The Beijing-Hangzhou Railway can be said to be promoted by Yi Zhicontent, for the progress of railway construction, he is more anxious than Daoguang, but he knows in his heart that this matter is not urgent, he wants to use this railway to drive the basic industries of the Qing Dynasty, such as large steel mills, forging plants, etc., and use this opportunity to train the first generation of skilled workers, urgent is not in a hurry, Ruth has to go step by step. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Daoguang pondered for a while, and then asked, "Can the railway operate normally even when it is snowing and freezing?" ”

"Yes." Yi Zhi said confidently: "The railway is not affected by bad weather, even if it is frozen, it can run normally. ”

In this way, once the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway is opened, even in winter, it can normally guarantee the bulk freight between Beijing and Jiangnan, and ensure the supply of Beijing.

After a slight sigh, he said: "Yingyi went deep into the hinterland, surveyed along the line, and knew the terrain such as the mountains, rivers, passes, etc. of the Qing Dynasty well, how to prevent it?" ”

How can this be prevented? It is easy to know that content is secretly slandered, and the wood is already in the boat, how can it be prevented? What if you can't prevent it? Can you still not let Yingyi survey? After a pause, he said: "The territory of the Qing Dynasty is vast, the population is large, England is far away from my Qing Dynasty, and the population is sparse, the troops are insufficient, and they are not capable of launching a large-scale war against our Qing Dynasty, let alone go deep inland, even if the two countries go to war, they will rely on the advantages of the navy to directly attack Tianjin and threaten the Beijing Division, no, it is impossible to attack along the railway, and the railway is easy to destroy through mountains and rivers." ”

This is indeed reasonable, if the two countries go to war, the British army will not be able to give up the long and short, the railway is easy to destroy, if it is cut off at both ends, the consequences are unimaginable, Daoguang is no longer entangled in this matter, the words turned around, and said: "You are an official residence, and a first-class viscount, you are twenty years old, but you have not been married for a long time, and you are easy to be criticized, and I am worried that it is difficult for you to find a marriage with a good family in the place, so I ordered someone to choose a good mate for you in ......the clan." ”

Hearing this, Yi Zhishu hurriedly got up and knelt down and kowtowed: "Weichen bows to thank the emperor Longen." ”

Daoguang smiled, and then said: "The banner people do not intermarry, but the ancestral training, even if you marry with the clan, you should also carry your nationality into the flag, read that you have contributed to the society, I want to carry you directly into the Yellow Flag Manchurian ...... led by my relatives." ”

Sure enough, it is a flag of nationality, and it is also a Manchurian flag inlaid with yellow flags in the upper three flags, easy to know that the eight flags are actually twenty-four flags, each flag has Manchuria, Mongolia, and the Han army three flags, and the status of these three flags is naturally high and low.

And from the Han Army Flag of the lower five banners to the Manchurian flag of the upper three banners, there are many layers in between, and it is difficult to get without special credit, Daoguang directly carried him into Manchuria with the yellow flag, which is a great honor for any Hanchen!

However, Yi Zhizhi does not want to carry his nationality into the flag, the identity of the flag man may be undesirable for other ministers, with this identity, it is easier to be promoted and reused, after all, the yellow flag is already regarded as the emperor's descendant, but he dislikes the identity of the flag man, especially the three flag people, because once he enters the flag and the three flags, the descendants are all flag people, not to mention, his whole family has to move into the Beijing Division, he doesn't want to settle his home in the Beijing Division.

"Wechen thanks the emperor for his grace." Yi Zhishu said and kowtowed slightly, then raised his body and said: "However, Weichen is the big shopkeeper of Yuanqi, if he enters the flag, I am afraid that it will violate the ..... that the flag people are not allowed to do business." ”

"Who said that banner people are not allowed to do business?" Daoguang asked rhetorically.

Easy to be content, didn't the imperial court prohibit the banner people from doing business for profit? This is a legitimate reason that he came up with after thinking about it for half the night last night to shirk the responsibility of raising his nationality and becoming a flag, if the flag man is allowed to do business, how can he shirk it?

"At the beginning of the Emperor's reign, Wulong A, the minister of Manchuria under the Yellow Banner, was on the fold, and there was no ban on agriculture and commerce. However, those who do not engage in agriculture and business, because they have no land capital, but also because they gather clans and officials, they become soldiers if they do not serve as officials, eat and eat, and enjoy dignity, and they are disdainful at the beginning, and year after year, sex becomes a habit. ”

Daoguang said slowly: "At the beginning of the founding of the country, the population of the Eight Banners was small, there were many official and soldier shortages in the banner, and almost everyone in the banner could have a salary, and their lives were rich. During the reign of the Ancestor and the Holy Ancestor, there was a decree to prohibit the banner people from doing business, but it was targeted.

