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Forbidden City, outside the Longzong Gate, Military Aircraft Department.

"Qi Shuying! Jain! Whose side are you on? ”

This shout was made by Mu Zhang'a, the foreman of the military plane, and the general policy of abolishing the green battalion had been set at the court meeting of the Qianqing Palace today. This is the meaning of Emperor Daoguang, and he has the support of Qi Liaozao and Qiying, the two ministers of military aircraft, and Mu Zhang'a is powerless to object, but when he goes to the next court, his face is pale.

"Mu Xiang, what did you say?" Qi Ying looked at Mu Zhang'a with an aggrieved expression, "If you don't cut the green camp now, where will you get the money to run the new army and foreign affairs?" ”

Qi Liaozao also echoed: "Yes, it will cost more than 600,000 Green Battalion soldiers to fight without fighting...... If this expense can be saved, the imperial court will have the money to run a new army, and if the more than 600,000 green battalions become more than 300,000 new troops, I am afraid that the rebellion of Zhu Rebellion will not be quelled? ”

Mu Zhang'a stomped his feet, "More than 300,000 new troops...... Where? Qiying, don't you know how many of our flag people there are? How many new armies can be formed? And fighting a war kills people, did you know? If the banner people are all dead, the world will be ......" He glared at Qi Liaozao, gritted his teeth and said, "It's the Han people!" ”

Qi Liaozao said lightly: "Isn't it going to expand the Eight Banners?" ”

Mu Zhang'a just picked up a cup of haode tea and took a sip, his lips were burned, and after listening to Qi Liaozao's answer, he smashed the teacup in a hurry, "Expand a fart!" How to expand? Do you want to put up a sign on the street to recruit people? How to raise it after it is recruited? The hardcore crops of more than one million banner people are 20 million a year, if it is doubled, will the imperial court still have the money to do other things? ”

This Eight Banners system is enough to cheat. The system of hereditary soldiers plus lifelong soldiers is implemented. Hardcore crops don't count until they die. It can be passed on to future generations! Therefore, it is easy to expand the Eight Banners now, but it will be difficult to raise these new Eight Banners in the future.

Qi Liaozao also took a sip of tea and snapped his fingers: "How can it be doubled?" Now to expand the recruitment of the Eight Banners, as long as the young and strong do not become old and weak, the 300,000 young and strong are allowed to marry a wife and carry the flag at most, and the top of the sky is 600,000, and now there are more than 1.6 million in the Eight Banners, which is less than one-third more. And ......" he paused and lowered his tone. "And Mu Xiang thought that the newly formed 600,000 Eight Banners New Army would survive until the rebellion was successfully quelled!"

Mu Zhang'a gasped when he heard this, and said in his heart, how could he forget this stubble! Now I'm fighting against Mingyi! Monk Lingqin's fold said that more than 8,000 of the 14,000 Eight Banner soldiers under his command have gone! These are comparable to 200 years ago!

"Mu Xiang, now the war does not rely on the skill of bows and horses, but on foreign guns and cannons, and a battle is full of corpses and a sea of blood!" Qi Ying also cried and said with a sad face, "We have few bannermen, and if you have a bloody battle like Dongjiang eight times out of ten, you will be extinct." If the Eight Banners are not expanded, a new Han army will have to be formed. Mu Xiang, what do you think...... Can the emperor agree? ”

Forming a new army of Han Chinese? It was the emperor who agreed. Mu Zhang'a didn't agree either! Give foreign guns and cannons to the Han Chinese? Isn't this looking for death!

"It seems that we can only expand the Eight Banners!" Mu Zhang'a looked at Qi Ying and Qi Liaozao, "Jiechun, Shuying, my brain is messed up...... You guys give me ideas, how should these eight banners be expanded? ”

Qi Ying and Qi Liaozao glanced at each other, and Qi Ying first said: "The new Eight Banners can't be recruited from the green battalion alone, this green battalion has been tired for too long, and there are a lot of problems up and down, and they can't be used anymore except for the Ganshan Green Battalion." Simple farmers and herdsmen must be recruited separately. The focus can be recruited from the nomadic Eight Banners in Mongolia and the nomadic Eight Banners in Xinjiang, Gansu and the Gan-Shaanxi Hui Han peasants. ”

The Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were divided into "Eight Banners of Manchuria", "Eight Banners of Mongolia" and "Eight Banners of the Han Army". This Manchurian Eight Banners is the heart, and all the Manchurian people are the children of the Eight Banners. However, the Mongolian Eight Banners do not include all the Mongols, in addition to the Mongolian Eight Banners, there are also other nomadic Eight Banners, although there is also the name of "Banner", but they do not enjoy the treatment of the children of the Eight Banners - an important reason for the separation of Outer Mongolia in history lies in this, the nomadic Eight Banners of Outer Mongolia basically belong to the object of Manchu prevention and oppression, and the treatment is very different from the Mongolian Eight Banners of Inner Mongolia. In fact, the Mongol Eight Banners and the Nomadic Eight Banners became two different peoples after more than 200 years of Manchu rule. The former has a very high degree of sinicization, and many people can't even speak Mongolian well, while the former still maintains the living customs and culture of steppe Mongolia.

