Chapter 411: Banner Man (2)

Yuan Shikai signed the 'Qing Preferential Treatment Regulations' with the Manchu Qing Dynasty at the beginning, a total of three 19 articles, some of which are quite reasonable, Yan Shao does not intend to move, and some are absolutely impossible for Yan Shao to tolerate.

For example, the first honorific issue, for Yan Shao, you can call it whatever you want when you are at home, but outside, it is simply a dream to ask Yan Shao to follow the above requirements.

Needless to say, it must be abolished.

In addition, there is the annual annual use of 4 million taels, according to the exchange rate at this time, 4 million taels is about equivalent to more than 5 million silver dollars, which means that this money is equivalent to a quarter of a dreadnought.

Let Yan Shao take so much money every year to raise someone, if it is a peerless beauty who is at the mercy of Yan Shao, it will be counted, a child of a few years old, Yan Shao has no such interest...

What's more, he understands the finances of the current Guoshe government, and indeed, it is much stronger than when it was in Beiyang. However, considering the massive spending, the financial pressure on the national government is not small. If this were not the case, Li Liang and Liang Shiyi's gang would not have been thinking about the problem of 'defaulting' all day long, 4 million taels, not too much, not too much, but if such an expenditure can be reduced, it can definitely reduce the burden of some national and social governments.

Therefore, this article, like the previous one, must also be repealed.

In addition, there is the Summer Palace, since the Forbidden City is coming back, Yan Shao naturally has no intention of leaving the Summer Palace to Puyi, this place naturally has to come back.

At the same time, there is also the Qing Emperor's temple mausoleum forever, and the government of the Republic of China has set up guards to protect this article. Yan Shao was also not interested. Anyway, if you like to worship, go to worship, that's not Yan Shao's ancestor. As for sending someone to protect something......... Sorry, Yan Shaoke doesn't have that much spare money.

Of course. If Pu Yi is willing to donate it for archaeologists to study, then Yan Shao is willing to send some people over, but I believe that Pu Yi will not be able to stand it...

In addition, there is Article 5, if the Guangxu Mausoleum is properly repaired, the government of the Republic of China will pay practical funds, and Article 6 The deacons in the palace can be retained as usual, but no eunuchs shall be recruited. Needless to say, the former is needed. The latter Yan Shao even took back the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, is there still a need to follow it?

As for the seventh and eighth articles, that is, the private property of the Qing Emperor is under special protection by the government of the Republic of China and the former Praetorian Guard is under the establishment of the Ministry of War of the Republic of China. Yan Shao will not be deliberately embarrassed...

In the final analysis, private property is sacrosanct, which is the bottom line that no one can touch in a modern country, and Yan Shao naturally knows this.

As for the four articles of the second item. That is, the princes and princes are still the same, the royal family has the same rights as the people, the private property of the royal family is protected in one, and the royal family is exempted from military service.

For Yan Shao. There is certainly nothing wrong with the second and third, but the first and fourth...

First of all, just like the first article of the first item, it is absolutely impossible for Yan Shao and the government to admit it, but if you shout in private, Yan Shao doesn't have the spare time to care about β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” mouth on others, unless he tears his mouth, otherwise people secretly scream, what else can you do?

But the words of the fourth...

Royalty exempted from military service? All right. Now that it's a conscription system, it seems that there is no need to worry about this problem in the short term. But this is still not something that Yan Shao can accept.

As for the seven points of the third item...

Of course, there is no problem with equality with the Han people, and there is no problem with protecting private property, and the princes and princes are still the same......... What is the difference between this and the first item of Article 2? Well, this time it seems that the Manchus and Mongolians returned to Tibet, and it is no longer just the Manchu family...

Articles 6 and 7 are also not problematic, that is, the restrictions on business and residence in the past will be removed, and all prefectures and counties will allow them to freely naturalize and freely practice their original religion.

