Although Nurhachi accepted the culture of the Ming Kingdom, he still considered himself a Jurchen person in his bones, and he disdained to regard himself as a Ming person.

In his opinion, Lu has lived with the Jurchen clan for decades, and he should have become a member of the Jurchen clan a long time ago and worked hard for the future of the Jurchens.

However, when he was about to raise an army against the Ming Kingdom, Lu, whom he regarded as a mentor and friend, remembered that he was a Ming man and tried to tell the court about Nurhachi's rebellion.

For Nurhachi, there is nothing more infuriating than this betrayal. He once thought that if he could be fair, Han Chinese could become Jurchens, but eventually he realized that this was wrong. As a result, he never trusted the Han Chinese again throughout his life.

Nurhachi's attitude directly led to the hostile attitude of the entire upper echelon of the Jurchens towards the Han Chinese.

The only exception is Huang Taiji, when * Lu tells him about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", unlike others who only care about the tricks in the books.

Huang Taiji is more concerned about the fate of those characters in the Three Kingdoms. In fact, he did not agree with the statement that the Jianzhou Jurchen was a descendant of the Jin State, because this undoubtedly pitted the Jianzhou Jurchen against the Han people, and it was equivalent to admitting that he was a barbarian.

After learning the culture of the Han people, Huang Taiji knew that once he labeled himself as a barbarian, then the Jianzhou Jurchens would no longer be able to enter the Central Plains, nor would they be recognized by the Han scholars.

But Nurhachi, who single-handedly created Houjin, has too much influence on this emerging nation, and even Huang Taiji, who is well versed in political intrigues, can only remain silent about Nurhachi's decision.

When Huang Taiji ascended to the throne, he immediately began to correct many of Nurhachi's policies against the Han Chinese. Trying to fulfill his childhood dream, what he wants to do is not the barbarian king Kirbineng in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but Cao Cao and Liu Xuande, who compete for the world.

Regarding the performances of these Jurchen nobles in the main hall, Huang Taiji did not take it to heart. Perhaps before Nurhachi raised his army, these Jurchen nobles still had a simple and honest, respectful and unliterate character, but after more than ten years of war.

The Jurchen nobles who can survive are all cunning and slick people. Don't look at the righteous indignation that these Jurchen nobles are showing now, but if they really let them fall into an endless war with the Ming Kingdom, as long as there are a few more battles that are as fruitless as the Battle of Ningjin, then these people will definitely change their positions soon.

Huang Taiji raised his left hand, and the Jurchen nobles who had been observing the behavior of the four Baylors in the hall suddenly fell silent.

Huang Taiji was about to speak, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw the expression on Mang Gurtai's face, and suddenly changed his words and said: "It seems that Sanbeile seems to have something to say, why don't you let Sanbeile tell us first, what do you think of the statement of the envoy of the Ming Kingdom." ”

Mang Gurtai didn't care about giving him a hard look, and stood up in a daze and said to His Royal Highness: "The emperor who has just ascended the throne of the Southern Dynasty is just a milky child, and he doesn't know the danger of the battlefield.

Did he think that as long as he said a few big words, those rice buckets in the Ming Kingdom that didn't even dare to get out of the city would be able to fight with our Jurchen warriors endlessly?

Since the boy of the Southern Dynasty is so ignorant of the world, we should teach him a harsh lesson and let him know that the battlefield relies on courage and force, not false words and intimidation..."

The Jurchen nobles who were still making trouble in the hall just now were unexpectedly cold. Except for a few young people, everyone else watched their master's face to decide whether to speak out in support.

Da Belle Daishan really couldn't hold back and retorted: "After Sibeile ascended the throne, he said that he would reach a peace agreement with the Ming Kingdom, so that my Jurchen clan could cultivate and reproduce.

Since my father Khan raised his army, we have been fighting against the Ming Kingdom for almost 10 years. In the past 10 years, how many people have increased in my Jurchen clan? When I went on the expedition after Jin, the Jurchen drew one ding for every three dings, and often the grandfather did not go on an errand, and the grandson sent an errand.

The children of the Southern Dynasty don't understand the world, don't you understand personnel either? Do you have to be angry with the same stinky child? ”

The words of the Great Belle Daishan immediately resonated with most of the Jurchen nobles, and even the few young people who had spoken out before echoed Mang Gurtai also fell silent.

The weight of the Jurchens' errand service far exceeded that of the Han people under the rule of the Later Jin, and the reason why the Jurchens were able to endure it.

First, the Jurchens originally lived in the bitter cold border land of the undeveloped mountains and forests in eastern Liaodong, although they defeated the Ming State and occupied the rich Songliao Plain, but the successive years of conquest made them too late to enjoy the fruits of victory, so that the Jurchens had not been rapidly corrupted because of their comfortable life;

The second is that the Jurchens are in a situation where they are enemies on three sides, and as long as they relax a little, they will be killed and annihilated. Under Nurhachi's leadership, the Jurchens basically recognized this reality, and they knew that if they could not defeat the Ming, Mongolia, and Korea, everything they now possessed would be wiped out.

