Chapter 161 The Troubles in Nancha (7) Liaodong Interlude
When it comes to making big moves in the officialdom, there are few cases like Gao Pingshi's "Qi Yong Shu", where he directly went to the Shu to comment on the matter as a minister.
Although the plan of the two cabinet elders of the Xinxue Sect has been decided, they must follow the usual practice. First, they will go to Kedao to speak to officials to see the emperor's reaction. Then, depending on the situation, they will mobilize higher-level officials to speak to them, and then raise the level step by step.
, in the end it is up to the elders to make the final decision, so there must be a process involved.
However, neither the northern inspection nor the southern inspection will be suspended due to this, so all inspection matters in the two places are still progressing smoothly.
Although Yang Wei was in charge of the Beijing inspection, Gu Xian became the actual supervisor. Yang Wei took Gao Pragmatic's hint and deliberately kept a low profile, so the two most important items in the preparations for the Beijing inspection were interview and interview work.
, it was completely handled by Gu Xiancheng.
Kaoyu is the evaluation of subordinate officials by the superiors of various ministries. This is a large item in the Beijing inspection. However, this item is usually carried out after the consultation, so it is not involved for the time being and will be discussed later. (This needs to go through.
At least a month or two.)
The so-called consultation means that before the inspection, the Ministry of Civil Affairs sends an interview book with the names of the officials to be inspected to other officials in Beijing. The officials with the responsibility of informing will evaluate the candidates they know or specify them.
An illegal act.
Its purpose is twofold: first, in the preparation stage of the Beijing inspection, it is to collect information from the public and "based on the investigation", in order to ensure that the Beijing inspection is fair and objective as much as possible; second, in the collecting stage of the Beijing inspection, the science and technology officials can use the information written by other officials to
Examine language and impeach those who have not yet been deposed and reprimanded to prevent incompetent officials from remaining in office.
For example, in the original history, during the inspection of Beijing in the 21st year of Wanli, "Yu Chunxi and three other people, who were subordinate to the Ministry of Officials and the Bing Department, visited Shan to discuss it, and Ke Dao rectified it accordingly." That is to say, according to the Shan to rectify it,
example.
The specific method of consultation is always in the form of an interview. "History of the Ming Dynasty" states: "The person who visits the individual is inspected by the officials, and the public is consulted to judge whether he is worthy or not. The courtiers vote for the inspector because of what they have learned from the book.
, the facts are verified, but there are reasons for the evildoers."
In layman's terms, an interview form is a questionnaire that lists the names of officials who are candidates for examination. The designated officials (mostly speaking officials) check and fill in the performance of officials they are familiar with or have heard about, and feedback it to the Ministry of Personnel.
To assist with inspections.
After a period of development, the interview list gradually became complete and evolved into the interview list. Therefore, in the records, articles, and memorials of the Ming Dynasty, interview list and interview list were often used interchangeably.
According to what Zhao Nanxing said in the original history of the 21st year of Wanli, although he was a meritorious doctor but actually responsible for the imperial inspection, when discussing the issue of interview registration (the original text is quite long, so I will not quote it), there are roughly the following key points:
First, the interview order was not a product of the imperial inspection mandated by the Ming court, but was an expedient measure implemented by the officials for the convenience of inspection and to demonstrate the fairness of the inspection order; secondly, the exact time when the interview order appeared is difficult to ascertain, but
It can be determined that it had already appeared before Longqing; thirdly, when the interview orders were issued, the number of recipients was not very wide. The only ones who received the interview orders were Zhang Ke and the second minister of Henan Province. However, after a period of development, the order recipients
The crowd gradually expanded; fourthly, the content of the interview list was only a list of the names of the officials who should be examined; fifthly, the interview list was actually the prototype of the interview list.
By this time in the Wanli period, the interview register had become an "old rule" in inspections, so the interview register was used in many inspections in the Wanli period.
The production of the interview book needs to go through three steps: conception, stereotypes and binding, all of which are completed by the officials. The specific details will not be detailed in this book.
