Qingfeng walked on the road to the Qianqing Palace in despair, and his head was full of the three major events of the West King's settlement after the autumn. The first two major events, cutting braids and changing the surname of the Han people, these two are not enough, the braided hair of the Manchu people has slowly evolved from the money rat tail shape at the time of entering the customs to the half-moon bay style, and it is not immutable, and it is not too difficult to cut the braid and change the clothes, and the Manchu people have always advocated Han culture, and the Kangxi Emperor hid in the palace in the early days and wore Hanfu, which is not too embarrassing.

Changing the Han surname is not a problem, the Manchus have entered the customs for more than two hundred years, and the Han people have been integrated with each other, in the Yongzheng period, there has been a popular trend of the Manchu people changing the Han surname, one is the Han surname is simple, the second is the Han surname has a strong cultural and historical heritage, and the third is now that the Han people have regained control of the world, changing the Han surname can better integrate with the Han people, if it is not changed, Qingfeng believes that it will be discriminated against by the Han people.

As the saying goes, taking away people's money and cutting off people's financial routes is like killing their parents, and asking people to hand over the floating wealth, real estate and land they have occupied, isn't this just cutting off their financial routes? Although when negotiating with the King of the West before, the King of the West also revealed that he would confiscate the property of the Manchurians, but later Qingfeng thought that the King of the West might just ask the big guy to donate a sum of money for military expenses, maybe not too much, plus the Taiping army was calm for a few days after entering the city, Qingfeng gradually forgot about this stubble.

But now the edict of the king of the west has come down to make the Manchurians hand over the surplus real estate, land and property, and what is left is only enough for food and clothing. That's no different from copying a house. And the most important thing is that he Qingfeng himself has also been swept away a lot of family wealth, and according to the treatment of the Earl of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, his land and real estate will be greatly reduced. After all, he Qingfeng has been a prince for several generations, and the accumulated family wealth is not a small number, there are a lot of mansions in the capital, and there are even more fields. So, Qingfeng hardened his head and prepared to enter the palace to see King Xi, hoping to persuade King Xi to give up this important decision.

Stepping into the Qianqing Palace, it has become a very noisy office location. Qingfeng is not surprised, it was like this a few days ago, after the king of the west entered the Qianqing Palace. His subordinate staff headquarters, confidential office, secretariat and many other institutions moved in as one, which was convenient for the king of the west to work here, so the original majestic place where the Manchu emperors listened to the government in front of the emperor became a huge and noisy office yamen, which was even more lively than the original military aircraft office.

Qingfeng came to the outside of the hall. conveyed to the guards the intention of asking to see the king of the west. Once again, several silver tickets were stuffed into the western king's personal guards, but the western king's personal guards once again turned away the silver tickets. Qingfeng was also accustomed to this kind of shirk, and until now he wondered why no one dared to ask for silver for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, no matter how big or small.

After a moment of entering the guard, he came out to invite Qingfeng to enter, Qingfeng tidied up his clothes, he had already cut his braids, and the people in the Hanfu family could not make it out for the time being, so they could only find a Han costume hidden at home and put it on, this costume was Liu Mengmei's scholarly costume in the Peony Pavilion. It looks a little nondescript, but Qingfeng can't care about it anymore.

Arrived at the East Warm Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace. The outer hall is the office of the West King, and the West King has set up an office in the East Warm Pavilion alone, and they are not too disturbing to each other. After opening the curtain and entering, Qingfeng knelt down and kowtowed as soon as he fished the corner of his robe, but he heard King Xi say: "Get up, I've sued you many times, you don't have to kowtow." ”

Qingfeng still kowtowed three heads before standing up and bowing his hand and said: "Your Highness, the so-called etiquette should not be wasted, although Your Highness has not yet performed the enthronement ceremony, but in the heart of Weichen, he is already the emperor." ”

Peeking in, I saw that the king of the west was sitting behind a large pineapple wooden square table, which was full of papers, and he was writing something, and he didn't raise his eyes to look at Qingfeng, but said to Qingfeng: "The king of your intention is very clear, do you think that the king's act of letting the Manchurians hand over the family wealth is no different from raiding the family?" ”

Qingfeng was slightly stunned, secretly thinking that this king of the West was really shrewd, but he said in his mouth: "Weichen doesn't dare, it's just Your Highness, now that the capital is decided, there are still Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places outside the border that need to be pacified, and His Royal Highness's enthronement ceremony is approaching, it is really not appropriate to make a big move at this time." ”

After the king of the west finished writing an official document, he stopped his pen and took out a thick file from the side, opened it casually and said: "This is a summary of the land and property information registered in the capital Shuntianfu Yamen, Zhili Governor Yamen, Hubu Yamen, Zongren Mansion, Internal Affairs Office and other places these days, which finally shows that the Manchu nobles in the capital are less than 100,000 but occupy more than ninety percent of the fields in the capital and the nineteen counties in the nearby five prefectures, not counting the fields they occupy in Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi, and the real estate also accounts for nearly seventy percent, Qingfeng, you say, Is this appropriate? ”

Qingfeng began to sweat on his forehead, wiped the sleeves of his long costume and said: "Your Highness, it is a little more, and Weichen believes that it is not impossible to let the big guy donate some of it, but there are too few left for the big guys in the edict......"

