The system of the Eight Banners had its advantages and disadvantages. The obvious advantage was that it could quickly integrate the forces of all the Manchus and unify the people before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.
Gather those who can fight into the Eight Banners, and then train them in unified combat, and ensure that everyone has the right to distribute the spoils after they rob.
It even promised that after entering the customs and establishing political power, everyone would be able to get fields and hard-core crops, which would be the privilege of having food and clothing for generations to come.
This system can unite people's hearts very quickly. In the final analysis, it is the incentive effect of the shareholding system implemented by Xiao Letian in the 21st century.
What should I do if a newly started company cannot offer high salary? Then offer low salary or even no guarantee, only bonus!
But giving shares to each employee ensures that they can enjoy the dividend benefits brought by the company's expansion in the future!
Stimulated by such a system, when the Qing Dynasty was founded, the soldiers of the Eight Banners fought without any military pay at all!
On the other hand, in the Ming Dynasty, if you have money and food, you can fight a dozen. Without money and food, soldiers will have no motivation to fight. Because there is no food and salary in front of them, and there is no hope for the future, who will still work hard?
When the Qing Dynasty was founded, the military centralized system of the Eight Banners was very advantageous. The master-slave system of each banner seemed very backward, but this master-slave system actually reduced the trouble of command and eased the pressure to unite the military. .
The master and the slaves are all one body. The master has meat to eat and the slaves drink the soup. When the master becomes a prince, the slaves are all big landowners. This system of mutual identity locking and no one can live without the other guarantees the unity of an army.
An Eight Banners army is a community with a firmly locked destiny. They can only fight hard without surrendering or escaping.
Either win or die in battle. Such an army would be utterly destructive against the decadent military household system of the Ming Dynasty.
However, the system is always a double-edged sword. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was a sharp sword for killing enemies. However, by the end of the dynasty, this kind of community of destiny with personal dependence exposed its shortcomings.
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty always wanted a true centralized monarchy, but the Eight Banners system created huge loopholes in legal principles!
On the one hand, the slaves must be loyal to the emperor and learn from the Confucian principles that "the whole world is not the king's soil, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers".
But on the other hand, he must also accept the order from his master. This is a double order!
If the orders of the emperor and his master are consistent, then it is easy to say. What if they are not consistent? What should I do if there is a disagreement?
Whether you abandon the emperor or your master, you have to choose one!
Throughout the Qing Dynasty, how many human tragedies and comedies have occurred because of such institutional flaws!
Guiziliu himself is a member of this system. He knows the details, advantages and disadvantages of the system very well, and he will make full use of the loopholes in it.
Why did Zai Chun keep attacking before, but he didn't break the pot? Or because he knows the repetitive nature of this system, and one thing cannot be settled without some somersaults.
As long as he doesn't die, Zai Chun's tricks will eventually push these people to his side again!
In the Forbidden City, the Japanese soldiers swallowed up the pledge of the conservatives in one mouthful, which made these people on both ends of the spectrum completely relieved. This was a big political score for themselves!
With this impression, people will compare with Emperor Tongzhi in the future, and people's hearts will wax and wane!
Zai Chun killed 30,000 factory slaves, but the Eight Banners tolerated it. After all, they were the most peripheral banner slaves, and their status was very humble!
Zaichun imprisoned the three kings, but Baqi Shashi endured it. After all, the knife did not hit his head!
Zai Chun was engaged in the Westernization Industrial Revolution, but the Eight Banners still tolerated it. After all, this thing could still make some money!
But Zai Chun killed Guang Liang in the end, which was unbearable. It was not that Guang Liang was valuable, but that Emperor Tongzhi’s attitude forcibly deprived the Eight Banners of their corruption rights!
When the Eight Banners came to rule the Han people all over the world, they should have the obligation to prey on the Han people. The power of corruption is the privilege that the Eight Banners should enjoy!
You, the emperor, have deprived you of political rights. What kind of monarchy has it become, and you want to deprive it of all economic rights?
What else do you want to be deprived of in the future? Directly kill us?
Only then did people realize how good Prince Gong was. Prince Gong also made reforms but did not change our hardcore crops. Compared with the two, it is better for Prince Gong to be the emperor!
Outside Long'en Hall, these domestic slaves of the princes and nobles of the capital held secret letters from their masters and pledged their allegiance to Guiziliu, but Yi Xin teased them like a cat playing with a mouse.
"Haha... I don't dare to accept this secret letter. The signed wax pills are so small that I can still eat them... There are so many secret letters that I can't even swallow them even if I want to!"
"Your Majesty, please calm down! Your Majesty, please calm down! My master already knew that he was wrong. He was so wrong. He should have stood firmly on Your Majesty's side back then!"
"Now that I'm completely awake, please accept it out of consideration for the great Qing Dynasty!"
A secret letter is not just a letter, it is a handle, it is a certificate of surrender! Guiziliu holds these secret letters as evidence of his future beheading!
It seems that this conflict at the Capital Iron Works really angered the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. These royal nobles were in fear and had no choice but to protect themselves, so they chose Prince Gong Yixin.
The stalemate in Long'en Hall has lasted for an hour and a half. At this time, Na Duobao couldn't hold it any longer. He quickly knelt down and begged, "Your Majesty! All the princes are sincere, please accept it, Your Majesty!"
"Although we have taken control of Xiling now, there are too many people and no one can guarantee whether there will be any other tricks... It would be bad if it is delayed any longer and the news leaks out!"
"Yes! Please make a decision quickly, Your Majesty... Just accept it, Your Majesty!"
Prince Gong Yixin was almost tense by this time. He nodded. At this moment, a man suddenly walked out from behind the Long En Palace. He took away the secret messages one by one from the hands of the kneeling guards.
When these people looked up, they immediately shouted, "Isiha! You... you are still alive, you are not dead?"
The visitor was none other than Isiha, who had returned from causing trouble on the railway. Cixi's concubine had now completely defected to the camp of watching Guiziliu.
Isiha said with a cold face, "Toefl, toefl... my ancestors have spirits, and I am not dead yet! Old friends, you have been enjoying blessings, and you don't know how much I have suffered!"
These people knew what was going on as soon as they guessed it, and their awe for Guiziliu increased threefold. They thought that he was indeed Emperor Daoguang's favorite sixth son, the prince who almost succeeded in seizing the throne back then.
This skill, this scheming... tsk tsk tsk... I have to accept it!
"Brother Yisiha, please stop laughing at us... I heard that something happened to you. The old friends in the capital are very sad! No more, no more... I will go into the mountains to hunt a wild wolf tonight!"
"Roast wolf meat and drink strong wine in the evening...brothers, give your brother a good match!"
Isiha said with a cold face, "Master is here. Why are you talking so much nonsense without saying anything? Listen carefully..."
"Yes, yes... Big brother taught you a lesson..."
At this time, Na Duobao whispered to the prince from the side, "Your Majesty, the petition has been accepted. You have to give them some explanation at least! There are many princes in the capital waiting for your reassurance!"
