In October of the 54th year of Qianlong's reign, a well-thought-out edict was issued, which immediately caused an uproar among the government and the public. However, Qianlong had been in power for more than 50 years and was so powerful that no one, not to mention the censors, dared to write a letter to object. The Manchu and Mongolian princes and ministers did not dare to say anything.
"I have respectfully read the records. It is recorded that Huang Fangdu, Duke of Haicheng, died with his door closed. He is commendable for his loyalty. He has attacked the Duke twelve times as a reward for his righteousness and righteousness. Because he thought of the green flag worldly position, he refused to inherit it and ignored it. , but just like Huang Fangdu sacrificed his life to receive the order, and his righteousness was so great that he should be extraordinarily generous and extend his reward to the world to show his loyalty in a grand ceremony.
At the time of the campaign to suppress Wu Ni, the generals Zhang Yong, Zhao Liangdong, and Wang Jinbao were all loyal, honest, courageous, and adept at military and border defense. The admiral Chen Fu worked hard on the battlefield and served his orders.
I have also ordered the Minister of Military and Aircraft, together with the Ministry of War, to conduct a detailed investigation of all those who have records of meritorious service since the beginning of the People's Republic of China, and record their names and records. According to the records, there are Zhang Guoyan, Xu Yong, Zheng Zhiwen, and Jia Dadi who died in battle. .....Seventeen others; and fourteen others including Hui Yingzhao, Liang Huafeng, Tong Guangying, Huang Xizhan, etc., who have outstanding military achievements. Check their deeds, or they may be fatal on the battlefield, defeat Zhao Yilie; Outside the palace, there is a lot of hard work, so it is suitable to use tin for special treatment.
The above-mentioned people, as requested by their descendants, will send a detachment to the Han army. They will be assigned to the three banners of Xiangyang, Zhengyang and Zhengbai.
The country has been at peace for more than a hundred years, and China and foreign countries have been unified. The Manchurians and Han people are all my servants, and I have never been willing to divide the territories. The green flag will be in the middle. If there are people who are sincere to the country, and those who have overcome their skin merits, they should be recorded and recorded favorably. , the descendant of Enshi. If he has experienced military service, but chooses to be weak and cowardly, and misses the opportunity to do something, he must also understand the canonical punishment, so that he can teach the military officials and know what to do. In short, punishments and advice are given, but the person's merits and crimes are his own. , and there is no room for the bent of mind to be favored in it, so the great scriptures that clearly believe that rewards must be punished are all here. This encyclical is known both at home and abroad."
Since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there has never been an incident where dozens of Han people were raised collectively to raise the flag. For a time, the Manchus in Beijing were talking about it.
At dusk, in the Hanjiatan Hutong between Hufang Bridge and Zhushikou, more than a dozen "private apartments" have their corner lamps hung high and crimson wax burning. At the entrance of a private apartment called "Baozhutang", The house is already crowded with cars and horses, and there is an endless stream of guests. The business is obviously more prosperous than other restaurants.
Twenty-five-year-old Ruan Yuan came to this kind of place for the first time since he came to the capital. In April, Ruan Yuan ranked third in the second class of the high school entrance examination, and was ranked ninth in the subsequent imperial examination and served as editor of the Hanlin Academy. , also known as "Shujishi".
Ruan Yuan has been diligently studying in the past two years, from passing the annual exam to being in the second grade of high school. Although he lives just outside Xuanwu Gate not far away, he has never set foot in the land of fireworks.
Xinke Hanlin Huang Rong from Nanjing opened the sedan curtain, stepped on the footstool placed by the coachman and got out of the car, and said to Ruan Yuan who followed him out of the car: "Bo Yuan, what do you think of this place?"
Ruan Yuan glanced at it and asked hesitantly: "Brother Zhengqi, both you and I have official positions. Isn't it inappropriate to come here?"
Huang Rong came over and whispered: "Hey~ Bo Yuan, you and I are here today to listen to the opera, and we don't want to act like actors. What are we afraid of! That Shi Baozhu has a good voice, and specializes in Kundan, as the saying goes. 'The sky wind blows down Xu Feiqiong, interpreting the song of feather clothes at that time'. Besides, in this private place, you can often hear about some affairs of the government and the public. Now that you and I are officials in the same government, it is better to listen to and see more about many things."
Private apartments were also called "tangzi", "Xiangongtangzi", "xiachu", etc. in the old days.
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, members of major theater troupes generally lived together in order to facilitate daily rehearsals. This was called an "apartment". However, later, as the income of famous actors in the theater troupe increased, they felt that there were too many people in the apartment and it was inconvenient to eat and live, so
Renting another place to live by yourself is called a "private apartment".
