The garrison banner people in all parts of the Great Qing Dynasty live in the city of the city, in the east and west range of the Guangzhou city flag people live from the west city gate to the four arches, the north and south from the Dade Street to the Demen city wall, the north to the center of the Guangta Street, this area to build the city wall, is also called the flag city, and the eight banner officers and soldiers are not allowed to leave more than the flag city ten miles without permission.

The Manchurian Metropolitan Yamen is in the big market street within the Banner City, composed of five courtyards, dozens of houses with blue walls and blue tiles, green wood covers them, deep and secluded and majestic, the front of the Yamen several courtyards are the lobby, the hall division, the left division, the right division and other palace rooms, and the last two entrances are the deputy metropolitan mansions.

In the hall of the grand and solemn Yamen of the Metropolitan Commander, Ye Zhao sat in the hall in military uniform, and there were always dozens of neatly draped military attachés below, four assistant leaders, eight assistant leaders, sixteen defense officers, and sixteen Xiao Cavalry School members, each wearing armor, although some generals were obviously full of smoke, but all the generals stood together, but they were also majestic.

There are three or four people dressed as civil officials, and there are pen posts of the hall secretary, the head of the left and right divisions, and so on.

The secretary is in charge of the official seal of the deputy capital, and when the document is reported in the name of the deputy capital or the letterhead is reported by the left and right divisions to the external contact, it is submitted to the deputy capital for review and approval and then returned to each department for writing, and then the key is taken from the deputy capital in the pen paste type, and the seal box is opened and the seal is sealed, and the key is returned to the deputy capital.

It is the pen post style of the Tang Division, which is actually equivalent to Ye Zhao, the secretary of the deputy capital, Ye Zhao can't help but look at him a few more times, the pen post style Abu, in his forties, with goatee triangular eyes, you can see that he is shrewd and cunning.

In addition, the left and right divisions handle the regular affairs of the flag people, and the left division is in charge of money and grain input, education, the number of households, and the salary of the flag people's schools. The right division is in charge of fields, water sources, criminal proceedings, appointment and dismissal, and is under the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners officials, conscription, military horses, salaries, and so on.

The entire Qicheng has its own set of order, which is not under the jurisdiction of the local officials in Guangzhou, and even if the banner people are convicted, they need to be handed over to the general yamen or the left and right yamen to deal with.

As soon as Ye Zhao arrived in Guangzhou last night, he paid a visit to his immediate boss, Guangzhou General Mu Teen. For this prince Brother Mutern is naturally not good at putting on a shelf, he greeted him and cared for Ye Zhaozhou Ma Laoton, but he was like a kind elder, polite and affectionate.

And now Ye Zhao is sitting in the lobby of the Yamen of the Metropolitan Command, looking at the officials standing on both sides, seeing that they are bowing their heads and respectfully under their eyes, they have the feeling of being an official for the first time, but no, when they go to Shanghai to run errands, in fact, they can't manage a few people under their hands, and now, they are really in power, and they have become one of the heavyweights in Guangzhou City who hold military power.

"As soon as you do, you can handle the affairs as usual." Ye Zhao's gaze turned to Abu's face again, and said, "Sir is a well-educated person, and you have to worry about everything. ”

"Don't dare to be lowly, don't dare to be lowly!" Abu was startled, and hurriedly made a thousand rows, with a panicked face, but he couldn't imagine that this prince and brother didn't have a trace of domineering, but Huang Belt, the more peaceful it is, the deeper the city is, and it is not easy to deal with it.

Ye Zhao smiled slightly and said, "I'll tell you the truth, I'm lazy, and I don't care if I can." In the future, all of you who can be the master of things, do not come to trouble me. ”

When all the officials heard this, they couldn't help but smile on their faces, thinking that there was really a second ancestor, and it was naturally as safe and stable as before, and they should make money and eat cigarettes.

Who knew that Ye Zhao's next sentence made their smiles freeze, "It's true that you are in charge of things, but whoever you want to do foolishly, don't blame me for being unreasonable!" According to the rules of our Great Qing Kingdom and the rules of the flag people, I don't talk about it at all! ”

"Wow!" The officials agreed neatly, but they were also "as imposing as a rainbow".

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The Governor of Liangguang Yamen, the Western consul who often waited for several years to meet Ye Zhao in the flower hall, and Ye Zhao was also able to observe this feudal official who had written a strong stroke in modern history.

The flower hall is elegant, and a few pots of elegant orchids on the sandalwood trellis show the owner's feelings.

Ye Zhao didn't expect that Ye Mingchen was very talkative, and he was very knowledgeable, so it can be seen that he was just shutting up with foreigners.

And the Governor-General's graceful face and bearing are hard to believe that he is the most confused diplomat in recent history.

