If you don’t become a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are! Zai Chun really experienced it today!
From the moment it was formed, Emperor Tongzhi's new army was not welcomed by the Manchu Qing court at all, because it belonged entirely to Emperor Tongzhi's army alone, and the various forces in the court could not interfere with it at all!
From the very beginning, when Manshun and Jiang Lie went to Beijing to convey the order to reorganize the three hundred pro-army troops, they encountered great resistance!
At that time, various forces in the Eight Banners had tampered with the emperor's will. They clearly wanted the third son of Sanbao's concubine, but in the end, the one they sent was Naduobao, the eldest son of the family.
What they clearly wanted was the unpopular naughty boy born to a young wife, but in the end, the major families just stuffed their incompetent eldest son into the house!
This is all political investment. Those smart people in Sijiu City all think that the emperor's personal army is just to accompany the emperor to play, stand guard and so on, and it will not be their turn to fight!
If it were the emperor's imperial guards' turn to fight with their bayonets themselves, the Qing Dynasty would soon be destroyed!
It was precisely because of all kinds of sinister little thoughts and the bullying of Emperor Tongzhi when he was young that the major families tried their best to mix it up and even issued slogans saying that this was to express their loyalty.
'You, Long Live the Lord, want my third child? No, that guy can't even pull an inferior bow, so I'd better ask my boss, look at how fat he is! '
'Is this a sign of loyalty? Long Live the Lord is young and I don’t know who is talented and dares. Is it wrong for me to send the best talents in my family? '
Suddenly, scenes of family tragedies and comedies were staged in Forty-Nine City. Those unfavored nephews and nephews were all locked up, or they were simply given a sum of money to go to the Bada Hutong to have fun!
Anyway, we can’t stop the favored children at home from getting promoted and making a fortune!
Manshun and Jiang Lie saw this and thought it was okay? I scold the Eight Banners for being bastards every day, but today I see that they are too bastards, right? Do you dare to implement the imperial edict at a discount?
This led to the subsequent conflict between seizing the capital and besieging the Prime Minister's Yamen! But no matter what, all the three hundred guards named by the emperor were fished out.
But it also offended countless families in the court!
Since the Qianlong Dynasty, he has collected the famous Jiadao Zhongluo! Emperor Jiaqing and Emperor Daoguang could barely maintain the monarchy system, but after the outbreak of the Taiping War and then the Second Opium War, the centralization of power by the Qing emperor was broken.
Even if you are the emperor, you still have to discuss everything! In the imperial court, the Han governors, the Confucian scholars of the Qing Dynasty, the Red Princes of the Eight Banners, the Queen Mother Party, the reformists, etc.... everyone has their own thoughts.
Emperor Tongzhi wanted to establish a military organization that belonged only to himself. How could this be possible? If you don't let these forces add sand to the situation, their first reaction will be... to cut off your financial path!
The court won’t give you any more money! The Ministry of Revenue will not allocate funds to you, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has no money... Emperor Tongzhi wants to spend money? Go ask your mother for private money!
But no matter how rich Cixi was, she still couldn't support a modern army!
Ci'an did have some private money, but he still had to support Fu Qing. The Westernization Movement initiated by Mr. Qing was also a money-eating monster!
In the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Qing Dynasty, the poor people are now wiping their eyes and fleeing abroad, and even the officials' salaries are in arrears!
The customs office on Hurd's side is rich, but Hurd's direct superior or cooperative unit is the Prime Minister's Office! That was Guiziliu's territory. Prince Gong had to train his own army even if he had money!
Even if you are Long Live the Lord! You have to be reasonable too, right? Zuo Zongtang raised his own military expenses for the war in Xinjiang. The imperial court gave him two million taels for the general offensive. Your army of 30,000 is asking for millions of dollars. Isn't this inappropriate?
The Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prime Minister's Office, and the governors of various provinces all received the appropriation statements from Shen Baozhen. They thought that these places would give the emperor some face, but they were disappointed!
"Long live my lord! I will make it clear..." Shen Baozhen knocked his head on the ground, "For the military expenses of the Yulin New Army, Marshal Zuo allocated one million from the military expenses for the pacification of Xinjiang..."
"Hu Xueyan from the south of the Yangtze River raised three million, half of which was from Marshal Zeng's wish. The Hunan Army repaid one million..."
"The empress dowagers of the two palaces received two hundred thousand taels per person, and the rest was more than three hundred thousand taels dismantled from the bank account and the bank... By the way, there was also the 180,000 taels sent by Fu Qing, the assistant minister of the Prime Minister's Yamen... "
"That's all, Lord Long Live. With less than 5 million in military expenses, we can support a new army of 30,000 people in the imperial forest... This is already my limit. I cannot ask Lord Long Live to punish me!"
"Long Live Lord, please punish me!" Everyone kowtowed to plead guilty.
Emperor Tongzhi's head was spinning and he couldn't help but mutter, "Why so little? Why so little money? Why didn't you tell me before? Why..."
"Long live my lord! Those bastards in the imperial court not only refuse to give money but also talk nonsense..." Ma Ming came from a dandy in Forty-Nine City, and he would not save face for anyone.
"They have said that there is no precedent for the imperial court to train 30,000 soldiers with 5 million taels? This amount of money is enough to train 100,000 soldiers, so you should save some money..."
"The most disgusting thing is that those bastards in the Ministry of War did not give us money but gave us a bunch of approval documents... Let us go to the arsenals of each province to coordinate bows and arrows, spears, armor, cowhide and so on..."
"They say these things can be used to offset military expenses... My Japanese sister's are using us as a beggar army! New Army, we are the new army, what we want are cannons, foreign guns, and countless bullets …”
Zai Chun finally understood that those bastards in the court, on the one hand, would not do anything without benefit and money, but on the other hand, they had no idea what the New Army was.
In their traditional thinking, how much money can the military spend? Instead of recruiting troops and then distributing swords, spears and other supplies, the new army would at most have more foreign guns.
You worked hard during the war, so can you just have food to eat on weekdays?
When an army of 30,000 is established, it costs more than 3 million taels, and when it comes to raising the army, it is enough to have 108,000 yuan a month for food and vegetables.
They simply don’t understand what it means to get ten thousand taels of gold when a cannon goes off, nor do they understand that the more powerful the new army is, the more money it will take to train!
In order to achieve combat effectiveness in a war, artillery shells and bullets must be consumed as if they cost nothing... They don't understand this, and they don't want to understand it!
Zai Chun was furious at the time, "What about the Chinese? How much did the head of state give..." He was stunned as soon as the words came out of his mouth.
What's wrong with me? Why am I saying this in front of everyone? I, I, I...am I confused?
No one dared to answer this question, because everyone knew that Xiao Letian was just the emperor's master. It would be no problem to raise you as the Tongzhi Emperor, but others in the army had no such obligation.
At the earliest, Xiao Letian only promised to help you raise three hundred officers for Zaichun. There is no problem in helping you raise and train them.
But I can’t control what happens after I return home!
Zai Chun sighed and felt sad in his heart. He also knew that he had developed a very strong dependence on his master in the past few years.
Moreover, what I saw and heard around the head of state were all big and boundless undertakings, and tens of millions of dollars were used to fight against the European powers!
But he forgot that Xiao Letian can easily mobilize tens of millions of funds in his hands. That is the ability of the head of state, not you Zaichun!
Suppressing the anger in his heart, Zai Chun smiled bitterly and said, "I heard that I still owe the soldiers' salary? How much is owed in total?"
