Towards the end of April, when Huang Taiji sat on the throne of Khan and called himself Tiancong Khan, several chairs were added next to him, on which sat several of his elder brothers such as Daishan, Amin, and Mang Gurtai. In the case of several Baylors each holding heavy troops and self-respect, it is the most appropriate choice to let everyone's interests be equalized, this choice is to let the three big Baylors sit with Huang Taiji to accept everyone's congratulations, nominally the flag affairs of the Jurchen Eight Banners are governed by Huang Taiji, the Tiancong Khan, and several big Baylors, of course, this practice does not include other small Baylors and ministers, because compared with the other people seem to be a little insignificant. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here.

As soon as Huang Taiji sat on the throne of Khan, he abandoned Nurhachi's concept of war from all sides, believing that it was not beneficial to attack the Jurchens from all sides, and under his repeated persuasion, everyone agreed with his idea and rallied closely around him. Whoever says it right will listen to whoever says it wrong, and stand aside, even the newly dead Nurhachi is no exception, and there is no such thing in the Jurchen dictionary that he has not changed his father's will for three years.

Huang Taiji's plan can be summed up in one sentence is to defend the south and attack the west to maintain, specifically to station heavy troops in the six forts of Dadian, Xindian, and Kuandian in the south to avoid Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang army from harassing from here. In the area of Jinzhou, let the Ming Dynasty rebel general Sun Degong garrison the defense, and let Sun Degong lead people to repair Lushun and then give the Mongols from the Khalkha Department to take refuge or captivity to garrison and graze cattle by the way, which also blocked the way for Mao Wenlong to go ashore from Jinzhou to make trouble, because the new Mongols could not get along with the Ming army, and the Ming army without the support of the locals could not afford to make any peace.

In the north, continue to contact the Korqin people who have sincerely taken refuge in them, and prepare to jointly encroach and disintegrate the remaining forces of the Khalkha tribe, and at the same time, through the contact and communication between the Horqin people and the Karaqin people in the west, let the Korqin people and the Karaqin people unite to form an anti-Han alliance and jointly oppose Lin Dan Khan of the Han tribe. As long as Lin Dan Khan was squeezed away or crushed, the power of the Jurchens would be unimpeded in the Mongolian steppe, and they could form an all-round attack on the Ming Dynasty from different directions.

Of course, you have to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty first, it turns out that under the city of Ningyuan, Nuer Hachi has already had an agreement with the Ming Dynasty that is not an agreement, Huang Taiji believes that on the basis of this agreement, in-depth and detailed negotiations will definitely achieve results, even if there is no effect, as long as you lower your profile and continue to negotiate, you can also paralyze the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, so that they can lose their fighting spirit while satisfying their vanity.

At the end of April, a group of people appeared in front of Ningyuan Pass, there were not many people, about 100 people, including 10 people in Ming army uniform∝ the soldiers of the pass immediately reported that there was an enemy situation, and asked Wu Xiang, the general of Ningyuan who was in charge of guarding the pass, to decide. Wu Xiang is a very intelligent person, but also a very cautious person, after getting the soldier's report, immediately went to the pass to look, saw that there were not many people and stopped in front of the guard tower, he personally led people out of the customs to investigate.

Although there is no enemy attacking Ningyuan Pass now, only one small door has been opened on the wall, and the other two are still blocked, in order to look good, as soon as Wu Xiang took over Ningyuan Pass, he made people carve two doors on the wall, which made people look like that from the outside. Wu Xiang led people out of the small gate to the Jurchen soldiers, looked at these people and said, "Don't you know that we have all signed an agreement? The Ming army is just Mobei Jurchens and don't enter Ningyuan, what are you doing here? Even if you want to tear up the agreement and attack Ning Yuan, it's not enough for you to have a hundred or ten people? And what's going on with these ten people dressed up in the Ming Army? ”

As soon as Wu Xiang's words were finished, he saw a Ming soldier in the other team's team shouting: "General Wu, you don't know us anymore?" You used to manage us when you were the capital, we were all your soldiers, can you take a closer look? After speaking, his face showed excitement and expectation.

