Even the ordinary soldier Nimatsa, who was inlaid with a red flag. The people in Shenyang are beginning to worry about the future of the Great Qing Kingdom, and the Manchurian nobles in Shenyang City will naturally not be blind to the future crisis of the Great Qing Kingdom.

However, these Manchurian nobles were limited to their own vision and experience, and in the face of such a future crisis, the measures they adopted were also very different.

The higher-ranking Manchurian nobles began to resume contact with the families of the nobles who defected to the Ming Dynasty. Manchurian nobles like Du Du, Amin, Ah Shan and other Manchurian nobles who defected to the Ming Dynasty could not bring their relatives with them when they fled. And the identity of these Manchurian nobles determines that their families and relatives are basically related to the upper class of Manchuria and Mongolia by blood or marriage, such as Du Du, Amin and even those surnamed Aixin Jueluo.

Therefore, for a family like theirs, Huang Taiji can only target him at most, rather than engaging in any kind of association, otherwise the political purge will even implicate the people around him. Such a complete liquidation of the Mang Gurtai sisters and brothers is extremely rare since the founding of Manchuria, and it is also extremely depleting of the cohesion of the Eight Banners.

In fact, the impact of this political struggle against the Zhenglan Banner was so far-reaching that even Huang Taiji himself did not believe that he had won a complete victory. Although this political struggle allowed Huang Taiji to completely clear the influence of the Mang Gurtai sisters and brothers in the Zhenglan Banner, but also completely destroyed the sense of belonging of the Zhenglan Banner soldiers who took refuge in the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, since hearing about the fate of the Mang Guji Gege and those who stayed in Shenyang, these Zhenglan Banner soldiers who took refuge in the Ming Dynasty immediately cut off the communication channel with Shenyang, and said that they would definitely avenge the Mang Gurtai sisters and brothers, and seek justice from Huang Taiji.

Within the Qing Dynasty, although the flags were more obedient to Huang Taiji on the surface, they were more wary of the two yellow flags in private, for fear that they would become the next positive blue flags. This also made it take Huang Taiji more than a year to resolve the sequelae of this incident and ease the tension and conflict within the Eight Banners by restoring the positive blue flag. But he also missed out on it. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the great famine of the Ming Kingdom was a good time for the Qing Dynasty to invade the Ming Kingdom.

Even if the Manchurian nobles such as Dudu, Amin, and Ahsan defected, their families and relatives could still be saved, but their treatment was reduced. However, as the political struggle within the Qing Dynasty became increasingly fierce, even core figures such as Dai Shan and Haoge were suppressed, while the Ming State survived the once-in-a-century catastrophe, which couldn't help but make some people feel that the Ming State was still in full swing, but the Qing Dynasty had begun to decline.

In this way, the families of those defectors who were originally marginalized have been picked up by some smart people who have picked up their past connections and moved again, hoping to leave a way back for themselves.

As for the core nobles like Huang Taiji and Dolgon, who controlled the politics of the Qing Dynasty, they naturally did not think about finding any way back for themselves. For these Manchu nobles who used the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a military enlightenment textbook, they still knew very well the most important reason why Zhuge Liang persuaded Sun Quan to form an alliance with Shu Han.

Therefore, even if the Ming Kingdom has shown a situation of full recovery of the country's strength, whether it is Huang Taiji or Dolgon, they are still actively rearming and looking for an opportunity to break the situation for the Qing Dynasty.

On March 24, the 14th year of Chongzhen, as early as among the Manchurian relatives and nobles, the rumored recovering of the Zhenglan Banner finally became a reality, Huang Taiji took the Manchu and Mongolian nobles to the Xijiao Field outside Shenyang, first held the Zhenglan Flag Restoration Ceremony, and then transferred part of the troops of the Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han Eight Banners to hold a grand military exercise, in order to calm the hearts of the people in the country.

In this exercise, the most eye-catching thing was a firearms unit mixed with the yellow flag and the Han military flag, which was only about 300 people with an all-firearms formation, and only wore relatively light leather armor. However, their queue was extremely strict, and the 100 people acted as if they were one person, and the forward, backward, and even shooting were all ordered by special personnel, which was completely different from the past Eight Banners Army's training and operation.

In such a martial arts exercise, the neat queue drill is obviously more prominent, and it is easier for the Manchurian nobles on the viewing platform to pay attention to their performance. Of course, in addition to those Mongol nobles who had too little knowledge, many Manchurian nobles were very aware of how this army came to be. And those Manchurian generals who had experienced the Yingkou battle knew better that this army imitated the Ming Guards who fought against them at Yingkou.

Although the older generation of Manchurian nobles knew that the military system, official system, and even Manchu characters of the Qing Dynasty were either copied by Han Chinese or copied by Mongolians, the traditions handed down by the Manchus themselves were probably some shamanic sacrificial customs that were not humane to outsiders.

