts inside and outside Beilumen.

Because of this, Xicheng District has two fewer districts than Dongcheng District, so it is not completely evenly divided.

The one who felt the pressure at this time was Chen Qiyu, the Minister of the Imperial Household.

The reason for this division is that transportation in the Shichahai area is inconvenient.

He decided to organize craftsmen to solve this problem, especially the future connection between Shichahai Street and Gulou Street. (End of this chapter)