Stepping through the brilliant long sky of history, looking at the dappled streamers of light in the starlight, the wind and frost of a thousand years, how many heroes and legends have been frozen, the long line of heaven and earth that runs through ancient and modern times, connecting the initial power of life, bringing surprise to people, bringing people memories, the vast picture of history, is the spiritual heaven that never grows old!
The impression of the Deputy Envoy of the Macartney Mission, Staunton, of the Eight Banners was: "They wore short coats and skirts that were wearing a pleated coat and skirt, and a pair of thick-soled satin boots on their feet, which were both bulky and feminine, without a little military spirit." "Fortunately, this temple has a deity attached to the gate for protection, and the ghosts outside can't come in, which seems to be more reliable than these soldiers."
This foreigner is also a little unaware of the thickness of the heavens and the thickness of the earth, and the majesty of the soldiers of the Heavenly Dynasty is not how to talk about it, but unfortunately these words did not let Qianlong of the "Ten Perfections of Martial Arts" know, otherwise he would have waited to eat and go around. Although the foreign lord's words are not heard, this is the case.
In fact, Qianlong himself knew this situation, and as early as the first year of Qianlong, he said in an edict: "The eight banners used to be customary, and the most recent." The inheritance of the usual day, the growth of teeth day by day, and gradually luxury. If you serve the officials and other provinces, you collect taxes on the difference, that is, you spend arbitrarily... And the soldiers are idle and only know the fresh clothes and food, the money is the norm, the flag people are poor, and the rate is due to this. Many people have even forgotten the art of riding and shooting, and during Qianlong's last southern military parade in Hangzhou, there was a joke about the loss of horses, so in an edict in the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), it was said: "In the year of Jiachen (the forty-ninth year of Qianlong), he drove to Hangzhou with the southern tour, and the camp rode and shot. Archery and arrows are false, and the horsemen fall to the ground, thinking that they are joking, and they have been able to refine themselves in the past few years?"
In the autumn of the following year (1800), in order to eliminate the harm of the White Lotus Sect, the Qianlong Emperor began to suppress the Yuanyuan and Mixed Yuan sects in the six provinces of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. This action not only did not completely eliminate the White Lotus Sect, but it caused more trouble, and two years later, the White Lotus Sect held a large-scale uprising.
Some people rebelled, this is worth it, the "Ten Perfection Old Man" Qianlong is very confused, do not know my "Ten Perfections of Martial Arts"? Not afraid of death? Well, see how I pack you up.
Therefore, the Eight Banners soldiers who gave macartney and Staunton their performances were sent to the battlefield. There is a saying that "the mule is a horse, and it is led out to walk", this walk, really fatal, these eight flags disciples and soldiers are really not as good as running the rivers and lakes to play juggling (the Leader of the White Lotus Sect Qi Lin, they all used to sell art in the rivers and lakes for a living), the courage of the jianghu to sell art is invincible, and the eight flags of the disciples are afraid to move forward and have the courage to be behind.
According to records, on the battlefield, the generals put the temporarily recruited township braves in front, and the Eight Banners disciples followed behind. The casualties were temporary, and the credit was given to the Eight Banners disciples who were formed in the back.
The Eight Banners disciples are not very good, and the other trump card that the Qing Dynasty relies on, the Green Battalion Soldiers, is not bad. The Green Battalion soldiers were inferior to the Eight Banner Soldiers, military discipline was seriously corrupted, and in the barracks, alcoholism, gambling, prostitution, and opium smoking were prevalent. Usually, there is almost no practice, and the combat effectiveness that comes from everywhere is the same from officers to soldiers.
Indeed, as Staunton said, these eight flags and green battalion soldiers are not even as good as the gods in front of the temple, and the gods can still scare and frighten the ghosts, what about them? Except for eating, drinking, gambling and having fun, there is nothing but shortcomings or shortcomings.
