Beiyang reactionaries

Two people were sent from the Qing room.

One is the clan, Aixinjue Luo Baoxi.One is Luo Zhenyu, an old man from the Qing Dynasty.Needless to say, Baoxi is a clan in itself, a clan that Emperor Xuantong relied heavily on.Baoxi is responsible for the internal affairs department of the royal family. He knows how much money the royal family has.

The other Luo Zhenyu, although he may be an old man from the Qing Dynasty, has a bad reputation, but he is very knowledgeable.Various titles on the top of the head are modern Chinese agronomists, educators, archaeologists, epigraphers, Dunhuang scientists, bibliographers, collationists, paleographers, pioneers of modern Chinese agronomy, and Chinese The founder of modern archaeology.

Contributed to Chinese science, culture, and academics, participated in the development of modern agriculture in China, preserved the archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the cabinet, engaged in the research and dissemination of oracle bone inscriptions, sorted out Dunhuang manuscripts, carried out the study of wooden slips in the Han and Jin Dynasties, and advocated ancient Ming utensils Research.

Not to mention his political attitude, if it is just about learning, this person is definitely a big figure in the academic world who inherits the past and ushers in the future.Many so-called "Masters of the Republic of China" who were touted 100 years later may have a good reputation, but compared with this old man of the Qing Dynasty, they are many times worse in terms of learning.In terms of contribution to China's academic development, many of them can't keep up with this one.

The reason why there are representatives of the Qing Dynasty is to count the assets of the royal family.

What things in the Forbidden City belong to the royal family, and what things belong to the Forbidden City.This needs to be discussed with these people and finally decided.

In addition to them, the Beijing government appointed Shi Tiyuan, Director of the First Division of Intelligence, and Tang Shizun, Chief of the Beijing Police Department, to oversee the Cleaning Committee of the Forbidden City.Responsible for supervising the cleaning of cultural relics in the Forbidden City.

After that, everyone went into intense work.

Until August 1921, 8, the preliminary work was completed.Of course, it does not mean that the finishing work on the cultural relics of the Forbidden City is over, it just means that the work of confirming the assets of the royal family is over.There are so many cultural relics in the Forbidden City, and there are millions of antique cultural relics. It is impossible to clean them up within a few years.

In the past ten days, I just sorted out Puyi's assets.

That is to determine how much money Puyi can take away.

Quite a lot.

Duan Xun has strict orders.Originally, the contract signed by Yuan Shikai and the royal family was very rough, stipulating that everything in the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Jehol Palace (now Chengde Summer Resort), and Shengjing Palace (now Shenyang Forbidden City) was the property of the royal family, including everything inside it was Puyi’s private property .In addition to these, the royal family also owns tens of millions of acres of Huangzhuang, which is a large amount of cultivated land, distributed in Northeast China, Beijing, Zhili, Shandong, and Henan, no less than the cultivated land in the Eight Banners.These belong to the royal family according to the original situation.

Puyi has money from the Beiyang government, and his own Huangzhuang has a huge income every year, and when he has no money, he sells cultural relics from the Forbidden City. His life is very nourishing.

But Duan Xun confiscated them all.

The royal property promised by Duan Xun is only the clothes, supplies, furniture, jewelry of Emperor Xuantong, Jingyi, and Ronghui, as well as cash assets such as gold and jewelry owned by them.Of course, it also includes some private collections of the royal family that have been handed down for many years.

Don't think Duan Xun is stingy.

Because regardless of just these things, it is also a huge asset.Emperor Xuantong had 21 taels of silver in cash alone, and the two concubines had about 4 taels of silver.

The other gold and jewelry are several 10 taels.

As well as their clothes, daily necessities, furniture, jewelry, etc., there are millions of taels in silver.

And they also have some personal, or their royal supplies, clan supplies, including some royal inheritance gold books, plates, and even royal swords, royal clothing, which are very valuable.Although these things are also antique cultural relics, Duan Xun did not confiscate them.The Forbidden City Clearing Committee also believed that those things should belong to the private property of the royal family, so Puyi was allowed to take them out of the palace.

Not only that.

In recent years, Emperor Xuantong also quietly took some treasures out of the palace in the name of rewarding the clan.Duan Xun turned a blind eye to this matter.It can be said that although Emperor Xuantong was kicked out by Duan Xun, he still owned more than several million taels of property.Converted into the current silver dollar, there are also nearly ten million assets.Definitely a rich man.

Of course, Puyi lost a lot.After all, they were originally their own things, but many of them were confiscated by Duan Xun.

Duan Xun's harvest is amazing.

Duan Xun took back the royal property, including the Forbidden City, Rehe Palace, and Shengjing Palace.It's just that the Shengjing Palace is still under Zhang Zuolin's control.It also includes millions of various antiques and cultural relics in the Forbidden City and Rehe Palace, as well as tens of millions of acres of Huangzhuang.

