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In the middle of Beijing.

The children of the Eight Banners in Sijiu City are still boasting about the invincibility of the Eight Banners New Army, and the military parade at the noon gate that has lifted the hearts of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still burning. They all seem to have forgotten that this New Army of the Eight Banners was trained in the same way as the Fu Han Army. It's just that the Manchu family has a great cause, and the 5,000 flintlock pistols Emperor Qianlong set it with a wave of his hand, which is only a lot more than the 'effort' that the Han army has been doing for several years. Although it also takes time in between, and people need to wait for the gun.

But the Manchu Qing Military Garrison, which was in full operation, really cannot be underestimated.

Of the muskets used in the training of the Eight Banners New Army, only one out of ten is real, and the rest are fake guns made of solid wood. At most, by the end of August, all the remaining flintlock muskets will be distributed to the Eight Banners New Army. That's a real 5,000-man gun!

The children of the Eight Banners in Beijing are chattering, saying that in September, the army will go south, and then first level the White Lotus Sect bandits in Luxi, and then clean up the nest of Chen Yi in Henan, and then clean up Jiujiang, Anqing, Jiangnan, Fujian, Taiwan and so on, tidy up the mountains and rivers, wash the north and south, this world is still the world of the Qing Dynasty!

One by one, they are angry, ambitious, and can swallow the sky with a big mouth, pointing out the country like the 'keyboard z governing the game' of later generations.

The secret camp was able to collect some useful information from the big mouths of those Eight Banner disciples, and the contacts that were connected with the Henan Guild Hall, coupled with the Manchu Dynasty's public newspapers, etc., the news was continuously sent to the south. Of course, the appearance of the Manchu sticky pole also made the hidden camp lurking in Beijing more careful.

Since Fujian and Zhejiang used sea ships to transport grain, the grain prices in the Beijing-Tianjin region have fallen in response to the alarm, and even the grain prices in the entire Zhili Governorate [Hebei, Henan, Shandong] have fallen a lot. With grain and silk products from the south of the Yangtze River, Beijing seems to have returned to the 30th year of Qianlong overnight, and has become as prosperous and rich as in the past.

The dark camp settled in Beijing, but understood that the Manchu court had no money. Emperor Qianlong couldn't hide the fact that Emperor Qianlong borrowed 10 million taels of silver from the rich people in Shanxi, and the ironcore crops of the Eight Banners were also affected, and the distribution of money and grain was not as neat as before. The Manchus ran out of money, which was great news for the entire Fu Han army. Without money, the larger the Manchu control area, the heavier the burden they shouldered, just like in the late Ming Dynasty, the once proud land fair became a poison that would cost them their lives.

At present, there are also a large number of officials in the Manchu and Qing dynasties, and they have written to 'donate', and set up military barracks and salary bureaus in local areas, all for the purpose of money.

The Manchu court relied on the silver of the Jin merchants to hire the northern war situation, but the southern provinces also covered the expenses of hundreds of thousands of troops with their own relatively solid family backgrounds and the money of Guangdong. But this year hasn't come to an end yet, the summer tax has just been collected, and there is no change of hands, and the autumn tax will have to wait for a while, and it will be a harsh winter......

Will the Manchus be able to crush the entire rebel army for the rest of the year? If it doesn't work out this year, where will next year's money and food come from? Does the imperial court continue to borrow money from a gang of merchants? And how much money do those merchants have enough money for the imperial court to borrow?

Silver. If enough silver is raised, this is already the most urgent problem in front of the Manchu court.

In the past half a month since the uprising of the Tiandihui in Fujian, Qianlong ordered Kyakhta to resume trade with the Russians, because Gao Sizhi and Yang Dewang, who had worked in the artillery factory, were called by Qianlong to ask about the affairs of Europe, and mentioned that Russia and the Ottoman Empire, a great power in the near East, were mortal enemies, and the Jesuits in Beijing received a letter from Macao, saying that the Fifth Russo-Turkish War had broken out.