In this way, the ordinary White Lotus Sect revolt, the Qing government worked hard, and it took 9 years to suppress it. In order to suppress the uprising, Jiaqing successively mobilized the troops of sixteen provinces across the country, spending 200 million taels of silver, equivalent to the financial revenue of the Qing government for 4 years. In the suppression of the uprising, more than 20 senior generals such as Tizhen were killed in battle, and more than 400 officers below the rank of deputy general and staff general were killed, and the armed forces of the Qing government were greatly weakened, and the Qing Dynasty suffered an unprecedented heavy blow since the founding of the country, and the Qing government was seriously injured. It was also the impact of this uprising that made the Qing Dynasty have to deploy a large number of military forces in Hubei, Sichuan and other inland areas, so that the British army attacked in the Opium War, and the Qing government could hardly transfer troops to the battle, and was completely defeated.
It can be said that wave after wave of unevenness has just been suppressed, and at this time, the livelihood problems of the eight flags children have become more and more difficult and put on the agenda. Jiaqing is really embarrassed, when fighting, you can't do it, you have to eat and drink more than one positive, but there is no way, after all, the dragon chair you sit on has the credit of the ancestors.
According to the ancestral rules, all the Eight Flags disciples are provided by the state, but the obligation of the Eight Banners children is to "take the Qing language riding and shooting as the main task.". There is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking, my emperor pays you to raise you, you practice riding and shooting well, and defend my throne. The problem is that he has no competition, no survival of the fittest, and then no enthusiasm, and in the long run, he can only be corrupt and degenerate, and he can do nothing.
There is no obligation without rights, there is no right without obligation, and since you can no longer fight, then I will no longer support you, and you will find your own way out. The best way is to let the Eight Flags disciples lay off and lay off, but Jiaqing does not have this kind of courage and skill, and the Jiaqing Emperor can only continue the ancestors' practice and carry all the problems by himself.
There was really no way, Jiaqing also wrote a tearful exhortation. On June 12, 1811, the Sixteenth Year of Jiaqing (1811), the Jiaqing Emperor commanded the Eight Banners:
The sons of the Eight Banners, the servants of the world of the country, have more than a hundred years, and the talents are numerous, and they are invincible. However, due to the fact that there are many people with teeth and teeth, and there are also disciples who have lost their lessons, and they have also encountered some du tong and vice governors who are unwilling to serve the country and only know how to eat and protect their positions, plus the bad people who have committed adultery and deceit, some of the eight flags disciples have gradually become inferior and willing to be despicable, like moths throwing fire, and they do not know how to repent. These people only picture the time and pleasure, do not consider the wealth of a lifetime, it is really very pitiful. The gangsters are lured in many ways, and the most hateful thing is to gamble. Those villains who started the game only intended to collect money, and some of the Eight Flags disciples were fooled and unconscious, which was really sad. People who gamble well have five major evils: eating the country, not knowing thrift, vainly trying to make a wish, and finally being poor, and their disadvantages are also one; The upper can not provide for the parents to be willing, the lower can not take care of the wife's hunger and cold, and the second disadvantage is also; Learning literature and martial arts, lacking capital, and eventually being useless people, its drawbacks are also three; Once in the gambling game, there is no victory, the pawn selling goods is poor, the heart of stealing suddenly arises, and its disadvantages are also four; Occasional rat theft, did not violate the law of the land, bold and arrogant, and finally led to the ruin of the reputation, its drawbacks are also five. These five kinds of evils will not be committed by the wise, and those who are not good will not change. Specially written in this number of words, the birth of the Eight Flags, to make everyone known.
The Jiaqing Emperor also said: There are more than seventy members of the Eight Banners and the Vice Capital, and why can't they bear to regard the useful sons of the state and half of them as useless bandits, so why not discipline them? The kingdom is blessed with a distraction. If some of the Eight Flags disciples can turn around and repent, accumulate over time, restore old habits, and become good talents, this is really a blessing for the country; If none of the ministers have devoted their hearts and minds, and none of the children of the Eight Banners have repented, this is a great misfortune for the country.
Jiaqing was really smart, he expected the result, and sure enough, "none of the ministers did their best, and none of the Eight Banners disciples repented", so he could only be very unfortunate.
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