The third is that the Jurchens have not encountered major defeats since they started their army, and when Nurhachi was alive, almost every battle must be gained. And the harvest after the war can be shared by basically every Jurchen. This also made the Jurchens happy to accept the errand of the expedition, because they were fighting for themselves.

However, the population of the Jurchens is less than one million, and it is divided into three divisions: the Jianzhou Jurchen, the Haixi Jurchen and the East China Sea Jurchen. The Jurchens of the East China Sea are distributed in the north of the Heilongjiang River and Sakhalin Island, and are sparsely populated and in the most primitive state of fishing and hunting.

Although they submitted to the Later Jin, they could only provide limited manpower and symbolic tribute, and some tribes even disdained the Later Jin's orders because they were far away from the Jianzhou Jurchens.

Although the Haixi Jurchen is adjacent to the Jianzhou Jurchen, there is a feud between the two, and Nurhachi annexed the Haixi Jurchen by force, but it does not mean that the two have been completely integrated.

It can be said that the Jin State established by Nurhachi is completely based on the Jianzhou Jurchens with a population of more than 300,000. The Jianzhou Jurchens suppressed the Jurchen tribes, the Jurchen clan suppressed the Mongols, and united the Mongols to suppress the Han Chinese, which was a pyramid-shaped power structure.

The foundation for maintaining this pyramid of power lies in the population of the Jianzhou Jurchens and the force at their disposal. As long as the population of the Jianzhou Jurchens decreases to a certain extent, or the force declines, the Houjin state established by Nurhachi will no longer exist.

Huang Taiji was very happy to see Yu Daishan fight Mang Gurtai, but he would not let Dai Shan win the favor of the Jurchen nobles here and increase his personal prestige.

Although the interests of the four Baylors are the same in joining forces to deal with the three Azig brothers, the four Baylors are also not monolithic within each other.

According to the legal theory, after excluding the inheritance of the three Azig brothers who were favored by Nurhachi, it should be the eldest Bel Daishan with the highest rank and the strongest strength to inherit the throne.

However, Daishan father and son are the representatives of the second most powerful Jurchen force after the three Azig brothers, and Daishan has followed Nurhachi to fight in the south and north since he was a child, and has made great contributions to the establishment of Houjin.

Huang Taiji and other Jurchen nobles were second only to the three Azig brothers in their fear of Dai Shan. And Daishan himself is greedy and lustful, not only coveting his son's property, but also not knowing his father's woman.

For example, the mother of the three Azig brothers, Concubine Abahai, the mother of Mang Gurtai, and the second Fujin Fucha clan of Nurhachi, the Fucha clan was abandoned by Nurhachi because of this.

What worries Huang Taiji and others the most is that after the eldest brother Chu Ying was abolished as Nurhachi's heir, Daishan was once regarded as his heir by Nurhachi.

But soon, Daishan's brothers united with some Jurchen nobles and reported to Nurhachi that Daishan had abused the children born to his ex-wife and favored his stepwife's young son, and abolished Daishan's status as the heir of the Jin Kingdom.

If Daishan is allowed to ascend to the throne of the Khan, Huang Taiji and others are also afraid of this Great Baylor, and they will retaliate against them after ascending the throne, and this Big Baylor does not lack the strength to retaliate.

Under the pull of Huang Taiji, Yue Tuo, the owner of the Red Flag Banner, realized that his father became the Great Khan of the Jin Kingdom, and he could not be the heir. On the contrary, the red flag in his name is likely to be taken away by his father and handed over to his half-brothers.

With the opposition of several brothers and Jurchen nobles, and the persuasion of his son Yue Tuo, Dai Shan finally gave up the idea of ascending to the throne of the Jin Khan.

Of the other three Beylers, the second Beyl Amin is the son of the Nurhachi brothers, and he was born to the position of the Great Khan.

And Sanbel Mang Gurtai's mother is Nurhachi's stepfamily, and he is also one of Nurhachi's sons-in-law, and he himself is brave and good at fighting, and is deeply respected by Jurchen soldiers.

Since Dai Shan has given up the throne, he naturally does not want a brother who is difficult to control to ascend to the throne of the Jin Kingdom. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to follow Yue Tuo's advice and choose to support Huang Taiji's ascension to the throne.

Huang Taiji is a magnanimous person and has always been very popular among the Jurchen aristocracy. And Huang Taiji's mother, Meng Gu Zhezhe, is just Nurhachi's concubine, although Huang Taiji's talent is good, but he has not won Nurhachi's trust, and the number of cattle given is not much.

Dai Shan believes that Huang Taiji is the weakest among the four major Baylors, and after supporting him to come to power, he must rely on himself to rule the Jin State, so although he does not get the name of the Great Khan, he can also get the power of the Great Khan, and he does not have to worry that this brother will threaten him.

Dai Shan's guess was right at the beginning, but not at the end. He pushed Huang Taiji to the throne of Khan on the grounds of "talent and virtue crown the world, and succeed to the throne as soon as possible". But this weak younger brother really has the ability to "crown the world with talent".

Less than two years after his ascension to the throne, Huang Taiji had completely stepped out of the shadow of his father's rule and began to build his own power base.