The old rich man did not report his expenses. The Ministry of Internal Affairs purchased an egg from outside the palace for more than ten taels of silver, although the eggs he bought at home were only three cents each.
According to the price purchased by the palace, ordinary people would not be able to eat even one egg a year.
"No need, I'm 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 to him.
"Is the Emperor dissatisfied with me?"
The old rich man was not happy, and he kindly tried to improve the food for you, this little bitch, but you, this little bitch, kicked your nose in the face.
"Having a good minister like you is a blessing I have earned over many lifetimes. How can I be dissatisfied?"
Qianlong put down the bowl. It was clean inside. It seemed that after experiencing so many things, the emperor finally understood the truth of hard work.
"Really? Why does the emperor look like he wants to kill me?"
The old rich man was not used to Qianlong. When he saw that he was speaking in a shady manner, he immediately used a trick and slammed his fist as big as a bowl on the table.
Qianlong's cheeks twitched involuntarily, and he whispered: "I will just eat it."
A small impatience will ruin a big plan. Shikai is already taking action. Once the Gaoping Ling Incident occurs, if he Hongli doesn't beat the thief Fulehun into a pig's head, his surname will not be Aisin Gioro.
"This is the right thing to do,"
The old rich man smiled without a smile and picked up the eggs and peeled the shells for Qianlong considerately. After peeling them off, he motioned for Qianlong to open his mouth.
Qianlong was afraid, but he didn't dare to say "no" and opened his mouth uneasily.
With a "gulp" sound, the old man actually stuffed the whole egg into Qianlong's mouth.
With a ferocious look on his face: "Swallow it!"
"Hmm..."
Qianlong was almost suffocated to death by the egg. It took a lot of effort to slide the egg into his stomach, where he gasped loudly.
The resentment value in his heart is as high as 99,000 points.
"Very good, there are no rules. As long as the emperor is obedient, I guarantee that the emperor will not be bullied."
The old man nodded with satisfaction and struck with his palms. Someone came in immediately. It was Manzhang Jingnamutu, who was newly promoted to the Military Aircraft Department. He used to follow the old man to work in the Sichuan Governor's Yamen.
"Tell the emperor about the newly built Shangsanqi."
The old man moved a stool and sat next to Qianlong, signaling Namutu to explain to the emperor the first fire he, the foreman, the military minister, was going to set.
The overall content of this fire is to merge Manchuria with White Banner and Manchuria with Zhenghuang Banner to form New Zhenghuang Banner Manchuria;
Merge Zhenghuang Banner Mongolia and Xianghuang Banner Manchuria to form the new Xianghuang Banner Manchuria;
Zuoling was transferred from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and merged with Zhengbai Banner Manchuria to form the new Zhengbai Banner Manchuria.
It is the so-called Shangsanqi.
After the ominous incident in the original Zhenghuang Banner Manchuria, there are now only 34 assistants left, less than 10,000 people.
There are still 42 auxiliary leaders in Manchuria under the Xianghuang Banner, with more than 13,000 people.
Zhengbai Banner has the fewest remaining troops in Manchuria, with only 29 subordinates and more than 7,000 people.
Zuoling is the original Niulu. Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there were 309 zuoling in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and there were 18 half-point zuoling.
Based on the 300 men per commander, the entire Manchu Eight Banners had about 100,000 military personnel and more than 300,000 family members.
During the Kangxi Dynasty, the number of subordinates of the Eight Banners in Manchuria had been expanded to 669. On paper, the Eight Banners in Manchuria could mobilize 200,000 military personnel and more than 500,000 family members.
In fact, after entering the customs, Manchurian soldiers occupied a large number of Han women and multiplied rapidly. As a result, the total population of the Eight Banners of Manchuria exceeded one million in the 50th year of Kangxi.
Due to the limit on the number of subordinates, the number of subordinates in each banner was seriously over-staffed, and some even had as many as more than 2,000 subordinates.
