During the period of the Ming Dynasty's domestic retreat, there were also things happening in Liaodong, and the most important thing was that the Nurhachi brothers successfully passed through the jurisdiction of the Hada Department and arrived at the Yehe Department, and were warmly welcomed by the two Baylors of Yehe - especially the "Xicheng Baylor" Qingjiatong paid special attention to Nurhachi.

Baylor is the leader of the Jurchen tribe, generally speaking, one Baylor is more common, and Yehebu is more interesting, it has two Baylors - the two Baylors of Yehebu are brothers, and after their rise, they built cities in two strategic places, one east and one west.

Therefore, Yangjitong (also known as Yangji) built in the east is called "Dongcheng Baylor", and Qingjia Tong, which is built in the west, is called "Xicheng Baylor".

Yehebu was the most influential of the Haixi Jurchens, and even during the entire Tatar Qing period, it also played a huge role. As for the origin of Yehbe, there are usually two theories: Mongolian and Jurchen.

The main lineage of Yeh is as follows:

Xingendrakhan - Silk, Mingatu - Qilgani - Chukonga - Taiple - Qingjiatong (Xicheng), Yangjitong (Dongcheng) - Buzhai (Xicheng), Narimbulu (Dongcheng) - Buyangu (Xicheng), Jintaishi (Narimbuludi, Dongcheng).

Then Yehbe dies - Nyaha - (Nalan) Pearl - (Nalan) Sex. The latter two have a very high appearance rate in Qing court dramas, so they don't need to be introduced.

In the Xinggen Darhan era, he accepted the position of commander of Tarumuwei of Ming Chengzu and led his troops to the north of Kaiyuan. In the twentieth year of Chenghua (1484), the third Zuqiergani was appointed as the commander of Haixi Taru Muwei, and began to pay tribute to Beijing frequently, constantly learning about the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

However, at that time, due to the extremely backward level of productivity, life was hard, and there was a slight natural disaster, either starving to death, or could only come out to rob. Qilgani led the tribe to attack Mingbian several times, and eventually died.

In the thirteenth year of Jiajing (1534), Zhu Kongge, the leader of the Yehe tribe, led his people to move south and settled on the north bank of the Yehe River. The purpose of the Yehe tribe moving to the Yehe River valley was very simple and rude, that is, to covet trade with the Ming Dynasty. However, the interests of the Yehe Department at this time had a direct conflict with the Hada Ministry, and they both wanted to compete for the trade rights of the Kaiyuan Horse Market, so Yehe and Hada had always been at war. Since Hada had been implementing a pro-Ming policy since the time of Wang Zhong, it received direct support from the Ming Dynasty.

"Minister Yehe's Chu Kongge counted as chaos, and Wangji Wailan (Wang Zhong) insisted on it, taking away 700 tributes and 13 villages" - Tai Pole was executed and dedicated to the Ming court.

Ye He was hit by Da Ming and Hada in turn, and his vitality was greatly damaged. And after the death of Tai Gong, the dragons fell into chaos without a leader. At this time, the two brothers Qing Jiatong and Yang Jitong (one said to be Tai Gongzi, the other said to be Tai Gong's nephew) joined forces to eliminate other competitors in Ye He's ministry and began to govern together.

It is not easy to seek development in the chaotic Jurchen tribes, and there must be political acumen, so first of all, Qing Jiatong and Yang Jitong urgently need to recognize their own situation.

Qiergani, Zhu Kongge, and Tai Gong were either killed by the Ming army or held by Hada, and on the basis of Yehe's own strength not being strong enough, it was very unwise to be enemies of the Ming court or even Hada.

Secondly, on this basis, because Hada (Wangtai) was too powerful, it also began to be gradually suppressed by the Ming court, and in this case, Ye He needed to have a good relationship with the Ming court and obtain the support of the Ming court.

Again, at this time, Yeh is weaker than Hada, so Yeh also has to show goodwill with Hada. Qing Jiatong and Yang Jitong married their sister to Wang Tai, and at the same time, Yang Jitong also married Wang Tai's daughter to show their respect.

In the end, Qing Jiatong and Yang Jitong built two separate cities in the east and west in order to control the Yehebu, from which the "East City Baylor" and the "West City Baylor" came from.

From here, Yehebe began to flourish. Only with the right understanding of your own strength and environment can you develop the right strategy, coupled with the right way to execute, to achieve the desired results.

