The Eight Banners of the Han Army were in a very awkward position among the Eight Banners. The Han people regarded them as traitors and devils, while the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners regarded them as lackeys and slaves.
Caught in the middle, it feels a bit like Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror.
Because the Eight Banners of the Han Army had too many people and too strong combat effectiveness, the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" during the Kangxi period, dominated by the Han Army Banners, proved that the Eight Banners of the Han Army were more capable of fighting than the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Mongolian armies. After this, the Qing government began to take measures to weaken the Han Army. military policy.
One of the obvious points is that officials from the Han Army Banners are not allowed to hold important positions above the fourth rank of the Dutong Yamen, so as to firmly control the military power of the Eight Banners of the Han Army in the hands of the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Mongolian armies.
Although the Han troops from old Liaodong are not within this limit, the number of Han troops from old Liaodong only accounts for one-fifth of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and most of the rest are newly surrendered from the pass.
In order to completely solve the problem of too many Han troops, Qianlong directly drove the Han troops out of the Eight Banners, so that this group of Han troops, who had been relying on relatives for hundreds of years, would become the biggest scourge of the Eight Banners. This was called putting the cart before the horse.
What is happening in Mancheng now proves that Qianlong is indeed an outstanding politician and military strategist of the Qing Dynasty, because Qianlong saw the harm of the Han army to the Eight Banners and the capital more clearly than anyone else!
If no one raises their arms and shouts, let it go. If someone organizes a call, the capital city, the heart of the Qing Empire, will come to a standstill in an instant.
Is there anything in this world that can unite people's hearts more than the close ties of relatives?
Under the organization and command of the Han Army's command center temporarily located in the Dutong Yamen of the Han Army's Zhenglan Banner, the entire Eight Banners of the Han Army were connected together and rushed towards the upper three banners of Manchuria with various weapons.
There are uncles who bring nephews, there are nephews who bring cousins, there are cousins who bring nephews, there are nephews who bring brothers, and there are brothers who call themselves brother-in-law.
Seven aunts and eight aunts, a group of people in the alleyway casually pointed out three Han soldiers and Eight Banners who were definitely related to each other. In less than an hour, they became the largest military force in Beijing.
Both the new auxiliary army and the old Liaodong were involved in the massacre throughout the city, either actively or passively.
Zu Jianchang said the most cruel thing. Tonight is about the fate of the Eight Banners of the Han Army. Whoever's family can't produce men will be destroyed first!
But when following the crowd into the residential area of Shangsanqi, some of the older generation would think that they also have their own daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren in Shangsanqi Manchuria.
Older people always miss their family ties.
Many older generation Han soldiers guarded certain courtyards with weapons. Some pretended to shout and kill and asked their companions to go elsewhere, while others asked their relatives who were also Han soldiers to let go of those in the courtyard. people.
If it didn't work out, they offered to spare the lives of their daughter and grandson.
Son-in-law, there is no way to protect him.
Not only did the Upper Three Banners Manchuria have relatives of the Han Army's Eight Banners, there were also Lower Five Banners Manchurians.
This is the result of reverse "harmony".
Starting from the Shunzhi period, the Qing government forced the Eight Banners of the Han Army to marry their daughters to the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Mongolian armies. Even if they were crown princes and guardians, the Minister of War would not be spared. They euphemistically called them the Banner-Han family.
During the Kangxi Dynasty, Manchu women were also allowed to marry into the Han army, but this policy was curtailed after Yongzheng came to power, and gradually the Han army unilaterally exported their daughters.
In peacetime, this policy of "marrying daughters and promoting them high" is quite attractive to the Han army. After all, their own daughters can become really full concubines and even serve as concubines in Fujin, Fujin, and even enter the palace as concubines, and come to this family of traitors. There is no doubt that smoke is rising from the ancestral graves.
However, when chaos broke out and some people instigated it, this policy became a shame for the Eight Banners of the Han Army.
