Kurt, Xifu and Dahai are among the more famous Zhiming factions among the Jianyu.

To say that they are intellectuals does not mean that they are pro-Ming, because it is impossible.

To say that they are the Zhiming faction is just to say that compared with the ministers of the banner lord Baylor in the Jianyu, they are rare people who read through the Han books and are resourceful and outstanding among the high-level leaders of the Jianyu.

These people still have a relatively good understanding of the rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty and the human, material, financial and national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, they attached more importance to the Ming Dynasty, and among the high-level Jianyu who generally despised and despised the Ming Dynasty, they belonged to the group of people who were cautious about the Ming Dynasty.

After the establishment of the Jin State, it was completely different from Korea.

Among the high-level leaders, there has never been a pro-Ming faction.

Including people like Kurthorn, who once advocated the promotion of sinicization after Huang Taiji's accession to the throne, regarded the conquest of the Ming Dynasty as their lifelong wish.

Of course, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there will be factions.

If there are different factions in the upper echelons of the Jianyu, then they can also be roughly divided into the moderate conservative faction and the insatiable enterprising faction.

The meaning of the Shoucheng faction is to be satisfied with the territory outside the current Dajin State Pass, at most add Mongolia and Korea, and then share the world with the Great Wall with the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, in the Jin Kingdom after the Jianyu, most of the magnates of the Eight Banners had this idea, and among them, people like Dai Shan should be the most typical.

These people advocated sticking to the customs and traditions of the Jurchen people, liking the slavery of the Jurchen people, opposing sinicization, and opposing the recruitment of Han scholars as officials through the imperial examination, and so on.

The insatiable greed of the enterprising faction means to conquer Korea, conquer Mongolia, and then continue to cross the Great Wall to conquer the Ming Dynasty and occupy the entire world of the present-day Ming Dynasty.

This kind of thinking is more common among the young children of the Eight Banners nobles, that is, among the young Zhuang faction of the Eight Banners nobles.

The reason for this situation is actually a question of the difference between vested and unearned interest groups.

People like Dai Shan, as well as people like Amin in history, as well as Mang Gurtai and so on, who became the banner lord Baylor very early, all belong to vested interests.

After the establishment of the Houjin State, many benefits were shared by these people.

Nuer Hachi had sixteen sons, and with the old ministers who fought the world earlier with him, they basically divided everything that should be shared.

When his sons gave birth to hundreds of grandchildren, and the children and grandchildren of the old ministers who fought with him grew up, they also wanted to make contributions and obtain a higher rank and status.

However, the territory of the Houjin Kingdom is so big, and there are so many interests, and if they do not expand externally, these young people have no way out.

After all, there are only eight flags, and Dai Shanjia and Huang Taiji each have two flags.

As for the rest of the benefits, Nuer Hachi's own sons alone are not enough, where do the other young Eight Banners disciples have a share?!

Therefore, he had to advocate continuing to conquer foreign countries, and for a family like Huang Taiji, only in this way could the contradictions in the country of Houjin be diverted.

And for the energetic young Eight Banners disciples, only in this way can they get ahead and establish meritorious deeds.

Historically, in the last years of Chongzhen, the stars fell on the Ming side, and the green and yellow were not connected, while the Manchu side was a fierce general, emerging endlessly, and there was this factor in it.

And among all these people, the biggest contrast is actually those who are wise in Jianyu, such as Xifu, Dahai, Kurtang, and so on.

These people, from all aspects, drew nourishment from the Ming Dynasty's rules and regulations, imitated the official positions of the Ming Dynasty, imitated the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, familiarized themselves with the classics of the Han people, and then used them to formulate various state systems for the Jurchens, and built the Later Jin Kingdom from a semi-primitive tribe that believed in shamanism into a very powerful country with centralized autocracy.

However, it was these so-called Zhiming factions who stole from the Ming Dynasty to learn their art that were also the most determined force in the Ming Dynasty.

It was on the one hand that Huang Taiji reused these Zhiming factions, and on the other hand, he reused the Shaozhuang faction in the Eight Banners aristocracy that finally achieved the hegemony of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains.

Of course, among the Zhiming faction of the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity, there is still a group of the most hateful people.

That is Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan, and the traitor literati who later took refuge in Jianyu one after another.

These people's determination to destroy the Ming Dynasty was greater than that of all the Jianyu Jurchens, and their confidence was also greater than that of those Jianyu Jurchens.

