Jinyiwei is the most famous guard in the Ming Army, in the film and television drama can be said to be the only way, but Jinyiwei is by no means the first guard in the Ming Army, compared with the following guard, Jinyiwei will be willing to bow to the wind, Jinyiwei from the big guy to the small soldiers to see the people who see this guard must avoid three points.
This guard is the vanguard of the prefectural army, and first of all, from the beginning of the block, it is much larger than the Jinyi guard. Jinyiwei itself is a guard that exceeds the standard, it has fourteen (in fact, there are only thirteen, and the flag bearer thousand households are later changed to flag guard), but the prefectural army vanguard has 25 offices, and the number of regular workers is more than 28,000, which is five times that of the general guard, more than twice that of the Jinyi guard (later these two guards recruited a large number of temporary workers, Lu Bing summoned a hundred thousand beijing divisions and other places to fill the number, the prefectural army vanguard has always had a large number of officials and second-generation indiscriminately, and for most of the Ming Dynasty, the prefectural army vanguard was far superior to the Jinyi guard in terms of organization and number).
Secondly, the ranking of the fu army's vanguard is also higher than that of the Jinyi guard, and the official ranking of the Ming Dynasty's pro-army twelve guards is "Jinwu forward-guardIng Jinwu defender Yulin left guard Yulin right guard Fujun Wei Fujun Left Guard Fujun Right Guard Fujun Fujun Defender Fujun Defender Hu Ben Left Guard Jinyiwei 旂手衛", the Prefectural Army Avant-Garde is the eighth, ahead of the Jinyiwei eleventh.
Of course, the ranking and number of the various guards of the Ming Army does not fully explain its position in the emperor's heart, so let's look at how close the members of the imperial guard are to the emperor (in the feudal dynasty and the position of the monarch determines the actual energy of a group, because it means trust, and trust is power in imperial politics, the imperial guards of the Qing Dynasty are more difficult to see the emperor's pro-army than standing guard outside, and the pet concubines and eunuchs who do not distinguish between each other in the "zero distance" of the emperor every day sometimes have a super power base).
In the era of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming, the "young army" of the fu army guard once monopolized the emperor's power to carry a sword, and after that, it became customary for the ming emperor to carry a sword guard around the emperor to respect the people in the vanguard of the fu army. The Zhengde Emperor, who had always been unruly, broke the monopoly of the prefectural army's vanguard, but the number of sword-bearing guards from the prefectural army was still 40, including 20 pro-military guards such as Jinyiwei, who contributed a total of 180 guards with knives to the Zhengde Emperor, with an average of only 9 people per guardhouse.
After Zhengde's death, Jiajing relied on Guo Xun, who was born as an avant-garde of the Fu Army, to take power, and the fu army vanguard rose again (Guo Xun was the first person in the Jiajing Dynasty before his death, and also the first person in the ranking of the Wen and Wu commanders), and the seal officer of the fu army vanguard was given by JiaJing to evaluate the military and political affairs together with the governor's office of the five armies (Jinyi Wei could also observe, but ranked after the fu army vanguard). The Jinyi guards were selected by the Ming emperors by 1580 honor guard-type Han generals, while in addition to 40 officers, there were 2000 young soldiers who carried weapons to protect the Zhu family Tianzi.
Although the Jinyi guards are mighty, there is still a big gap compared with the leaders of the vanguard of the prefectural army. The first master of the fu army's vanguard was Lan Yu, and this unit was also controlled by Zhang Yu, the number one general under Zhu Di, and the person who pushed it to the first guard of the Ming army was Ming Xuanzong. Because Zhu Di especially regarded it as a gift to sun tzu, he selected the vanguard of the fu army to serve as the escort unit of Ming Xuanzong, and the soldiers of the vanguard of the Mobei fu army on several expeditions were all sun Ruowei's husband's concubine troops.
It is precisely because of this relationship that the avant-garde relations of the prefectural army are piled up, Sun Ruowei's three brothers have successively served in her husband's concubine unit, and Guo Xun, who is from the vanguard of the prefectural army, is the first major member of Jiajing's early years. In the Ming Dynasty, the vanguard of the Zhongfu Army was the starting point for the ming Dynasty's top noble sons to join the army, and the relationship network was even better than that of Jinyiwei, so Jinyiwei was really a younger brother in front of him.
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