At the beginning of the people's pass, the heads of the villages everywhere entered the market to force buying, bullying the weak, whipping the people and merchants, contrary to the intention of appeasing the merchants, the ancestor then issued an edict to prohibit the royal palace and the family of the flag staff from other provinces to trade. During the reign of the Holy Ancestor, the subordinates, the families of the princes and ministers, led the capital to occupy the Guanjin physiology, bullied and disturbed the local area, and some princes and ministers hoarded Juqi to make profits, so the imperial court issued a decree prohibiting illegal business.

It can be seen from this that what is forbidden by the ancestors and the holy ancestors is the banner people, the princes and nobles, and the banner people's illegal business, not the prohibition of ordinary flag people from doing business. ”

Hearing this, Yi Zhizhi secretly thought, we are also a first-class viscount, a first-class master, not a prince, but also a noble, should we also be among the people who are not allowed to do business? However, he dared to think about it in his mind, and he didn't dare to say anything, Dao Guangming wanted to carry him into Manchuria with the Yellow Flag in order to control him, and it would be useless to say more.

After a slight pause, Daoguang continued: "After two hundred years of recuperation, the number of banner people has become more and more numerous, and the number of flag shortages has not changed, and the shortage of officials and soldiers is difficult to meet the needs of such a large number of breeding populations. ”

Speaking of this, he sighed lightly: "The banner people are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, and the hardships and embarrassment of the banner people are really a major heart disease of the imperial court. ”

Does it still mean this? Yi Zhi's contentment is full of thoughts, the livelihood of the flag man is indeed a big and difficult problem now, since Yongzheng and Qianlong, it has gradually become obvious, but it has not been effectively solved, Daoguang will not use this matter to cover up the purpose of raising his nationality into the flag, so can it be counted from the flag life?

After thinking for a while, he spoke: "Your Majesty, the livelihood problem of the Eight Banners, Wei Chen secretly thinks that we should find the crux of the problem from the root..... ”

From the roots? Daoguang glanced at him suspiciously, and said, "Have you considered the livelihood of the Eight Banners?" ”

The problem of the livelihood of the flag people, Yi Zhizhi talked to Wei Yuan and Bao Shichen in his spare time, but he was not deep, and he groaned slightly, so he calmly said: "The livelihood of the flag man is the major policy of the country, and Wei Chen has discussed with Jiangnan celebrities, Wei Yuan, Bao Shichen and others in his spare time. Millions of people who are not soldiers, farmers, workers, merchants, soldiers, and people live in Beijing, and they do not have a place to do it, although they exhaust the right supply at home, it is not enough to support them. ”

Although the sea is exhausted, it is not enough to support! Daoguang couldn't help but feel that the amount of money spent by the imperial court on the bannermen was indeed incalculable, but the situation did not improve at all, but worsened day by day.

"All along, the imperial court has been based on the flag man." Yi Zhishu continued: "Since the time of the ancestors, the Holy Ancestor, Emperor Shizong, Emperor Gaozong, and Emperor Renzong have all repeatedly emphasized that the first worship of Manchuria, Manchuria root, Eight Banners root, Manchuria armor soldier root, Manchuria armor soldier is the foundation of the country, Eight Banners Manchuria is the foundation of the imperial court, and the Eight Banners personnel are the foundation of the country, etc., which have been repeatedly seen in the edicts of the previous emperors. ”

Speaking of this, he looked up at Daoguang and said, "Can Weichen speak up?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Daoguang's unthinking Dao, Yi Zhishu spoke boldly and straightforwardly, and dared to tell the truth, he was quite appreciative, for this reason, he even retired from the note, so he was worried that the other party would disobey him.

"Weichen secretly thought that it was the basic national policy formulated by the imperial court for the banner people that bound the flag people." Yi Zhizhi said in a deep voice: "The problem of the livelihood of the flag man lies in the basic national policy formulated by the imperial court, if it is said that at the beginning of the founding of the country, the flag man is the foundation of the country, and now, the flag man is not only not the foundation, but has become a burden to the court."

The larger the population base, the faster the reproduction, the banner people now have millions, waiting to multiply to tens of millions, or even tens of millions, how should the imperial court treat them? ”

This is extremely bold, but it is also true, the flag man has indeed become a burden now! Daoguang was silent, since the later years of Kangxi, the four dynasties of Yongzheng, Qianlong, and Jiaqing, in order to solve the problem of the livelihood of the banner people, the imperial court has taken many measures to let the Han army personnel go out of the flag for the people, and the non-upright flag people go out for the people, so as to reduce the pressure on the population of the Eight Banners, set up a well field, reward two silver, redeem the people's flag land, set up a system of raising soldiers, organize the flag people to return to the border area, etc., the silver has not been spent, but it has not been effective.