Ye Zhao also sighed softly in his heart, is what happened to him a tragedy of history, or is it a personal tragedy?

"Lord Taiwan, what do you think about the intention of the Western countries to exchange the treaty?" Since one is the Minister of International Trade and the other is the Minister of Cooperation, the topic will naturally talk about foreigners.

Ye Zhijun gently tasted the fragrant tea and said lightly: "Those who are bad for the country must go to their courtesies first." If we and other officials let them come and go, damaging the national body and blowing public opinion, for a long time, it will inevitably endanger the foundation of our Qing Dynasty. ”

Ye Zhao smiled bitterly in his heart, if you don't associate with others, people will force you to associate with him with the army in a blink of an eye, as for endangering the Qing Dynasty, you are right.

However, Ye Zhao would not say this, and said with a smile: "What the Taiwan says is very true, but I see that the Yangyi have a gap with each other, if they can be properly used and open a little market, they may be able to calm the resentment of the Yangyi, so why bother to let the Yiren go north and disturb the Jingshi?" ”

Ye Zhijun didn't think so, glanced at Ye Zhao, and said: "But one can be two, Yangyi is insatiable and famous." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, and said: "Lord Tai has been in charge of affairs for a long time, and his knowledge is much better than that of his subordinates. "I know that I can't talk about anything with Ye Mingchen, if I want to use the advantages of Guangzhou's geography and business atmosphere to open the source of seeing the world and the source of the great development of private industry and commerce, I have to secretly Chen Cang.

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The first courtyard of the mansion after the two entrances of the Dutong Yamen arranges for the relatives of the fourth class servants and their families to live, and the second courtyard is the residence of the Dutong and the Dutong wife and the four major maidservants.

At the time of the palm lamp, the red lanterns are hung in the courtyard, the bamboo and trees are verdant, and the flower beds are fragrant, although they are not as good as the young phoenix garden of King Zheng's mansion, they are also quiet and chic.

In the lobby of the main house, there were a few Cantonese dishes on the round table, but Ye Zhao took matters into his own hands and grilled two pieces of pork chops, which were yellow and fragrant, and one was placed on the plate in front of Rong'er.

The four maids of auspicious Ruyi Fortune and Treasure poured wine and cloth dishes for the master and mother, and served beside them, but they were surprised in their hearts, they had never seen a man cook, let alone their master's noble identity.

"Don't worry, you won't get tired of eating." Ye Zhao saw that Rong'er was still hesitant, so he couldn't help but smile, and said, "If you think it's delicious, I'll bake it for you when I'm free in the future." ”

Rong'er said: "If Xianggong likes to eat, you can teach Rong'er, and Rong'er will bake it for Xianggong to eat." "It's childish, it's not good.

Ye Zhao smiled: "No, no, no, you don't understand the fun in this, eat it quickly, it won't taste like this when it's cold!" As he spoke, he brought Rong'er's eating plate over and helped her cut the pork chops one by one.

Rong'er looked at Xianggong's reckless behavior helplessly, but in fact, she was happy in her heart, but she couldn't help but be deflated when she remembered that Xianggong's current "favor" might be to treat her as a child like a sister or even a daughter.

Ye Zhao drank and tasted the dishes slowly, seeing that he was full, and seeing that Rong'er had not moved the dishes and chopsticks for a long time, he clapped his hands to be auspicious and withdrew the table and waited for washing.

Zhaocai came in from outside the hall, lightly blessed, and said, "Master, Abu has been waiting outside for half an hour." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, and pondered while taking the white towel sent by Ruyi to wipe his face, it seems that this seven-pin pen post style did not regard himself as the second ancestor, otherwise he would not dare to come to talk about business at such a late hour, and he asked him to sort out a piece of flag affairs documents for himself to see, and the efficiency was fast, and he thought that he had been busy with the things he had explained since he left the hall in the morning.

"Ask him to speak in the hall." Ye Zhao rewarded him with a favor, and he was able to meet him in the side hall of the mansion, so he took him as a cronie.

Ye Zhao washed his face and rinsed his mouth, got up and came to the flower hall of the West Courtyard slowly, and Abu had been standing with his hands down, and when he saw him come in, he hurriedly took two steps to hit a thousand: "Slave Abu please master An!" ”

Ye Zhao was stunned, this slave master is not screaming, and he is not the coat of the house, even if he wants to slap himself, it is inevitable.

Abu said respectfully: "The slave is a blue flag person, and it is a great blessing for the slave to be able to serve the master this time." ”

Ye Zhao suddenly, it turns out that this is the case, the prince is the owner of the blue flag, and he is the future flag owner, although it is a false name, but this master can also shout.

After sitting at the head, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Get up, you've been waiting for a long time, and you've worked hard." "Since you call yourself a slave, then I naturally won't call you sir, it's too polite, too raw, and it's not beautiful.

