How were the children of the Eight Banners who were brave and good at fighting in the Qing Dynasty abolished?

The Eight Banners Army should be an army that people who like Qing Palace dramas are very familiar with. It was an irresistible elite force in the early Qing Dynasty. They fought many battles and made great contributions to the establishment of the Qing Dynasty. However, it is such a strong team that, under the arrangement of the "deceptive plan" of the Qing emperor, has become a group of playboys who can only eat, drink and be merry. In the subsequent suppression of the domestic peasant uprising and the war of foreign aggression, he fled without fighting and lost the face of the Qing Dynasty. So what methods did the Qing emperor use to make them so degenerate? This problem should start with the entry of the Qing army into the customs.

The world of flowers and flowers in the Central Plains and the emperor's wrong policies made them quickly decline.

At first, the Eight Banners system was just an ordinary militia, not elegant. The Qing emperor Nurhachi discovered the benefits of this organization. In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, there were four yellow, white, red and blue flags, plus yellow, white, red and blue flags, which were collectively called "Eight Banners".

The Eight Banners Army often needs training, especially in riding and shooting. If the emperor checks the training situation, people with poor skills will be severely punished. Therefore, the fighting capacity of the early Eight Banners Army was amazing, which played a decisive role in the war to unify the grassland tribes and destroy the Ming Dynasty.

Under the leadership of Dourgen, the son of Nurhachi, the Eight Banners Army successfully entered the Central Plains and established the Qing Dynasty. However, as the writer Kafka said, "I lost all my blood in the war, but I couldn't move forward in peace." The rich life in the Central Plains has opened the eyes of these "louts" who have lived outside the customs for many years, and their combat effectiveness has been disintegrating since they entered the customs.

At that time, every Eight Banners soldier was supported by the royal family and had a fixed salary and rations every month. Senior Eight Banners have four or two pieces of silver every month, and one or two pieces of silver is equivalent to 750 yuan, which is a fixed salary of 3,000 yuan.

And if their monthly 46 tons of rations are converted into silver, it is equivalent to more than 10,000 yuan today, which means that these people can easily earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.

In addition to these, the Eight Banners can receive benefits every quarter, and there are corresponding subsidies for weddings and funerals at home, and the emperor's birthday is even more generous. With such "excessive" preferential treatment from the royal family, the corruption of the Eight Banners Army can be understood.

The emperor's tricks were frequent, but none of them worked, so he had to continue to support them.

In the early Qing Dynasty, in order to prevent the corruption of the Eight Banners, the court expelled all the people who used to live in the inner city and prohibited them from providing any entertainment facilities to confuse the children of the Eight Banners. These people can only enter the inner city for business at dawn, and everyone will be evacuated at dark.

The children of the Eight Banners had money and no place to spend it, so they went out with people who went out of the city at night, spent the night in the outer city, and came back with those people the next day. In the long run, the emperor cannot control them.

These people eat, drink and have fun all day, and then they will get tired of playing. After Taiwan Province Province was pacified during the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi made the Eight Banners put away their weapons and lived a carefree life from then on. Corruption has become more serious. When the troops were inspected during the Qianlong period, the children of the Eight Banners could not pull their bows and arrows, and even fell off their horses, which made them dumbfounded.

Seeing that this didn't work, Qianlong thought of another way. He ordered the children of the Eight Banners to go back to their hometown in Northeast China to open up wasteland for fishing and hunting, and experience the hardships of their ancestors. The children of the Eight Banners who returned to Northeast China could not farm and hunt at all, so they simply sold their land to farmers and went back to Beijing to enjoy themselves.

In the face of the Eight Banners' children's greed for wealth, Emperor Qianlong should have stopped it, such as reducing their money and forcing them to take exercise, which could curb the breeding of this corruption. However, Emperor Qianlong felt that their ancestors "shed their blood" for the country and treated their descendants too cruelly, and finally decided to continue to raise these "grandfathers".

What role did the Eight Banners play in internal rebellion and foreign aggression?

During the Jiaqing period, the Bailian rebellion broke out. The Eight Banners, who were in charge of repression, saw the aggressive Bai Lianhua Christians and turned and fled in horror. Before they arrived, few people ran away, which became the biggest joke at that time, and even the emperor was ashamed of them.

During the Daoguang period, foreign powers attacked. When the Eight Banners stationed in Guangzhou saw foreigners calling, they immediately "fled". Seeing that the coastal cities were about to fall, Daoguang ordered the whole country to transfer troops, including more than 10 thousand people in the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing. However, a miracle of the world appeared: these people could not stand the fatigue of long-distance marching. On the way, they ordered people to tear down the door panels of ordinary people, spread them on them, and four people carried them away.

A group of people who want to fight have to be carried by ordinary people who don't fight, which is simply a slippery record. The most ridiculous thing is that at the end of the statistical records, only 1000 people died in the Eight Banners Army, but more than 1 10,000 people were regarded as deserters because they fled. An army is so corrupt that if their brave ancestors saw it, they don't know what they would think.

In the Second Opium War, the performance of the Eight Banners Army was even more jaw-dropping. At that time, the British and French allied forces burned the Yuanmingyuan and stole a lot of precious cultural relics. After the British and French allied forces left, the Eight Banners actually participated in the activities of robbing Yuanmingyuan. The emperor was so angry that the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested people everywhere and found a large number of precious cultural relics in many people's homes.

During the Opium War, the Eight Banners army was vulnerable and robbed the country at the time of national crisis. Of course, the Qing government did not dare to count on them. In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement that broke out in the early days of Cixi's power, the Qing government had given up any hope for the Eight Banners Army. It is the local army led by Zeng Guofan, the Xiang Army.

Under the connivance of the Qing government for hundreds of years, the children of the Eight Banners have long lost their original bravery and become a group of gluttons. In the face of Eight-Nation Alliance's attack, they even cried, humiliated and beaten by foreigners, and they were powerless to fight back. After the establishment of the government of the Republic of China, their privileges were also revoked. They can neither farm nor take care of themselves, and soon become street beggars, and finally disappear completely and become history.