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Chapter 25

Du Zhongxiao sat behind the case and looked at the military achievements of the troops led by Zhang Ke and Yao Shouxin from Liu Ji's newspaper. Han Qi was on the case and carefully studied the information of the Dangxiang Heishan Military Supervision Office obtained by the Tiande Army these days.

The Heishan Military Supervisor Office was one of the twelve Military Supervisor Offices established by Yuan Hao when he founded the country. They used local tyrants as the governor and had 70,000 troops to prepare for the Khitan. In recent years, the Khitan attacked Dangxiang, and the southern and central fronts had won and lost each other, with few achievements. However, the northern fronts had almost no defeat and had a lot of results. As far as the farthest, they once faced Xiliang Prefecture and spyed on Hexi. The Heishan Military Supervisor Office had long been defeated by the Khitan, leaving only an empty shell.

A Khitan army of 10,000 or 20,000 can defeat the Heishan Military Supervisor Office without the power to fight back. The Song army's army with more than 20,000 firearms will not be worse. Since Du Zhongxiao led his army north, he won consecutive victories in battles, and showed a crushing attitude towards Khitan and Dangxiang, which gave Han Qi confidence.

The Khitan rose in the north in the late Tang Dynasty and had already occupied the geographical advantage of the north by the establishment of the Song Dynasty. The mountain defense lines in northern China were all owned by Jinshan in the east, namely the Daxinganling in later generations to Yanshan and Yinshan. If the Heishan Military Supervisor Office was broken, the Song Dynasty would advance to the Yinshan line. The west could draw Helan and Qilian to destroy Dangxiang, and the east could draw Yanshan to capture the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

This battle will change the strategic situation of the Song Dynasty, 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 court and moved to various places to serve as an official, and could not see the hope of returning to the court to pay attention. If he could defeat the Heishan Military Supervisory Office, his military achievements would be enough to allow him to return to the capital and take charge of the government. He was much more concerned about this battle than Du Zhongxiao.

Du Zhongxiao stood up, put the Chinese letter on Han Qi's case, and said, "My husband, this is the military merits of the soldiers attacking Quyehe a few days ago. Liu Junzhu reported it. I don't see any major mistakes, so how about reporting it to the court?"

Han Qi picked up a brief glance and looked at it a few times, saying, "You and Master Liu have seen it, so you can report it accordingly. - The strategy, your military achievements in your army are too troublesome and waste too much energy. Just like in other army, wouldn't it be good to calculate the military achievements in the head and seizure? It's just that it's better not to calculate the soldiers, but to calculate the troops. The current algorithm is not for those who are in the army, otherwise it will be difficult to understand the intention."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. If the head is seized and military merits are counted, Qu Yehe will not be able to fight in a battle. Every time a camp is broken, most of the military rations are burned and the prisoners are released. If there is no military merit, how can each army be willing to do it? If you don't do this, you can't fight and retreat quickly and get trapped in those forts. Not to mention, it is impossible to eliminate such things as stealing the head and killing good people to make achievements."

Han Qi said: "There is nothing more than whether the officials and chiefs are not strictly governed and the military discipline is loose. As long as they are strictly governed and punished with the law, who dares to violate it!"

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "My husband, a head is so much money. Money is moving, how can it be eliminated by high-pressure and heavy methods? Not to mention that on the battlefield, getting a head is actually very limited. Military merit is to reward the army to win battles, so this is an admonition."

Han Qi said: "What the ruler said makes sense. However, the head is the most obvious and the bravery of the soldiers can be seen. Use the head to determine military merits and understand clearly that everyone has nothing to say."

"Many things in the world are ruined by this self-righteous understanding. As for everyone who has nothing to say, it may not be possible. A few years ago, because of the military merits of the head, I don't know how many things have happened. The northwest had to change to the head and no longer settle the soldiers. My husband, there were no bureaucrats in the army before, and it was really impossible to determine the military merits in detail, so the simpler the better. The different army of Yingtianxiang, and all officers at all levels are complete, so we should naturally evaluate them comprehensively. The battlefield commander determines military merits and allows soldiers to be dissatisfied with the appeal, so that those who make merits can truly reward and inspire the morale of the army."

Han Qi was all thinking about the Tiande Army. He did not argue with Du Zhongxiao about these things. He picked up his pen and signed his name and said, "You are the commander here, and you are the commander of the military affairs. If you have free time in the future, we will discuss these."

Du Zhongxiao received the document, thanked Han Qi, handed it over to the soldiers, and Shi Quanbin submitted it to the court.

Du Zhongxiao was very familiar with what Han Qi said. He went further and knew that KPIs were used. What's the use? Many of the bureaucrats in this era had played with them, and even eliminated the last place. It was nothing more than causing too many problems and finally being eliminated. Later generations, as an advanced method, they repeated the process and then disappeared silently.

Using indicator assessment, factories can be used as an important means, and capitalists can use this means to reduce management costs. This is a prerequisite. If you have opinions about managers and don’t like them, you can let them leave at any time and never cooperate. How can the bureaucracy have such power? Not to mention that because indicator assessment does not have much negative impact on capitalists, they do not need people’s hearts. As long as the manager is willing to work and make money, the people under the court can manage this way? If this happens, the public will be in a state of grievances soon.

