The palace struggles in the Tang Dynasty were like the horses. They had never stopped since the founding of the court. Of course, the real palace fighting was not like the "palace fighting drama" written by Gao Yue before traveling through time. They were busy dating, fighting and aborting. To put it bluntly, whoever controls the armed forces will eventually win. No matter what princess is blocking the way, the prince can just die.

Therefore, in the continuous and fierce struggle, the power of the imperial guards (inner army, defending the palace city) became increasingly inflated, and the twelve guards of the Nanya (outer army, defending the imperial city) based on the government system quickly became nameless and destructive. Whoever had the support of the imperial guards could laugh to the end in the pool of blood. The combat effectiveness of the imperial guards of the Tang Dynasty was of course based on war horses, and the so-called flying cavalry and ten thousand cavalry were also. So gradually, the "mass" of the Nanya guards were raised in the "mass of horses" in the "mass of horses" in the "mass of leisure stables". From the Emperor Wu to the Xuanzong period, the horses of the imperial guards were raised in the "mass of leisure stables", and the internal and external security began to be clearly distinguished.

The idle stable is where the royal family raises horses.

After the imperial guards became stronger, the emperor understood that mastering the "Baowei's idle stable" was the key to mastering the imperial guards. The imperial guards were stationed in the palace forbidden gardens, so the "Baowei's idle stable" was always located in the palace and was under the emperor's most trusted confidant; the "Baowei's idle stable" was neglected, and the place where horses were fed was always in the "Zhulu Horse House" outside the palace, and gradually became a decoration.

In other words, the stables outside the palace are actually in the palace, and the stables inside the palace are instead outside the palace. Never be confused by their names.

As we all know, the reason why Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was able to seize the throne was naturally supported by the Imperial Guards of Ten Thousand Cavalry. His favor for the Imperial Guards is beyond doubt.

An important manifestation of favor is to buy a large number of Hu horses and fill them in the "stay outside the war".

Why buy Hu horses instead of the national horses in Helong Supervisor?

Xuanzong's surface explanation was actually a bit concealed. He said that the number of national horses was insufficient, so he could only buy Hu horses to supplement them. But if you are serious, this reason is untenable. There were more than 200,000 national horses in Helong during the Kaiyuan period, so how could it be enough for the imperial guards?

In fact, the reason is very simple. After all, Hu horses are better than national horses. Just like the best horses at that time, Emperor Wu of Han was the Dayuan horse.

The best horse, of course, should be used by the imperial guards!

How did Xuanzong buy Hu horses? In addition to using cloth, he also sent it to Liuhuzhou (also in Hequ, most of the people living there were nine surnames) "I have a name for a guerrilla general to give thirty horses. He once asked the messenger to bring 300 escorts to Liuhuzhou to change horses. It can be said that it is very social. If you make a 30 escorts, you can get thousands of horses for nothing! (So Director Chen, you made Emperor Xuanzong so vulgar, like the second uncle who was walking birds in Beiping City before liberation. Will your conscience hurt?)

After taking this kind of trick, the number of horses in the stables quickly reached tens of thousands. It can really be said to be "strong in soldiers and horses"!

Then, most of the horses in the idle stables in the imperial guards were Hu horses brought by the emperor, rather than the national horses offered by the Helongjianmu. Therefore, the horse politics of the Tang Dynasty underwent profound changes.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the horse shepherded was the 48th Superintendent of Taipu Temple Helong, and the Shang Cheng Bureau was the steward of horse feeding in the palace.

During the Xuanzong period, it was like this. The Forty-eight Superintendent of Helong in Taipu Temple was still shepherded horses, and was run by herds. However, most of the national horses shepherded were supplied to the border army, or sent to the inner stables to serve as southern yamen horses; while the Northern yamen imperial guards had their own independent outer stables, and most of the horses used were purchased from Hu horses.

As for Shang Chengshi, it was already cold.

So what is the position of managing the stable outside the war?

The answer is that the early stage was the Immortal Stable, so all the emperors from Empress Wu to the Xuanzong period attached importance to the candidates for Immortal Stable Stable Stable Stable.

