#451 - Jinyifu

In the following days, Xu Ming successively found Xiong Haizhi, Guang Yin, and Li Han, among others.

He hoped they could enter the Embroidered Uniform Guard and serve as commanders of a thousand households.

Originally, after careful consideration, Xu Ming didn't want to seek them out, but in the end, he decided it was better to do so.

In an authority, the most likely to crash is always the upper echelons.

For example, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the two deputy commanders.

But further down, they would be the targets of most people's flattery.

Even if Xu Ming were to be purged in the future, it would be difficult to move those commanders of a thousand households and commanders of a hundred households in the Embroidered Uniform Guard unless there was sufficient evidence.

Because the commanders of a thousand households and commanders of a hundred households were the ones doing the work, and they were very familiar with the "grassroots Embroidered Uniform Guard" under their command.

You can move the interests of the upper echelons because you also need the interests of the upper echelons.

But you better not move the interests of the middle and lower levels.

Because the middle and lower levels will also become your interests when they defect to you.

So as long as Li Han and the others were a little "sensible," Xu Ming felt that even if he crashed, it wouldn't matter.

Anyway, regardless of what, since Xu Ming had already invited these former brothers to help him, he had the confidence to protect these former brothers.

Besides, Xu Ming felt that if he was purged, those court officials would definitely want to eliminate the roots, and who among his previous comrades-in-arms, except for Wu Yanhai, would have a good ending?

Since that was the case, then let them control a certain amount of power to protect themselves.

As for Xu Pangda.

To be honest, Xu Ming felt that Pangda was really not cut out for this line of work.

Xu Pangda was more suitable for floating in a simple officialdom, as for a violent system like the Embroidered Uniform Guard, he was definitely not suitable.

Moreover, Xu Ming had always been avoiding stuffing his own people into the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Xu Ming could stuff in his colleagues and friends, but he absolutely could not stuff in people who had family ties with him.

Faced with Xu Ming's invitation, Li Han, Guang Yin, and the others all agreed.

How could a commander of a thousand households in the Embroidered Uniform Guard not be considered a sixth-rank official? They would need at least a dozen years, or even more, to reach the sixth rank.

But now, under the promotion of their own brother, they had actually reached the rank of sixth-rank official.

They were somewhat恍惚 for a moment.

But they did not become carried away because they had soared into the sky.

On the contrary, they knew that since they were directly promoted, there would definitely be many people's eyes watching them!

They needed to be more cautious, not only to do their job well but also to do these things well, and absolutely not to cause trouble for their brother.

It was after Xu Ming appointed Guang Yin and the others that Yu Ping'an came to the Embroidered Uniform Guard and found Xu Ming, expressing his willingness to join the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

In order to reassure Xu Ming, Yu Ping'an also specifically emphasized that his joining the Embroidered Uniform Guard was entirely out of his own consideration.

Since Yu Ping'an had said so, then Xu Ming naturally couldn't say anything more.

Xu Ming welcomed Yu Ping'an's joining.

Moreover, Xu Ming also needed Yu Ping'an's joining.

Xu Ming even thought that when he left the Wu Kingdom, he would hand over the position of commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard to Yu Ping'an.

Yu Ping'an would serve as the deputy commander, and Li Han, Guang Yin, and Xiong Haizhi would serve as the three commanders of a thousand households.

In addition, there was also a position for a deputy commander and five positions for commanders of a thousand households.

Xu Ming directly submitted a memorial for these six positions, leaving it to His Majesty to decide.

Although Xu Ming was qualified to make the decision, no matter what, your immediate superior was Emperor Wu, so even if it was just lip service, you needed to symbolically ask your immediate superior for his opinion.

And Emperor Wu naturally agreed with the candidates proposed by Xu Ming.

Since Xu Ming had given him face so sensibly, then Emperor Wu naturally couldn't not give Xu Ming this face.

However, Emperor Wu was not polite and directly appointed a person as the deputy commander and then appointed four people to serve as commanders of a thousand households.

As for the last remaining commander of a thousand households, Emperor Wu said that he did not have suitable candidates on his side for the time being, and obviously Qin Wang Wu Yanhai would concurrently hold the position.

As for the Embroidered Uniform Guard commanders of a hundred households and other members of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, 50% would be transferred from the Blood Floating Pagoda, 30% would be transferred from the Imperial Guards, 10% would be transferred from the Jingzhao Prefecture, and 10% would be transferred from the Ministry of Justice.

What Xu Ming didn't expect was that Emperor Wu chose a woman to serve as the deputy commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

This woman's appearance was not considered very beautiful, she could only be considered pretty, and she always had a cold face, as if someone owed her a hundred taels of gold.

From the time Xu Ming officially began to form the Embroidered Uniform Guard to the end, it took a total of five days.

The place where the Embroidered Uniform Guard worked was in the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion.

Therefore, ordinary officials called the Embroidered Uniform Guard also known as the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion.

However, the Embroidered Uniform Guard more often referred to individuals, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion referred to a whole.

On the day the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion was established, all the civil and military officials came to congratulate, and no one did not come.

Emperor Wu even sent a plaque – "Wholeheartedly for the Country".

Then Xu Ming very sensibly put the four characters at the beginning of the "Embroidered Uniform Guard Regulations (the rules of the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion)" – Loyalty to the Ruler.

The main point was "My heart only has His Majesty, I only want to progress"!

At this point, even if the civil and military officials were not familiar with the "Embroidered Uniform Guard Regulations," they also knew the three bottom line principles of the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion –

First, loyalty to the ruler, without any second thoughts.

Second, wholeheartedly for the people, unafraid of the powerful.

Third, do not enter into party strife,恪守己份.

The clothing of the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion was personally designed by Xu Ming and then finalized by Emperor Wu.

However, the people of the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion all wore flying fish robes, wore Tang horizontal sabers on their waists, and hung Embroidered Uniform Guard jade pendants.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard was established with two divisions, namely the "Arrest Division" and the "Internal Intelligence Division", which were served by two Embroidered Uniform Guard deputy commanders respectively.

Among them, Yu Ping'an served as the director of the Internal Intelligence Division, and Zhao Feiyan served as the director of the Arrest Division.

As for some logistical support, it was all taken care of by the Imperial Palace, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion did not need to worry, so Xu Ming did not set up a Life Division.

The first thing the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion did was to clear out the remnants of the previous dynasty in the imperial capital.

Because the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion was indeed destitute at the beginning, most of the information was provided by the Listening Wind Pavilion.

Moreover, Emperor Wu arranged for the Listening Wind Pavilion and the Embroidered Uniform Guard to frequently have personnel exchanges.

Xu Ming did not have any thoughts on this.

It was just Emperor Wu's means of controlling two authorities.

One was an intelligence agency, and the other was a violent agency.

By controlling these two agencies, Emperor Wu's influence on the court would be even greater.

And it was also when the Embroidered Uniform Guard Mansion was running while adjusting that Xu Ming received a message from the Xu Mansion.

The ancestor worship was about to begin, and Xu Ming had to ask for a few days of leave even if he was busy.

Xu Ming promised the old lady that he would definitely go back during the two days of ancestor worship.