When Huang Taiji changed his clothes in the inner study and used up simple food, Kurtang and Wu Bashi were finally introduced into the study by the palace guards.

These two were originally rare scholars among the Manchurians, and they were also writing posts for Nurhachi.

In Nurhachi's time, the Jurchen clan valued military merits, so even the most powerful pen post Dahai around Nurhachi could only be under the generals because he could not obtain military merits.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he greatly expanded the authority of the study room and raised the status of these scholars, which also made all the literati who originally handled the copywriting work for Nurhachi quickly took refuge in him and became Huang Taiji's right-hand man in handling political affairs.

After Kurtang and Wu Bashi entered the study, Huang Taiji went straight to the point and told the two of them that his trip was called a safari, but in fact it was the result of an alliance with the Mongolian Karaqin tribe.

“… The Duoyan chieftain Se Ling and his son Subudi originally belonged to the Wuliangha lineage, but after their ancestors continued to marry the golden family of the Karaqin tribe, they have now become a part of the Karaqin tribe in Liaodong.

When Lin Dan Khan moved westward, the first thing he attacked was the Karaqin headquarters that was blocking his westward migration. Now that both the Karaqin headquarters and the Tumut tribe have been defeated by Lin Dan Khan, 30,000 households on the right wing of the Mongols have asked me and the Ming State for help at the same time.

The Karaqin tribe in eastern Liaodong led by Seling and Subudi was forced by the power of Lin Dan Khan, and the drought in their place this year, so they sent Subudi to come to the alliance with our Houjin, hoping to obtain the protection of our Houjin.

After I consulted with the three Baylors, and although I held a ceremony with them, I was a little worried that the Seleng and Subudi were only expedient measures, and did not really submit to my Houjin. So I'd like to ask you both how you think about this and what the next steps should be. ”

Kurtang has more seniority, and he is an old man left behind by Nurhachi, so the same class of Jurchen relatives and nobles are deeply entangled.

He doesn't have the self-knowledge of Dahai, and he has made a lot of contributions at the beginning of Huang Taiji's accession to the throne, so he has always had no scruples about speaking in front of Huang Taiji.

After listening to Huang Taiji's words, he didn't even think about the meaning, so he said with a big grin: "Great Khan, the minister thinks that this internal dispute between the left and right wings of Mongolia is better for us Houjin not to intervene.

At the beginning of the year, although the Great Khan defeated the main force of the Chahar tribe left behind in the Liaohetao, there were still many remnants of the Chahar tribe scattered near the Liaohetao. For example, Sirha, Xibotu, Ying, and Tangtu Zhutaiji are collecting these remnants of the Chahar tribe and want to embarrass our Houjin.

This Liaodong is the fundamental place of our Houjin Kingdom, and it is not peaceful at all, so how can we plot against the Mongolian right wing? What's more, my Houjin has just shook hands with the Ming Kingdom and made peace, but now he suddenly sent troops to plot to declare a place outside the Great Pass, will it anger the Ming Kingdom and make it difficult for me?

Again, Shenyang is thousands of miles away from the Mongolian right-wing, and even if we can defeat Lin Dan Khan and bring the right-wing Mongolia into Houjin, how will we manage that place? The first Khan once said that the united people are strong, and the division of troops is weak. If the power of the Houjin Kingdom is dispersed because of this, I am afraid it will not be a blessing for the Houjin.

Finally, Sun Tzu of the Han people has a cloud in the art of war: double the road, fight for profit for a hundred miles, and capture three generals. It is about thousands of miles from Shenyang to right-wing Mongolia, which is really contrary to common sense.

And last year, there was a great drought in Shenyang, fighting rice eight taels, although there was grain from the Korean expedition to quell the famine, but this year the Great Khan broke through the Chahar Department, and the Liaodong Guanwai Gate guards have taken refuge one after another, and the military rations of the Western Expedition Army are also difficult to raise. ”

Although Huang Taiji didn't like Kurtang's overly conservative attitude, he also recognized that what he said did have some truth.

He nodded, then turned to Wu Bashi and asked, "Then Wu Bashi, do you have anything to add?" ”

Wu Bashi had been paying attention to Huang Taiji's expression just now, so after he asked himself, he figured out Huang Taiji's thoughts and replied: "Back to the Great Khan, although Lord Kur is right, Wei Chen still thinks that something is wrong. ”

Hearing that Wu Bashi dared to oppose his claim in front of the Great Khan, Kurtang was quite dissatisfied. But Huang Taiji continued to ask with great interest: "What do you think is wrong?" ”

Listening to the encouragement in Huang Taiji's words, Wu Bashi suddenly knew that he had bet on the right treasure, and he hurriedly continued: "The Chahar headquarters was driven out of the Liaodong region by the Great Khan, and the Karaqin Department of Liaodong is in alliance with my Houjin, and the Horqin Department is my Houjin in-law. It can be said that on the ground of Liaodong, except for the Ming Kingdom, there is no opponent of my Houjin.

However, the Ming Kingdom is the enemy of my Houjin, but it is not necessarily the enemy of the Mongol tribes. The Mongols and the Ming fought for hundreds of years, and it can be said that it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe.

The salt, cloth, iron, and medicinal materials needed by the various tribes of Liaodong Mongolia had to be traded with the Ming people. These Mongols hated their own people far more than Yu Ming.

The reason why they are attached to my Houjin instead of throwing themselves into the Ming Kingdom. It's not that they don't need the goods of the Ming Kingdom, but they need my Houjin to help them resist the annexation of the Chahar Ministry.