In addition, the Ganshan Green Battalion has always been the most capable unit among the Manchu Qing Green Battalions, and the Pingsan Domain is actually the Ganshan Green Battalion. Not all of the people in the Ganxi Green Camp are Han Chinese, and there are a considerable number of Hui people, who are even more brave and good at fighting.

"The method of recruiting farmers from Gan, Shaanxi, and Han to join the banner is feasible." Qi Liaozao pondered, "The people of Ganshan are simple and have always emphasized martial arts and light literature, which are good materials for being a soldier. Moreover, the contradiction between Gan and Shaanxi and the Han Dynasty was very great, and there were often armed fights, and the public order was not good, so recruiting more brave men to join the army could play a role in calming the place. ”

"The newly recruited Eight Banners can be called the New Eight Banners, and they can also go to Sichuan, Gansu, and Tibet to recruit Tibetans." Mu Zhang'a pondered for a while, and then said, "The New Eight Banners can be recruited regardless of whether they return to Han and Tibet...... However, the proportion of Han Chinese should not exceed 50%. ”

The New Eight Banners are the banner army, not the Han army, so the number of Han people still has to be controlled. After all, these Mongolian Hui Han and Tibetan people who have just raised their flags will not immediately identify themselves as banner people, and they have to live for several generations to be truly reliable, so they have to control the ethnic composition of the New Eight Banners and let them contain each other.

"You can mix the old and new Eight Banners, the new Eight Banners as soldiers, the old Eight Banners as officials, and use the old Eight Banners to control the new Eight Banners, so that you can be safe." Qi Liaozao is really a loyal minister, and he really racked his brains for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, "In addition, the green camp can't all be withdrawn at once, otherwise there will be no one to resist Zhu Wei and buy time for the imperial court to expand the new Eight Banners." It is better to mobilize the green camps from all over the country to the periphery of Guangdong, and in any case, we must first contain the chaos in Guangdong. ”

"That's exactly how it should be!" Mu Zhang'a nodded heavily, what he thought was that the cost of abolishing the green camp could save a lot, no matter when, it would always cost money to lay off people, unless these people who were laid off died!

"We have to quickly mobilize Huguang, Jiangxi and Sichuan Green Camp to gather in Shaozhou and hand it over to the jurisdiction of the Guangdong Battalion." Qi Liaozao also suggested, "In addition, the Jiangning Eight Banners and the Jingzhou Eight Banners should be expanded as soon as possible to form a new army, the Taiwan Banner Battalion needs to be quickly withdrawn to Fuzhou, and the old, weak, women and children of the Fuzhou Banner Battalion should be withdrawn to Jiangning......

This is a plan to run away! Mu Zhang'a and Qi Ying glanced at each other and nodded silently. Now, we really have to make preparations!

……

"Han Pojun sent someone to report that his first brigade caught up with Seng Lingqin's department in the area of Macunbao in Conghua County, and fought for three hours, beheading more than 1,800 people and losing 21 people."

"Liu Mulin sent a horse to report that the Fourth Brigade was blocked under the city of Zhaoqingfu, the Manchu Zhaoqing prefect and the garrison refused to surrender, and the Fourth Brigade was arranging a siege."

"The main force of Zheng Hou's Fifth Brigade has been contacted, they have captured Fogang and Yingde a few days ago, and are now marching towards Shaozhou."

"Luo Junqi's Third Brigade has captured Huizhou City yesterday, and about 2,000 Qing soldiers defending the city have been annihilated, and about 1,800 ...... have been captured."

"The expansion of the 2nd Brigade is progressing smoothly, the disciples of the Guangzhou Tiandihui have enthusiastically joined the army, and the 2nd Regiment and the 102nd Regiment have recruited enough soldiers and horses to expand into brigades. In addition, the Jinyi Guards have also recruited a lot of brave men, and the number will soon reach 2,000, which can be organized into a regiment. ”

In the back garden of the Ming Palace in Guangzhou, Zhu Jishi was taking a slow walk, and a female general wearing a brocade pro-army red flying fish suit reported to him the latest military situation. Near this female general, there are also several female guards wearing big red flying fish suits and carrying waist knives, they are all Su Yuniang's personal guards when she was the leader of the robbers, and now they have all become the guards of the Ming Emperor's harem.

The female general who is reporting the military situation to Zhu Jishi is naturally the new commander of the Jinyi pro-army Major General Su Yuniang. I slept with King Ming in the palace last night and became Zhu Jishi's concubine - according to King Zhu, this is also for reward! It is extremely unkind to let a young and beautiful little widow like Su Yuniang stay widowed!

And this Concubine Feng (Su Yuniang's surname Feng) is also a capable person, in addition to accompanying the king, she has to continue to bear the responsibility of military affairs. Not only served as the commander of Zhu Jishi's personal guard, but also served as a senior staff officer. This is also a matter of no choice, who makes the current Ming army officers still lacking? There were only a few people in the General Staff Headquarters of the Generalissimo's Palace, and they were all busy on all fours. This informs the military situation, and the "senior staff officer" who transmits the order can only let Su Yuniang concurrently serve as such. (To be continued......)