Philosophy is philosophy, and there is no such thing as a 'scientific' philosophy as described by logical positivism and empiricism. The human mind seeks knowledge through philosophy or theology precisely because it wants to explain problems that the natural sciences cannot explain. Philosophy deals with things that go beyond the natural sciences.

- Ludwig von Mises (a famous economist of the 20th century, a brilliant liberal thinker)

The Jurchen tribes are mainly divided into three major ethnic groups, namely the Jianzhou Jurchens, the Haixi Jurchens, and the East China Sea Jurchens; among them, the Jianzhou Jurchens, who have the strongest overall strength, are not only the tribe of the Jurchen Khan Nurhachi, but also the tribe with the most serious internal divisions.

Within the Jianzhou Jurchens, they were divided into relatively large tribes such as the Sukesu River Protector Division, the Hunhe Division, the Dong'e Division, the Zhechen Division, the Nayin Division, and the Zhusheli Division.

For example, the Sukesu River Moat has small tribes such as Tulun, Sarhu, Jiamuhu, Zhanhe, and Antu Guerjia, while the Hunhe tribe includes Hangjia, Dongjia, Zakumu, Zhaojia, Barda, Beihuan and other small tribes, and their seemingly powerful strength is actually extremely scattered.

Nurhachi's Aixin Jueluo family was originally just a king family of Jianzhou Jurchens, but with the birth of a generation of heroes Nurhachi, the once weak Aixin Jueluo family has become the most powerful family in Jianzhou Jurchen!

Of course, Nurhachi's sphere of influence is still limited to the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the Haixi Jurchens and the East China Sea Jurchens, which are quite far away from the Jianzhou Jurchens, are still independent Jurchen forces; moreover, the strength of the Haixi Jurchens and the East China Sea Jurchens is no weaker than the unified Jianzhou Jurchens on the surface.

The Haixi Jurchens and the East China Sea Jurchens who did not participate in the southern invasion, the former was composed of the four major tribes of Hada, Huifa, Wula, and Yehe, and the latter was composed of the three major tribes of Woji, Varka, and Kurkha, and the number of tribes and cavalry was less than that of the Bujianzhou Jurchens.

It's just that the infighting between the four Jurchen tribes in Haixi and the chaos between the three Jurchen tribes in the East China Sea is far more serious than that of the Jianzhou Jurchens with a common leader.

Nurhachi, who completed the great cause of the unification of the Jurchens in Jianzhou in only 12 years, has far more ambitions than ordinary Jurchen tribal leaders, and the elite of the Eight Banners gathered under his command is the most powerful support and confidence for him to unify the Jurchen tribes!

Among the 160,000 elite cavalry of the reorganized banners, two of the upper three banners, which were most loyal to Nurhachi, were commanded by his powerful sons;

Of all the Belles, Taijis, and chieftains of the Jianzhou Jurchens, Nurhachi was undoubtedly most trusted by his sons and the five ministers who had followed him since childhood, and according to his idea, the lords of the Eight Banners and Gushan Ezhen should be held by these loyal people.

However, the other powerful Baylors of the Jianzhou Jurchens would not agree to this arrangement, so he handed over the yellow flag and the positive red flag to his second brother Shuerhaqi and third brother Murhachi;

Take Nurhachi's second brother Shulhaqi as an example: when Nurhachi lost his mother at the age of ten, Shulhaqi was only five years old; after Nurhachi launched the war of reunification, Shulhaqi followed his eldest brother as a deputy, fought everywhere, and made many military exploits, and the two supported each other and got along harmoniously.

However, as the two brothers continued to grow in strength, rifts gradually appeared between the brothers, and various contradictions pushed the brothers who had been close to each other into two sides of each other, until Shulhaqi finally left Nurhachi with his tribe.

Shulhazi was not the only important minister who once followed Nurhachi and later left Nurhachi, but the most far-reaching influence was the departure of Shulhaqi and Mulhachi's two younger brothers;

Compared with the yellow and red flags that do not match the face, the red flag inlaid by the leader of the Sukesu River Moat, the red flag held by Urgudaibel, the leader of the Hunhe River Tribe, the white flag held by the leader of the Hunhe tribe, and the white flag held by the leader of the Dong'e tribe, Suba Haibel, are the troubles of Nurhachi's henchmen.

Eight banners composed of 160,000 elite cavalry, each banner in addition to the banner owner Baylor, who is in charge of the banner, also has a Gushan Ezhen who is responsible for handling the daily affairs of the banner; if the flag owner is the master of the banner, then Gushan Ezhen is the standing commander of the banner.

Although the banners of the Lower Five Banners are all headed by Baylor, who is not a descendant of Nurhachi, the Gushan Ezhen of the Lower Five Banners is all the five ministers who are loyal to Nurhachi; as for the Gushan Ezhen of the Upper Three Banners, it is even more reflective of Nurhachi's principle of nepotism.

Dai Shan's positive blue flag, Gushan Ezhen is Dai Shan's eldest son Yue Tuo Taiji, Huang Taiji's inlaid blue flag, Gushan Ezhen Huang Taiji's eldest son Haoge;

The Eight Banners Force, with 20,000 elite cavalry per banner, was by no means all the strength of the Jianzhou Jurchens; the various units of the Jianzhou Jurchens, with a total number of more than 1,000 Niu Lu, were able to mobilize more than 300,000 men to control the strings, of which the ability to fight 160,000 cavalry was already their limit.

The contradictions between the three Jurchen tribes have existed since ancient times, and fighting each other is the norm among the three tribes; even a fist-and-foot dispute between two small tribes over a sheep may trigger an all-out war between the two Jurchen tribes.

With such a neighbor on the side, how dare Nurhachi, who had not even completely unified the Jianzhou Jurchens, come out of the nest? Fortunately, the four major Jurchen tribes of the Haixi and the three major Jurchen tribes of the East China Sea, who were busy with the civil war, had no time to take care of the affairs of the Jianzhou Jurchens for the time being.

The information in Bai Feng's hand, which contained a detailed description of the Jurchen tribe, was secretly provided to him by the Hidden Guard Ames, and Bai Feng, who saw the strength of the Hidden Guard, was even more surprised that the Jurchen tribe on the Tianlong Continent was similar to the Jurchen tribe he knew.

In view of this, Bai Feng specially entrusted Ames with one thing, that is, to ask Ames to use the power of the hidden guard to help him investigate two people, and these two people that Bai Feng was interested in were actually Chu Ying, the eldest son of the Jianzhou Jurchen Khan Nurhachi, and the fourteenth son Dorgon!

In the information provided by Ames, there are only two sons of Nurhachi involved, namely Dai Shan, the second son of the Great Belle Nurhachi, and the eighth son of the Fourth Beyler Nurhachi, Emperor Taiji;

The strongest fortress is always easy to be breached from the inside, and the Eight Banners army of the Jurchen tribe that occupies Langxiang Province is destined to be the enemy of Bai Feng, who was ordered to recover Langxiang Province;

Ames, whose brother-in-law and son are both highly used by Bai Feng, naturally will not refuse Bai Feng's request that is not too excessive; with Ames's order, the fast-acting secret guard intelligence officers began to collect information on Chu Ying and Dolgon on a large scale.

When Bai Feng's army left the province of Nice for seven days and marched into the province of Polyni for six days, a detailed piece of information about Chu Ying and Dolgon, sent by Ames's cronies, was handed over to Bai Feng, who was looking forward to it.