Now that the Chahar headquarters have been driven out of Liaodong by the Great Khan, these Liaodong Mongol tribes have lost the pressure on their survival. With their personalities at both ends of the first rat, it is not impossible to secretly fornicate with the Ming Kingdom.

Although God bless me Houjin, the Ming Kingdom was replaced by an ignorant teenager last year. What is the temperament of the Son of Heaven of the Ming Kingdom, although we don't know it yet, but as soon as he ascended the throne, he couldn't wait to send someone to make peace with my Hou Jin Yan, which shows that he is a son of heaven who is afraid of things.

From this point of view, if I have no intention of going south, the Ming people will acquiesce to the fact that my Houjin is the lord of Liaodong, just as they abandoned the Hetao region to the Mongols.

It is true that peace with the Ming Kingdom is an inevitable need of our Houjin, but now is not the time for peace. Our country needs to continue the war with the Ming State, so that those Mongolian tribes that are dependent on our Houjin will have no room for détente with the Ming State.

Before that, the Great Khan needed to make those Mongol tribes completely turn away from the Golden Family and become the subjects of the Great Khan through the crusade against the Chahar headquarters. ”

After thinking for a long time, Huang Taiji suddenly said to the two cronies who couldn't help but observe his expression: "What you two said is very good, we do have three important things to do now.

The first is to deepen the fundamentals and integrate the various departments of Liaodong Mongolia into our Eight Banners; the second is to test out what the attitude and bottom line of the Ming Kingdom are towards this peace treaty; The third is to win over the right wing of Mongolia, so that it cannot completely fall to the Ming Kingdom..."

Koco's case soon came to a conclusion, which was repeatedly verified by Yue Tuo and Du Du. In particular, the confessions of the few people who came back with him were indeed made clear by Koko. In order to sow discord between the four major Baylors, he sent a forged letter to Amin's mansion according to the request of Ming Guo.

Although Hauge acted recklessly in this matter, after all, it was out of public interest, so at the intercession of the ministers of the clan, he only made a penalty of one year. This punishment is not painful or itchy, and it looks more like a perfunctory Amin.

Huang Taiji was grateful for Koke's past exploits and sentenced him to death by hanging leniently, without holding his family responsible.

And Ma Xiucai, who exposed Kuoke to Haoge, although he did not find out the fact of collusion with Mingguo, was also beheaded by Huang Taiji on the charge of ill-intentioned and abandoned the city. The other three people who returned with Kuoke were relegated to places outside Shenyang because of their unfavorable work.

After disposing of the Koke case, after the dismissal, the ministers of Jin and the young clans were dissatisfied with the conspiracy and tricks adopted by the Ming State, and they demanded in the court that the war against the Ming State be renewed, and that the shameless Ming people should be taught a good lesson.

At this time, Amin, who had been high-profile to investigate the Koko incident, was silent, and Dai Shan was also noncommittal about the proposal of the Ming Kingdom to go to war, and only Mang Gurtai echoed these warlike Jurchen relatives.

Huang Taiji was not surprised by the strange reaction of Amin and Dai Shan, and in the information he received, these two Baylors almost monopolized the timber business of Tongmingguo. Liaodong is full of forests, as long as there are enough people.

Although the Ming people did not sell grain to Houjin, cloth, salt and other daily necessities were pouring into Shenyang. The Later Jin state could not only collect taxes from this trade, but also resell these supplies to the mountains and forests further north, or use them to win over the Mongols.

It was precisely seeing this that Huang Taiji tolerated the trade between the two Baylors and the Ming Kingdom. But those young Jurchen nobles and reckless Gurtai did not see this, or even if they did, they scoffed at it.

After fighting with the Ming Kingdom for so many years, some of the Jurchen people have developed the habit of going to the Ming Kingdom to grab a sum of money if they lack anything. Let them do business with the Ming people in a serious way, and earn a few hard money by hard work, they will think that this is a sign of cowardice.

Mang Gurtai is the main representative of this view, but in fact, the key to the rise of the Jurchens in Nurhachi's Jianzhou was not only his outstanding military talent. Rather, it was because he monopolized the trade of special products between the natives of Liaodong and the Ming Kingdom.

It is precisely because of Nurhachi's monopoly on ginseng and all kinds of furs that he has gathered enough economic strength for the Jianzhou Jurchens. He was able to equip his army with better weapons and armor than the Ming ** team, and to meet the food consumption of the expanding Jurchen tribes.

Dai Shan and Huang Taiji have a deep understanding of this, and although Amin didn't pay attention to it before, he is slowly starting to pay attention to it now.

If he tears up the peace treaty with Ming, not only will he erase the happiness of the previous few months, but also the trade agreement he and Yang Ho reached in private will be broken up.

This trade agreement was not only about the growth of his wealth, but also a guarantee of his cooperation with Daishan and some other Jurchen nobles.

Not to mention, they are now building a new city at the mouth of the Hunhe River to serve as a base for trade with the Ming Kingdom. If the agreement with Ming Guo is torn up now, these investments and cooperation will be scrapped, which is obviously not in line with Amin's wishes.

After some debate, under the guidance of Huang Taiji, the monarchs and ministers of Houjin finally negotiated a result.

First, it is necessary to question Mingguo's provocation this time and make a certain counterattack against Mingguo. However, the direction is not Ningjin, but Kuandian.

The second is to convene the Mongolian tribes in eastern Liaodong to conquer the Chahar tribe and establish the rule of the Later Jin over the Mongolian tribes in eastern Liaodong.

The third is to continue to recruit the 36 closed doors outside the Guangning Saiwai to clear the Ming forces west of the Ningjin defense line. Expand the sphere of influence of the Later Jin and separate the Ming State from the alliance of Lin Dan Khan.