Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1335 Nancha Storm ([-]) Liaodong Episode
In order to make a big move in the officialdom, it is rare for Gao Yushi to directly publish the Shuyan as a minister like Gao Yushi's "Qiyongshu".

Although the two elders of the Heart School have decided on their plans, their actions must be in accordance with the usual practice. First, they should seek advice from the officials of the science and Taoism to see the emperor's reaction, and then mobilize higher officials to discuss the situation according to the situation, and then raise the level step by step. , and finally the elders of the pavilion will make the final decision, so there must be a process.

However, neither the Northern Inspection nor the Southern Inspection will be suspended because of this, so the various affairs of the inspections in the two places are still progressing smoothly.

Although Yang Wei is in charge of Beicha, Gu Xian is the actual supervisor.Yang Wei received hints of high pragmatism and deliberately kept a low profile, so Gu Xiancheng handled the two most important items in the preparatory work of the Beijing inspection, the interview work, and the interview work.

The test language is the evaluation of the subordinate officials by the superiors of the various ministries. This is a very large item in the Jingchao, but this item is usually carried out after the consultation and visit, so it is not involved for the time being, and I will talk about it later. (This will take at least a month or two.)
The so-called counseling visit refers to that before the investigation, the Ministry of Officials sends the interview booklet with the names of the officials to be investigated to other speech officials in Beijing. An act of wrongdoing.

Its purpose is twofold: first, in the preparatory stage of the Beijing inspection, it is necessary to collect information from the public and "investigate based on it" in order to ensure the fairness and objectivity of the Beijing inspection; The test language is to discuss and impeach those who have not been dismissed, so as to prevent the incompetent officials from continuing to serve.

For example, during the Beijing inspection in the 21st year of Wanli in the original history, "Yu Chunxi and other three people, who belonged to the two departments of officials and soldiers, had a discussion on the visit list, and they were picked up according to the investigation", which is an example of picking up according to the visit list.

The specific method of counseling and visits has always been carried out in the form of interview forms. "History of the Ming Dynasty" stated: "The person who visits the form, when the Ministry of officials is in charge of the inspection, consults the public to determine whether the virtuous or not, and the courtiers vote for those who are in charge of the investigation because of what they have read and heard. , The rate of facts is verified, but there is a reason for the evil."

In layman's terms, the interview form is a questionnaire that lists the names of officials who are candidates for the examination. The designated officials (mostly speech officials) check and fill in the facts of the officials they know or hear about, and feed back to the Ministry of Officials. Yi Zuo inspected.

After a period of development, the interview form was gradually completed and evolved into an interview booklet.Therefore, in the notes, essays, and memorials of the Ming Dynasty, interview lists and interview books are often used together.

According to the original history, Zhao Nanxing, who was a meritorious doctor in the 21st year of Wanli but was actually in charge of the Beijing inspection, said when he discussed the issue of the interview book (the original text is quite long, so I won’t quote it), there are probably some key points:
First, the visit form is not a product of the Ming court’s statutory inspection of the Jingcha, but an expedient measure taken by the Ministry of Officials for the convenience of inspection and to demonstrate the justice of the Jingcha; It can be confirmed that it appeared before Longqing; thirdly, at the beginning of the issuance of the interview form, there were not many people who received the order. The crowd gradually expanded; fourth, the content of the interview form was only a list of the names of the officials who were to be examined; fifth, the interview form was actually the embryonic form of the interview booklet.

At this time, in the Wanli period, the visit books had become the "old rules" in the investigation, so the visit books were used in many investigations in the Wanli period.

The production of interview albums needs to go through three steps: conception, engraving, and binding, all of which are completed by officials from the Ministry of Officials. The details of this book will not be described in detail.

After the interview book was formed, it was sent by the Ministry of Officials to the Zhangli Section and the second minister of Zhanghe River Road. "The interview book is sent by the official (examination of merit) by himself." After receiving the interview book from the official department, Shizhong and Zhang Henan Road Yushi distributed the interview book separately, which took about one or two hours. month or so.In terms of its duration, it is not inconsistent with the statement and impeachment of the officials.