If it weren't for the instigation and agitation of these traitor groups behind their backs, the Jianyu Zhiming faction thinkers who took the idea for the nobles of the Eight Banners of Jianyu, including Huang Taiji and later Dolgon, would not have dared to make up their minds to push this small Houjin state to attack the Ming Dynasty on a large scale.

Let's say that Kurtang stood up and said something to Huang Taiji to be cautious, and Xifu and Dahai also stood up to endorse Kurtang.

These intellectuals stood up at this time to admonish Huang Taiji, but they just hoped that Huang Taiji would not be hot-headed on the issue of conquering the Ming Dynasty.

In the general direction, they still firmly support Huang Taiji, otherwise they would not be able to sit in their current position.

Because if it is said that there is really a Zhiming faction among the Jianyu Jurchens, Huang Taiji, who is now the Tiancong Khan or Tiancong Emperor of the Later Jin State, must be counted as one.

Of course, Huang Taiji also thought about the situation that Kurtang and others said, but he believed that with his understanding of the Ming Dynasty, the reaction of the Ming monarchs and ministers would not be so fast.

In the spring of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, when he led his army to the east to conquer Korea, he first defeated Donggang Town, and then drove straight into Korea, forcing the Korean monarchs and ministers to pay tribute.

It lasted for three or four months, but not only did the Ming court not react, but even the Ming army of Liaodong Town, which was at odds with Dongjiang Town and North Korea, and the Ming army of Denglai Town, did not react.

Similarly, in the summer of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, when he finished fighting North Korea, and then turned back to fight the Ningjin defense line, he first broke through Guangning, then broke the Daling River, and then attacked Jinzhou and Ningyuan for several months, while Dongjiang Town did not move.

Then, in the autumn of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, when he withdrew his troops with heavy losses in front of the Ningjin defense line, the Ming army behind the Ningjin defense line did not dare to go out of the city to pursue at all, and quickly dismissed Yuan Chonghuan, who insisted on resisting, afterwards.

Then, after Huang Taiji withdrew his troops, he went to attack Lin Dan Khan in the Chahar Department after a short rest, whether it was the Ming court in Beijing or the Ming army behind the Ningjin defense line in Liaodong, he still stood by and ignored his former ally Lin Dan Khan, looking like he was sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

Even the "Northern Expedition" at the beginning of this year went smoothly beyond imagination, and both the Ming army in Dongjiang Town and the Ming army in Liaodong Town were all indifferent, sitting back and watching the overall situation of Jianyu move north, and did not even launch a harassing and containment attack.

All of this made Huang Taiji believe that as long as he reached a non-aggression clause with the Ming monarchs and ministers who liked to talk about hypocrisy, there was no need to even reach any terms, and he only needed to always maintain the situation of peace talks, and with the pedantry of the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers, he would not let himself down this time.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji was just about to speak, but suddenly heard Bel Abatai, who had spoken out against the proposal before, speak:

"Great Khan, don't listen to a nerd like Kurtang! At that time, the southern barbarians' Liaodong passed through Yang Hao, led more than 100,000 troops, and attacked my Dajin in four ways, and the situation was not more sinister than now?

"But what was the result? Speaking of which, it is still the first Khan's sentence that is the most useful, no matter how many ways you come, I will only go all the way! ”

After Abatai finished speaking, Shuoto also hurriedly said: "Great Khan, Uncle Seven is right! Although the Ming Kingdom is large, its response is slow.

"Now the Great Khan is disrupting his court with the strategy of peace, and when the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom react, the iron cavalry of my Dajin Eight Banners has broken through the barrier!

"At that time, it should be them who will transfer troops from Liaodong back to their Beijing division, instead of attacking my Dajin!"

As soon as Shuoto's words fell, Sakhalian followed suit:

"The two Baylors were right! At that time, even if the Ming Dynasty reacted and ordered the Ming army of Dongjiang Town to attack our hinterland, our Dajin Kingdom now still has tens of thousands of troops such as the white flag, the inlaid white flag, the inlaid blue flag and the Ula Ministry Beyleb Zhantai, Chen Bing Yalu River, Doumanjiang line, is this tens of thousands of troops just puppet clay sculptures? !

"Mao Wenlong and Liu Xingzuo may be able to hold on to the city, but when it comes to going out of the city to fight in the field, where is the opponent of my Eight Banners warriors! Please Khan make up your mind! ”