The domestic situation in the Ming Dynasty was complex and ever-changing, like a kaleidoscope, but there was one person who could see through this layer of fog and see the general trend of the world clearly, and this person was the monarch of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji.

This Huang Taiji is far-sighted, eloquent, and is a rare male lord in the world. In his early years, he followed his father Nurhachi to conquer the east and west, and made great achievements, and he also governed the two banners of Zhenghuang and Huang, which were eight banners, and he was powerful. After Nurhachi's death, he was proclaimed by the kings and succeeded to the throne. After ascending the throne, his ability to govern the country was further developed, and he paid attention to economic development, broke the distinction between Manchu and Han, organized the Han people who returned to obedience into civilian households, and separated them from the Manchus, and forbade the Manchus to go to the Han people's settlements to "take the villagers' cattle, sheep, chickens, dolphins, and other property without authorization." He imitated the lighting system, set up officials and state management organs, and opened up departments to recruit scholars, and extensively appointed Han bureaucrats and intellectuals in order to expand and consolidate his political power. Militarily, he continued to complete the unification of the Jurchen tribes in Heilongjiang and the eastern border of Jilin by force; Having conquered the Mongols and made them subject to the Later Jin, he sent troops to attack the Ming border several times and occupied large swathes of land outside the Guan. In 1636, he changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty, officially laying the legal foundation of the Qing Dynasty (refer to the history books for this paragraph).

He was keenly aware of the political crisis of the Ming Dynasty and the profound social contradictions between the Ming court and the vast number of peasants, and established a strategic policy of using the contradictions within the Han people to consume the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and waiting for the time to be ripe before entering the Central Plains. In order to achieve this strategic goal, Huang Taiji has always taken the control of the military balance between Li Zicheng's peasant army and the imperial court officials and army as one of the goals of his efforts, once the peasant army was in trouble, the Qing army launched an attack on the Ming Dynasty in time, so as to mobilize the Ming Dynasty's army to return to help, and reduce the pressure on the northwest peasant army. The Qing army's four southern invasions before and after were ostensibly looting property, but their real purpose was to echo Li Zicheng in the northwest. Last winter, when Li Zicheng was trapped in Henan, the Qing army invaded the south in a big way, approaching the capital, forcing Chongzhen to transfer troops from Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, which completely disrupted the military deployment of the Ming army, causing Li Zicheng to take the opportunity to break through the siege of the official army in one fell swoop, and expand his influence to Shanxi and Shaanxi, so although the fourth southern invasion of the Qing army ended in a fiasco, the strategic intention of mobilizing the official army to relieve Li Zicheng from the siege was completely achieved.

In the evening of this day, in the Qing court palace in Shengjing, Huang Taiji was sitting in front of the bookcase, which put the analysis of the situation in the Ming Dynasty in the past few months, in recent months, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army power expanded too fast, so that Huang Taiji felt worried, he did not want the Ming court to lose too quickly, because the Ming Dynasty still has a certain military strength, at least in the northeast there are more than 200,000 elites of the Ming army, and the peasant army has developed too fast, accounting for the Ming Dynasty, and will become their own fierce enemy in the future, Bring trouble to unify the Central Plains for yourself, it is best that the two sides are evenly matched, and both sides will lose, so that you can sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman, it seems that it is time to help Chongzhen.

He had just received a report that Hong Chengchou had secretly left Jinzhou and returned to the capital urgently, and he estimated that Hong Chengchou had been transferred back to Beijing for the sake of the Northwest Front, "It's better not to come back, this old fox is really hard to deal with." He muttered silently. At this time, his attendant eunuch came in and said, "How about the emperor, all the kings, Baylor, and the front-line military generals have all arrived." ”

Huang Taiji held back his thoughts, got up and said, "Let's go." ”

Huang Taiji arrived at the door of the warm pavilion, and the accompanying eunuch shouted at the top of his voice: "The emperor has arrived." Huang Taiji stepped in, only to see Dolgon, Yue Tuo, Duoduo, Chebai and other military generals and Fan Wencheng and several other advisers kneeling on the ground to greet him, he walked quickly to the carbon brazier in the center of the room, randomly picked a chair to sit by the fire, and said: "Everyone, please get up, all sit down." ”

Everyone thanks, got up and gathered to sit next to the carbon fire, while roasting the fire while preparing to listen to the Huang Taiji's teachings, Huang Taiji and others roasted the fire, the carbon fire flashed and reflected the faces of several people, he used the firelight, looked at these few of his most relied on assistants, a trace of warmth surged in his heart, these people followed their own southern and northern wars, loyal, and made great contributions to the establishment of the Qing Dynasty. He said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I got a report today that Hong Chengchou, the commander of the Ming army, has secretly returned to Beijing, and it is estimated that he should go back for the situation in the northwest, so I invited you here to discuss the next strategy against the Ming court." Let's talk about it. ”

Duoduo is the commander of the Qing army in western Liaoning, and the soldiers and horses near Jinzhou outside the pass are under his command, and he took the lead in saying: "What is there to discuss about this, taking advantage of the absence of the commander of the Ming army, we should immediately send troops to attack Jinzhou and take the nest of the Ming army." ”

"That's right! Hong Chengchou, this old guy, is the most capable of leading troops to fight in the Ming Dynasty, and now his strategy of "concentrating troops and holding on to the city" makes it difficult for us to defeat the Ming army as before, and now we should take advantage of his absence to seize the fighter plane to eliminate the main force of the Ming army. Chebai said approvingly.