There are many officials listed in the interview book, and the "Officials of the Ministry of Officials" listed them in detail, citing the following:

This (officials) department consults the household department, except for the officials such as the storehouse ambassador, and makes a list of all the officials under it.

The three departments of counseling, punishment and engineering will make a list of the subordinate officials.

The Advisory Military Department, in addition to the guards of the five prefectures and the officials with food collection experience, will make a list of all the officials under it, the experience of the guards, such as the pro-army, Jinyi, etc., the command of the soldiers and horses in the five cities, and the martial arts instructors.

The Advisory Metropolitan Procuratorate compiled a list of the palaces of various channels, experiences, and divisions.

The Warehouse Yamen of the Advisory Governor will record the experience of warehouse management and grain collection, and the ambassadors and deputy envoys of the warehouse will make a book.

Zhafu Taichang, Taipu, Guanglu, Hongjiu four temples, Shanglinyuan supervisor, and the officials below the fifth grade and their subordinate officials made a book.

Zhafu Shuntian Mansion made a list of the officials below the fifth grade in the mansion and the officials of the big and small yamen they belonged to, and still ordered the mansion to change careers.

The yamen such as the General Administration Department, Shangbao Department, Six Sections, and Zhongshu Section compiled the catalogs.

The interview booklets were mainly issued to speech officials, and officials from the Ministry of Officials sometimes accepted the interview list and assumed the responsibility of consultation and visitation.In addition, some high-ranking officials, such as cabinet ministers and station chiefs (shangguan of the Metropolitan Procuratorate) will also receive interview lists.However, different officials received different contents and receiving time of the interview booklet.

According to Zhao Nanxing: "The interview book does not list the names of the division officials; it will be sent to the cabinet ministers and the upper officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in mid-October. The big interview book is sent by the court officials, and the names of the four divisions are listed. It is not a Teke Dao interview book. There is no notice of the officials, that is, ministers and other officials in the hall are not allowed to visit each other, but they are temporarily arranged to keep their ears."

It can be seen that there are still differences in interview books. There are so-called Kedao interview books and so-called big interview books.The names of subordinates of officials and subordinates are not listed in the Kedao interview book, but the names of subordinate officials of officials and subordinates are included in the big interview book sent to cabinet ministers and station chiefs; , The time for court officials to receive orders is later.

In addition, the rank of the officials responsible for sending the interview list will also vary according to the recipients of the interview list.The officials responsible for sending the books to the cabinet ministers and the head of the station were personally acted by the hall officials of the Ministry of Officials; and the officials who sent the books to the speech officials only needed to be the officials of the examination department, the officials in charge of the officials, and the officials in charge of Henan Daochen.

The main work after the visit list was issued was taken over by Henan Province.Therefore, Tang Zhaojing, who used to be in charge of the censor of Henan Province in the original history, once said: "All consultations, receipts, and meeting orders are all in the hands of ministers."

After the interview form is sent to the speaker, the consultation will start immediately.The usual way is to "collect public opinion from the whole country", that is, to hear the opinions from various places and consider them accordingly.

After the consultation and visit, the counselor will fill in the visit form based on the content of the consultation and visit, which is called billing. "If there is evidence for the separate statement, the consultation and visit are the same, although the Ministry dare not indulge people in vain."

However, there have always been conflicts among courtiers regarding the filling of the visit 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, it is difficult to know", and "every time the parties involved are difficult to see and hear, they have to invest in honest interviews", so the officials in charge largely need Refer to the opinions on the interview form to determine the dismissal of personnel. Therefore, it is hoped that the officials who receive the interview form will fill in the interview form as detailed as possible so that the investigation can go smoothly.

On the other hand, since the interview form needs to be filled out with a real name system, although "the interview form is secret and difficult to be known to everyone", there are still many officials who can see the interview form after it has been handed in, such as the Ministry of Officials, the Shangguan of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Minister of Examination, Officials, officials of Henan Province, etc.

