Chapter 124: Observing government according to orders (4)
Eunuch Huang hurried to visit Gao Shidu. It was not because he really had something urgent to report to the imperial envoy. It was because he had studied in the Supervisor of Ceremonies before and knew that flattering people to go to the peak was far more important than drinking wine and eating meat.
The meaning of the junior eunuchs studying in the Director of Ceremonies is to train them as personal secretaries around the emperor. To a certain extent, they are similar to the background of Gao Shidu in his previous life. This kind of person is not only good at serving people, but also knows an important thing.
Principle of being an official: The leader’s meaning must be understood immediately. If you cannot know the leader’s meaning at the moment, learn from the people around the leader.
Since Meng Zhangyin was only a chef and had not received training from a young age in the Bureau of Ceremony, so his abilities were limited and his level was average. Regarding Gao Pragmatic's announcement of "watching politics", he was too slow to take it as a big deal.
Therefore, Huang Zhenshou did not get Meng Zhangyin's instructions to him in advance.
Fortunately, Huang Zhenshou himself is a discerning person and knows that his ancestors relied on Mr. Gaoge to get there. Therefore, Huang Zhenshou did not dare to neglect Mr. Gaoge's nephew, so he had a banquet and sneaked out to see this man.
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As for the imperial envoy Cheng Wen, since he is a disciple of Gao Gong, he will naturally have a bright future if things go well in the future. It cannot be said that he is not important, but there are so many disciples of Gao Gong, even if we only count the useful batch among them, there are not even a hundred.
He had to be eighty, so how could he be as important as the nephew who he had brought with him personally?
In this case, of course the only thing Huang Zhenshou can do is to show his loyalty.
Gao pragmatically recognized Huang Zhenshou's knowledge and interest, and praised him very much with the air of "a small cabinet elder". He said so bluntly that Huang Zhenshou's face glowed red, and he even dreamed of waiting for Gao Shishou to read in the future.
After becoming Gaoge Lao, I might be able to go from Huang Zhenshou to Huang Palmprint...
In fact, theoretically speaking, the "imperial envoy to guard the local eunuchs of Datong" is much more powerful than his senior imperial concubine. In terms of actual power, he is even more powerful than the unenforceable concubine of the powerless prince. But in the backward human rule of the feudal dynasty,
In this era, many things cannot be taken at face value. Gao Shidu and his immediate boss, Huang Zhenshou, Meng Zhangyin, are all on an equal footing, so what's so strange about praising him?
However, the reason why Huang Zhenshou was valued by Gao Shidu was not only because of his knowledge and interest, but also more importantly because of his power and position as the eunuch guarding Datong, which was very useful for Gao Pragmatic's subsequent work.
After the Ming Dynasty proclaimed De De, three types of garrison officials gradually formed: eunuchs garrisoning in Nanjing and other places, eunuchs garrisoning eunuchs in various border areas, and eunuchs garrisoning eunuchs in various provinces.
The duty of the garrison eunuchs in Nanjing is to "protect the capital". Specifically, the internal affairs include the affairs of Nanjing's Yamen and Xiaoling Guards, the management of Houhu reclamation and the purification of soldiers who were relegated to growing vegetables, and the management of military affairs sent to Nanjing from various places.
Punishment and imprisonment of guilty middle-ranking officials; foreign affairs include the planning of Nanjing city defense and river defense, the recruitment of prisoners in various prisons in Nanjing, the promotion of officers and soldiers at Dasheng Pass and other passes, the collection of taxes, money and grain from various places in the south of the Yangtze River, etc.
Of course, the main responsibility of the border guards is to guard the borders. Specifically, the first is to "supervise the army" and the second is to "fusi". The supervisor of the Zhongguan is different from the supervisor of the censor. The supervisor of the censor is the supervisor of the army.
They audit the rewards and punishments of meritorious deeds, and the garrison officials and supervisors have the authority to supervise military generals, assist military operations, and regulate military discipline and border defense.
