Huang Taiji's sincere words moved Dolgon, and he finally admitted to Huang Taiji that he was too narrow-minded to take into account the overall situation between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After hearing Dolgon admit his mistake, Huang Taiji was also in a much better mood. He then handed over the matter of wooing Amin and contacting Gonchuktaiji to Dolgon, hoping that the other party would be able to complete the entire plan in practice, thus opening a gap in the current impasse facing the Qing Dynasty.

After chatting about this matter, Huang Taiji asked Dolgon again: "You just said in the Great Political Palace that the most important thing facing our country is not to eliminate the surrounding forces that have been supported by the Ming Kingdom, but to target the Ming Kingdom itself. So have you ever thought about how to deal with Mingguo's plan? ”

After being silent for a while, Dolgon replied honestly to Huang Taiji: "The minister knows that the Qing Dynasty has to deal with the Ming State first, and if the Ming Kingdom is repelled by our Qing Dynasty, the surrounding forces of our country will be panicked, and some people may want to re-establish their side between us and the Ming Kingdom."

But how to deal with the Ming Kingdom, the minister has not found a way other than war now. Judging from the current defense line built by the Ming people in Yizhou-Jinzhou, we have no way to take a trick except to fight step by step from Ningjin to Shanhaiguan. ”

Huang Taiji was slightly disappointed by Dolgon's answer, but he still said to Dolgon in gentle words: "I already understand what you mean. You go back and sort out the plan on how to contact Amin first, and then report it to me, this matter must be done neatly, so that Akito can't see the flaws..."

Huang Taiji then said a lot to Dolgon, when the Mandate of Heaven Khan took them, the children of Aixin Jueluo, to establish the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, trying to arouse the resonance of Dolgon, let him know that the ancestors started a business is difficult, and these young Aixin Jueluo children should work with themselves to fight against the great enemy that the Manchus are now facing.

Dolgon naturally cooperated very much, when he heard the dangerous situation that the first khan had experienced, he couldn't help but have red eyes and tears, and for a while he felt that he was born too late, and failed to help the first khan and his brothers face those dangerous difficulties, but now he enjoys the blessings of the first khan and his brothers, and he can't wait to break his bones to repay the Qing Dynasty, and he will never dare to drag the khan's thighs again.

Seeing Dolgon's true feelings, Huang Taiji comforted him a few words and asked him to go down to do something. By the time he reached the door of the study, Dorgon's tears had stopped, and he cautiously glanced back before stepping out of the doorway. found that he was only 46 years old, and it was Huang Taiji, who was in the prime of life, and was thinking with his head in his hands and closing his eyes at the moment, and suddenly seemed to show a trace of old age.

Dolgon turned his head thoughtfully, stepping out of the threshold and leaving Huang Taiji's study. As for Huang Taiji, who was thinking with his eyes closed in the study, the confrontation between the Ming and Qing Dynasties in his mind at this moment was really worse than what he had just said to Dorgon.

Before Chongzhen, what the Houjin had to deal with was nothing more than the Liaoxi Jiangmen and the Ming Dynasty from all over the guest army, these armies had neither unified command nor mutual cooperation, and would only follow the orders of those ministers to attack the lost strongholds in Liaodong, such a war was too easy to deal with for the Jianzhou Jurchens who had just founded the country and had no territorial concept. As long as a few strongholds are thrown out, the Ming army is attracted to divide the troops to guard, and then it will return to the various combat methods that Hou Jin is familiar with.

In order to hold on to these forts that went deep into Liaodong, the Ming army not only requisitioned a large number of manpower and material resources to repair, but also transported a large number of materials for the defenders in these forts to enjoy. But when the Houjin army began to divide and surround these forts, the Ming troops in these forts couldn't wait to flee, and a large amount of materials in the forts became the trophies of the Houjin.

For Hou Jin, there is no such war as an easier battle, and through such a war, it also greatly consumes the national strength of the Ming Dynasty. A large number of materials transported from the Guannai were discarded to Houjin without a war, and even Huang Taiji felt sorry for the emperor of the Ming Kingdom.

The Ming army, which adhered to the fortress tactics, is said to have spent 10 million taels of silver in two or three years. Although I don't know how much of it floated into the pockets of the military officials, the materials that fell into the hands of Hou Jin were no less than two or three million taels. It is said that the imperial court of the country finally levied the Liao salary from the people, so that they sank to the bottom of the water without even hearing a sound.

In the face of such a Ming court, Huang Taiji was actually full of confidence in whether Houjin could enter the customs. Although the Ming Kingdom was vast and the people were rich, according to the descriptions of scholars, military officials, and merchants who surrendered to the Later Jin, the wealth of the Ming Kingdom was actually in the hands of the gentry, and the Ming people, who possessed the least wealth, not only had to bear heavy forced labor and all the field taxes, but now they had to pay additional salaries.

The most ridiculous thing is that the officials of the Ming State distributed the additional salaries according to the total number of acres of land in the world, but when they actually collected them, they distributed these salaries to the ordinary people who had no background. This makes what seems to be a fair levy a burden on civilians in reality.

And the more civilians go bankrupt because of the levy, the more severe the rest of the civilians will have to bear until all the civilians in the world are bankrupt. It seems that Houjin only threatens the safety of the Ming Dynasty in the corner of Liaodong, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty has exhausted its national strength in this critical place.

