Late at night, there was a quiet situation in the Military Aircraft Department, this newly established institution, was set up in the Longzong Gate by Yongzheng on the grounds that the cabinet was afraid of leaking secrets outside the Taihe Gate, and it was quite close to the Yangxin Palace where Yongzheng lived every day, so that Yongzheng could give orders.

Due to the new establishment of the Military Aircraft Department, its office space is quite shabby and simple, and there is not even a government office, only a few simple board houses, which are called duty houses. According to the duties, there are Manwu and Hanwu, Manchu documents are handled by Manchu military machine Zhang Jing, and Chinese language is handled by Han military machine Zhang Jing, but usually there are no people in the house, and the Han house is busy.

Two military aircraft Zhang Jingduan, dressed in seven-grade official uniforms, sat in the duty room, their faces were blue from the cold, and the heavy curtain could not block the cold wind outside, but if they wanted to make a brazier in this simple duty room, they would not be allowed, so they could only rely on their righteousness to keep out the cold.

The military aircraft department will arrange people to be on duty every day, because the weather is extremely cold, so these days in the military aircraft department, only two military aircraft Han Zhangjing are arranged, and the two people on duty today are Peng Yuanji and Zhou Jingzhu, both of whom are in their early thirties, and they are in the prime of life.

"Boom! - Knock! Boom! ”

The sound of a slow and fast bang sounded, and then the eunuch who was on the watch outside said loudly: "When the third watch, the weather is dry and dry, be careful of the fire and candle ......."

Peng Yuanji heard the sound of bangs outside, couldn't help yawning, picked up the teacup and was going to take a sip, but found that the tea was already cold, so he smiled bitterly: "Since I arrived at this military aircraft, this day is not as good as day by day.....

Zhou Jingzhu, who was lying on the shore, was older, and said with a smile: "We, the 'little pang', if we can write 'too peaceful' every day, it will already be a blessing from heaven, as for this bit of suffering, let's stay up." ”

The military aircraft Zhang Jing who are on duty in the Military Aircraft Department are called 'old pangongs' with older qualifications, and those with less qualifications are called 'junior pangongs'. The old class is in charge of drafting the edict, and the small class is responsible for the general archival work, such as Peng Yuanji and Zhou Jingzhu are such small class fathers, daily in the process of duty, if there is nothing to do, they will write 'Taiping is nothing' on the duty log, and if there is something, write 'Taiping has an image'. ’

While the two were chatting, a messenger rushed to the outside of the military engine room, but before he could come in, he said loudly: "Eight hundred miles to ......"

As soon as Peng Yuanji and Zhou Jingzhu heard that an urgent delivery had arrived, they knew that it was not a trivial matter, so they hurriedly went out to take a look, and found that the messenger had fainted on the ground, and there was a secret box with a seal on it.

The two did not dare to act rashly, so they left Peng Yuanji to guard the secret box at the military aircraft, while Zhou Jingzhu went to Prince Yi's mansion to invite Prince Yi, the Minister of Military Discipline, Prince Yi, Yunxiang.

After about half an hour, Prince Yi hurriedly took a sedan chair to the door of the military engine room. He felt a little uneasy, and the wrench in his hand kept turning.

Yun Xiang is the chief minister of military aircraft, so he can open the express delivery, he opened the secret box, took out the fold from it, and looked at it carefully, but the more he looked at it, the more his face became blue, and finally he slapped it on the table with a hard palm.

"I raised Hanchen in the Qing Dynasty, and Hanchen repaid me in the Qing Dynasty in this way?"

It was not Yunxiang who said this, but Yongzheng.

In the Yangxin Palace, from the Minister of Military Aircraft to the Six Ministries and Nine Qings, as well as the Eight Banners, all of them have all gathered here, Emperor Yongzheng's face turned pale, when he learned yesterday that Hangzhou surrendered to the Han Army under the conspiracy of Sun Wencheng and Li Fu, the whole person almost avoided his anger, thanks to the power of the elixir, so that Yongzheng eased up.

It's not that the fall of Hangzhou and Zhejiang is unacceptable, but that the successive betrayals of Hanchen have completely pierced the sensitivity in Yongzheng's heart, and he can no longer trust the Han people, but he has to use the Han people.

Hearing Yongzheng's emotion, the ministers couldn't help but be stunned, the word Hanchen had already nakedly expressed Yongzheng's thoughts.

"The Manchu and Han families, the Manchu and Han families, but the Han people betrayed the Qing Dynasty so much, how could they become a family?"

