Li Chengliang's army withdrew very decisively, waving his sleeves and not taking a cloud with him.

Since he didn't even bring the clouds, he certainly didn't take the Nurhachi brothers and Bukuruch with them.

It's normal not to take Bukulu away, this guy is now the city lord of Tulun City, and he has his own territory, no matter how much he talks to Daming, he won't give up his nest and brag behind Li Chengliang's ass every day.

But it's a little strange not to take away the Nurhachi brothers, because the two brothers were prisoners of war after Li Chengliang's victory against Wang Gao in the third year of Wanli, although because Jue Chang'an and Takshi father and son switched to Li Chengliang and depended on the Ming Dynasty from then on, the Nurhachi brothers were not abused, and even gradually became one of Li Chengliang's large number of horsemen, oh, it should be two.

However, theoretically speaking, their status as prisoners of war has not changed, and at this time, the customary title of the Ming Dynasty should be called "slave reduction".

Surrendering to slaves is obviously not a personal autonomy, but Li Chengliang didn't take them away this time, and he didn't even leave anything behind or give any explanation, which is a bit puzzling.

With the current prestige of the Ming Dynasty and Li Chengliang himself in the Liaodong region, if the slaves unfortunately become fugitives, the consequences are obviously very serious.

So now Shuerhaqi is very anxious, and complains vigorously about his own Ahun Nurhachi: "Ahun, what can I do, let's just ask about the situation, now the uncle is annoyed, if he doesn't take us away, won't we become fugitives?" The fate of the fugitive slave is very miserable, if you are caught......"

[Note: Ah Hun, Manchu brother meaning; Uncle, it was a compliment that many people in Liaodong called Li Chengliang at that time, and Nikan Wailan also called him so. ]

"What are you anxious about?" Although Nurhachi is only twenty-four years old this year, he is obviously far calmer than his younger brother, and he frowned when he heard this: "Uncle's meaning is clear, Marfa and Ama are gone, let us go back and inherit the clan." ”

"Really?" Shulhaqi hesitated a little: "Don't be Ah Hun guessing blindly, right?" ”

Nurhachi didn't answer, but said, "Dou, do you think Nikan Wailan deserves to die?" ”

Dou is the meaning of the Manchu brother.

Shulhaqi hesitated for a moment and said, "It's certain that this guy Nikan Wailan talks a lot, but to say that he deliberately framed Marfa and Amma, I don't think it should be, and what Nikan (Han) said is probably not true." ”

Nurhachi shook his head and said, "No, Nikan Wailan deserves to die, and he must die." ”

Shulhaqi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Just because he suggested that the Ming army attack the city?" Kenikan said that Marfa and Ama were first arrested by Ah Hai, and then they were killed by mistake after the Ming army broke through the city. In this way, although Nikan Wailan is guilty, he is not guilty to death, after all, it is the Ming army who did it......"

"If it's the Ming army, can you and my brother still get revenge?" Nurha said coldly: "This is wrong, it is wrong for Nikan Wailan alone, after we go back, we will have to think of revenge, we must kill him, in order to revive the prestige of my Aixin Jueluo family!" ”

"Go back? Where to go? Shuerhaqi smiled bitterly: "Ahun, without the edict of the governor of the Ming Dynasty, we can't even go back to Hetuala." ”

This is a question, Nurhachi thought for a while, and said: "In this case, let's go to Yehe first, Yehe's two Belle Qingjiatong and Yang Jitong are all outstanding people in the world, and they have lofty ambitions, and they will definitely be able to see the benefits of helping you and my brothers to them." ”

Shuerhaqi thought for a while and said: "Yehe Erbeile is indeed an ambitious person, but they have a bad relationship with the governor of Wangtai of the Hada Department, didn't we listen to the analysis of the generals of the Ming army when we were under the uncle's account last time, saying that Ernu (the Ming people's title for Yehe Erbeyler, because of the pronunciation of the third character of their name) is becoming more and more domineering, and Wangtai is old, I am afraid that within two years this year and tomorrow, Yehe and Hada may be able to fight?" My brother threw himself into Yehe at this time, and I am afraid that he will be used as a sword. ”

Nurhachi sneered: "If you want to use me as a knife, you have to give me some capital, although you and my brother are in Pingyang, after all, they are the families of Jianzhou Zuowei, and they are the descendants of Brother Meng's Timur (that's right, Brother Meng's Timur is the sixth ancestor of Nurhachi, and his son Dong Shan is the fifth ancestor of Nurhachi). ”

Shulhaqi was about to speak, but Nurhachi hadn't finished speaking, so he paused and continued: "Besides, it is precisely because Yehe and Hada are likely to fight soon, that my two brothers went to Yehe, so that they would not be left in Yehe and not returned. ”

Shulhaqi was slightly stunned and asked, "Ahun, why is this?" ”

"Dou, think about it, how big can our brothers be in this battle if they stay in Yehe?" Nurhachi asked.

