Although Beijing City is considered to be a peaceful reception, the remaining problems are more and more complicated, but the so-called complexity here mainly refers to the personnel arrangements of the Qing court's left-behind personnel, and among them, the main problem is still those eunuchs and palace maids who stayed.

Since the emperor ran away early, Yi? When he left, he was also in a hurry, and only took the troops with him, so a large number of old bureaucrats, old officials, eunuchs and palace maids were left in Beijing, and the question of the whereabouts and arrangements of these people was the most complicated problem.

The old bureaucrats and the old soldiers are easy to talk to the old officials, and they should be ordered to go down together, all of them should be dismissed, and let them go home and stay by themselves; anyway, Beijing is now under military management, and the elite military is responsible for public order and other issues, and there is no need for those old bureaucrats for the time being.

However, those eunuchs and palace maids are different, these people used to rely on the palace and various palaces to survive, except for the palace and palace, there is nowhere to go at all.

Although when Emperor Xianfeng left before, he took away a group of eunuchs and palace maids, but they only took a very small number of people, and most of the eunuchs and palace maids stayed, and Prince Gong Yi? When he left, he wouldn't bring these burdens, so these people were left to Li Yongji after all.

After counting, there are currently 1,123 eunuchs and 3,520 palace maids remaining in Beijing, including the imperial palace and the palace.

The above is still a registered regular worker, and the other Sula miscellaneous servants attached to the palace, the so-called temporary workers, are 5,315 people!

This is not counting the palace guards who have long since run out, if you count these people, it is estimated that there will be twenty or thirty thousand people in the entire Forbidden City.

These palace maids and eunuchs Sula miscellaneous servants, but they are all to be raised by the imperial court, and different grades and treatments are also different, if you continue to follow the algorithm of the Qing court, these people will be raised every moonlight. It's not a small expense.

Li Yongji is a modern person in his bones, and he used to be an otaku, he is not interested in this kind of life surrounded by a large number of people, and he does not want to support these people, but he also knows that these people cannot be treated the same as those bureaucrats, because if these people are forcibly driven out, it is also a problem.

Therefore, Li Yongji gave an order to stay for his own convenience.

That is, if those eunuchs and palace maids want to leave. You can leave with your belongings at any time, as long as you don't steal or rob the things in the palace.

If you don't want to leave, you can stay, but the treatment will not be given according to the algorithm of the Qing court, and at present, it is only to provide basic living expenses, so that you can be fed and clothed, as for what will happen in the future, we will talk about it later.

Actually, Li Yongji had an idea for a long time. That is, he wants to wait for a while, and then officially treat the Forbidden City as a museum, and then open it to the public, so that all ordinary people can come and browse freely. Of course, if people want to come in and visit, they have to pay for tickets.

In other words, in the future, these remaining eunuchs and palace maids will become employees of the Forbidden City. They are usually responsible for maintaining these places and acting as interpreters for visitors, while their salaries are paid. Part of it comes from ticket revenue, part of it comes from the state's financial allocation, and life can be passable, but it definitely won't be like it used to be.

The reason why he had this idea was because Li Yongji looked down on the Forbidden City. You must know that as early as another time and space, Li Yongji once visited the Forbidden City and the Forbidden City with his classmates when he graduated from high school, and various palaces also visited. When he went to visit, it happened to be summer, and it was a time when there were a lot of people, so as far as his personal feeling was concerned, in addition to the big place, many people, and tired, he didn't think it was good, and he even told his classmates that the previous emperor was really tired, and he couldn't think of anything better than suffering in a place like the Forbidden City, it was completely a big prison.

And in this time and space, after Li Yongji entered Beijing, at the beginning, out of curiosity, under the guidance of several eunuchs, he led the troops to visit the original late Qing version of the Forbidden City that had not undergone modern repairs, but he was still very disappointed.

Not to mention so many palace fights, it is really like a prison in the Forbidden City, too depressing, not like a place where people live, after a long time, this person's psychology may have to be distorted, and the Empress Dowager Cixi in another time and space has to spend a lot of money to build the Summer Palace, I am afraid there is also a reason why she does not like the Forbidden City.

