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Chapter 466 Wuchang Falls
Military Department.

Jin Jian, the minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Han You Shilang of the Household Department, is reporting to the foreman, Mr. Military Aircraft.

Accompanying them to listen to the report were Suolin of the Manchu Army, Liang Guozhi of the Han Army, and Yonggui, Minister of the Household Department.

The cabinet that Suo Lin entered last year was peaceful and undisputed, that is, what the people call a good man, or a grass on the wall, where the wind blows, so Lao Fu asked him to continue working in the military aircraft department.

When Ji Liang Guozhi of the Han Army was the governor of Hubei, his immediate boss was Fu Lehun, who was the governor of Huguang at that time. The two governors had a lot of contacts in Hubei and they had a good relationship.

Therefore, this report mainly involves the banner fields of several princely princes. As the leader in charge of land, Shangshu Yonggui must give professional opinions for Fu Zhongtang's reference.

"After careful inspection of past files by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Prince Zhuang's mansion has 55 mu of flag fields, Prince Xian's mansion has 90 mu of flag fields, Prince Jian's mansion has about 70 mu of flag fields, and Pingjun Wangfu's mansion has 47 mu of flag fields. There are a total of more than 260 million acres of flag fields. In addition, each royal family has successively purchased their own land over the years. The number of land deeds is missing, so there is no real number. If the military aircraft department really needs to thoroughly investigate, it can be written in Zhili, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan , Shuntian and other places, appoint special personnel to find out"

The field of banners was archived when the Eight Banners encircled the land in the early days of the Republic of China. The Ministry of Internal Affairs only needs to check the records of land grants over the years to get an approximate number.

Together with the four hated palaces that committed the crime, the clans and princes occupied tens of millions of acres of flag fields, and most of them were fertile fields in the Gyeonggi area.

At that time, the Eight Banners encircled the land, and there was almost no Han land in Gyeonggi.

Liangxiang, Sanhe, Ninghe, Shunyi, Pinggu, Changping, Xianghe, Baodi, Tongzhou, Jizhou, Wuqing and other prefectures and counties within 100 miles of the capital are [-]% of the good land under the Eight Banners.

In Shuntian, Baoding, Chengde, Yongping, Hejian and other prefectures within [-] miles, all Han people who had good land were enslaved in the banner with their houses and land, which caused a large number of Han people to flee. The "Law of Escaping Persons" had to be introduced to impose strict laws and regulations on the Han people.

This law still exists today, but compared with the Shunzhi and Kangxi years, the punishment has been eased.

It’s just that there is a record of the flag field. The land purchased by the Wangfu belongs to the Wangfu’s own property and cannot be entered into the public house. In addition, the four palaces have been looted by rebels. Now people from the House of Internal Affairs can’t even enter the door, so there is no way for the House of Internal Affairs to do anything. Know how much land the four relatives hated the palace from buying land for a century.

Jin Jian conservatively estimated that it should not be lower than the number of flag fields. After all, the best thing for princes to do for hundreds of years is to buy land, and the second is to monopolize profitable businesses in the market.

Bannermen are not allowed to do business, but no one dares to prevent Prince Baylor from making a fortune.

Even the business of the banner people has long existed in name only, and almost all businesses in the city and the outer city are run by the banner people.If the Han people want to do business in the capital, they must find a banner man to be the backstage, otherwise the business will not last long.

Compared with land property and commercial property, the so-called salary is just a trick to coax children.

Really relying on that little salary, the prince's family has to go out to beg for food until the end of the year.

"So many flag fields?"

The old rich named Jin Jian was stunned for a moment when he heard the report. He knew that the princes had a lot of land, but he didn’t want to, but each of them started with hundreds of thousands of acres. Thinking that he is now the leader of the military minister, his family only bought a few hundred acres in Tongzhou. Damn, compared with the princes, not even a fucking fraction.

Liang Guozhi was also surprised, and asked Jin Jian how much an acre of flag fields are currently on the market.