After the interview register was formed, the Ministry of Personnel sent someone to deliver it to the Chief of Staff and the two ministers in charge of Henan Province. "The interview register is sent by the (examination of merit) officials themselves." The official department gave it to Shi Zhong and the two ministers in charge of Henan Province. After receiving the interview logs from the Ministry of Personnel, they distributed the interview logs separately, which took about one or two months. In terms of the time it took, it was in line with the official's statement and impeachment.
There are many officials listed in the interview list, and the "Responsibilities of the Ministry of Personnel" lists them in detail, quoted as follows:
This (official) ministry consults the household department, except for officials such as the Cangchang ambassador, and registers all subordinate officials.
The three departments of consultation, punishment, and work will create a register for each subordinate official.
In the Ministry of War, in addition to the officers with experience in the guard posts of the five prefectures and those with grain collection experience, all the subordinate officers will be on duty at the meeting, including those with experience in the guard posts such as pro-army, brocade uniforms, commanders of soldiers and horses in the five cities, and martial arts instructors.
The Inquisition Office of the Consultative Capital will create a register for each palace, experience, and division.
The governor-general of Cangchang Yamen will be in charge of the warehouse, and his experience in collecting grain will be recorded as a storehouse ambassador, deputy envoy and other officials.
The letter was sent to Taichang, Taipu, Guanglu, Hongju, the four temples, and the supervisor of Shanglinyuan, and the officials of the fifth rank and below and all the subordinate officials were registered.
The letter sent to the Shuntian Prefecture to create a list of the officials below the fifth rank of the prefecture and the officials of the large and small yamen under it, and still ordered the prefecture to change careers.
The General Administration Department, Shangbaosi Department, Liuke Department, Zhongshu Department and other yamen compiled books.
The interview list is mainly issued to officials, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs sometimes also accepts the interview list and assumes the responsibility for the visit. In addition, some senior officials, such as cabinet ministers and the director of the station (the superior of the imperial court) will also receive the interview list. Interview register. However, the content of the interview register received by different officials and the time of receipt are different.
According to Zhao Nanxing's words: "The interview list does not list the names of the chief ministers; it will be sent to the cabinet ministers and the superior officials of the Imperial Court in mid-October. The big interview list is sent by the court officials, and the names of the four divisions are listed first. The non-special department visit list Without the Ming of the chief minister, even if the ministers and other superiors came to the chief minister, they would not be allowed to visit each other, but they would only be temporarily arranged to stay and keep an eye on them."
It can be seen that there are differences in the interview registers. There are the so-called Kedao visit registers and the so-called grand interview registers. The names of the officials and subordinates are not included in the Kedao visit registers, but the grand interview registers are sent to cabinet ministers and Taiwanese governors. In the middle, there is the name of an official under the Ministry of Personnel; and the officials of the Department of Science and Technology received the order earlier, while the cabinet ministers and court ministers received the order later.
In addition, the grade of the official responsible for sending the interview list will also differ depending on the recipient of the interview list. The official responsible for sending the notice to cabinet ministers and station chiefs is personally responsible for the official of the Ministry of Personnel; If you are an official, you only need to test the officials of the merit department and the ministers in charge, and the ministers in charge of Henan Dao.
The main work after the issuance of the visit orders was taken over by Henan Province. Therefore, Tang Zhaojing, who was once in charge of the censor of Henan Province in history, once said: "All inquiries and receipts are under the responsibility of all officials."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After the interview order is sent to the interviewer, the interview begins immediately. The usual method is to "collect public opinion from the whole country", that is, to hear the opinions of various places and consider them .
After the consultation, the interviewer will fill in the interview form based on the content of the consultation, which is called billing. "If the form is well-founded and the consultation is the same, the ministry will not dare to indulge people in vain."
However, there have always been conflicts among courtiers regarding the filling out of the interview form. On the one hand, due to the large number of people who took the exam within six years, "the headquarters has no evidence to check and it is difficult to know", and "the parties involved are often embarrassed by what they have seen and heard, and they have no choice but to
"Integrity interviews", therefore, the inspection official largely needs to refer to the opinions of the interview form to decide the dismissal of personnel. Therefore, it is hoped that the official receiving the interview form will fill in the interview form in as much detail as possible so that the inspection can proceed smoothly.
