Many Qing emperors noticed the fact that the fighting capacity of the Eight Banners was declining, and they also tried to solve this problem in various ways. After all, for the Qing emperors, the children of the Eight Banners were the people they were most willing to trust.
During the Yongzheng period, the imaginative emperor was deeply moved by the children of the Eight Banners and came up with a trick that did not harm others or humiliate himself. One of the model workers in China's history, he chose the young and healthy children in Xiaoqi Camp, but they were not good at riding and shooting or even did not understand Manchu or Mongolian, forming a poor class, named Cowardly Camp.
For these poor students, he carried out intensive training and trained them into qualified soldiers through high-intensity training. Of course, a control group has to be set up. For those kind and brave children of the Eight Banners, he also set up a special course to encourage scum to move closer to tyrants. It seemed to have some effect at that time. In several battles during the Yongzheng period, the performance of the children of the Eight Banners was also remarkable, and they found the lost style of their ancestors.
Emperor Qianlong in history may not know the summer by Daming Lake, but he knows that for the children of the Eight Banners, these former elites have now reached a situation where they can't be rehabilitated.
Emperor Qianlong was a very old-fashioned man. His brother-in-law Fu Heng wrote before his death that he should pay attention to the development and equipment of firearms, but Qianlong didn't care. In his mind, riding and shooting kung fu is the foundation of the world. It is based on this idea that Qianlong asked the masters of the standard-bearer not to ride in a sedan chair, but to ride it for me.
Those flag bearers in Beijing have their own careers. They have long been used to eating, drinking and having fun, but they can't ride horses at all. But the emperor asked us to ride horses. What shall we do? Cold salad. Just like the classic bridge in Gourmet, Steven Zhou, played by Stephen Chow, combined urine shrimp and beef balls to create urine beef balls, and these Eight Banners combined horses and sedan chairs to prevent us from riding in a carriage, thus perfectly avoiding the pit dug by Qianlong for them.
It's really hard for Emperor Qianlong to see these children of the Eight Banners like mud that can't help the wall. He sent letters many times, earnestly warning these children of the Eight Banners that the fighting capacity of the old Eight Banners should not be lost, and the old work of the flag bearer riding and shooting should not be lost. Emperor Qianlong's persuasion is just like our football circles repeatedly calling for attention to youth training. Everyone who listens feels very reasonable, but almost no one is willing to implement it, even the children of the Eight Banners. If they accept it humbly, they will never change.
However, on the whole, the children of the Eight Banners during Kang Yong's reign were not rotten enough to be useless. Even during the Battle of Great and Small Jinchuan, Emperor Qianlong wrote many times, asking front-line generals to let Manchu soldiers and Solon soldiers follow if they wanted to use troops. Therefore, in this period, the children of the Eight Banners of Manchu Dynasty can still play an active role in the battlefield.
However, with the passage of time, the fighting capacity of Manchu soldiers became worse and worse. The long-term carefree life made these Manchurian soldiers lose their motivation to make progress, and the long-term rich life made them lazy, let alone struggle on the battlefield.
So when Jiadao declined, the children of the Eight Banners even stood guard for the emperor, and they began to hang out. The children of the Eight Banners who defend the palace openly sleep in their jobs, and the ouchi bodyguard is the personal bodyguard to protect the emperor. These buddies slept in their jobs, which greatly reduced the safety of the emperor, which made Jiaqing Emperor furious.
Emperor Jiaqing used the topic to rectify the discipline of the Eight Banners. However, the Eight Banners who failed in their duties were not ashamed, but talked back. A Qing law does not stipulate that this uncle can't lie down and watch the gate, and directly pinch the face of Emperor Jiaqing. This tucao strength can go to Li's birthday tucao conference.
But not everyone is as good as Emperor Jiaqing, such as a chef. One evening, a chef actually crossed the layers of defense palaces and prepared to assassinate the emperor at Shenwumen. Supposedly, this is an impossible task, because the emperor was surrounded by 100 ouchi experts, but to the surprise of Emperor Jiaqing, only six of the guards of 100 responded to the assassin, and one of them was abandoned under the condition of 6 dozen 1.
The frightened emperor Jiaqing could not stop there, and a large number of former palace guards were sent to the frontier. This time, the emperor finally seized the opportunity and used an excuse to ask the children of the Eight Banners to settle in a place called Hetuala. As long as you have eaten radish and pickles there for five years, you will be given five hats directly.
The five-grade official is equivalent to the county magistrate, which should be said to be very attractive, so the bet made by the emperor is still very large. However, in the face of the temptation of the five-product officials, the children of the Eight Banners, who each have a career, are not interested at all. What is a five-product official? You want me to leave Beijing for my hometown in the northeast, isn't that killing you?
So almost no one responded to the emperor's call, which made the emperor very unhappy. The method is always much more difficult than it is. The emperor came up with a brilliant idea, that is, using the most primitive method to solve this problem, drawing lots, and finally getting more than 3000 people.
The head of Hetuala is really worried. The network behind these children of the Eight Banners is unfathomable. An ordinary child of the Eight Banners is likely to be attached to a monarch or a big shot, which is absolutely unacceptable.
So he immediately made some arrangements, and it was too hard to settle in Hetuala. Let's settle in Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China. Although life in Northeast China is not as good as that in Beijing, there are still many places of leisure and entertainment in Shenyang that can satisfy the children of the Eight Banners.
As a result, a good reclamation became a hard summer camp and finally became a farmhouse. Children of the Eight Banners hire people to farm and visit the kiln every day. Finally, the emperor who knows the truth can only take it back and stop this ineffective rural experience.
When Emperor Jiaqing and Daoguang were in power, they both gave up the treatment of the children of the Eight Banners until Empress Dowager Cixi came to power.
Galeries Lafayette is afraid that the armed forces of Han ministers will seize the world in the future, and she is eager to have a powerful Eight Banners soldier. It's a pity that the children of the Eight Banners are too muddy to help the wall at the moment. Although Empress Dowager Cixi used heavy money and advanced weapons to create the so-called Guards and soldiers in the first town, it should be said that these troops are top-notch among the troops composed of the children of the Eight Banners, but compared with Yuan Shikai's brother troops, their combat effectiveness is also hehe.
In the end, the two armies did not fight to the last drop of blood to defend the Great Qing Dynasty. Without the Qing dynasty, these children of the Eight Banners could no longer enjoy the preferential treatment of per capita career establishment. After losing the supply of the country, these children of the Eight Banners began their own transformation.