In the past, the bannermen were not allowed to engage in business or farming, but could only serve as soldiers, which also limited the livelihood of the bannermen, and the sixth article was to remove this. And the seventh article, as long as it is not a cult, Yan Shaozhi does not care what religion the other party chooses...

The reason is also very simple, because Yan Shao is an atheist, of course he doesn't care about this.

However, with regard to Article 4 and Article 5, these two items are absolutely unacceptable.

Because according to the provisions of Articles 4 and 5, the Commune Government was required to raise the livelihood of the princes who were in difficulty. At the same time, the livelihood of the Eight Banners was raised first, and before it was decided, its salaries were still supported, that is, not only those princes, but even ordinary bannermen had to be managed by the national government.

When I saw this, Yan Shao wanted to say 'qnmlgb'...

Yan Shao himself has no opinion on the Manchus, and he will not exterminate them, not to mention that the Manchus are also one of the 56 ethnic groups. You must know that China was weak at this time, and Japan and Russia were eyeing the Northeast at the same time, if Yan Shao attacked the Manchus in the Northeast, wouldn't it be that the relatives and enemies were happy, and he took the initiative to push the Northeast into the arms of Japan and Russia...

But it is impossible for Yan Shao to continue to pay these, you must know that there are many banner people in the country at this time, and those princes, counting the more than 5 million silver dollars that need to be paid to Pu Yi every year, the government needs to spend 120 million, 20 or 30 million on the banner people alone...

This is undoubtedly absolutely unacceptable to the Commune Government, which is in some financial difficulties...

But for the flag people, even if nothing else, cancel the support for the livelihood of the flag people, which is also unacceptable to them...

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For ordinary flag people, what honorific titles, princes are all false, and only those who can get their hands are the most real. Therefore, they will not care about the weakening of the Qing Emperor, but if their vital interests are touched, then they will not be able to sit still.

To know that the flag people are not producing has been an old tradition for hundreds of years, and now, even though the situation has changed a lot, this 'fine tradition' is still well preserved among the flag people. Therefore, almost all the banner people in Beijing and other places are living on the little money issued by the Qing Dynasty, which is the so-called iron rice bowl.

The banner people were the foundation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when the Qing Dynasty was still in existence. No matter how difficult the situation is, as long as there is surplus grain in hand, the clearing room will also pay the flag people. When Yuan Shikai came to power after the abdication of the Qing Dynasty, the salaries of the bannermen never stopped because of the preferential treatment regulations of the Qing Dynasty, which naturally allowed the leisurely life of the bannermen to 'run around the streets with birdcages' to continue.

However, now the new President Yan Da wants to cut off the iron rice bowl of millions of banner people? He said so. Wouldn't it be to starve all the more than a million bannermen to death?

Thinking of this, many of the bannermen surrounding Shanqi became angry.

Since the Xinhai Revolution, Shanqi and Tie Liang and others have lived in seclusion in the concession, and one of the first conditions for inviting Tie Liang and Shanqi out of the British Concession in Tianjin is to have status. Of course, now that the Manchus have perished, we can also replace the word status with generation.

There are usually people of status and seniority. It is rare to be the kind who have no family resources, although they are banner people, but they are the same in this regard. Merely. The Banner People are a different kind of group, among the Banner People, if you want to climb relatives, even if it is an ordinary Flag Man who has no food. Maybe you can climb on the head of a prince.

So here they are. In addition to the content of the original preferential treatment regulations, it is for those ordinary flag people. After all, these guys who are related to themselves have already begged to come to the door, and they can't help but come forward.

Of course, if they still have some status among the banner people, then these statuses are nothing in the eyes of people like Yan Shao or Yuan Shikai. That's why they invited Tie Liang and Shanqi out of Tianjin, after all, these two are famous even among the Han people, and Yuan Shikai didn't dare to be rude to these two people when he was there.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that. Now that Tie Liang and Shanqi have been invited out, they are all useless...