On the other hand, since the interview form needs to be filled out with real names, although "the secret of the interview form is difficult to make known to every household", there are still many officials who can see the interview form after it is handed in, such as the Ministry of Personnel, the superiors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the merit examination department.
Li Ke, Henan Road officials, etc.
Word of mouth is passed down from word to mouth, and it inevitably falls into the ears of the people being criticized. Therefore, many public officials are afraid to do anything because they are worried that the contents filled in the interview form will be known to others, and their political future will be affected by accidentally offending the powerful. Therefore.
There are cases where various excuses are used to avoid filling out the interview form.
Gu Xiancheng, the chief inspector this time, is not afraid of offending others, so he made his suggestion: "Those who are on duty must not use the investigation from far away as an excuse to stir up the chaff; those on standby have already made plans and heard about it in the past, which is hard to tolerate."
Avoid."
Although he made a statement, due to the influence of factors such as familiarity and familiarity, especially this year's Dinghai Beijing Inspection, which has a great impact, it has actually involved a battle between practical learning and mental learning. I am afraid that the actual effect of the interview is still not ideal. According to the past
Judging from the current situation, it is estimated that there will be a large number of "unanswered" interviews and anonymous interviews this year - most of which should be carried out by neutral officials.
After the interview order is issued, the consultation work is usually completed within two months, and the "collection of orders" is scheduled on a certain day of the month. Because there are two yamen responsible for issuing the interview order, one is the Civil Service Department and the other is Henan Province, so they are responsible for
There are also two yamen that collect orders: one is Henan Dao, and the other is the official department.
The reason why the receipt of bills does not go through the Civil Service Department is probably because the Civil Service Department is in a close location. It would be inconvenient for many officials to go to the Civil Service Department to hand over the bills, so they went to the Civil Service Department to pay the bills instead. After visiting and collecting the bills, check the examination documents.
The work on the language began immediately, while the work on the meeting was not carried out until a few days before the court hearing.
With such a complicated procedure and such a protracted process, it is impossible not to do other work during the period. The affairs of various ministries and yamen still have to be done, and the operation of the court cannot be stopped for a while. (So I will interrupt here...)
Two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the capital received an urgent message from Li Song, governor of Liaodong:
Tumen's army sent out troops a month ago to surround the two cities east and west of Yehe. Since the two cities were strong and could not be broken for a long time, they divided their troops to plunder. Su Wan, Wula, and Huifa were all plundered and suffered heavy losses.
Jianzhou Zuowei Nurha Chibu used the excuse that his wife Zhezhe was still in Yehe and was in danger, so he sent troops north to meet him. Because from Jianzhou Zuowei to Yehe, he needed to pass through the territory under the jurisdiction of Hada tribe, Hadabele Menggebulude Mingren
Warning, thinking that Nurhachi's move was intended to attack Guo on a false road, "to go to Yehe in the open and to Hada in the dark", so he refused to open the border for Nurhachi to pass through.
This move of course "annoyed" Nurhachi - he had previously won a great victory and defeated Nikan Wailan, and he was very high-spirited, but he was forced to retreat from Fushun Pass by Gao Pragmatic's letter. He was just holding back his anger, and there was no room for Hada.
"arrogance" - immediately decided to attack Hada.
At this time, Hada's military strength was divided into three parts, with Menggebulu, Daishan, and Kanggulu each leading one (see the chapters during the period of Gaojingshi's Fu Liao period). Among them, Menggebulu was neutral due to the incident of trapping and killing Qingjia Niu in Gaojingshi and Yang Jiniu.
Thanks to his hard work and high pragmatic support, he now has the largest number of troops and is stronger.
However, Hada had declined in the late Wanhan period, and Huergan continued to mess around again, causing considerable losses. Although the total strength of Hada is not weaker than that of Nurhaci's Jianzhou Left Guard, its actual combat effectiveness is actually not as good. Add to this
After Gao Pragmatic left office, Daishan and Kanggulu began to defy Menggebulu, so Hada obviously couldn't defeat Nurhachi.
After Nurhachi sent troops, Menggebulu mobilized Daishan and Kanggulu to resist, claiming that he would "arrive shortly", but neither Daishan nor Kanggulu were fooled, and both said that they also needed time to prepare.
