Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2009 In and Out of the Palace
At this time, Gao Wuruo didn't know that there was an ambush ahead, and he was still thinking in his mind whether he could reach Xinzheng fast enough for him to return home before the New Year.

The New Year is of extraordinary significance to the Chinese, especially for a person who rarely returns to his hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival as an adult. If there is a chance to catch up, it must be caught up.

When Gao Wuruo was underage, because he felt that he was not the material for the Jinshi examination, he wrote a letter to discuss with his elder brother Gao Wushi, and finally got his elder brother's permission to go to the capital to enjoy the favor of "studying in the Imperial College".

"Guozijian reading" in the Ming Dynasty should not be regarded as a verb, but as a noun.

In the early days of Hongwu, according to different sources, the students of Guozixue could be divided into two categories, namely official students and people's students.Official students are appointed by the emperor, including not only the children of officials at all levels, but also the children of chieftains and overseas students;

"Emperor Taizu Gao first decided that the sons of the country should be the second class of officials and people's livelihood.

"In the first year of Hongwu, Shengtu was selected as a scholar of the country, the sons of high-ranking officials are officials, and the folks are handsome for the people's livelihood."

In March of the 15th year of Hongwu (1382), Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to change Guozixue to Guozijian.Since then, the students who entered the Guozijian were generally called Jiansheng, among which the children of senior officials were called Yinjian, and Yinjian could be divided into Guansheng and Ensheng.

In the previous system, the father and brother were awarded official positions because of their merits, which was called the system of appointing sons.In the early Ming Dynasty, this system was followed, and it was stipulated that civil officials of the first rank to the seventh rank could let a son inherit their salary.Later, the threshold for asking for shade was raised, and only officials of the third rank and above could invite shade.

In addition, the emperor sometimes issued special decrees to allow some officials' children to study in the Guozijian, regardless of the rank of officials. These students were called Ensheng.This Ensheng system began to appear in the first year of Jianwen.

Unlike the children of high-ranking officials who were born in official families, Minsheng came from ordinary families, and can be divided into tribute prisons and promotion prisons.Juren refers to the Juren who failed the general examination sent to the Guozijian for tutoring.The tribute supervisor refers to the entry of tribute students into the prison. The tribute supervisor is divided into four categories, namely Sui Gong, Xuan Gong, En Gong, and Paying Gong.During the Taizu period, the tribute supervisor mainly refers to the annual tribute.

However, this has nothing to do with Gao Wuruo, because he entered the Guozijian because of his grace, and the reason why he went to the Guozijian was essentially to get a "diploma" - Jiansheng.

In fact, as I said just now, the Guozijian students of the Ming Dynasty are commonly called "supervisors", and they are divided into four categories according to their origins: one is the candidates who failed in the general examination, which are called "jujians"; It is called "tribute supervisor"; the third is officials above a certain level and descendants of meritorious officials, called "yin supervisor";

Of course, the status and importance of these four kinds of supervisors to the imperial court are different.These two types will be regarded as scholars with certain abilities and certain prospects, because they have a good foundation in learning, and they will still have the opportunity to become Jinshi in high school in the future.

Among the latter two, shadow prisons are the most expensive, while regular prisons are cheap.In fact, both of them are generally regarded as guys with little ability, and basically have no future in reading.As for why the shadow prison is still "valued", it is naturally because this kind of person will probably have a good grandfather, good father, or other elders in the family who are in high positions and have made great achievements.

As for the regular prison... If you spend money to buy a diploma, don't think about "everyone respects you".After all, the official circles of the Ming Dynasty first talked about test scores, and secondly about family background. You have nothing to do with the old two, you only have the smell of copper, so what are you talking about?
But having said that, in fact, as long as he is a supervisor, theoretically he has the opportunity to be an official.It's just that when the first three types of supervisors have the opportunity to be officials, the optional positions are better.

According to the regulations, "the principals of the six Beijing official departments, Zhongshu, pedestrians, judges, and doctors; foreign officials who know the state, push officials, and county magistrates are selected by Jinshi."And "the officials of the five government offices of the capital, the chief officials of the six departments, the general administration department, the Taichang Guanglu Temple, and the officials of the Zhan Shifu are selected by the officials."

The first three categories of supervised students are collectively referred to as "official yin students".But the case prison is different. Those who appoint the post can only choose the prefectural and county Zuo Er and the prefecture chief. If the post is in Beijing, Guanglu Temple, Shanglinyuan, or remote provinces.