"The flag fields are all fertile fields. They are only allowed to be purchased within the flag, and they are only rented and not sold to the outside world. That is, they can be distributed to Han tenants for farming, but they are not allowed to be transferred. According to the officials, the fertile land in the capital area is as high as 12 mu, and as low as [-] mu. There are always [-] taels."

At the beginning of the Republic of China, Shunzhi’s good land in Gyeonggi was only [-] mu, but after a hundred years of the Qing Dynasty, the price of this land continued to rise. In some places, the fertile land was as high as more than [-] mu. The consequences of soaring land prices.

"In other words, the flag fields of the four palaces can be sold for 50 million taels, and if we buy our own land, our national treasury deficit in the Qing Dynasty can be evened out."

Fu Lehun began to make small calculations, not for the banner fields of the four palaces, but for the upper three banners of the Manchurian banner fields.

That pot has more land than the four offending princes.

It’s just that the five banners of Manchuria, Mongolian Eight Banners, and Han Eight Banners are all planning to acquire the property of the Three Banners. It may be difficult to nationalize this pot to solve the financial crisis.

This matter needs to be discussed with the good brother Liu Zi, after all, it should be useful for the good brother Liu to speak on the Han Banner side.

Minister Yonggui of the Household Department asked about the other properties of the four palaces on the Jinjian, but this Jinjian couldn’t answer because he couldn’t enter the palace to check the accounts.

Suo Lin looked at Fu Lehun: "Fu Zhongtang, do you want to say hello to Jia Jia Shikai and ask him to withdraw his soldiers first? Those who should be brought into the House of Internal Affairs should still be taken in. What does it sound like to occupy the palace like this?"

Liang Guozhi and Jin Jian didn't say a word. The soldiers of the infantry commanding the yamen dominate the four palaces. Only Jia Jia Shikai can command those soldiers. The problem is that Fu Zhongtang seems to have conflicts with Jia Jia Shikai.

"I'll go to the palace to discuss this matter with the emperor later on. How about this? The House of Internal Affairs first sends people to the flag fields belonging to the four palaces to verify. Don't let the big and small village heads in Guanzhuang take advantage of the loopholes and not report the truth."

Jin Jian nodded, that's all the Ministry of Internal Affairs can do right now.

Liang Guozhi asked: "Then make a note?"

The note is the proof for entering and leaving the Manchurian city. Now is an extraordinary period, and there are still thieves lurking in the city, so anyone who wants to enter and exit the Manchurian city must issue a note from the military plane to travel.

"open it."

The old man took a sip from the tea bowl, and said to Suo Lin: "The emperor's Luanjia will go to Tailing in three days, and the Shangsanqi guards will be responsible for the safety of Luanjia. Along the way, Shuntian Mansion and Baoding Mansion will be ordered to provide supplies. Your clan's side In the past, ask who will go and who will not, and make a list."

Suo Lin agreed, hesitated and asked, "Fu Zhongtang, where is the Queen Mother?"

"The queen mother?"

Old Fu was stunned for a moment, he was too busy this time, but he forgot about the old Empress Dowager who was still lying in the Palace of Compassion and Peace.

Yonggui said: "The most urgent thing is to clarify the rumors about the emperor's life experience, otherwise there will be no way to talk about the Empress Dowager's burial."

Old Fu nodded in agreement, the fact is like this, if the result of the emperor's test is not the son of the late emperor, can the queen mother still be the queen mother?
It's really a big fanfare to bring the Queen Mother and her elderly to the Tailing Mausoleum. Will they be buried or not?

Two more matters were discussed. One was that the Military Aircraft Department drafted an edict to urge General Feng of Dingxi to go to Huguang to suppress the rebellion and recover Jingzhou and Wuchang.

The second is to order Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang, who lost his city and lost his land, to resign as a third-rank leader and stay in his post. He must organize soldiers to retake Wuchang and prevent the bandits from going down the river.

Wuchang fell six days ago.

(End of this chapter)