"If that's the case. Aren't the juniors below having no way to live? ”

In the midst of the rage, a shriveled little old man with a cheongsam and a goatee muttered there.

What kind of anger does the banner people below look like, everyone present knows the truth, of course, in fact, they themselves are no different from those flag people. But anyway, they still have a rich family business, with these family businesses, it doesn't matter if they don't fight anymore, even if they sit and eat empty, they can eat for a few generations, but what about those people below?

If you don't produce, I'm afraid you're going to starve to deathβ€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” in fact, starving to death is also a good thing, the most worrying thing is that they come to the door when they are hungry and ask for money from themselves, and then you say whether to give or not to give?

"It can't be said that there is no way to live..."

Seeing the goatee-bearded old man say this, Shanqi shook his head and spoke.

"Duan Qirui has shown me that the government is planning to reclaim more farmland in the surrounding areas recently, and now the government has no agricultural tax, as long as the juniors below are more competitive, there is still a way to live, if you are not willing to work in the field, there will be many factories in the near future, and those juniors can also go to the factory to work..."

As mentioned earlier, Yan Shao's purpose is not to exterminate the banner people after all, and in order to maintain the stability of the situation in the northeast and dispel the concerns of the Mongols and other ethnic groups, Yan Shao will not do this.

So although he recovered a lot of things, Yan Shao also arranged a way back for the bannermen.

In addition, now that the government has exempted more than 2,000 harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, as long as these banner people work hard, it is absolutely no problem to support their families.

The question is...

"The question is..."With a wry smile, a Zonggui in his early 40s looked at Shanqi. Lord Wang, don't you know what kind of virtue those people below the Dao are? Nowadays, the flag people in the city of Beijing, although there are not many, but there are two or three hundred thousand, most of these two or three hundred thousand miles are not production, lazy people, when the first emperor (Guangxu) was there, he had left a good field in Hulante, in order to prepare for the relocation of the banner people in the capital, and then transferred to the thirteen households of the flag people in the capital, they had the shape of the capital when they were in the capital, there was a post station on the road for support, there was a well stove in the tundi, there were cattle seeds in the field, and there were more than half a year of preparation, and the cost was more than thousands, but the time was less than a century, These selected banner men have already fled with their families, and there is no trace of them at all, leaving only three families still in place, but they are also crying and begging to return to Beijing..."

Speaking of this, the Zonggui sighed deeply.

After listening to his words, Tie Liang and the other nobles were also embarrassed, because it was the time when the Manchu government was troubled by these banner people, and the banner people who were in Beijing at that time. Except for a few powerful people, the rest are almost all beggars who are about to fall. Many banner people, and even their families, rely on salaries. No way. In order to allow these banner people to support themselves, Guangxu can only find a way to survive for them.

It's just that these banner people are really too angry, and the thirteen carefully selected households, after letting them go to the fields of Shanghao Lu to farm, and preparing some needs for them, actually insisted on running away in less than a century, and the only remaining three households were also crying and shouting to go back to the capital.

Since then. Guangxu naturally has no choice. And after the news of this incident spread, it also became a place where people were ridiculed by others.

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"President, just cancel the preferential treatment of the flag people. Isn't it going to be a little rushed..."Sitting opposite Yan Shao, after nodding his head to thank the maid who handed him a cup of tea, Duan Qirui said with a straight face. "At the moment, the foundation of the Nationalist government in Beijing is not stable, so if it is canceled......... There are 200,000 or 300,000 bannermen in Beijing..."

That's what he's here for. In fact, Duan Qirui himself also supported Yan Shao's behavior. After all, raising a group of rice worms with tens of millions every year, even Duan Qirui can't accept it.

The problem is that now the government of the Nationalist Republic has just gained a foothold and issued such an order...

At least in Duan Qirui's opinion, this seems somewhat unwise...

Some time ago, Shanqi came to him and wanted to ask about the cancellation of the 'Preferential Treatment Regulations', although Duan Qirui told him that this was already a matter of decision, he still ran to Yan Shao.

