"The children of the Southern Dynasty simply don't know the height of the sky, and the wastes of the Southern Dynasty who have been defeated many times dare to shout that they want to fight with my Dajin endlessly?"

"I should wait until after the spring ploughing, gather all the soldiers and horses, and then go back to the Southern Dynasty..."

Huang Taiji and the other three Baylors sat south above the Great Palace, listening to the indignant cries of the Jurchen nobles below.

Since Dai Shan brought back the reply of the Ming envoy, the Jurchen nobles at the court meeting began to denounce the Ming Emperor with great emotion.

During the Nurhachi era, there were only Jurchens in the Later Jin court, and then Han generals and Mongol tribal leaders who returned to the court were added, but there was no position of civil officials in the court.

In the last years of Nurhachi's life, it was more like a mental problem. Not only did he abandon the old policy of giving preferential treatment to the Han people, but he also formulated the absurd policy of killing the Han people and raising Manchuria.

What Nurhachi hated the most was the Han Chinese who read books. Therefore, he ordered, "If you find out the gentry and put them to death, you will be punished for all kinds of hatefulness, and you will be punished for all the people who are in office." ”

And in the Later Jin, the Han officials were subordinate to the Manchurian ministers, and their own horses could not be ridden, their own livestock could not be used, and their own fields could not be cultivated; The official died of illness, and his wife was to be enslaved by the Baylor family.

But those military generals and gentry who only felt that their treatment was too low in the Ming Dynasty and wantonly bullied the people were honored to be slaves for the Jurchens. For example, he betrayed Wang Huazhen and offered Guangning's guerrilla Sun Degong to Houjin, and was abused by Nurhachi in his later years, but he was still loyal to Houjin.

Although Huang Taiji changed his father's policy of massacring the Han people after inheriting the throne, he said that "the people of the Manchu and Han are all one", and organized a large number of Han slaves into civilian households, which were managed by Han officials. The "Alienation Ordinance" was promulgated, prohibiting the Manchurian aristocracy from killing slaves indiscriminately.

But after all, Nurhachi had just died less than two years ago, and Huang Taiji's prestige and power did not override the Jurchen Zhubeile, and the Han official power in the Later Jin Dynasty had just begun to sprout, which was not enough to contain the power of the Jurchen banners.

Therefore, when the court meeting was deliberating, it was mainly the Jurchen nobles who held the power of speech. When the Jurchen nobles denounced the Ming Kingdom, Li Yongfang and other Han generals were silent, lest they would be regarded by these Jurchen nobles as having their homeland in their hearts, and finally be liquidated on the spot by these female Allah.

The Mongol tribal leaders who stood behind the Jurchen ministers and were subservient to the Later Jin were also silent, and did not speak out in support of the Jurchen nobles' clamor for fighting the Ming Kingdom.

The Horqin tribe, which was more like an ally with the Houjin, did not participate in the meeting, and at the meeting were the five Inner Khalkha tribes of Mongolia that had just submitted to the Houjin, that is, the two Otoks of Naiman and Ao Han of the Chahar tribe.

The Nekhalkha 5th Division was surrendered by the Houjin, and the population suffered great losses. They now prefer to be able to recuperate and restore the population of their tribe rather than go to war with the Ming Kingdom.

Although Naiman and Ao Han took the initiative to submit to the Later Jin, they were more trusted by the Later Jin than the Fifth Inner Khalkha Division. However, the war between the Mongols and the Ming had been going on for hundreds of years, and the Mongols had never gained much from the war, but it was the peacetime trade that brought many benefits to the Mongols.

What's more, these Mongol tribes were more worried about the opportunity for the Later Jin to continue to wage war with the Ming State, which would consume the population and strength of the Mongol tribes, so they most hoped that the Later Jin would restore peaceful relations with the Ming State.

While the Jurchen nobles below were arguing, the four great Baylors sitting in the hall were surprisingly calm. Except that Mang Gurtai's face was full of indignation, as if it was instigated by the words of these Jurchen nobles.