Relations between the Manchus and Russia were by no means harmonious, whether it was the skirmishes in the northeast or the repeated intervention of the Russians in the Xinjiang issue, the Manchu emperors were deeply wary of Russia. As a result, Gao Si and Yang Dewang said that Russia was going to start a fifth national war with its sworn enemy in the south, and judging from the scale of the previous four Russo-Turkish wars, the two countries would not stop fighting for three or five years. This made Qianlong completely relieved of Russia, and the Russians might be able to end their war with the Ottoman Empire three or five years later, but the Qing Dynasty at that time must have put down the civil strife early. The Russians have no chance!

Kyakhta, which was opened, closed and opened, became the window of good and evil pointing light for Qing-Russian relations was reopened by the Manchus. On the other hand, this is also Qianlong's praise for Jin merchants. No matter how much money these Jin merchants had in the silver bank, Kyakhta's trade with the Russians was of great importance to them.

Then there is the imperial history Jiang Yuelun Chen, the "big pick" to the age of too long [four branches of the ground], so that the people selected are not without old age, it is difficult to serve the country for a long time, when the four subjects are changed to two subjects, held every six years to shorten to once every three years, in the country to recruit good materials!

I won't talk about the former item, and it's too obvious what the latter item is for. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was trying to win over the readers, and the small mouth that was opened between them was suddenly expanded. Once every three years, this can be compared with the imperial examination.

The time for the four subjects to land is too long, and the two subjects are eligible to land, look at the Jinshi all over the world, how many people can be named on the gold list with one subject? is a character like Ji Xiaolan [no matter what the character is, just talk about the literary style], the township test twice, and the meeting test twice, there are not too many moves to land in the two subjects all over the world. And the weight and prestige of lifting people in the local area are not much higher than those of Xiucai, they are the backbone of the gentry!

The Manchu Qing Dynasty introduced a 'preferential' policy to win over people, that is, to win over the Han gentry, coupled with the implementation of the regimental training policy, this 'Qing Dynasty' became less and less of the tune of the 'Kangqian prosperous era', which is the atmosphere of the late Qing Dynasty.

A penny is hard to beat a hero. No matter how wise and powerful you are, if you don't have a silver base, it's not a fart. Qianlong was like that.

He has never worried about silver in his life, and when he took over his father's class, Yongzheng left him a full 80 million taels of silver. Moreover, the apportionment into the mu, the officials and gentry paid the grain as an errand, the fire consumption returned to the public, and so on, so Qianlong did not lack money to spend at all, so he was so happy that he hit this and that, just because he had money in his hands. With money, what is the life of the Han soldiers in the green battalion?

The soldiers are not short of food, and they are still paid for the death of the war, this is the best emperor in the world. Therefore, Qianlong has been building and repairing the Old Summer Palace with great spending, squandering lavishly, going down to the south of the Yangtze River, visiting Mulan, and Chengde Summer Resort has been built in history until the end of Qianlong's 57th year.

This is an emperor with great blessings. Like his own mother, he is a blessed person in Chinese history.

lived a long time, was in power for a long time, and ate, drank, and played women, shouting and shouting to earn fame, and lived a chic life, but in his old age, the massive White Lotus Sect uprising was also carried by his son Jiaqing with a black cauldron of 'middle decline'.

Try to look at the entire history of Chinese feudal emperors, you can't find a second such blessed person.

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The Qianlong Emperor in history was very blessed, and the middle of Qianlong was the peak of his play, but everything changed in this time and space. The existence of the Fu Han Army made Qianlong's brain hurt, and now the mixed Yuan Sect in Shandong, the Heaven and Earth Society and foreign bandits in Fujian and Taiwan will need money to clean up the mountains and rivers. Qianlong had the pride to reorganize the rivers and mountains, and when he first trained the New Army of the Eight Banners, he made a charter and issued a strict order to let the selected military attachés of the Eight Banners obey the training of the prisoners and directly train the troops in the same way as the Han Army. But he really has no money now.