Word of mouth passed on, and it inevitably fell into the ears of those who were judged. For some reason, many speech officials were afraid of taking office because they were worried that the content filled in the interview form would be known, and that their political future would be affected by mistakenly offending the powerful.Therefore, there are situations where various excuses are used to avoid filling out the interview form.

This time, the chief inspector, Gu Xiancheng, is not afraid of offending people, so he put forward his suggestion: "Those who are on duty should not use Daoyuan's survey as an excuse, and make some mistakes; those who are on standby have already had external plans and heard of them in the past, which is difficult to tolerate. Dodge."

However, although there are statements, due to the influence of factors such as affection and familiarity, especially this year's Dinghai Jingcha has a great influence, it has actually involved a battle between practical learning and spiritual learning, and the actual effect of the interview list may still be unsatisfactory.Judging from the past situation, it is estimated that there will be a large number of interview forms and anonymous interview forms for "handing in blank papers" this year-most of which should be done by neutral officials.

After the interview form is issued, the consultation work is usually completed within two months, and the order will be "received on a certain date" on a certain day of the month.Because there are two yamen responsible for issuing the visit form, one is the official department and the other is Henan Province, so there are also two yamen responsible for receiving the form: one is Henan Province, and the other is the Ministry of Officials.

The reason why the bills are not received through the official department should be that the official department is located in a close and secret place. If many officials go to the official department to hand in the bills, it would be very inconvenient, so they go to the official department to pay the bills.After the interview form was received, the work of checking the test language began immediately, and the work of meeting the form was not carried out until a few days before the trial.

Such a complicated procedure, such a protracted process, it is impossible not to do other work during the period.The affairs of the yamen of various ministries have to be followed, and the operation of the imperial court cannot be stopped for a while. (So ​​I'm going to interject here...)
Two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the capital received an urgent report from Li Song, governor of Liaodong:

Tumen's army sent troops a month ago to surround Yehe's east and west cities.Because the two cities were strong and could not be broken for a long time, the troops were divided and plundered.Suwan, Wula, and Huifa were all looted and suffered great losses.

Jianzhou left guard Nurhachi sent troops north to meet him on the pretext that his wife Zhezhe was still in Yehe and was in danger.Because from Jianzhou Zuowei to Yehe needs to pass through the territory under the jurisdiction of Hada, Hadabeile Mengge Bulu Deming warned that Nurhachi's move was intended to attack Guo in a false way. Refuse to open the border for Nurhachi to transit.

This move of course "annoyed" Nurhachi - he had won a big victory and defeated Nikan Wailan before, and he was very angry, but was forced to retreat from outside Fushun Pass by a letter from Gao Yushi. "Arrogance" - immediately decided to attack Hada.

At this time, Hada's troops were divided into three parts, and Meng Gebulu, Dai Shan, and Kang Gulu each led one (see the chapters during Gao Yushi's Fuliao period).Among them, because of his contribution to Gao Yushi's trapping and killing of Qing Jiani and Yang Jipi, Meng Gebulu received Gao Yushi's support, and now has the largest army and stronger strength.

However, Hada had already declined in the late Wan Khan period, and Hu Ergan later messed around again, causing a lot of losses. Although the total strength of Hada's troops is not weaker than Nurhachi's Jianzhou Zuowei, its actual combat effectiveness is actually not as good.In addition to this, they returned three points to the family. After Gao Yushi left office, Daishan and Kang Gulu began to disobey Menggebu Luyang, so Hada obviously couldn't beat Nurhachi.

After Nurhachi sent troops, Meng Gebulu called Daishan and Kang Gulu to resist, declaring that he would "come soon", but Daishan and Kang Gulu were not fooled, and they all said that they also needed time to prepare.