King Xi waved his hand to interrupt him and said: "This king took a closer look yesterday, the house is indeed smaller, five feet square is not enough for people to live, this morning this king has ordered to change to fifteen feet square, this is enough, you must know that many Han people now do not even have a place to live." ”

Qingfeng wiped his sweat and said, "Your Highness, this, this is still too much." King Xi smiled coldly and said: "This king has already said that for the Manchurians, this king can give national treatment, what is a national?" That is, under the rule of my heavenly kingdom, no matter what race, what creed, or what place the people, as long as you are a citizen of my heavenly kingdom, you are equal in the law, enjoy the rights owned by the people, and can be fully protected by the state for personal private property, but the premise is that these private properties are from a legitimate and reasonable source. The property that you Manchus are stealing now is not legal, it is by stealing and grabbing it after occupying our Han people's country back then, and this king is just taking back what belongs to him on behalf of the Han people in the world, what's wrong? ”

Qingfeng's knees were weak and he knelt down again, he couldn't say anything, so he couldn't help kowtowing and said: "Your Highness is gracious, Your Highness is gracious, such a move is just afraid that everyone in the world will be disappointed in the new dynasty." ”

For the first time, King Xi was angry at Qingfeng, and he slammed the table and shouted, "There are nearly four and a half million people in the world. In addition to you, the Manchu nobles, there are still more than 4 million Manchu bannermen who only live on the original meager rice, and there are Manchu bannermen in Guangzhou and Nanjing. They have already begun to support themselves under the rule of this king, and now there are more than 3 million Manchu people in Jiangbei to resettle, and this king will cut off their Lu rice at the beginning, they are not like you who have land and floating wealth, how can they make a living? Aren't you going to take money out of your confiscated property to settle down? Hmph, will everyone in the world be disappointed? This king does not see the wealth and wealth that you have concentrated in your hands. According to 30 acres of land per person, 5 taels of silver per person, and 15 feet of house per person. I see that the poor people in the world are full of people, and they thank me for the kingdom of heaven! And this time this kind of equal distribution is already considered preferential treatment for most of your Manchurians, you must know that many Han people do not have such preferential treatment! What else do you want to fight for them?! ”

Qingfeng raised his head in astonishment, sweat, snot and tears were all on his face, but he was secretly thinking in his heart. King Xi's hand is really powerful. The wealth occupied by the entire Manchu nobles is very rich, even if it is taken out and distributed equally among other Manchus, it is still very rich, and the money is really in the hands of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, and it is not the government that has the final say whether it is distributed to other Manchus or not?

The king of the west ignored him, and continued: "At the beginning of the new dynasty, the privileges of the Manchus must be recovered, and the property must be recovered, and these are the prices in exchange for your Manchu people's right to live. If you don't want this king doesn't mind taking it back! As for the division of those fields, the king will arrange for people to guide the cultivation of the Manchurians. And will follow the example of Jiangnan to open a lot of professional training courses, teach them a craft so that the Manchurian people can support themselves, if these favorable conditions are not wanted, this king will take them back. ”

Qingfeng sweat trickled down his forehead, he knew that the ordinary Manchurian banner households in the world still accounted for the majority, these banner households actually did not have much wealth, according to the distribution method of the Western King's decree, most of the banner people would not rise up to resist, and even many banner people who only lived on meager rice were afraid that they were still willing to be allocated 30 acres of land per person, if there were five people in a family, it was 150 acres of land, enough for them to cultivate, but most of the banner households had no farming experience, and they did not produce for a long time. The ancestral system also did not allow them to study, but now what kind of training class will the king of the West hold, then it will be very different, unless it is an extremely lazy person, but anyone who has the strength will learn a craft in order to survive.

Under the disintegration of such a policy, the Manchu nobles were completely isolated, and Qingfeng suddenly understood that the edict of the King of the West was not aimed at the entire Manchu people, but against the old people, these people occupied a large amount of wealth and land, and he wanted to redistribute the wealth of the world.

Can the Manchu nobles resist? Qingfeng smiled bitterly in his heart, the Eight Banners and guards had been disbanded and returned home, the Green Battalion soldiers had been absorbed, the soldiers and horses of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had ceased to exist, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Taiping Army had taken control of the entire inner city, and they could not even go to the streets, and the Manchu nobles had no chance to connect at all, and what was waiting for them was to either bow their heads and hand over their property, or wait to be exterminated by the Taiping Army from house to house.

King Xi finally sighed lightly and stepped forward to help Qingfeng up, and said warmly: "Your clothes are too undecent, later this king will send you a few sets of our Taiping Army's new-style official uniforms, you did a good job in the errand of the Internal Affairs Office before, it turned out that you were the title of a third-class earl, and now this king promotes you to a first-class earl, and rewards 10,000 taels of silver, remember the words of this king, your excess money handed over, as long as you continue to make great contributions in the future, this king will return it to you." You can go and say these words to those Manchurian nobles, persuade them more, this king doesn't want to use more swords, but if it's urgent, this king doesn't mind killing! ”

A moment later, Qingfeng left in a dejected state with a few sets of new official uniforms, he had nothing to do, the privileges and money of the Manchu nobles were already doomed to lose when they decided to surrender, but at least their lives were preserved, didn't they? As long as you can live, you can still have everything, right? Thinking of this, Qingfeng let out a sigh of relief, his heart relaxed a little, and his mind began to think about how to make other Manchu nobles give more money, so that he could make great contributions, he knew very well in his heart that the money on the paper of the King of the West was far from all, and many Manchu nobles had more hidden property, if he could dig out more, then he might be able to exchange for a bigger title...... (To be continued......)