Counting the Eight Banners, it was only 340,000 in Shunzhi, 700,000 in Kangxi, and now, it is more than 3 million, ten times that of Shunzhi, which not only troubles him, but also brings huge financial pressure to the imperial court.

To curb the number of Eight Banners, this is obviously not possible, because the number of people is also expanding rapidly, and when Shunzhi was in power, how many people were there in the Qing Dynasty? But 50 or 60 million, but now it has exceeded 400 million! If you want to go back to the past, it is obviously not feasible to restore the scale of three or four hundred thousand Eight Banners, especially now that Eight Banners has completely degenerated, and he will not dare to be brave again!

After being silent for a long time, he caught a glimpse of Yi Zhifen being a little uneasy, it should be that he was not used to kneeling, and after kneeling for a long time, he raised his hand and said, "Get up, sit down and say." ”

Yi Zhishu really couldn't kneel, he really couldn't bear to kneel, he rarely knelt, he was secretly relieved when he heard the words, and hurriedly thanked him and sat down, Daoguang glanced at him, and said, "How can I solve it properly?" ”

"Abolish the Eight Banners Privilege!" Yi Zhixiang said without hesitation: "Two hundred years since the founding of the country, the orthodoxy of the Qing Dynasty has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the Eight Banners cannot afford to maintain the imperial power and defend the country. ”

Abolishing the privilege of the Eight Banners is equivalent to abolishing the Eight Banners system! This kid really dares to say anything, Daoguang glanced at him, but he didn't say anything to reprimand, this sounds crazy, but it is not unreasonable, two hundred years since the founding of the country, the orthodoxy of the Qing Dynasty has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there is no longer a need to rely on the Eight Banners to maintain the rule, and now the Eight Banners can not be maintained, rather than this, it is better to abolish the Eight Banners system!

Although this idea is bold, it is not wrong, the problem is that the Eight Banners system has always been the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, let him abolish the Eight Banners system, Daoguang did not have the courage, he could not predict, once the abolition of the Eight Banners system will bring.

Seeing that Daoguang did not reprimand or be annoyed, but remained silent, Yi Zhi's heart slowly put down, and said cautiously: "The abolition of the privileges of the Eight Banners is not achieved overnight, but slowly, gradually abolishing the privileges of the banner people, and on the other hand, the number of the Eight Banners can also be gradually reduced, and the number of the reduced bannermen should also be properly taken care of, such as the imperial court to develop industry and set up factories in Tianjin, and those who have been cut can be placed ......." ”

Listening to this, Daoguang is really a little tempted, this method is not unsafe, not only to reduce the Eight Banners, but also not to chill the hearts of the Banner people, and gradually abolish the various privileges of the Eight Banners, it is also very feasible, to wait for the privileges to be lost, the Banner people will no longer remember the identity of the Banner People, and will gradually support themselves, when the time is ripe, whether to abolish the Eight Banners system or to improve, you can do whatever you want, he immediately encouraged: "Go on." ”

What else to say? Yi Zhixiang was depressed for a while, he didn't expect Daoguang to talk to him about the livelihood of the Eight Banners, he was not fully prepared at all, his brain was flexible, and he said with a slight mutter: "To gradually abolish the privileges of the Eight Banners, there are three urgent priorities, one is to reduce the Banner People's Fortune, now the treasury is empty, the imperial court is in financial difficulties, and it is in debt, which is the best excuse and opportunity to reduce the Bannerman's Fortune."

The second is to abolish the career privileges of the banner people, and the case of the deficit of the treasury of the household department shocked the government and the opposition, and it is possible to use this to rectify the rule of officials and greatly reduce the various career privileges of the banner people, so that it can not only win the praise and support of the gentry in the world, but also promote the convergence of the flag members.

The third is to eliminate the Manchu and Han domains, or to say eliminate the banner people's domain, allow the banner people to marry, allow the banner people to live together, and minimize the differences between the banner people, so that the gradual abolition of the privileges of the Eight Banners will not encounter major resistance. ”

Eagerly, there is this insight, and it is indeed rare, Daoguang secretly praised in his heart, these three points, it can be said that they are all to the point, the three-pronged approach, not only greatly reduces the privileges of the banner people, but also promotes the integration between the flag people, and the resistance to abolishing the privileges of the Eight Banners in the future will be much smaller.

However, as soon as he thought about it, he thought of Yi Zhishu from the article of eliminating the banner people and allowing the flag people to marry, what does this kid mean? Unwilling to carry the flag of citizenship, unwilling to enter the Yellow Flag Manchuria? After a slight groan, he asked, "Are you willing to be a model for the marriage of the banner people?" ”

Yi Zhizhi went around Nuoda in a circle, but it was not to enter the Yellow Flag Manchuria, but he said steadily: "It is good for Weichen to become a model of marriage between the flag people, but because of this, he will miss the opportunity to enter the Yellow Flag Manchuria. (To be continued.) )