The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 44: Stop crying, the Qing Dynasty is going to end! (Don’t keep it, just read it now!)

"What is the Anti-Scripture?" Huang Shijie, who was already furious, shouted with a stern face, "I am a scholar and a scholar. I will not rebel, why should I read the Anti-Scripture?"

"My dear, this volume 2 of Anti-Scripture, The Rebellion of Gentry, is for scholars." Mrs. Huang was worried that her husband would ask her if she had been defiled by the Taiping Army, so she was eager to divert everyone's attention and simply showed the few volumes of Anti-Scripture in her hand. "In addition, these two volumes of Anti-Scripture, Volume 3, The Rebellion of Han Officials, are for officials!"

"Ridiculous!" Wang Kuiyi took a copy of Volume 3 of the Anti-Scripture and said with disdain, "How could the father of the people of the Qing Dynasty rebel?"

"That's right!" Yu Wanqing also took a copy of Volume 3 of the Anti-Scripture and opened it to read. "Now that you have become an official appointed by the imperial court, who would still rebel?"

Huang Shijie's face turned pale. He took a copy of the second volume of "Anti-Scripture" from his wife, the treacherous husband, opened it and took a look, then his face turned black.

This is his wife's handwriting!

He can't keep this wife anymore, or his entire family will be executed!

However, Huang Shijie still resisted the urge to quarrel with his wife immediately - although his wife's handwriting was good, outsiders had never seen it, so if he didn't say it, Yu Wanqing and Wang Kuiyi would not know.

Or should we first take a look at what this rebellious "Anti-Scripture" is saying?

What? The Qing Dynasty had a population of 430 million, but the 18 provinces of the Han area had only 100 million mu of arable land, with an average of only two mu per capita. The land had been exhausted, the land was too thin, and the land of the Han area was no longer enough to support hundreds of millions of people, who were no longer able to support the millions of Eight Banner nobles who were exploiting them and the millions of Han officials, peddlers, and gentry who were exploiting them.

Therefore, after the Heavenly Kingdom advocates rebellion today, the whole world will surely rebel in the future. If the gentry and landlords in the world cannot raise the banner of rebellion and follow it, they will inevitably band together to organize militia to protect themselves.

The leaders of the Han gentry lived in the countryside and were no different from ordinary people. When they made a call from a high place, thousands of people would follow them. They gathered together as a group, including relatives, teachers and students. They could retreat to protect their hometown or advance to dominate the provincial government. Isn't this rebellion?

If a gentry leader becomes powerful, occupies a large tract of land, trains a large number of militiamen, and establishes his own regime, calling himself the sole ruler in the south, would he still cut off his wings, hand over his land and army, and entrust his life and property to the bannermen dignitaries in the capital just because of an imperial edict from the evil Qing emperor?
Has there ever been such an idiot since ancient times? Is there any in the Twenty-Four Histories?

This makes a lot of sense!
Huang Shijie was stunned!
He is not a bookworm, he is Luo Luoshan's disciple! Who is Luo Luoshan? The mother of the Hunan Army in history! Now he has started a militia in other places.

Huang Shijie had previously sent people to Guangdong to buy foreign guns, with the intention of organizing a large-scale militia. But what would happen after the militia started? Of course, he would first occupy Daozhou, then split off Yongzhou, and try to become a local overlord.

In the eyes of the Qing emperor, isn’t the leader of a Han militia that controls a state a traitor?
But if they don't rebel, the Taiping Army will come to divide up the land of these gentry, raid their homes, and destroy their families!
This is called either death or rebellion. There are only these two paths, there is no third one. If you don’t believe it, go and find it yourself in the Twenty-Four Histories.

While Huang Shijie was in a daze, Yu Wanqing was trembling.

He also picked up a copy of "Han Officials' Rebellion" and was reading it. He was determined not to believe in the rebellion of officials. But after reading only a dozen pages, he began to believe it a little, and then he believed it more and more.

Because every word in this "Anti-Scripture" makes sense!

Being a Han official in the Qing Dynasty was actually very miserable! It was a business with high investment, high risk and low return. If you were not careful, you would lose all your money.

Even a Han Chinese military officer like Yu Wanqing, who was a military scholar, had to pay for a real position!

In fact, most of the vacancies of Han officials require money to buy!
Moreover, this "vacancy" is not necessarily a "real vacancy". It does not mean that you can take up the position immediately after spending money. Of course, there are such positions. For example, the Ministry of Personnel can decide on the officials in the capital. If you make some arrangements during the selection of officials by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War, you may get the position. However, most local official positions are not decided by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War alone. Instead, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War will select officials and then issue vacancies to local officials.

That is to say, after spending money, you still get a candidate, and you have to go to the local governor to buy a real vacancy. Not only do you spend money twice, but you also have to wait slowly. Because for Han officials, there are always more positions than positions.

Therefore, it is not uncommon for a civil scholar to wait ten or eight years from passing the imperial examination to becoming a county magistrate.

And during these ten or eight years, he still had to work as a free errand boy in the governor's office, which was waiting for a vacancy! The so-called free errand boy means working for free, without getting paid!
Han officials in the Qing Dynasty only started calculating their salaries after they got actual positions!
If there is no real shortage, there is no money at all!