Dolgon groaned and said: "However, although Hong Chengchou leaves, he will inevitably explain the strategy of defense during this period, I am afraid that the Ming army will not easily go out of the city to meet the battle, but will be more stubborn to hold the city, if you attack the Ming army, I am afraid that a lot of troops will be lost, if you want to fight, you must think of luring the Ming army out of Jinzhou City." "He fought the most battles with the Ming army and knew the tactics of the Ming army.

Duoduo said: "This is easy to do, according to the report, now the Ming army is under the control of the prison army Wang Qiang, he is a milky little eunuch, as long as we take the right measures, maybe we can lure him out, and then there will be a chance." ”

Chebai suffered Wang Qiang's loss in the battle of the Special Administrative Region, and said hatefully at this time: "This little Wang Ba Lamb, Lao Tzu can't wait to peel off his skin, the emperor, Weichen asked for an order, led the troops to attack Jinzhou, and broke the little eunuch's body into ten thousand pieces, with the revenge of Xuetongzhou." ”

Huang Taiji has been silently listening to everyone's discussions, and when he saw the invitation, he said with a smile: "Eh, that little eunuch has made great contributions to the Ming Court at such a young age, I look at what he has done in the past few years, he is really a great talent, how I hope to take such a talent for my own use." General Che, this little eunuch has defeated you, if one day, you are a courtier, are you willing? ”

The Manchu people have lived by hunting for generations, and their personalities are mostly bold and open-minded, and the most respected are heroes and heroes. Chelating listened to Huang Taiji's words, he grinned and said: "Of course I am willing, if there is really that day, I must ask how he defeated me in the first place, and I will invite him to drink and make him a friend." Hahahaha. ”

He said it boldly, and everyone laughed along.

Huang Taiji saw that Fan Wencheng had been smiling and sitting silently, so he asked, "What is Mr. Fan's opinion?" ”

This Fan Wencheng is a native of Shenyang, the word Xiandou, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, was taken in by Nurhachi in his early years, and later assisted Huang Taiji, the current university scholar, this talent is eight buckets, knowledgeable, deep understanding of the way of governing the country, is the most relied on by Huang Taiji Hanchen, out of respect for Fan Wencheng, Huang Taiji has always been known to him as Mr.

Fan Wencheng is the main adviser who helped Huang Taiji establish a strategic policy for the Ming Dynasty, he has come to the same conclusion as Huang Taiji through the analysis of the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, he knows Huang Taiji very well, and knows that he must have considered the next strategy, so he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen guessed that you must have already had a countermeasure, and the minister had no objection." ”

Duoduo shouted: "Hey, I said Lao Fan, the emperor didn't say anything, why don't you have any objections, what kind of dumb riddle are you playing?" Yes! ”

"Haha, those who know me, Fan Wencheng also." Huang Taiji got up with a smile and said, he left the brazier, paced in the room, and saw that his favorite Concubine Zhuang Yu'er had arrived here at some point, and was sitting in the corner listening quietly, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Huang Taiji said slowly: "I plan to make peace with the Ming court!" ”

"Peace? Why do you want to negotiate peace! Now the official army of the Ming Dynasty has been beaten in the northwest, and we will attack again from the north, and this Ming Dynasty will be over, how can we negotiate peace! Dodor asked.

Dolgon is also a person who is well versed in strategy, and has already guessed Huang Taiji's thoughts, and he can't help but praise in his heart: "My emperor is really a hero!" ”

Huang Taiji continued: "Not only to negotiate peace, but also to fight a big defeat first, and a complete defeat, to cede a large area of land in western Liaoning to the Ming army, so that they think that we are indeed because of the defeat, no good, and afraid, so we are forced to sue for peace." ”

Everyone looked at him with his body, and Huang Taiji continued: "After we are defeated, we will show weakness and negotiate peace, so that the Ming court will relax its vigilance against us, and these troops stationed in the northeast will be transferred to the northwest to fight against Li Zicheng, they will kill each other, and our future enemies will be weak, this is one." Second, if we give up a large area of land, the Ming Dynasty will have to disperse its forces to defend these places, and their so-called strategy of concentrating troops will be self-defeating, and it will be easier for us to kill them and clean them up in the future. This third, let's take a big bargain and let this little eunuch Wang Qiang pick it up, he defeated our army twice, it is estimated that his master Chongzhen's vinegar gourd should be overturned again, and we will add some material to him, this person is probably the second Yuan Chonghuan, except to take refuge in us, there is no other way to live, hahahaha. ”

"Hahahaha!" Everyone was completely impressed by Huang Taiji's analysis, and laughed happily together.