Chapter 181: Military Aristocrats
In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the first year of Chongzhen, Jin Guo went to North Korea for two consecutive years to fight the autumn wind, and he had already shaved North Korea clean.
After listening to Dai Shan, Huang Taiji nodded, three of the four major Baylors came today, and Amin, who did not come, was in North Korea.
Huang Taiji turned his head and said to Yue Tuo again: "You can also talk about it." ”
Yue Tuo didn't dare to slack off, got up and saluted: "Great Khan, the minister has been to many tribes' homes recently, and he really can't open the pot, if it drags on for another half a year, it's really hard to say, and the tribes below have a lot of complaints." ”
Speaking of this, Yue Tuo raised his head and glanced at Huang Taiji, then stopped talking.
"What complaints, speak out and listen."
Huang Taiji's face remained unchanged, and he took a sip of tea and said.
When Yue Tuo heard this, he organized his language for a while, and then opened his mouth and said:
"They said that if the Great Khan didn't lead them to the south, they would go to the south to grab the Han dogs, and instead of starving to death here, it would be better to go to the south and fight the Han dogs to the death, and maybe they could still live."
After speaking, Yue Tuo hurriedly lowered his eyes, nervously waiting for Huang Taiji's reaction.
"Hahaha." Huang Taiji first laughed three times when he heard this, and then said: "I'm afraid it's not just this, how did I hear that if Ben Khan doesn't take them there, they will find someone who is willing to take them to the south to be the Great Khan." ”
After Huang Taiji finished speaking, the whole hall was silent, Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai closed their eyes and said nothing, as if they were asleep, and Yue Tuo wanted to kneel down in horror.
"Isn't it, second brother?"
Huang Taiji looked at Dai Shan, and then suddenly opened his mouth to ask.
But Huang Taiji's sudden attack did not scare Dai Shan, and now the outside has long been dissatisfied with Huang Taiji, and he has nothing to fear.
"I'm old, and my ears are a little weak, but I haven't heard of this, but because I can't eat enough, some people do complain and shout to go to the south."
After speaking, Dai Shan lowered his eyes again.
Seeing that Dai Shan didn't say anything, and Huang Taiji just knocked one or two, don't talk about this topic, Huang Taiji stood up from the throne and said.
"What the two Baylors said is that I have also looked at the Zhuangzi near Shengjing in the past few days, and this year's harvest is still not optimistic, so I have to plan early."
As he spoke, Huang Taiji sat down again.
"Now, the North Korean side is resisting, and it is not appropriate to loot anymore, and the Mongolian side is not rich, and we still have to rely on Mongolia to keep the trade with the Southern Dynasties, and we can't bully too much."
Huang Taiji was about to continue, but he saw Mang Gurtai standing up and said with a big grin.
"Eighth brother, North Korea can't fight anymore, and Mongolia can't touch it, so we still have to fight Minggou."
"Fifth brother, don't be impatient, listen to me." Hearing this, Huang Taiji waved his hand at Mang Gurtai, and then said.
"We have to fight the Southern Dynasty, but now it's not as good as in the past, we have already occupied all of Liaoning, and we have also occupied Liaoxi from Guangning to Jinzhou, and no matter how to fight, we have to discuss it carefully."
Saying that, the emperor took the tea cup and waited for Dai Shan and others to express their position.
After these old slave chieftains Nurhachi's southern and northern wars and attacks from all sides, the entire Liaodong and most of Liaoxi have been completely included in their urns.
If you want to fight the Ming Dynasty again, you can only go south along the Liaoxi Corridor and gnaw on the iron-clad Ningjin Pass defense line.
Huang Taiji actually didn't want to fight the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't have confidence in attacking the front line of Shanhaiguan.
Attacking the fortified city is not the strength of the Eight Banners Army, counting the lost cities in Liaodong and Liaoxi in the Ming Dynasty, few of the Eight Banners Army attacked and fell, basically using the siege to hit morale, and then the routine of conspiring to sacrifice the city.
But in the past two years, after Li Yongfang was arrested, the intelligence system of the Jin State was dealt a lot of blows, and the Ming Dynasty also began to attach importance to the work of intelligence and counter-espionage, and enabled the veteran Luo Sigong, and it became more and more difficult for the Jin State to plot against the Ming Dynasty.
For Luo Sigong, Huang Taiji heard Nurhachi say that when he went to the DPRK to fight against the Japanese, he was also a well-known figure, and he should have been a person who was about to enter the ground, and he didn't know which tendon was drawn in the head of the Ming Emperor, but it was used again.
In fact, in the past few years, Huang Taiji has also seen that the newly enthroned Ming Emperor is different from the Wanli and Tianqi Emperors he knew before.
Some of the tactics adopted by Emperor Ming, even he had to surprise the case, rescue Hudun Rabbit, keep Dongjiang Town, secretly support Korea, and do business with the Mongols, and the Ningjin Pass defense line could not be held.
In just over two years, this operation has brought back the painstaking operation of Lao Khan for many years.
Today's Jurchen, although the territory seems to be a lot larger, but the situation of Mongolia in the west, Korea in the east, and the Ming Dynasty in the south still exists, and with the instigation of the Ming Emperor, the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Jurchens.
And unlike the time of the old Khan, with the increase and decrease of the land population, the contradictions within the Jin State also began to appear.
In the time of the Old Khan, these contradictions were covered up by one expedition after another, and everyone was able to benefit from foreign expeditions, and of course the contradictions dissipated a lot.
But now, Korea and the surrounding Mongolia have been subjugated, and the old land of the Ming Kingdom in the south has also been conquered, and if it is fought again, it will be invaded.
In fact, this is the inherent deficiency of all nomadic fishing and hunting peoples, even if the golden family is as strong as the Yuan Dynasty, once there is no new conquest to grab new interests, it will be torn apart in an instant.
The fundamental reason for this is that its relations of production are adapted to the new productive forces, that is, its military aristocracy, which is rooted in the slave society, and it is difficult to adapt to the social structure in a stable state.
The military aristocracy started and united by plunder, and if there were no new targets for plundering, they would plunder each other.
If you don't want to fall into the situation of plundering each other, there are two ways out, one is to continue to plunder abroad, but to transform the military aristocracy.
And what Huang Taiji wants to do and is doing is trying to transform the military aristocracy.
Of course, Huang Taiji definitely couldn't think so deeply, and he didn't understand the difference between slave society and feudal society, let alone the productive forces and production relations.
But he also knew that the coexistence of military aristocrats was very unfavorable to his rule, so he wanted to implement the Ming Dynasty's monarchs and ministers in Jin, trying to transform the Eight Banners into generals of the Ming Dynasty.
So in the original history, he reused Hanchen, promoted Confucian culture, reopened the imperial examination, encouraged farming, and constantly weakened the rights of the Eight Banners.
But now, because of the appearance of Zhu Youzhen, the Jurchen has lost its previous luck, and it has only been more than two years, but the originally very favorable external environment has been deteriorating, which has deepened the internal contradictions of the Jurchen.