Chapter 282: Inside and Outside the Palace () Shaking Light Unsheathed
At this time, Gao Wuruo did not know that there was an ambush ahead. He was still thinking about whether the journey to Xinzheng would be fast enough for him to return home before the New Year.
The New Year has extraordinary significance to the Chinese people, especially for a person who has rarely been able to go back to his hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival as an adult. If there is a chance to catch up, he must do so.
When Gao Wuruo was still underage, he felt that he was not the material to be admitted to the imperial examination, so he wrote to his eldest brother Gao Pangshi to discuss it. Finally, he got his brother's permission to go to the capital and benefited from the favor of "study at the Imperial College".
"Studying in the Imperial College" should often not be regarded as a verb in the Ming Dynasty, but should be regarded as a noun.
In the early days of Hongwu, students of Guozixue could be divided into two categories based on their different sources, namely official students and people's students. Official students were appointed by the emperor and included not only the children of officials at all levels, but also the children of chieftains and overseas students;
People's livelihood refers to the handsome folk recommended by local officials.
"Emperor Taizu Gao originally designated the country's sons as officials, and people's livelihood as second class. Officials are from superiors, and people's livelihood is from tribute."
"In the first year of Hongwu, the students were selected as Guozi scholars, the students who were high-ranking officials were official students, and the people who were handsome were the people's livelihood."
In March of the fifteenth year of Hongwu (1382), Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to change the name of Guozijian to Guozijian. After that, students who entered Guozijian were generally called jiansheng, among which the children of high-ranking officials were called Yinjian, and Yinjian could be divided into official students and envoys.
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In the previous system, fathers and brothers were awarded official positions due to their merits, which was called the system of appointing sons. This system was followed in the early Ming Dynasty, and it was stipulated that civil servants of the first to seventh grades could have a son inherit their salary. Later, the threshold for asking for Yin was changed.
To improve, only officials of the third rank or above can ask for help.
In addition, the emperor sometimes sent special decrees to allow the children of certain officials to study in the Imperial College, regardless of official rank. These students were called ensheng. This ensheng system began to appear in the first year of Jianwen.
Unlike the children of Pinguan who were born in official families, Minsheng came from ordinary people's families, and can be divided into Gongjian and Jujian. Jujian refers to the Juren who failed the examination and was sent to the Imperial College for tutoring. Gongjian refers to the Gongjian who entered the imperial examination.
There are four types of prisons and tribute prisons, namely annual tribute, selected tribute, engong, and tribute. During the Taizu period, tribute prison mainly refers to annual tribute.
However, this has nothing to do with Gao Wuruo, because he went to the Imperial College through Enyin, and the reason why he went to the Imperial College was essentially to get a "diploma" - a prison student.
As mentioned just now, the Imperial College students of the Ming Dynasty were generally called "Jiansheng", and they were divided into four categories according to their origins: first, those who failed the examination were called "Jiansheng"; second, those who were selected as local officials and were admitted to the Imperial College.
They are called "tribute supervisors"; the third are officials above a certain level and the descendants of meritorious officials, called "yin supervisors"; the fourth are supervisor qualifications bought by paying money and materials, called "regular supervisors".
The status and importance of these four kinds of eunuchs to the imperial court are of course different. Elevated eunuchs are the most valuable, followed by tribute eunuchs. These two types of eunuchs will be regarded as scholars with certain abilities and a certain future, because they have a good academic foundation.
There is still a chance to become a Jinshi in high school in the future.
Among the latter two, the prisoner is the most noble, and the prisoner is the humble. In fact, both of them are generally considered to be guys with little ability and basically have no future in studying. As for why the prisoner can still be "noble", it is naturally because of this
Most people will have a good grandfather, a good father, or other elders in the family who are in high positions and have made outstanding achievements.
As for the regular prison... As a person who spends money to buy a diploma, don't think about "everyone respects you". After all, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty focused on test scores first, and family background second. You have nothing to do with either of these, and only
You're covered in the smell of copper, so what else can you say?
But having said that, in fact, as long as you are a supervisor, you can theoretically have the opportunity to become an official. However, when the first three types of supervisors can get the opportunity to be an official, the positions you can choose are better.
According to the regulations, "the heads of the six departments of the capital official, Zhongshu, Xingren, commentators, and doctors; the foreign officials who know the state, the official, and the county magistrate are selected by the Jinshi". And "the five officials of the capital, the chief officials of the six departments, the general affairs department, Taichang Guanglu
Temple, Zhan Shi Mansion belongs to the officials, and is selected by the official Yin Sheng."
The first three types of supervisors are collectively referred to as "Guanyinsheng". The regular supervisors are different. Those who can be appointed can only choose the left two prefectures and counties and the chief officials of the prefecture. If they are in the capital, they can be from Guanglu Temple, Shanglinyuan or remote provinces.
