Chapter 242: Eight Banners Problem (I)

Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the people of the bannermen have been adopting a "gratitude" policy. The Eight Banners are exempted from labor, food, and cloth. From then on, they only undertake military service and are given various privileges, so that those with a little skill among the bannermen can take office, trying to make them have no worries about food and clothing. At the beginning of the dynasty, there were not many bannermen, and the lives of the big guys were also very prosperous. But later, the population grew and the number of bannermen gradually increased, and the life of the court was not very easy. Especially after the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi, there had been no war for several years, and the bannermen had no place to use force and was useless to spend money and food. One reason was that the court's food and salary was consumed more and more, and the number of idle bannermen was increasing, and public security also became a big problem. Third, the Eight Banners, which is the barrier of the country's military power, is also the root cause of the inability of Kangxi.

In order to solve the Eight Banners problem, the old man Kangxi made a lot of efforts: in order to ensure the force of the Eight Banners, annual competition and hunting are essential; forcing the Eight Banners to learn Manchu language; prohibiting intermarriage between Manchu and Han; in addition to the monthly regular silver, there are also often rewards. In the 37th year of Kangxi, more than 5.415,000 taels of treasury silver were allocated from the national treasury to reward all the bannermen, and on average, there were hundreds of taels per household; at the beginning of the 42nd year of Kangxi, more than 6.550,000 taels of treasury silver were allocated to reward the Eight Banners; in May of the 42nd year of Kangxi, in order to rectify the flag affairs, he allocated another acres of land, plowing tools, and plowing oxen to settle the idle bannermen. Such many measures were done, but unfortunately they were all wasted and useless.

Learn Manchu? Not to mention ordinary bannermen, even if the princes and nobles do not speak Manchu on weekdays, although the old man Kangxi issued edicts in Manchu from time to time, he did not speak Manchu on weekdays. Naturally, he was inefficient in learning Manchu and this was just a matter of dealing with the matter. As for the prohibition of intermarriage between Manchu and Han, it was even more ridiculous. There were many Han concubines in his harem, and there were many princes and nobles who married Han women as concubines. With the above and below, this was not effective except for those ordinary bannermen who had no power or power.

The matter of rewarding silver is even more ridiculous. Mr. Kangxi has allocated quite a bit of money, but the Eight Banners' children are even more capable of spending money. After getting this piece of money, they squandered everything. By now, many poor bannermen have fallen to the point of pawning the flag Jialu Mi to survive. They are so poor that they have done a lot of robbery. It is strange that the capital can be well-off.

The only thing that has some effect among the many things that Mr. Kangxi did was the competition and hunting. Although it cost a lot, it at least kept the blood of the Eight Banners. Of course, this is also related to the constant wars after the old man ascended the throne. However, after the Galdan rebellion was put down, there was no war for a long time. The training of the Eight Banners became increasingly unstable, and the combat effectiveness was deteriorating.

The reason why the Qing Dynasty was able to establish a court was the power of the Eight Banners. For this reason, no matter who sat on the dragon throne, it was impossible for him to ignore the Eight Banners. Although Mr. Kangxi was very skilled and had a weak combination of ethnic conflicts between Manchu and Han, the contradictions were still conflicts after all, and they did not disappear because of indifference. If the matter of the Eight Banners cannot be resolved, it will inevitably affect the stability of the imperial power. The problem is that no one can come up with a solution to the problem of the Eight Banners, and even Mr. Kangxi was helpless.

Since ancient times, there have been many cases of ethnic minorities entering the Central Plains. Yang Jian and Li Shimin from far away, and Mongolian Yuan from near. How to consolidate imperial power is different. Yang Jian and Li Shimin's approach is to fully integrate himself into the Han people and desperately claim that he is a Han people. The price of this approach is to completely lose his own nation and become a part of the Han people. The method of the Mongolian Yuan is to kill, killing the Han people has to accept it. But the problem is that no matter how much the Mongolian Yuan can kill, it cannot kill all the Han people? So when the Mongolian Yuan becomes corrupt, the Han people rise up and beat the Mongolian Yuan without a place to hide.

