In the Bordered Blue Banner territory inside Xuanwu Gate, a group of fairly neatly dressed bannermen surrounded the residence of hereditary Zuoling Juercha Fasai in three layers.
When Fasai saw this, his temples began to throb.
When the news that the prince was going to build a residential area in the southern suburbs came out last year, everyone thought that the prince wanted to expel the Han people from the slums in the outer city out of the capital. At that time, many people in the banner laughed at him.
Now, the Han people have moved to the suburbs as they wished. Those who were laughing at them at first have begun to envy the Han people for having such nice houses to live in.
If the houses that the prince had built in the beginning were provided to these people, I am afraid that few families would be willing to move to the suburbs on their own initiative.
To put it bluntly, they are all despicable people who hate others for what they have and laugh at others for what they don't have.
Fasai was unhappy.
His position as the current deputy commander was not very stable to begin with. If he fulfilled the wishes of his subjects and went to cause trouble with the prince, even if he finally got what he wanted, it would not be easy to get past the emperor.
"Sir, please express your opinion. Why do those lowly Han people deserve to live in such nice houses?"
There was a burly man in the crowd who seemed a little dissatisfied.
Fasi looked over and sneered inwardly.
This man was a well-known idler in the banner. After his father died on the battlefield a few years ago, he was scared out of his wits and even sold the military position he was supposed to inherit for money.
Isn't the current aggressive attitude because the family's money is almost gone and he wants to take advantage of others?
But the people around him were all indignant at his words, and some of the older ones even shed tears.
"Sir, we have dedicated our entire lives to the imperial court. How can the imperial court bypass us and allow the Han people to live in the houses built by the imperial court first?"
"That's right... I, Mafa, died on the battlefield!"
Facing the questions from everyone, Fase rubbed his forehead with a slight headache.
"Everyone, please be patient. I will submit a memorial today to inquire about the situation. I will not let you down!"
He said this, but he had made up his mind to wait and see.
There are many capable people in the court, and someone will definitely step forward first. He has to observe the direction of the wind and then decide whether to fight for the people in the flag.
Fasai pretended to be in a hurry to write a memorial and successfully sent away all the people who surrounded the door.
This scene was happening in many places in the inner city.
Without exception, all the nobles who had a say in the banner had their doors surrounded by bannermen who came to seek justice.
The nobles are also annoyed.
If the prince wanted to expel the Han people, he could have just built some adobe houses to fool them, but he had to build a small courtyard with an entrance. Isn't this arousing envy?
How could those lowly Han people deserve to live in such a nice house?
Because the matter was so serious, when the court was in session the next day, before the nine ministers and six ministries took turns to report, several ministers in the cabinet brought the matter to the table first.
Seeing several people saying indignantly that the residential areas in the southern suburbs should not be provided for the Han people, Yinreng was so angry that he almost laughed.
But this time, Yinreng didn't need to go out and fight them himself, Yinzhen stepped forward first.
"Both Bannermen and Han Chinese are citizens of the Qing Dynasty. Why can't the southern suburbs residential area be provided to the Han Chinese? Besides, the Ministry of Works' original intention in building the southern suburbs residential area was to accommodate the Han Chinese from the outer city."
"But the houses in the southern suburbs are all made of blue bricks and large tiles. Your Highness, don't you think it's a waste to exchange them for those shabby houses in the slums of the outer city?"
Upon hearing this, someone retorted unhappily.
"How can we talk about waste when we are settling the people?"
Yinzhen glanced over coldly.
"The Emperor repeatedly emphasized that 'Manchus and Han people are one family,' but Lord Fucha doesn't seem to have taken it to heart."
"That's not what I meant."
"What does that mean? If we ask the inner city residents to trade their houses for houses in the suburbs, I'm afraid no one will be willing to make the exchange!"
Yinzhen bluntly pointed out the key points.
The man immediately shut his mouth.
He knew that what Yinzhen said was true.
No matter how poor the people in the inner city are, they would not be willing to exchange their houses in the inner city for houses in the suburbs.
The main reason for the dissatisfaction of the banner people now is that the imperial court, now that it has money, should start to improve the living environment of the banner people in the inner city, instead of letting the Han people take advantage of them.
When the Grand Secretary of Wenhua Palace saw the man's broken halberd, he hesitated for a moment, but finally stood up.
"Your Majesty, although Lord Fucha is biased, he's right. Most of the houses in the outer city's slums are dilapidated and have been neglected for a long time. Your Highness the Crown Prince is exchanging a newly built blue brick house in the outer city for such a dilapidated house, and he even set the compensation area at eight times the original property area. This is extremely unreasonable..."
After hearing this, Yinsi was also somewhat unhappy.
"Master Xu, have you ever been to the slums in the outer city to see the living conditions of the people?"
Xu Yuanwen was stunned for a moment, then replied,
“No.”
Yinsi shook his head.
"Without investigation, you have no right to speak. When you go to the inner and outer cities and see how the people live, you gentlemen will no longer say such things."
Prince An Marhun looked at the Eighth Prince and frowned slightly.
How could the Eighth Prince speak for the Crown Prince?
"Whatever the reason, I feel that the compensation price is a bit too high."
"If you think it's too high, I can allow you to exchange your own houses for houses in the suburbs. I won't cheat you. The compensation rate for official residences in the inner city is twenty times. What do you think, Lord Xu?"
Yinreng smiled like a fox.
"this……"
Xu Yuanwen was suddenly stuck.
Not to mention a twenty-fold exchange ratio, even if it was two hundred times, he couldn't possibly exchange his official residence for a property in the suburbs!
If he changed, he would probably have to get up at midnight every day to go into the city and wait for court.
Kangxi knew that Yinreng had the idea of building houses for the bannermen, so after watching the excitement for a while, he decisively stopped it.
"Alright, the reconstruction of the outer city requires the relocation of the poor first. Once the reconstruction of the outer city slums is completed, the Ministry of Works will start building residential areas for the Bannermen. At that time, the compensation standard will only be higher than that for the Han people."
Yinreng glanced at Kangxi and did not refute.
He did have plans to relocate the bannermen in the inner city.
But when the time comes, the old man will have to find the land for building the house himself.
Most of the wastelands in the suburbs of the capital were allocated to top nobles when the Qing army entered the pass. They had enough produce from the land, but they didn't want to hand it over to the Han people for cultivation, so they left it abandoned.
After hearing what Kangxi said, everyone's dissatisfaction finally dissipated a lot.
As long as the compensation standard for the banner people is higher than that for the Han people, they feel comfortable and completely forget that the location of the inner city is better than that of the outer city. If the banner people in the inner city are to be relocated, the compensation standard should be better than that of the outer city.
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