"Recently, it has been reported that some people will be shunned to give capital to make them trade, and they will be with their families, or they will issue notices without authorization, occupy the market, compete with the people for profit, lose national taxes, and disrupt the government and bad laws. Since this edict has been preached, it is advisable to make corrections urgently, and if the situation is still unswerving, it will be fixed and re-enacted, and it will never be lightly punished. ”

After the promulgation of this edict in the eighth year of Shunzhi, the Qing court made it clear that the Eight Banners were not allowed to do business.

On the surface, it was to prevent the bannermen from doing business and competing with the Han people for profit, but in fact, because the number of the Eight Banners was too small compared to the Han people, so if they wanted to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners, the bannermen could not do anything other than be soldiers and officials.

It looks similar to the military household system of the Ming Dynasty.

The father is a military household, the son is a military household, and the children and grandchildren are military households.

However, the facts show that this system is as bad as the military household system of the Ming Dynasty, and even earlier and more thoroughly rotten than the military household system of the Ming Dynasty.

So that it didn't take a generation of time, and in less than 20 years, the Eight Banners were rotten from top to bottom.

The reason is that the Eight Banners are not allowed to do business, but after the Banner people entered the customs, the families were divided into the industries that were forcibly seized from the Han people, and they couldn't take care of themselves, so they could hand over the family's slaves to take care of it.

One by one, they are in front of the shopkeeper, eating and drinking without worry, who the fuck is willing to tie their heads to the waistband of their pants and die?

If the older generation has endured all the hardships, the next generation should enjoy the blessings.

Defy?

Is the previous generation of your family a founding hero?

Therefore, the prohibition of doing business in the Eight Banners is actually a policy full of loopholes, and it is not a matter at all for the powerful banner people in the upper three banners and the lower five banners, and they can only restrain the honest people in the banner.

That is, the flag man at the bottom.

The flag man is the master in front of the Han people, but the flag man is also divided into three, six, nine and so on.

The wealth of a country is concentrated in the Eight Banners, and the wealth supplied to the Eight Banners is concentrated in a small number of people, so that the gap between the rich and the poor is too large within the ruling class due to the unequal distribution of spoils.

At present, I have just entered the customs and only enjoyed 20 years and I can't see the seriousness of the problem, and in a few hundred years, the problem will accumulate to the point that the people at the bottom want to overturn the Qing Dynasty.

The real problem is that if Babur, the Jingzhou general, cooperated with others to do water transportation and trading on the Yangtze River, he would indeed violate the law that the Eight Banners are not allowed to do business.

If no one denounces it, if someone does it, they will definitely be punished.

Therefore, even if he knew that this transaction would come quickly and steadily, Babur would not dare to cross this thunder pool.

Wang Wu was generally aware of Babur's concerns, but in order to drag this Jingzhou general into the water and form a community of interests, so as to achieve the effect of "turning a blind eye", he asked: "Does the general know how many years the cooks of the Jingzhou prefect's yamen are?" ”

"How much?"

When Babur first arrived, he didn't know anything like this.

"Thirty taels!"

Wang Wu stretched out three fingers and said that the thirty taels were still pure, because the human cook also included food and lodging.

Not only the chefs of the Yamen, but also the cooks on the market are the same, and the annual salary of the chef of many restaurants is even fifty or sixty taels, which is higher than that of a county magistrate.

"Thirty taels, so much?"

Babur was a little surprised, because this was almost the second-class Eight Banners salary.

According to the flag salary system set in the Shunzhi period, the salary of the Eight Banners was divided into five grades.

The pro-army (guard), the forward, the guard, the leader, the chief archer, the blacksmith long month is 4 taels of silver, and the annual salary is 48 taels;

Vests, archers, second-class blacksmiths, and gunners have three taels of silver per month, and the annual salary is 36 taels;

Wailang, infantry army leader, coppersmith, third-class blacksmith, learning gunner, Orbu monthly silver two taels, annual salary 24 taels;

Foot armor, raising soldiers monthly silver one tael and five coins, annual salary 18 taels;

The fourth-class blacksmith pays one tael of silver per month and 12 taels per year.

In addition to the silver, the other piece is rice stickers.