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In this way, not only were they regarded as aliens, but in the later period, as the number of regular prison personnel increased, there were simply not enough official positions to be allocated. Therefore, most of them would never have a vacancy in their lifetime and would need to be filled by regular prison guards.
As a member of the Gao family in Xinzheng, Gao Wuruo is only Gao Jingshi's concubine, but the situation in the Ming Dynasty is here. As long as Gao Jingshi, the elder brother of the Ge, is willing, he can still be arranged to join the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion or the Sixth Army.
, General Administration Department, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Zhanshi Mansion.
Of course, at the beginning, official positions were generally only at the level of experience, secretary, and official records, but since Gao Gong reformed the official system, the imperial court implemented the examination method, which means that as long as you have excellent performance in the position evaluation for consecutive years
, you will be promoted after a specified period of time.
To put it simply, according to the current regulations, Gao Wuruo can still spend nine years from the ninth rank to the sixth rank - the sixth rank can reach the first level of the director of the six departments. For example, "the director of the Henan Cleaning and Officials Department of the Ministry of Households"
, then you can review and guide the finance of Henan Province, which is a position of real power.
Of course, there is an upper limit for a supervisor's position as an official. For example, someone like Gao Wuruo would never be able to become a minister in his lifetime. Because of the six ministerial books, ministers are called "Tang Shangguan", and non-Jinshi are not allowed to do so.
Because the upper limit was too clear, Gao Wuruo lost interest. Later, he simply proposed that he would no longer be an official and stay in Beijing with peace of mind, which could be regarded as taking care of the family business. In fact, taking care of the family business is generally recognized by people in this era.
It is a life choice that is more respectable than choosing to be an official as a supervisor.
Over the years, Gao Wuruo has been studying with Gao Jingshi, and has been a trainee secretary for many years. He has accompanied Gao Jingshi in the three battles he led after returning to Beijing, including the Northwest Rebellion, the Battle of Yuan Dynasty, and the Aid to the Yuan Dynasty.
North Korea did not fail in the three battles against the Japanese. Now it can be said that it has been "battle-tested" for a long time, and it only lacks personal command.
Originally, he thought that although this return to Xinzheng would be an opportunity to take charge of his own affairs, he would not have the possibility of commanding a battle. After all, even if the Heart School was engaged in conspiracy, it would only be to find ways to assassinate his biological father and legitimate mother. How could there be a war?
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Who knew that man was not as good as God? He thought there was no battle to fight, but the battle came to him.
Seeing a group of cavalry suddenly running out of a forest three miles away, Gao Wuruo's first reaction was that they were officers and soldiers nearby. This is not surprising. After all, although Tangyin County is still north of the Yellow River, due to administrative reasons
It belongs to the Chief Envoy of Henan Province and is generally regarded as the "Central Plains" area. However, there should not be large-scale forces such as horse thieves in the Central Plains now.
However, Gao Wuruo was still wondering why the official cavalry was still active in the field at this time when the New Year was approaching. The leader of the cavalry beside him had already noticed that something was wrong. He suddenly drew his gun in his hand and shouted: "There is an enemy attack. Protect yourself."
Seventh Master!"
When the leader of the cavalry shouted loudly, the thirty-six cavalrymen immediately drew out their weapons - not sabers, but Wanli Type II lances. Their lances were all loaded with a round of projectiles and corresponding gunpowder.
You can fire a volley before engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
At this time, Gao Wuruo himself also realized it - after all, the opponent's dress would not be that of an official soldier. Although Gao Wuruo had never actually commanded a battle, he had seen many famous generals over the years. At this time
After waking up, he immediately drew his sword and shouted: "Ignorant thieves, if you dare to offend the power of my sword and flag, let me kill them!"
Gao Wuruo draws a sword instead of a gun, because he is not equipped with a lance, but only wears a Tang Hengdao on his waist. As mentioned earlier, Gao Pragmatic will give officers of a certain level in the garrison
A command sword is issued, and the standard of the Jinghua command sword is neither a saber nor the Yanling sword popular in the Ming Dynasty, but a Tang Hengdao.
The reason why the style of Tang Hengdao was chosen is that the Hengdao blade is straight and upright. It has both the kingly style of a sword and the hegemony of a sword. Gao Pragmatic expressed to the guards and other servants that Tang Hengdao had a straight and straight blade.
In addition to symbolizing uprightness, the knife is also used because it only has an edge on one side, and its "edge is facing the outside but not the inside". It is a weapon that symbolizes unity and that we are united against the enemy.
Due to Gao Pragmatic's propaganda, not only the officers of the garrison liked Hengdao, but also members of the Gao family like Gao Wuruo and other high-ranking officials in Beijing also liked to wear Hengdao. In the end, Gao Pragmatic simply ordered the arsenal to specially make a batch of them.
