Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 385 Who are you?
When the two sides met, their words were full of guns and sticks.

Liu Yong said that Zhao Xin was using Zhu Ming's guise to pull the tiger's skin and pull the banner; what Zhao Xin meant was that I was teaching Tsarist Russia a lesson recently, and I didn't have time to talk to you.

Cao Peng on the side looked at Liu Yong curiously, comparing it with the actor surnamed Li he remembered, and said that he didn't look alike at all.

"It is said that Liu Yong is a great calligrapher. If I can get a piece of calligraphy from him, how much can I sell it for?"

Naturally, Qitai didn't need to be introduced, he clasped his fists at Zhao Xin with a serious face as a greeting, and then introduced several generals and civil officials behind him to Zhao Xin, and Zhao Xin clasped his fists one by one with a smile.

Several Manchu officials were secretly surprised when they saw that the leader of the rebels in front of him was so unassuming.However, as an official of the imperial court, it is not good to be too polite with Zhao Xin, just nod slightly.

After everyone sat down at the table separated by east and west, Liu Yong spoke first.

"I heard that your Excellency defeated Luocha in Heilongjiang City and Yaksa. It is reported that the soldiers pointed out that they have crossed the boundary stone?"

"So-so, Irkutsk was taken down before I came back, a governor and a general were captured, and there were several major generals."

Na Qitai on the side interjected: "Mr. Zhao, what are the official positions of the general and major general of the Raksha people?"

Zhao Xin smiled and said, "Admiral is just like your General Fuyuan, in charge of troops all over Siberia. A major general is the commander in chief, usually leading several regiments or an army."

Liu Yong nodded and said: "So, Mr. Zhao, when will Heilongjiang City and Yakesa be returned to my Qing Dynasty?"

Zhao Xin looked at Liu Yong and said nothing for a long time, but Na Qitai saw the other party's expression and thought it was going to be bad!
Liu Yong frowned and said, "What's wrong with what I said?"

Zhao Xin smiled and said, "Master Liu, did you eat your breakfast? Do you know what I do?"

Liu Yong opened his triangular eyes, stared at Zhao Xin with a playful expression, and said, "I am also curious, where did you come from? Mr. Zhao, can you tell me so that I can clear up your mind?" Confused?"

Beginning in the spring of Qianlong's 51st year—that is, after Fukang'an and a group of captives were redeemed by Qianlong with gold, an extremely secretive investigation under the personal supervision of Qianlong and He Shen was specifically responsible for it. The degree is second only to Qianlong Lichu.Why is the level of secrecy so high?The problem lies in Zhao Xin's fluent Beijing film.

According to what the Eight Banners officers and soldiers who were released back, and the descriptions of people who had personal contact with Zhao Xin, such as Fukang'an and Na Qitai, plus the secret investigation of the Manchu spies in Beihai Town for the past two years, He Shen led The Lanling guard at the sticky pole checked the red and yellow books of all the Eight Banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and at the same time sent officials from the Ministry of Punishment to check all the household registers, tobacco household registers, and monk and Taoist circulation registers of all states, prefectures, and counties in 23 provinces across the country.

According to Fukang'an and Na Qitai, Zhao Xin spoke the official dialect of the capital, with a lot of colloquialisms that Manchurians would use.

Lan Ling's guards screened all Han, Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners who were about the same age as Zhao Xin, and none of them looked like Zhao Xin, and they couldn't get any news.The Clan Mansion also carefully checked all the clan families that were imprisoned before, and they were exactly the same as those recorded in the Yellow Book.

The core of the entire investigation is three things: Who is Zhao Xin?Where did it come from?Where is his home?

To explain this problem, we must first explain the household registration management system of the Qing Dynasty.Don’t think that the state machinery in the feudal society is all for dry food. The Manchu Qing had the strictest household registration management system in the entire feudal society, and the household registration management system of later generations also borrowed some practices of the Manchu Qing.

Unless someone was born out of a rock and bred by nature, there must be a record in the files.

As we all know, the Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming system, so at the beginning, the method of "determining a person's household by registration" was also implemented in household registration management and household registration classification.According to the household regulations in the eighth volume of the "Laws of the Qing Dynasty", all military, civil, post, stove, doctor, divination, worker, and music households are determined by their nationality; even if they are beggars, there are beggar households. .

Compared with the sloppyness of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, starting from the 13th year of Shunzhi, explicitly ordered the compilation and review of household registration every five years, and directly linked the increase in the population of various places to the performance evaluation of officials.

It is said that the purpose of the compilation of household registration in feudal society is based on controlling as many household registration as possible so that they can pay taxes and errands, thereby ensuring the country's fiscal revenue and corvee dispatch.Therefore, under this premise, officials of all dynasties resorted to fraud in order to obtain promotion, or evaded tax and labor in order to hide their population, and the Manchu Dynasty was no exception.

