Six hundred and fifteen dogs and wolves
The contradiction between Nurhachi and the Jurchen tribes is still very large, and the battle in which his father and grandfather died earlier was the Ming intervention war caused by the internal contradictions of the Jurchens, and Li Chengliang was the absolute master in that war.
Nurhachi lost his father and ancestors at a young age, and it is impossible to say that there is no hatred in his heart, but it is difficult to say how much this hatred is in the Ming army and Li Chengliang, but compared with the nomadic fishing and hunting peoples around the Han nation, the love between father and son and mother and daughter must be deeper than that of the Han nation.
There are many factors in the cultural heritage and the social environment.
However, the nomadic and fishing and hunting peoples themselves have a low level of civilization, and they do not attach as much importance to the education of their descendants as the Han people, there is no relevant social environment, and even there have always been the customs of the noble and the old, so it is difficult to explain how much affection there is between these families.
Anyway, it's definitely not as important as your own life.
Nurhachi still hated the other Jurchen tribes who started the rebellion that killed his grandfather and father, and he had already succeeded in killing his enemies before, and after that war, he made new enemies.
There were more and more enemies, and his strength became more and more large, and soon, his ambition appeared, and swelled, eager for greater benefits, as for avenging his father was just a ridiculous pretense, Nurhachi estimated that he did not believe it.
His behavior pattern is completely interest-oriented, and the relationship with the surrounding Jurchen tribes is also very poor, everyone is hostile to each other, sometimes attacking each other, sometimes cooperating with each other, and changing to a higher level of struggle, and Nurhachi, who has deeply accepted the influence of Han culture, is undoubtedly a high-level position, and other Jurchen savages in the deep mountains and old forests are low-level players.
While other impoverished tribes were still using bone, leather and wooden sticks as weapons, his small tribe had already begun to use iron weapons, and he used iron weapons to burn, kill, loot and grow all the way.
The history of the Ming Dynasty of Qing Renxiu summarizes Nurhachi's development as "thirteen pairs of armor at the beginning, and the equipment is all dependent on robbery", but Nurhachi himself should know very well how much of his first victory was due to Li Chengliang's efforts, and how much of his iron equipment was secretly funded by Li Chengliang.
So even now, he knows very well that his strength is in the middle among the major Jurchen tribes, but he is definitely not the strongest one, and there are stronger than him, just that he has a better situation, better material sources and better reliance.
Li Chengliang needs a dog to stabilize the situation in Liaodong and balance the forces of all parties, he needs this dog to be a Jurchen, but obedient, Nurhachi is that dog.
Of course, the dog is not satisfied with the master's arrogance, but if the dog escapes the protection of the owner or even bites back before it grows strong enough to transform into a wolf, will he survive if the angry owner instructs the other wild dogs to attack and bite him angrily?
It's hard to say, it's really hard to say, at this time, Nurhachi is far from being able to compete with Li Chengliang or even force Li Chengliang to compromise, or it should be said that this year, the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, should have been a turning point in Nurhachi's fate.
Because this year should have been the year of Li Rusong's death.
Li Rusong's death was an opportunity for Nurhachi to get out of the cage and start to really develop his own power, and Li Chengliang was not in Liaodong at that time, Li Rumei and Li Rubai had no ability to provoke Liaodong's Liang, so they could only let Li Chengliang suppress Liao for the second time three years after Li Rusong's death.
But at that time, Li Chengliang was already seventy-six years old, and it was difficult to excite himself in the twilight, and Nurhachi's road to unifying the Jurchens had already been opened.
The Li family raised Nurhachi because they wanted to raise dogs, and with a dog-beating stick in their hands, they originally had a way to control Nurhachi, but God did not fulfill people's wishes, and there are always so many unforeseen things in the world.
When Li Chengliang realized that it would be too late if he didn't beat the dog anymore, he pinched the dog stick and took a look, drinking, the dog had become a wolf, and he dared to talk about conditions with his teeth and mouth.
The Li family's control of the Jurchens has always been to defeat the strongest and let the next continue to have internal friction, see who has the momentum of rising, kill whom, and continue to balance, Wang Gao was killed in this way, this is the historical background of Nurhachi's loss of his father and ancestor, thinking about it, fate is really strange and ironic.
It's just that now, the appearance and change of a person has caused unpredictable variables on Nurhachi's road to take-off, Nurhachi was dragged in the quagmire of war and unable to develop, and the two upgrade processes were interrupted, which made Nurhachi feel depressed and unhappy, and wanted to pick on his son several times, but he didn't dare to bear the consequences of doing so.
Li Rusong didn't dare to provoke, not to mention that there was a stronger Xiao Ruxun behind Li Rusong, if he didn't do it now, he would probably be killed in an instant, right?
He had no choice but to keep going.
He didn't know that Xiao Ruxun had treated him as a mortal enemy from the beginning, and if he knew, he would have been deeply honored, and then he was scared out of the heart attack.
You, a four-sided governor with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and a great governor who controls one-half of the strength of the nine-sided important towns of the Ming Empire, actually have hostile and murderous intent towards me, a small chief of a barbarian tribe with tens of thousands of soldiers, how can I live? I didn't betray Daming!
Now he doesn't know what he will do to Daming in the future, and he doesn't know what his six-year-old son Huang Taiji will do to Daming, let alone what his unborn son Dolgon will do to Daming and the entire Han nation.
And Xiao Ruxun remembers all this clearly, even if it has gradually been localized, but these things, Xiao Ruxun remembers every detail clearly, he knows that at present, he can't do anything directly to Nurhachi, he can only use this indirect means to contain Nurhachi, but if you want to really eliminate his threat, you have to use direct means.
Naturally, as long as Li Rusong is still there, Nurhachi will not be able to jump, because Li Rusong can not only fight dogs, but also wolves, and even dare to kill tigers, Li Rusong is too strong.
As long as Li Rusong does not die, Nurhachi will not be able to jump, and as long as Li Rusong is still guarding Liaodong, Nurhachi will always be a dog, and he will not even have a chance to be a wolf.
Of course, it's better for this guy to die.
Xiao Ruxun has never relaxed his vigilance and observation of Nurhachi, and after a long period of observation, he realized that Nurhachi's success is definitely not accidental, and Nurhachi's own efforts and tenacity of character are part of the main factors of his success.