Chapter 25: The Ground Pound
Du Zhongxiao sat behind the case and watched the military exploits of the soldiers and horses led by Zhang and Yao Shouxin reported by Liu Jibao. Han Qi lay on the desk, carefully studying the information of the Party and Montenegrin Supervision and Military Division obtained by the Tiande Army these days.
The Black Mountain Supervision and Military Division is one of the twelve supervision and military divisions established by Yuan Hao when the country was founded, with the local tyrants as the assassin history, with 70,000 soldiers to prepare for the Khitan. In recent years, the Khitan Party, the southern line and the middle line have won and lost each other, and there are not many records, but the northern line has almost no defeats, and the results are abundant. The Black Mountain Prison Military Division has long been beaten to pieces by the Khitan, leaving only an empty shell.
A Khitan army of 10,000 or 20,000 can fight the Montenegrin Prison Army Division without the power to fight back, and the Song army's army of more than 20,000 with all firearms will not be worse. Since Du Zhongxiao led the army north, he won consecutive battles, showing a crushing posture against both the Khitan and the party, which gave Han Qi confidence.
The Khitan of the late Tang Dynasty rose in the north, and by the time of the Song Dynasty, it had already taken advantage of the geographical advantages of the north. The mountain defense line in northern China, from the Jinshan Mountains in the east, which is the Daxing'an Mountains in later generations, to the Yanshan Mountains and Yinshan Mountains, are all owned by it. If the Black Mountain Supervision and Military Division is broken, the Song Dynasty will advance to the line of Yinshan, Helan and Qilian in the west to destroy the party, and Yanshan in the east to take the sixteen states of Youyun.
This battle will change the strategic situation of the Song Dynasty and the Khitan and Dangxiang, and completely cut off the ties between the two countries.
After the failure of the Qingli New Deal, Han Qi was demoted from the imperial court and traveled to various places as an official, and there was no hope of returning to the court for reuse. If he can break the Black Mountain Supervision and Military Division, his military merits will be enough for him to return to the capital and take charge of the government, and he will be more interested in this battle than Du Zhongxiao.
Du Zhongxiao got up, put the Chinese book in his hand on Han Qi's case, and said: "Xianggong, this is the military merit of the generals who attacked Quye River a few days ago, and Liu Jun reported it, I don't think there is any major mistake or omission, so how about reporting to the imperial court according to this?" ”
Han Qi picked it up and glanced at it a few times, and said, "You and Master Liu have seen it, so you will report it accordingly." After a strategy, your military exploits in the army are too troublesome, and too much effort is wasted. Just like in other armies, wouldn't it be better to count military merit by head and capture? It's nothing more than not counting by soldiers, but by capital and team. The current algorithm is difficult to know unless it is a person who has grown up in the army. ”
Du Zhongxiao said: "Everything has advantages and disadvantages. If the first rank and capture are counted as military merits, Qu Yehe will not be able to fight the first battle. Every time a village is breached, most of the military rations are burned, and the prisoners are released, and there is no military merit, how can the armies be willing to do it? If you don't do that, you won't be able to fight fast and retreat quickly, and you will be trapped in those walled forts. Not to mention, it is absolutely difficult to put an end to things like stealing the head and killing the good and taking the plunge. ”
Han Qi said: "There is such a thing, it is nothing more than the lack of strict control by the officials and the lax military discipline. As long as it is strictly controlled and punished by law, who dares to commit it! ”
Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Xianggong, a head, a lot of money." Money and silk move people's hearts, how can it be eliminated by high-pressure heavy law? Not to mention that on the battlefield, the actual role of getting a first rank is actually very limited. Military merit is to reward the army for winning battles, and this is persuasion. ”
Han Qi said: "What Jing Luo said also makes sense. However, the head is the most obvious, and the courage of the soldiers can also be seen. Use the head to determine military merits, clearly understand, everyone has nothing to say. ”
Many things in the world have been spoiled by this self-righteous clarity. As for everyone having nothing to say, it may not be, a few years ago, because of the first rank of the military merit, I don't know how many things happened, the northwest had to change to the first rank, no longer set the non-commissioned soldiers. Xianggong, in the past, there were no bureaucrats in the army, and it was really impossible to make military merits in detail, so the simpler the better. The battalions and fields are different, and the officers at all levels are complete, so they should naturally be comprehensively evaluated. Only by setting military merits and allowing non-commissioned officers to appeal against their grievances can those who have made meritorious contributions be truly rewarded and the morale of the army can be motivated. ”
Han Qi's mind was on the Tiande Army, so he didn't argue with Du Zhongxiao about this, signed his name with a pen, and said: "Here you are handsome, and you are in charge of military affairs." Later, when we have leisure, we will discuss these again. ”
Du Zhongxiao took the paperwork, thanked Han Qi, handed it over to the soldiers, and Shi Quanbin played the court.
What Han Qi said, Du Zhongxiao is very familiar with, and further, he also knows KPIs. What's the use? The bureaucrats of this era, many of these have been played, and even the last place has been eliminated. It's nothing more than causing too many problems, and in the end it was eliminated. Later generations, as an advanced method, repeated this process, and then disappeared silently.
In terms of index assessment, the factory can be used as an important means to reduce management costs by capitalists. This is a premise, if you have an opinion on the manager, you can let him roll up and leave at any time, and never cooperate. How can a bureaucracy have this kind of power? Not to mention that because the index assessment does not have much negative impact on the capitalist, he does not need people's hearts, as long as the managed is willing to work and make money, the people under the rule of the imperial court can do so? In doing so, it didn't take long for public resentment to boil.