Therefore, when the problems of expropriation of money and food and false population became more and more serious, Kangxi adopted the method of "prosperity breeds population and never increases taxes".Since the breeding population will never be paid, it is meaningless to hide the household registration.And this also laid the foundation for Yongzheng's later implementation of the policy of "split Ding into Mu".

Some people in later generations always said that Kangxi's words were just a smoke bomb, not really to be frivolous, but just a gimmick to win favor.Don't you see that after the Daoguang Dynasty, there were various additional taxation, fire consumption, lijin, mining taxes, etc., with various names.

The question is what is Kangxi's purpose in saying this before he sprays it out. His original intention is to get as much real data as possible in household registration statistics!
With the full rollout of "split Ding into mu", the poll tax that existed in Chinese history for 2000 years was completely abolished, and this brought about the abolition of the personnel review system for the purpose of collecting taxes and labor.

In the 37th year of Qianlong's reign, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties officially stopped the population compilation and examination, and replaced it with the household registration system; specifically, it was the Baojia Law implemented on the occasion of Wang Yangming's "Ten Family Brand Law".This is also the basis of the household registration management system prevailing in later generations in China.

The specific method is that where the Baojia is compiled, the household will be given a house number, the name of the parents and the number of males will be written, and the age will be changed.The ten cards are the cards, and the cards have heads; the ten cards are armor, and the armor has the head;

The household registration statistics and management under the Baojia system are mainly carried out by compiling the "smoking household booklet"; generally, the Baochang is responsible for filling it out. set.

The "tobacco household book" is in duplicate, one is temporarily stored in the local government for inspection; the other is placed in the chief office of Jia, and the changes in personnel are counted at any time, or reported to the county on the first day of the new month, or replaced every two months.

As for the Eight Banners, it is a different rule.

Needless to say, the royal family, the birth of a child must be reported to the clan's family for the record, the yellow belt is included in the jade certificate, and the red belt is included in the red book.However, when an ordinary bannerman family has a child, they must immediately report to the banner leader and log into the "register".

The "books and files" of the Eight Banners are based on households, one household per Ding, and the members of each household have detailed records.Including the head of the household's banner, clan, household, relationship with the head of the household, gender, marital status, status, name, age, date of birth, death, and the names and occupations of the three generations of father and ancestor, etc. It is registered in the register and attached to the back of the household register, which also contains the names of his father and son. At the same time, the source of his grandfather's identity must be checked, or purchased by deed, or brought by Shengjing, or purchased with land, or purchased by Bai deed, and at the same time Requirements to be shown in the book of accounts.

It is said that He Shen led a group of people to conduct a secret investigation for two years, and he still can't figure out Zhao Xin's origin and whether he really has this name.Not to mention Zhao Xin, they didn't even find Liu Sheng.

Afterwards, He Shen sent his men to Guangzhou and Macau to find out in detail which countries in Europe would build large iron ships.But no one has ever heard of the merchants and sailors from England, France, or the Netherlands, Spain, and Macao and Portugal.Some foreign sailors even responded in surprise, didn't you build the big iron ship in the Qing Dynasty?
Qianlong even asked Bai Tanga at the sticky pole to take a secret boat trip to Nagasaki, and met Nagasaki's acting official Tsuchiya Masanobu, and only got a little news, that is, Zhao Xin first appeared in the Mutsu area in 48 years of Qianlong.

In fact, the shogunate has been secretly investigating Zhao Xin's origin.They have always wanted to understand why Zhao Xin had such great hostility towards the Tokugawa shogunate.They searched and searched, and finally found out that in the winter of the third year of Tianming, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng had appeared in the sea near Aomori in a large white boat, and took away more than 300 hungry people.

Going forward, nothing can be found.Of course, it would be hell if we could find out!
(Some book friends mentioned that the Qing Dynasty can pretend to be this and that. To tell you the truth, you can’t pretend to be anything. A cycle book will lock people up tightly. Whether it’s the Lin Shuangwen Rebellion or the Su 43 Uprising, feudalism The single most important thing society can do with rebels is to get their families back.)
No matter people or things in the world, there are traces left by the passing of people, and the sound of passing geese.If a highly centralized central dynasty really wants to check something, there is basically nothing that cannot be found.If I can't find it, I can check his accomplices, and the truth will always come to light in the end.

But Zhao Xin's details can't be found out!

At this point, not only He Shen, but even Qianlong panicked, to be precise, scared.The so-called knowing yourself and the enemy, but if you don't even know the details of the other party, how can you deal with it?

It would be fine if he was really the descendant of Zhu Youfen, the last King of Zhao, but the problem is that no one can prove it except for Zhao Xin himself.

How many big iron boats does Zhao Xin have?Where did he build those two big ships?If he had a few more similar ships, the imperial court would have to be forced to issue a "sea ban order", so no one could deal with him!
Fortunately, just after Zhao Xin finished beating Ninggu Pagoda, he turned around and went to clean up Rakshasa.If he sent troops to the south, Qianlong could only summon all the soldiers and horses from all over the world to go north, and carry them to death with numbers.