Qianlong is now eager to take all the gold and silver artifacts in the palace to dissolve, the northeast wants silver, the northwest wants silver, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui also need silver, and the southern provinces are quite good, the money and grain can be taken care of, the problem is in the north, and the problem is in Beijing. Because there are still millions of banner people in Beijing, where can Qianlong find the hardcore crops of the entire Eight Banners?

And, moreover......

Qianlong thought of the anti-book ban cases reported in various places, as well as the time when Chen Wei secretly killed officials and burned warehouses from time to time, and felt that this brain was really painful. Now the Manchu Qing Dynasty still has a lot of military strength to take, such as the southwest, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi's green battalions are still capable of fighting, Sichuan has transferred more than 10,000 green battalions, and it is estimated that they are also the elite of Sichuan's military towns, but if you squeeze it, you can send another 10,000 or 20,000. The army Qianlong in the southwest has already been mobilized, but Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi are not rich places, Sichuan is okay, the money and grain mobilized by the army are indispensable to Guangdong to solve some silver, and can Guangdong support it?

The most fortunate thing for Qianlong now is that after Chen Ming defeated Lu Yong in Fujian and Zhejiang in Changzhou, he did not turn around and go south to eat Suzhou, and the troops entered Hangzhou, and he could still keep the money bag of Zhejiang. Otherwise, the south will also be sad.

The horse teams in the north can no longer be dispatched, and if they go out again, they will not mention what the Mongols will do, and it will be a huge expense in terms of money and food alone. Moreover, the cavalry soldiers in those places were undisciplined, repeatedly harassing the people, sacking villages and towns, and burning and killing and plundering frequently. That's all to make up for the traitors and lose the hearts of the people of the court; The flag soldiers in Beijing can also be mobilized, but their own family knows their own affairs, and there are many flag soldiers in Beijing, but there are very few elite soldiers such as the Xishan Jianrui Battalion and the Eight Banners New Army.

The firearms battalion, the cavalry battalion, the forward battalion, the guard battalion, the infantry battalion, the Shenji battalion, the tiger gun battalion, the Shanpu battalion, and so on have all dispatched elite elites to rush to the battlefields in Henan and Shandong. And the Jingqi is his lifeblood, such as the Xishan Jianrui Battalion, except for the first time when 500 people were mobilized to Henan, Qianlong never used them again. It's not that the Jianrui battalion is also rotten and can't fight, but Qianlong wants to hold them in the palm of his hand. This elite cannot be easily lost!

Silver is the fuel of this era, and without 'fuel', no matter how powerful the 'aircraft tank' is, it is a pile of scrap iron and rotten copper. Qianlong even had to guard against these 'planes and tanks'. When the situation in Shandong was tense before, Qianlong transferred a lot of men and horses from the patrol battalion to Shandong, and did not use a few banner soldiers in Beijing. Because the cost of dying a flag soldier is much higher than dying a patrol battalion Han soldier.

"Your Majesty, if you want to alleviate the crisis of money, you can only open a donation bureau and raise money. The slaves thought that they could try to donate per mu in Hunan, Sichuan, Shanxi, Zhili, Zhejiang, and Guangdong provinces, and donate according to the amount of fertile land and the amount of industrial land, and the amount of silver per mu was drawn separately, and the donation ranged from 20 to 50 wen per mu. At the same time, the rice shops in Beijing, Tianjin, Zhejiang, and Guangdong implemented the law of donation, stipulating that each meter and stone should be donated 50 wen to help pay the salary. It can solve the urgent needs of the imperial court. ”

"If the effect is different, the restrictions can be relaxed, and the vertical and wide level of the major shops in various industries will be donated according to the percentage, and the approximate value is one in a hundred." Fu Heng faced Qianlong and talked. If Chen Ming heard what he said, he would definitely sigh that 'the heroes see the same thing', isn't this policy the 'gold system' introduced by the Manchu Ping Taiping Army in history. This strategy has been extremely harmful in modern Chinese history, but it is also an important reason for the formation of important local armed forces in the late Qing Dynasty, such as the Hunan army, the Huai army, and the Chu army.