It is precisely because he doesn't like this place, and the maintenance fee here is also very high, but he can't really make this place deserted, so Li Yongji thought about opening the Forbidden City as a museum, and treating it as a historical relic and cultural heritage.

As for the ticket income after the opening, given the current income level of the whole of China, he didn't expect to make much money now, and he would be content to give some subsidies to the palace maids and eunuchs who stayed behind.

After seeing the Forbidden City, Li Yongji also visited places such as Qingyi Garden and the Old Summer Palace, and found that the feeling of these places is much better than that of the Forbidden City, but all in all, these places are big enough and the scenery is good, but in terms of comfort, it still does not satisfy Li Yongji's appetite.

Because in Li Yongji's view, no matter how good the scenery of these places is, at most they come here occasionally, if they live here every day, they can't stand it, of course, it's not impossible, but a series of modernization must be carried out.

In other words, Li Yongji, who is full of modern turtle thinking, actually doesn't like to live in too big a place, nor does he like Chinese classical architecture, he doesn't have that elegant bone.

Relatively speaking, he likes the exquisite modern home life, if not, the European-style exquisite villas are not bad, in short, he doesn't like these classical Chinese buildings, or rather, it's good to visit occasionally, but he doesn't like to live here.

It was with this kind of thought in mind that Li Yongji finally chose again and again, and finally took the Ziguang* Pavilion in Zhong*Nan*hai as his office in Beijing, and the actual place of residence was still his mobile villa, but he moved the mobile villa to the vicinity of Ziguang Pavilion.

As for the Forbidden City, as well as the Qingyi Garden, the Old Summer Palace and other royal gardens, all of them are temporarily banned, and the specific handling method will have to wait for him to discuss with others before making a decision.

In particular, it should be pointed out that according to the rules of this era, whether it is the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai, the Old Summer Palace and other places, although they are all owned by the imperial court, they are actually nominally the private property of the Qing emperor.

Since Li Yongji entered the city of Beijing as a rebel. Then the property of the old royal family will automatically become his personal belongings, and how to dispose of it is a matter of his words.

This is the benefit of the successful rebels, or the founding emperors, who have the final say on everything, such as rules and regulations, and set their own rules, unlike those who inherit the inheritance of their ancestors and are governed by various rules.

In fact, the reason why Li Yongji sealed all parts of the country. There is another very important reason why he only found a place to live in Zhongnanhai, that is, he does not like Beijing City, and he does not want to live here for a long time, or in other words, he only fights Beijing for strategic purposes, and does not want to regard this place as the capital of the new dynasty.

To put it simply, he doesn't like Beijing! Whether it is the modern Beijing of another time and space, or the current Beijing. He didn't like either.

Therefore, Li Yongji is only temporarily living in Beijing and will leave soon, in that case. Why worry about where you live?

Li Yongji only wants to live in the habit, and what he is most accustomed to is naturally the mobile villa, although the villa is not big. But in any case, they are all modern facilities, and it is more comfortable to live.

However, Li Yongji did not know. He did this, that is, he did not live in the palace, but lived in a small place in Zhongnanhai, which won the praise of most of the people, and they all said that Li Yongji was not yet luxurious, hard and simple, and even did not feel moved in the face of the prosperity of the capital.

It's a pity that those people didn't say the right place, Li Yongji is not hard and simple at all, not luxurious, it is really the classical Chinese luxury of this era that he can't look at.

Of course, the people of Beijing began to praise Li Yongji, not only because Li Yongji did not live in the palace, but also because of what the Jingwu army did after entering the city.

As mentioned earlier, after the Jingwu Army entered the city, all the bureaucrats were dismissed, and all the security and garrison issues were temporarily taken care of by the Jingwu Army, which means that Beijing City was under military control during this time.

During the period of military control, although the people were not forbidden to travel during the day, a curfew policy was implemented at night, and during this period, in order to maintain law and order, and for the safety of Li Yongji and the officers and men of the Jingwu Army, in addition to continuing to garrison various city gates and commanding heights, the Jingwu Army would also dispatch patrols in shifts throughout the capital to carry out 24-hour shift patrols.

