4506 Knocking to force the palace
There are more and more bannermen coming out of the alleys, fifty out of here and eighty out of there, and even more than one hundred out of larger alleys.
Soon Qianmen Street was crowded with 1,500 bannermen, and the number continued to increase!
The people in the capital have a wide range of knowledge and are highly sensitive to the current situation. When you look at the situation today, you will know that something may happen. As long as these stores are not open, you can just go to the door today!
The merchants have closed their business for one day and can’t take this risk. Something really is going to happen. Han Chinese buyers and sellers can’t afford to offend these old men with their arms and legs!
Hulala, the group of people walked to the front gate, and the soldiers guarding the city were frightened silly, "Hey hey... what are you doing? What are you doing?"
"Get out! Are you stopping us into the inner city? That king's law is not allowed to walk through the front door during the day?"
"Hey...this..." The soldiers guarding the city thought it was the same. During the day, anyone could walk at will, and even peddlers and pawns could walk, let alone these bannermen.
But you just leave, why are there so many people coming at once? I'm determined to stop them, but the people in front are all familiar and decent people, all nobles with titles in the Eight Banners, and no one dares to mess with them!
After a little hesitation, the Hulala Banner Pioneer had already rushed to the Qing Gate!
"Oh... everyone, my uncle, you may not be able to enter here..."
"Fart! Do you see what this is? This is a waist card, and I have an errand in the Ministry of Revenue. Do you dare to stop me... Get out of here!"
The waist card shook in front of the soldiers guarding the gate, and then a big slap was slapped over. The beating soldier turned around three times in place, "Hey hey... Why did you hit someone!"
Today's knocking action was completely dominated by the middle-level nobles of the Eight Banners of the Capital. These middle-level nobles are all leading figures under each banner, and many of them are also subordinates of the prince.
Most of these people are concentrated in the middle-level titles of Light Che Duwei, Cavalry Duwei, Yunqi Wei, Enqi Wei... and the Count, Viscount and even Duke and Prince were the ones secretly planned in the court!
These people basically formed the backbone of the Eight Banners aristocratic system of the Qing Dynasty. These people belonged to the class that was inherited from the upper and lower levels. They could reach the sky and penetrate into the grassroots level.
On weekdays, do you think they are all wastes who can drink flower wine in teahouses? But once someone organizes them, these people will burst out with the power that makes the emperor afraid!
These soldiers from the Qing Sect dared not stop them, or they could not stop them, because almost all the pioneers who rushed to the Sect had responsibilities, either the Sixth Ministry, the Sect Mansion, the Internal Affairs Office and other yamen.
These people have passed the standard waist-to-mouth cards, and it is reasonable and legal for them to go to the Daqing Gate!
At the beginning, these hundreds of people rushed in, and the abortion rushed up. Even if the bannerman behind him had no waist cards, you would not be able to stop him.
After passing the Qing Gate, Qianbu Lobby was the Qianbu Lobby. These are the places where this group of people have become familiar with each other. On both sides of Qianbu Lobby, each of them is offices of the Sixth Department. Countless officials of the fourth and fifth rank were shocked by this momentum, and they walked out of the room and looked at them blankly.
So many bannermen walked to Jinshui Bridge, but they didn't dare to rush in. The cavalry of the crooked horse patrols regularly. When they saw so many people rushing in, they immediately formed a wall of war horses and pressed up from left and right.
The new imperial army also began to gather urgently and form an array in front of the Jinshui Bridge!
Behind Jinshui Bridge is the penalty area. You can’t get in without the waist-tag of the Forbidden City!
Thumb... Thumb... Flagman knelt on the long street, with constipation on his face, and suddenly they began to cry bitterly.
"Long live! Please give us the Eight Banners a way out..."
"Long live the emperor...the ten-way general manager was wronged...the bannerman was wronged..."
"Wuwuwu...Long live! Please open your eyes and see our bannermen... They can't survive!"
The darkness was filled with bannermen from Tianjie and kneeling down from the Qing Dynasty gate, and people were constantly entering from behind. Once they came in, they would find a place to kneel down and kowtow.
The leaders shouted whatever they wanted. There was also the office of the Qing Post Bureau in the Qianbulang office area, and there were also reporters from the Qing Dynasty. When they saw the news, they quickly took photos and recorded everything.
At this moment, Zaichun's face turned pale in Meiwu in Yangxin Palace. Prince Dun told the little emperor all the news of his forcing the palace.
"Your Majesty... I just got the news in the morning. These people had hinted before, but I thought they were just talking and playing, but I didn't expect it to be true!"
"I beg Your Majesty to be calm. This case of the ten-way general manager has caused deep concern among the people of the capital. They are afraid that the emperor will abandon them!"
"The eight banner nobles who gave gifts to ministers all expressed the same thing... They thought that Guangliang and others were wrong, but the fault was that they were murdered, but this crime of corruption was not considered dead!"
"If the silver bannerman is not greedy, he will be greedy by the Han people. His Majesty cut off the bannerman's financial path. Is it because he wants the Han people to make money?"
Alas... This is really the true thoughts of people in that era. Zai Chun felt cold after hearing these words!
Corruption is not terrible. The most terrifying thing is that the culture of corruption is deeply rooted. It is that all people in the world believe that corruption is the right thing, and that is, it is true. This is the most terrifying thing.
This was the case in the late Qing Dynasty. All officials, regardless of their nation-state, actually believed that corruption was the right thing to do!
This Beijing Iron Factory has collected so much silver, so a lot of silver slag must be ground down during operation, and these residues should be shared by officials!
The emperor killed all the bannermen. Would he let the Han people make these shits?
Why do these people try their best to protect Guangliang and other ten general managers? Because this is their bottom line, what they want is to share the money that Zaichun has ground to rule this empire!
If Zai Chun doesn’t give me who do you want to give? To the Han people or the Chinese people? Or to the foreign devils? To the British?
This is the benefit of life and death, and it is the bottom line that cannot be retreated. The imperial court emperor's property should not allow the public to be corrupt, that means that your emperor will abandon the family rules of the Eight Banners ancestors!
Look, this is what the banner people really thought at that time. From top to bottom, no banner people changed their thinking mode!
"Can't you not avoid corruption? Can't you let the Qing Dynasty's industry run cleanly?" Zaichun's thoughts were still a little simple.
The fifth master Yiqiu smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty! This is not the time to sit and discuss and think about people's hearts... there is no time, you have to make a decision early!"
"I... just can't figure it out. Did I punish the corrupt officials of the bannermen and make Han people corrupt? What is the reason? Where does this make sense?"
"Oh... Your Majesty, don't think about this, you're going to make an idea!"
Just as the uncle and nephew were hesitating, Ermao suddenly hurriedly ran in, "Your Majesty... The big thing is wrong... Thousands of bannermen gathered outside the Jinshui Bridge of Qianbulang!"
"They shouted slogans and asked Guangliang and others to let go, and asked His Majesty to keep people under the sword!"
"Ah? They really dare to knock on the throne? How many bastards...?"
Ermao sweated, "I'm young, I'm still gathering here like this! Your Majesty, you have to make a decision quickly, should you disperse or suppress?"
"Or...or maybe stabilize them first?"
Zai Chun was trembling all over. He pointed outside and said, "Prince Dun, you go out to comfort them first, and try to persuade them to go home..."
"Even if I give them the answer, I can't give it to them today. No one can force me to make a decision!"
Prince Dun nodded, turned his head and walked out!
Chapter completed!