Chapter 476: I am actually very kind!

"Does your father have any instructions?" Prince Jia Yongyan, who was already thirty-six years old, stood respectfully in front of Emperor Qianlong, who had become much thinner than two years ago and was more like an old horse monkey.

"Well, you go down first, I'm a little tired." Qianlong leaned against the chair, closed his eyes tiredly, and raised his hand to signal Prince Jia Yongyan to leave. After instructing Prince Jia Yongyan to deal with government affairs for the whole morning, Qianlong, who was over 80 years old, could no longer hold on.

However, even though Qianlong closed his eyes, Yongyan still looked extremely respectful and gave a long salute, whispering: "I will take the leave first." After taking a few steps back, he turned around and left the room.

Qianlong opened his turbid old eyes, looked at Yongyan's back as he left the room, and sighed silently. This son was Gongsun, but he was too weak and hesitated for anything. He couldn't hold it up without a single stick. This made Qianlong speechless and helpless. After all, compared to the other two adult princes, this one was already good enough. At least the general was drawn from the short man, and this one was quite conspicuous.

Qianlong narrowed his eyes and was thinking about it, but he heard the sound of rapid footsteps outside the door, and he couldn't help but frown slightly. "How come these guys can't help but disturb me all day long?"

"Father, my son, please see my father. An emergency military newspaper of 800 miles came from Manzhou." Yongyan, who had just left, rushed in with a very devastating angrily, led a vote of military ministers. Qianlong's displeasure was also frightened by the last sentence.

"What did you say?!" Qianlong stood up suddenly from the chair, and his thin slits with long-term drooping eyes suddenly widened.

Yongyan saw Qianlong's expression of choosing a person, and was so scared that he quickly lowered his head. "I just went out not far, but I met the Minister of the Military Affairs Department and said that there was an emergency military report from Manzhou, and the Minister of the Ministry of Commerce would not delay..."

"Heshen, what did the military newspaper say?!" Qianlong didn't care about scolding Yongyan and said nothing, and asked directly the leader who was lying on the ground, which was the current head of the Military Affairs Office.

Heshen's head, covered with cold sweat, was buried even lower: "Emperor, General Shengjing Mingliang sent an emergency military information. On May 31, Jilin City was attacked by an unknown army, and Jilin City was destroyed..."

"...what were you saying?!" Qianlong was stunned for a long time, as if he had let a thunder penetrated his forehead, and was stunned. After a long time, he raised his trembling hand, as if he wanted to say something, but his throat sweetened, spit out a mouthful of blood, and fell softly in front of the imperial throne.

"Jilin City was destroyed. General Jilin and Jilin Deputy Chief, Deputy Chief Hunchun Deputy Chief, Deputy Chief Ningguta... More than 20 ministers of the third rank and above died. After hearing this news, Qianlong fainted from vomiting blood. Although the court blocked the news, he did not attend court for ten consecutive days, so the news was not difficult to find out." Sun Shijie stood in front of Liang Pengfei, so excited that he couldn't speak.

Although Liang Pengfei looked confident and seemed to have expected the results today, in fact, the cigar ash in his right hand kept scattering on the ground. "Okay, very good, Fang Laosi and Ye Zhengchang finally lived up to the hope, but did not respond at all in the court?"

"The order has been issued, and the Shenji Camp, the 3,000 Firearm Camp, the 2,000 Knight Camp and the Eight Banners in the Beijing Camp... a total of more than 25,000 troops were sent to Manzhou. Calculate the time, and now it is probably ready to start. In addition, the Eight Banners garrisons, which were originally defending the border of Mongolia and Manchuria, also drew 5,000 troops to protect Shengjing. In addition, the Eight Banners soldiers who were originally transferred out of Manzhou and were suppressing rebellions in various places have also received orders and returned to the north."

"Do they think they can deal with our soldiers in this way?" Wang Jing laughed with disdain. "The army is not strict, the training is loose, and it is tolerant. Even the Eight Banners soldiers, who are so decayed that they are even worse than the Green Camp, can they be called an army? Decades ago, the Eight Banners were unavailable. Now, does Qianlong really think that the Eight Banners are not worth ten thousand and are invincible? A joke!"

It is indeed a joke. By the time of Shunzhi, the Eight Banners had almost all turned into scum. The Eight Banners system stipulates that military posts were hereditary. The soldiers were recruited from the children of the bannermen, and the bannermen were not allowed to intermarry with the Han people to maintain the purity of bloodline. Junior officers were mainly selected by hereditary or by the children of the Eight Banners who learned Manchu and Chinese language from official schools and rode and shoot kung fu. The assistant leaders who belong to intermediate officers had honors, world management, mutual management, and various types of Gongzhong. Except for the Duzhong Assistant leaders, they were inherited by children of a certain family or several aristocratic families. Senior generals such as the Duzhong, and the deputy governors were all monopolized by the Manchu nobles for generations.

Due to the wide range of hereditary areas, the promotion of the Eight Banners military posts lost its competitiveness and fairness, which made the Eight Banners officers full of incompetent and inspiring people. In particular, the Qing court often sent royal relatives who lacked experience in rank and war as commanders of the army. These people grew up in the government offices of the deep palace and lived a life of extravagance and lewdness. Most of them did not have the qualities of serving as commanders of the army, but were forced to be placed in important positions related to the victory or defeat of the war and the safety of the country, and thus often sow the seeds of failure.