In this way, they are not only regarded as aliens, but also in the later period, due to the increasing number of regular prison staff, there are not enough official posts to be allocated, so most of them will never have a vacant official in their lifetime and need regular prisons to fill.

Gao Wuruo, as a member of the Xinzheng Gao Clan, although he is only Gao Yushi's concubine younger brother, given the situation of the Ming Dynasty, as long as Gao Wushi, the elder brother of the court, is willing, he can still be arranged in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion or the Sixth Division , Tongzheng Secretary, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, and Zhan Shifu.

Of course, at the beginning, the official position can only be achieved in experience, secretary, and book. , you will be able to get promoted after the specified time.

To put it simply, according to the current regulations, Gao Wuruo can still go from the ninth rank to the sixth rank in nine years - the sixth rank can reach the first level of the head of the sixth department.For example, if you say "head of the Department of Cleaning Officials in Henan, Ministry of Household Affairs", then you can review and guide the finance of a province in Henan, which is a position with real power.

Of course, there is still an upper limit for a supervisor to be an official. For example, someone like Gao Wuruo will never be a servant for the rest of his life.Because the six ministers and ministers are called "officials in the hall", and non-jinshi are not allowed to be them.

Because the upper limit was too clear, Gao Wuruo lost interest, and later he simply proposed that he would not be an official, and stay in Jinghua's interior with peace of mind, which can be regarded as taking care of the family business.In fact, taking care of the family business is a life choice that is generally recognized in this era, and it is more respected than choosing to be an official as a supervisor.

For many years, Gao Wuruo has been staying with Gao Yushi to study, and has been a trainee secretary for many years. After Gao Yushi returned to Beijing, he accompanied and participated in the three battles led by Gao Yushi. The three battles against Japan against the Japanese were not defeated, and now it can be regarded as "a long battle", and the only thing that needs to be personally commanded.

Originally, he thought that although returning to Xinzheng this time was an opportunity to be alone, it would not be possible to command the battle.After all, even if the Xin School is playing conspiracy, it is just trying to assassinate the biological father and aunt, how can there be a war?

Who knows that man is not as good as heaven, he thought that there was no battle to fight, but the battle happened to find him.

Seeing a cavalry soldier running out of a forest three miles away, Gao Wuruo thought it was an officer nearby at first.This is not surprising. After all, although Tangyin County is still north of the Yellow River, it is generally regarded as the "Central Plains" area because it is administratively belonged to the Henan Chief Envoy. Horse thieves and other forces.

However, Gao Wuruo was still wondering why when the cavalry of the official army was still active in the field at this time when the New Year was approaching, the leader of the cavalry around him had already seen something was wrong, suddenly drew his gun in his hand, and shouted: "There is an enemy attack, protect the seven Father!"

The leader of the cavalry shouted loudly, and the 36 cavalry immediately drew out their weapons—not sabers, but Wanli Type II cavalry spears.Their lances are all loaded with a round of projectiles and corresponding gunpowder, and they can fire a round of volleys before hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, Gao Wuruo realized it himself - after all, the other party's attire would not be an official soldier anyway.Although Gao Wuruo has never really commanded a battle, he has seen many famous generals over the years. After waking up, he immediately drew his sword and shouted: "The ignorant thief dares to offend the power of my book, sword and flag. I break through them!"

Gao Wuruo drew his sword instead of his gun, because he was not equipped with a cavalry gun, but only a Tang Hengdao on his waist.As I mentioned earlier, Gao Yushi will distribute command knives to officers of a certain level in the garrison, and the standard style of Jinghua's command knives is neither a saber nor the Yanling knife popular in Ming Dynasty, but a Tang Hengdao.

The reason for choosing the style of Tang Hengdao is because the blade is straight and upright. It has both the air of a king of a sword and the air of a domineering sword.Gao Wushi told the guards and other armed personnel that Tang Hengdao not only symbolizes uprightness, but also because the knife has only one edge, which means "the edge of the knife is not facing the inside", and it is a symbol of unity. weapon, so use it.

Because of Gao Yushi's propaganda, in the end not only the officers of the garrison liked to wear horizontal knives, but also members of the Gao family like Gao Wuruo and other high-ranking officials in Jinghua also liked to wear horizontal knives. In the end, Gao Yushi simply ordered the arsenal to make a special batch Swords are given to them.