Many young men of the Han army, who were usually just like rogues in the market, immediately set their sights on those Manchu women after following their elders into the Shangsanqi Manchuria area to see blood.
Just like a flood when the floodgates are opened, when the water cannot be stopped, the Manchuria residential area in Shangsanqi will immediately flood.
Except for a few areas, the Shangsanqi Manchurians in other places did not put up any resistance because they had no time to resist.
The Han Army Banner gang came and killed them too quickly, and the number of people was so large that they could scare people to death.
In addition, the main military forces of the Three Banners were defending the imperial city, the Forward Camp, the Guard Camp, the Shanpu Camp, etc. All the Imperial Guards of the Three Banners were crippled, and no one could save the Manchu women and children of the Three Banners in a short time.
Hundreds of Han soldiers, led by Zu Jianchang, rushed into the home of the Manchurian Xianghuang Banners, the great-grandson of Eyidu, one of the five founding ministers, the grandson of Taishi Yibilong, and the late great scholar Aligon.
Ali Gun had two sons. The eldest son was Feng Sheng'e, the Dingxi general who was now in charge of the army in Sichuan, and the second son was Buyanda Lai, the third-class imperial guard.
The house given to Aragon by Qianlong was very large, with more than seventy rooms in the front and back, which was larger than the average Beiziye.
How could the A family's dozen minions and a group of servants stop the murderous Han army?
The reputation of General Dingxi could not scare those Han soldiers at all.
Soon, screams were heard everywhere.
Chang Fu led his men into the Xianghuang Banner Manchuria Dutong Yamen, which happened to contain part of the banner's rice grain subsidy scheduled to be distributed next month, amounting to nearly one million taels.
Many of the Han soldiers who rushed into the Dutong Yamen saw so much silver for the first time. Many of them turned to stone the moment they opened the silver box, and their eyes instantly turned red.
Shangsanqi is so damn rich!
In an instant, everyone rushed into the house where the money was kept and began to break the locks and grab the money like crazy.
Some smashed open the silver box and put the silver ingots into their arms, some threw themselves on the box to signal those around them not to grab it, some put it in their pants, and some bit it with their teeth when they were already full and couldn't hold it anymore.
If you live alone, you won't open your mouth even if you die.
As long as there was room for money, it was filled by these Han troops.
More people poured in, including those from the Han army, those from Manchuria under the Five Banners, and those from the Eight Banners of Mongolia.
The Eight Banners are now convinced that the emperor has rebelled!
Why did the emperor rebel? Because the emperor is Han!
Since the emperor has rebelled, it is only natural that the people who purged the Three Banners should be wiped out.
What's more, after the upper three flags are washed away, their property will be equally divided among the other flags.
That's amazing wealth.
You know, Shangsanqi accounts for half of the Eight Banners’ wealth!
The main force of the massacre soon changed from the Han army to the Lower Five Banners Manchurians. These Manchurians, who were usually looked down upon by the Upper Three Banners, shouted slogans similar to that of the country taking turns, and frantically hacked and killed the gang of Upper Three Banners.
Especially the two blue flags who used to be the top three flags were the most ruthless.
The fratricidal war among the Eight Banners happened so quickly that no one knew what was happening or why.
It just came out of the blue and fermented naturally and quickly.
Except for a very few who were too timid to hide at home and dare not come out, about 70% to 80% of the bannermen participated in this brawl of the Eight Banners involuntarily.
Either kill or be killed.
In the palace, the princes and ministers headed by Prince Jian, Prince Zhuang and others felt that something was wrong when they heard the loud shouts of killing coming from outside the palace. However, they could hear the slogans of killing Qianlong and protecting the Qing Dynasty very clearly.
This is no problem.
"Tell Hongli to abdicate immediately, and my clan will spare his life!"
Prince Feng Neheng did not want the chaos to continue, because it would cause too much damage to the city. With his support, the princes and ministers gave Qianlong a way to survive.
As long as he immediately writes an edict to abdicate, the princes and ministers will immediately come forward to clean up the mess.