After asking several times in a row, the people below always didn't speak, and a few people who were sitting silently had closed their eyes and closed their eyes, and Prince Alcohol was also slightly embarrassed when he saw that no one spoke, so he had to say, "Zai Ling, you tell everyone about the things in this booklet." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"Yes," Zai Ling stood up, "The ranks are all handed down from the titles of the ancestors and ancestors, speaking of which, there are no outsiders here, they are all children of the Eight Banners, and I don't hide it when I speak, this Qing Dynasty, I say something taboo, naturally there is our share, but the big guys have seen it, these years, although there is more silver, but the cost is too big, not to mention anything else, now in the south and the French war, this silver is really nothing, so I have to be cheeky, go outside to prepare, and talk about the ranks, Which dynasty and generation, where is the court to ask the merchants to borrow silver? This is really sensational, we are all flag people, the flag people are bigger than the sky, in order to fight, the same face on this day is abandoned, and Baba borrowed silver from the outside. ”

"But we are here, the West Sage is not thin on us," Zai Ling said colorfully, "After opening foreign affairs, this money and rice have not been short, originally they were not enough to pay, and sometimes they have to be in arrears for some time, we are naturally not bad for money, but the flag people at the bottom, this is the end, almost half of the people are eating grain, borrowed in advance, this is not on at the time, the interest is going to roll up more and more, this is the house leak coincided with the overnight rain, more and more embarrassed, think about it, these millions of people." , Eight Banners' money and rice policy, if you don't change it, I'm afraid it's going to be more and more embarrassing, the big guys are all meritorious men of this thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and they are the wisest people, you should know that this big river is not dry, and the small river has water, if the big river is dry, our small rivers will naturally have no water to drink, so ah, the big guys should understand the difficulties of the court, how to say, the big guys have to help out, right? These lords who are retired with the country don't worry about the country, who else can the Western Sage rely on? Big guy, don't you say? ”

He gave eloquence, said very smartly, played the emotional card, and made these thorns comfortable and comfortable, the court was difficult, you people are all on the same vacation with the country, and the civil officials are in office, and they will pat their butts and leave, but we can't, we can't slaughter the country too ruthlessly, if the slaughter is too ruthless, this family will go out of business, and the silver will be gone in the future.

But many people nodded secretly, and everyone wants to fight for respect, don't they? Given enough face, this silver is not impossible to negotiate. It's just that some people are not convinced, and they are saying strange things in the crowd.

"Naturally, you have a great family and a great business, but we live on the money, and if we don't have it, we will starve to death if we don't wait to rest with the country. This can also help the court save some silver. ”

"There is no reason to starve to death," Chongqi said in a deep voice, "The files of the household department say clearly," he patted the white cover fold on the table, "How much silver has been supplied to Baqi Lu rice in the past few years, from Qianlong Ye to Daoguang Ye, and then to the current Guangxu years, this silver is more and more, and there are a lot of new people every year." This is more than ten times the expenditure compared to the prosperous era of Kangqian. ”

"And the income of the household department, only twice as much, this double, or in the last years of Tongzhi only doubled, before because of the long-haired rebellion caused by the household silver is a lot less, the same calculation, the eight banners of Ding silver, the proportion of the imperial court expenditure is very high, millions of people in Beijing, it will cost more than 10 million taels of silver, this more than 10 million silver, can buy another Dingyuan ship."

"That's not what I said, Cheng Engong," isn't it all vulgar people here, there are a lot of people who speak reasonably, so someone spoke, "The silver of the Eight Banners is the rule set by the ancestors, as long as it is a man of the Eight Banners, there will be silver money on the ground, of course this money is not small, but compared to other events, it is not much, if you want to say so, then the river work is not more than 10 million a year, the silver money given to the inner domain, the newly built railway official road, there is no need to say anything else, just say that this Beiyang Naval Division, as well as the cost of the new army, It's all the same silver as the sea, if the Zongren Mansion is really sympathetic to the Eight Banners, then why don't you save some some? I remember that the Kai Tak Middle School here invested 100,000 taels of silver in it at once, and the Ministry of Education is also a place where a lot of money is spent, why can't it save a little here? We, the old and young masters of the Eight Banners, are already living a miserable life with this money and grain, and we can't work, farm, and trade, how can we live? ”

"The silver of this education is indispensable!" Chongqi said in a deep voice, "There is no need to say how many talents have been educated by Westerners over the years, just talk about all the gentlemen present," he snorted coldly, "How many children in the family are studying in the academy?" Such a thing, saying it, cutting off his own son's road to being a eunuch, is it also what a father should say? ”

The school in Beijing, from the middle school below, for the children in the flag, are not costly, of course, the financial pressure is very large, fortunately, the household department gritted its teeth and insisted on giving money, the Ministry of Education also issued a strict order, wide in and strict out, if you fail the exam that year, if you still want to study the next year, sorry, then you have to pay tuition, of course, the tuition is not a lot, but for a lot of Eight Banner families, this is a lot of expenses.

Chongqi caught his sore foot, so he said this, so everyone didn't speak, just silently resisted, Chongqi looked around, "This big guy is here to discuss things, it's always inappropriate not to speak, big guy talk about it, here, how to calculate the title of the clan is also a matter of importance." ”

"I'll just say a word," the white-haired prince who looked down on Prince Alcohol stood up, his face was grim, and he shook his shabby sleeves, "We are not happy to take care of anything, the court asked us to be errands, we will be on errands, and if we are not on errands, we will rest at home and recuperate, and never cause chaos to the court, I don't have many words, the key thing is just one, the hardcore crops of the Eight Banners are set by the ancestors and ancestors, and it is the reward of our ancestors who fought bloodily to defeat the country, and it has only been so many years, why?" I'm not going to forget what I've said before? Without this reason, the matter of the Eight Banners naturally has to be handled well, but no matter how it is changed, this Ding Yin must not be less, and our Yulu and title naturally cannot be reduced! (To be continued.) )