Wu Xiang carefully looked at the ten Ming soldiers, nodded and said, "It's a little familiar, why did you go to the Jurchens?" Could it be that you surrendered to the Jurchens and wanted to be unfavorable to Ning Yuan? ”

The Ming army who had just spoken said embarrassedly: "General Wu, don't get me wrong, we left the team and were captured by the Jurchens when General Zu Dashouzu attacked Liaodong, and they should not have any malicious intent when they came today, I heard that they came to negotiate." ”

Wu Xiang nodded and asked the Jurchen leaders of the hundred households: "Are you here to negotiate?" Who do you want to negotiate with? What to talk about? ”

Jurchen Baihu said: "This general, we are here to negotiate with you on the orders of our Dajin Tiancong Khan, and the purpose of bringing these ten captives is to show our sincerity in negotiating, Tiancong Khan said that if we can, we can send envoys to meet your Ming Emperor, and we will also negotiate directly with your senior Ming officials." ”

Wu Xiang thought for a while and said, "Then you can come in, but only ten people can come in, and they are not allowed to walk around, and the others are waiting outside the city until I report to my boss." ”

When the accompanying soldiers arranged for the Jurchens to enter the pass, Wu Xiang immediately went to Ningyuan City to meet with Yuan Keli, the governor of Liaodong, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, and Man Gui, the general of Ningyuan. After listening to Wu Xiang's report, several people discussed it and decided to meet these Jurchens and ask them clearly, so they asked Wu Xiang to bring the Jurchen hundred households to Ningyuan City. Soon after, the Jurchen Hundred Households were taken to Ningyuan City and entered Yuan Keli's Overseer's Mansion, and Yuan Keli first asked, "What are you going to talk about when you come to negotiate?" And didn't Nurhachi call himself the Khan of Destiny? Who is this Tiancong Khan? ”

Jurchen Baihu said: "This lord, our Heavenly Destiny Khan has returned to heaven from illness, and now our Jurchen Great Khan is Tiancong Khan Emperor Taiji." As for what to talk about, it is not very clear, Tiancong Khan said to the next that it is for the peace negotiations between the Ming and the Jin, and we are going to send envoys to Beijing to meet the Ming Emperor, and ask you to convey our wishes to the upper authorities. ”

Yuan Keli nodded and said, "It turns out that Nurhachi is already dead, how come it is that your Fourth Beile Emperor Taiji is sitting on the throne of Khan and not others?" It's not a good thing to be a child. After saying that, he shook his head.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, also shook his head and said: "I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, have every opportunity, I'm afraid I don't have time to see any of your envoys, what do you want, tell us, don't you have nothing to eat, you want to trade with us?" It's not impossible, but my Ming Dynasty's previous trading venues in Liaodong were Guangning and Liaoyang, and if you withdraw from these two places, we can consider it. After speaking, he smiled and looked at this Jurchen Baihu.

Jurchen Baihu said respectfully: "This adult cares about whether my Jurchens eat well, which makes Zai Xia very moved, but the content of the negotiation is something that the envoys know, and the next little Baihu can't understand, if you force it to say it, I'm afraid of delaying it." Our Tiancong Khan was also afraid that the Ming Emperor was too busy to see my Jurchen envoys, so he brought this thing to the next, saying that this was a token given by the Ming Emperor, and if he saw it, he might not be able to meet my Jurchen envoys. After speaking, he untied a leather bag from his waist and took out a piece of white jade engraved with words from the leather bag, which was the mahjong card that Tianqi asked Zhang Xiangan to hand over to Nuer Hachi.

Yuan Keli took the mahjong tiles engraved with the words "40,000" and looked at it and said: "In this case, please wait here for two more days, we will send it to Beijing with 600 miles of urgency, and I will not see you by the emperor." After speaking, he waved his hand and asked Wu Xiang to take people to rest and wait.

The next morning, the apocalypse saw this mahjong tile in the military affairs institute, and the letter of Yuan Keli, the overseer of Liaodong sent with it, Yuan Keli detailed the ins and outs of this mahjong tile in the letter, and also said that Nurhachi is dead, and now the Jurchen Great Khan is the original Jurchen Four Belle Emperor Taiji, please see the emperor to decide☆ By the way, I also said that the Jurchens in order to show the sincerity of the negotiations, specially released ten Ming prisoners, and Nurhachi's death seems to be related to these ten Ming troops, and the specific situation is being investigated in detail.

Tianqi thought about it and asked Sun Chengzong, a scholar in charge of the Military Affairs Academy: "Sir, what tricks do you see this Jurchen playing?" How do you want to negotiate well? ”

Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said, "I don't know what they want to do, but the minister can see from this that this Huang Taiji is a very powerful person." ”

Apocalypse was surprised and asked, "Why did the gentleman say this?" Could it be that this Emperor Taiji is even more powerful than Nurhachi? ”

Sun Chengzong said: "Ten times more powerful! ”