The Qing Dynasty prospered due to the Eight Banners and will eventually perish due to the Eight Banners. If nothing else, just relying on the Manchu Qing Dynasty’s excellent secrecy measures, this dynasty will either die or die!
The Aixinjueluo family did not achieve absolute centralization from beginning to end. Only the three stages of the middle Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties were relatively centralized!
During this period of time, the imperial power could override everything, and the emperor truly kept his word!
For the rest of the time, the Eight Banners still share the world! The Aixinjueluo royal family is just one of the leaders of the Eight Banners!
More than two hundred years of intermarriage, marriage, alliance... the entire Eight Banners family has been broken and pinched together again and again, and the bloodline is that you have me in you, and you have me in you!
The Eight Banners is a huge group of relatives. In many cases, the power of a family is actually due to the number of relatives!
Yixin's Fujin Guarjia surname is also a common surname among the Manchus. There are countless relatives in the Eight Banners. Even the clan government can only sort out the Guarjia surname within the five surnames. of kinship.
Many distant relatives have not moved around for many years, but as long as they are willing to connect, there must be a way!
In fact, if you want to find out information in the Forbidden City, looking for eunuchs is not a good choice, because eunuchs are all collected from Han families in the capital!
These people who entered the palace did not have the old foundation in the Eight Banners. They were all a group of people who were purely bullied. These people had no one to rely on and could only rely on the imperial power!
If the imperial power can protect them and provide them with a better life, it will be difficult for anyone else to convince them!
And after all, eunuchs are not Quanhe people. After being stabbed, eunuchs will basically change their personalities drastically, becoming sinister, twisted, and perverted... Their extremely dark psychology makes it impossible to figure out their true identity!
Moreover, the overly greedy eunuch is also a master who has breasts and is a mother. If he provides you with information today, he will sell you for money and rights tomorrow!
Therefore, Yixin will not spend all its resources on eunuchs, but will spend more resources on eunuchs, guards, officials...including maids!
The palace ladies in the Forbidden City are a special existence, which is different from the Ming Dynasty. Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there has been a strict system for selecting palace ladies!
Only girls from well-established families within the Eight Banners could enter the palace and become showgirls, and then work their way up step by step to become female officials.
Many palace maids in the Forbidden City may just arrange flowers, mend clothes, tidy up rooms...but their fathers, brothers, etc. are most likely the fourth or fifth-rank officials in the imperial court!
As for the women from Han official families entering the palace, that was all in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and most of the maids from these Han families were placed in outer gardens such as the Old Summer Palace!
This one-third of an acre of land in the Forbidden City is still dominated by Eight Banner women!
This kind of system is actually to ensure that the emperor's bloodline is pure. Because there are three thousand beauties in the harem, do you know that the emperor was happy that day and went to visit a certain maid?
Since most of these palace maids are women from the Eight Banners family, they will inevitably be controlled by the huge Eight Banners network!
Guarjia and Lan, who was next to Cixi in the palace, agreed that the relationship would last for several lifetimes, and there was no news that couldn't be obtained with a little money!
Although Lan promised not to hear everything about the secret spies between Cixi and Emperor Tongzhi today, she was still able to spy on a lot as she was deeply trusted by Cixi.
The body is outside the palace, but the ears are still hanging on the window lattice!
The information promised by Lan was definitely worth a manor. Prince Gong and the others never imagined that Zai Chun himself had more than fifteen million dollars at his disposal!
Fifteen million taels of silver, the British actually spent such a large sum of money, but when they heard that the money was not taken for free but would be repaid with the future railway construction contract of the Qing Dynasty, the three princes suddenly became interested.
"Okay, okay... Zai Chun rushed to put the pigtails into our hands and made him arrogant for several days. It's time for us to fight back!"
"What's the plan?"
Yi Xin sneered and said, "There will be a small court meeting in three days. We will know by then!"
In the East Nuan Pavilion of the Yangxin Hall, this is where Tongzhi Dynasty listened to government affairs behind a curtain. A curtain hung behind Zai Chun's throne, and the figures of the empress dowagers of the two palaces could be vaguely seen.
Today's court meeting is attracting everyone's attention, because three days ago there were rumors flying all over the sky. Today's court meeting must determine the candidate for Emperor Tongzhi's queen!
Today, the Long Live Lord must get married. This is the decision of the two queen mothers. They are paving the way for the emperor to rule directly!
Because it was not a large court meeting in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the officials did not enter in queues according to rank. Li Tuo from the Military Aircraft Department looked out through the window lattice, and the ministers of the court were pacing in from the south in twos and threes.
"Look...Prince Gong and Prince Chun are here..."
"What did Prince Lao Li and Prince Chun talk about so happily?"
"Oh... Marshal Zeng's sedan. Marshal came in in a sedan. Isn't he feeling well today..."
"Who is that in the distance? Is it Prince Qing? When was he released? Didn't he say he was imprisoned?"
Li Tuo looked at the little Sula eunuchs and servants around him muttering in confusion, and slapped them on the head with the official document in his hand angrily.
"Okay, okay...what are you looking at? Why don't you hurry up and get started? Put sticky notes on all the official documents on the documents so that they can be easily found!"
"Be smart, God knows what gear the adults will switch to in a while. If you can't be found, you will all be punished!"
Li Tuo is an old fox from the military aircraft department. People like this have very keen intuition. He looked at the adults filing in with a trace of uneasiness on their bodies!
"Something's wrong! Something's wrong... Someone's coming!"
He casually summoned a regular Sura eunuch, and Li Tuo stuffed a silver dollar into his hand, "Go and tell Eunuch Li Lianying, if anything happens, please stay with my brother Hua..."
"Hey..." Eunuch Su La, who had received the money, turned around and trotted all the way, entering the Yangxin Hall in advance to find Eunuch Li Lianying.
Li Tuo stood at the door and glanced at the fifth master, Prince Chun, who was laughing in the distance. On the surface, the fifth master was chatting with Prince Lao Li, but privately his attention was also distracted, observing each one. people around me.
Seeing Li Tuo wink at him, Yi Pei cupped his fists and apologized, "I'm sorry, my stomach is a little uncomfortable today, and I didn't seem to be able to go out smoothly this morning..."
"I'm going to the military aircraft for a while. You can do whatever you want first..."
After confessing his crime to several palace ministers, Yi Pei strode into the military aircraft office and closed the door behind his back!
"Your Majesty... Li Lianying, Eunuch Li told me yesterday. He said that the Emperor revealed his trump card to the Queen Mother three days ago. The Queen Mother already knows that Long live has fifteen million taels of silver!"
"I have been analyzing it for several days, and I feel that this matter must have been leaked... How many tight-lipped people are there in the Forbidden City!"
"My lord! You have to be more careful. Maybe someone will make a fuss about this today!"
"It's time for you to make a choice!"