Originally, Huang Taiji also tried to speed up this process, as long as the Houjin army could make a detour and break through the customs and break the states and counties in the north of the Ming Dynasty, then the national strength of the Ming Dynasty would be consumed faster.

His plan was almost achieved, in the second year of Chongzhen, he successfully took the Houjin Eight Banners to break through and enter Jizhou, originally thought that this trip could directly reach the city of Beijing, so that the Ming Emperor who had just ascended the throne panicked, so as to move troops indiscriminately, so that Gyeonggi Zuo became the hunting ground of the Houjin army.

However, Houjin's luck seems to have come to an end that year. This Ming Emperor, who has just ascended the throne, is obviously not a waste who is longer than the hands of a woman in the deep palace. He took himself as a bet, and led the Hebei and Liaoxi armies to besiege them in the mountains of Jizhou, and never let them rush into the Hebei Plain.

The morale of the Ming army, which was stimulated by the emperor's personal expedition, and the emperor's resolute tactics of clearing the wilderness, made the Houjin army make mistakes in judgment one after another, and finally gave up this expedition. It was also from this year that the Ming Kingdom seemed to have begun to become wiser, and no longer built any isolated fortresses in the Hedong region in vain.

The Ming army began to resume the training of the Houjin Field Battle, and eliminated the old, weak, sick and disabled veterans who fled from the battlefield, which made the Liaoxi Army, which was originally a good combat force, finally have the appearance of a strong army. As for the new army trained by the Ming State in Guannai, it became the main force in the war against Mongolia and the Later Jin.

The establishment of a new army by the Ming State to prevent the Houjin from entering the customs was also expected in Huang Taiji's view. An emperor who dares to risk his own life obviously will not entrust his life to the hands of the border army, and it is normal to train a new army to defend the capital.

However, the biggest problem in the training of the new army of the Ming Dynasty is not the source of troops and the person in charge, but whether the national strength of the Ming Dynasty can bear it. If the young Emperor Chongzhen also relied on the addition of troops to train his troops, then for Huang Taiji, this would have the same effect as his raiding in the customs.

However, even Huang Taiji himself did not expect that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom would be able to jump out of the inherent world consciousness and choose to seek a new source of wealth overseas. Not only opened the sea to ban foreign trade, but also sent troops to plunder those overseas vassals whose strength was far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, this emperor was not bound by the moral concept of China at all, and sure enough, it was not a rumor that the prince of the Ming Kingdom did not study.

In the ten years of Chongzhen, the wealth plundered by the Ming Dynasty from overseas has far exceeded the salary added to the people in the past. In fact, since the third year of Chongzhen, the Liaoyu in the northern provinces has been basically abolished. By the tenth year of Chongzhen, Liaoyu had become a part of the industrial and commercial tax revenue, and the increase in agriculture had been basically abolished.

So Huang Taiji found a situation that frightened him, the Qing Dynasty was confined to Liaodong by the cage established by the Ming State, and it was difficult to grow and expand. And the Ming Kingdom, which was originally a behemoth, drew a huge amount of wealth from overseas to accelerate the recovery of its vitality. Under the advantages of one another, the Qing Dynasty is like a lamb imprisoned and waiting for death.

What made Huang Taiji feel even more depressed was that the statecraft used by the young emperor of the Ming Kingdom was actually no different from the way the Later Jin rose up. It is nothing more than annexing the weak and plundering the people and property of other countries to strengthen oneself. It's just that with the size of the Ming Dynasty, there are too many weak and plundering objects it can choose.

It is hard for Huang Taiji to imagine that once this country, which was once bound by etiquette and morality, becomes an insatiable beast, what kind of nation and country will be able to survive in the vicinity of Daming.

However, he didn't dare to tell this desperate scene to the rest of the Aixin Jueluo family, whether it was the Aixin Jueluo family or the other Jurchens, they were not born so brave. When the Mandate of Heaven Khan had just begun to unify the Jurchen tribes, it was not the Mandate Khan's own uncle who first abandoned the Mandate Khan and fled when he saw that the enemy was strong.

The reason why the current Qing State can still hold on to the Ming State is precisely because of the invincible record of the Ming Army of the Mandate of Heaven Khan. Although after the defeat in Uiju, this record has faded slightly. But the children of the Eight Banners at least regarded themselves as the strong side, and did not regard the Ming army as a terrifying opponent.

But once they heard from his mouth the pessimistic conclusion that the Qing Dynasty would eventually fail, then the image of the Eight Banners of Courage and Invincibility forged by the Heavenly Mandate Khan was probably about to collapse with a bang. No one would fight for a doomed end, let alone a smart man like Dorgon.

With the precedents of Amin and Aierli being treated favorably by Emperor Ming, it is not difficult for Huang Taiji to imagine how many traitors there will be in the Aixin Jueluo family in the future. He could only delay this scene as much as possible until the heavens blessed the Qing Dynasty again.

Huang Taiji sighed, finally opened his eyes, and woke up from his contemplation. At this moment, he could only firmly believe that there would definitely be such a trace, otherwise how could they establish their own country in the land of Liaodong.

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