In the old days, families with a certain status in Beijing had a hall number hanging on their door, so they were also called a certain hall, or a hall. For example, a person with the surname Zhou could be called "Ailian Hall", and a person with the surname Zhang could be called "Bai Rentang"
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Let me make a digression here. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, even the princes and ministers, no one hung a large plaque with the name "So-and-so Mansion" on the lintel of their house. Anyone who dared to do this would be embarrassed even if it was against the rules.
Go home! Why are you using that red lantern at the door? Are you really using it as a decoration?
Moreover, even on lanterns, you cannot write "such-and-such mansion". Han officials will only write their surnames, middle-class families will write their hall names, and the families of princes and ministers will only write their titles, such as "prefecture and prince's mansion".
The order to abolish the lowly status issued during the Yongzheng period actually enabled actors to gain professional recognition in a specific era, get rid of their inferiority complex in the industry, and begin to move toward professionalism. As a result, "private apartments" began to "boom" in development.
However, since the early Qing Dynasty, regulations regarding actors were promulgated, such as "Forbidding Officials to Keep Actresses" and "Prohibiting Actors from Entering the City". As a result, female actors did not flourish while male actors flourished.
Actors in private apartments are called "Xiangong", which is actually a rumor. The young actor often played the role of women in plays, so he was originally called "Xianggu", but unexpectedly, he got a homophonic name of "Xianggong". Since then, this name has come into being.
, the children of officials in the capital no longer dare to commensurate with this.
After Ruan Yuan followed Huang Rong into the main entrance of "Baozhu Hall", he saw yellow or white chrysanthemums placed everywhere in the courtyard, and the fragrance was fragrant; there were even a few green bamboos under the wall of the corridor, which looked very quiet and elegant, and he couldn't help but admired it.
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The boy who was responsible for greeting the guests was also a handsome man. He obviously knew Huang Rong. When he saw it, he came up and bowed, and without saying much, he led the two of them towards the second courtyard.
When he walked into the second entrance, Ruan Yuan couldn't help but was stunned. He saw a greenhouse set up in the courtyard. Although there was no shelter around it, seven or eight charcoal braziers lit with high-quality bamboo charcoal made the courtyard as warm as spring. The greenhouse
Chrysanthemums are placed all over the floor on three sides. The east and west wing rooms and the main hall in the courtyard are specially used for entertaining guests.
Looking up, I saw the dazzling furnishings in the main hall, the brocade curtain hanging at the door, and the shadows of people moving inside. Although Ruan Yuan came to the "private apartment" for the first time, he had been there before when he was in Yangzhou.
Those who paint boats never expected that the capital city could have such exquisite and elegant places.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After the waiter took Huang Rong and Ruan Yuan into the private room in the east wing, a faint agarwood fragrance could be faintly smelled, and the furnishings in the room were extremely elegant; although there was no
The Zhou Yi Han Ding, the mirror and the clock were clearly visible, and Ruan Yuan couldn't help but marvel. All the furniture in the house were also made of Su-style mahogany. There were Duobao Pavilions, desks, and high-legged flower stands with potted orchids on the walls.
There is also an Arhat bed for people to rest, an Eight Immortals table, two armchairs, and several carved stools in the room. Seasonal dried fruits and preserved fruits are placed on the table.
Huang Rong had been here before and seemed to be very familiar with the business. When tea was served, he ordered the food and drinks to the boy, then took out a piece of broken silver and handed it over. The boy suddenly smiled and was busy.
He gave Huang Rong and Ruan Yuan a thousand blows, and then went down to organize things.
Ruan Yuan knew in his heart that just for the room and the banquet today, it would definitely cost him a hundred taels of silver to listen to a play. If he asked actors to come over to accompany the wine, it would cost at least two to three hundred taels.
However, the Ruan family belongs to an aristocratic family in Yangzhou. Although they are not as luxurious as the salt merchants, their grandfather also served as a general in Hunan, and his father is a master of ancient literature. Ruan Yuan has studied civil and military arts since he was a child, and has made friends with famous people. What kind of scenes has he not seen? So it is the same.
Keep calm.
He took a sip of tea and was about to speak when he heard a burst of noise from far to near. Then, footsteps and voices came from the private room next door.
"Who are you? Are you still following the same rules today?"
"Mali'er, hurry up! You guys are here to listen to Baozhu's opera today, so we don't have time to make noises with you."
"Hey, I'm going to help you guys."
Ruan Yuan frowned, thinking that the soundproofing of this private room was too poor. Just as he was about to tell Huang Rong, he saw the other person raised his finger and made a hissing gesture at him. Ruan Yuan felt strange and was about to ask Huang Rong,
I heard someone knocking on the door.
Huang Rong swooped back to the table and sat down, coughed slightly, and then asked someone to come in. Ruan Yuan was stunned to see all this.