Shuerhaqi frowned and said: "That's hard to say, we have been fighting with my uncle for seven or eight years, and I have consciously learned a lot of things, presumably Ah Hun is the same." In this case, if Ye He's two Belekens let my brother lead the troops, with Ye He's current strength, he might really be able to take Hada. ”

Nurhachi smiled: "That's true, but do you think Yehe and Baylor can be so generous?" ”

"That can't, definitely can't." Shulhazy pouted: "Who is willing to take their own tribe to outsiders to lead?" ”

"That's it." Nurhachi smiled slightly: "So, we are just two outsiders in Yehe, for them, at most, they have some courage, but no matter how brave the two people are, they are insignificant for a big war, and they will not be taken to heart." ”

Shulhaqi gradually understood and asked, "Ahun means that the two Baylors of Yehe will send us back to Hetuala?" ”

"That's right, not only will they send us back to Hetuala, but they should also send us some things, such as armor and horses."

"Will you send an edict?" Shulhaqi immediately asked: "Without the edict, we will have to die of poverty when we go back." ”

Nurhachi's face fell a little, sighed, shook his head, and said: "Don't count on the edict, who in the Jurchen tribes doesn't pay close attention to the edict, and there are fewer battles for a few edicts?" Not to mention anything else, Ye He is now going to war with Hada, isn't it because Ye He feels that the current strength of the Hada Department is no longer worthy of the number of edicts they have in their hands? ”

Shulhaqi's expression suddenly collapsed, and he sighed: "But we don't have the edict in our hands, how can we live in the future?" You can't just hunt and catch fish to survive, right? ”

Nurhachi thought for a while and said, "It's not that there is no way, let's get the recognition of Yehe and Beyler first, and then go to negotiate with Nikan, it's best to find the uncle directly, first talk about the tragic death of Marfa and Amma, and then ask for a favor and a soft face, and think of asking the uncle to give us some edicts......"

Shuerhaqi thought for a while, nodded and said: "This is a method, if the uncle's door can be passed, the edict will be easy to do, and we will be able to live in the future." ”

The two of them made up their minds about this, and let Nikan Wailan, who was close at hand, not take revenge, and went straight to Beitou Yehe.

However, the issue of the edict that they mentioned, which must be mentioned here, is very important.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens vigorously appeased, and established the system of Jianzhou Wei and Mao Lianwei in the Jurchen area, and implemented the policy of "razing and destroying the Jurchens".

Under this policy, the local officials who administered the Jurchen tribes, although they were the leaders of the Jurchen tribes, were also politically subject to the Ming Dynasty's canonizations, such as the edict (i.e., the letter of appointment), the issuance of official seals, and the issuance of crowns and robes, which represented the imperial court.

Among them, the key role in the relationship between the Jurchen and the Ming Dynasty is the edict, that is, the so-called "edict", its key lies in its "voucher" role, which is not only the central court center of the local officials and their rank of the award, but also the Jurchen to the court regular tribute and reward certificate, is the status and trade in and out of the double important proof, the existence of the edict is also compared with the Korea, the Jurchen and the Ming trade is the most prominent feature.

The official regulations of the Ming Dynasty on the status of the edict began in the orthodox period, "the above is its words, it is the chief soldier and other officials of Liaodong and other places, and those who come to the court from outside the country in the future are allowed to have two or three people or four or five people, and they will not be ordered to enter the country unless there is a seal letter or official document."

In the tributary trade and horse market trade between the Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty, the "edict" was required as an important document for entering Beijing and entering the market.

It can be seen that the edict not only represents the absolute political power of the Ming court, but is also closely related to economic issues, and plays an important role in the growth of the Jurchen's economic power and military rise - you have the edict, you can trade with the Ming, and since each edict limits the number of people to be traded to "two or three or four or five people", the more such edicts you have, the greater the amount of trade you can make.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty used the edict at the beginning, and its purpose and role were more political. The most direct function of the edict is to canonize local officials, "give the edict, each unified division", in other words, the imperial court to the local officials, and the officials are the controllers of political power, so the Ming Dynasty promulgated the edict to the Jurchens, that is, politically clearly established the relationship between the monarch and the minister, the master and the slave, and included the Jurchens in the political sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty, and stipulated their obligation to pay tribute to Beijing.

Of course, this obligation also carries with it political and military compulsion.

It can be said that the tributary and horse-market trade, which was established in the early Ming Dynasty and used until the establishment of the Later Jin, was an important means used by the Ming Dynasty to control and bring the Jurchens into submission, and the edict is a proof of this means.

But the Ming Dynasty valued politics, while the Jurchens valued their economic interests even more.

