Li Yanxian entered Wang Xiaolie's handsome tent and saw a table in the middle and several chairs on both sides. At the end of the table, a huge map was hung, which was marked "Guozhou's enemy and enemy situation map." A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy was busy, putting a notebook and a pencil in front of each chair. Put on a cup of tea.
Seeing Li Yanxian come in, the young man stepped forward and saluted: "Jiang Min has met Li Jinglue."
Li Yanxian nodded. Asked: "Wang Zhenfu hasn't come yet?"
Jiang Min said: "I'll be here soon. Jing Lue will sit down first and have a cup of tea and take a rest."
After saying that, he led Li Yanxian to the first seat on the left side of the table and asked him to sit down.
Li Yanxian sat down and opened the book on the table to read. There is a line printed on the cover of the book: Combat Notebook. Below is the unit and name, and the blank space behind is obviously for others to write. The book is clean and blank.
Picking up the pencil, Li Yanxian gave it a try. Although it's a bit awkward, you'll get used to it once you hold it.
For most of ancient China, brushes were used. But unlike later generations, there are various pen-holding postures. Unlike calligraphy classes taught in schools in later generations, you will first be taught the standard pen-holding posture. Ancient people held writing brushes in many ways in the same way that later generations used hard brushes. They are actually not very used to using pencils. Some special professions, such as accountants, use hard pens themselves.
While Li Yanxian was studying pencils there, Wang Ruohai came with Zhang Chi and Chi Yuping. When he saw Li Yanxian, he hurriedly saluted.
Li Yanxian said: "Just now, the governor sent someone to invite us, saying that we will fight tomorrow and have a pre-battle meeting tonight. I feel strange that this is a rule that did not exist before. Are your Dengzhou Army different from other armies?"
Wang Ruohai said: "It was the same before. It's just that there were more battles, and the governor felt that many rules needed to be changed, so it gradually became different. This pre-war meeting was learned from the Jurchens. It is said that the Jin army fought, and the war The generals must be convened to discuss and choose the best plan. The governor ordered us to have a pre-war meeting every time before a war, which is called a pre-war meeting. Speaking of which, today is the first Just open it once."
Li Yanxian nodded and said, "Oh, I still have a taste of it!"
While Wang Ruohai was talking, he handed the collection of papers in his hand to Jiang Min and asked him to distribute them to everyone.
Zhang Chi and Chi Yuping went to the big map, where they made gestures and discussed something.
Seeing Wang Ruohai sitting down next to him, Li Yanxian understood something. It seems that today's ranking is not random, there should be its own rules. They are not ranked by official position as usual, nor are they ranked by civil and military positions as in the imperial court.
At the end, Wang Xiaolie came in. He stood at the first seat on the right and lightly knocked on the table. Zhang Chi and Chi Yuping hurriedly left the front of the map and sat down under Wang Ruohai.
Jiang Min put down what he was doing and sat down below Li Yanxian.
Wang Xiaolie said: "I have been saying a few months ago that in the future, wars should not be held in the tents. Instead of being decided by the commander, he should discuss matters with his colleagues in secret before the meeting. Direct orders should be given during military tent meetings. Instead, it should be decided by the commander. Headquarters command. It’s just that it’s not easy to start everything from scratch. The headquarters is not ready until now. We will attack Guozhou tomorrow, and today is our first headquarters meeting.”
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit serious, Li Yanxian felt uncomfortable asking Wang Xiaolie directly. He whispered to Jiang Min beside him: "What is the headquarters?"
Jiang Min said: "As the name suggests, the commander is the yamen in charge of military orders. During wars, military orders are issued from here."
Li Yanxian nodded. Some understand, and some don't. It was the custom of the Song Dynasty that military orders came from the generals. Why a separate yamen should be set up to manage them? Li Yanxian didn't quite understand. Secrets in the military are important. Wouldn't it be easy to leak information if we set up a yamen?
Wang Xiaolie said: "This headquarters is the agency where the governor exercises military orders. There are other yamen that manage military affairs. Most of the work of the headquarters is handled by Counselor Wang Ruohai. General matters are drafted by the headquarters. , signed and stamped by the official in charge. Important matters, in addition to being sent to the official in charge, must also be sent to my office. Especially important matters must be decided at a meeting."
Having said this, Wang Xiaolie looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "Today is the first pre-war meeting. Let me talk about the meeting discipline. Before each meeting, Senator Wang is responsible for drawing up a summary of the meeting. In principle, Send it to me for approval. In front of everyone's desk, there is a summary of today's meeting. If you take the time, you can take a look. This summary was originally intended to be given to the participants when notifying the meeting. Today is special and really There is no time, so we can only do this. In principle, the meeting will be carried out in accordance with the meeting outline. If any participant raises other matters, they can be resolved together at the meeting with the consent of others. "
After hearing this, Li Yanxian hurriedly opened the summary of the meeting that Jiang Min placed in front of him. It mentioned the theme of the meeting, which was going out of the city to fight Wei Yi tomorrow. There is also the process of the meeting, who wants to speak, who takes the meeting minutes, and who ultimately decides the outcome of the meeting.
After reading this summary, Li Yanxian found it novel. This kind of thing has never been done before, and I can't believe that anyone can come up with these things. In fact, after living in the Yamen for a long time, these things are not uncommon. Even ancient yamen had similar things. It's just that the people who do these things are the officials of various yamen, and most officials don't participate.
Wang Xiaolie added: "There is no need to say more about what was discussed at the meeting. It is not much different from the previous meetings. The most important thing is that I want to emphasize one point. Unless it is extremely special and cannot be done, all meetings must have records. Have a signature. If you agree with the conclusion of the meeting, write "agree". If you disagree, write "disagree." If you do not express an opinion, write "abstention." If you agree with conditions or disagree with conditions, the conditions must be written clearly. This is not the case. If you can be sloppy, everyone must sign. In principle, the person who takes the minutes of the meeting is the secretary. Now that there is no secretary, Jiang Min will take the minutes first. In the future, when the officials are fully equipped, they will all perform their duties! "
Meetings are just a formality, they don’t have to be so formal. The most important thing is that the meeting must reach a conclusion. And this conclusion cannot be a simple sentence, but requires meeting minutes. What everyone said or mentioned at the meeting, and whether they agreed or disagreed with the meeting's conclusions, must be clearly recorded. If something goes wrong with a meeting's resolution, the people who participated in the meeting and made the decision must be held responsible.
Some people say that history is written by the victors, while others say that history is a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone. This is not correct. History is history, and it doesn't change who writes it or how it's dressed. False history is ultimately false. Even if no one ever discovers the truth, what is false will never become true. If a political figure does not even dare to keep the historical truth and only thinks of using lies to deceive, he is unqualified and irresponsible.
Wang Xiaolie believes that he can win in this era and also believes that he can withstand the test of history. This is how military command was changed from the previous secret room politics to a combat meeting. The same goes for faithfully recording every meeting and leaving each person’s true face behind. This is a kind of political self-confidence, the self-confidence that a politician should have.