The Qing army suffered repeated setbacks in the battles against Galdan and pacified Junggar, which were all caused by the appointment of incompetent Eight Banner nobles as the head commander. For example, when the Qing army used troops against Junggar, Emperor Yongzheng successively sent cowardly, incompetent, and reckless Manchu nobles Fu Erdan and Marsai as generals.

As a result, the generals were lost and they were defeated. However, Emperor Yongzheng did not reflect on the lessons of improper use of people, but instead tried his best to protect the defeated generals and took his anger to the Han generals. He gave Fu Erdan the imperial harem, but he put the Han general Yue Zhongqi in prison and executed Ji Chengbin, the Han general of Ningyuan.

Some Eight Banner generals were not only incompetent, but also afraid of death, and made many jokes on the battlefield. During the Battle of Ulan Butong during the Kangxi period, Sege, the deputy commander of the Zhengbai Banner who served as the general of the front enemy, fought timidly in the battle and refused to get off the horse. His family said: "The second-rank official retreated so timidly, what kind of face would he have to meet people when he went back? He helped him on the horse again. Sege rolled down from the saddle and hid in the grass. When he returned to the camp after the battle, he was still trembling all over, wearing armor and covered with a large quilt until dawn, which was once again a joke in the army. The various adverse effects of the closed employment system can be seen from the above examples.

As early as when the Three Feudal Rebellion was suppressed, the Eight Banners army stopped fighting under the city of Kunming and did not intend to make progress. The Han general Zhao Liangdong wanted to launch an attack, but was opposed by General Zhangtai, the general of Dingyuan to pacify the enemy. The reason was that "How can the emperor raises Manzhou easily advance and entrust it to the enemy?" In fact, not only Zhangtai, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong all had the idea of ​​not using the Eight Banners soldiers in the previous Civil Wars.

For example, in the 32nd year of Qianlong's reign, the troops were employed 25,000. Among them, 20,000 Green Camp soldiers were employed, and only 3,000 Eight Banners soldiers were employed, and the number of Green Camp soldiers was more than eight times that of Eight Banners. In the 52nd year of Qianlong's reign, Taiwan's Lin Shuangwen Uprising was suppressed, and more than 10,000 Green Camp soldiers were used, and only 100 Eight Banners went to the front. The number of Green Camp soldiers sent more than 10 times more than the Eight Banners. Even so, when the Eight Banners were sent to the battlefield, the Green Camp soldiers were often led by Green Camp soldiers or even the temporary recruitment of the brave camp soldiers. The Eight Banners soldiers followed behind. At that time, the military achievements were all obtained by the Eight Banners soldiers.

However, from the rulers of the Qing Dynasty to the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, they tried every means to escape from the battlefield, and were satisfied with going through the usual exercises and teachings, and putting on airs to earn food and salary. In the late Qing Dynasty, in addition to Mongolia, Jilin, and Heilongjiang horses, the Eight Banners of the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp were mostly soldiers with no ability and no talent. However, the officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou Banners could not even protect their own property, and they also needed to spend a lot of money to hire people to stand guard for them to prevent thieves from stealing property. It is not difficult to see how inferior their military qualities were.

Isn’t it the biggest joke that such an army leaves Manzhou?

Ni Ming next to him smiled and said, "Because, that's Manzhou."

"That's right, because it's Manzhou, a place where people are prosperous. If there are foreign troops, hehehe..." Liang Pengfei sneered several times and stopped talking.

"Sir, in this way, most of the Eight Banners of Manzhou will be stuffed in Manzhou." After calming down, Sun Shijie thought carefully and said with a smile.

"Ninety percent of Manzhou are now Manchus. Even if there are refugees, they will probably not be too many, and they are mostly driven out. In the 12th year of Yongzheng, only the jurisdiction of the Jilin General, the number of Han people increased by 2,387; in the 36th year of Qianlong, the number of Han people increased by 13,802; in the 46th year of Qianlong, the number of Han people increased by 27,407. Therefore, in December of the 41st year of Qianlong, the number of Han people increased by 'Shengjing, Jilin was the place where the dynasty was Longxing. If you listen to the miscellaneous refugees, it is very related to the customs of Manchus. Now there are more and more people, and I have reported that Jilin General Fu Chun found out and ordered it to be forbidden forever.'..."

"It's good, so it's good to save trouble." Liang Pengfei vomited a smoke ring, then poked it hard with his finger, poking the smoke ring into a loose smoke. Hearing Liang Pengfei's words with deep murderous intent, the people present couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

"This nation has never regarded itself as a part of this country, so why should I keep them?" Liang Pengfei couldn't help but smile faintly when he saw the changes in the expressions of the counselors around him.

"Sir, are you thinking..." Ni Ming's face turned pale. When he thought of Liang Pengfei's big hand, hundreds of thousands of heads fell to the ground. For some reason, Ni Ming felt his heart tight.

"Who said that they were going to kill them all?" Liang Pengfei rolled his eyes in disappointment. "As long as I don't resist, I will leave them a way out." However, Liang Pengfei's sinister smile and the vicious cold light flashing in his eyes, Ni Ming and others felt that it was probably not too different that Liang Pengfei left for Man Ren's life.
Chapter completed!