The Houjin State under the rule of Huang Taiji, after the defeat of Dongjiang Town in September last year, went through some internal tilting and adjustment, and finally completed the new distribution of benefits in December. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although the overall strength of Houjin has suffered losses and the external situation has deteriorated, Huang Taiji's own strength has not suffered any loss, and it has been further consolidated and strengthened.

However, the losses of the red flag and the blue flag in the Eastern Crusade also need to be made up, which is also the first problem that Huang Taiji needs to face after completing the internal adjustment.

Because whether it is Zilharang taking over Amin's blue flag, or Yuetuo taking over Azig's red flag, it is not in accordance with the rules set by the old slave Nuer Hachi.

Huang Taiji, together with Dai Shan and others, insisted on putting Ji'er Harang and Yue Tuo, who were loyal to him, to the position of banner master, although the other princes of Baylor did not dare to say anything, but the disbelief in their hearts was definitely there.

Including the Maile Ezhen, Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen under the blue flag and the red flag, they all need to be appeased by benefits, otherwise, the new Red Flag Banner Lord Yue Tuo and the new Blue Flag Banner Lord Jierharang will not be able to sit firmly in the position of the flag owner below the buttocks.

Therefore, in the first month of the second year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, when Emperor Chongzhen sat in the Forbidden City in Beijing, discussing with several military ministers how to deal with the chaos in the northwest and how to reduce the resistance to opening the sea, Huang Taiji was in the Dugong Hall of the Khan Palace in Shenyang, and he was also convening the banner lord of the Houjin State, Beile, and the ministers of the Chenban to discuss the next move of the Houjin State.

The cold wind outside the Dugong Hall roared, dripping water into ice, the Dugong Hall was full of people, and the atmosphere was depressing.

Huang Taiji, who was twenty years older than Emperor Chongzhen, was still tall and fat, but compared with his previous complacent and flying expression, he was now sitting on the throne, his face was haggard, and his face was as heavy as water.

Huang Taiji, who is middle-aged, was heroic and extraordinary when he was a teenager, and followed the old slave Nuer Hachi to fight in the east and west, and fought in the north and south, not only experienced in war, but also very strong, but since inheriting the old slave's sweat position, it has only been a little more than three years, and the body has begun to decline.

On the one hand, it is true that he inherited the sweat position and fulfilled his wish for many years, but under the arrogance and lust of the past few years, his body began to deteriorate.

On the other hand, after a person reaches middle age, his body begins to flourish and decline, and the injuries accumulated in the southern and northern wars in his youth also make him feel more and more lacking in energy.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Huang Taiji racked his brains, worked hard, and worked hard to get tired after becoming the Great Khan of the Later Jin Kingdom.

Seeing that the Baylor ministers who should come were already seated, Huang Taiji coughed lightly a few times, and then said to the Baylor ministers who were sitting or standing in the Dugong Palace: "Winter goes to spring, everything is tentative. My Jurchen Eight Banner soldiers are happy to move but do not like to be quiet, and they have been dormant for a long time, and the warriors will not have the opportunity to be rewarded for meritorious service, and the treasury of my Dajin will not be seized and replenished, and even the home of the banner lord Baylor will hardly have the income of people and livestock.

"There are some people who have recently come to me with the two white flags of Dorgon and Dordor and want to get a share of it. I only have one sentence here, the income of the two white flags is the result of the two white flags, and it does not belong to me, nor does it belong to the other four banners, which is also the rule set by my Dajin since the founding of the first Khan.

"The Han people have a saying, called Linyuan Envy Fish, it is better to retreat and close the net. Now that winter is going to spring, it is time for the banner lords to learn from Dorgon and Duoduo and open up some financial resources for the children of their banners. ”

After Huang Taiji said this, he coughed again, took the ginseng tea handed by the attendant, drank a few sips, and then said: "There was no rain all year last year, the grain harvest in the banners was poor, and the Han people continued to flee, and the life of the banners was difficult. Although I was willing to make up for it, the Korean tribute road was cut off, and the Mongol tribes also had to receive help, and because the Karaqin tribe blocked trade, there was no surplus money and grain in the public treasury.

