Before entering the casino stud, you must have some money to buy buns. This is Jia Liu's consistent principle in dealing with people.
This is called not taking the road to death.
In the same way, you can't put all your eggs in one basket.
Even if He Shen really tries to find a way for the Jia family to raise the flag, He Zhongtang is not yet well-developed and is a person who speaks lightly. Even if he really asks Ying Lian for help in the name of the Gao family, it may not be possible.
After all, it was Qianlong who appointed the Grand Master of the Jia family as his second minister, and it was the little bastard Fu Changan who got the Jia family in and out of the flag list.
After all, Jia Liu estimated that the chance of his family raising a flag was at least 70%.
Therefore, before converting from a bannerman to a Han Chinese, he had to think about what to do next, so as not to be in a hurry.
To break away from the ruling class, Jia Liu would definitely not do it.
He was not interested in being a landowner or a businessman.
He is only interested in being an official.
The so-called good man who is not an official is like walking in brocade clothes at night, like a eunuch going to a brothel - it's just boring!
Although the Jia family has half a future, that half of the future now falls on his father, Jia Daquan. Unless Jia Daquan breaks out today, otherwise Jia Liu is actually nothing but a bannerman.
Moreover, if Jia Daquan really dies now, the half-promising Yunqi Lieutenant will probably be gone as well - the whole family has been kicked out of the flag. Can he continue to receive the Spyker's subsidy? Enjoy the benefits brought by this Spyker.
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No matter what year it is, there are very few people who offer help in times of need, and it is normal for people to add insult to injury.
Maybe that boy Fu Chang'an is wondering how to deal with this half of the Jia family's future.
Therefore, Jia Liu had to start things after leaving the flag.
Put aside the old lady's birthday or Galileo vs. Lafayette for now. I just want to make progress, so I try my best to coax these old ladies to play. Your son has destroyed the root of this sister's progress, and you are coaxing your grandma.
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Of course, Jia Liu, who had prepared for the worst, had to find another shortcut to progress.
In Jia Liu's previous life, when a common man wanted to enter the officialdom and become a civil servant in the imperial court, it was not an ordinary difficulty, but a special difficulty.
But in the Qing Dynasty, there were many avenues.
Because the Qing Dynasty welcomed wealthy people to become officials, that is, it encouraged wealthy people to buy officials. For this reason, there was an official term called "donation", which was the public sale of officials and titles.
It is not uncommon to be able to buy official jobs by donating money to the court. It was not the first of its kind in the Qing Dynasty, but had already appeared in the Qin Dynasty.
There has been a system of donating money to serve as an official in all dynasties, but it was never put on the table and was an unspoken rule. This rule gave many people the opportunity to enter the officialdom. Some talented people even became officials through this channel, such as the famous Sima Xiang of the Han Dynasty.
This is like "taking money as a benefactor".
It's just that in the Qing Dynasty, selling official positions and conferring titles was made public and formalized, and it was no longer hidden. I'm sorry.
It was Emperor Qianlong's grandfather Kangxi who was the first to openly buy and sell official titles. The reason was that the "Three Feudatories Rebellion" and the Mongolian invasion of Mobei caused the Qing government's treasury to be extremely empty, so it had to rely on buying and selling official titles to raise military pay.
By the time of his son Yongzheng's reign, the state treasury had been greatly enriched by various reforms, so the Yongzheng Dynasty did not sell many officials or titles.
Compared to me, Yongzheng's son is still more respectable and capable of doing things.
However, after his grandson Qianlong came to power, he became as shameless as his grandfather. Not only did he reintroduce the system of selling official positions that his father had put aside, he also carried it forward!
The reason was that Qianlong had used troops so many times since he came to the throne that all the property left by his father was basically exhausted. In order to maintain the money and food needed for the war, he could only continue his grandfather's methods.
