The Nine Gates Governor is equivalent to the current commander of the Beijing Garrison.

1, nine governor is mainly responsible for the inner city of Beijing nine gates (Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen, Xuanwumen, Andingmen, Deshengmen, Dongzhimen, Xizhimen, Chaoyangmen, Fuchengmen) inside and outside the guards and gates, but also responsible for the night patrols, firefighting, checking the Baojia, bans, arrests, prison breaks, etc., in fact, for the Qing Dynasty Imperial Forces commander.

2, Beijing Garrison is responsible for the Beijing area of military guards, guard duty, anti-terrorism and stability tasks, to carry out militia, military service and mobilization, to maintain the capital of the military discipline, to assist the local maintenance of public order and so on. Beijing Garrison has a great responsibility to play a role in the defense of the capital, the outside world called the "imperial army".

So it can be seen that the rights and roles of these two positions are very similar, the main responsibility is to defend the capital's mission, so the nine door governor is equivalent to the current Beijing garrison commander.

Extended information:

Nine gates under the jurisdiction of the nine governors are as follows:

1, Chaoyang Gate: take the grain wagon

Southern grain produced to the Beijing, the grain to Tongzhou, and then loaded into the city. Into the city to go is the Chaoyang Gate.

2, Chongwenmen: go wine car

outside the city is the wine road, when most of the wine from Hebei Zhuozhou and other places to transport, into Beijing naturally take the south road. The wine trucks entered the Zuo'anmen Gate in the outer city first, and then went to the Chongwenmen Gate to be taxed.

3, zhengyangmen: walking dragon car

zhengyangmen is located in the middle of the south wall of the inner city, is the emperor's exclusive use, the emperor twice a year out of the zhengyangmen, once in winter, to the altar of heaven to sacrifice to the heavens, and the other is the hibernation, to the first farmer altar to plow the land.

4, Xuanwumen: walking prisoner car

Because the execution ground is located in Xuanwumen outside the market. Prisoners were examined and determined by the Ministry of Justice, and went out from Xuanwumen and were beheaded at Caishikou.

5, Fuchengmen: go coal truck

Because the west of Beijing, Mentougou area is a coal-producing area, the coal used in the city of Beijing, all is to fight over there to transport over.

6, Xizhimen: water car

Xizhimen's gateway is engraved with water ripples. Past emperors, who did not drink the water in the city and thought it was bitter, specialized in drinking water from Mount Yuquan.

7, Deshengmen: walking soldiers car

North according to the stars belong to Xuanwu. Xuanwu main sword, so out of the army to fight, usually from the north gate out of the city.

8. Andingmen

Andingmen is a dung cart, because it used to be the main dung field in Beijing near the Temple of Earth.

9, Dongzhimen

During the Qing Dynasty, timber from the south was often stored outside the Dongzhimen Gate, so most of the timber needed in Beijing was transported into the city through the Dongzhimen Gate, which is also commonly known as the "Wooden Gate".

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