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Chapter 459 The Disaster of the Eight Banners

The old rich did not pay the bill, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs did buy an egg from outside the palace for more than a dozen taels of silver, although the eggs he bought at home were only three pennies per egg.

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

"No need, I'm already full."

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

"Is the emperor dissatisfied with the minister?"

Old Fu is not happy, so he kindly improved the food for you, a bitch, and you put your nose on your face, you bitch.

"I have a good servant like you. It is a blessing I have cultivated in my life. How can I be dissatisfied?"

Qianlong put down the bowl, and the inside was clean. It seems that after experiencing so many things, the emperor finally understood the truth that every grain is hard work.

"Really? How can I see that the emperor looks like he has the intention to kill me!"

Old Fu was not used to Qianlong, seeing him speak in a strange way, he immediately made a big move, pressing his big fist on the table heavily.

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

Small indifference can lead to big plans, Shikai is already on the move, once the Gaoping Mausoleum incident happens, if Hongli doesn't beat Fu Lehun, a thief, into a pig's head, his surname will not be Aixinjueluo.

"That's right,"

The old rich man picked up the egg with a smirk, and thoughtfully peeled the eggshell for Qianlong. After peeling, he signaled Qianlong to open his mouth.

Qianlong was afraid, but he didn't dare to say "no", and opened his mouth nervously.

With a "gurgling" sound, Lao Fu actually stuffed the whole egg into Qianlong's mouth.

With a fierce look on his face: "Swallow it!"

"Mmmm."

Qianlong was almost suffocated by the egg. It took a lot of effort to slide the egg into his belly, panting loudly there.

The resentment value in my heart is as high as [-] points.

"Very well, there is no rule without rules. As long as the emperor is obedient, I guarantee that the emperor will not be bullied."

Old Fu nodded in satisfaction, and with a slap of both palms, someone came in from outside. It was Man Zhang Jing Namutu, who had been newly promoted to the Military Aircraft Department.

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

Lao Fu moved a stool and sat next to Qianlong, motioning for the wooden figure to explain to the emperor the first fire that he, the chief minister of military affairs, was going to set off.

The overall content of this fire is to merge the Xiangbai Banner Manchuria with the Zhenghuang Banner Manchuria into the new Zhenghuang Banner Manchuria;
Merge Zhenghuang Banner Mongolia with Xianghuang Banner Manchuria to form the new Xianghuang Banner Manchuria;

Zuoling was transferred from the Han Eight Banners and merged with Zhengbai Banner Manchuria to form Xinzhengbai Banner Manchuria.

This is the so-called upper three flags.

After the ominous incident in Manchuria of the original Zhenghuang Banner, there are now only 34 assistants left, which is less than [-] people.

In Manchuria with the Xianghuang Banner, there are 42 assistant leaders and more than [-] people.

Zhengbai Banner Manchuria has the fewest remaining, with only 29 assistant leaders and more than [-] people.

Zuo Ling is the original Niu Lu. Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there were 309 Zuo Ling in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and 18 half-divided Zuo Ling.

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

During the Kangxi Dynasty, the number of assistant leaders of the Manchurian Eight Banners had expanded to 669. On paper, more than 200,000 Manchurian Eight Banners military personnel and more than [-] family members could be mobilized.

In fact, after entering the customs, Manchu soldiers occupied a large number of Han women and multiplied rapidly. As a result, the total population of the Manchu Eight Banners exceeded one million in the 50 years of Kangxi.

Due to the limitation of the number of assistant leaders, the number of assistant leaders in each banner is seriously overstaffed, and some assistant leaders even have more than [-] people.

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

Zhang Ying, a scholar of the Kangxi Dynasty, raised concerns about this, and believed that the population of the Eight Banners was fully supported by the state's finances. In just a few decades, there have been millions of people, and there may be as many as tens of millions in the future. Lead to the disaster of national subjugation and genocide.

Mingzhu also wrote a letter arguing that the imperial court supported the Eight Banners with several times more people than the imperial clan of 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 Zuoling, 52 Mongolian Zuoling, and 17 Han Army Zuoling were added respectively.

In addition, about [-] Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were relocated from central Beijing to other places for garrison, but they all treated the symptoms but not the root cause.

The measure Qianlong took after he ascended the throne was to abolish the Eight Banners. Originally, the three banners of Manchu, Mongolian and Han were abolished at the same time, but they were resisted by the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Over the past 40 years, more than 500,000 Han Army Eight Banners have been opened successively, making the Han Army Eight Banners, which had a population of [-] during the Yongzheng period, only a little more than half of the remaining [-] years later.

If historians of later generations do not know the inside story, they will definitely exclaim that "negative population growth" actually appeared in the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong.

If it wasn’t for the big and small Jinchuan wars that caused heavy losses of Manchurian and Mongolian officers and soldiers on the front line, Qianlong had to stop the abolition of the Han army, otherwise the Eight Banners of the Han army would be completely abolished within 50 years of Qianlong at the latest according to the plan. From then on, the Eight Banners only have Manchuria and Mongolia.

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

In the 31st year of Qianlong's reign, another 45 assistant collars had to be added, making the Eight Banners of Manchuria a total of 794 assistant collars and 32 semi-subordinate assistant collars.

Of the more than 140 million soldiers and civilians stationed in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, less than 300,000 of them are stationed in the Eight Banners in various provinces, and 800,000% of them are outside the customs and in Xinjiang and other places. The remaining [-] are basically in the Gyeonggi area.

The entire city of the capital alone certainly cannot accommodate such a large population, so a large number of new houses have been built in the suburbs of Beijing since the reign of Emperor Kangxi.

According to statistics from the Military Aircraft Department, there are currently more than 100,000 Eight Banners barracks in the suburbs of the capital, and there are nearly [-] people living in the Eight Banners soldiers and their families.

In addition, there are families of Manchurian officers and soldiers living in various places in Zhili, ranging from more than 3000 people to as few as [-] people.

Right now, the total population of the Eight Banners living in the capital is more than one million, about [-]% of which is in the city, and [-]% in the outer city. The actual number of Han people living in it is less than [-].

During the Shunzhi period, the number of Han Chinese living in the outer city was more than [-], and during the Kangxi period it rose to about [-]. So strictly speaking, the Beijing city of the Qing Dynasty was the city of the Eight Banners.

Or the city of Manchuria.

On an ominous night in Mancheng, the main victims were the Manchurians of the Upper Three Banners, and the number of assistants in the Manchuria of the Upper Three Banners accounted for nearly half of the entire Eight Banners. The current preliminary statistics show that there were as many as 170,000 victims, and the number of assistants involved was nearly Three hundred, about two-thirds of the assistant leaders are all dead.

This number is shocking, even the old Fu gasped in shock when he received the statistics, because the population of Jingzhou who was massacred by the bandits was only [-].

It is equivalent to overnight, four full cities were slaughtered.

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

It is no longer enough to describe it in terms of families wearing filial piety. It should be said that it was the disaster of the Eight Banners.

And all of this is the fault of this old man in front of him who can still eat eggs. You say that the old rich is not angry!

(End of this chapter)