Chapter 82 - How the Prime Minister of the Clan
After one bow and three knocks[1], Fulin and Hongyi got up from the ground with the support of Wu Liangfu and Liang Gong respectively.
"Xuan Ye, my prime minister, how are you going to help your Emperor Ama manage the affairs of the Five Banners?" Seeing that Fulin was seated again, the Queen Mother turned her conversation to Hongyi, who sat back honestly.
"This ...... The grandson has not yet heard the hadith. Hongyi hurriedly prevaricated, and instead of using the common words of "Huang Amma's teachings", he used the word "hadith", which means to tell Bumu Butai: Old man, this is "the country is"! also reminds Fulin: Your mother is going to "do politics" again! But there is still room to avoid the empress dowager's disgust. That is the word "hadith", first of all, it is used on the emperor, but the queen mother can also use it, and even the word "I" is not only for the emperor, in the "Qing Shilu", when the queen mother of the previous dynasties did the "hadith", it was recorded in the text, and it was also "how I am".
"Xuan Ye is smart, just tell me your plans in front of the Queen Mother." Fulin was a little helpless, and he couldn't stop it directly, so he had to follow the trend.
"Sons obey orders!" Hongyi saw that the matter had come to this point, so he could only plan it.
"Xuan Ye thinks that although the matter of the five flags is complicated, it has already been politically organized, the flag affairs are under the jurisdiction of each Angbang Zhangjing, the military affairs are coordinated by the military department, and the flag people are managed by the household department and the Ministry of Rites. Hongyi takes retreat as advance.
"Hehe, if that's the case, then you don't have to let you, the 'prince', do it. Wouldn't it be enough to find a nearby branch of the clan. But I thought that your Emperor Ama had this arrangement, which naturally meant something! Bumu Butai saw that if he continued to say this, he would still be kept in the dark, so he preempted the emperor's evaluation.
"What the emperor said is exactly. Xuan Ye doesn't have to scruples, I asked you to be the prime minister, just to let go of your hands and feet and experience experience. Fu Lin also followed suit.
"That'...... Xuan Ye just said? Huang Ma Ma, Huang Ma Ma? Hongyi deliberately played a little bit, so the trick was repeated, and climbed onto the queen mother's knees, completely "forgetting" that he still regarded himself as a minister and paid attention to his appearance and demeanor just now.
"Hehe, if you say it, just say it boldly, you are wrong, and Huang Ma Ma will support you, your Huang Ma will not do anything to you!" The Queen Mother Bumu Butai can't stand it the most at the moment, that is, this villain deliberately sells cuteness, so she immediately closes the distance between herself and her little grandson.
"Hmmm! Xuan Ye thought that if the Five Banners were to be stable, the key was in the clan, and the key was in the coating. "Hongyi prepared and laid out.
"And what do you mean?" The emperor came interested.
"The clan is in the banner, originally to control the eight banners, and this system still needs to be stabilized. However, the worries of the sons and daughters lie in decades or hundreds of years later. Hongyi led to the topic, but found that the two listeners did not know why, so they continued to work in vain.
"When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there were only a few hundred people in the royal family and the clan, and in ten years, although the number of people in my dynasty has increased, it is not more than a thousand. Today, the nobles of the two rooms are particularly noble, but they are also at the mercy of the court. But Emperor Ama worked hard, the Qing Dynasty became more and more prosperous, and the increase in the population of soldiers and civilians year by year was also inevitable. Even so, the number of people in the clan will naturally increase day by day, and what Xuan Ye is worried about is that in a hundred and ten years, the number of people in the clan will not only be thousands, but tens of thousands. ”
"Isn't it a good thing that the royal clan is thriving?" The Queen Mother asked strangely. Fu Lin bowed his head and was silent, and Hongyi was silent.
"Huang Eniang, Xuan Ye means that at that time, I am afraid that even if all the positions in the court are given to the clan relatives, it will still not be enough." Fu Lin finally muttered to himself and whispered.
"Huh? Are you afraid that they won't make trouble? "The Queen Mother showed the rigidity of a strong political woman, and instantly burned her own small universe, and the battle index was about to explode.
"That's not it, now the court situation, the Manchu and Han classes, can also contain each other, and it is not a problem now. In the long run, even after a hundred years, the court will not let the clan relatives be coerced. Hongyi hurriedly answered, and also saw the appreciation in the emperor's eyes. Hehe, the queen mother reuses her relatives, and there are some rejections of Hanchen, and the emperor's father has always been haunted!
However, Xuan Ye is not only worried, there is another one. One hundred and ten years later, there were more and more clan relatives without official positions, and the law of the ancestors made it forbidden for the clan to cultivate and engage in business, and the banner people specialized in bow horses, so they could only use treasury silver to show compassion. At that time, there will be more and more idle clans, and there will be no fewer people who cause trouble......" Hongyi paused for a moment and organized the following vocabulary.