It is not the first time that the Manchus have entered the Central Plains. During the Song Dynasty, the Jin people who entered the Central Plains were the ancestors of the Manchus. At that time, the Jins adopted the same approach as the Mongol Yuan, and the result was extremely bad. This time, the Manchus have learned a lot of lessons from the Central Plains. They no longer adopted the high-pressure policy of the Mongol Yuan, but instead adopted the policy of appeasement as the main and power as the auxiliary. In the current situation, it is considered a success, but there is still a problem-the rulers of the Manchus throughout the ages are unwilling to be the Manchus to be sinicized, and they are unwilling to completely Hanize their nation like Li Shimin. This will bring trouble.

The Manchu sinicization is a major trend in history. Yinzuo has had experience in later generations and is very clear about this. However, the sinicization is also divided into active and passive. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus were passively sinicized. A group of big men who only know how to enjoy lived a very miserable life after the fall of the Manchus. If they were actively sinicized, it would be more ideal to actively integrate into the Han people like Li Shimin, at least it would not fall into the corruption of later generations. However, Yinzuo could only think about it in his heart at this moment, and he didn't dare to talk to anyone at all. Not to mention that Yinzuo was not the emperor at this moment. Even if he had ascended the throne, he had to be careful when encountering the Eight Banners problems, otherwise the throne might not be able to sit firmly. If he really wanted to undergo major surgery on the Eight Banners, it would be possible to wait until the imperial power was stable.

Mr. Kangxi gave Yinzuo a difficult problem to the Eight Banners, which was not so much a test, but rather a helplessness, because the old man himself had no answer. Although the old man himself understood that this problem was too difficult, he still wanted to see if Yinzuo could find a feasible way out of ideas.

Let the bannermen make their own way? Impossible. As soon as this idea is released today, Yinzuo can go to the clan mansion to have tea tomorrow. There will definitely be more than 10,000 people who come to Yinzuo's mansion to cause trouble. Yinzuo will not even consider such a bad idea. Even if he wants to change the Eight Banners Yinzuo, he will only adopt a gradual approach. The court will continue to support the prosperity? That will not work. At this time, there are millions of bannermen. If they continue to reproduce like this, it will not be tens of millions in the future. At this moment, the treasury has money but can still support it. When the war is really there, what should we do if the treasury is empty? We can't suppress all the problems. At that time, if a constant outbreak is happening, the fun will be great.

Opening a joint-stock company and letting the bannermen take shares? Hey, I saw it in the past life that Yinzuo read online novels, and this method is not impossible. There are many business geniuses among the bannermen. Liu Mingchuan, a slave under Yinzuo, is the representative of it. But the problem is that this method cannot really solve the problem. Yinzuo has considered this matter long ago: relying on Yinzuo's many monopoly industries as the basis for the start of the company, it is not difficult to take out some monopoly projects as the basis for the company's start-up. It is easy to give some dividends to the Eight Banners after strengthening management, but it cannot solve the root problem of the Eight Banners corruption. Although Yinzuo looks down on the Eight Banners, it is impossible for Yinzuo to ascend the throne and even sit firmly on the throne and leave the support of the Eight Banners. At least before Yinzuo consolidates the imperial power, it is inseparable from the strong support of the Eight Banners. A corrupt Eight Banner is not the result that Yinzuo wants to see.

Although it has made some progress in taking joint-stock companies to support the Eight Banners and taking the national treasury to support the Eight Banners, it cannot solve the problem of the Eight Banners doing nothing and becoming increasingly corrupt. Such a method has no practical significance at all. Even Mr. Kangxi can see the strangeness, let alone Yinzuo himself. Of course, it does not mean that this method cannot be used, at least it can solve the income source problem of the Eight Banners' children.

What Mr. Kangxi wanted was a way to maintain the blood and combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners, which was difficult. Not to mention that there is no war now, the training of the Eight Banners is a formality. Even if there is war in the future, according to Yinzuo's plan, most of the wars will take place in naval battles above the ocean. The Eight Banners' group of goods that only know how to ride and shoot can't afford it at all. They can only be the audience. The only thing that can be used is to pacify Zhungeer again or conflict with the "polar bear". However, the military system of the Eight Banners is completely in conflict with Yinzuo's idea of ​​establishing the army. If Yinzuo takes office, reforming the military system is imperative. There are actually not many places where the Eight Banners can be used. Of course, the cavalry is still dominated by the Eight Banners. After all, the Eight Banners are a horse-like nation, and riding skills are not mentioned.