The patrol density is quite large, and during this period, once the patrol team finds that someone on the street is playing hooliganism, or robbing property and other uncivilized behavior, it can be arrested immediately without warning, and if you resist or run away during this period, you can shoot directly.

At first, the people of Beijing were a little afraid of this kind of overly strict martial law, but they soon realized that this was actually a good thing.

Because these people soon found out that although the patrols of the elite army patrolled a lot and the frequency of patrols was also very high, if you didn't commit any crimes, they would simply ignore you.

In other words, these patrolmen of the elite army are disciplined, iron-faced, and selfless, and do nothing against the people, as long as you don't find fault and don't do those so-called "dangerous public order" things, they don't care about you.

They don't care about the people who do their duty, but on the contrary, they never show mercy on those who commit crimes, and after a few times, when one of them has a patrol team that killed three ruffians on the street, there are no more robbers in Beijing, and even some petty thefts have disappeared since then, and the public order is much better than in the past.

For the common people in the capital, although they also know the rules of a son of heaven and a courtier, in fact, they can't touch those high-level political issues at all, and their understanding of the quality of the government is mostly to see whether the law and order is good or not, and whether there are officials who come to eat and take cards.

In the past, although the security in Beijing was still passable, most of the people in the city had to pay money to local officials and underworld elements, and the amount would depend on your income.

And now after the Jingwu army entered the city, all the old petty officials who had direct contact with the common people were sent home, and the ruffians and gangsters also died down because they were afraid.

On the other hand, after the Jingwu army entered the city, they never heard of sending people to collect any taxes, and it seems that except for sending troops to patrol and holding a curfew at night, everything else remained the same, and even forced braids did not happen.

After going back and forth like this, the people found that after the Jingwu army entered the city, except for better public security, less daily expenses, and the fact that they couldn't go out casually at night, there was no difference in others. Not only is there no forced braiding, nor is there any robbery of property or flag grabbers, but all in all, the quality of life has improved compared to before, so there is nothing to be dissatisfied with this.

As soon as the fear was gone, the minds of the people in the capital immediately began to live, those who had a way wanted to gain a new status in the new dynasty, and those who had no way wanted to continue to live in peace. And they blame this qiē on Li Yongji's personal character, on Li Yongji's desire to buy people's hearts, so no matter what it is for. They all began to desperately find Li Yongji's shining point, and then took advantage of the situation.

But for Li Yongji, in fact, to most of the ordinary people in the capital, he is a relatively strange person, they know limited about Li Yongji, and they don't know what he likes and what he doesn't like, so they heard that Li Yongji sealed all the royal gardens and only lived and worked in a small place in Zhongnanhai. began to desperately tout his hard work and simplicity, the style of the founding emperor or something.

It was in such an environment that Li Yongji obviously did not deliberately guide, but the people in the entire capital began to praise Li Yongji and the Jingwu Army. At this time, no one dared to say bad things about Li Yongji and the Jingwu Army, at least not to say it openly, because once it was heard by others, the Jingwu Army didn't care much about you. A bunch of people who are anxious to show their loyalty to the new dynasty and hope to get ahead in the new dynasty will rush to tell the whistle.

Only five days after the Jingwu army entered Beijing, nearly 1,000 informants appeared. They also have a variety of informants, and even many of the informants are relatives of the accused informants.

Of course, during the period when Li Yongji led the elite army into the city, he was not just busy maintaining law and order, receiving the Forbidden City and various royal gardens, visiting everywhere, or as others said, planning for the enthronement ceremony or something, in fact, Li Yongji had many things to do, the most important thing was to count the money and grain in the treasury.

Beijing City is also the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty, and this time and space has not been sacked by the British and French forces, many buildings have been preserved, and many treasures have also survived, not to mention anything else, at least the 12 zodiac signs of the Old Summer Palace are intact.

In addition, when Emperor Xianfeng ran, because he was eager to go, the number of treasures he took away was very small. Although he collected treasures, he also collected gold and silver, and treasures such as other jade and coral, he did not move or destroy them, but kept them completely, and sent his henchmen and eunuchs to take care of them, just waiting for Li Yongji to come, and he gave them as they were.

Certainly not Yi? How kind, but Yi? First, he didn't have enough time to destroy it, and second, he wanted to deliberately leave these extravagant things to corrupt Li Yongji.