There can be indicators for tasks, but performance evaluations cannot be based on indicators, and the same is true for military merits, otherwise strange things will happen frequently. It is not difficult to understand that the number of enemy casualties and prisoners, as well as the captures made in battle, are indicators of the degree of victory, but they are not an important basis for judging military merits.
For the bureaucracy, if you dare to evaluate the performance of the government by indicators, then all kinds of strange things will come out, which will not only open people's eyes, but also subvert people's conscience. In the past, when I went to university, the assessment indicators were internationalized, so I just pulled some foreigners and waited like a grandfather. Do you dare to have an opinion on this practice? That is, they do not love their own school, they doubt the decisions of their superiors, and the bureaucracy knows that it is wrong and cannot change it. Not to mention, for members of the bureaucracy, their right and wrong come from the affirmation and denial of their superiors, and they are not the same as normal people.
Political institutions and business institutions are different, and they can learn from them, but they cannot be simply applied. Businesses can be quantified to the greatest extent that they manage a closed environment with negligible side effects. After the indicators are quantified, the complex management problems are simplified into index assessments, which greatly reduces the need for senior management talents, as long as they can fill in the form, thus reducing the cost. Political institutions are different, and the management is an open environment, and indicators can only be used as a reference, not as a basis for assessment, otherwise it will be completely chaotic. What is the difference between an official and an official? Officials only need to be able to fill out forms, and do not need complex management skills, while officials are integrated management of tables and actual political performance. In the index assessment, officials are replaced by officials, and people who are in line with their own hearts, or have close relationships, and are willing to meet are used to crowd out senior management talents, and will not reduce political costs.
Among the forbidden army, even the top three ya, in addition to the military positions of the commander-in-chief, there are only a very few officials who deal with official documents. In terms of management, it is more extreme than the enterprises of later generations, relying on the high-pressure management of strict punishment and strict laws. Such an army lacks the necessary management personnel, and in fact, management personnel cannot stand in it. When faced with a larger war, the situation becomes complicated, and there is nothing to be done.
The battalion has its own bureaucratic system, so naturally it has a different assessment system, and it seems different everywhere.
Dijinze is a wetland in the desert of thousands of miles, with many lakes and abundant water and grass, and it is 300 miles away from Xiazhou in the south. This place is deep in the desert, surrounded by yellow sand on all sides, and Shamo is a natural barrier. When Zhao Jiqian rebelled against the Song Dynasty, he fled to this place, and finally made a comeback.
He sat by the fire, glass in his hand, and his face was gloomy. A pro-soldier came up and said softly: "Prime Minister of State, the mutton is cooked." ”
He nodded, took the leg of mutton handed over by his own soldiers, took a bite, swallowed it, and asked him: "This is already the eastern edge of Dijinze, how far is it from Linzhou?" ”
The soldier said: "There are still more than 200 miles to return to China. Prime Minister, Linzhou City is located on a cliff, easy to defend and difficult to attack, is it possible to fight there? ”
didn't hide Pang said: "It's the closest there, so naturally I'll go to surround it first." When Xiazhou sent military rations, the army went north to attack the Jinsu army. I heard that the surrounding forts were destroyed by the Song army, and this time they were rebuilt! ”
The soldiers said yes, and retreated gently, not hiding Pang to eat meat and drink alone.
The Hidden Department is from Yokoyama, near Xiazhou. The land is fertile, and it is rich in salt and iron. If there is money, there are people, and if there are people, there will be power, and after several generations of painstaking management, the Tibetan tribe has become one of the most powerful tribes in the party.
The sister who didn't hide Pang is now the queen mother of the Xia Kingdom, and she married Yeli for the first time. Yuan Hao abolished the queen of Yeli, and the kind of Shiheng used a counter-plan, killed Yeli and begged, took the Wuzang clan back to the palace, and fornicated with him. After the adultery between the two was discovered by Queen Yeli, she was forced to become a nun and was called "Master Wuzang".
A few years later, Yuan Hao also forced the concubine of the prince Ning Lingge to not move the clan, and the camp palace Tiandu Mountain, called the "new queen". Brother Ning Ling was not angry, and after getting drunk, he stabbed Yuan Hao, cut off his nose, and died of serious injuries. At this time, the "Master of Wuzang" was pregnant, and with the support of his brother who was already the Minister of State at that time, he gave birth to Liang Zuo as the emperor and himself as the queen mother.
In the last years of Yuan Hao's life, his personal feelings were full of absurdity. Killing the minister for no reason, the queen's elder brother Yeli begged, not only abolished his right-hand man, but also weakened the strength of his biggest ally, Yelibu. Killed Yeli Yu beggar, coveted his wife and did not hide the clan. The queen Ye Li clan objected and let the Wuzang clan become a nun, which was quite Tang Dynasty style. and the Wuzang clan is like glue, and greedy for the beauty of the princess, accepted as the new queen, and learned Tang Xuanzong once.
The grievances with several women abolished the earliest relatives and their most loyal allies, the Yeli family, and fulfilled the nameless relatives and Wuzang family, and since then the real power of the Xia Kingdom has fallen into the hands of relatives. A lifetime of hard work, laying down the country for others.
However, the prince who married the prince first and was taken away by his father did not move the clan, and did not take much advantage, Tiandu Mountain was her family's territory. At the same time, it was also called the Yeli clan and the Wuyi clan of the two queens, Yuan Hao gained nothing after his death, but lost his life, and the nameless Wuzang clan accepted Yuan Hao's inheritance.