Although he had just fought the political alliance of Hauge-Daishan and became the hottest strength of the Qing Dynasty, Dolgon still maintained his usual deferential posture in front of Huang Taiji, and when he heard the call of the Khan King, he quickly rode his horse to catch up, but he still cautiously lagged behind Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji turned his head to look at his young brother, although this younger brother was thin and not at all similar to the body of a man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, but his appearance was the most similar to that of Heavenly Destiny Khan among several brothers, so he was very supported by a group of old and important ministers. And this seemingly weak younger brother also has unique views on political affairs, and he is a rare man of culture among the Manchurians.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the two white flags were too attached to the Dolgon brothers, and the two brothers Azig and Dordo had a certain amount of martial prowess, he would have liked to keep this younger brother for his son, so that before his son took power, the political situation of the Qing Dynasty could rely on Dolgon to maintain stability.

"It's a pity." Huang Taiji sighed secretly in his heart, but greeted Dolgon with a smile on his face: "Fourteenth brother, you come forward, it's too inconvenient to talk to you like this. ”

"Yes, King Khan." Dolgon bent his body in agreement, and drove his horse forward a few steps, but always let himself be half a body behind Huang Taiji, and then turned sideways to Huang Taiji and asked, "The king of Khan summoned his ministers and brothers, but do you have any orders?" ”

After Huang Taiji glanced at Dolgon's position, he said in a gentle tone: "The fourteenth brother is tired of the official duties of the ministry on weekdays, and he can not forget to train his riding skills, it is true that he has not forgotten the foundation of my Manchurian state, and it is enough to become an example for the generals of Zhubeile and the Eight Banners." ”

"The king of the Khan has a good reputation, and his subordinates only follow the teachings of his father Khan, and every morning they have to ride a horse for a while to exercise their bodies. The younger brother has been weaker than ordinary people since he was a child, and if he is not strong on weekdays, he may not live forever in the future..."Dolgon tactfully explained his hardships to show that he did not have any great ambitions for his training, but just wanted to live a few more days.

Huang Taiji smiled slightly, and then pulled the topic away, "Actually, I asked you to come forward to talk because I wanted to hear your opinion on something." Now that domestic affairs are finally back on track, it's time to look abroad.

Over the past year or so, in order to solve some of its own internal problems, China has had to pay attention to its own domestic affairs and adopt a posture of compromise and concession with neighboring countries. Now it seems that the neighboring countries have not understood the goodwill of our Qing Dynasty for more than a year, but have taken the opportunity to do many evil things against our country.

The savage tribes in the north and northeast relied on the Ming Dynasty and constantly attacked those tribes who were attached to our Qing Dynasty, making the deer and dog tribes miserable. The leaders of these tribes appealed to Shenyang for help, saying that if the Qing could not shelter them, they would have to surrender to the Ming state.

Korea in the East had already concluded a fraternal alliance with us, but because of the garrison of the Ming Kingdom and the internal affairs of Korea, this alliance now exists in name only.

As for the Monan and Mobei Mongolian tribes in the west, they have not only attacked the Mongolian tribes on the border of our country many times, but also forcibly occupied the traditional pastures of these tribes. It is said that most of these actions were planned and presided over by treason sinners such as Du Du and Erli, which is really too deceitful.

As for the Ming Kingdom to the south... Now I don't want to say anything, they are all about to put their hands into my Khan's palace. Prince Rui, I came to you just to hear your opinion, for the big net opened by the Ming Kingdom, where should we start to break the situation? ”

Dolgon fell silent for a moment at the big question raised by Huang Taiji, which was probably the second major problem he had ever encountered in his life. This first problem is naturally the question of how he and his younger brother should choose to save their lives when the Mandate of Heaven Khan died and his mother was forced to be buried.

However, at present, Huang Taiji's question seems to be less sinister and direct than the previous question, but Dolgon, who is familiar with Huang Taiji's character, knows that the answer to this question is not in line with Huang Taiji's standards, and it is also related to his life and future.

Fighting to Haoge, the quasi-prince, forced the other party's biggest supporter, Daishan Da Baylor, to fall into semi-retirement, and it seemed that he was already the dominant family in the court, second only to Huang Taiji's status. But Dorgon knew that his stake had only just begun.

Since the founding of the post-Jin Dynasty, any individual or group that has become the second person has basically not ended well. For example, the Guangluo Belle during the Mandate of Heaven Khan, the alliance between Daishan and the concubine Abahai, the concubine Abahai before the death of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, and the three major Baylors after Huang Taiji took over as the Great Khan, none of these people or groups were not jointly attacked by the Khan and the courtiers.

Even Yue Tuo, who has a close relationship with Huang Taiji, and his own son Haoge, as long as they threaten Huang Taiji's status, they will be ruthlessly suppressed by him. Isn't it true that he Dolgon was specially supported by Huang Taiji in order to balance the excessive power of Yue Tuo and Haoge.