Because in Yi? It seems that in the current situation, what the banner people need is hardship and simplicity, and it is to reinvigorate, and the jewels and jade treasures have no other use except to make people lose their minds, and they are not as useful as gold and silver.

So, Yi? When he left, he only took a large amount of silver and gold, but like those royal treasures with the same large amount, they were all kept, and people were dedicated to Li Yongji, hoping that the other party would fall into corruption and lose his enterprising spirit, so as to add a little more vitality to the Qing Dynasty.

But Yi? But I don't know, this is just cheaper Li Yongji, because although Li Yongji is a vulgar thing, he doesn't like jewelry and jade, in his opinion, it is better to play with these than to play with some electronic products, but these things can be sold at a high price in modern society, so after receiving the royal jewelry of the Manchu Dynasty, Li Yongji really made a fortune!

It is indeed a lot of money, because just all kinds of precious high-level jewelry and jade, there are three major rooms, and I don't know how many other ones are of lower value.

Most of these treasures are the accumulation of the Qing court after entering the customs, not to mention the jewelry and jade, those precious antiques, calligraphy and paintings are also full, and they are all classified and guarded by special personnel.

It can be said that with these jewels, Li Yongji really made a fortune, and in a sense, the value of these things is also greater in Li Yongji's hands, because these things are not very valuable in this time and space, but if they are used in modern society, they are worth a lot.

Therefore, from a certain point of view, even if the British and French forces sacked Beijing, or the later Eight-Nation Alliance, all of them would not have as much wealth as Li Yongji.

Because those wealth in the hands of the great powers are just a bunch of precious playthings, which cannot be quickly transformed into productive forces, but Li Yongji can!

He can get all these jewels to be sold in modern society, and then buy more modern industrial products such as arms, industrial facilities, and agricultural products from modern society, and after these industrial products are transported here, they can be quickly transformed into combat effectiveness and productivity in this time and space, for Li Yongji. The effect is much greater.

Although it is a fortune, the disposal of these precious treasures cannot be thrown away in modern society, but must be carefully classified first.

Those antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., Li Yongji continues to make people look at them and count them as his own collections, as for those jade products, red sandalwood, one-person-tall coral, etc., all of them are reclassified according to the high and low. Then the boutiques are gathered together, the general ones are gathered together, and finally I personally select them, leave the boutiques for collection, and only send the things that look ordinary to Zhang Xinda.

This is not Li Yongji's own greed for money, but these antiques, calligraphy and paintings, as well as fine treasures, are too sensitive, and often have unique attributes, he is afraid that if he is sent to another time and space lightly, he will crash if he doesn't get it right!

On the contrary, it is the ones that are of average value. Even if there is a crash in modern society, it can be sold in the name of imitation, as long as the material is good enough, the price is believed to be not too low.

". Really? In the space-time communication, seeing the room full of jade, Zhang Xinda's face was full of surprise, "Aren't I dazzled?" The whole house is jadeite? Is it all true? ”

"It's all true." Li Yongji smiled and pointed to the rows of jadeite on the shelves. "What you see is just a jade house, all the jade products are stored, and it is not a real boutique."

"And how many jadeites do you have to have?" Zhang Xinda asked.

"The jadeite products in this room. It's all based on value. Li Yongji said, "That is to say, the average value of the jadeite products in this room is about one hundred taels of silver, and such jadeite objects, after counting, there are a total of thirteen thousand pieces!" In other words, the jadeite in this room, if converted into silver, is about 1.3 million taels of silver. Of course, if you go to the modern era, the price will definitely be higher, don't you say? ”

“…… So how many such houses are there? Zhang Xinda asked.

"I have three emerald rooms like this." Li Yongji sighed, "Others like coral houses, white jade houses, ......"

