Suddenly, Brother Jiu stood up and said: "Erchen thinks that no matter who is proposed to take over the post of Jiangning garrison, it is a small problem, and the most important problem is that the children of the Eight Banners are gradually losing their bloodiness and are content with pleasure. ”

Brother Jiu's words quieted everyone, and Kangxi asked, "Then do you have a solution?" ”

Brother Jiu said: "On the way to the south, Erchen found that the combat effectiveness of the children of the Eight Banners was not as strong as Erchen imagined. Then Erchen thought that in the capital, many children of the Eight Banners had nothing to do all day long, calling friends and drinking friends, fighting cocks and walking dogs, just waiting for the court to support. ”

Brother Jiu glanced around and said, "I'm afraid that there are one or two unscrupulous children in the families of the ministers present, right?" ”

All the people present were old foxes, thick-skinned enough, and they all lowered their eyelids and did not speak.

However, everyone knows about each other.

Although it has only been a few decades since it entered the customs, the strong assimilation ability of the Han civilization has affected many Manchus.

There are several sons in the family, and the eldest son is naturally the focus of the family's training.

Other sons-in-law, those who have the ability can also enjoy a lot of resources, and those who are not able are naturally given up and have to eat and drink well.

As for the concubine, it was completely free-range.

Naturally, every family is indispensable to a few gentlemen......

Brother Jiu said: "Now the total number of flag people is not much, and the court can still raise it, but in the future, people will breed and there will be more and more flag people, will the court still be able to raise it?" ”

Kangxi's face twitched slightly, he knew best how much money was spent on the support of idle bannermen every year.

Banner people in Beijing can receive 2-4 taels of silver per month, and banner people outside the capital can receive 1-2 taels of silver per month. When the customs were cleared, there were only more than 200,000 flag people, and now decades have passed, and they have almost doubled.

That's a huge expense!

However, the imperial court supports the banner people to have more children, and in order to rule the Han people who are a hundred times larger than the banner people, the banner people must expand the population base!

In this way, it is conceivable that in a few decades, the finances of the imperial court will be dragged down by the huge number of bannermen......

Brother Jiu continued: "All the people of the banner are soldiers, and they specialize in arming, in order to ensure the strength of the children of the Eight Banners. However, now that the army doesn't need so many people, and many banner people simply don't produce because they have silver collars, and they have nothing to do all day long, they know that they are causing trouble, which is completely contrary to the original intention of our ancestors. ”

Suo Etu coughed lightly twice and said: "The army does not need so many people, doesn't it prove that under the wise leadership of the emperor, the country is stable, and the people live and work in peace and contentment?" ”

Suo Etu had already guessed what Brother Jiu wanted to say, and immediately touted Kangxi's exploits, and then several people stood up and agreed.

"Yes, yes, now that the country is strong and the people are rich, shouldn't it be appropriate for the Han people to pay more taxes and support us and other children of the Eight Banners?"

Brother Jiu sneered: "We are the winners, and it is indeed natural to let the losers provide for them." However, now that there are 400,000 banner people, the Han people can still afford to support them, and in another 50 or 100 years, the number of banner people will increase several times, and the Han people will be able to support 1 million or 2 million banner people? ”

"When the time comes, is it necessary to multiply the excesses and miscellaneous taxes, squeeze the Han people to death, make them unable to survive, expose the uprising, and drive our banner people back to the outside of the Guan?"