Chapter 425: The Eunuch of the Prison Army
There are too many things to do, and there is no time for me, Liangchen is going to do a few things non-stop today, and then concentrate on his great maritime business. As for the trouble on the East Factory, Zhang Cheng has spoken to him to rest assured, what else does he have to worry about. And then there are the two.
Who those two are, Liangchen can only vaguely estimate, not dare to confirm. After all, there are several eunuchs who are the master of ceremonies, and there are also many eunuchs with real power, and Liu Jixiang, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch who he is about to meet, is one of them.
The Imperial Horse Supervisor is in the north of the Imperial City, long live the head of Shandong, this yamen according to Zhang Cheng to his pamphlet description, should be the largest function of the inner court, not only covers a large area, but also has jurisdiction over a lot of Huangzhuang grassland, Jishuitan Horse Farm is only one of them, and it is relatively small.
In addition to the large place, there are also many people in the Imperial Horse Prison, after all, it is the Inner Court Military Department, not only in charge of the Tengxiang Four Guards and the Warrior Battalion, but also the commander of the Beijing Battalion, it is not an exaggeration to say that this unit is the forbidden army Yamen of the Ming Dynasty.
Historically, the Imperial Horse Supervisor has also been coquettish several times, and the Da Jue who has been out is second only to the celebrant supervisor. However, in the past few decades, the reputation of the Imperial Horse Prison has not been obvious, and until the death of the Ming Dynasty, it has not been able to regain its heyday.
However, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the imperial horse supervisor is now in decline, but that is compared to the celebrant eunuch, compared with the other yamen, he is still the second in the inner court that is high and worthy of the name.
Moreover, this yamen really lives up to the name of the Inner Court Military Department, except for the "foreign errand" of the Nanjing town guard eunuch as the ceremonial supervisor, the rest of the town guards and the eunuchs of the prison army are selected by the imperial horse supervisor, which alone is destined to be extraordinary.
The reason why Gao Qiqian, who is still a down-and-out fire man like the second uncle, will be reused by Chongzhen in the future is because he has gilded in the Imperial Horse Prison, and in Chongzhen's words, it is "knowing the soldiers and making good use of them". And the eunuchs in the imperial horse prison are also the most martyred in Chongzhen, whether it is outside the customs or inside the customs, whether it is facing Li Chuang or Jiannu, the performance of these eunuchs is enough to make those civil officials ashamed.
Unlike the rest of the yamen, the Imperial Horse Supervisor had three leaders.
The Liu Jixiang that the good minister wanted to see sounded like a commander and eunuch, as if he was the biggest, but in fact he was the least powerful of the three leaders. The supervising eunuchs and palm seal eunuchs above him are the first and second eunuchs of the imperial horse.
According to the manual of the inner court, Liu Jixiang, the admiral eunuch, is mainly to manage the daily life of the imperial horse eunuch, and the transfer of soldiers and horses needs to supervise the eunuchs, and the personnel and money and food are in charge of the general seal.
Combined with the fact that the Imperial Horse Supervisor has soldiers, Liangchen can understand this personnel arrangement. The barrel of the gun is still close to the palace, and if it is controlled by one person, the emperor himself is not at ease. Splitting and balancing each other is the way to employ people.
Zhang Cheng's private residence is in Zhengyangmen, a little far away from the Imperial Horse Prison, and when the good minister touched the head of the Imperial Horse Prison, the sun had already risen high. Touched his head, every inch of time is an inch of gold, time is money, without four wheels, he Wei Gonggong doesn't know how much money to drop on the ground every day.
Outside the prison, after handing Zhang Cheng's name sticker and the sign of the internal official and supervisor into it according to the rules, Liangchen waited patiently and waited for a while, but a person came out and told him that Gonggong Liu was not in prison.
"Isn't Grandpa Liu on duty today?" Liangchen was very disappointed, and he rushed to see no one when he came, and he was the most torturous.