The door opened, and the young boy brought a maid to deliver wine and food. During this period, Huang Rong didn't say a word. When the young boy went out, Ruan Yuan asked in a low voice: "Brother Zhengqi, what were you doing just now?"
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Huang Rong showed a mysterious look on his face, leaned over and whispered to Ruan Yuan: "Bo Yuan, please remember my brother's words. No matter what you hear today, if it comes into our ears, please do not spread it to outsiders."
"Brother Zhengqi, what do you think of me?" Ruan Yuan was a little angry. What was Huang Rong doing? Eavesdropping on people's conversations in a private apartment is something a gentleman would not do. If someone finds out, his reputation will be ruined.
He said, maybe there will be a fight.
Just as he was about to stand up and say goodbye, he heard a man next door shout loudly: "Second Master, what do you think the old man is going to do? Good guy, Thirty-Six Family!"
Another person said: "No! This has become Water Margin, the whole 'Tiangang Thirty-Six', and maybe one day there will be a 'Disha Seventy-Two'."
After a while, I heard a young man say: "Lao Min, Lao Fu, what the hell are you two doing! Is this old man something you can criticize?!"
"Old man? Thirty-six?"
Ruan Yuan's heart suddenly trembled. He was alert and quickly thought of the edict issued the day before yesterday. In it, the number of people carried from the Han people to the Han Army to the Three Banners was exactly thirty-six. Thinking of this, he looked at Huang again.
Rong, I saw the other party looking at me with a smile on his face, showing a bit of pride.
This Huang Zhengqi seemed to be a very upright person before the examination. Why did he start to engage in such things as an official?
At this time, I heard the person next door say again: "Second Master, how can we dare to criticize the old man? It's just that in the first few years, he said that he was recuperating and recuperating, and his household registration was increasing, so he was repatriated to his place of origin and included in Baojia. How come in the blink of an eye, he was transferred to Baojia again?
Why are so many families integrated into Shangsanqi?"
"Yes, Second Master, we included all those people in "The Biography of Erchen" a few years ago, why are they being praised again now?"
"My second elder brother, why don't you give your sisters a good talk?"
"Damn it! You really made a careless friend. How come I've known you three since I was a kid!"
Everyone laughed loudly after hearing this, and then told some embarrassing stories about how when they were children, they climbed up into the wall room and put pepper powder in the snuff bottle for the teacher, but the prince almost got his butt smashed due to his mastery.
The young man paused for a moment, as if he was considering his words, and then said: "At this time and that time, which year of the lunar calendar are you talking about? I heard my grandmother say before that the reason for the abolition was
The Han military flag is not because of that little money and food. Our Qing Dynasty is prosperous and the Holy Emperor is on the throne, so we can still lack that little money. It’s because they can’t fight, and they live like uncles, so what’s the use of it?”
After hearing this, Ruan Yuan felt a little awkward, but he also thought it was reasonable. He had heard this matter told by someone before. The man's name was Jiang Fan Jiang Ziping, a fellow countryman and friend of his.
Jiang Fan made it very clear at the time. Since Shizu entered the Pass, especially after the San Francisco Rebellion, the imperial court dispersed the garrison of the Eight Banners in key areas across the country in order to nip problems in the bud. The characteristics of the garrison of the Eight Banners in various places are that they are connected by dots.
Lines, roughly forming five defense lines across the country: the Great Wall, the Yellow River, and the Yangtze River are three horizontal lines, and the canal and the coast are two vertical lines. With these three horizontal lines and two vertical lines, the Eight Banners garrisoned a total of five lines of defense, plus the Green Camp, to form a network within the pass.
With a tight garrison network, any abnormal movement can be dispatched at any time to quickly extinguish the army.
However, as there was no more fighting in the pass and the court situation became increasingly stable, some garrison points or garrison lines gradually lost their original military value. Especially after the pacification of the northwest, the court gradually reduced the garrison in the interior and south of the Yangtze River, and
The excess troops were supplemented by the Eight Manchu and Mongolian Banners in the capital and were transferred to the northwest for garrison.
For example, in the Mingfa edict issued in the 26th year of Qianlong's reign, the emperor requested that the eight banners banned from travel should be selected with families, and each banner should send a vest and 43 soldiers to be sent to Suiyuan City for garrison duty.
All the Han troops garrisoned in Suiyuan City were sent to Zhili and Shanxi provinces to replenish the green battalions. As for the troops sent to Zhuanglang garrison in Liangzhou, they were selected from the Manchurian troops in Xi'an. The remaining vacancies were filled with remaining troops.
It is of great benefit to the livelihood of the Manchu people in the provincial capital.
Since the pacification of Huojizhan and Huojizhan in the 22nd year of Qianlong's reign, the rebellion in the Junggar tribe of Mongolia in the desert has been basically eliminated. Taking this as an opportunity, the imperial court made major adjustments to the military deployment across the country. Taking into account the Han army's intention to raise its flag,
When necessary, the emperor repeatedly stated the measures to raise the flag, thus speeding up the Han army's raising the flag.
