This grand Eight Banners military exercise should still achieve the initial purpose of Huang Taiji, that is, to stabilize the hearts of the people in the country and deter the surrounding Mongolian tribes and a few tribes that are dependent on the Manchus, so that everyone can know that the Manchus' armed forces are still sharp, and not everyone can provoke them casually.

However, in the eyes of some smart people, this martial arts exercise undoubtedly has some flavor of wanting to cover up. If the Manchu force is still so invincible, then they should directly send troops to attack the Ming or attack the Mongol tribes that submit to the Ming, instead of showing off their might in front of the tribes that are subject to the Manchus. Such a move can only deceive those tribes who are far away from the Ming Kingdom and lack communication with the outside world.

Of course, in the current situation, the Manchu people's armed forces can still be equal to the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the Ming army would have already crossed the Liao River. Therefore, these tribes in the sphere of influence of the Qing Dynasty do not need to provoke the authority of the Manchus, so that the Manchus can helpless the Ming people instead of them, and when the two sides are still at peace, these small forces sandwiched between the two countries should not jump too far.

As for the Manchus, observing the deferential posture of these invited leaders after the martial arts exercise made them feel satisfied for the time being. But the real authorities of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, such as Huang Taiji and Dolgon, would not be deceived by this illusion, since these tribes could submit to the force of the Qing Dynasty, they could naturally also submit to the force of the Ming State. Therefore, their loyalty to the Qing Dynasty is about the time when the Qing Dynasty's knife can be placed on the necks of these tribes, and once the Qing Dynasty loses this knife, it will be their turn to fight against the master of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, if you want to continue to control these tribes, the Manchus still have to open a gap in the Ming people after all. The encirclement formed around the Qing Dynasty now, in the final analysis, is all behind the Ming people's troubles. Without the material support of the Ming people, the Mongol tribes in the south and north of the desert would have been encroached upon by the Manchus, and the Chahar tribe, which nominally ruled the steppe, could not continue to lead the Mongol tribes against the Manchu attack after the death of Lin Dan Khan.

Not to mention, the Heilongjiang River Basin and the Ussuri River Basin, which originally belonged to the Manchurian backyard, have now become the sphere of influence of the Ming people. As for the soft egg of the Joseon Kingdom, it was eaten to death by the Ming people. And if all this was not for the Ming people who were enough to resist the military performance of the Manchu army moving south, and the huge wealth that the Ming people spent on this encirclement, the early morning could have set foot in the desert and the northern grasslands of the desert to the west, and scavenged enough Jurchen population from the deep mountains and old forests in the north and northwest to make the Korean kingdom a logistics base for the Qing Dynasty's conquest of the Quartet.

With an unimaginable ability to create wealth, the Ming people easily broke the strategy of the Manchurians to cut down big trees with small axes. The basic core of this strategy was that the Manchus first collected the helpers who were attached to the Ming, and then dealt with the isolated Ming. But when these side branches attached to the Ming people grew faster than the Manchus cut down the branches, the Manchus became overwhelmed.

After all, no matter how sharp the axe is, it will be lost, not to mention that the small axe of the Manchurians itself is on the small side, with a population of one million against the population of the Ming Kingdom, it is already at a disadvantage, and now it is necessary to count the various tribes and small countries that depend on the Ming people. With the speed at which the Ming people supported these tribal forces, even if the Manchus consumed their own population, they might not be able to eliminate the forces that the Ming people had collected with their wealth.

And for these powerful people who have been bought with wealth, will the Ming people regret their losses? I am afraid that the Ming people will only applaud, this way of fighting not only consumes the current enemy Manchu Qing, but also eliminates those frontier forces that may replace the rise of the Manchu Qing, so that the Ming people can wait for the final blow to the Qing Dynasty.

In Huang Taiji's view, if he continues to hold on to the strategy of cutting down big trees with a small axe, the Manchurians are undoubtedly digging a grave for themselves. However, if they changed their strategy and looked for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Ming State, the defense line established by the Ming people from Jinzhou to Mobei became an insurmountable chasm for the Manchus. The concentration of Manchu forces was not impossible to break through this line of defense, but behind this line of defense there were still Mongol tribes and the Great Wall defense line.

With the current combat effectiveness of the Ming army, it is impossible for the Manchus to play hide and seek with the Mongols on the steppe for a long time, and if he wants to penetrate deep into the Ming country behind the defense line of the Great Wall, he is extremely doubtful that he can still return to Shenyang with the Manchu army. The current Ming Kingdom is not the Ming Kingdom in the second year of Chongzhen, where the border defense was weak and the Lord Shaoguo was suspicious. Even if Huang Taiji was willing to risk his life, the Baylor and soldiers below would not agree to such a crazy plan, and the last time he made a detour to Jizhou to enter the customs, it did not leave a good impression on the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

In the final analysis, it is because the wealth accumulation ability of the Ming Kingdom in the past ten years is too perverted. According to Huang Taiji's idea, the Ming people were so disregarding the people's efforts to loot wealth to build an encirclement of the Qing Dynasty, and the country should have been boiling with public resentment a long time ago. Not to mention that in the past ten years, the Ming Kingdom has been affected by disasters everywhere, how can the people not rebel?

