The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 95 Are you suffering too? Don’t worry, the Anti-Scripture is coming soon!
Of course, Ronglu also heard the dissatisfaction in Yuanbao's words, but he didn't know how to comfort his brother.

In fact, this kind of dissatisfaction was quite common among the bannermen in the old city.

Bannermen men had no worries about food, as they had a stable farm, and it was easy to get a job, and they did not have to borrow money to buy an official position like Han literati officials. However, they also had their own hardships, as "the big heads were not hungry, but the small heads were hungry" - it was not easy for the Eight Bannermen to find a wife!

They have a family law that states that the bannermen and Han people cannot marry. Although it is possible for bannermen to marry Han women, it is still troublesome. This involves the issue of Han women raising the bannermen, and there are many connections that need to be opened. After all, bannermen women also have a share of the crops to eat.

Bringing one in means a fixed expense!
Can the various military governors' offices of the Eight Banners be open to people? Impossible!

Moreover, the Eight Banners group had begun to expel many traitors whose ancestors had helped the Qing Dynasty to conquer the country since the time of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. They were all cleared out of the Eight Banners and became civilians!

In this case, the number of places available to recruit people is very limited.

Women among the bannermen, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, had to participate in the Imperial Household Department's selection.

It's not just the emperor who chooses a few, there are also a lot of princes, dukes, beile, beizi from the Aisin-Gioro family, and even various hereditary generals who are chosen together.

The ones left over from the emperor's family will be picked and chosen by a bunch of princes' palaces, beile's palaces, beizi's palaces, and generals' palaces, and only the ones left will be the ordinary Eight Banners descendants' turn.

In addition, the daughters of bondservants had to choose to be palace maids or maids from the banner owners' families. Even if the selected ones were not employed by their masters, they would not be released until they were over 25 years old.

As a result, not to mention ordinary Eight Banners descendants, even Eight Banners descendants of the level of Yuanbao and Ronglu found it difficult to marry a decent wife.

Moreover, since the Aisin-Gioro family had been "picking the best" sons from generation to generation and constantly taking in the attractive-looking sisters among the Eight Banners, the appearance of the Eight Banners sons and sisters gradually collapsed.

The looks of Concubine Lan and Concubine Li were at best above average among Han women, but among the Banner women in Beijing, they were celestial beings. These two fresh flowers were stuck in the cow dung that was Emperor Xianfeng.

Just tell me if it’s infuriating or not!

What’s even more infuriating is that the Eight Banners’ sons couldn’t marry the better Eight Banners’ sisters, and couldn’t even marry the ugly ones, but when they fought against the Taiping Army, they had to go up and die!

Ronglu's father and uncle both gave it away, and Yuanbao almost did as well. There are many lower-ranking Eight Banners children who have been given away in the past two years!
Many people never even got married and just gave away their lives in vain!

Thinking of this, Ronglu couldn't stop crying, but he still said to Yuanbao: "Brother Keqin, don't say these things, it's not good for others to hear. Besides, the world is in chaos and the country is in trouble. It's the time for us Eight Banners to make achievements. If we can be made a marquis and become a prime minister, why worry about not having a good match?"

"To establish a career?" Yuan Bao raised his eyelids and glanced at his cousin. "Zhonghua, do you really want to establish a career?"

"Yes!" Ronglu nodded firmly, "My father and uncle were killed by the Taiping rebels! How can I not avenge my country's hatred and my family's grievances?" He then sighed again, "Besides, the pillar of my family has been broken. If I can't hold it up, my family will be ruined."

"Okay!" Yuan Bao nodded, put down the wine glass in his hand, and said with a smile, "You are indeed a good man of my Guaerjia clan. Don't worry, brother will take you to achieve great things!"

"Really!" Ronglu looked at Yuanbao gratefully.

"Of course it's true!" Yuan Bao slammed the table and said, "Come here, settle the bill, Zhonghua, follow me!"

"Where are you going?" Ronglu asked.

Yuan Bao smiled and said, "Let's go to the Bada Hutongs and visit the brothels!"

"Isn't this bad?" Ronglu was still a little shy, not knowing that going to the Eight Great Hutongs was a good deed. "I'm still in mourning, what if someone reports it?"

"What are you afraid of?" Yuan Bao waved his hand and said with a smile, "You are going to the battlefield to subdue demons and monsters, who can sue you? Is there anyone who can stop you from going to the battlefield?