"Father-in-law Wei doesn't know, a new batch of military horses were put in Nanhaizi over there in Datong, and Father-in-law Liu was not at ease, so he personally went to implement this matter yesterday."
The man who spoke was Ma Deqin, and he was the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison. Because Liangchen handed over the name of the eunuch Bingbi, Ma Deqin was quite polite to him. In addition, the people of the Imperial Horse Supervisor actually don't have much to do with other yamen in the palace, so I don't know that this Father-in-law Wei in front of him is a guy who "eats inside and outside", otherwise Zhun Bao will not have a good face.
No matter which dynasty or generation, or what yamen, the four words "official affairs" are sometimes really not praise.
"Then when will Grandpa Liu come back?" Liangchen was a little anxious, and his tone sounded naturally a little anxious.
Ma Deqin shook his head: "I can't say for sure. Seeing that Liangchen was in a hurry, he thought about it and said that there was a Song Gonggong in the prison who was going to Nanhaizi, and if Liangchen was really in a hurry, he might as well follow.
When Liangchen heard this, he hurriedly thanked Ma Deqin, Ma Deqin asked him to wait for a while, and he went to ask Gonggong Song if he could take it with him.
Of course, Liangchen said yes and waited honestly.
The reason why he was in a hurry to get Chen Mo here was mainly because Liangchen wanted him to take over as the bookkeeper. There are all rough people around me, and there are few literate people to help, so there are many things that can't be done. After all, his father-in-law Wei is not a person with three heads and six arms and unlimited energy. It's always right to have three gangs of heroes.
After a while, Gonggong Song came to the door with a few people talking and laughing, and when he saw Wei Liangchen waiting, he smiled and stepped forward to ask if it was Gonggong Wei from the internal official prison.
Of course, Liangchen said yes, the other party nodded, didn't say much, and only asked Liangchen if he could ride a horse.
This is really the right person, Liangchen is more modest, he didn't say that he understood a little, but he just said that it was okay.
"Go and lead a horse for Grandpa Wei, let's go to Nanhaizi."
Gonggong Song is also a cheerful person, and asked someone to lead a horse to Liangchen, watching Liangchen skillfully get on the horse, he couldn't help but put his mind at ease and went out of the palace first. Liangchen is not inferior, and he follows closely, but he is wise to always fall behind Song Gonggong and dare not surpass the other party.
Nanhaizi is also known as Nanyuan, because there is the old road of Yongding River in the garden, forming a large lake and swamp, the grass and trees are luxuriant, birds and beasts, elk gather, it is an animal paradise at the foot of the Son of Heaven. After Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, he drove out all the residents living in Haizi, expanded the palace and palace, built a wall around it for 120 miles, called "Nanhaizi", and expanded the hunting grounds in the pseudo-Yuan period dozens of times. Nowadays, the Imperial Horse Supervisor is responsible for raising horses, and there are many horse households in Haizi, all of whom are supervised by the Imperial Horse, and the military horses raised are also the most in several horse farms of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.
On the way, Liangchen was very impressed by the Song father-in-law, because the other party's horseback riding skills were not weaker than his own at all, and even stronger. The eunuchs under him also looked capable, more like soldiers than like eunuchs.
Liangchen was a little suspicious that these people were from the warrior camp, thinking that Zheng Duo and they also dreamed of hanging up the establishment in the imperial horse prison, and when they were halfway off, Liangchen deliberately got close to this Song Gonggong, and went to the military affairs as he liked. As a result, he was right, this Song Gonggong was the eunuch of the Warrior Battalion. He went to Nanhaizi to rush to the new batch of military horses.
The glorious history of the warrior camp, the good ministers should be like a number of treasures, from the five out of the desert when the ancestor was born, and then to the defense of Beijing, he praised the warrior camp very much. As he talked, he consciously mentioned Wang Zhina, the biggest person who had ever been in the Imperial Horse Prison, and he was really embarrassed between his words.