Bart walked into the Cining Palace and saw Bumu Butai kneeling down and saluting: "Little nephew knocks to see aunt!" ”

"Get up!" Bumu Butai personally picked up Bart, "The mourning family summoned the virtuous nephew into the palace, and it was a matter of sending troops to Jiangnan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Bart was the son of Manzhu Xili and the nephew of Bumu Butai.

Yesterday, Geng Jingzhong performed very hard in front of Bumu Butai, as soon as Geng Jimao was mentioned, Geng Jingzhong cried bitterly, crying so much that he almost fainted, and after waking up, he gritted his teeth and scolded Ming Jun, looking like he really wanted to avenge his father. It's a pity that Geng Jingzhong's performance was too good, which made the two old foxes, Bumu Butai and Su Malagu, suspicious.

"Lafayette, there must be a demon when things go wrong! Geng Jingzhong's father died, and it is normal for people to be sad when they are sons, but this kid's appearance makes people feel a little too much. The minion suspected that Geng Jingzhong's matter seemed to be a cat. After Geng Jingzhong left, Su Malagu raised suspicions.

Bumu Butai is also an old fox, she nodded and said: "The mourning family can also see that Geng Jingzhong's matter does not seem to be so simple, what he said is not true, and his performance seems to be a little trying to cover up!" The mourning family suspects him, I'm afraid he has ulterior motives! ”

Aunt Su Mala said: "Lafayette, it's just that we don't have any evidence that Geng Jingzhong has anything wrong now, and he wants to avenge his father, which is also understandable." If we don't agree with him, don't say that those hateful Han officials will accuse us of being unreasonable, I'm afraid that the warriors of the Eight Banners will also be chilled by this matter. ”

"The mourning family didn't say that they wouldn't let Geng Jingzhong lead the troops to take revenge!" Bumu Butai sneered, "Now he has no soldiers in his hands, only a few hundred goshha of his own!" He wants to recruit troops, so can't our people take the opportunity to get involved? In addition, the mourning family asked the people of the mother's family to follow, and they also monitored this kid! ”

So there was the matter of Bart entering the palace.

Bumu Butai explained to Bart that the Han people are not credible, only Manmeng is a family, and now the Manchurian Eight Banners warriors have lost too much, and many of the Manchu Eight Banners in the capital have fallen and are no longer useful, and only the warriors on the grassland can deal with the barbarians in the south. Therefore, Bumu Butai asked Bat to recruit a group of young men from the Horqin tribe, organize a new Manchu Eight Banners, organize a Mongolian cavalry, and follow Geng Jingzhong to Jiangning.

In addition to sending people from the Horqin tribe to monitor Geng Jingzhong, Bumu Butai also allowed Geng Jingzhong to recruit troops and horses, so he naturally recruited the most capable Shaanxi soldiers.

The land of Sanqin has always been a place where elite soldiers are produced. During the Ming Dynasty, the wealthy Jiangnan repeatedly reduced taxes, but the barren northwest continued to raise taxes, and the consequence was that the people in the land of Sanqin were forced to rise up, creating a rebellion against the Zhu family, and finally forced Chongzhen to the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain.

After the Qing army entered the customs, it collected a large amount of taxes from the south of the Yangtze River, and then used these grains to feed the soldiers of the Three Qins, and entered Sichuan, Hunan, and finally Guangxi with the elite soldiers of the Three Qins. The elite soldiers of the land of Sanqin made great contributions to the Qing court's capture of the south, which cannot be blamed on the local people, and the responsibility is actually on those scholars who kept shouting that Emperor Chongzhen "must not compete with the people".

During the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party reduced the taxes of Jiangnan, causing Jiangnan to become rich and become a big fat sheep to be slaughtered. But Chongzhen couldn't slaughter this fat sheep with this hand, and in the end it was cheaper for the Qing court.

After the Qing court slaughtered the fat sheep, part of the grain was used to feed the eight banner iron crops, and most of the remaining grain was used to feed the elite soldiers and fierce generals in the land of Sanqin, and as a result, Zhao Liangdong, Daniel Zhang, Wang Jinbao, Sun Sike and other famous generals of the early Qing dynasty came out of the land of Sanqin, plus the green camp recruited from the land of Sanqin, and the Qing court relied on them to fight all the way to the south.

After Wu Sangui entered the customs, his original Guanning iron cavalry was pushed to the front by the Qing army as cannon fodder, and it had long been lost, and most of the veterans were dead. Later, Wu Sangui's new soldiers were also soldiers from the land of Sanqin.

Now Geng Jingzhong went to conquer the soldiers in the land of Sanqin, ostensibly to let Geng Jingzhong lead the team, but in fact, Bumu Butai had already secretly made arrangements to control this army in his own hands.