"What do you say? How is this possible? We are very strict in our order, and the responsibility of the banner people to defend the land is extremely heavy, and there is no leisure time on weekdays, and those who have jobs sit on errands all day long, while Sula (Manchuria, translated into Chinese as "idle", "idle", etc., that is, unemployed personnel) practice foot archery and mounted archery all day long, and work hard to study and learn Manchu literature and spoken language. How can they have time to idle and get into trouble? The Queen Mother was full of doubts.
"That's why Xuan Ye clearly declared the laws of the Qing Dynasty? Is it to set an example, so that the idlers of the clan in later generations cannot hold the rod and open fire and act wantonly? Xuan Ye really has a great talent! The emperor suddenly realized, and interjected before Xuan Ye answered the queen mother.
Hongyi secretly admired in his heart: No wonder there is a voice in the historical circles of later generations, saying that Shunzhi is actually a foundational emperor who has made a lot of achievements. Now it seems that as far as this idle clan is concerned, this reformer in the early Qing Dynasty is more far-sighted than the conservative in the early Qing Dynasty!
"Erchen has thanked Huang Ama for his praise!" Hongyi sat on the Empress Dowager's lap to express his heartfelt gratitude, and then turned back and said to his Emperor Ma Ma seriously:
"Huang Mama, there are not too many years of entering the customs in the Qing Dynasty today, and the practice of martial arts outside the customs is still in my heart of the Eight Banners. Now the emperor Ama is working hard to govern the country, exerting the eloquence of governing the country and the country, and it will not take many years for the sea to be together, the world is peaceful, the national strength is flourishing, and the people are rich. But in the next few decades and hundreds of years, the Eight Banners will be peaceful for a long time, and it is inevitable that they will be slack, will the 'Sula' still practice martial arts and Chinese as diligently as they do today? The grandson was worried. ”
"Hehe, Xuan Ye is too worried, the ancestral family law has precedents. This archery and horse riding and shooting, the old Manchurian saying, are the foundation of my country, and it cannot be changed for generations to come. I see, how many generations later, the clan will not dare to forget the ancestral family motto and waste their skills! The Queen Mother was so complacent that Hongyi in her arms remembered a word - stubbornness.
"Xuan Ye is still worried that a hundred and ten years later, when the clan is flourishing and the number of people is large, it also coincides with the peace of the country and the people, so he is afraid that many clans will give birth to many rich and noble diseases." Hongyi had to change his words.
"Well, it's possible. After all, the ancestors didn't say that life was good, so they wouldn't let those little cubs still tighten their clothes and food. The Queen Mother listened more pleasantly.
"Does Xuan Ye have a countermeasure?" Fulin asked very practically.
"Erchen still has a place to think, that is, to find a way out for them." Hongyi sold it first.
"A way out?" The Queen Mother was a little puzzled.
"The way out is to prevent them from being rich and ill."
"What's the method?" Fulin asked.
"Xuan Ye is stupid, he hasn't obtained the law yet, please atone for his sins!" Hongyi avoided answering, you know, when I read Ah Yue's time-traveling masterpiece "New Song", I knew that the most Haode way to settle the idle clan was to colonize overseas and establish an overseas enclave under the clan's own leadership! (The law of the New Song Dynasty is much the same, except that it is not an enclave, but a vassal state.) However, Hongyi believes that the enclave can still be semi-directly administered, the head of the country is the chief executive, and the foreign affairs and military must be in the hands of the central power. 100 years later, at that time, the means of sea transportation and communication should be developed, and this method can be a matter of course.)
"Hehe, don't be in a hurry, anyway, I ordered you to be the prime minister of the Lower Five Banners Sect, so you can slowly think of a decent way!" The Queen Mother hurriedly said with a sigh of relief, Hongyi was also relieved in his heart, and Fulin estimated that he should have breathed a sigh of relief. However, there is no way, there is no way, Xuan Ye can't think of it, and he can't think of it anymore when he is the emperor.
Fortunately, the issue has been raised, and it is a serious and important one. Just because the clan has become an idle rich boy, and he is playing right and wrong on the streets of the Qing Dynasty a hundred and ten years later, it will make the royal prestige lose face, which is not tolerable for the hard-working Shunzhi Emperor.
It seems that letting Xuan Ye be the prime minister of this sect is really a good assignment!
"Xuan Ye, in the affairs of the clan, naturally there is the queen mother in charge, and whoever forgets the clan hadith is a big rebel. You can rest assured. Let's talk about the key point - coating. Fu Lin asked eagerly, so that Hongyi on the other side suddenly realized: The queen mother doesn't want to listen to the topic of the clan!
"Yes! The coating raised by each family and each prefecture must also be valued. Hongyi answered Fulin's question.