If the local regiment has money and food for military training, can it still use the ** court? Just like in the late period of the original time and space, if it weren't for Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and other old-fashioned and stubborn ideas, if they raised their anti-Qing Dynasty, why would they delay until 1912? Why the hell is such a mess? [Note, this mess does not refer to the humiliation suffered by modern China, but to the preferential treatment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, even the royal family with princes and nobles, and none of them have been liquidated]

Qianlong hesitated, he really didn't have any silver in his hand, but it was difficult to stop the opening of the gold thing, which would make the central financial power fall and the local financial power swell. This would threaten the rule of the Manchus, which was the most immediate and obvious hidden danger.

And in the midst of the war, it is difficult for officials to be honest and honest, once the opening of the gold is opened, will the behavior of local private levy and distribution be unscrupulous? Will it make the imperial court more unpopular, and eventually lead to the gradual loss of the Manchus' ability to control the overall situation as the financial situation deteriorates?

"The local bank has financial power, supplemented by group training, wouldn't it be a Tang Dynasty feudal town?" Qianlong's face was angry.

Fu Heng is not a fool, how could he not know the cause and effect, but the court has no money. The Fu Han army has been killed in Yuncheng, and Qianlong has ordered Yin Jishan, the new governor of Liangjiang and minister of Qincha, to ask him to immediately urge the troops, regardless of how the troops in Suzhou and Songjiang look like dogs, they must enter Nanjing, and Chen Ming must be returned to Jiangnan from Jiangbei.

When the rebellion broke out in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong had to withdraw part of their energy, and Duan Xiulin, the land governor of Fujian, wrote to Beijing, bluntly saying that the sergeants of the army were in confusion, and the people were homesick and had no fighting spirit. But Lu Yong of Fujian under Duan Xiulin was the main force of the Songjiang Qing army, how could the local government allow them to leave like this?

Songjiang changed what it had done before, and there was an endless stream of money and food. Although they had been swept away by the Fu Han army once before, Songjiang was really rich, and Duan Xiulin's troops were full of less than 10,000 people - they were defeated in successive battles and suffered heavy losses, and one Songjiang Mansion could completely wrap it up.

Moreover, the Manchu Qing Dynasty opened the donation, that is, the 'donation' that Kang Mazi did when he fought the three feudatories, which could directly donate to the lack of officials to become officials.

At the beginning of Kang Mazi, in the first three years, more than 500 people were donated in Guangzhi County across the country, that is, as long as they took the money, they would immediately become officials, and they would use it first and donate it immediately. And taking advantage of the donation, donors and tributes all over the country are also endless, and China in the middle of Qianlong was much richer than Kang Mazi. Gu Cong, the imperial historian of the Yongzheng period, once pointed out sharply: "Regardless of talent, ability, and liberal arts, the court is Baiding, up to 1,700 taels, and the twilight is a dignified county order, and then a thousand taels and use it first, and then use it on a thousand taels." The general calculation is only 3,700 taels, that is, a small county and thousands of fireworks, and its decree is extremely glorious. ”

Kang Mazi was able to be a county parent at that time for 1,700 taels, and now the Qianlong Emperor has risen to 5,000 taels, and the location is many on the Yangtze River, Fujian, Shandong and Henan. If the magistrate can take a regiment to the county to take up his post, or follow the official army to attack the rebels [the position is still under the control of the rebel army], then he will be a loyal minister of my Qing Dynasty.

There has never been a shortage of official fans in China, and there are even more wealthy official fans. Therefore, it has only been half a month since the decree was issued, and Qianlong received millions of taels of silver to buy officials, which is an astronomical amount for individuals, but for a country, it is also a plug between the teeth.

Qianlong doesn't want to be cheeky, he opened a donation, and no matter how white it is in the history books, it is a stain, this is all for the sake of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so can he agree to open the gold? (To be continued.) )