Menggebulu had a military staff officer assigned to him by Gao Pragmatic through Jinghua. The staff suggested: "Since the two of them are unwilling to go alone, Baylor can take them with him." This means that since the two of them are unwilling to go alone,
To resist Nurhachi, then let them come to your army and gather the armies of the three parties to go together.
But at this time, Nurhaci came very quickly and had already arrived near Qinghe. Once he crossed the Qinghe, his army would be almost in a flat area heading towards Hada City, with no danger to defend. Therefore, Menggebulu did not listen to the advice of Beijing's military staff and stated that he was "
"Youzhu Kingdom, General Longhu, who suppressed the Khan of Manchuria", could never tolerate Nurhaci's "evil slave bullying the master", so he personally led four thousand of the main force to resist. Among these four thousand main force was the one who had made meritorious service last time.
Thousands of thousands of Khan's personal guard cavalry.
The positions and titles of "Youzhu Kingdom, General Longhu, and the Khan of Manchuria" were obtained by Wan Khan in his early years. In his later period, they were already empty appearances. Later, in order to stabilize the situation in Liaodong, Gao pragmatically added these
The canonization was given to Menggebulu. After the attack, Menggebulu even forgot that these were all false names. His real power position was actually just the commander of the Tashan Left Guards (when he was a high-ranking officer, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Tashan Left Guards)——
In fact, he is on the same level as Nurhaci.
Menggebulu's 4,000 troops went south to resist Nurhaci, and Nurhachi's 3,000 troops went north to Qinghe. Naturally, a big battle was inevitable between the two sides.
The process of the war was relatively simple. Beijing's military staff advised Menggebulu: The best strategy for this battle is to create opportunities to attack halfway across the river; the middle strategy is to rely on the slightly superior force to hold on to the river; the worst strategy is to let it go and attack.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Meng Gebulu felt that the best strategy was "too cunning" and the middle strategy was "not brave enough", so he chose the lower strategy.
Wonderful.
Nurhaci ran to Qinghe and saw that Menggebulu on the opposite side had set up his camp ten miles north of Qinghe. He was immediately confused and said to the people around him: "Menggebulu is deceiving. There may be an ambush near the north bank of Qinghe in front of our army."
" All his generals and his younger brother Shuerhaqi all agreed that this must be the case, so Nurhaci sent scouts with good water skills to cross the river at night to investigate.
As a result, there was no ambush on the other side. Except for the main camp ten miles away, Menggebulu even sent few exploration horses.
Nurhaci was so happy when he heard the news that he did not even want to wait the night. He started building a pontoon bridge that night and sent the vanguard to cross the river. Early the next morning, Menggebulu just woke up from a hangover and heard that Nurhachi's army had arrayed along the river. He did not react in alarm.
He was happy and ordered to prepare for war.
Gao Yimin, the military staff officer of Beijing, immediately left first on the pretext that he needed to report the battle situation to the summit. Meng Gebulu did not object and personally took his people to the Nurhachi Formation to arrange a battle.
Nurhaci readily accepted the challenge, and sent all his troops to the front army, and commanded the central army to raid the formation. Menggebulu also sent his generals to fight for the front army, but they were all killed and dismounted with less than ten moves, and his subordinates collapsed.
Menggebulu was so surprised that he rushed forward with all his troops. However, he rushed forward too fast, and instead of retreating when he saw the situation, he stepped forward and struck Menggebulu with a knife, which shocked Menggebulu, who had just woken up from a hangover and was weak in strength.
The knife flew away. Fortunately, Menggebulu himself was very good at riding, so he simply took advantage of the situation and jumped off the horse to escape the disaster.
But the commander failed, and the battle could not be fought well. Before Nurhachi's main force came out, the Eyidu front army alone defeated the main force of Menggebulu. Fortunately, the main force of his thousand cavalry was defeated.
The real elites that Wan Khan had accumulated over the years managed to rescue Menggebulu from the front of the battle, and took him to flee north, slipping back to Hada City.
The news Li Song sent back to the capital was that Menggebulu was defeated and returned to Hada, and Nurhaci followed and attacked. Judging from the time, Nurhachi should have surrounded Hada City by this time.
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