Text Volume 2 Dawn Morning_Chapter 197 Chongzhen's troubles
After going down two stations from Taiji Factory and leaving Chongwenmen, Zhu Youzhen ended this tour. Even though he has changed a lot of things, what still can't be changed is that when he officially goes on patrol, the common people can't look at his face.
Asking the people who came to watch the horse-drawn railroad cars to kneel on both sides of the road and not look up was clearly contrary to his intention in convening the opening ceremony.
Therefore, after two stops, Zhu Youzhen got off the horse-drawn rail car. However, he rarely traveled relaxed, and he didn't want to return to the palace so quickly.
In fact, he obviously had more trouble than Bi Ziyan had guessed.
For example, what he feels most headache now is about negotiating peace with Jiannu. Yang Ho finally negotiated a peace agreement with Jiannu, but the old gentleman finally couldn't get rid of the literati habits, and after he returned to Jinzhou, he actually wrote a letter to tell his friend about the content of the peace treaty.
God knows, it's a good thing to make a peace treaty with Jiannu, but to expose the content of the peace treaty is a disaster.
In fact, as long as it is not an alliance under the city, any peace treaty is the product of compromise between the two sides, and it is nothing more than that the stronger side compromises less, and the weaker side compromises more. Therefore, any peace treaty has elements that are criticized and questioned.
And Huang Taiji immediately changed his attitude after discovering that he continued to block the peace treaty and that it was possible to make those Jurchen nobles who supported the peace talks gather around Amin and Daishan.
After inquiring about the history of the exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and the border ethnic minorities from several Han people around him, he revised some of the contents of the peace talks between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty.
For Huang Taiji, peace talks with Daming have never been the goal, but expanding his influence in the post-Jin country through peace talks with Daming is the goal.
And Erbel Amin, who has never had any political ideas, actually played out the content of his own peace talks, which obviously violated his plan to lead the peace talks.
Huang was not afraid of the abilities and ambitions of his brothers, who may have good domestic and military abilities, but never had a clear political philosophy.
For example, from the beginning of the army, the purpose of Father Khan was very clear, to unite Mongolia, pacify Korea, attack the Ming State, and establish a state of his own in Liaodong.
Since the death of his father Khan, the Jurchen nobles in the Later Jin Kingdom suddenly began to fall into chaos. Although the four strongest Baylors joined forces to temporarily stabilize the political situation in Houjin.
But except for Huang Taiji, the other three have no political ideas of their own, such as Amin who thinks all day long about pulling his clan out by force to form a country of his own, and passing the addiction of sweating.
Dai Shan, on the other hand, felt that after decades of conquest, the Houjin Kingdom had become a little climatic in Liaodong. Next, if he can be at peace with Mingguo, then he can also enjoy the life of a rich idler.
Otherwise, if he fights for a lifetime, the sweat position will no longer have anything to do with him, so what else will he have to toss about eating and sleeping in the open? Is it really impossible to be a dog and horse for his younger brother?
As for Mang Gurtai, this man is an idiot in politics. He didn't care about the practical difficulties faced by the Houjin Kingdom, and he didn't care what the Jurchen nobles wanted. Just blindly shouting that the Houjin State should always act according to the policies formulated by his father Khan during his lifetime.
What is Nurhachi's policy during his lifetime, that is, to raise Zhushen and Mongolia with Aha and Nikan, emphasize the difference between the Jurchens, Mongolians and the Han people, purge the Han scholars, maintain the Jurchens' own customs, and insist on fighting the Ming State to the end.
These policies formulated by Nurhachi were in fact inappropriate after the Later Jin occupied most of Liaodong. In the current Later Jin country, the Han population has in fact exceeded half of the population of the Later Jin Kingdom.
A large number of large households in Liaodong and the Ming army in Liaodong took refuge, making the Han people of the Later Jin State no longer like at the beginning of the establishment of the Later Jin State, a dispensable force.
Nurhachi could rely on the absolute force of the Jurchen Eight Banners he established, as well as his position as the founding lord of the Later Jin State, to force a cadre of Jurchen nobles to obey the decrees he issued.
However, Mang Gurtai was only the lord of the banner, and his prestige and prestige were not enough to deter the nobles of the Eight Banners from acting according to his wishes.
What's more, these Jurchen relatives and nobles risked their lives to follow Nurhachi to destroy Ming, that was not a dream, after the success of the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty, they could also enjoy everything that the nobles of the Ming Kingdom enjoyed, so they did not care about life and death.
If the Houjin Kingdom is established, they will continue to live the fishing and hunting life in the deep mountains and wild forests before the army started, why do they have to suffer.
Therefore, although Mang Gurtai's position among the sons of Nurhachi was more noble than that of Huang Taiji, the Jurchen relatives and nobles still supported it with their eyes closed, and Huang Taiji, who was elected by Dai Shan, took over as the Great Khan of Houjin.
And Huang Taiji, with his own political propositions and ingenious political skills, soon broke away from the identity of being regarded as a puppet by everyone and truly became the Great Khan of the Later Jin State.
