The Manchu Eight Banners Group never had an inclusive structure that could dominate the world from the very beginning. They always firmly controlled power, especially military power, in their own hands.
Before the Eight Banners entered the customs, they were also in a state of hostility with the Mongolian tribes. The Manchus, who had luckily won the war through a long period of time, gave up the old method of killing them all and chose to recruit troops.
They signed an alliance with Mongolia, organized the Eight Banners of Mongolia to conquer the world together, and shared the wealth of the Central Plains... This does not mean that the Manchus are big, but it only proves that the population base of the Manchus is really pitiful.
They don't have that many people to rule the world, and they don't even have enough people to conquer the world, so they can only allocate part of their quota to win allies.
When they first entered the pass, they still used a large number of Han surrender troops. However, after the world was calmed down, the Han surrender troops had been killed, and the hundreds of thousands of powerful troops who had conquered the world were almost reorganized. .
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the military power of the world was completely concentrated in the hands of the Manchus. The Han Green Camp nominally still had some Han military generals, but they were definitely under the control of the Manchu generals.
Throughout the mid-Qing Dynasty, military power was divided between the Manchu and Mongolian ministers, and the Han people could only get a tiny bit of rights!
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty knew very well that the civil service profession should be done by Han people, and ethnic minorities were engaged in politics, economic construction, and cultural education... They were really not good at these things, so they might as well package them all for Han officials to do.
As long as the Manchu and Mongolian nobles hold the knife in their hands and have permanent military power in their hands, they can be guaranteed to be imprisoned for ten thousand years!
No matter how prestigious a civil servant is, can he still be able to withstand my sword?
However, this structure was completely shaken by the Taiping Rebellion. The long hair sweeping across the Yangtze River shattered the illusion of the Manchu and Mongolian military aristocrats being invincible, and the defeats one after another completely tore up the Manchu Qing's painting.
The war broke the political landscape. Han warlords, something they had feared for two hundred years, once again appeared in front of them. At this time, in addition to using Confucian moral articles and ideas of heaven and conscience to kidnap them, they no longer had any military power to seize power. courage.
The Hunan Army and the Chinese were two behemoths that the Manchus feared to the core. Their powerful military power had kept them awake all night. However, they never expected that before the Han warlords were solved, Emperor Tongzhi actually lured the foreign devils to the court. Here comes.
Guiziliu went crazy. He stamped his feet in the Dongnuan Pavilion and shouted, "Cixi, Cixi! The emperor is young and ignorant. You are almost forty, are you still ignorant?"
Good guy, a woman is afraid of others saying her age, not to mention that Cixi is only 35 this year, so all of a sudden she is rounded up to forty years old.
The furious Cixi slapped the coffee table and yelled, "What did you say? The Ai family is forty? You, you, you...get out of the Ai family!"
"Go away! But go away, I have to make my words clear!" Guiziliu roared with a ferocious face, "Gordon is an Englishman. When he was fighting the long hair, he had to use these foreign devils because of the situation..."
"The imperial court finally gave him the position of admiral. It was an honor. The purpose was to make him get out and go back to England!"
"The Han people have already taken away a large part of the world's military power. How can they still seduce a group of foreign devils to take charge of the army? I will put my words in front of you today. Who dares to let the foreign devils lead my Qing soldiers? Who dares to give the foreign devils real strength? Granted the position of standing general..."
"I'm not done with him!"
There was a snap... The daring Guiziliu smashed the tea cup in front of him, turned around and walked away. All the eunuchs and maids in Yangxin Palace turned pale with fear and did not dare to say a word.
Cixi trembled with rage when she saw Guiziliu's arrogant back. She really wanted to order the Forbidden City guards to arrest this rebellious bastard, but thinking about the tens of thousands of tigers in Xishan, Cixi was so angry that she vomited blood and did not say that. sentence.
She kept wailing in her heart, 'O late emperor, late emperor! Who would dare to do this when you were alive? What happened to the Qing Dynasty? Why is it worse every year...'
The monarchical centralized system of the Qing Dynasty reached its historical peak during the Qianlong period, and then successive generations slipped away. However, in the Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng... these three dynasties, the emperors could still control the situation with their previous majesty.
Officials in the imperial court, including relatives within the Eight Banners, did not dare to act rashly. However, after the Tongzhi Dynasty, not only the Han warlords emerged, but also a new military faction emerged within the Manchus.
'My son! You are at a disadvantage because you are too young. Why did you let these hungry wolves seize the time difference? Why did you let these bastards get up...'
Prince Chun Yixuan knew that what happened today made Cixi very angry. He quickly apologized to his brother, "Sister-in-law, please don't be angry. Sixth brother is also angry. After all, it is a big taboo to allow foreigners to serve as officials in the court..." "
"After all, Hart of the Customs is outside the Six Ministries and Nine Ministers, and he is in charge of money and food and does not involve military power... so the court just admits it!"
"But this Gordon cannot be used! Military power cannot be divided any further..."
"That's enough..." Cixi yelled, "You think I don't know about the dirty water in your stomach? What foreign devils are you? Aren't you worried that Long Live will win Zuo Zongtang's heart?"
"You are worried that Gordon's expedition has a secret message from Long Live. You are afraid that Long Live will form an alliance with the Han warlords and then turn around and kill you! Take away your rights!"
"What other explanation can there be? If you want to deceive the Ai family, it's just a dream!"
Yixuan also received a lot of scolding. He sighed deeply without explaining, shook his head and said to Cixi, "Since the Queen Mother is so angry, I won't say anything more..."
"It's hard for us to say anything about things thousands of miles away...but what the Queen Mother just said makes sense!"
Yi Xuan smiled coldly and said, "If our emperor of the Qing Dynasty were reduced to forming an alliance with the Han warlords and then turning their guns against us Eight Banners disciples...hehehe..."
"If something like this really happens, this country... I don't think it's enough!"
After saying that, Yizhen also bowed his hands and left the Yangxin Hall!
Cixi's chest heaved violently with anger, and her face turned frighteningly white. Li Lianying beside her was like a cat and mouse, not even daring to breathe!
It took a full quarter of an hour for Cixi to speak, "Haha, they all want power, but they are not economical! Write a letter to Zuo Zongtang and tell him... to escort the expedition team back to the capital!"
"You Guiziliu dare to force me to marry you, the Ai family will not let you be proud!"
"Have you sent a message to Beiyuan? Why hasn't my sister seen anyone all morning?"
Li Lianying said cautiously, "Beiyuan wrote back... He said he was not feeling well and would not come to Yangxin Hall today..."
"Hahaha..." Cixi laughed so hard that tears almost came out, "Bah... shameless. The Ai family thinks he wants a man. Fu Qing's face has gone to Shanghai. She can't stand it alone!" "
When she thought of Ci'an, Cixi thought of the newly built magnificent Beiyuan! It was a large royal garden that included Jingshan and Beihai.
The ground is large and the water surface is also large... In addition, Fuqing gave Cian operating funds, so the entire Beiyuan was built to be a luxury!
Not only the original palaces were renovated, but many more pavilions, pavilions, and palaces were added. These are all gardens owned by Ci'an alone, which is the Beiyuan of the Capital!
Jealousy, Cixi was so aggrieved that she almost shed tears when she thought about the beautiful gardens and the grievances she felt in the Forbidden City.
"Go back to the palace..." Ci Xi gritted her teeth and said fiercely, "Give that Isharto a few bowls of deer blood. The Ai family is so angry... we have to find someone to defeat the fire!"
"Hey... I'll do it now, my slave!"