Although Zhou Peigong's new army was powerful, it cost too much silver, and it was difficult for the Qing court, which had lost half of the south of the Yangtze River, to feed an elite new army, not to mention that Bumu Butai was still not at ease with Zhou Peigong, and it was impossible to pin the hopes of the Manchu Qing on Zhou Peigong's new army.

In terms of political level, Bumu Butai was much more powerful than the later Cixi, and Bumu Butai could see at a glance that the new army, which focused on firearms, was likely to become a scourge of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and the root of the Eight Banners was cavalry archery.

However, the fiasco of Jinhua and Zhangzhou made Bumu Butai have to pay attention to firearms.

"What?" Bart was taken aback, "Let the warriors of our Korqin tribe go to learn firearms?" Our Mongolian warriors have always fought the world on horseback, riding horses and shooting arrows, this is the eagle of our steppe! ”

"Huang Ma, if you let the Manchurian Eight Banners practice firearms, I'm afraid it will shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty!" Kangxi also advised.

Bumu Butai said bitterly: "The first battle of Jinhua was a night attack by thieves, and my Eight Banners warriors were careless. But what about the battle of Zhangzhou? This is the battle report sent back by Guangdong, according to Shang Zhixin's group of minions, 5,000 warriors of the Eight Banners of Manmeng did not even have a chance to get close to the thief, so they all fell under the thief's sharp firearms! It's really heartbreaking! ”

"If you want to form a firearms battalion of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, I'm afraid the biggest resistance is Aobai!" Su Malagu said, "Now that I have lost half of the Jiangnan in the Qing Dynasty, and the income of the imperial court has decreased, it is not easy to support a new army that reuses firearms, and Ao Bai strongly supports the Huguang new army." If Lafayette wants to form the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, can Ao Bai agree? ”

Bumu Butai's face was cloudy, and after a while, he said, "I can only let Sukh Saha come forward to deal with Aobai!" This wicked man let Sukh Saha do it first, and it would be nice if he could come out of Huguangduo's little silver and give it to the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion. ”

"I'm afraid Sukh Saha is not Aobai's opponent." Su Malagu said.

Bumu Butai sneered: "It doesn't matter if it's not an opponent, Sukh Saha is a victim in the first place!" He is the man of the two white flags, he betrayed Dorgon to be loyal to us, and the people of the two white flags look down on him, but he is the leader of the two white flags. We use Aobai's hand to get rid of him, so that we can divide the two white flags, and some of the two white flags that hate him clap their hands; The other part of the two white flags loyal to him will go to hate Aobai, and we have achieved the goal of weakening the two white flags. After the emperor and grandson were in power, we cleaned up and worshipped, so that we won the hearts of the two white flags! ”

Kangxi was stunned at first, and then rejoiced: "Huang Ma is a plan to kill many birds with one stone!" He also cut the military salary of the Huguang New Army, increased the military spending for my Eight Banners, and asked Suke Saha and Ao Bai to fight for blood! In the end, we took action to clean up and won the hearts of the two white flags, so that the eight flags could be completely loyal to us! ”

After that, Bumu Butai summoned Sukh Saha again and told him about the formation of the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion.

"The Empress Dowager is wise!" Suke Saha hurriedly called a thousand, "The slave also thinks that those Han people are not credible!" Rather than handing over the fate of my Qing Dynasty to the Han people of the Huguang New Army, it is better for me to form a firearms battalion by myself in the Eight Banners of Mongolia! As for the silver taels needed for the firearms battalion, the minions must go to Ao Bai and ask him to hand over more of Huguang's silver! ”

"In that case, the food and salary of the Huguang new army of Ao Bai will be less, I am afraid that Ao Bai will hold a grudge." Su Malagu said.

Suke Saha snorted: "Please rest assured, the slave doesn't believe that Aobai still dares to shake the root of the Eight Banners!" If Aobai has a grudge against the minions, let Aobai hold a grudge! The slave wants to see if Ao Bai dares to attack the minion! ”

After some deliberation, the Qing court temporarily set the framework of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Firearms Battalion.

The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Firearms Battalion was still based on the original Eight Banners military rank system, and selected 8,000 people from among the children of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, all of whom were equipped with firearms.

In addition, Bart selected 5,000 cavalry from the Horqin tribe and several small tribes loyal to the Korqin tribe, and adopted a new cavalry method of half firearms and half cold weapons.

The Eight Banners Firearms Battalion was actually an all-in-one dragoon unit, all equipped with muskets, maneuvering on horseback, dismounted and shooting with muskets. In addition to the dragoons equipped with muskets, the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion also had packhorse artillery, that is, it was equipped with some light artillery such as the Franc machine and the small general cannon, which were carried on horseback and unloaded from the horse when they arrived on the battlefield; There is also a horse-drawn artillery, which is armed with heavy artillery.

As for Barth's new cavalry, in addition to sabers and bows, each cavalry was equipped with two short guns to enhance their melee attacks.