But the reality is so cruel, the Ming people squeeze the people's financial resources so much, but they have always maintained a controllable social order in various places, and his side has just amassed a wave of wealth in the way of the Ming people, and the country is almost about to change, which is really unreasonable.

In the past ten years since Chongzhen ascended the throne, Huang Taiji has also taken enough attention to himself, and has never relaxed his intelligence collection on the military and political trends of the Ming Kingdom. For the young emperor's governance in the past ten years, he thinks that although he has made enough progress, he has also made a lot of mistakes, and he thinks that the other party's political and military performance is still far inferior to his own, although Chongzhen is much stronger than his brother.

But economically, Huang Taiji felt that he was not even qualified to comment on the other party, because he couldn't even understand many economic policies issued by Chongzhen. Don't talk about him, even those Han officials with considerable economic talents in the three inner courts, except for criticizing Chongzhen's economic policies as crooked and heretical, they can't say a single reason.

After Fan Yongdou's escape, Huang Taiji had to admit that Ming Guo was indeed playing crooked ways. But he really couldn't understand why Ming Guo wouldn't have a problem playing such a crooked way, and Daqing had only been playing for a year or two, and even Fan Yongdou, who was in charge, had escaped.

Huang Taiji realized that if the Ming treasury could continue to support the continuation of the reforms that were being carried out, then the hope of the Manchus who wanted to enter the customs would dim every day that passed, and eventually the Qing Dynasty would be dragged down by the Ming State in this way.

Huang Taiji, who has always been calm, couldn't help but feel more and more anxious in the face of such a stalemate between the Ming and Qing dynasties. Although he knew that such a mentality was not good, he could not make any changes. Because he was 50 years old, and the emperor of the Ming Kingdom was only 31 years old, it was difficult for him to determine whether his son would be able to confront the other party after his death.

What worries him even more is that although he has collected power from Zhubeile over the years, he has not only abolished the maladministration of the four major Baylor co-governance, but even the power of Zhubeile to discuss politics has been reduced a lot. He was sure that as long as he was still sitting on the throne of the Khan, the Belles would not be able to make any waves, but he was not sure if his son would be able to control these high-ranking uncles and cousins.

In addition, Huang Taiji felt that his body was not as good as before, so he felt that time was getting tighter and tighter every day he passed. Externally, he wanted to break through the encirclement set up by the Ming people and ensure that the Ming emperor recognized the ruling power of the Qing Dynasty over Liaodong. At this time period, Huang Taiji has already accepted his fate a little, and he will not be able to enter the Central Plains to defeat the Ming Kingdom. But he needed to teach the emperor of the Ming State a harsh lesson, so that the other party would lose confidence in restoring Liaodong, so as to ensure the situation of the separation of the two countries.

Internally, he wanted to completely take back the power in the hands of Zhubel and pave the way for his son to take over the power in a stable manner. Completely tame those ambitious Aixinjue Luo clans, and become a help to defend the Qing Dynasty and the Khan King.

These two tasks are extremely difficult even for a character like Huang Taiji. Not to mention, the two biggest opponents he is facing now, Chongzhen and Dolgon, are extremely forbearing, which makes Huang Taiji exhausted his efforts.

However, at the moment, Huang Taiji feels that he is still somewhat sure of handling such a problem. For example, he used Dolgon to suppress his brother Daishan and son Hauge, successfully eliminated a growing Hauge faction for himself, and erected an opponent for Dolgon. Haug was a bit stupid, but with his support, it should be enough to deal with Dolgon.

This time Dolgon's attack on Haug made everyone realize that Haug was not his intended heir. And he didn't have to speak out to point out the matter himself, so as to make this son hate him. In the following period, everyone will not pay attention to the heir to the throne, and there will be no princelings in the court who can threaten his position, thus giving his other sons a chance to grow up.

In order to resist the pressure from Hauge, Dorgon had to move closer to him, thus becoming his weapon to beat Zhubele. After he finishes sorting out the internal relations of the Eight Banners, Dolgon, who has offended too many people, can be thrown out to calm everyone's anger, this kind of internal political struggle, Huang Taiji should not use too easily.

So for Huang Taiji, what really gave him a headache was to deal with the relationship with the Ming State externally, focusing on how to make the Ming Emperor give up his desire for Liaodong. In this regard, Huang Taiji really didn't have much to talk to, and there was probably only one Dolgon among the Zhubeiles who could discuss with him the strategy of the Ming Dynasty.

After the martial arts, Huang Taiji turned his mind back to dealing with the Ming Kingdom, and even on the way back to the city from the Western Sect, he called Dolgon to his side to discuss the issue with him.

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