But later, he became the "Inner Flying Dragon Envoy", with the full name "Inner Flying Dragon Living Stable Envoy", and later it was directly simplified into the "Inner Flying Dragon Envoy".

The name of the Nei Feilong Envoy's envoy is derived from the "Ne Feilong Stable", which was established by Empress Wu, is located in the Northern Xuanwu Gate, also known as the "Forbidden Horses and Jiyuan". Xuanwu Gate is the guard office of the Imperial Guard. The Feilong Stable is the place to raise their war horses. It is divided into four secrets with left flying, right flying (Flying Cavalry is Yulin), left ten thousand and right ten thousand (that is, ten thousand cavalry is the Imperial Guard), and two stables with southeast and northwest (the Inside means the Forbidden Palace).

The flying dragon envoy was served by eunuchs, and as mentioned above, the emperor always wanted the person he trusted the most to take charge of the rest of the rest of the horses riding by the imperial guards.

During the Su Dynasty, the popular eunuch Li Fuguo and Cheng Yuanzhen all served as the flying dragon envoy.

If the eunuchs came to the original state of history, they not only monopolized all the banned horses, but also served as lieutenant of the Shence Army, but later they were also the Privy Councilor who could join the "Yanying Summons", which means that the imperial guards and the ban on horses were all controlled by the eunuch group of the "Bei Si" and could completely control the abolition of the throne. The commonly called "eunuch autocracy" came from this (in fact, although eunuchs were autocratic, they would not pose a substantial threat to the imperial power, so I won't talk about this more).

After the matter of the restroom outside the road was clear, he returned to the "Bamafang" written by Gao Yue.

Gao Yue made it clear in his memorial that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang bought Hu horses, but the Forbidden Garden in the Beijing City was only such a large area, with tens of thousands of horses there. It was easy to solve the problem of just tying up and raising them, but the horses had to run and needed a large area. Over time, they felt that the Forbidden Garden was not enough. In addition, the horses had to eat a lot of feed and forage, which was mainly supplied by the "grass tax" in the Jingji area, and soon the Jingji was empty.

Xuanzong could only order, one was to send some of the banned horses from the rest of the war to the border troops to increase their combat effectiveness, and the other was to ask the Helong Supervisor to stop tribute horses (I am very troublesome to raise Hu horses, so don’t join in the fun of your national horses). In the end, he accepted a solution:

That is, there are eight horse fangs in Fengxiang, Jingzhou, Bingzhou and Ningzhou between the capital and Helong, namely the Preserve, Ganlu, Nanpurun, Beipurun, Qiyang, Taiping, Yilu and Anding (some historical materials are called Qimafang, which combines the north and south into one). A total of 1,230 hectares of land was established, called "Mafangtian" - the crops needed to plant horses, and then the forbidden horses were sent here to graz and raise. Only enough amounts needed to ride in the palace were left in the palace.

So in fact, the Helong Supervisors raise horses and give them to the idle stables in the war, and belongs to the Taipu Temple system.

The Bamafang accepts the forbidden horses sent from the idle stable outside the war, and belongs to the idle stable (Flying Dragon Envoy) system.

The two are actually well water, river water relationships, different system functions, and different locations. How could the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty hand over the banned horses that he had finally obtained to the outside court? When the Song Confucians wrote books, Zhang Guanli Dai made a mistake. This group of the most respected scholars in this era were in charge of the government. Only when they could do a good job in horse politics would there be ghosts. Even the basic concepts of the previous dynasty could not be clearly distinguished.

After the Anshi Rebellion, both the Magu and Mafang were abolished.

All Helong was thrown to Xifan, and the prefectures and counties where Bamafang was located had been killed for many years, and no one had the heart to keep the horses at ease.

Many of the former horse house officials and idle people became horse thieves and harmed the other side.

At this time, Gao Yue submitted a memorial to reply to the former "Eight Horses Fang" system, but he changed and asked to restore the "Sima Fang" first in places such as Fengyang (Wei Gao), Fengxiang's Purun (Shence Army Zhang Juji), Jingzhou's Lingtai (I myself), and Yilu Changwu City (Li Huaiguang) in Binzhou.
Chapter completed!