The Manchu royal family had plenty of arable land.

During the Jiaqing period, the arable land of the Manchu and Qing royal families reached a peak.Huangzhuang, owned by the Manchu royal family at that time, had a cultivated land area of ​​more than 8000 million mu.Nearly one tenth of the country's arable land belongs to Huangzhuang. .Although Huangzhuang gradually decreased later, it still has tens of millions of acres.

They were all taken back by Duan Xun.

More importantly, treasures.

In history, after the Zhiwan War, the two Zhifeng Wars seriously affected the operation of the Beijing government.So the Beijing government refused to pay the 400 million yuan at first, and Puyi chose to sell things.

A large number of cultural relics were sold from the Forbidden City.

Even from 1920 to 1924, a large number of cultural relics were smuggled out of the palace.Not to mention the wealthiest time, when Pu Yi fled to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, he still had tens of thousands of precious cultural relics in his hands, containing hundreds of boxes of cultural relics.

When he was on lease in Tianjin, Puyi used the money from selling cultural relics to live every day.At that time, many people lowered the price, and Puyi's national treasures could not be sold at any price.But he also sold several million taels.

It can be seen how many cultural relics Puyi has lost.

Even in history, in 1922, Puyi wanted to sell the original "Siku Quanshu".At that time, public opinion was very loud, but the Beiyang government had no choice.Because it was pushed back by the royal family, everything in the Forbidden City belongs to the royal family, and the Beiyang government has no power to control it.

But in the end, it was not able to sell because of too much opposition.

But Duan Xun didn't give him this chance.

All stuck.

On August 1921, 8, Puyi left the Forbidden City with the two concubines and others who were willing to follow.There are not many people.Because many people prefer to live in the palace, because they have been in the palace all their lives.

Although Duan Xun was already very strict, when Puyi left the Forbidden City, there were more than 600 boxes of various things.There are gold, jewelry, silver, jewelry, clothes, furniture and a lot of things in it.

"Biao Lao (Zhang Lan), quickly take over Huangzhuang. Then quickly count everything in Huangzhuang. Including the area of ​​arable land, the current management personnel, and the farmers who planted Huangzhuang. I want the most detailed information."

"it is good."

It is a big deal to end the emperor's title and expel the house.

The newspapers were buzzing.

But these are nothing.This is what is called public opinion.Some scholars take advantage of public opinion, which is not of much use except for excitement.Because what public opinion needs behind it is strength.

Just like Duan Xun.

Because you have strength, first use public opinion to criticize you, make you bad, and then carry out a crusade.Without strength, it is impossible for public opinion alone to have any effect.Of course, if you have strength without public opinion, you can only be reduced to a warlord with no future.What Duan Xun wants is to grasp both the army and the public opinion, and to be tough with both hands.

Currently the happiest are Zhang Lan, Chief of Agriculture and Commerce, and Wang Yongjiang, Chief Financial Officer.

"Biao Lao, the treatment method of Huangzhuang is the same as that of other government cultivated land."

"I know."

Don't think that the government had little arable land during the period of the Republic of China. In fact, this is a misunderstanding.Since the Qing Dynasty, the government has definitely cultivated a lot of land.All provinces have official farmland, school farmland, and eight-banner cultivated land, and the numbers are astonishing.Originally, the official land, school land, and Eight Banners land of the Qing Dynasty should have been smoothly transformed into the official land of the Republic of China government.But because the political situation was chaotic after the founding of the Republic of China and the control was very poor, many people worked hard to turn the cultivated land owned by the government into private ones.The government of the Republic of China has never paid attention to this situation. In the end, these official lands were slowly occupied by people, and they all entered the hands of those big bureaucrats and big landlords.Later, the number of official land became less and less.

But Duan Xun used the opportunity of land statistics to reorganize these cultivated lands.

The government has a lot of cultivated land.

Moreover, Duan Xun stipulated that private individuals are not allowed to reclaim land at will.All newly reclaimed land must be reported to the government department. After obtaining permission, private individuals can reclaim the land.

Moreover, Duan Xun has built a lot of new land for water conservancy facilities in the Sichuan Plain, Guanzhong Plain, and some places in the Yellow River Basin in recent years.Duan Xun is all collected as government land.

Therefore, the government currently controls more than [-] million mu of arable land. In addition to the resumption of Huangzhuang this time, as well as the Eight Banners fields and clan fields that are being processed, there will be nearly [-] million mu of land.It occupies about one-fifth of the country's land.

That's a lot.

In order to implement a nationwide campaign to reduce rent and interest, Duan Xun used these government farmlands to lower agricultural taxes and land rents.Zhang Lan has been responsible for these things since Sichuan.Therefore, it is easy to use.