Give them the sword.
So there is a coincidence here: since there are seven brothers in the six houses of the Gao family, Gao Jingshi specially made the "Seven Star Horizontal Sword", and he kept a "Tianshu" for himself, and used Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan,
Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang each gave six horizontal knives to their six younger brothers.
Therefore, the horizontal sword in Gao Wuruo's hand is the "Shaking Light", one of the "Seven Star Horizontal Swords". It is not only an undisputed treasured sword, but also a symbol of his status in Beijing.
The light was unsheathed, and the knights beside Gao Wuruo were excited. They had already seen that the opponent had about two hundred knights, but they were not timid at all. Instead, they regarded it as a credit to Gao Wuruo.
There was no objection to the order to "break through them", so they began to adjust their formation under the order.
Since they were about to penetrate, the cavalry quickly completed the formation change during the march, forming an obvious cone formation. However, they did not want Gao Wuruo to serve as the tip of the cone, but placed him in the middle of the formation.
Slightly behind, the leader of the servants who shouted "enemy attack" took the lead and took the lead in the attack.
After completing the change of formation, the cavalry did not start to charge. Instead, they slowed down slightly to ensure that the formation was not chaotic. It was not until the distance between the two sides was shortened to about two miles that the cavalry began to clamp the horse's belly and make the crotch
The war horse slowly accelerated.
When the opposite side continued to charge, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to about one mile, and the speed of the Jinghua Cavalry was considered to have entered the charging range. Then after waiting for another two or three breaths, the leader shouted: "Carbine volley.
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"Bang, bang, bang" volleys of gunfire rang out, and nearly twenty of the Dongping Shuizhai horse bandits who were charging towards them were killed on the spot. However, neither side could retreat during the charge, so the other side still relied on their numerical advantage to rush and kill them in a chaotic manner.
Come.
"Change the saber - lean over and charge into the formation with the spatula!"
After the reform, the cavalry of the Ming Army now rarely has spear cavalry, and the cavalry in Jinghua are almost the same. The main training of this kind of saber cavalry is Mongolian. In the technical and tactical action of charging into the formation, the cavalry on horseback are mostly
Holding the saber in the right hand, the arm rests on the back of the saber diagonally across the right side of the horse, relying on the collision force of the horse's charge as the killing power of the saber in the cavalry's hand to kill the enemy.
This method of using the saber is called "spatula" among the Ming army and Jinghua armed servants. As for "leaning down", it is naturally to reduce the area that can be attacked by the enemy, thereby reducing injuries and attrition.
possibility.
The horse bandits in Dongping Water Village obviously did not expect that the Beijing Cavalry, which had less than 40 people, would choose to attack in a tit-for-tat manner, and even reduced their own force by 10% in a single salvo.
However, at this time, they had no other choice. Although many people sobered up passively, they still resolutely confronted the Jinghua Cavalry.
At this time, they did not expect that although the Jinghua Cavalry looked like they were only wearing cotton robes, they were all wearing full armor under the cotton robes. In the face of hand-to-hand combat, Dongping Water Village was actually in the "equipment" position from the beginning.
"Disadvantages".
It was pointless to think about armor at this time, as the cavalry from both sides quickly charged together.
Soon, the head of the Dongping Water Village discovered that something was wrong - the Beijing Cavalry, which consisted of less than forty people, was extremely ferocious. They did not engage in much entanglement with the enemy in person, and instead engaged in the kind of Jianghu battle style that he was familiar with.
Instead of fighting, just charge forward with your saber at an angle.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although this "move" seems very dull to the master, and can even be called a "silly charge", but the two sides only had a confrontation, and Dongping Shuizhai was
Suffered a big loss - including the boss himself.
The leader was not without success. When he was charging, he found that the enemy on his right was leaning down and his upper body was close to the horse's neck. This made the leader immediately feel that he could chop off the head of the enemy and his horse with a swing of his sword, so he subconsciously
The sword came out.
However, the master did not expect that although the horse's head and the human head were really cut off with this sword, the body of the opponent who lost the head was actually "holding" the saber and "suddenly cut it off"...
In the great master's panic, the saber was already in front of him with its power, but the great master who had just cut off the knight's head had no time to close the sword. Even though he suddenly turned sideways and tightened his abdomen in an emergency, he still could not completely escape the bad luck.
His belly was cut open and he screamed in agony.
Fortunately, the leader was a practitioner who had been practicing for many years. He endured the severe pain and hugged his horse's neck tightly before passing out from the pain.
The last scene he saw before he fainted was that Qiu Laoer seemed to have had the same "accident" as him, and the other people he saw were not as lucky as the two of them, and almost all of them were ridden by Jinghua.
They were all injured and killed by the same stupid moves, and they fell off their horses one after another...
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