However, the Manchurian predecessors still paid attention to a makeover when they plagiarized, and the Manchus were still in a period of ignorance at that time, and they did not have their own national consciousness, so they were not ashamed of this kind of plagiarism.

However, after Nurhachi unified the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong and defeated the Ming State, the most powerful overlord in East Asia, thus establishing the foundation of the country. The national consciousness of the unified Jurchens began to awaken, and with the military victories of the Later Jin defeating the neighboring countries again and again, this emerging nation began to unconsciously put its position above other peoples.

Although this unprecedented sense of pride strengthened the cohesion within the Manchus and inspired the self-confidence of the Manchus to open up their forces outward, it also undoubtedly increased the conceit of the Manchus, so that those young Manchus who had never experienced the life of exile before the founding of the People's Republic of China forgot that the humility of their own people when they were weak made them blindly believe that everything in their nation was the best and unique, which is why Nurhachi Khan was able to defeat Korea, Mongolia, and Ming in succession and establish the foundation of the country.

It should be said that this kind of conceit of the young Manchurian is something that the Aixin Jueluo family is happy to see. Because of the popularity of this kind of thinking among the young Manchus, it can not only whitewash away some of the bloody methods used by the Aixin Jueluo family in unifying the Jurchen tribes, but also further eliminate the tribal consciousness among the Manchus, so as to unite around the Manchurian Eight Banners system with the Aixin Jueluo family as the core, and make the new nation of Manchuria more united.

Moreover, the disdain of the young Manchus for the Ming and Mongol culture also ensured that when the emerging Qing dynasty fought against the Mongols and the Ming, there would not be too many capitulationists internally. Of course, this is also built on the fact that the Qing Dynasty has maintained most of its victories in foreign wars. If every battle is lost, no one will think how glorious it is to be a member of the Qing Dynasty.

However, for today's Qing Dynasty, the conceit of the young Manchurians has become a little out of place. The successive defeats at Yizhou and Yingkou had attracted the attention of the Manchurian nobles, including Huang Taiji, who realized that the changes of the Ming army in recent years had indeed brought great changes, so that the Ming army not only dared to engage the Qing army in the field, but also fought in a very orderly manner.

If the defeat of Yizhou is due to a problem in strategic scheduling, the Zhenglan Banner of Yizhou fell into the encirclement of the main force of the Ming army, thus becoming a lone army and defeating. The reason why the Ming army was able to break through the interception of the Qing army and return to Yingkou and leave smoothly with the people of Yingkou actually proved that the other party did have the ability to fight against the Qing army in the field.

Although this conclusion was difficult for these Manchurian relatives to accept, they could not ignore this reality. After all, most of these people have experienced the wars with the Ming Dynasty when the founding of the People's Republic of China and know what it means to seek truth from facts. It is not a big deal to admit that the Ming army is starting to grow, it is enough to find a way to destroy such a powerful army. But if it is for the sake of the self-esteem of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and denies the strength of the Ming army, then they will still have to suffer on the battlefield in the future.

However, although Huang Taiji and others recognized the strength of the Ming Guards, they had no intention of publicizing the changes in the combat strength of the Ming army in China to prevent changes in the morale of the people that were unfavorable to them. So the upper-class people knew that the Ming army was no longer the army they bullied at will in the past, but for the young Manchus, they were still immersed in the myth of "Manchu is invincible".

Therefore, on such a sacred occasion as the Eight Banners martial arts, they did not demonstrate mounted archery, but ran out of such a team of musketeers, which really made some young Manchus feel unhappy, and this is not equivalent to admitting that the Manchurians' cavalry and archery skills are not as good as the muskets of the Ming people.

Of course, these young Manchus probably forgot that the tactic that Nurhachi relied on to become famous was heavy armor foot combat, and this was the tactic of the Ming army to deal with the barbarians of Liaodong. It was only after the Later Jin formed an alliance with the Horqin tribe and obtained a stable source of horses that the Manchus began to pay attention to cavalry tactics.

Huang Taiji's blatant advocacy of mounted archery as the foundation of the Manchus actually had his own political considerations, in order to show that Manchuria and Mongolia were of the same origin and close branches, so as to gain more recognition from the Mongols. Of course, for the pragmatist Huang Taiji, after the Ming army demonstrated the power of firearms on the Yingkou battlefield, he did not hesitate to follow the Ming army to establish the all-firearms battalion of the Qing army.

In such an era, it is never cultural practices that defend national pride, but truly powerful force. In this regard, the Manchurian elites of Huang Taiji's generation are obviously more accurate than the peoples around them. As long as it can ensure that the Manchurian force can continue to suppress the surrounding countries, Huang Taiji obviously will not care about whether the use of firearms violates the Manchu people's foundation.

Therefore, when some young Manchurians were whispering, Huang Taiji watched the military exercise of this firearms unit with relish, and even after the military exercise was over, he called the chief officer of the instructor unit to the viewing platform and rewarded him greatly in public.

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