The other three Belle kept thinking about the pros and cons, since Nurhachi created the Eight Banners system of military, government and civilian integration, the small tribes within the original Jurchen tribe gradually lost their independence, and the vendetta between the tribes was also contained.

The power of the leaders of the Jurchen tribes was also transferred to the Eight Banners. In the hands of Nurhachi, the Later Jin evolved from the slave tribal system to the slave republic, and all the state affairs of the Later Jin were discussed by the Eight Banners.

As the founder of the Eight Banners system, Nurhachi enjoys absolute authority over the owners of the Eight Banners, which makes the Eight Banners system take on some feudal centralized nature.

In the post-Jin state, the power of each Baylor was linked to the power of the Eight Banners controlled by him. During Nurhachi's lifetime, he himself received the Yellow Banner (45 Ox Records) and the Yellow Banner (20 Ox Records);

Huang Taiji has a positive white flag (25 Niu Lu); Du Du, the son of Zhu Ying, received a white flag (15 Niu Lu);

Dai Shan received a positive red flag (25 Niu Lu); Daishan's eldest son, Yue Tuo, received a red flag (26 Niu Lu);

Mang Gurtai has a positive blue flag (21 Niu Lu); Amin had a blue flag (33 bulls).

It was precisely because the Eight Banners Niulu under Nurhachi's command had an overwhelming advantage over any Baylor, so when Nurhachi was alive, the Jurchen nobles in the Eight Banners could not set off any action against him.

For example, Nurhachi's brother Shuerhaqi, who was once the second person in the Houjin Kingdom. After splitting with Nurhachi, he was unable to pull away his own tribe, which is the best proof that the Eight Banners system controls the clan leaders.

In his later years, Nurhachi bestowed most of the two yellow banners on his three younger sons of the same mother, Azig, Dolgon, and Dordor, and gave each of them 15 Niulu, and the rest as his own pro-army.

He also made it clear to his subordinates: Azig is the owner of the Yellow Banner, Duoduo leads the Yellow Banner, and in the future, after his death, all the commander's pro-army will be given to Duoduo, but another flag will be given to Dorgon.

Nurhachi's behavior made the Eight Banners of Niulu under the names of Azig, Dolgon, and Duoduo surpass the other brothers combined. And after the three brothers occupied more than three banners, the Great Khan of Later Jin was obviously helpless with the other brothers.

Under this form, Nurhachi's other sons could only unite. When Nurhachi died, Azig was 22 years old, Dorgon was 15 years old, and Dordor was 14 years old, not yet able to deal with the wolf and tiger elder brothers.

And after Huang Taiji contacted other Baylors and forced the eldest concubine Abahai to be martyred, he also cut off Abahai from uniting the most powerful force of the Eight Banners in the name of his three sons.

Before he died, Nurhachi transferred Dudu, the owner of the White Flag, to the Red Flag, and prepared to give it to Dolgon. However, after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he took the opportunity to seize the inlaid white flag, with his eldest son Haoge as the banner owner.

However, Dolgon eventually kept the 15 Bulls he had received and attached them to the Zhenghuang banner of his eldest brother Azig. Huang Taiji changed the positive yellow flag and the inlaid yellow flag to the inlaid white flag and the positive white flag, and the two white flags he led were changed to two yellow flags, thus establishing his leading position in the eight banners.

However, Azig collared with white flags, Duoduo collared with white flags, and Nurhachi's pro-army became the two strongest of the eight banners.

Next are the two red flags led by Dai Shan's father and son, followed by the two blue flags, and finally the two yellow flags of Huang Taiji.

For Daishan, Amin, and Mang Gultai, letting the weakest Huang Taiji take over as the Great Khan will not threaten his position. They even want to continue to weaken the two white flags and divide up the legacy left by Nurhachi.