So there is a coincidence here: since there are seven brothers in the six households of the Gao family, Gao Yushi specially made the "Seven Stars Horizontal Knife". Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang bestowed six horizontal knives on each of their six younger brothers.

Therefore, the horizontal knife in Gao Wuruo's hand is the "Yoguang" one of the "Seven Stars Horizontal Knife". It is not only an undisputed precious knife, but also a symbol of his status in Jinghua.

Shaking the light out of the scabbard, the guards around Gao Wuruo's bodyguards were full of enthusiasm. They had already seen that the other party had about [-] riders, but they were not timid at all.Everyone had no objection to Gao Wuruo's order to "break through them", so they began to adjust the formation under the order.

Since it was about to penetrate, the cavalry quickly completed the formation change while marching, forming an obvious conical formation.It's just that they didn't want Gao Wuruo to act as the tip of the cone, but placed him in the middle of the formation slightly behind, and the leader of the servant who called out "enemy attack" did his part as the tip of the cone, planning to lead the attack.

After completing the change of formation, the family cavalry did not start charging on horseback, but reduced their speed slightly to ensure that the formation was not chaotic.It wasn't until the distance between the two sides was shortened to about two miles that the cavalry began to clamp the horse's belly and slowly accelerate the horse under the crotch.

When the opposite side continues to charge, the distance between the two sides has been reduced to about one mile, and the speed of Jinghua Cavalry can be regarded as entering the charge range.Then, after waiting for two or three more breaths, the leader shouted: "Carbon salvo!"

A salvo of "bang bang bang" gunshots sounded, and nearly 20 horse bandits from Dongping Shuizhai who rushed towards them fell off their horses on the spot.However, it is impossible for both sides to back down when charging, so the opponent still rushes forward in a chaotic manner relying on the superiority of numbers.

"Change the saber—bend down and spade the battle!"

After the reform, the cavalry of the Ming army now has very few pike cavalry, and the cavalry in Jinghua are almost exactly the same.The main training of this kind of saber cavalry is Mongolian. In the technical and tactical action of charging into the battle, most horse riders hold the saber with their right hand against their backs, leaning against the back of the saber with their arms on the right side of the horse, and charge by the horse. The impact force at that time is used as the beheading force of the saber in the hands of the cavalry to kill the enemy.

This method of using the saber is called "spatter" among the Ming army and Jinghua armed servants. As for "bending 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 Shuizhai obviously didn't expect that the Jinghua cavalry, who had less than 40 people, would choose to attack tit for tat, and even reduced their own team by [-]% under a round of salvo.

But at this time, they had no other choice. Although many people passively sobered up because of this, they still resolutely confronted Jinghua Qiding.

At this time, they did not expect that although the Jinghua knights seemed to be wearing only cotton robes, they were all wearing armor under the cotton robes.In terms of hand-to-hand combat, Dongping Shuizhai was actually at a "equipment disadvantage" from the very beginning.

At this time, it is meaningless to think about armor and the like, and the cavalry on both sides quickly charged together.

Soon, the head of the Dongping Shuizhai realized that something was wrong—the Jinghua Cavalry, with less than 40 people, was extremely ferocious. Instead, he just leaned against the saber and rushed forward.

Although this kind of "movement" is very dull in the eyes of the master, and can even be called "stupid rush", but when the two sides only confront each other, Dongping Shuizhai suffers a big loss-including the master himself.

The master is not without results. When he was charging, he found that the enemy on his right was leaning over, with his upper body clinging to the horse's neck. This made the master immediately feel that he could chop off the head of the enemy and his horse with a knife, so he subconsciously Swing the knife out.

However, the master did not expect that although the head of the horse and the head were cut off together, the body of the other party who lost the head was still "holding" the saber and "cut off suddenly"...

Under the panic of the big master, the saber had already reached his eyes with the horsepower, but the big master who had just cut off the head of the cavalier had no time to withdraw the knife. He cut his belly and screamed.

Fortunately, the head of the family was Lian Jiazi who had been in charge for many years. He held back the severe pain and hugged his horse's neck tightly, and then passed out from the pain.

The last scene he saw before he passed out was that Qiu's second child seemed to have had the same "accident" as him, and the other people he could see were not as lucky as the two of them, and almost all of them were killed by Jinghua Qiding. Injured and killed by their identical stupid moves, they fell off the horse one after another...
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