How many people were there in the Royal Guards in Ming Dynasty? Thousands of households? How many people are there in each family?

In the early Ming Dynasty, the military system was "Wei" and "Suo", and each Wei had about 5,000 regular non-commissioned officers. Its subordinate units are divided into 1000 households and 100 households, 48 of which are under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Garrison. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang reformed the Guards and set up twelve Sineitai, the most important of which was the "Royal Guards". There are 14,000 households in the Royal Guards, and each household does not have a certain number of people.

As the military organization of the Imperial Guard, the Royal Guards' main functions are "commanding guards, patrolling and arresting". Its leader is called the Commander of the Royal Guards, who is generally served by the Emperor's close military commander and is directly responsible to the Emperor. You can arrest anyone, including the royal family, and hold a secret trial.

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As the Royal Guards were directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, other North Korean officials could not interfere with them at all, thus enabling the Royal Guards to handle major cases involving court officials and submit them directly to the emperor. Therefore, North Korean officials are more afraid of Jin Yiwei. However, the scope of torture in Jin Yiwei only targets officials and literati, so he generally does not try and arrest ordinary people. Ordinary people's criminal and civil cases are only handled through normal justice.

During the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote to burn the instruments of torture of the Royal Guards and abolish their functions because of the illegal abuse of prisoners by the Royal Guards. After the Ming Emperor Judy ascended the throne, all the powers of the Royal Guards were restored and strengthened.

He set up a government office in Beizhen, specializing in "prison summons", which can directly arrest and torture prisoners, and the judicial organs such as the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and Duchayuan have no right to ask. During the Chenghua period in Ming Xianzong, the seal of Beizhen Fusi was added, and all criminals were presented to the emperor, making Beizhen Fusi in Wei Jinyi a judicial institution directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, and its power reached the extreme.

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