Ruan Yuan was so distracted that he missed a lot of the conversation next door. He only heard the young man say again: "It's not like you don't know what happened in the past few years. I won't talk about the first two years. That North...
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The young man suddenly lowered his voice so low that Ruan Yuan could no longer hear it, so he hurriedly imitated Huang Rong and put his ear against the wall.
"...That fight in June made everyone in the Zhang Jia family vomit blood, and the third son of the Fucha family fought hard to save Jilin. Alas! Listen to my Ama, this time it's...
More than 20,000 flags were broken!"
Only one person was heard exclaiming: "What?! Another twenty thousand! God, how many people have fallen in before and after this?"
"Shh~~ Rich boy, can you speak a little bit lower! If you keep using that loud voice of yours, I won't stop talking!"
The man known as the "Rich Second Brother" said: "My eldest brother came back from the north the year before last and insisted on asking someone to spend money to leave the capital and go south. When he arrived, he didn't make it. Let me tell you, it turns out that such a thing still exists!"
The young man added: "We include all the men, women, and children. We only have a few hundred thousand. If we really want to lose them all, the old man won't agree. How about we mobilize the Qingzhou soldiers and the Northwest Green Camp to go out in the first few days?"
If these Qiu Ba raise their flags, who knows what trouble will happen!"
The whole room sighed, and then the young man said again: "Let me tell you something rare, but don't get under the table after hearing this."
"Second Master, look at what you said. Although my brothers are not in the army and cannot go into battle to kill thieves, they are not cowards! Don't you think so?"
"that is!"
"Give me a musket and kill that bastard named Zhao with one shot!"
"Look at what you're capable of! You're not afraid of blowing off the roof when you brag." The young man was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "You all know that the Rakshasa invaded last year, right?"
"I know, isn't it just Hong Mao? Didn't the copy say that they were all beaten back?"
"A bunch of barbarians. According to me, we should kill all those Rakshasa guys in Dongzhimen!"
"Oh, it's such a good thing. Lao Min, you should say something when the time comes. It's not a big deal for the brothers to help out."
"Stop, stop, stop! Shut the fuck up and listen to what I have to say first."
Ruan Yuan heard this so funny that he covered his mouth and didn't dare to say anything. Then he heard the young man continue: "What the hell, even Qiqihar almost lost it when he was beaten back. To tell you the truth, it was the one named Zhao who took him away."
With 600 soldiers, we killed more than 10,000 Rakshasas in one battle, and even captured a major general."
After saying this, there was a sudden silence in the room next door. Ruan Yuan and Huang Rong here were also stunned, looking at each other, thinking that six hundred is less than ten thousand, are these still human beings?
At this time, Ruan and Huang wanted to listen again. There was a sound of sandalwood board in the courtyard, and then someone in the next room said: "Shi Baozhu is coming out!"
Ruan Yuan and Huang Rong walked to the window, pulled up the curtain, and saw two people in opera robes walking out of the third moon door.
Both of them looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old. The one in the lead was dressed as a scholar and looked very delicate and handsome. The one following him had frowning eyebrows, clear eyes, and pink cheeks.
There were still two drunken dimples on his body, he lowered his head and held his hands with half a smile, his body was graceful and his steps were graceful.
When the two of them entered the greenhouse, the man behind him raised his head, glanced at the two wings and the main room opposite, and smiled slightly.
"Okay!" The spectators in the houses outside the greenhouse cheered.
Ruan Yuan looked at the man carefully and saw that the man's snow-skinned face and charming eyes were becoming more and more radiant and graceful.
He couldn't help blurting out: "Brother Zhengqi, isn't this a woman?"
"This is Shi Baozhu, a real man." Huang Rong, who was standing next to him, smiled slightly, and then murmured slowly: "The God of Feng is a willow-colored lotus, so we meet each other with a beautiful smile. All good things are taken by everyone.
The singing is beginning to change and the wine is beginning to become stronger..."
Before Huang Rong could finish speaking, he heard the drums in the greenhouse gently playing and the melodious sound of the flute. Shi Baozhu raised his sleeves and sang along with the sound of the flute.
"When the morning comes, the green sleeves are cool, and the bed is wrapped in smoke. I wake up from a drowsy sleep and raise my eyebrows tiredly. I am lazy to urge the parrot to call for the fragrance of plum blossoms. The red door is quietly closed, the curtains are spread out, and he is allowed to let his prince and grandson's horses neigh and the green poplar trees are covered. The locks in the dream are lush, and I am afraid of being blown away by the east wind.
.I saw bees making noise on the paper windows and butterflies crossing the white walls..."