Facing Liu Yong's question, Zhao Xin was silent for a moment, showing the iconic smile that Qitai had seen before. Liu Yong with eight white teeth was a bit dazzling, thinking that this poor man still kept his teeth in this poor place. A good mouthful of teeth shows how extravagant life is on weekdays.

"you guess?"

Cut~~~~~ That's what Qitai said in his heart, I knew it!
Liu Yong still had a serious face.Although he had talked with Na Qitai about the details of the confrontation with Zhao Xin many times before, he never expected that this person would be so slick and relentless, always looking like a rascal.

He pondered for a while and then said: "Mr. Zhao, I see that you are a good-looking talent, not like a fraudulent person. Not to mention that you gathered a group of Japanese refugees to fight against the Celestial Dynasty, and repeatedly defeated our imperial army. Opening up frontiers and lands is enough to be a real man! Zhu Zi said that he is a good man if he is open and upright, what are you afraid to say?"

Zhao Xin pretended to be ignorant, spread his hands together and said, "What am I hiding? Your emperor said that I am the queen of the last King Zhao. Have I argued?"

What a fucking slippery little split!Liu Yong almost cursed in Zhucheng dialect.

In fact, in order to find out the details of Zhao Xin, he searched through the relevant collections and historical documents of the late Ming and early Qing period in the past few months, and what he may have found is the following records:
In the first month of the fourth year of Yongli, the Qing soldiers successively captured Nanxiong and Shaozhou, and forced Qingyuan Gorge, Zhaoqing was in danger.In September, Yongli fled to Zhaoqing and retreated to Wuzhou.On September 26, the Qing soldiers surrounded Guangzhou and fell into Huizhou. Huang Yingjie, the commander-in-chief of Huizhou in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Li Shilian, a Taoist official, and Lin Zongjing, the prefect of Huizhou, saw that the situation was over, and Zhu Youyan, the king of Zhao in the former Ming Dynasty, surrendered to the Qing army.

After Xiancheng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Huang Yingjie and others wantonly killed the princes and their families of the pre-Ming counties.Due to the good looks of the princesses, Princess Pang of Xinghua was occupied by the battalion general Wang Shihuai. She hanged her four-year-old daughter to death and set up a memorial tablet for her husband, and then hanged herself with her belt; She never obeyed, and then waited for an opportunity to hang herself to death, and her body was thrown into the river; Princess Ziyang was captured by Huang Yingjie, the general soldier, and refused to obey. Huang Yingjie was afraid that she would escape, so she stripped her shirt and imprisoned her in a secret room. The lower garment tied a rope and committed suicide by necking.

But here comes the problem. Among the four concubines living in Huizhou, only Concubine Zhao is missing, and there is no record in history.In the notes of the Ming Dynasty, it was vaguely written that King Zhao had a three-year-old son at the time, and his whereabouts were also unknown.

Although Zhao Xin's words are equivalent to acquiescing that he is the last king of Zhao, the problem is that Liu Yong still has many doubts.

Why did he change his surname to Zhao?Such a large territory has been taken down, wouldn't it be good to restore Zhu's surname?

Who did he learn this straight-talking Bannerman Mandarin from?Why does he know the secret history of the Manchu family?Could it be that he really has a master who is a wandering descendant of the clan?Otherwise there is no explanation at all.

At this time, Zhao Xin smiled lightly, and said to Liu Yong: "Master Liu, don't bother, you can talk about gossip later. Let's talk about something serious. What does Qianlong want you to talk to me about?"

"Stop the army and submit to the imperial court! The emperor will never give up, and values ​​your ability to govern the people's livelihood in the two cities. After surrendering, you can appoint Mr. Zhao as the deputy commander-in-chief. Even if you raise the flag, it is not impossible!"

"Pfft!" Zhao Xin was drinking tea, and spewed out a sip of water, spraying that Qitai's face all over.And Cao Peng next to him was even more startled, his buttocks were unstable, and he fell to the ground with his chair on his head.

"Ouch~~ Grandpa, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Use a towel to wipe it off."

Facing Zhao Xin, Na Qitai was neither anxious nor annoyed.He could only put on a resentful face, while wiping his face, he thought to himself, who am I provoking?

　A few years ago, the Huizhou local government expanded Zhunti Temple. During the construction, engineers dug an ancient well. When it was unearthed, there was a pool of clear water in the well, and a stone tortoise covered the well head.According to the above historical process, it is possible that when Huang Yingjie offered the city to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and killed the kings of the former Ming Dynasty, the princesses were martyred one after another. Princess Zhao was desperate, so she went to the temple to worship the Buddha, and then she went to the well to commit suicide.Afterwards, the monks covered the mouth of the well with the Chishou turtle and buried the well to avoid revenge from the dead.

　　
　
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