"When is the spring flower and autumn moon?" How much do you know about the past. Xiao Lou had another east wind last night, and the homeland could not look back at the middle of the moon. ——" When is the Autumn Moon of Yu Meiren Spring Flowers"
The change of dynasties is not a new thing in this land with a history of 5,000 years, whether it is the powerful Han Dynasty or the weakened Southern Song Dynasty, it is inevitable to be replaced by later generations. The Daming who was originally "the Son of Heaven guarding the gate of the country" could not escape the torrent of history in the end, and what was left to us was only the back of the Chongzhen Emperor who martyred the country.
The nearest feudal dynasty to us is the Qing Dynasty, which is also one of the few dynasties ruled by ethnic minorities in history. This nation, who started on horseback, referred to his predecessor, the Yuan Dynasty, seized the Han family world in a cruel and barbaric way, and then adopted gentle and gentle means to rule, preaching the "Manchu Han family" and wanting to achieve long-term peace and stability with an inclusive posture.
But he never expected that in the end, it was not the Han family who ended him, but the "overseas barbarians". 107 years ago, when the Qing Dynasty fell, 140,000 royal children were like dogs that lost their families, and they were afraid that they would not be able to live forever, where did they go? What industries are they mostly engaged in?
First, a nation rising on horseback
Everyone knows that the Qing Dynasty emperor's surname was Ai Xin Jueluo, Manchu, and his predecessor was Jurchen. The Jurchens are a tenacious people, and their brilliance has been displayed since the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Yelü clan occupied the north, the country name was Liao, the Song Dynasty was relegated to the south, the Jurchens went from north to south, ping liao destroyed the Song, established a powerful Jurchen regime, and changed the name of the country to Jin. However, at that time, the world was full of heroes, and after a generation of heavenly pride unified Mongolia, they aimed at the fertile land of the Central Plains, brandished their scythes and went south to harvest the fruits of the victory of the Jin Dynasty.
In this way, the Jurchens were driven out of this land, thousands of miles north, exiled to the bitter cold land, after hundreds of years, one of the Jurchen tribes of the Jurchen tribe rose up, and its leader Nurhaci led an army to seize the control of the Ming dynasty in the northeast region, and then unified the Jurchen tribes, changing the name of the country to "Houjin".
In 1618, Nurhaci officially declared war on the Ming Dynasty, recreating the myth of "Jurchen soldiers are invincible" during the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Jurchens fought bravely, according to the "Ming Shilu", "Slave thieves' tactics, dead soldiers in front, sharp soldiers in the rear, dead soldiers wearing heavy armor, riding double horses to rush forward." Although the former dies and then the front is restored, do not dare to retreat, and retreat, the sharp soldiers kill him from behind. ”
In August 1626, Nurhaci was killed, and his son Emperor Taiji took the throne, changing the Jurchen clan to "Manchu" and the country name to "Great Qing". Emperor Taiji was a man of great ambition, and he held talks with the Mongols who had been in-laws for several years, promising them to "extinguish the Ming Dynasty and restore the Yuan" in order to seek the support of the Mongols. There is no doubt that he had a sincere and powerful ally, and then he led the Eight Banners to the south and established the last feudal dynasty in China, the Qing Dynasty.
Second, Cheng Ye Xiao He defeated Xiao He
The Eight Banners was a kind of military system in the Qing Dynasty and a household registration system for the Manchus. Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, qing taizu established eight banners based on the niulu (big arrow), which were yellow, red, blue, and white, representing different flags, each flag representing an army, in this way to train troops, and the flag owner was generally a royal son to maintain the rule of Ai Xinjue Luoshi.
With the expansion of the Qing forces, these four-color banners developed into eight banners, and the eight banners restricted and relied on each other to form a unique system of state system. The Eight Flags system was established in order to conquer the world, so Taizu stipulated that the children of the Eight Flags should not engage in other industries, and could only become a sharp blade to conquer the world. This stipulation was very effective in times of war, and the courage of the Manchus was also caused by this, but once the world was settled, the eight banners were no longer useful.
Since the beginning of the reign of Kangxi, the country has become increasingly prosperous, and where the children of the Eight Banners are useless, they have begun to treat themselves with dignity and enjoy the state of decline. These people were born with wealth and status that others could not imagine, and they could not engage in other industries like ordinary people, and the system of the Qing Dynasty made them have nothing to do, only to be a rich and idle person.
After the Opium War began, the Qing Dynasty was weakening day by day, and these original royal nobles and eight banner disciples grew up one by one to become a burden that the Qing Dynasty could not get rid of. According to statistics, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the annual tax revenue of the national treasury could not be worth the food and clothing of the Eight Banners for one year, and all the money that should have been used for the national economy and people's livelihood was embezzled by the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty for their extravagant pleasures.
Think of the Eight Banners disciples who accompanied Nurhaci in his conquest of the world, and the Eight Banners of the Late Qing Dynasty, who only knew opium and women, had the same source but were very different, and it was really Cheng ye Xiao He who defeated Xiao He!
The end of the three and eight flags
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the treasury was empty, and those who were accustomed to luxury had no silver money to use, and there was no way to settle down, and they could only find ways to obtain money and maintain their decent life.
The fixed assets of these princes and grandsons who are better sold are exchanged for silver to find fun, and the poor ones can only sell their children and daughters to save money in exchange for family use. Worse still, he even turned to foreigners, completely disregarding his identity, and turned into a traitor.
Among them, the most famous is the Japanese spy Yoshiko Kawashima, who was originally the daughter of Prince Su, and later defected to the Japanese, directing the "128 Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries.
Some members of the royal family returned to the northeast of their hometown and lived a life of incognito, and for the convenience of their own lives, they simply changed their names directly and changed them to their original national name "Jin". Although they have unloaded their royal status and lived a life like ordinary people, at least they do not have to worry about being hunted down and killed, which is also a good ending for the last generation of royals.
The other members of the royal family who were not able to return to the northeast were not so lucky, they had no skills to lean on, and they had nothing to buy and sell, but to sell their labor and do some hard work. Wang Yansen, the former king of iron hats, eventually became a poor man who relied on pulling a car to earn living expenses, which can really be described as a creation and trickery.
However, not all of the royal family is so miserable, just as the so-called "skinny camel is bigger than the horse", and some members of the royal family rely on their own connections to find a job as a policeman in the new government, which is also a good way out. Other sane members of the royal family also went abroad to study medicine, became a doctor, and ate on their own.
epilogue:
"No one has a thousand days, and no flowers have a hundred days." The class in this world is not completely stable, even if you are a royal family on the top, there is a day when the country is destroyed, and all identities and positions are turned into bubbles on this day, and the only constant is the knowledge that exists in the mind.
The rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty, which is only a few hundred years old, is not worth mentioning for the history of China, and these original kings and grandsons also experienced the path that the last royal families such as the Zhao and Zhu clans once walked.
The reason is the same, today's rich second generation rich third generation may one day give up their wealth and become white, just as Mr. Kong said, "Watch him rise up a tall building, watch him feast on guests, watch him collapse." "I hope that no matter when and where, we will not forget to enrich ourselves and turn tangible wealth into intangible wealth, do you have anything to say about the end of the Qing Dynasty royal family?"
References: "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon of Yu Meiren", "The Eight Flags System of the Qing Dynasty"