On September 12, outside the north gate of Shenyang, there were a bunch of Beile Beizi and Eight Banners of the Houjin Kingdom, and everyone looked eagerly at the official road to the north, waiting for the return of the three Beile Mang Gurtai.

Under the persuasion of Huang Taiji's half-brother Derge and brother-in-law Zonom, Mang Gurtai finally gave up the idea of raising troops against Huang Taiji, accepted the order issued by the Shenyang Khan's court, handed over the army to Derge, and returned to Shenyang City alone.

After Huang Taiji received Mang Gurtai's reply, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and told Mang Gurtai's reply to the relatives and nobles in the court, and calmed the hearts of the people in Shenyang City. Today, he also personally took the civil and military ministers in Shenyang City out of the city to welcome the return of Mang Gurtai, just to let the people in Shenyang know that although Amin committed a crime, there is no rift between the remaining three Baylors, and they are still very united.

When the sun was about to rise in the middle of the sky, the sharp-eyed Eight Banners looked at the dust flying in the distance, and immediately whispered to his companions left and right: "Here, here, the convoy of the Three Belles has arrived, everyone is ready..."

Soon a column of horses appeared in everyone's sight, and a tall and burly man rode a tall horse at the front of the team. Originally, the speed of the horse team was just not slow, but after seeing so many Eight Banners relatives and nobles waiting outside the city, Mang Gurtai immediately broke away from the team and ran up with only three or five retinues.

Huang Taiji, who was waiting in the farewell pavilion, saw Mang Gurtai break away from the team and step forward alone, and immediately got up and walked out of the pavilion, ready to greet his brother.

After Mang Gurtai saw Huang Taiji, Dai Shan and others from a distance, he immediately rolled the saddle and fell off the horse, and walked quickly towards Huang Taiji and Dai Shan. When Kankan walked in front of Huang Taiji, Mang Gurtai bent down and wanted to salute Huang Taiji, but Huang Taiji quickly stepped forward to support him and gave him a hug.

Huang Taiji said cordially in Mang Gurtai's ear: "Why do you have to see the fifth brother like this, there is no need for any courtesy between our brothers." The fifth brother can come back this time, which is enough to prove your loyalty to the Houjin Kingdom, and I think that the heavenly father Khan will also be comforted. If there is any internal division, how can we continue to survive on this land? ”

Although Huang Taiji's attitude was very kind, Mang Gurtai felt that he was holding a poisonous snake, and he didn't want to believe every word that popped out of Huang Taiji's mouth. Therefore, in the eyes of the people next to him, the Great Khan who took the initiative to step forward was enthusiastic about his brother, but Mang Gurtai, who was the elder brother, was stiff, and obviously had some prejudice against the Great Khan.

Many of the Eight Banners relatives and nobles who were onlookers felt that Mang Gurtai seemed to be a little cautious, and most of them saw that the two of them were hugging each other, but they let go of their worries these days, and the clouds of civil war that obviously shrouded the sky over Shenyang have finally begun to disappear.

Not to mention what these Eight Banners relatives have in their hearts, Huang Taiji has already made a kind and obedient younger brother image in front of everyone today. Mang Gurtai's acting skills are obviously inferior to his younger brother of the Great Khan, so in the eyes of everyone, he seems to be a little confused.

Mang Gurtai, who rode into Shenyang parallel to Dai Shan and Huang Taiji, lowered his head and thought about his thoughts, and did not care about the people of Shenyang who bowed to them on both sides of the street, and he naturally did not notice that his horse head was already tied with Huang Taiji's mount in the middle, while Dai Shan on the other side was always one horse head behind Huang Taiji.

Although Huang Taiji, who was on the horse, was still smiling and chatting with the two brothers about the interesting things of the past, there was no smile in his eyes, obviously he was unhappy with himself for being so compromised, but Mang Gurtai still put on such an arrogant posture.

However, Mang Gurtai was too focused on his own thinking, and he didn't feel the rudeness in these details at all, so he naturally missed the opportunity to really have a heart-to-heart with Huang Taiji. Of course, even if Mang Gurtai paid attention to these subtleties, he might not be able to follow the cumbersome rules set by the Han Chinese.

Unlike those small characters of the Baylors, Mang Gurtai is the founding hero who followed his father Khan to fight the world, and he is much more than Huang Taiji in terms of the credit for creating Houjin. He is not a daishan, and he has seen with his own eyes how his father Khan dealt with political opponents such as his younger brother, eldest son Chu Ying, and the five founding ministers.

Mang Gurtai, who had grown up under Nurhachi's wings, did not yet know what frustration was, nor did he know the true cruelty of political struggle. So although he admitted that Huang Taiji was the best choice to take over the position of the Great Khan, he never revered Huang Taiji, the Great Khan, as his father Khan.

In his heart, Huang Taiji's succession to the Khan was just a temporary move, and it was difficult for him and Dai Shan to decide the winner for a while, so that this weak brother could ascend to the Khan throne. As long as he can establish greater feats and let the people of the Houjin Kingdom realize that only he is the son of the wise and martial Heavenly Mandate Khan, and the Khan seat that Huang Taiji sat on will eventually return to his hands.

