pjbooks Chapter 326 2 Transmigration
Chapter 326 2 Transmigration
Chapter 326 Twelve Transformations (Imperial Guards)
Songjiang Prefecture in Liaodong was the seat of the provincial capital, and the city was divided into four areas.
The eastern part of the city was the residence of high-ranking officials and the location of government offices.
The southern part of the city was the residence of the city's wealthy merchants and landlords.
The northern part of the city was the residence of those who held public office or worked as shopkeepers in various stores.
Xicheng was the slum of Songjiang Prefecture, a gathering place for the poor, beggars and vagrants.
In a small courtyard house in the northern part of the city, there are three main rooms facing south, and two side rooms on the east and west sides. To the south are a storage room and a toilet, and to the southwest is a small door opening outwards.
In the bedroom of the east wing, a young man, critically ill, was lying on a wooden bed.
The dark red stained gauze on the other person's chest indicated that they were seriously injured.
In the dead of night, the young man on the hospital bed finally breathed his last.
However, the young man, who had just closed his eyes, opened them again very quickly. Even though his body was still extremely weak, his eyes were as bright as lightning.
After quickly absorbing the remnant soul of the original owner, Wu Tao flashed into his personal space to begin treating his wounds.
Fortunately, my family always kept some basic medical supplies, gauze, and alcohol on hand.
After treating his wounds in his personal space, he then made some pork rib soup in the kitchen, ate and drank his fill, and only then did he reappear in the house.
After several hours of sorting, Wu Tao had come to understand the world he was in.
This is a dynasty similar to the late Ming Dynasty; the current dynasty is the Great Yan Dynasty.
The Great Yan Dynasty has now ruled for nearly three hundred years, but as those vested interests continue to erode the country's tax revenue and land, the Great Yan Dynasty is now beset by internal and external troubles.
Internally, there were uprisings everywhere, and externally, Japanese pirates and Tartars invaded the border.
Zheng Fengshan, the founding emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, rose from an ordinary soldier in the previous dynasty to become its founding emperor.
When Zheng Fengshan became emperor, he personally relieved his old brothers who had fought alongside him to establish the empire of their military power.
To prevent any rebellion, Zheng Fengshan personally established a special department called the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
The Embroidered Uniform Guard was responsible for monitoring all officials, as well as princes and nobles.
Later, the Embroidered Uniform Guard directly monitored the entire country. Its power was too great, and it ultimately became a source of trouble.
Later, when the third emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty ascended the throne, the other side established the Eastern Depot, a department responsible for monitoring the capital.
In its later stages, the power of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was mostly concentrated outside the capital. In the capital, the Embroidered Uniform Guard had to be tolerant of the Eastern Depot at every turn.
Because the Eastern Depot was composed of palace eunuchs, they were more trusted by the emperor than the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
After the Eastern Depot and the Embroidered Uniform Guard began to supervise each other, the situation improved significantly, and the emperor no longer had to worry about the Embroidered Uniform Guard's excessive power causing obstacles.
Thus, the two largest special departments of the Great Yan Dynasty coexisted harmoniously for hundreds of years.
The highest department of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was the Zhenfu Division, and its highest-ranking officer was the Left Commander-in-Chief.
Next are the Commander and the Deputy Commander.
Next came the commanders of the thousand households, the hundred households, the generals, the junior officers, the captains, and the strongmen.
The strongmen were the lowest-ranking soldiers in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and they were also temporary workers. Even their pay had to be collected by the captains who followed them.
Only captains were official members of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and a captain could lead two to five strongmen.
This is mainly determined by the captain's own financial resources, but it cannot exceed five strongmen.
Ten captains formed a small flag, led by a flag officer, with a total number of about thirty to fifty men.
Five small flags form a general flag, which is managed by a general flag officer, and the number of people is between one hundred and two hundred.
The two general banners were organized into one hundred-household office, with one chief hundred-household officer and one deputy hundred-household officer jointly managing it.
A hundred households typically have around three to five hundred people.
The centurion also had his own personal guard, usually consisting of two small flag bearers. The number of guards was between sixty and one hundred, and they were used to protect the centurion or to carry out certain tasks.
Generally, ten hundred-household units make up a thousand-household unit, with a total population of approximately three to five thousand.
In reality, it depends on the size of the area under its jurisdiction. Sometimes there may be fewer than ten, only seven or eight hundred households, and sometimes there may be two or three more.
In addition to the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Eastern Depot, the Great Yan Dynasty also had the City Guard and two major legions directly under the emperor.
The city guard was also composed of ordinary soldiers, with ranks of squad leader, commander, centurion, and chiliarch.
Ten thousand households formed a legion, which was commanded by a general, also known as a ten-thousand-household officer.
Within the city guard, only those who reach the rank of commander of ten thousand households are considered to have truly entered the rank of general, which is also the ultimate dream of a soldier.
Generals also have ranks: garrison commander, brigadier general, deputy commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, and governor-general.
The Embroidered Uniform Guard was a hereditary system; in fact, not only the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but all soldiers in the Great Yan Dynasty were hereditary.
That is, if your father was a soldier, all his descendants will also be soldiers.
However, whether or not one can inherit the other's position depends on their own abilities.
Within the Embroidered Uniform Guard, ranks below a thousand-household commander, hundred-household commander, general flag officer, junior flag officer, and captain were all hereditary.
In other words, if your father is a centurion, then his son can inherit the position of centurion when he comes of age.
This was also a special preferential treatment given to the Embroidered Uniform Guard by the emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty in order to win over the people.
Otherwise, why would they risk their lives to serve the emperor? It's because they know that even if they die, as long as they have merit, their descendants can inherit the positions they earned through their achievements.
The original owner's father was a junior officer in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, who later died in an accident.
Then, the original owner, who was only sixteen years old, became a junior officer in the Jinyiwei (Imperial Guard) of Songjiang Prefecture.
However, the original owner's tragic fate did not seem to end there. Only two years after he became a junior officer, he was ambushed during a top-secret mission.
This mission involved not only the original owner of the body, but also another junior officer. The two junior officers led dozens of men on the mission, but only three of them returned alive.
In other words, the original owner was lucky; although he was seriously injured, he managed to hold on until he reached the vicinity of the gate of Songjiang Prefecture before collapsing.
However, after the original owner was rescued, no one came to serve and take care of him anymore.
This is also the reason why the original owner suddenly died. There was nothing he could do; he was all alone, and everyone in his squad had died.
The other small flag bearer at least had two people return with him, which was great for Wu Tao, who had traveled through time.
Everyone in the small flag is dead. Even if he changes his behavior later, he won't be afraid of being discovered to be wrong.
It's normal for people to behave strangely after experiencing a life-or-death crisis.
Wu Tao recuperated at home for a full month before reappearing at the Baihu Office.
Zhang Zhan, the flag officer, is Wu Tao's direct superior. Zhang Zhan is forty years old this year, the same age as the original owner's father.
They were once brothers who had risked their lives for each other, but with the death of the original owner's father and the fact that the original owner didn't like to visit each other much, their relationship is now maintained at a normal superior-subordinate level.
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