Yongzheng was a little distressed, "In the past, I thought that people such as Wu Cunli were only a few, but now it seems that the entire Zhejiang, from the governor Li Fu to the generation of Sun Wencheng in Hangzhou, are all shameless Hanchen!" This so-called Manchu and Han family is nothing more than wishful thinking! ”

Seeing that Yongzheng has begun to expand this problem, Zhang Tingyu knows that Yongzheng intends to use the topic to play, and when he wanted to train the Eight Banners New Army before, he wanted to let the Han people pay for food, and Zhang Tingyu pushed him back, but now Yongzheng has found a reason for the trouble.

The faces of the ministers lying on the ground were different, like Xu Yuanmeng and other knowledgeable Manchu ministers of the same generation were extremely anxious, and people like Pingjun Wang Nalsu, who did not have a good face for the Han people, had a look of resentment. As for the Hanchens, they were extremely frightened, kneeling on the ground and not saying a word. As for whether they are really terrified in their hearts, God really knows!

In addition to those hardcore Han Eight Banners, which Hanchen are truly committed to the Qing Dynasty? To put it bluntly, when the ship of the Qing Dynasty is really going to sink, they will not blink their eyes when they jump on the ship of the Fu Han Army!

This point is clear to everyone, but no one dares to bring it up, if they really want to say it, can the Great Qing Kingdom still be maintained? But now it was directly pierced by Yongzheng mercilessly.

Xu Yuanmeng was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this Manchu and Han family is an ancestral system, and it cannot be changed lightly, Wu Cunli, Li Fu and Sun Wencheng are all speculative villains, and they must not be mistaken for the loyalty of the Han people in the world because of them!" ”

It's also funny to say, Xu Yuanmeng is a man talking about how loyal the Han people are, it's the funniest thing in the world, but Xu Yuanmeng has to say it, I can't help but say it.

Yongzheng snorted coldly, and his attitude eased a little, the words he said just now were nothing more than to warn the Han people not to go too far, and now when he saw Xu Yuanmeng come out to intercede, he immediately got off the donkey and began to reveal his true purpose.

"The previous things should be taken as a warning, the Eight Banners New Army is the force that my Qing Dynasty needs to rely on, I think that the Eight Banners New Army not only needs to be trained, but also practiced! As for the shortage of money and food, perhaps the green camp can be abolished, what do you think? ”

When Tu Qian saw the dagger, no one spoke, but Zhang Tingyu and Xu Yuanmeng glanced at each other, and they both saw the worry in each other's eyes.

Not only Zhang Xu and the others were worried, but even Prince Yi Yunxiang felt that something was wrong, and said: "Your Majesty, the servants think that this Eight Banners New Army is naturally going to be trained, but is this green battalion postponed...... If the green camp is hastily abolished, I am afraid that it will lead to turmoil in the world......"

The big guys have read the history books, of course, they understand that although layoffs are a high-risk thing, like when Li Zicheng, a postman of the Ming Dynasty, lost his job, he quickly took up the profession of rebellion, which eventually led to the complete destruction of the Ming Dynasty, and only then did he pick up a big peach for Manchuria.

However, Narsu, the king of Pingjun, jumped out, he was responsible for the formation and training of the Eight Banners New Army, and he was naturally happy to see the Green Battalion being abolished, so he immediately said loudly: "Your Majesty, the servants think that the removal of the Green Battalion is really a good deed." After all, the silver taels that need to be consumed for the training of this new army are really unusual-"

"If the Qing Dynasty wants to train a new army of 100,000 Eight Banners, it will need 100,000 foreign guns alone, each of which is two or thirty-five taels of silver, and one hundred thousand is three and a half million taels, but if you want to create these 100,000 foreign guns, our current gun workshop is not enough, we need to expand and recruit manpower, about six million taels of silver are needed in front, and one million taels of silver are needed every year to maintain ...... As for the artillery, according to this calculation, it also requires eight million taels of silver, and the sum of these two is fourteen million taels of silver in front of it..... This is not counting the military salary, military uniforms and logistics baggage, if they add up, I am afraid it will not be less than 30 million taels! ”

Thirty million taels of silver, by no means a number that can be taken lightly, just like last year's annual income of the Qing Dynasty was only 30 million taels of silver, this is still based on the premise that Jiangnan is in hand, and now there is no Jiangnan silver money, I am afraid that it is possible to cut it in half, in this case, what to bear the current 30 million taels?

Of course, there is a big problem with Narsu's algorithm, just like the current Fu Han army also raised 100,000 troops, but it only used 7.5 million taels, and the later expenses only need about 3 million to 4 million taels per year.