There is no money to be made, but you still have to work for free - there are a lot of miscellaneous tasks in the governor's office! Because there were very few official officials in the governor's office in the Qing Dynasty. If you don't count the model officers, there was only one!
Governor or Governor!
This is equivalent to the provincial government's yamen! How can one official manage it? Therefore, the governors and governors-general of the Qing Dynasty usually had to equip themselves with a large group of legal advisors, followers, and family members to manage the affairs of the yamen. But these people had to be hired with money. If the governor-general was a corrupt official, it would be fine. What if he met an honest official? With such a small salary and maintenance, how many Shaoxing legal advisors could be hired?
Therefore, the candidate official who works for free is quite useful. Not only does he not have to spend money, but he can also be thrown out to take the blame if something goes wrong - this "pot" cannot be taken by the legal advisor. First, the legal advisor is not a regular employee and should not be responsible! Second, the legal advisors of the Shao Clan also stick together and are difficult to control. Therefore, this Han official of the Qing Dynasty is actually a high-risk official, and he will suffer a loss if he is not careful.

Before the Taiping Rebellion, their jobs were already very hard, not to mention now that they are almost having a hard time making a living!

If the people are unable to make a living, they will rebel. So what should the officials do if they are unable to make a living?
Of course there is only one reverse word!

Throughout history, when the country was in turmoil, weren’t there many local governors who established their own independent regimes?
They had worked so hard to get the position and had spent so much money, so why should they be dismissed, exiled, or even committed suicide to avenge their king just because the Taiping Army passed through their borders?

Why couldn't they collude with local tyrants, levy taxes privately, recruit troops privately, set up courts privately, and occupy the imperial court's provincial capitals privately?
How wonderful! Isn't this what every dynasty did? There shouldn't be too many officials like this in history books!
What the book says is correct!

The Qing Dynasty will probably go the same way as the end of the Han Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Wouldn't the local governors of the Qing Dynasty consider becoming a lord?
Yu Wanqing, who had served the Qing Dynasty as a Green Camp military officer for thirty years and had many trusted Qing soldiers at his disposal, was actually feeling a little excited. It would be great to be a lord!
"Wuwuwu it's over, it's over!"

Some people were inspired by Luo Yaoguo's "Anti-Classic", while others began to feel sad.

The sad person is the father of the people of Daozhou in the Qing Dynasty, the governor of Daozhou, Wang Kuiyi.

He also took a copy of Volume 3 of the Anti-Scripture, which Han Guanzhifan was reading.

But he was not like Yu Wanqing, a corrupt official who had been in office for 30 years and had already made his money back, and even had some weapons in his hands. He said that he was the kind of "official who worked for nothing" who had to borrow a lot of Beijing debts to finally buy the position of Daozhou Zhizhou, which was actually vacant!
Not only did he not make back his investment, he didn't even pay off his debts!
Now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has come to attack, and it seems that they are going to settle down in Daozhou and not leave. If the Taiping Army does not leave, what should he do as the prefect? ​​He still has to pay back the official loan!

These days, Daozhou's external water transport has been interrupted because of the Taiping Army's approach to Lingling. Once the water transport is interrupted, all the mines around Daozhou City, big and small, have to stop working - without water transport, the ore can't be transported out! And these mines are privately opened in violation of the ban, and they don't have to pay taxes to the court, but they must pay tribute to the Daozhou governor, Yongzhou governor, Hengyongchenguidao.

The reason why the governor of Daozhou, as the chief official of a scattered state in a mountainous area, is so expensive is because he has supply from these privately-opened mines. If the Taiping Army had established a base in Etang and Lingtang, the Xiaoshui River would no longer be navigable.

However, Wang Kuiyi's official position is limited to a term. Once his term is up, if he cannot repay the "loan for buying an official position" in the capital, the consequences will be serious!

Can a person who lends money at high interest rates to the people of the Qing Dynasty be an ordinary person? Behind them are the top Eight Banner nobles in Beijing. If they don't pay back their debts, Wang Kuiyi will have to send them to Xinjiang to serve in the army, and they will never come back.

How could he not cry when he thought about how he had worked so hard to study and take the imperial examinations, how he had spent all his money to buy a position, and how he ended up owing a huge debt to the capital and had to spend the rest of his life in the bitter cold of the northwest?
Yu Wanqing certainly knew Wang Kuiyi's difficulties, so he comforted him, "Linsheng, don't cry, don't cry. Aren't they just one or two thousand female long-haired people? They are here to bring us credit. You will also be counted as a part of it! With military merit, will those bannermen in Beijing come to you to collect the debt? They are not so ignorant."

After hearing what Yu Wanqing said, Wang Kuiyi and Huang Shijie both became excited.

"General Yu, are you really going to send troops?"

"Of course. A female Taiping is also a woman! I, Yu Wanqing, have been in the army for thirty years and have been promoted to the rank of military commander. How can I be afraid of a bunch of thieves? I have heard that Su Sanniang is the most beautiful woman in the world of Guangdong and Guangxi. Hahaha!"

"General Yu, I can still gather one or two hundred militias, and I am willing to lead the way for you!"

Yu Wanqing laughed loudly: "Okay! Ziying, I will report your merits to you and recommend a county magistrate!"

"Thank you for your cultivation!" Huang Shijie first bowed and thanked him, then smiled and said to Yu Wanqing and Wang Kui: "General Yu, Governor Wang, this is the Anti-Scripture."

"Anti-Scripture? What Anti-Scripture?" Yu Wanqing put the Anti-Scripture into his arms and pretended to be confused, "I don't know, I've never heard of it!"

Wang Kuiyi also quickly put away the Anti-Scripture in his hand and said with a smile: "I haven't heard of it either."

Huang Shijie also laughed and said, "In fact, I have never heard of the Anti-Scripture."

(End of this chapter)