That is, Yue Tuo died too quickly in order to get a good death. Otherwise, after Huang Taiji cleaned up Manggu Zigege, Yue Tuo, who still protected his daughter, was obviously the next target to be suppressed by Huang Taiji. As a pawn of Huang Taiji, he had to come forward to suppress the Hauge-Daishan party, and then sat in the current position that is taboo from top to bottom.

Dolgon knew that sooner or later he would be cleaned up by Huang Taiji when he sat in this position. It's just that now there is no opponent who can contain him for a while, and Huang Taiji still needs to cooperate with himself to control the government, so the other party will be so close to him now.

Once his talent is not enough to afford his current position and cannot be used by Huang Taiji, then the next person to replace him will come to the fore. And his fate is definitely not as good as his predecessors.

Therefore, in front of this brother, Dorgon still has to do his best to show his ability, so that the other party can tolerate himself to stay in this position for a while. After all, Huang Taiji's age is not young, and he knows enough about the other party's physical condition from his sister-in-law's mouth, knowing that the other party will be 3-5 years at least, or 7 or 8 years at most, and his body may be about to collapse.

Once such a situation occurs, Huang Taiji should think about his future, without his own support, it will be difficult for his sons to resist the competition for the throne of his eldest son Haoge. And Hauge's performance over the years has proved that once he is allowed to come to power, it is almost equivalent to abandoning Huang Taiji's hard work for more than ten years, and the power that he finally took from the hands of the Baylor and the important ministers of the Eight Banners will inevitably be withdrawn in his hands and restored to the past pattern of co-governance of the Eight Banners.

For Huang Taiji, such a change is certainly unacceptable. Because this undoubtedly negates all his actions since he ascended the throne, making his more than ten years of hard work a joke, and bringing the Qing Dynasty to the point of no return. Therefore, the lesser of the two powers, even if he may be dictatorial after his death, Huang Taiji will entrust the future to himself.

Therefore, the most important thing for him is to buy time and let Huang Taiji not act on himself so quickly. Although Dolgon does not have Huang Taiji's ambition to bring the Manchurians into the Central Plains, he is by no means Dai Shan, who does not dare to reach out when the opportunity comes, and Hauge, who has a twisted personality.

Therefore, as soon as he made up his mind, Dolgon complained to Huang Taiji without reservation: "The courtiers think that the Heilongjiang River in the north and the Ussuri River in the northeast are both poor mountains and bad waters, sparsely populated, and vast areas.

If you want to send troops to conquer these areas, it will be useless to do less, and it will be difficult to solve the problem of rations if you have more. The reason why Father Khan was able to lead troops to conquer these places was that Father Khan personally selected elite soldiers and fierce generals to go on the expedition, and everyone did not dare to slack off; The second is that those tribes never thought that our country would send troops to attack them, so they were not prepared for a while; The third is that the tribal weapons in these places are not sophisticated, and they lack iron tools to confront our Manchurian warriors.

However, since the Ming Kingdom made a detour from the sea to communicate with these places, it not only provided them with a large number of armor and equipment, but also taught them the methods of training and fighting. In this way, these savages can barely fight against our Eight Banners. Moreover, the Ming State also built cities at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and Vladivostok, Shuangchengzi and other places, and our army crossed the mountains and forests, how could it carry any siege equipment, in the face of such a city, if it could not be attacked for a long time, it was a problem that the army could completely retreat.

In addition, with the external situation that the Qing Dynasty is now facing, how can you leave Shengjing for a long time and go to such a remote place to supervise the war and use troops? Therefore, this side of the region should still stick to the top, and move the tribes from those border areas to the interior, so as to stop the harassment of the other side. ”

Dolgon paused slightly when he said this, carefully observed Huang Taiji, and found that the other party bowed slightly, as if he agreed with his idea, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "As for North Korea in the east, it is actually a wall grass, and if the Qing Dynasty is strong, they will fall to the Qing Dynasty, and if the Ming State is strong, they will fall to the Ming Kingdom."

Don't look at the king of Joseon and the two classes of doctors in Joseon who talk about loyalty and righteousness all day long, but when the Japanese invaders, they abandoned the capital and ran away with their own people. When our army entered, they didn't dedicate the capital to you, and waged their tails and begged for mercy from you, King Khan?

They kept saying that they wanted to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and as a result, even the rations offered to the Ming army in the dynasty had to be deducted, which shows that these people are untrustworthy hypocrites.

At present, although the DPRK has once again reneged on its alliance with our country, it does not necessarily mean that the king of Joseon and the scholars of the DPRK have completely fallen to the Ming Dynasty. My brother thinks we can take advantage of this..."

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