Chapter 368: The Disaster of the Eight Banners

The old man did not report the accounts, and the internal affairs office did cost more than a dozen taels of silver to purchase an egg outside the palace, although the egg he bought at home was only one penny.

According to the purchase price in the palace, the common people really can't eat one egg a year.

"No need, I'm full."

The emperor has self-esteem, even if he was beaten several times by the boxer in front of him, Qianlong still chose not to bow to the other party.

"Is there anything the emperor is dissatisfied with the ministers?"

The old rich man was not happy, and he kindly gave you this dog's foot to improve the food, and you dog's foot kicked your nose in the face.

"I have a good minister like you, it is a blessing that I have cultivated for several lifetimes, how can I not be satisfied."

Qianlong put down the bowl, the inside was clean, it seemed that after going through so many things, the emperor finally knew the truth that every grain is hard.

"Really? How can the minister look at the emperor and seem to have the intention of killing the minister! ”

The old man was not used to Qianlong, and when he saw that he was talking in a weird way, he directly made a big trick and slammed his big fist on the table.

Qianlong's cheeks twitched involuntarily, and he said in a low voice: "I just eat." ”

If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, Shikai is already in action, once the change of Gaopingling happens, he Hongli will not beat the dog thief Fu Lehun into a pig's head, he will not be surnamed Aixin Jueluo.

"That's right,"

The old rich skin picked up the egg without smiling and thoughtfully peeled the eggshell for Qianlong, and after peeling it, he motioned for Qianlong to open his mouth.

Qianlong was scared in his heart, but he didn't dare to say a word "no", and opened his old mouth nervously.

"Grunt", the old man actually stuffed the whole egg into Qianlong's mouth.

With a fierce look: "Swallowed!" ”

"Hmm..."

Qianlong was almost suffocated to death by the egg, and it took a lot of effort to slide the egg into his stomach, panting loudly.

The resentment in my heart is as high as 99,000 points.

"Very good, there are no rules, as long as the emperor is obedient, the minister guarantees that the emperor will not be bullied."

Lao Fu nodded with satisfaction, and with a blow of both palms, someone immediately came in outside, it was Manzhang Jingnamutu, who was newly promoted to the military machine department, and originally followed Lao Fu to work in the Yamen of the Governor of Sichuan.

"You tell the emperor about the new three banners."

Lao Fu moved a stool and sat next to Qianlong, and motioned to Na Mutu to explain to the emperor the first fire that he, the foreman of the military aircraft minister, was going to set off.

The overall content of this fire is to merge the White Flag Manchuria with the Yellow Flag Manchuria to form the New Yellow Flag Manchuria;

Merge the Yellow Flag Mongolia with the Yellow Flag Manchuria to form the new Yellow Flag Manchuria;

Transferred from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty to merge with the White Flag Manchuria to form the new White Flag Manchuria.

This is also known as the three flags.

After the ominous events of the original Yellow Banner Manchuria, there are now only 34 auxiliary leaders left, less than 10,000 people.

Manchuria with the yellow flag had 42 leaders and more than 13,000 people.

Zhengbai Banner Manchuria has the least left, with only 29 assistant leaders and more than 7,000 people.

Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there were a total of 309 leaders in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and 18 were half-divided.

Based on the calculation of 300 people per leader, there are about 100,000 military personnel and more than 300,000 family members in the entire Manchurian Eight Banners.

During the Kangxi Dynasty, the number of assistant leaders of the Eight Banners of Manchuria had been expanded to 669, and on paper it was possible to mobilize 200,000 military personnel of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and more than 500,000 family members.

In fact, due to the large number of Manchurian soldiers who possessed Han women after entering the customs, they multiplied rapidly, resulting in the total population of the Manchurian Eight Banners in the 50th year of Kangxi's reign had exceeded one million.

Due to the limitation on the number of leaders, the number of leaders of each flag is seriously overnumbered, and some of them are even as high as more than 2,000 people.

As a result, a large number of contradictions have arisen, the most important of which is the issue of the distribution of salaries and grain.

