Not all Manchus are stupid and arrogant. The real elites at the top are actually very smart. Of course, it’s okay not to be smart. They have received a true imperial education since childhood. This is something they dare not tell the people on weekdays. The truth, they have to learn from an early age!
Instructions through words and deeds coupled with the influence of history, so people like Yixin and Yixuan know the details of their Manchu people!
The establishment of the Qing Dynasty was actually very accidental. It was really unimaginable for the Manchus to settle in the Central Plains and rule for such a long time!
When they first entered the customs, the Manchus actually thought more about grabbing a vote and leaving, because in history, the Yuan Dynasty was the only one to establish a unified regime dominated by ethnic minorities in the Central Plains!
But how do the Manchus compare with the Mongols, the ancestors of the Yuan Dynasty?
Before the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongol Empire had already swept across Europe and Asia. When the Southern Song Dynasty was struggling to support itself, Europe was also conquered by the whips of the Mongols!
Such a huge empire finally unified the Central Plains of Han civilization, and finally retreated to Mobei in only ninety-eight years!
When the Manchus first entered the customs, they compared themselves with each other. They themselves knew that their wealth was incomparable to that of the Mongols who defeated the Southern Song Dynasty!
The Yuan Dynasty didn't even live past a hundred years, so how do you expect the Manchus to live a hundred years? Pull it down, let's not be arrogant, it's better to grab one vote and leave, and grab it for as many years as you can!
It was precisely this subconscious extreme lack of self-confidence that made the Manchus still unwilling to abolish the military system of the Eight Banners or even make reforms even after they pacified the world!
The Eight Banners are not allowed to carry out production and labor, they are raised with flag pay, and then all members receive military training to maintain the characteristics of the Eight Banners' military alliance!
This kind of stubbornness is actually the external manifestation of this underlying psychology. They are unwilling to allow their own people to be completely integrated into the life of the Han people. They are afraid that the Manchus will be completely assimilated!
And they must ensure the fighting force of their own nation. Once a figure like Zhu Yuanzhang appears among the Han people, they will at least have a military force that they can absolutely trust!
Even if they can't be beaten, they can still escape! Take this huge Eight Banners military group and retreat outside the customs! We will continue to work hard with Baishan and Heishui as our base!
This is a strategy that has lasted for two hundred years. Even though many emperors wanted to reform the system in the past two hundred years, they were all invalidated due to strong internal pressure!
The Manchus themselves did not expect that Guo Zuo would be so long that he would turn the entire descendants of the Eight Banners into dandies!
During the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong, including the subsequent emperors, when it came to the immaturity of the bannermen's children, their dandy style made them angry and wanted to beat them all to death!
But being angry is still angry, and in the end there is nothing you can do to make any changes!
It is because this Eight Banners system is the fundamental national policy of the entire Qing Empire. It is not only the foundation of the founding of the country, but also the last safe zone like a Noah's Ark plan!
Emperors of all dynasties knew all the disadvantages but in the end they were unable to make any changes!
By the Tongzhi Dynasty, this system had become a cancer. How could the flower of industrial civilization bloom on such a cancer?
Yixuan was right to cry, he was really crying for the future of the Manchus!
"Before entering the customs, we were all called barbarians by the Han people... In fact, they were right. We knew nothing! We couldn't farm, mine, smelt iron, or make weapons and tools... …”
"Ninety percent of our food, clothing, housing and transportation require Han production and creation! Construction is not what we Manchus are good at!"
"And what about those Han people? They already had extremely high skills during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period... My palace also has some bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties!"
"That kind of complicated craftsmanship and ingenious means... how can we master it? Others did it better than us thousands of years ago!"
"We are not good at nature, and we have not made up for it the day after tomorrow! Since entering the customs, the imperial court has not allowed the bannermen to live like the Han people, nor are they allowed to learn crafts or do business!"
"The purpose is to make our Eight Banners always have fighting power! But in the past two hundred years, we and the Han people have learned nothing about construction!"
"These ancestors brought out from the 49th city are all playing with snuff bottle paintings, walnut plates, gold wire bird cages... all of them are experts in all kinds of things, and many of them are exquisite products made by themselves!"
"But do you really want him to engage in economics and construction like the Han people? Everyone is dumbfounded. He doesn't know how to..."
Woo hoo hoo... Yixuan covered her face with her hands, "We were born incompetent, and the day after tomorrow was delayed for two hundred years... We bannermen don't understand construction at all!"
"The industrialization of the Qing Dynasty that His Majesty wants to carry out...in the final analysis, we still have to rely on the Han people. We bannermen can't do it! We can't do it!"
"The Han people are becoming more and more important. Once they are industrialized, they will have more power!"
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"Ancestor! Are you really going to subjugate your country? Are you really going to stop me from consolidating the Qing Dynasty forever?"
While crying in pain, the fifth master Yi Pei slumped down on the chair with a pale face, as if his muscles and bones had been pulled out. "Heaven is destroying my Manchu people! This is the Heaven who is destroying me and the Qing Dynasty!"
In the fog of history, even the parties involved sometimes cannot see the truth clearly!
Why did the Manchu Qing seclude themselves from the country, and why were they so resistant to Western civilization and industrialization? This problem is huge and there are many reasons!
But what Yi Xuan said is indeed a very important reason!
Because the Manchus themselves knew very well that once the door to industrialization was opened, everything that followed would be beyond their control!
There may be a small number of alternative elites among the banner people who can make a career in it, but more than 90% of the banner people do not have this ability at all!
They can only allow the Han people, the most adept at construction and the most hard-working nation in the world, to control the construction of the entire industrial system!
As long as the Han people get involved in this thing, the huge power of industrial civilization will be controlled by the Han people!
terrible! The Han people, armed with industrial civilization, are not easy to mess with!
The shortcoming of the Han people's relatively low force value can be made up for by thousands of heavy machine guns, artillery, airships, and battleships!
By that time, the end of the Manchus will come!
Such potential threats are the fundamental consideration for Yi Xin and others to oppose everything!
"Fifth brother... Now that Zai Chun has been brainwashed by the foreign and Japanese devils, he can see the good side of industrialization, but not the terrifying side!"
"What we brothers have to do is to put another safety lock on our Manren empire!"
"Yi Zai Chun's play is too outrageous. Once it harms the foundation of our Qing Dynasty! We have to make a move!"