"Today, I summoned all the banner lords and ministers to gather in the Dugong Hall to discuss how to reverse this situation and enable my Eight Banners to survive this spring famine."

In order to deal with Amin, Huang Taiji did not hesitate to restore the old system of the eight kings for a while, after that, it was not a big deal, and it was easy not to summon all the ministers of the banner lord Belle Chenban to the Dugong Palace to discuss collectively, because everything was appealed to the common discussion, which was really detrimental to the authority of the Great Khan.

At this point, Huang Taiji is still very new to those Han talents.

After saying these words in one breath, Huang Taiji blushed and coughed thickly, and the attendants standing next to him hurriedly handed over a bowl of ginseng soup again.

In the first month of the second year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, it was also the first month of the third year of the Later Jin Tiancong, Huang Taiji felt the difficulties of the New Year for the first time, and felt all the difficulties of being the Great Khan of the Later Jin Kingdom.

Although the Joseon Dynasty did not explicitly sever the relationship of tribute to the Later Jin Dynasty, because the road was cut off by Donggang Town, the original tribute items such as gold, silver, grain, silk, and cloth were naturally cut off.

At the same time, the rewards of the Khalkha tribes in Mobei and the Eastern Mongolian tribes attached to the west of Houjin were not only indispensable, but also because the Eastern Mongolian tribes headed by Horqin suffered huge losses in the September war, they must also increase their rewards and support, otherwise there will be the possibility of centrifugation.

In addition to these, the princes and belles of the Eight Banners within themselves, as well as the leaders of the Jurchen Eight Banners at all levels and the guards who have never been in production, also need a certain amount of money and food rewards.

Where does all this money come from?

There are no gold and silver mines in the Houjin Kingdom, and Liaodong, which only harvests one season of grain at most a year, does not have a large number of high-yield farmland, nor does it have similar factories and mines like the smoke of the Jinggi land of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, it could not produce the necessary tea, nor did it produce large quantities of cotton cloth, let alone silk.

It can be said that the financial foundation of the Houjin State is more singular and more fragile than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the financial problems that plagued Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty have actually been tormenting the Tiancong Khan of the Later Jin State.

So, what does the finances of the post-Jin country rely on?

To put it bluntly, the most important source of finance for the Houjin State is looting.

The first was to rob other Jurchen tribes around the city of Hetuala, robbing people, livestock, slaves, everything.

After robbing it all over again, these tribes were attached, and of course they couldn't be robbed again. So, what to do after that?

The method was to take the attached Jurchen tribe to rob the Ming Dynasty, successively robbing Fushun, Tieling, Liaoyang, and Shenyang, until the end, they had to stop in front of the Ningjin defense line.

Then he went to rob the Mongols, to rob the population, cattle and other wealth of the Chahar Lindan Khan, until the Chahar tribe had to move westward in a big way, and at the same time, the Eastern Mongolian tribes also followed Horqin to join the Houjin.

After the Eastern Mongolian tribes were annexed, not only could they not rob it, but at the turn of winter and spring, when the grassland was the most difficult, the Houjin State had to send a lot of money and grain to relieve these Mongolian tribes.

So after that, what will happen to the finances of the Houjin Kingdom?

This is also an important problem that Huang Taiji faced after he ascended the throne, and the answer he gave was to rob North Korea.

The robbery of North Korea can be described as killing three birds with one stone, one is to solve the financial problem, the second is to cut off the Ming Dynasty's help, and the third is to strike at Dongjiang Town and consolidate the back road of Jianjiao.

From the old slave Tianming Khan to the current Huangtai Ji Tiancong Khan, an important way for the Houjin to solve the financial crisis is to fight and plunder.