The autumn wind blew the yellow of the hundred-year-old locust trees in the courtyard of the street in Sijiu City, the small locust leaves were blown by the wind, and the yellow leaves in the sky flew in the air, and the scenery was extremely spectacular. Although the scenery of the pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info is beautiful, the bleak autumn wind rests and the ground is yellow and messy when the fallen leaves are scattered, which only makes the atmosphere in the forty-nine cities extremely bleak.

This extraordinarily bleak autumn scene seems to reflect the reality in the 49 cities - bleak and depressed, although this 49 cities are still the capital of the Qing Dynasty, but everyone knows that the world has changed, and this place is becoming more and more domineering day by day, and the corresponding is the sunset of the rivers in the capital.

However, what is really affected is the hundreds of thousands of people in the capital who have eaten hundreds of years of hardcore crops, and the local dominance makes the tax no longer like in the past to the capital, even if all parties now guarantee that the capital can get tens of millions of taels of relief every year, but that bit of silver is not enough to maintain the needs of the capital, and naturally the silver salary of the Beijing banner people will be deducted, and this depression is not born because of this.

Although the business of all walks of life in the capital is not as good as day by day, and the business in the teahouse that was once very lively is not as good as in the past, but drinking tea is always the habit of those flag people, and the habit of eating hardcore crops for hundreds of years can not be changed back in three days or two days, although the flag salary of three taels is now not issued once in two or three months, even if it is issued, there may be a few adulterated pieces of broken silver in the flag salary that has been deducted three or four percent, but there are still people drilling into this teahouse. Tasting the inferior tea that the two eldest sons could renew for a day, he said in his mouth the glory and pride of "thinking about the past", and expressed his dissatisfaction with this "traitorous minister".

"Have you heard of it? The white skin is playing again! ”

"Who is the white skin?

"I think I've heard of it! Not a good thing anyway. This white skin. It must be a traitor! ”

Isn't it a traitor, in the eyes of those who eat hardcore crops in the capital, there seems to be no loyal ministers in this world, a while ago it was the traitor among the Han people who showed his form, and now there is also a "white-faced traitor" in this banner man. It seems that now, the loyal ministers of the Great Qing Kingdom are all in this teahouse, and as for the traitorous ministers in the court.

"It's the end side. White-faced! ”

Whew, everyone immediately turned their heads and stammered, if they said that they couldn't tell the traitor next to them, but now the "reputation" of this end is "mighty" Sijiu City, who in these Sijiu City doesn't know that he is the number one traitor in the world, it is this guy who moved his thoughts to the big guy's hardcore crops, and the big guy can't even eat porridge.

Eating from the big guy's bowl, this kind of person is not a traitor, who is a traitor, this traitor is still a proud villain. It was all relied on King Gong's trust to serve as the head of the household, and this traitor was not born on the right path of the imperial examination. King Gong is really blind...... Xu, this is like like gathering things, and King Gong is not a good thing!

"What's going on with this white face?"

Shouldn't it be with the big guy again? This is the end of the Luo family, and every time it is a twist and turn, it is a problem with the livelihood of the big guys, and this is not a three-tael salary, just because this end has been reduced two or three times. If it is reduced any further, the big guy will really have no money to eat.

"This kid is going to abolish our bannerman, he got a four-piece today!"

The one who brought the news sat down at the table and asked for a cup of tea before continuing in the crowd.

"The first is to let our banner people be incorporated into the flag register, and all the Han people will be managed by the magistrates."

There seems to be no reaction to this, and there seems to be no difference between the infantry yamen and the magistrates. It's even more convenient, this belongs to the infantry yamen, even if you want to do any business, you can't do it, although you don't usually ask you whether you do business or not, but if you offend someone and are sued in the yamen, then you can't eat and walk around, and you enter the infantry yamen, and you don't have more than ten or twenty taels of silver, so don't think about coming out well.

If it is under the management of the magistrate, doesn't this mean that the banner people can also do some business and make a living. It's rare that when others said this, there was no scolding around. Just when the big guy thought that Fang Fang had "changed his mind" and started thinking about the big guy again, the words came into everyone's ears again.

"The second is that the flag will be abolished in years, and ten years of money and grain will be distributed, so that it will be ...... to make a living for oneself."

