Cixi was really scared, scared and wanted to flee back to the Northeast. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Of course, the Manchu ministers were also afraid, and after Cixi's order was issued, the Manchu ministers quickly prepared for the Manchu retreat to the northeast.

Although the Manchu ministers did not want to see the Han ministers, but Cixi, who held the power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, would not completely ignore the Han ministers, these Han ministers were not capable, but they were "loyal" to the Qing Dynasty, and when the British exterminated the "short-haired thieves", the Manchus also needed to "control the Han with Han", so Cixi also issued an order to the Han ministers, so that they would retreat back to the northeast and return to Shengjing together.

Some of the Han ministers headed by Weng Tongyi received Cixi's will and wept bitterly, but the other part of the Han ministers did not think so, and it was easy to retreat back to the northeast, but it would be difficult to come back.

Who knows if the "short-haired thieves" will defeat the British and dominate the world, and after the "short-haired thieves" dominate the world, they also need someone to help them manage this huge country, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they reused those Han ministers who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the "short-haired thieves" are also Han people, and the Han people will not kill the Han people.

There are even a few Han ministers who are already trying to find a way to contact the "short-haired thief", vainly hoping to take refuge in advance instead of surrendering.

Hey, at this time, those Han ministers remembered that they were Han Chinese, why did they go earlier.

Ignoring the thoughts in the hearts of the Han ministers, the Manchu ministers have already begun to act, ordering the Manchus in Yanjing to pack up and prepare to return to the Northeast, but is this matter so simple to complete?

At the end of the 19th century, the number of Manchu people in China was close to one million, and nearly half of them lived in Yanjing, that is, there were more than 400,000 Manchus in Yanjing, and most of them lived in the inner city.

The Manchus are also banner people, belonging to the Eight Banners, but the Eight Banners include the Eight Banners Han Army, the Eight Banners Mongolia, and the Eight Banners Manchuria, and there are also Han and Mongols among the banner people.

The news that the "short-haired thief" is going to enter Zhili has spread all over Yanjing, and no one can believe that the "short-haired thief" who was originally cowering in the four sides will sweep the world, and now it is even more necessary to enter Zhili and hit Yanjing, and the flag people living in Yanjing are frightened, and they are afraid all day long, for fear that the "short-haired thief" will enter Yanjing, and even the thoughts of eating, drinking and having fun will be swept away.

The reaction of the flag people is not strange, the fate of the flag people living in Si Rong City has already reached their ears:

All the most heinous bannermen will be executed, and most of the remaining adult male bannermen will be punished to work as coolies, build roads, mine, and do whatever is hard, tired, and dangerous, and it is indefinite, only a few adult male bannermen with a good reputation have escaped.

Moreover, most of the property of the banner people has been confiscated, leaving only a little, barely making ends meet, and the banner people who are used to spending money lavishly, only what can be done with this little money, and some female banner people who do not know how to live and have no men at home can only rely on selling their bodies to obtain money.

Thinking of this, the flag people living in Yanjing felt a chill in their hearts, and they didn't want to fall into such a fate.

It's just that when the Qing court issued an order for the Yanjing bannermen to pack up and return to the northeast, the first reaction of most of the bannermen was unwillingness.

The descendants of these officers and men of the Eight Banners were born with a "ration" and lived a life of "giving money and grain every month, eating without ploughing, and clothing without weaving"; taking the banner people living in Rongcheng as an example, the 16 prefectures and counties near Rongcheng pay a large amount of grain and daily necessities to the "Mancheng" every year, of which the grain alone is as much as 920,000 stones.

Banner people do not need to operate to sit on the Qing court to receive silver and rice grain, increased the burden of the people, the flag people have spent their best efforts in idle affairs, so, eat Wang Lu, sing fast books, raise indigo chins, cage birds, plant flowers and grass, raise pigeons and fight crickets, listen to books and sing songs, and make teahouses and play gardens...... Wait, wait, around eating, drinking, and having fun, releasing leisure, and being busy with style.

I think that at the beginning, the Eight Banners Army was "the Jurchen is less than 10,000 and 10,000 are invincible", but now the Eight Banners Army can't even catch up with the Green Battalion, at least the Green Battalion has the courage to fight, and the Eight Banners Army doesn't even have the courage.

Literally, the children of the Eight Banners should be a neutral word, nothing more than referring to the descendants of the Eight Banners, but in fact it has become a derogatory term with a specific meaning, referring to the descendants of the Eight Banners who are idle, lazy, and lazy.

How could they, who are accustomed to living a comfortable life in Yanjing, choose to return to the bitter cold land of Northeast China? Even if they die, they are unwilling to return to the Northeast, especially those who have been old and have lived in Yanjing all their lives, how can they be willing to leave Yanjing?

"If they don't want to go, forget it, can the mourning family still force them to go with a knife in the back? Perhaps their death will cheer up the remaining bannermen and make the Eight Banners brave again. ”

Originally, there were very few flag people, and now there are so many flag people who are unwilling to withdraw to the Northeast, once the "short-haired thieves" enter Yanjing, their fate can be imagined.

Most of the flag people who live in the capital are reluctant to go, and most of the flag people who are unwilling to go are middle and lower class flag people, but the few flag people who are willing to go are also a big trouble, because this part of the flag people who want to go also has to bring their own wealth.

You must know that the Manchu Qing ruled the land of China for more than 200 years, and the Manchus scavenged a lot of wealth from the Han people, it can be said that during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, China's wealth was concentrated in the hands of the Manchus, although now due to the emergence of Yan Xueyi, the situation will change to a certain extent, but the wealth in the hands of the Manchus is still an unimaginably huge number, and these riches are mainly concentrated in the hands of the upper banner people.

The outward manifestation of wealth is silver, gold, antiques, real estate, these things, real estate can't be taken away, but those things that can be taken away, how many cars do you need to pull them out?

Faced with this situation, the Manchu minister in charge of the retreat operation was as big as a fight, and quickly sent people to persuade the banner people who wanted to withdraw to the northeast to find a place to bury their property, anyway, we are only temporarily retreating, and we will come back in the future, and the money buried in the ground is still yours.

It sounds good, but for the other bannermen, it is not credible, who knows if they can come back in the future, ignore those words, still pack up their money, painstakingly gather the carriage, ready to take away all the wealth accumulated by their ancestors, only a small number of people believe those persuasions, bury part of their wealth in the ground, and the remaining part is still ready to take away.

The Manchu ministers in charge don't care about that, just take it with you.

However, the next moment the bad news came, which made the entire Yanjing completely chaotic.