Just like the flintlock musket of the Fu Han Army, it only needed seven taels of silver before it was improved, and although it was upgraded and became a Hanyang musket, the performance and stability have been greatly improved, but the cost of silver money has only increased to about fifteen taels, and after large-scale production, it can be reduced to twelve taels to thirteen taels.

It is self-evident how much water there is in the arquebus of the 35 taels of the Qing Dynasty, but fortunately, this new type of musket is endorsed by Westerners, and Yongzheng has also gone to see it in person, so he is relatively relieved, but if he knows the quality and cost of the musket on the side of the Han army, he is afraid that he will vomit blood.

After talking about money, everyone stopped talking, if the new army was trained at this time, then the old army would definitely have to be cut, otherwise even if the entire Qing Dynasty was scraped to the bottom, it would not be able to afford so much expenses.

Zhang Tingyu knew that Yongzheng had already made up his mind, so he no longer insisted on it at the moment, and sighed: "The grain salary of the green camp was not high originally, but now the green camp of the Qing Dynasty has lost more than 200,000 people before, and now there are only more than 300,000 people left. These 300,000 people together received less than 10 million taels of silver a year. ”

Speaking of which, the treatment of the green battalion is really poor to the extreme, the horsemen are given two taels of silver a month, the soldiers are given one or two or five dollars a month, and the guards are given one or two taels of silver a month, the key is that this is the food and salary standard formulated in the early years of Shunzhi, and it has not changed since then.

Without the rice grain in Jiangnan and Huguang, the price of grain is about to rush to the level of four taels and one stone, not to mention feeding the family, even if it is not enough to support oneself.

However, just like the money in his teeth, Yongzheng didn't want to let it go at this time, he nodded lightly and said: "The green battalion is weak in combat strength, it is really unbearable, and it consumes food and salary in vain. ”

"Of course, throttling is not enough, and the Qing Dynasty still needs to open source in order to raise enough money.....

Yongzheng pondered for a while, but he looked at the ministers again, of course, the most important thing was to look at Zhang Tingyu, after all, who made Zhang Tingyu the head of the household?

In fact, when it comes to how to get money, in fact, there is no way, the lack of money in the Qing Dynasty does not mean that the world is short of money, at least this showdown and donation have not yet begun....... It's nothing more than a question of who will open this mouth, and of course, the person who opens the mouth will also be an excellent choice for the black pot in the future.

The slave thought that he might be able to persuade the merchant to donate....... In addition, three salaries can be levied...... It may be a solution to the crisis. Zhang Tingyu knelt on the ground and said calmly.

These two methods are actually very common tricks, nothing more than to ask for money from two groups of people, the donation is to find big businessmen to donate, and the additional levy of three salaries is naturally to ask farmers for money, especially the additional three salaries, in fact, it is to pick up the policy at the end of the Ming Dynasty again, blow the dust on it and use it again.

What is the Three Salaries? That is, Liao's salary, expulsion and training are all measures taken by the imperial court to quench thirst at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The expropriation was to raise military funds for the suppression of peasant uprisings; The training was used to suppress the peasant uprising and train the soldiers, and it was also called the three major levies among the people.

After the entry of Manchuria, the regent Dolgon was well aware of the disadvantages of the three salaries, and claimed: "In the previous dynasty, the bad government of the previous dynasty was worse than the people who were more than to send a salary, so that the people were poor and stolen, and the salary was increased again, and then the training was increased for each side." However, these three salaries, several times the positive supply, tired of the small people, fat scraping, far away for more than 20 years, near more than 10 years, the world is screaming, day and night. Then the three salaries were abolished.

However, later in the Shunzhi period, the Qing Dynasty did not implement the policy of abolishing the three salaries, and it was still unchanged, especially the nine cents of silver in the Liao salary, which was soon compiled into the "Complete Book of Servitude" and was levied as the positive amount of the field endowment, that is to say, until today, this Liao salary has not stopped.

Of course, Yongzheng knew the disadvantages of the three salaries, and if he levied them again at this time, he was afraid that it would really force the smoke to rise, so he thought about it and felt that it was better to ask for the merchant's money, so even if he rejected the proposal to increase the three salaries, he agreed to find the merchant to donate.

But the problem comes again, although the merchants of the Qing Dynasty are all fat pigs, it doesn't mean that they are stupid.

Zhang Tingyu knows that since the establishment of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Fu Han Army, many businessmen in the north have gone to Jiangnan, not because they have Han people in their hearts, and not because Jiangnan is not harsh on businessmen.

"The minions thought that maybe they could open mines and ban and develop Manchuria....."