But Huang Taiji, who took the lead in forcing the death of the eldest concubine Abahai, showed the foresight of a politician. He knew that he had formed a grudge with the three Azig brothers, but he did not allow the other three Belles to continue to fight and weaken the power of the two white flags.

Huang Taiji's actions quickly stabilized the political situation of the Jin State after Nurhachi's death, bridged the rift between the Later Jin and the struggle for the Khan throne, and also formed a relative balance of political forces in the court.

Although Huang Taiji has hatred for the three Azig brothers for killing their mother and seizing the throne, in the current post-Jin country, only this enemy can protect the lives and property of the three brothers. This has to be said to be a great irony.

In the same way, after gaining the support of the two white flags with the strongest troops, the other three Baylors had to show their respect for Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji's status began to be higher than that of the other three Baylors, and he was no longer the nominal Great Khan when he first ascended the throne.

Late last year, Mr. Huang forced the other three to agree to some changes to the Eight Banners system.

For example, in each of the eight banners, there is a minister in charge, who is in charge of all the affairs in the banner, and sits and discusses with Zhubeile when discussing politics.

Under the Governor-General, there are two assistant ministers in each banner, who are responsible for advising on state affairs, adjudicating prison lawsuits, and not ordering troops to be stationed.

Each flag has two more dispatch ministers, who send troops to garrison, and dispatch them in time, and the lawsuits are still heard.

These reform policies weakened the ability of Baylor, the owner of the Eight Banners, to control his own banner, changed the military system of the Eight Banners tribe to the army of the feudal state, and greatly improved the Khan's ability to influence the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

However, Huang Taiji knew very well that all his reforms to the Eight Banners system were based on the threat of enemies on three sides of the Jin State.

In order to allow the Jin Kingdom to survive, these Jurchen nobles and Eight Banner Banner Masters were willing to give up some of their power and give up their original way of life.

Once the Jin Kingdom loses its external enemies, then with the obscurantist and aggressive nature of the Jurchen nobles, they will soon target their hostility within the Jurchens, even on themselves.

He also knew very well that within the Jin Kingdom, except for himself and those Han Chinese, no one would think that the Jin Kingdom defeated the Ming Dynasty and entered the Central Plains.

Whether it was the Mongols or the Jurchens, all they wanted was to subdue the Southern Dynasty and force the Southern Dynasty to recognize the existence of the Jin State and trade with the Jin State.

But Huang Taiji sneered at these people, although he was a Jurchen, but he received a complete Han education since he was a child. His teacher was the number one military advisor around his father Khan, and he was also the first contributor to assisting his father Khan in planning the strategy of unifying the Jurchen tribes.

* Lu is a native of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Xi Wen failed, so he changed his career to become a businessman, east, west, north and south, wandering everywhere, the business is not very good, but he has a lot of experience, Shinong industry and commerce three teachings and nine streams, he knows everything.

When he was doing business in Liaodong, he was taken captive by Nurhachi's maternal grandfather Wang Gao and became a settler by Wang Gao's side.

is such a scholar who can't learn literature and has a mediocre business, and has become Nurhachi's enlightenment. He taught Nurhachi the military principles he had read in his books, and he grew from a barbarian leader to a cunning alien military leader.

Nurhachi not only learned the culture of these Han people by himself, but also sent the children of the Jurchen nobles and his own sons and nephews to study under him, such as Daishan, Tanggu, Abai, Mang Gurtai, Abatai, Tabai, Huangtaiji, etc.

If it is said that at the beginning, * Lu was just to be able to test whether what he had learned in his life was useful. Then, as Nurhachi's power grew, his ambitions for the Ming Kingdom were finally revealed.

* Lu obviously didn't expect that the barbarian students he taught would actually target their homeland. He wanted to escape back to the Central Plains through North Korea.

But his actions were eventually known to Nurhachi, who did not hesitate to execute the Han man, who had been a division commander and friend. And from then on, the scholars among the Han people were regarded as unreliable spies.