There can be indicators for tasks, but the performance assessment cannot be based on indicators. The same is true for military merits, otherwise there will be frequent incidents. The number of killing and wounding enemies and prisoners, as well as the capture in war, is an indicator of the degree of victory, but it is not an important basis for evaluating military merits. This principle is not difficult to understand.

For bureaucracies, if you dare to assess political achievements with indicators, then any strange thing will come out, which will not only open your eyes, but also subvert people's conscience. In the past, when they went to college, the assessment indicators were international, so just recruit foreigners and serve them like grandpa. Do you dare to have any objections to this approach? That is, you don't love your own school and doubt your superiors' decisions. The bureaucracies cannot change even if they know they are wrong. Not to mention, for members of the bureaucracies, their rightness and mistakes come from the affirmation and denial of their superiors, which are different from normal people.

Political institutions and corporate institutions are different. They can be learned from them, but they cannot be simply applied. This is nothing more than that. Enterprises can quantify them to the greatest extent. They manage a closed environment and the side effects can be ignored. After the indicators are quantified, complex management issues are simplified into indicator assessment, which greatly reduces the need for senior management talents. As long as you can fill out forms, it is enough, thus reducing costs. Different political institutions are managed by an open environment. Indicators can only be used as references and cannot be used as assessment basis, otherwise they will be messed up. What is the difference between officials and officials? Officials can only know how to fill out forms. There is no need for complex management skills. Officials are responsible for comprehensive management of tables and actual political performance. Indicators are used to replace officials, use officials to suit their own wishes, or have close relationships and are willing to flatter senior management talents, and will not reduce political costs.

Among the imperial guards, even the top three yamen, in addition to the military positions of commanding officers, there are only a few officials who handle public documents. In terms of management, it is more extreme than later enterprises, and it relies on high-pressure management with severe punishments and laws. Such an army lacks the necessary management talents, and in fact, management talents cannot stand. When faced with larger wars, the situation becomes complicated, and they are helpless.

The Yingtianxiang Army has its own bureaucratic system, so naturally there is a different assessment system and it seems different everywhere.

Di Jinze is a wetland in the desert with many lakes and abundant water and grass, 300 miles south of Xiazhou. The desert is deep in this place, surrounded by yellow sand on all sides, and the sand is a natural barrier. When Zhao Jiqian rebelled against the Song Dynasty, he fled here and finally made a comeback.

Mozang Epang sat next to the fire, holding a wine glass in his hand, his face gloomy. A personal soldier came up and whispered: "The Prime Minister, the mutton is cooked."

Mozang Epang nodded, took the lamb leg handed over by his personal soldiers, took a bite, swallowed it, and asked him: "This is already the east edge of Dijinze, how far is it from Linzhou?"

The personal soldier said: "There is more than 200 miles back to the prime minister. The prime minister of the country, Linzhou City is located on the cliff, easy to defend but difficult to attack. Can you attack there?"

Mozang Epang said: "There are somewhere nearest, so I will naturally be surrounded first. When Xiazhou sent military rations, the army went north to attack the Jin Su army. I heard that the surrounding fortresses were destroyed by the Song army, and this time it was rebuilt!"

The personal soldiers said yes, and retreated gently, and Wuzang Epang ate meat and drank wine alone.

The Wuzang tribe comes from Hengshan, near Xiazhou. The land there is fertile and salt and iron, and it is very rich. If you have money, there are people. With people, there will be power. After several generations of hard work, the Wuzang tribe has become one of the largest tribes in the Dangxiang power.

Mozang Epang's sister is the empress dowager of Xia Kingdom. She first married Yeliyuqi. Yuanhao deposed Queen Yeli, and Zhong Shiheng used counter-espionage plan to kill Yeliyuqi, and brought the Mozang back to the palace and had an affair with him. After the two of them discovered their affair, they were forced to become monks and nuns, calling them "Master Wuzang".

A few years later, Yuan Hao forced the prince Ning Lingge's concubine to be moved, and the palace was Tiandu Mountain and called "Xin Queen". Ning Lingge was angry. After being drunk, he stabbed Yuan Hao, cut off his nose, and died of serious injury. At this time, "Master Wuzang" was pregnant. With the support of his brother Mozang Epang, who was already the prime minister of the country, he gave birth to Liangzuo as the emperor and became the empress dowager.

In the last few years of Yuanhao, his personal feelings were full of absurdity. He killed the ministers for no reason. The queen's brother Yeli Yuqi not only destroyed his right-hand man, but also weakened the strength of his greatest ally Yeli. He killed Yeli Yuqi and was greedy for his wife Wuzang. Empress Yeli opposes and makes the Mozang become a nun, which is quite like the Tang Dynasty. He is as close as a concubine and is also greedy for the beauty of the Crown Princess, and takes him as the new queen. He learns from Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.

The grudges with several women deposed the earliest relatives and his most loyal ally, the Yeli clan, and the unnamed relatives and the uncensored clan. From then on, the real power of the Xia Kingdom fell into the hands of the relatives. He worked hard all his life to build a country for others.
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