Come with me. Be a man tonight! Don't die a virgin!" "Ke Zhai, I told the emperor today that I want you to take Yuan Bao, Bai Siwen, Tu Lama and a thousand Beijing Banner troops to the south to slay demons and eliminate evil! You have to work hard and win honor for our Bordered White Banner!"

"Your Majesty, this is a rare opportunity!"

"Well, this is indeed a rare opportunity. I have several capable guards in my palace, so let's go with them! Old Taishan, is there anyone you can recommend?"

"Your Majesty, my distant nephew Wenxiang is a talented person."

"Okay, let him go along and gain some experience! It would be best if he could find a chance to bring some soldiers with him, so he wouldn't be panicked!"

"My Lord, what are you doing?"

"The world is in turmoil right now, the emperor is weak, and has no children. If anything happens..."

In Prince Gong's Mansion, Prince Gong, who had just returned from the Old Summer Palace, was assigning the task of slaying demons and eliminating evil to his confidant Shengbao and father-in-law Guiliang!

Of course, while slaying demons and eliminating evil, Prince Gong still wants to seize some military power!
Although he himself was not the "Man of Heaven's Will of the Qing Dynasty", it seems that Xianfeng was not the only one in the history of the Qing Dynasty who had an imperial uncle and regent!
When Prince Gong thought of the fate of his uncle, the Prince Regent, he clenched his fists!
On the same night, the hearty laughter of Emperor Aisin-Gioro Yizhu of the Qing Dynasty could be heard from the Jiuzhou Qingyan Palace in the Old Summer Palace: "Hahahaha. The mooncakes made by the Bull Demon King are really magical! I haven't felt so happy in a long time!"

"This is not the magic of Bull Demon King's mooncakes, this is the might of Your Majesty!"

Concubine Lan had her hair tied up, a few drops of sweat rolled down her white neck, and her beautiful long face with a pair of almond-shaped eyes stared straight at Xianfeng's pockmarked face, but she heard Xianfeng say:

"Lan'er, I will turn over your name card tomorrow. You must give birth to a son for me so that my kingdom can have a successor!"

Xianfeng’s biggest worry at the moment was not the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the south, nor the foreigners thousands of miles away, but his good brother Prince Gong Yixin.

To put it bluntly, if Xianfeng died unclearly tonight, Yi Xin would be the popular emperor of the Qing Dynasty tomorrow!
When Xianfeng thought of this, he couldn't sleep peacefully!

"Well, I will definitely work hard," Concubine Lan pursed her lips, and knelt on the kang to kowtow to Emperor Xianfeng, "I am grateful to Your Majesty for your grace, and I want to serve Your Majesty once more."

Xianfeng laughed: "Great! I'm not satisfied yet!"

"My Lords, my Lords, something terrible has happened!"

It was also on this night that in the duty office of the Grand Councilor in the Old Summer Palace, the drowsy Grand Councilors Peng Yunzhang and Mu Yin were suddenly awakened by a series of hurried knocks on the door.

The two military ministers looked at each other, and Mu Yin, who had less experience, asked, "What happened?"

Outside, the little military officer's urgent voice sounded immediately: "My Lords, the Imperial Commissioner's Office of Quanzhou and the Governor-General's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi sent an urgent message of six hundred miles. The Guangdong bandits suddenly attacked Guangdong and Guangxi, broke through Guanyang County, and surrounded Lianzhou City!"

"They have conquered Guanyang and surrounded Lianzhou?" Military Minister Peng Yunzhang was shocked. "It has only been a few days since they killed Yu Wanqing and conquered Daozhou City?"

Mu Yin said: "Could it be that the Guangdong bandits' target is Guangdong and Guangxi? The Guangdong bandits believe in the Western devil religion. They attack Guangdong and Guangxi in order to collude with foreign countries and collude with the Western devils, right?"

The military secretary outside said again: "My two lords, there is more! The Guangdong bandits rebelled and even distributed land, abolished debts and fought against the tyrants in Yongzhou Prefecture and Guiyang Prefecture, and spread the "Anti-Scripture" everywhere. They want to incite our Qing officials and gentry to rebel."

"Is this true? What on earth do these rebels want to do?"

"Need I say more? He must be trying to incite all the poor Koreans in the world to become enemies of the Qing Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)