Zhang Ying, a scholar of the Kangxi Dynasty, raised worries about this, believing that the population of the Eight Banners is all supported by the state finance, and that there have been millions of people in only a few decades, and it is feared that there will be as many as 10 million people in the future, and the national treasury will be absolutely difficult to supply, so it is very likely to cause the disaster of destroying the country and destroying the people.

Mingzhu also wrote that the imperial court supported several times more people in the Eight Banners than the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court must pay attention to this.

During the Yongzheng Dynasty, in order to solve the overpopulation of the Eight Banners, 80 Manchurian leaders, 52 Mongolian leaders, and 17 Han army leaders were added.

In addition, about 50,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were moved from Beijing to other places for garrison, but all of them treated the symptoms but not the root cause.

After Qianlong ascended the throne, the measures he took were to abolish the Eight Banners, which were originally the same as the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Three Banners, but were boycotted by the Manchurian Eight Banners, and finally changed to the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

Over the past 40 years, more than 300,000 people have been reformed in the Eight Banners of the Han Army, making the Eight Banners of the Han Army, which had a population of 500,000 during the Yongzheng period, only more than half of them remaining after more than 40 years.

If later historians did not know the inside story, they would definitely exclaim that "negative population growth" actually appeared in the prosperous Kangqian era.

If it weren't for the heavy losses of Manchu and Mongolian officers and soldiers on the front line caused by the Jinchuan War, Qianlong had to stop the matter of dismantling the Han army, otherwise according to the plan, all the eight banners of the Han army would have been abolished in the 50th year of Qianlong at the latest, and from then on the eight banners would only be Manchuria and Mongolia.

In fact, the abolition of the Eight Banners of the Han Army did not reduce the burden on the imperial court, because the population of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia was still growing.

In the 31st year of Qianlong, he had to increase the establishment of 45 auxiliary leaders again, so that the Eight Banners of Manchuria had a total of 794 auxiliary leaders, 32 and a half subordinate leaders, and the book population was more than 830,000 people, but the actual number was as high as more than 1.4 million.

Of the more than 1.4 million Manchurian Eight Banners and the Eight Banners stationed in various provinces, less than 300,000 of them also accounted for 20 percent of the Eight Banners outside the Guanxi and Xinjiang, and the remaining 800,000 were basically in the Gyeonggi area.

The city of Beijing alone will definitely not be able to accommodate such a large number of people, so a large number of new houses have been built in the suburbs of Beijing since the Kangxi period.

According to the statistics of the Military Aircraft Department, there are currently more than 48,000 Eight Banner barracks in the four suburbs of Beijing, and nearly 100,000 Eight Banner sergeants and their families live in them.

In addition, there are more than 10,000 Manchurian officers and soldiers living in various parts of Zhili, and there are as few as 2,000 or 3,000 people.

At present, the total population of the Eight Banners living in Beijing is more than 1 million, of which about 70% is shared by the full city, 30% is shared by the outer city, and the actual number of Han people living is less than 100,000.

During the Shunzhi period, the number of Han people living in the outer city was more than 30,000, and it rose by about 50,000 during the Kangxi period, so strictly speaking, the Beijing city of the Qing Dynasty was the city of the Eight Banners.

Or the city of Manchuria.

On the ominous night of Manchuria, the main victims were the three banners of Manchuria, and the number of the three banners of Manchuria accounted for nearly half of the entire Manchurian Eight Banners, and the preliminary statistics showed that as many as 170,000 people died, and the number of leaders involved was nearly 300, and about two-thirds of the leaders were killed by the whole leader.

This figure is shocking, even the old rich gasped in shock when he received the statistics, because the number of people killed in Jingzhou, which was slaughtered by thieves, was only 40,000.

It is equivalent to the slaughter of four cities overnight.

This incident is undoubtedly the biggest blow to the Eight Banners since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and it is even more astonishing than the fiasco suffered by the Eight Banners such as the Battle of Hengbao, the Battle of Zhenjiang, and the Battle of Hetongbo.

The user Dai Xiao is no longer enough to describe, it should be said that it is the catastrophe of the Eight Banners.

And all of this is all done by the old man in front of him who can still have eggs to eat, you say that the old rich is not angry!

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