At the same time, with the expansion of Wangtai's strength, after Wangtai became Khan, Daming's attitude towards Wangtai began to reverse. And Huifa and Ula also began to disobey Wang Taiyang.

Qing Jiatong and Yang Jitong seized the opportunity, on the one hand, they took advantage of the contradictions within Hada and recruited many of Hada's subordinates; On the other hand, it is also intended to raise the banner of revenge and launch a direct attack on Hada.

At this time, Nurhachi came, and Qing Jiatong immediately took a fancy to Nurhachi's role.

The current situation is as follows: Yeh is hostile to Hada; Jianzhou's right guard was also hostile to Hada, but Jianzhou's right guard had just been violently beaten by Li Chengliang, Atai was destroyed, and the strength of the right guard was greatly damaged; Due to the previous weakness and the lack of an "alliance leader" figure, the Jianzhou Left Guard was basically neutral in terms of face, no matter who he was biased towards in his heart.

What does this mean?

Qing Jiatong believed that since the left guard and the right guard of Jianzhou were now leaderless at the same time, if Yehebu had brought Nurhachi over, for example, as a son-in-law, and then supported him to become the Beile of Jianzhou's left and right guards—or at least the Beile of his own Jianzhou left guard—then Yehe would have a good ally south of Hada.

The Yehe tribe is north (or northwest) of the Hada department, and the Jianzhou department is south of the Hada department, plus the two tribes of Huifa and Ula (east and east of the Hada department), which are also dissatisfied with the Hada department, the Hada department is basically in a state of being surrounded and beaten.

In such a situation, unless Da Ming personally went down to pull the shelf, otherwise the Hada Department would inevitably be defeated with one enemy and four enemies, and as long as it was defeated, there was almost no place to run.

In this way, Nurhachi is simply a good son-in-law sent to the door - with his joining, Yehe's encirclement of Hada is completed.

Of course, this encirclement can't include the Ming in the southwest of the Hada Department, because if the Ming is counted in this period, or if the Ming Dynasty has to protect a certain Jurchen tribe, then this tribe can directly claim the king of the Jurchens, and say a ghost?

The reason why the Wang Tai of the Hada Department was able to rise in the early years and ride the dust among the Jurchen tribes was to act as a hardcore Ming dog, and identified Daming's father, Daming's father said that if he wanted to catch chickens, he would never go to drive dogs, so he could develop quickly.

But Da Ming's father's policy is not stupid, the Jurchen tribes must be balanced, no one can be too strong, and it is a consistent policy to help the weak and fight the strong, so after Wang Tai called Khan, Da Ming began to alienate him significantly - this is also the fundamental reason why Ye He dared to make a move against Hada.

Speaking of which, there may be an official who wants to ask, what happened to Nurhachi in history? The process of his unification of the Jurchen seems to be relatively smooth, why did Daming's father suddenly stop talking, or was it so easy to speak?

Because Nurhachi's luck was really good, he unified the state and the Jurchens to catch up with the good time - the Renchen War.

The Renchen Rebellion has been fought for so long, and Daming is already very difficult to support an army that reaches 70,000 or 80,000 at most in the Korean War, how can he have spare time to manage the Jurchens?

In the original history, the greatest force relied on by the Ming Dynasty to deter the Jurchens was the huge Jiading army under Li Chengliang, but this army first fought a battle of Ningxia, and then fell into the quagmire of North Korea, and finally suffered huge losses, Li Rusong's death was directly related to the Li family's too many casualties and serious decline in combat effectiveness.

Under such circumstances, Nurhachi was able to successfully unify the state and the Jurchens.

So it shows that the luck in the later period of the dynasty is exceptionally bad, that's not a joke, it's really bad luck in all aspects.

Now, as in history, Nurhachi has taken the first step in his rise: he is valued by Qing Jiatong, marries the daughter of Qing Jiatong, and repays his father-in-law's expectations - he says that he will immediately go south, must revive the Jianzhou Left Guard, be a good son-in-law of Yehe, and seal Hada.

Under the ardent expectation of Qing Jiatong, Nurhachi took the newly married Yehemei and quickly whipped south to return to the defense.

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In other words, there are a lot of people who write about the end of the Ming Dynasty, and everyone knows more about the situation of Houjin and Eight Banners after the rise, but the Jurchens before Nurhachi raised the army, there may not be many friends who know about it, and I don't know if there are many readers who are interested?