"Stop, stop talking." Zhang Xinda touched his chest, "It's all shocking to hear, Nima, just tell me, if you follow the calculation of silver, how much is your batch of treasures?" ”

"It's not a fine product, if you only count these ordinary tributes, it's about 60 million taels of silver." Li Yongji shrugged his shoulders, "Of course, this is the price recorded in those warehouses, it is calculated according to the price at that time, if it really flows out, the price will definitely not be so high, and it is impossible to sell it for sixty million taels of silver." You also know that the golden jade in the troubled times, now it is the troubled times, the number of these jades is large, and it really flows out, with the luxury market of the Qing Dynasty, it will definitely not be able to bear it, and the price plunge is inevitable. On the other hand, if it is sent to you, the price will be higher, don't you say? ”

"You're not going to give me all this room of jade, are you?"

"Nonsense." Li Yongji said angrily, "If you don't give it to you, why am I telling you so much?" I don't like to play with these things, so I'd better exchange some modern money for you, and then buy modern supplies for me. ”

Hearing Li Yongji say this, Zhang Xinda not only did not have a happy expression, but frowned: "No, no, no, you can't give it to me at once like this, I can't afford it." ”

"It's so fresh, are you still bitter about getting rich? You're not sick, are you? Li Yongji said with a smile, "These things you see are not very sensitive, and the sensitive ones haven't been shown to you yet, what are you afraid of." ”

After speaking, Li Yongji took out a heart-shaped jade with red and green in his arms: "Lu Ke, what is this?" ”

"Huh? It's ......"

"That's right, this is watermelon tourmaline!" Li Yongji nodded, "One of the favorite jade stones of the Empress Dowager Cixi in history, hehe, is in my hand now." Well, you said that if I gave this to you, would you dare to sell it? ”

"Don't dare." Zhang Xinda shook his head.

"So, what are you afraid of?" Li Yongji put away the watermelon tourmaline and pointed to the other jadeites in the room, "These I showed you were all selected in advance, and they are definitely not sensitive things, even if they crash, they are fine." ”

"Big brother, it's not a question of sensitivity or not, it's a question of how I sell these things." Zhang Xinda scratched his head, "The pile of jade, rosewood or something you gave me some time ago, I haven't completely digested it yet, if you give me so many things now...... Please, this jadeite, coral, and mutton fat jade are valuable, but the market's digestion capacity is also limited, so I can't release them all at once and disrupt the entire market, right? I'm going to do that, and then the fool will know that there's something wrong with me. ”

"Do you want it then?" Li Yongji said with a smile.

"Yes, of course." Zhang Xinda said, "But I can only ask for a small part first, and it will be troublesome if I have more, because it is too dazzling to keep these things here for me." ”

"Okay, then you can pick and choose, and I'll send it to you directly if you pick it." Li Yongji's generous way.

"Hehe, then I'm welcome." Zhang Xinda smiled and rubbed his hands.

"A slut is hypocrisy!" Li Yongji pouted, "By the way, speaking of which, you haven't sent me anything in the past few days, and you've held back a lot of tonnage, right?" ”

"Yes, that's right." Zhang Xinda nodded, "But aren't you short of supplies for the time being, after all, you haven't experienced a major war in the past few days...... What, what do you want? ”

"yes." Li Yongji said, "Don't hide it, my father in the world is going to have a big birthday recently, I want to surprise him, and rush back to celebrate his birthday." But you know, I'm in Beijing now, and my cheap dad is still in Qingpu County, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away.

Given the road conditions of this era, I wouldn't normally be able to rush back anytime soon, so I remembered what you told me last time...... Hey, do you remember that? ”

"What's that, what's that?" Zhang Xinda scratched his head again, "I said a lot of things, where do you remember." ”

"Hello, my airship!" Li Yongji gritted his teeth and said, "When I first turned against the Qing court, you said that you could get me an airship to play with and help deliver supplies. At that time, I was talking about delivering supplies to Huai'an City, but now that I have hit Beijing City, you haven't even seen the shadow of the airship for me, you can't forget it, right? ”

"Oh, that's what you said." Zhang Xinda smiled, "What should I do, I haven't forgotten this, about the airship, I have already helped you place a lot of orders, but weren't you engaged in the industrialization of Guangde County during that time, I used my tonnage on industrial facilities." Later, when you led your troops to fight again, I spent all my tonnage on providing you with logistical supplies.

So, it's not that I forgot to give it to you, and what you needed more during that time was munitions, not airships...... Why, why are you thinking about the take-off boat again? Is there any particular reason? (To be continued......)