With a "boom", there was a mess in this teahouse, and the flag was removed!

This is not a reduction of hardcore crops, the division is to take away the harvest silver! In the words of the people, no one cares about the words such as what to move to the Beijing Banner to reclaim the Mongolian open land, what to report to the officials of the banner to serve the incorruptible, and subsidize the relocation funds. Although the two taels of flag pay are not much, but it is also white silver, if it is cut off like this, they go there to make a living, saying that they are doing business, but who knows how the transaction is done? This side is trying to force everyone to a dead end!

"This, what does this Queen Mother say?"

"That's it, the Queen Mother shouldn't let that kid come here!"

Someone asked, the big guy remembered, that end is also a dog raised by the devil, in the end, the affairs of the court still have to be the queen mother's decision, as for what kind of council, the big guy didn't take that matter seriously, if the queen mother didn't agree to hand the fold to the council, then the meeting would not be discussed.

In fact, then again, if the local government does not hand over the matter to the council, then naturally there is no need to discuss it, so the council seems to have great power and responsibility, but sometimes it is similar to the ears of the deaf.

In this way, whether it is the court or the place, you do your business, I do my errand, do not interfere with each other, the things in this world are much simpler, but many things cannot be bypassed the court and the locality, so the two sides will be involved in the discussion of politics from time to time.

"Not really!"

In anticipation of everyone, the man took a sip of tea and then said slowly.

"The Queen Mother Lafayette is so sagely, she threw away the fold directly, and severely reprimanded him for putting a white face......"

Hearing him say this, the big guy breathed a sigh of relief! Now it's all right. There is the Queen Mother Lafayette to protect the big guy. The hardcore crops are fine.

"Oops. Startle me, it's still the Queen Mother Lafayette who is wise! ”

"I just don't know, after this level, there will be a catastrophe in the future!"

"Anyway, my hardcore crops have been saved again!"

"I think this traitor who supports the Luo clan is not asking the flag soldiers not to pay for money and food, or letting us fend for ourselves? Isn't this forcing our flag people to death, you see how poisonous this heart is! I look at this end of the party, maybe it is Li Hongzhang's minion! ”

Now it seems that those banner people in the capital who still receive money and food. There are two traitors in this world, the first one is Li Hongzhang, as for the second, there is a lot of controversy in the capital, some people say it is Liu Kunyi, some people say it is Zhang Zhidong, of course, some people say that it is King Gong, that is, the "devil six" of the year. Anyway, no matter who it is, no one says that Tang Haoran in the Northeast is a traitor!

Tang Haoran is not a traitor?

Of course, he is not a traitor, but a traitor is still a courtier in the court. Is he Tang Haoran a courtier of the Great Qing Kingdom? So naturally he is not "qualified" to be this traitor.

"Hmph, I have to look at this Touhuo Luo's vote for Li Hongzhang. What price can it be sold for? ”

In the midst of that cold snort, someone complained again.

"Hey, this hardcore crop is saved again, but this part of the money and grain is called to deduct more than half of the money, we can't get better than that now, we can't keep it, the white-faced fold here has been sealed, and some have been deducted over there, when the time comes, how can I live this day, and then deduct it, and then deduct it, I really can't eat it!"

Another tea guest immediately answered on the side.

"That's better than nothing! It's better to die than to live, tell me to make a living by myself, I have to die! ”

No one knows how much bitterness this sentence expresses, but for the flag people who have not read, business, or farm, and even the so-called "Chinese riding and shooting" have long been unknown to where they have been thrown to, let them make a living by themselves, it is indeed necessary to die, this sentence is not only the anger of ordinary flag people, but in fact it is also true. Even if he first said that he was going to stop the flag salary, he said a fair word in Prince Gong's mansion.

“…… To solve the problem of the Eight Banners, the key issue lies in the abolition of the garrison of the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division, which is related to the lives of hundreds of thousands of Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han soldiers, and it is also the foundation of the imperial court. According to the rough estimate of the ministry, if each flag soldier is paid a severance pay for ten years, the annual cost will be 10 million taels, and ten years will be 10,000 taels! ”

In the study of Prince Gong's mansion, Duan Fang Gong, who was known as "Duan Bai Face", stood in front of King Gong, and said with deep meaning, as the new head of the household department, raising funds can be said to have caused him a headache for a long time, this errand used to be fat, but now it is really a worry, after all, this time is different from the past, not to mention that now the local government to the central government is not more than 10 million taels, and it is not yet possible to maintain the expenditure of the yamen in the capital.