"The clothed man is my old Manchurian custom, and he is actually a hereditary domestic slave attached to the princes and nobles. It was a precedent at the time of Taizu Taizong: the power of the chief of the coat was in the state, and only the royal family had the right to give or take back the coat to the officials and soldiers in the Eight Banners, and the officials or soldiers who owned the coat only had the right to reward or punish their own coats, but had no right to kill, nor did they have the right to buy, sell, exchange, or give away privately. ”
But after entering the customs, the newly naturalized clothed servants often only know that there is a family master, but do not know that there is a country master, and blindly loyal to the family master, but ignore the authority of the royal lord. This is the root cause of Zhang Gouzi's brutal troubles in the downtown area! ”
Fu Lin nodded frequently when she heard this, but the Queen Mother frowned. It's a pity that Hongyi blindly sells cuteness, and at the moment the back of his head is at Huang Mama, and he has no way of knowing.
"In the long run, the master of the slave master is not the master of the slave, and the slave of the master is not the slave of the master, won't it be messed up?" Hongyi's theory of the relationship between European feudal lords and feudal serfs was very vigilant here in Fulin, but it touched the nerves of the empress dowager as the chief representative of the Manchurian clan.
"Xuan Ye, you come down first and say, Huang Mama's legs are a little weak." The queen mother is ready to teach the father and son in front of her a lesson.
Hongyi was hugged by Su Mala to the seat next to him, and only then did he see the clue that he had just missed from Aunt Su Ma's eyes, and he hurriedly turned his mind to find a countermeasure.
"Then how will Xuan Ye treat this clothed man?" This time it was the Queen Mother's turn to ask.
"Huang Mama, the coating is the Manchurian ancestral system, and it must not be abandoned." Hongyi first offered a reassuring pill, and then continued:
"But if they ignore the imperial power, they will eventually bring disaster." This is the killer stick in the back.
Therefore, it can be made clear once again that the door of entry and exit of the coated servants is in the royal family, the law of rewards and punishments is in the royal family, and the expenditure of salaries also depends on the royal family. Wouldn't it be better if the princes and ministers needed new coatings, and they would report to the royal family, recruit them uniformly, distribute them uniformly, and pay for most of the coatings with the treasury silver, and the remaining small part would be shared by the lord's family. Hongyi then took out a "carrot", and Hongyi's version of the "carrot and stick" policy was freshly baked.
"That's okay, remember, as long as the clan does not deviate from the royal family, the world of the Qing Dynasty will be peaceful" The queen mother thought for a long time and gave a positive answer, but it was shocking to hear.
"Son, remember!" Fu Lin immediately expressed his position, first, to approve Hongyi's method, and second, to confirm that this matter had been agreed by the Queen Mother.
"Huang Ama, when the ministers talked about the clan, they still want to intercede for one person." Hongyi jumped out of his seat and solemnly began.
"Oh, for whom?" Fulin asked.
"Star Protection."
"What, is it that the slave beat your brother Aixin Jueluo Xingbao?"
In the face of this little Xuanye's repeated surprising cases, the Queen Mother and the Emperor still opened their eyes wide and their mouths wide as always......
[1] The ritual of bowing and prostrating, the highest level is three bows and nine prostrations, or "three kneeling and nine prostrations", which is the most solemn ceremony in ancient times, and is generally only carried out in the worship of heaven or in the big ceremony. Minus one has "two bows and six knocks", "one bow and three knocks", and the simplest is "one bow and one knock". Three worships and nine bows refer to the great gift of the feudal society to meet the emperor and worship the ancestors. In fact, the ancient "three worships and nine knocks" each have their own meaning of cultivating the truth.
"Worship": It is to sacrifice one's own body and sacrifice one's body of more than 100 catties, which is the ancient explanation. In modern times, other explanations can be made, that is, to sacrifice this body to heaven and earth, and to sacrifice one's body. "Knock": It is to bow respectfully. This is because the inside of the head is the most intensive area of the entire sexual system. In ancient times, there were "nine bows". "Zhou Li, Chunguan, Taizhu": "Distinguish nine worships, one is called Ji Shou, two is called Dun Shou, three is empty head, four is vibration, five is auspicious worship, six is fierce worship, seven is Qi worship, eight is praise worship, and nine is Su worship, so as to enjoy the right sacrifice." "After kneeling, the chief is the one who kneels down, puts his hands on the ground, bows his head to the ground, and stays for a period of time, and is the heaviest person in the prayer. The first pause is to lead the head to the ground, and it is the second heaviest person in the prayer. The empty head is the one who arches his hands to the ground and leads his head to the hand without touching the ground, which is the lighter one in the prayer. These three prostrations are orthodox prostrations. Vibration is to strike each other with both hands, vibrating their bodies and worshipping. Jibai is to worship first and then to check, about to touch the forehead to the ground. Fierce worship is to bow first and then worship, and the expression is serious when the head touches the ground. Qibai, first bend one knee and worship, also known as "Yabai". Praise is the re-worship of others in return after the prayer, also known as "reciprocation". Bow down, bow your hand, do not kneel, bow down and bow. The push hand is the hand, and the lead is the su. In fact, it is also a knead. This is a military salute, and the soldiers are wearing armor, so it is inconvenient to bow down, so they use solemn worship. The other prayers are variations of the main prayer.