It's hard, it's really hard! Yinzuo's head hurts so much that he didn't expect a good idea. Yinzuo sat on Lan Yue'er's bed and thought it was fascinating. He had thought about it in all aspects, but he was still unsure in his heart. Lan Yue'er knew Yinzuo's temper and did not dare to disturb Yinzuo's contemplation, so she could only stand by and wait silently.

Lan Yue'er dared not disturb Yinzuo's thinking, but someone dared that, just as the room was quiet, Princess Yixue's little head poked out at the door, and a little finger pressed on her lips, indicating that the maids in the room would not make a sound. Then she tiptoed into the room, walked gently to Yinzuo, and shouted: "Ama!" Yinzuo was shocked, and the little girl laughed proudly, and the giggling chuckled in the room.

"Ha, Xiao Yixue, I'm naughty again. Look at Ama smacking your little ass." Yinzuo was immediately happy when he saw that it was his precious daughter and hugged the little girl.

"If you dare to hit me, I will cry." The little guy stuck out his tongue and made a face. Seeing that Yinzuo was full of love, he kissed the little girl hard on the face. Yinzuo's beard was so painful that the little girl's movie was hurt. The little girl pushed Yinzuo's face away without any hesitation and said, "No, Ama's face is full of thorns. The fourteenth uncle is not like this. Ama, the fourteenth uncle hasn't come, and they miss him a little."

Missing Lao Si Si? Hey, this little guy is afraid he wants Lao Si Si's gift? Yinzuo laughed. Lao Si Si knew that Yinzuo loved Princess Yixue the most, and every time he came to Yinzuo's mansion, he could not forget to bring gifts to the little girl. They were all children's things, which made Xiao Yixue very happy. He was very compatible with Lao Si Si. It has been more than half a year since he took the order to go to Yinzuo's mansion. Xiao Yixue really missed the 14th uncle who brought gifts from time to time.

"Your 14th Uncle is going to beat the bad guys, and you will probably be back soon." Yinzuo smiled and touched Xiao Yixue's head.

Princess Yixue was in Yinzuo's arms and raised her little face to look at Yinzuo and said, "Ama, where is the Fourteenth Uncle going to beat the bad guys? Why don't you take me with me?"

Where are you going? Well? Yinzuo suddenly thought about something and forgot to answer Xiao Yixue's question for a while. The little guy stopped doing it. He grabbed Yinzuo's chin and acted coquettishly: "Ama, do you mean, where are the fourteenth uncle?"

"Ah." Yinzuo came to his senses and smiled, "It's a long way to Japan, I have to take a boat to the sea."

"Big Sea Boat? Ama, I want to take the boat too. My brother and second brother have been on the boat in front of me. Ama is partial, but I haven't taken me to take it." The little girl held her mouth in her mouth and immediately prepared to have a tear show.

Well, if this little girl really cries, it will be endless. Yinzuo quickly coaxes: "Yes, wait until Ama has time tomorrow, so he will definitely take you on a sea boat, okay?"

"Really? When will Ama be free?" the little girl asked with her head tilted.

Haha, it’s really a little guy, it’s not easy to fool. Yinzuo smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, “When spring comes, will your 14th uncle come back, will Ama take you to Qingdao by boat?”

The little girl tilted her head and thought for a while, then stretched out a little finger and said, "Lagou, Ama can't lie."

"Okay, okay, Ama is tied with you." Yinzuo smiled and hooked the little guy, put her on the ground and said, "Go to play, Ama has something to do, will you go and play with you later?"

"Yeah." Xiao Yixue nodded vigorously and ran out on her own. Yinzuo looked at the little guy's lively back lovingly, but suddenly realized in his heart. He pondered for a moment, and said to Lan Yue'er who had always stood on the side: "I have my own opinions on your brother's affairs and will never make you embarrassed. I have something to do. I will talk about this matter back." After saying that, I strode towards the door.

"Master, you haven't had lunch yet." Lan Yue'er saw Yinzuo leaving, mistakenly thought that Yinzuo was angry about Chahar's affairs, so she quickly called out.
Chapter completed!