Originally, it was planned to eliminate all bows and arrows, and the pure cavalry only used sabers and short guns. However, it was opposed by many people, believing that the Mongols were originally good at shooting arrows on horseback, and the range of bows and arrows was not much longer than that of handcuffs? If you give up the bow and arrow, you put the cart before the horse.

So a new type of cavalry was formed in a modern way, and everyone was equipped with bows and arrows, which seemed a bit nondescript.

But all this is nothing, and now the most serious problem is the problem of silver. The formation of the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion required a large amount of silver, and the firearms themselves were expensive, and the craftsmen of the firearms workshops in the capital generally had poor production standards, far inferior to the quality produced by the Huguang Gun Factory under the supervision of Zhou Peigong and Xue Fengzuo, and their performance was not as advanced as that of Huguang.

On the issue of silver, Aobai is a hurdle, and Suke Saha estimates that Aobai will definitely oppose it vigorously, and finally reluctantly come up with a little silver to support the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion.

Sure enough, as Sukh Saha expected, after the New Year, Suke Saha arrived in Anqing, and after seeing Aobai, Aobai sneered and said: "Manmeng Eight Banners Firearms Battalion? Hum! The Manchurian warriors should still ride horses and shoot arrows! Firearms are not the strong point of the warriors! Not to mention that there is not so much silver! ”

Suke Saha said: "Lord Ao, the imperial court allows you to use the income of Huguang tax silver to form a new army in Huguang, which is originally the grace of the imperial court!" You don't know how to thank the court for your grace, but you are bent on withholding all the money! You have deducted all the silver, and the life of our flag people in the capital is not easy! ”

"With the Huguang New Army, you can defeat the thieves, so why waste money to build a firearms battalion of the Eight Banners of Manmeng? To build the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, it is also the Han Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, the Han Eight Banners are familiar with firearms, and they are not much stronger than the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners? Otherwise, you will be much stronger than this Manmeng Eight Banners Firearms Battalion of Raushzi! Ao Bai snorted disdainfully.

Suke Saha said: "Don't you know that this Manmeng Eight Banners Firearms Battalion is all cavalry? It's a firearms battalion on horseback! The foundation of our Qing cavalry is in the hands of the Manchu and Mongolian bannermen, and the Han people cannot have a large number of cavalry except for Wu Sangui and some cavalry who surrendered to the original Pseudo-Ming Dynasty. The horseback riding firearms battalion to be formed now must naturally be composed of Manmeng banner people! ”

Ao Bai sneered: "Could it be that the Manmeng Eight Banners are equipped with firearms, which is a firearms battalion?" They are cavalry, so they should do what cavalry should do, not be a cavalry infantryman. To engage in mounted infantry is also a matter of the Han Eight Banners. ”

"The Eight Banners of Manmeng are the foundation of my Qing Dynasty!" Sukh Saha lamented, "The Han people have never been trusted! ”

Ao Bai shook his head and said, "Lord Su's words are wrong! If I Manchurians want to occupy this great river and mountain, I can only use Han people! If we don't use Han people, can we stand on our hundreds of thousands of Manchurians? If we learn from Duoduo and kill all the Han people, then who will farm for us? Who weaves cloth for us to make clothes? Who built us a house? Who gives us all sorts of things? If we want the Han people to obey us, we still have to rely on the Han people! ”

In fact, it is completely different from what is described in the novels and TV series of later generations, those novels and TV series that advocate the first emperor Kang Mazi through the ages, beautify Kangxi as the savior of the Han people, oppose the enclosure of the flag people, and support the use of more Han officials, while Ao Bai is trying his best to oppose Kangxi.

But what about the actual situation? Aobai, who was very fresh-minded, knew that in order for the Manchu rulers to gain a foothold, they must reuse the Han people, and Aobai opposed the enclosure of land and the appointment of Manchus as various magistrates by Kangxi.

Ao Bai believed that the Manchus were not good at governing the local area and could not manage the local economy, so he opposed the Manchus becoming magistrates. There are a few talented literati among the Manchus, and that is only a minority, and it is not enough to stay in the capital, where can they become magistrates? It is more appropriate to sit on one side of the place or Han people.

Before Kangxi came to power, when Ao Bai was in power, the Qing court did not appoint a Manchu local governor. However, as soon as Kangxi came into power, he wanted to replace the Han with Manchu governors, and appointed a large number of Manchu governors.

Therefore, the pigtail play is misleading.

Sukh Saha had no choice but to move Bumu Butai out: "Lord Ao, the old man came here today because he was entrusted by the Empress Dowager!" If Lord Ao refuses to give this money, then the old man will not be able to pay back! ”

Although Aobai has long wanted to get rid of Sukh Saha, on issues of principle, Aobai still will not embarrass Sukh Saha. Now it was Bumu Butai who wanted to set up the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, and Ao Bai finally agreed to allocate one-fifth of the silver taels from the original construction of the Huguang New Army to the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Firearms Battalion. (To be continued.) )