Abu got up, presented a thick stack of documents with both hands, and replied: "This is the document that the master asked the slave to sort out, please take a look at it." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, took it and looked at it, first of all, the number of soldiers, including one hundred and twenty leaders, one hundred and fifty forwards, seven hundred and thirty vests, eight craftsmen (one per banner), one coppersmith, four blacksmiths, two hundred deputy armors, one hundred and twenty rice hands, four hundred raising soldiers, twenty surplus soldiers, and a total of 1,753 soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

In terms of ordnance, there were 421 horses, 5,122 arrows, 2,231 knives, 165 rattan cards, 374 bird machine guns, horse bird guns, and bird guns, and 43 sub-mother cannons, Weiyuan cannons, iron cannons, mountain-splitting cannons, carrying cannons, and camp cannons.

Looking at the shotgun artillery is very scary, in fact, the power of the shotgun is not as strong as the ** of later generations, the charge is cumbersome, and it is two or three hundred years behind the West, as for those earthen cannons, it may still be useful to deal with the mob, but if you fight with Western countries, I am afraid it is not worth mentioning at all.

Among them, there were 612 sailors in the banner battalion, equipped with two stern boats, four oars, seven dinghys, and so on.

Ye Zhao shook his head secretly, this is also called a water master, isn't it a fantasy? According to the book, "forty or fifty soldiers", and then tied to some guns and earth cannons, it is called a sailor? I'm afraid that I can't do enough to patrol merchant ships in the Pearl River.

I also looked at the salary set, the horse armor soldiers, that is, the official lowest-level Eight Banners officers and soldiers, can actually receive a salary of 43 taels and 1 cents and 3 cents of silver every year, 23 stones, 5 buckets and 9 liters of rice, a large bag of salt, and red silver, white silver, etc., according to the current prices in Guangzhou, it is also worry-free to support a family.

The following document records in detail the number of Manchurian bannermen in the Banner City, and there are more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, plus the families of the soldiers and the bannermen who have been stationed for generations.

Within the Banner City, there are official schools, righteous schools, academies, granaries, silver warehouses, armories, gunpowder bureaus, prisons, and other people's living facilities such as houses, restaurants, and markets, forming a small society within a city.

"Go back, it's still the same sentence, I like to be idle, things in the yamen, you can be the master, what about me, I don't want to go to the yamen every day to deal with some trivial matters." Ye Zhao put down the document book and said to Abu with a smile.

Abu hurriedly called a thousand: "Oh, the slave will take care of it, and the slave is willing to share the worries of the master." ”

"Well, you can go." Ye Zhao watched Abu drop his hand and exit the side hall, picked up the book and flipped through it for a while, he couldn't help but get tired, and smiled bitterly in his heart, he was really getting lazy and lazy.

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took a bath and yawned into the bedroom, but saw that under the red candle, Rong'er was playing with the kaleidoscope, maybe she didn't expect Ye Zhao to return to the room so early, Rong'er screamed, and the kaleidoscope fell to the ground.

The little guy was influenced by Ye Zhao, the couple both wore pajamas, according to Ye Zhao's sketch, the master of the capital Ruifulong carefully sewed, the best silk cloth, it was extremely comfortable to wear, the little guy liked it after wearing it once, and felt that it was really comfortable to go to bed in pajamas.

And now she is wearing cute little pajamas and pajamas in tender green silk, but she is squatting on the chair, her snow-white little feet are stepping on the chair, and she is naughty, her eyebrows are picturesque, and she is as cute as the little beauty is.

Ye Zhao was also stunned, you must know that although Ye Zhao treats the little guy as a child, Rong'er is not so childish, she is usually generous and has a clear eye in her words and deeds, but she has never seen her play proudly with her feet crossed like a child.

Seeing Rong'er's panicked appearance, Ye Zhao was so funny in his belly, but he knew that the little guy wanted face, and the most taboo thing was that his father-in-law treated her as a child.

Ye Zhao knows that if he doesn't "follow the good temptation" by himself, where will Rong'er become playful?

Ye Zhaoke was worried that she would learn from the pain after revealing her little fox's tail today, so she pretended to be confused, rubbed her eyes and scolded: "This ghost weather, what kind of wind is it good to hold?" The realm of the Southern Barbarians, the master just can't get used to it! ”

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Rong'er patting her chest as if she was relieved, her small body jumped off the chair, her snow-white feet pulled on her embroidered slippers, and she walked over with lotus steps, and said with concern: "Xianggong, Rong'er will help you blow it." "The concern is real.

Ye Zhao saw this coke, and wanted to hold her for a moment and take a few bites, but unconsciously, he had already regarded her as a relative.

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