Banner people cannot do business, so does Baoyi count as a banner person? Why can the slaves of the royal family do business?

Cao Xueqin’s family belongs to the Baoyi Banner of the Han nationality and the Zhengbai Banner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The so-called Baoyi, many people interpret Baoyi as a slave, which is wrong. Bao Yi is actually the emperor's family, the emperor's domestic slaves, and they have a very close relationship. During the Qing Dynasty, the Bao Yi of the Ministry of Internal Affairs only had three flags, the Zhenghuang Banner, the Xianghuang Banner, and the Zhengbai Banner. We commonly call them the Three Banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They belong to the upper class. Bannermen, because every family that controls the Ministry of Internal Affairs has to send several girls to serve in the palace. When they reach the age of 25, they are sent home to get married on their own. The Heshen you are talking about is just an ordinary Manchu Banner family. He is a Manchu Zhenghong Banner family, not a family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Next, let’s talk about the business issues of the banner people during the Qing Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, the government stipulated that the Han, Manchu, Inner Mongolian, Korean, and Daur banner people who belonged to the banner were not allowed to do business, farm, or engage in industry and commerce. However, in the Qing Dynasty, In the later period, there were basically not many wars, so the court did not need so many bannermen to serve as soldiers, so there were many bannermen who were idle at home. They could only live on the food and wages given by the bannermen who served as soldiers at home. Gradually, Many bannermen secretly took money to do business with Han businessmen, secretly buying shares, and did not dare to blatantly