It is the implementation of various new policy measures implemented in the capital after the reign of King Gong in front of him, which is inseparable from the support of finance. Especially after the formation and training of the Eight Banners New Army, after Na Ronglu trained into a new army in one town, he asked for the new army in the second town. Don't say that it is the new army of two towns, that is, the salary of the new army in one town has already caused Duanfang a headache, and even the salary of the new army in that town is deducted by the salary of the flag Ding, and now the court still wants to train the second town, so it can only move its brain to the flag salary.

On the one hand, there is no silver in the hands of the imperial court, on the other hand, even if it is still as high as five million taels of military salaries after several deductions, it is still the largest expense of the imperial court now.

"Wuqiao, do you think we can afford this silver?"

Yi Xun asked rhetorically, there was silence for a while, obviously the court couldn't take out this silver, if it was squeezed in the past, it might be able to squeeze it, but now? Even if you squeeze it, you can't squeeze out the silver.

With a long sigh, Yixun continued.

"From the Holy Ancestor's meeting, I wanted to let the children of the Eight Banners support themselves, but after all these years, the Eight Banners still can't talk about self-reliance, they did have the merit of being a dragon back then, but the imperial court has also been blessed for hundreds of years, isn't it?"

If there were other options, Yixun would naturally not put his mind on the flag salary, but the problem now is that half of the money that the imperial court finally asks for from the local government every year is wasted by this group of idle people.

"Yamaga, who came from Japan a while ago, put forward a constructive suggestion, that is, to imitate Japan in providing interest-bearing bonds for flag soldiers. It is to learn from Japan's implementation of the public debt plan, and replace all the soldiers' salaries with public bonds. ”

When he said this, Yi Xun didn't think about how much impact the replacement of all the flag salary into public bonds would have on the banner people, but he couldn't wait any longer, the days of the Great Qing Kingdom were getting worse day by day, and he had to prepare for the Great Qing Kingdom before the situation completely deteriorated, more precisely, to prepare for the worst before the situation became irreparable, just like the old ancestors back then, with the New Army of the Eight Banners in his hands to redefine the world.

"The minion asks the prince to think twice, after all, ......"

Without waiting for Duan Fang to open his mouth to plead, Yixun said stubbornly.

"It's too late to say anything, Wuqiao, have you heard? Li Hongzhang bought 60,000 small-mouth Mauser guns from the foreign bank in Tianjin, and now the Beiyang New Army has two towns, plus Yuan Shikai's Zhejiang New Army, and Li Hongzao's Guangdong New Army, which Li Hongzhang controls the New ......Army of the five towns."

When Li Hongzhang was mentioned, Yixun's expression was extremely complicated, and now the imperial court was hollowed out by local ministers like Li Hongzhang, if he couldn't grow the power of the imperial court before those powerful ministers were ambitious and wanted to fight for the world, who would be the Zhu Quanzhong of the Qing Dynasty in the future is still unknown, but the one Zhu Quanzhong killed must be the emperor of the Aixin Jueluo family.

“…… There are thirteen towns of new troops in Hanchen in this world, but how many do we have? Wuqiao, now that we have stopped the flag salary, we are still thinking about giving them some livelihood, or if it is replaced by Han people, will the Han people still care about the life and death of the flag people? ”

The prince's rhetorical question made Duan Fang silent for a moment, will the Han people care about the life or death of the banner people? Naturally, there is no need to ask, but if the flag salary is stopped now, it may cause a lot of chaos in the capital, and when the time comes......

"Lord Wang, this flag salary is related to the livelihood of millions of banner people, if you stop it rashly......"

Shaking his head, Yixun looked at Duan Fang and said.

"Stop, it's going to stop, but we can't stop all at once, let's buckle some more, Wuqiao, you must raise another silver salary for the new army in a town, and the future of our Great Qing Kingdom will be directed to this new army of the Eight Banners." (To be continued.) )