He asked Amin to replace Daishan to preside over the peace talks with Mingguo, on the one hand, he wanted to suppress Daishan's prestige in the court, and on the other hand, he wanted to continue to deepen the contradictions between Amin and Daishan.
But he never thought that Amin would suddenly open his mind, and actually follow the opportunity of peace talks with Mingguo, and began to win over the Jurchen relatives and nobles who were inclined to peace talks in China, which was obviously a dangerous tendency. It is also possible to disrupt his next adjustment to the government.
Therefore, on the one hand, he watched the movements of the Chahar Department in the west, continued to win over the 36 Gatekeepers outside the Guangning Pass, and on the other hand, he continued to gather Han scholars to discuss the content of the peace talks.
Only at this time will Huang Taiji feel the dilemma of the lack of talents in the Houjin country. Although Nurhachi despised the scholars among the Han Chinese, he did not reject the scholars who cultivated the Jurchens.
In the pen paste he founded, that is, the institution of the Chinese language study. There were many Jurchens who studied Han Chinese culture and sorted out archives and drafted various documents for him.
When Huang Taiji took over the position of the Great Khan, although he did not make institutional adjustments to the pen sticker package, he attracted many Han people as his close attendants, among which Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng, Luo Xiujin, and Bian Sanyuan were more outstanding.
However, Huang Taiji also knows that these Han people have about the talents, but they are also contaminated with many bad problems of the Ming scholars, such as being ambitious, exaggerated, and ignorant of the world.
If you want these Han people to truly become his right-hand men and give advice for him, it will take time and the continuous tempering of world affairs.
But now, the information he got from these scholars was enough for him to respond to the peace talks.
For Huang Taiji, since it is not good for him to sabotage this peace negotiation, then letting the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom destroy the peace negotiation by themselves can achieve the same effect, maybe it will be better.
Letting the monarchs and ministers of the Ming State tear up the negotiated peace treaty by themselves can not only slap Amin in the face, but also make the Jurchen relatives and nobles in the Later Jin Kingdom correctly realize that the Ming State has never been sincere in making peace talks with the Later Jin.
In this way, these Jurchen relatives and nobles can give up the illusion of peace, unite around him, the Great Khan of the Later Jin State, and continue to fight with the Ming State. Only by constantly waging wars can he justifiably meddle in the internal affairs of the Eight Banners in the name of the Great Khan, so as to control the Jurchen Eight Banners under his command.
How to get the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom to tear up the peace treaty they took the initiative is not difficult at all in Huang Taiji's opinion. As long as he equalizes the status of Houjin and Daming in the peace treaty, it is enough to make this peace treaty look like it was signed by two opponents of equal status.
Such a peace treaty can satisfy the vanity of the Jurchen relatives and nobles in the Later Jin Dynasty, after all, in the more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, no Asian nation or country has been able to sign a peace treaty with the Ming Dynasty on an equal footing.
Even Altan Khan, who hit the city of Beijing and forced the Ming to open the horse market, finally had to ask the Ming for the title of Shunyi King and recognized the status of the Ming suzerain, in order to maintain the border trade activities with the Ming Dynasty.
Although the Later Jin State repeatedly defeated the Ming army in Liaodong, but it never reached the city of Beijing, and now the Ming State actually agreed to sign a peace treaty with the Later Jin on an equal footing, which undoubtedly greatly increased the prestige of the Later Jin State.
But for the Ming Dynasty monarchs, this peace treaty was no different from the alliance under the city. The Ming monarchs and ministers who were able to agree to this peace treaty will leave a stain that cannot be washed away in the history books of the Ming Kingdom.
The emperor of the Ming Kingdom, who had just ascended the throne not long ago, had not established his virtue and prestige, and if the peace talks he advocated were such a result. Even Huang Taiji couldn't think of how he would face the criticism issued by the Ming State scholar after hearing about it.
If because of this peace talks, the monarchs and ministers within the Ming Kingdom can be separated, then Huang Taiji thinks that he can let go of the defense strength of the Ming Kingdom in other directions.
Huang Taiji had a very accurate grasp of the psychology of the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom, but he miscalculated Chongzhen's psychology. Like him, Chongzhen did not pay much attention to the peace talks, but only regarded them as a temporary armistice.
And the soul in Chongzhen's body that does not belong to this era does not carry the moral baggage of the fame of his ancestors and his own reputation.
For a modern person, admitting failure is not a difficult thing, and for the sake of face, he will also consume his own capital, which is obviously not a normal way of thinking.
If it weren't for Yang Ho accidentally leaking the contents of the peace agreement, he would not even disclose the content of the peace agreement to unrelated people, but just inform everyone of the successful results of the peace talks.
For most people, they will only care about the outcome of the matter, not the process of solving the matter. Only at the instigation of well-intentioned people will people feel that the process is more important than the result.
For Chongzhen, there is now such a caring person who wants to take this opportunity to attack the imperial court to achieve some ulterior purposes.