This gave rise to a large number of conflicts, the most important of which was the issue of the distribution of flag pay and grain.
Zhang Ying, a scholar of the Kangxi Dynasty, raised concerns about this. He believed that the population of the Eight Banners was entirely supported by the state finance. In just a few decades, there were already one million people. In the future, there may be as many as tens of millions. The national treasury will definitely be unable to supply it, so it is very likely that
Leading to the destruction of the country and the annihilation of the nation.
Mingzhu also wrote a letter that the imperial court supported the Eight Banners, which had several times more people than the 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 Manchu commanders, 52 Mongolian commanders, and 17 Han military commanders were added to the establishment.
In addition, about 50,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners were moved from Beijing to other places to garrison, but they only treated the symptoms but not the root cause.
The measure taken by Qianlong after he ascended the throne was to abolish the Eight Banners. Originally, the three banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and Han were unified. However, they were resisted by the Eight Banners of Manchuria and eventually changed to the eight banners of the Han army.
Over the past forty years, more than 300,000 people from the Eight Banners of the Han Army have been expelled one after another, leaving only a little more than half of the Eight Banners of the Han Army that had a population of 500,000 during the Yongzheng period more than forty years later.
If later generations of historians did not know the inside story, they would definitely exclaim that "negative population growth" actually appeared during the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong.
If not for the serious losses of Manchu and Mongolian officers and soldiers on the front line caused by the Great and Small Jinchuan War, Qianlong had to stop dismantling Han military items. Otherwise, according to the plan, all the Eight Banners of the Han Army would be dismantled no later than the fiftieth year of Qianlong's reign. From then on, the Eight Banners only consisted of 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 the Eight Banners in Manchuria and Mongolia was still growing.
In the 31st year of Qianlong's reign, the establishment of 45 additional subordinates had to be added, making the Eight Banners of Manchuria a total of 794 subordinates and 32 half-subordinates. The book population was more than 830,000 people, but the actual population was more than 1.4 million.
Of the more than 1.4 million soldiers and civilians of the Eight Banners in Manchuria, less than 300,000 were stationed in the Eight Banners in various provinces, accounting for 20% and less than 300,000, and 20% were also accounted for outside the customs, Xinjiang and other places, and the remaining 800,000 were basically in the Gyeongsang region.
The capital alone cannot accommodate such a large population, so a large number of new houses have been built in the suburbs of Beijing since the Kangxi period.
According to statistics from the Military Aircraft Department, there are currently more than 48,000 Eight Banner barracks in the suburbs of the capital, and nearly 100,000 Eight Banner soldiers and their families live in them.
In addition, there are families of Manchurian officers and soldiers living in various places in Zhili, ranging from more than ten thousand to two to three thousand.
At present, the total population of the Eight Banners living in the capital is more than one million, with about 70% shared in the city and 30% in the outer cities. The actual number of Han people living in the capital is less than 100,000.
During the Shunzhi period, the number of Han people living in the outer city was more than 30,000. During the Kangxi period, the number increased to about 50,000. Therefore, strictly speaking, the city of Beijing during the Qing Dynasty was the city of the Eight Banners.
Or the city of Manchuria.
On that ominous night in the city, the main victims of death were Shangsanqi Manchuria, and the number of subordinates from Shangsanbanner Manchuria accounted for nearly half of the entire Eighth Manchuria Banners. Current preliminary statistics show that the number of victims is as many as 170,000, and the subordinates involved
The number is nearly three hundred, and about two-thirds of the subordinates are dead.
This number is shocking. Even the rich man gasped in shock when he received the statistics, because the total number of people who died in Jingzhou after being massacred by the bandits was only 40,000.
It was equivalent to killing four full cities overnight.
This incident was undoubtedly the biggest blow to the Eight Banners since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. It was 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 as Dai Xiao, it should be said that it was the catastrophe of the Eight Banners.
And all of this is the fault of this old man who still has eggs to eat. Do you think the old rich man is angry?
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