Of course, this is not to say that the Jurchens did not attach importance to the role of politics, in fact, after the Ming Dynasty appeased the Jurchen tribes, they appointed the local officials who managed the Jurchens in the form of edicts, and this kind of ritual evidence marked the beginning of the emergence of a bureaucratic class in the Jurchens as a nomadic people.

The hereditary position will gradually make the upper class with management power surpass the common people economically and accumulate wealth from generation to generation, and the concept of "private property" gradually emerges in the originally primitive Jurchen society and forms a stable divide between the rich and the poor.

In other words, the promulgation of the edict accelerated the hierarchical differences in Jurchen society, and this obvious hierarchical difference and private ownership system were also one of the manifestations of the transformation of Jurchen society to feudalism.

Some people in later generations thought that Nurhachi's establishment of the Eight Banners System was so remarkable, but in fact, it was completely reasonable for him to come up with the Eight Banners System - the Ming Dynasty's edict system laid a good foundation for him.

In fact, he just took advantage of the situation to put the unspoken rules on the table: this flag is mine, that flag is yours, and everyone is the upper ruling class in the semi-slave and semi-feudal system - isn't this a continuation of the Ming edict system?

However, political influence is a subtle process, while economic influence is more time-sensitive.

The edict is the key token of the Jurchen tribes to pay tribute to Beijing and enter and exit the horse market, which is also the most obvious feature that distinguishes it from other trades, after mastering the edict, the Jurchens, with the existence of tribute and horse markets, gradually no longer rely solely on the primitive fishing and hunting economy, but learned to use the products of the fishing and hunting economy to trade with the Ming Dynasty, so as to obtain the items needed for survival and even expansion.

This process not only ensured the continued power of the fishing and hunting economy, but also expanded and strengthened the development of Jurchen society, such as population growth, increase in social needs, etc., when the simple social organization of the Jurchens could not meet their own development by relying on fishing, hunting and trade, it correspondingly bred more plundering behaviors - whether it was Wang Gao's Koubian robbery of the Ming people, or the imminent outbreak of the battle between Yehe and Hada in Nurhachi's mouth, this is the case.

In the process of the development of the Jurchens' various economic methods supported by edicts, iron tools, seeds and cultivated cattle that were strictly forbidden by the Ming Dynasty were also introduced to the Jurchens by various formal or informal means.

In fact, at present, agricultural production has been widely used in the Jurchen tribes, driven by the agricultural economy, the closer to the border of the Ming Dynasty, the closer the Jurchen tribes, the more quickly take advantage of the opportunity to enter the capital and the horse market with edicts to develop their own handicraft industries, such as weaving, salt, pottery, iron smelting, etc., also has a considerable contribution to military strength.

Therefore, it can be said that the economic role of the edict was more attractive to the Jurchens.

It is precisely because of the irreplaceable key role of the edict that the possession of the edict also has the opportunity to increase wealth and strength through trade, so there has always been a fierce competition for the edict in the process of the rise of the Jurchen tribes.

So the key question is, how to send the edict of the Ming Dynasty? How much? How is it distributed?

Theoretically, since it is an edict, then of course these things are decided by the emperor.

But this is only a theory, in fact, the emperor may not even remember the jurchen tribal names that are messy, how does he know who to send and how much?

Therefore, the emperor had to rely on the advice of the border ministers and border commanders to issue the edict. And this place in Liaodong has a certain particularity: the border ministers usually come here to work for a few years and leave, while the border commanders and generals are mostly locals, and they have a better understanding of the internal situation and strength of the Jurchens.

After Li Chengliang Zhenliao, more than ten years have passed since he was the general soldier of Liaodong, and he has won countless big and small battles, and his reputation in Liaodong is unparalleled for a while.

Therefore, the current fact is that theoretically, the edict issued to the Jurchens was in the hands of the emperor, and in fact it was based on the suggestions of the Governor of Jiliao, the Governor of Liaodong and the General Army of Liaodong, and in view of the particularity of Liaodong, the Governor of Jiliao and the Governor of Liaodong would take Li Chengliang's meaning as the main reference in many cases.

Therefore, Li Chengliang is actually the godfather of the entire Jurchen!

Why do both Nikan Wailan and Nurhachi subconsciously call Li Chengliang "uncle"?

Because Li Chengliang is really an uncle for the Jurchens!

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Yesterday I saw a book review, to the effect that the battle of Gulezhai slowed down the pace, explain: Several important figures in the battle of Gulezhai, such as Yang Yuan, Zu Chengxun, Li Pinghu, Li Rumei, etc., are all important figures in the battle to pacify the Renchen War, I have to let them show their faces in advance, and show their character characteristics. Similar "paving the way for ten years later" has been done many times in the previous article, and the pit has basically been filled. So don't worry, I'm not writing some useless characters.