In addition, although the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong seems to be the time of peace, there are still a large number of anti-Qing organizations among the people, such as Bailian, Tiandi, Tianli, Bagua, Qingshui, etc. These anti-Qing organizations "rob the rich and give to the poor" and "reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty"
" is the slogan and has a certain mass base among the people.
During the late Qing Dynasty, there were anti-Qing uprisings almost every year.
Although the majority is small, it shows that there is always a small group of Han people who insist on their own national heritage and do not want to be slaves to foreign invaders.
This small group of people was later defined by Zou Rong, a national hero in the late Qing Dynasty, in his book "Revolutionary Army" as "Imperial Han" - warriors who fought and were willing to sacrifice for the rejuvenation of the Han nation.
In the past dynasties, the most practical way to prevent the common people from rebelling is not to give them more wealth. As long as the common people are hungry, even if some people will secretly join various underground organizations, most people will still be content with the status quo.
After all, there are always a very small number of people who are willing to fight for the nation and are not afraid of sacrifice.
But it is precisely the existence of these very few people that has enabled the Han nation to continue to perpetuate itself. It has been destroyed and reborn again and again, so that the torch of Chinese civilization will always light up the east.
Qianlong was still very smart. He learned the lessons of the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Qianlong had used troops almost every year since he ascended the throne thirty-eight years ago, and the scale of the troops was still very large, the way Qianlong solved his financial difficulties was not to increase taxes on the people, but to absorb a large amount of private funds to enrich the national treasury through donations and official positions.
At the same time, the wealthy people (elites) among the Han people were also absorbed into the Qing ruling class.
In this way, it can not only prevent the common people from rebelling against the Qing Dynasty due to excessive taxation, but also firmly tie the Han elites to the Qing Dynasty's chariot.
Even Jia Liu had to praise this point, Qianlong was much more cunning than Chongzhen.
Another reason why "donation" was popular in the Qianlong Dynasty was that there were too few official officials.
The so-called "right path" naturally refers to the way to become an official through the imperial examination, five tributes (en, ba, deputy, sui, outstanding tribute students), and yin students. Among them, the imperial examination is the most popular way to get officials, but the imperial examination is taken every three years, and no one can be admitted every time.
There are about 300 people, an average of 100 people are recruited a year, and the number of officials in the entire Qing Empire is hundreds of thousands, so one can imagine how big the official shortage is.
There really is no other way to become an official. The country would have been doomed long ago by relying only on those officials produced by the imperial examination.
Therefore, to a certain extent, the "extraordinary" officials created by donations were in line with the actual interests of the Qing empire and were more conducive to maintaining rule.
Under the "donation" system, ordinary people can get official positions by donating money to the court; students can donate money to become tribute students and supervisors, and then enter the officialdom; officials can also donate money to gain one level.
In this way, the court has benefited, those who bought official posts have fulfilled their wishes, and the rule from top to bottom has become more stable. Why not?
As for the consequences, it is corruption.
Therefore, over the years, officials with good backgrounds have been writing letters to resist the "different ways". A few years ago, Qianlong had to issue an edict for this purpose, saying that "donation is not a good thing, it is temporarily expedient, but it is not feasible for a long time."
It’s time to stop donating.
However, it has not stopped until now.
There is no other reason, it’s just money.
Well, now, Jia Liu is about to lose his status as a banner man and aristocrat because the old man is designated as a second minister. In order to realize his grand ambition, of course he will spare no effort to exploit the loopholes of the Qing court and poach Qianlong's corners.
Buying an official position was the most practical solution he could think of.
Because it was impossible for him to take part in the imperial examination.
The half of the Analects of Confucius last night had greatly reduced his wisdom.
But if he wants to buy an official position, his father, Jia Daquan, must pay for it, and the money will definitely not be a fraction. Given the current situation of the Jia family, he will have to sell his house and land. For this reason, Jia Liu must do the ideological work of Tong Daquan.
"Dad, don't worry, as long as your son becomes an official, he will be filial to you!"