If it is converted into silver, the annual salary of the lowest-grade step armor is about 33 taels.

This is also the salary level of the vast majority of flag soldiers.

The annual salary of the first-class horsemen of the green battalion is 24 taels, the annual salary of the second-class horseless soldiers is 18 taels, and the annual salary of the third-class garrison soldiers is 12 taels.

In addition, each soldier will receive three buckets of rice per month.

The overall salary level is half worse than that of Baqi.

The annual salary of a cook is 30 taels, which is equivalent to the second- and third-class wages of the Eight Banners, and is about the same as the salary of the first-class battalion.

So Babur was a little surprised, and he didn't know what he was doing with him.

The flag salary is set by the imperial court and allocated by the household department, as long as it is paid regularly every month.

"The imperial court issued it by the imperial court, but don't the generals need to raise other expenses themselves?"

The self-raised expenses mentioned by Wang Wu include the expenses for raising horses, repairing ships, and the operating funds of the General's Mansion, the Metropolitan Unified Cooperation Administration, and various offices, as well as any other messy expenses such as transportation and business trip expenses, hospitality expenses, and office meeting expenses, all of which have to be raised by the Jingzhou Garrison Eight Banners.

"The forage for feeding the horses is 24 taels a year, and the average is 2 taels of silver a month, how many war horses are there in our Jingzhou garrison Eight Banners, and the forage fee for these war horses alone has to be tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, how does the general plan to raise it himself?"

The cost of raising horses in later generations is actually fuel money.

This money was not included in the salary of the Eight Banners, and Debabur, the Jingzhou general, found a way to solve it.

Previously, the Qing court allocated 3,800 horses to Jingzhou to garrison the Eight Banners, and tens of thousands of taels were given according to the cost of 18 taels per soldier for raising horses.

But this is a one-off!

And the 18 taels of horse raising fees can only support war horses for about ten months, and in the future, the horse raising fee will no longer be allocated by the household, and it will all be solved by the Jingzhou garrison Eight Banners.

There are two ways to self-fund.

One is to extract from the rent of encircled fertile land;

Second, a certain subsidy will be given by the Jingzhou local government and the Huguang governor's yamen.

The subsidy that the Jingzhou local government and the Huguang governor yamen can give is very small, because the majority of the head needs to be handed over to the household department.

So in the end, all the bad expenses had to be extracted from the rent of the good land.

In this year, the tax was 3 buckets and 2 liters per mu of Na Valley, 2 buckets and 4 liters of middle fields, 1 bucket and 4 liters of lower fields, and 6 liters of land.

A bucket is ten liters, and according to one liter of grain and one and a half catties, the field tax paid by the high-grade fertile land is 32 liters, which is equivalent to seven or eight hundred copper coins.

Nakata and Shimoda are even less.

And this is still the field tax that the Han people should pay for farming, and the fields of the Eight Banners are nominally directly distributed to the Qiding, so the field tax paid by the Qiding is even less than that paid by the Han people.

500,000 acres of fertile land, and finally the Jingzhou General's Mansion can extract the cost of about 100,000 taels at most.

The cost of raising a horse alone is tens of thousands of taels, and Babur can barely make ends meet.

100% is not enough money.

What if you don't have enough money?

He had no other way than to exploit the local Han people in Jingzhou.

Compared with the income of the Eight Banners of Beijing, the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing are also much less, which also leads to the intensification of conflicts between the Eight Banners stationed in various places and the local Han people, and the root lies in money.

Of course, Babur could also write to the court to ask for money, but that would be tantamount to telling the court that he was incompetent.

The wise do not do it.

"General, the regulations of the imperial court are dead, but people are alive, there are policies and countermeasures, in my opinion, the imperial court is not allowed to do business in our Eight Banners, but it is not said that our Eight Banners cannot maintain the order of market operation and supervise the orderly development of all walks of life."

Wang Wu's countermeasure was to set up a Yangtze River Water Operation Association, which was nominally sponsored by the Jingzhou prefect's yamen, but was actually managed by the Jingzhou general's yamen.

I was afraid that Babur, a real Tartar, would not understand the crystallization of the wisdom of future generations, so I thought about it and explained: "It means that there are two sets of brands in one team." ”