In fact, Duan Qirui is also very conflicted in his heart now, as an old man in Beiyang. In the face of the defeat of the Beiyang Guoshe government, he should hate Yan Shao in his heart.

But he has also seen the changes in China in the recent period. All this is definitely not something that Beiyang can do when Yuan Shikai is still in power...

As a result, Duan Qirui was a little confused about how he should choose, whether to choose the Guoshe Government or his former Beiyang Government?

However, no matter what, he didn't want this situation to be broken after all, so he came to persuade Yan Shao.

However, unlike Duan Qirui, although he listened to Duan Qirui's words, Yan Shao did not have any nervous expression on his face, but smiled at Duan Qirui.

"I appreciate Mr. Shibaquan's kindness, but this matter ......... It's better to solve it as soon as possible..."

Yan Shao couldn't tell him that there was a high probability that there would be an unprecedented war in a few months, and by that time, in the next few years, I am afraid that there would be no chance to cancel this regulationβ€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” fighting the World Realm War, it would be too unwise to do this kind of thing at that time.

"Moreover, Mr. Zhiquan, what do you think of the banner people in the capital..."When he said this, a smile appeared on the corner of Yan Shao's mouth.

"Evaluation?" Duan Qirui hesitated. "Not very high......... It can only be said that the mud does not come up to the wall..."

"That's right..."Hearing Duan Qirui's answer, Yan Shao said with a smile. Since it's just a rabble, why should we worry............... Two or three hundred thousand flag people? If the flag people are all the same, I can make them obey with only two or three thousand people..."

When Yan Shao was in Anhui, there were also Manchurians there, and there were quite a few of them, and Yan Shao knew more about these Manchus. Unlike their ancestors or the descendants of Yan Shao's era, the bannermen of this era are full of scoundrels...

Of course, it's not that there are no good men, but it's a pity that there are too few...

In the same way, these flag men are also born to shake M, and if you say nice things about him, they will definitely give you a kick in the face. If you want to clean up these guys, there is only one way, and that is to give them a hard beating, as long as they are scared, the rest will be fine...

And...

If they are unwilling to do this, then Yan Shao will only have to enforce the transformation plan...

Of course, in addition to these, Yan Shao will also use some very strong punishments to toss them...

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Seeing that Yan Shao looked confident, Duan Qirui didn't say much, anyway, he had already reminded him that he had already fulfilled his duties.

On the other hand, although the flag men are very despised, there are two or three hundred thousand flag men in Beijing after all, which is not a small number.

Yan Shao's so-called two or three thousand people are enough, what he means is only to defeat, if you want to control the situation and not let the situation become chaotic, you need more troops, at least definitely not less than one division...

Although Yan Shao has only been in Beijing for half a year, he has already injected a lot of his hard work here, and he naturally doesn't want his hard work in Beijing to be burned because of some accidentsβ€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” he is not worried that he will not be able to defeat those flag people, and the big deal will be a river of blood...

The point is that if they come to smash, rob, burn, or something after the defeat, two or three thousand people alone will definitely not work...

Therefore, before deciding to announce the abolition of the 'Qing Preferential Treatment Regulations', Yan Shao first transferred an infantry division from around the city of Beijing. There are more than 18,000 people in the whole division, even if you subtract the artillery regiment, there are still more than 15,000 people, counting Yan Shao's guards regiment outside the city, and several other troops that are not too far away...

Even if something went wrong, Yan Shao was confident that he would be able to solve him.

However, in order to avoid large-scale bloodshed, Yan Shao did not let the troops come over with bayonets, but first found the Ministry of Public Security and asked them to get a batch of batons for the army officers and soldiersβ€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” anyway, it was just a group of war scum, even if it was just a baton, it was enough...

Of course, it is still necessary to plan in detail, after all, this time we have to face more than just the problem of the flag man (to be continued......