Under Menggebulu's command, there was originally a military staff officer arranged by Gao Yushi through Jinghua. The staff suggested: "Since the two of them do not want to go alone, Baylor can take them with them", which means that since the two of them do not want to go alone Resist Nurhachi, Nabele, let them come to your army, and gather the three armies to go together.

But at this time Nurhachi came very quickly and had already reached the vicinity of Qinghe. Once he crossed Qinghe, his army would be almost as flat as a river to Hada City, and there was no danger to defend.Therefore, Meng Gebulu refused to listen to the advice of Jinghua's military staff, saying that he, as "Youzhu Kingdom, General Dragon and Tiger, and King of Manchukuo Khan", would never tolerate Nurhachi's "evil slaves deceiving the Lord", so he personally led the main force of four thousand Go to resist, among the four thousand main forces are the one thousand Khan's personal guard cavalry who made meritorious service last time.

The titles and titles of "Youzhu Kingdom, General Dragon and Tiger, and King Khan of Zhenfu Manchuria" were earned by Wan Khan in his early years, and they were already ostentatious in his later period. Canonization let Menggebulu inherit.After Meng Gebulu was attacked, he even forgot that these were false names, and his real position of real power was actually only the commander of the Tashan Zuowei (he was the commander of the Tashan Zuowei when he was in high rank)-in fact, he was on the same level as Nurhachi.

Meng Gebulu's [-] troops went south to defend against Nurhachi, and Nurhachi's [-] troops went north to Qinghe. Naturally, a big battle between the two sides was inevitable.

The battle process is relatively simple.Jinghua's military staff advised Meng Gebulu: The best strategy in this battle is to create opportunities to attack halfway; the middle strategy is to rely on a slight advantage in troops to defend the river; the worst strategy is to let them go and fight.

Meng Gebulu felt that the best strategy was "too treacherous" and the middle strategy was "not brave enough", so he chose the worst strategy.

wonderful.

Nurhachi ran to Qinghe to see that Menggebulu had set up his camp ten miles north of Qinghe. He was stunned and said to the people on the left and right: "Menggebulu is cheating, there may be an ambush near the north bank of Qinghe in front of our army. "All the generals under his command and his younger brother Shuerhaqi agreed that this must be the case, so Nurhachi 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 big camp ten miles away, Meng Gebulu even sent scouting horses sparsely.

Nurhachi was overjoyed when he heard the news, and even refused to wait for the night. That night, he began to build a pontoon bridge and sent the vanguard to cross the river.Early the next morning, Meng Gebulu just woke up from a hangover and heard that Nurhachi's army had lined up along the river. Instead of being surprised, he was overjoyed and ordered to prepare for battle.

Gao Yimin, the military staff officer of Jinghua, immediately left on the pretext of needing to report the battle situation to Shangfeng.Meng Gebulu didn't object either, and personally took people to the front of the Nurha Chi formation for an appointment.

Nurhachi gladly took up the challenge, and dispatched all of them as the former army, and led the Chinese army to sweep the formation.Meng Gebulu also sent his generals to fight for the former army, but they were all dissatisfied with ten strokes and beheaded by the horse, and the subordinates collapsed.

Meng Gebulu was surprised and simply pressed the whole army forward, but he himself rushed too fast, even when he saw the situation, he did not retreat but advanced, and he stepped forward with a knife and shocked Menggebulu, who had just woken up from a hangover and was weak. The knives flew away.Fortunately, Meng Gebulu himself was very good at riding, so he simply took advantage of the situation to get off his horse and escaped unharmed.

But once the coach fell, the battle could not be fought well. Before Nurhachi's main force came out, the Eyidu front army alone defeated Meng Gebulu's main force.Fortunately, the main force of the [-] cavalrymen under his command was the real elite accumulated by Wan Khan for many years. He just rescued Meng Gebulu from the front of the formation, and led him to escape all the way north, and slipped back to Hada City.

The news Li Song sent back to the capital was that Menggebulu was defeated and returned to Hada, and Nurhachi followed and attacked.Calculated according to the time, Nurhachi should have already besieged Hada City by this time.
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