But who would have thought that the three of them would look away, and when Huang Taiji inherited the throne of Khan, he would immediately change from an unknown Baylor to the Tiancong Khan who is now forged by everyone in the Houjin country? Compared with his exploits in repeatedly defeating the Mongol tribes, after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he forced the Korean kingdom to form an alliance with the Later Jin, and let Lin Dan Khan, who compared himself to Genghis Khan, abandon his lair and flee to the west.

What makes Mang Gurtai most ashamed is that in order not to share the credit with others, Huang Taiji insisted on saying that these credits were God's reward for Houjin, and it was the Houjin Kingdom that responded to the mandate of heaven to have such a victory. The Jurchens, who had just come out of the mountains and forests, were already happy to believe in these Shinto things, just as they really believed that Nurhachi was the Khan of Destiny, so many people really regarded Huang Taiji as the true son of heaven who had given Houjin from heaven.

If it weren't for the setback in the Ming State Pass last year, Mang Gurtai would have doubted whether the four Baylor co-governance systems implemented by Houjin now could be continued.

For the Khan position of the Houjin Kingdom, Mang Gurtai actually did not reach the point of never forgetting it. He wanted to get this throne, first, he felt that it was something left to him by his father Khan, although his father Khan did not leave a will when he died, but Mang Gurtai thought that his father Khan had promised him before, so this khan should be his thing.

For the sake of Hou Jinguo, he can not have this throne, but it does not mean that others can take his things from him, and he also acts as a matter of course, which makes him feel that his reputation has been insulted.

Secondly, Mang Gurtai admired his father Khan the most, so he aspired to be a Jurchen hero like his father Khan. And the best way to gain the approval of the Jurchens is to become the Great Khan of the Later Jin State like his father.

However, with a series of measures issued by Huang Taiji after his accession to the throne, his popularity began to rise, and the throne became more and more secure. Mang Gurtai also realized that he was getting farther and farther away from the Khan's throne, which made him a little frustrated, and he had originally planned to accept the reality in order to maintain the kingdom established by his father Khan.

But when Huang Taiji made a move to Amin, Mang Gurtai realized that he might be able to accept the reality that Huang Taiji was becoming more and more stable on the Khan throne, but Huang Taiji might not be able to tolerate the three of them to continue to sit on an equal footing with him.

After hearing the news that Amin was confined in his own mansion, Mang Gurtai, who was leading the troops outside, naturally did not want to follow Amin's footsteps, so he made some moves to ignore Shenyang's orders.

However, the brave and resolute man Gurtai on the battlefield seemed a little hesitant and cowering politically, and he did not immediately raise troops before the news came, but wanted to wait for the blue flag to make any moves before making the next move. This gave Huang Taiji time to appease and co-opt the generals of the Blue Banner, and during the period of Mang Gurtai's indecision, the unstable factors within the Blue Banner had been eliminated by Huang Taiji one by one.

In particular, Amin's younger brother Zilharang came forward to appease the inlaid blue flag, so that the inlaid blue flag and the upper and lower levels quickly accepted Huang Taiji's adjustment to the interior of the inlaid blue flag. With the exception of a few of Amin's descendants who fled with Elli, the others acquiesced to Zilharang's command of the Blue Banner.

But the civil strife in Shenyang that Mang Gurtai was looking forward to did not appear, but he himself fell into an embarrassing situation. The allegiance of the people under the blue flag to him is stronger than that of the blue flag to Amin. However, the families of the Eight Banners are all inside and outside Shenyang, and the families of Zhenglanqi are no exception.

If Huang Taiji chooses to raise troops to attack him, perhaps the officers and soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner will still be able to resist out of righteous indignation, and those Manchu and Mongolian troops who are not Zhenglan Banner will also be dragged into the war. But now Huang Taiji has chosen the means of persuasion, which has greatly weakened the morale of the soldiers under his command.

Although the Jurchens were barbaric in war, and did not do the enemy's life properly, they had a different attitude towards their own families and clansmen. Since the Great Khan wanted to solve the problem in a peaceful way, Mang Gurtai's soldiers had little will to fight. They were reluctant to attack Shenyang, where their families and relatives lived, because no matter whether they won or lost, they might never see their relatives again.

The war-weariness of his soldiers, coupled with the persuasion of his half-brother Derge and brother-in-law Zonomu after their arrival, finally made Mang Gurtai choose to compromise with Huang Taiji. After receiving Huang Taiji's personal promise, Mang Gurtai returned to Shenyang.

However, looking at Huang Taiji's appearance with such fanfare, Mang Gurtai faintly realized in his heart that the incident that began with Amin was far from over. He was more worried than ever about whether he could survive this turmoil and not end up with Amin.

After arriving at the Khan's palace in the city, Huang Taiji turned around and sent most of the people in the team behind him away, only inviting Daishan, Mang Gurtai and a group of young Baylor to enter the main hall to discuss matters.

Mang Gurtai suddenly became a little vigilant, he had just returned to Shenyang, and his eyes were still in a state of blackness, and he didn't know what to discuss in this situation.

"King Khan, the minister just came back, and he hasn't even drunk saliva until now, so the minister won't participate in today's meeting, right? What's the big deal, why don't you wait until tomorrow to discuss it? ”