The main responsibility of the provincial garrison officials is to provide peace of mind to the people. Their specific powers include supervising civil and military officials, deploying guards and troops to suppress people's resistance, suppressing local tyrants, arresting fugitives, and making recommendations to the central government for additional administrative cuts in response to local security needs.
Military establishment, coordinating the official affairs of the province's civil and military officials and department, government and county agencies, recruiting the displaced population, etc.
In addition, all the garrison officials have two special missions. One is to serve as the eyes and ears of the court, reporting the situation in various places at any time; the other is to purchase local tributes for the royal family as a slave's "filial piety" to the master.
Since Huang Zhenshou was guarding Datong, he certainly belonged to the "Plural Border Guards Zhongguan". The Zhubian Guards Zhongguan was located along the Great Wall from Liaodong to Gansu, the so-called "Nine Borders" area. In the early Ming Dynasty, many of these areas had capitals.
Or Xingdusi, an important town in the north. During the Yongle period, general troops were added to guard these areas one after another, and military posts such as generals, guerrillas, and garrison were set up under them. At the same time, middle officers were assigned to go out of the town to supervise and inspect military affairs. After Xuande, all military affairs were
There are guarding eunuchs or young eunuchs in the general garrison offices. There are guarding general offices, young eunuchs or prison chiefs. There are military garrison offices, and there are also middle-ranking officers to guard them. Generally, they are chief guards, fengyu, and inner guards.
Envoys, etc., formed two complete systems of guarding military officials and guarding middle officials.
At this time, the reason why Gao Pangshi relies on Huang Mengyu is that he has the authority to take care of ordnance. There are many gun guards at the border castles and passes, and their duty is to "specialize in protecting firearms, and military officers are not allowed to interfere with this." - Prison Guards
The eunuchs were appointed as internal gun officers and were under the jurisdiction of the guarding eunuch.
To Wang Chonggu and Fang Fengshi, Gao Pragmatic was just a junior, not to mention his rank. If he wanted them to help, he could only use the name of imperial envoy to suppress him, but this was definitely a bad idea, and there was no need to even explain.
As for Ma Fang, although Ma Fang has already taken refuge with Gao Gong, Gao Pragmatic is not Gao Gong after all. His relationship with Ma Fang is actually more like an alliance. Moreover, Ma Fang's main responsibility is to lead
As a soldier in combat, he does not have the authority to directly manage the firearms warehouse, so although Gao Pragmatic can still ask him for help, things may not be done so flexibly and freely.
Only Huang Mengyu, the local eunuch who guarded Datong, had neither the power to command nor the power to mobilize troops, but the custody of firearms was within the scope of his duties.
If a civil servant wants to be promoted, he must follow the rules step by step. Unless the emperor makes an extraordinary promotion, even if he is recommended by the chief minister, he may not be able to rise to the top in one step, because the chief minister also has to consider the material, political, and reputation, which usually can only prevent you from taking detours.
However, eunuchs are different. Although there are rules in theory, as long as the emperor approves, he is still the chef in the imperial kitchen today, and he can go to the ceremonial supervisor tomorrow to serve as the penman. Although Meng Chong and Meng Zhangyin have limited abilities and average skills,
He has served Long Qing for a long time, and with Gao Gong's help, his speech to the emperor is still very effective. It is not a big problem to promote the eunuchs under his command, so Gao Shidu who can influence Gao Gong is completely in Huang Zhenshou's opinion
He is an uncle who must be carefully served.
Since he is an uncle, he must act like an uncle and don't have to be as cautious as he is when facing his senior civil servants. So after Gao Pingshi finished his compliments, he directly asked questions. He looked at the great power but was cautious in front of him and only sat on half of his buttocks.
Huang Mengyu showed a polite smile and asked: "Tomorrow, the imperial envoy will inspect all kinds of firearms in Datong City, especially hand-held fire guns... Huang Zhenshou, can you make arrangements for me without interference from others?"