Text Volume 3 The Road to Empire_Chapter 43 Two Strategies
After Amin invited his subordinates to make a bowl of this good southern wine transported by the Four Seas Trading House, he said to Song Xiance who poured him wine on the side in a comfortable mood: "Since Sibeile ascended to the throne of the Great Khan, I have not been happy in my heart.
But yesterday I finally let out a sigh of relief and humiliated Uncle Liu Huang, our Jurchen people. It's still Mr. Song, what you said is right, you can't let Sibeile be so hypocritical and righteous in front of the children of the Eight Banners, and be a benevolent master.
Lao Tzu uncovered his skin yesterday, let me all see how wise and powerful he is, not to mention a defeat, but still want to turn defeat into victory, he is just dreaming..."
Song Xiance's heart suddenly chuckled, and he felt as if something bad had happened in the two days he had been out. After enduring Amin's complaints for a while, Song Xiance asked Amin cautiously and nervously: "What is the humiliation that Baylor said?" ”
Amin replied in a comfortable mood: "When the first Khan was alive, he made a rule that if the army could not win the battle, when the defeated army returned to Shenyang, it should set up a battalion 30 miles away from Shenyang. The Baylors, who led the group, waited behind closed doors in the camp, while the soldiers returned to the city and disbanded and returned to the flags..."
Song Xiance's hand suddenly slipped, and he almost didn't drop the porcelain wine pot in his hand. He looked at Amin a little nervously and asked, "Did Belle Mo really follow this rule?" ”
Amin replied unceremoniously: "Of course, didn't Mr. tell me that the reputation of the Four Baylors among the Eight Banners is too high now, so they often respond to each other.
If you want to restore the old rules, should you hand over the flags and destroy the reputation of the four beylors in the eight banners? Huang Taiji changed the goal of the expedition in the middle of this expedition, not to mention, not only did he not gain much benefit from attacking the Ming Kingdom, but also caused heavy losses to my Eight Banners and Mongolian vassals, isn't it a big defeat?
I have said a long time ago that Sibeile has won the hearts of the people and governed the country, but he is still far from leading the army on the battlefield. When he first ascended the throne, he had to lead the army to attack Jinzhou and Ningyuan, but the result was that he lost his troops and lost his generals, and he did not gain any benefits.
The year before last, he took my elite soldiers of the Eight Banners to bully those Mongolian herdsmen, and got some people and livestock, so he thought that he was an invincible general in the army. On this expedition, we dared to overthrow the military agreement we had set in Shenyang without authorization, and ran halfway to attack the fortified city of the Ming Kingdom.
Now that I'm back, I just want everyone to see what it would be like to follow Huang Taiji to the battlefield. Let's see if he will dare to arbitrarily act arbitrarily in the future, ignoring the rules of the joint governance of our four major Baylors..."
Song Xiance ignored Amin's continued boasting of his plan, interrupted his words for the first time inappropriately, and asked hurriedly: "When Baylor gave the order, could he have discussed it with the ministers of the Eight Banners who stayed behind?" Baylor's order, is it to let the Great Khan and the two yellow banners of Baylor stay outside the city, or let the Great Khan stay outside the city with the two Great Baylors and all the little Baylors? ”
Seeing that Song Xiance interrupted his words rather rudely, Amin suddenly became unhappy in his heart, but the miracles that Song Xiance showed in front of him before made him finally suppress his violent temper, although he was a little impatient, he still reluctantly replied.
"As the Great Baylor who stayed in Shenyang, all affairs are naturally decided by me, and as for those Eight Banner ministers, they are just acting on my orders, and they have nothing to discuss.
I acted according to the rules of the first khan, and naturally kept them all out of the city, and if I only targeted the four beylers and the two yellow banners, I am afraid that it would arouse the criticism of others, and I could not find an excuse for Huang Taiji to refuse the order. ”
After listening to this, Song Xiance looked at the drunken blue-flaged generals in the hall, and couldn't help but take a deep breath before saluting Amin and saying, "Please also ask Baylor to move, follow me to the back hall, the student has a very important matter to talk to Baylor here." ”
Amin looked at the lively cronies who were drinking, and couldn't help but ask a little lazily, "Is there anything you can't say here?" The people sitting in this hall are all my subordinates who have been on the battlefield with me, and they can even give me their lives, so they are not outsiders. ”
Song Xiance was unmoved, and repeatedly made a request, and Amin finally sobered up when he looked at him so solemnly. He looked at the subordinates below who were a little daunted, and finally quietly got up and walked into the back hall with Song Xiance.
As soon as he walked a few steps into the back hall, Song Xiance had already walked quickly to Amin's side, and asked in a low and eager voice, "Is Baylor planning to do something to the Great Khan?" ”
Amin, who was still uncomfortable with Song Xiance's actions, was suddenly taken aback by Song Xiance's words, and he quickly denied it: "I just want to hit Huang Taiji's prestige in China, and I don't want to do such a thing." Now that Huang Taiji and they have just set out on the expedition and retreated, we should take stabilizing people's hearts as the top priority in our country, otherwise wouldn't it be a good thing for the Ming State to pick up the cheap. ”
Song Xiance immediately continued: "Since Baylor had no intention of doing anything to the Great Khan, why did he provoke him? Although the Great Khan was newly defeated, it is said that the losses of the children of the Eight Banners in the army were not heavy, and the main ones who were annihilated and captured by the Ming army were the Mongols. Therefore, neither the soldiers of the Eight Banners in the army nor the people of the Eight Banners in the city will have a grudge against the Great Khan.
Although Baylor presided over the exchange of captured soldiers with the Ming people, the captured soldiers had not yet returned to China at this moment, and Baylor's kindness had not yet been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It was because the students thought that even if Baylor wanted to do it, the odds were not great.
However, the three big Baylors and many small Baylors had nothing to gain in this dispatch, and their hearts must have been full of resentment. At this moment, Baylor turned them out of the city, but did not distinguish between them, and the two great Baylors, Daishan and Mang Gurtai, may not understand Baylor's thoughts, and the others may have to attribute their resentment to Baylor.
In the past, the Heavenly Mandate Khan practiced this rule because the Heavenly Mandate Khan was the Great Khan of the Later Jin State, and he established this rule justifiably. And with Baylor's current identity to follow this rule, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince the public. What's more, even if it is governed by the rules of the four great beylers, there are now three people outside the city, and there is only one beylor in the city, if the Great Khan and the two great beylers oppose this order issued by you, dare to ask what Baylor will do?
Didn't Bellemo intend to close the gates and use force to keep them away? ”
Amin was silent for a long time before he said with an ugly face: "I haven't thought about it before, and I blame you for it." If my husband didn't go out of the city to hunt, how could I have made such a mistake? So what do you say, how should we deal with the aftermath now? ”
Song Xiance stood there and thought for a while before asking, "Dare to ask Baylor, when was this order issued, and is it still too late to recover it?" ”
Amin replied with an ugly face: "I'm afraid it's too late, the order was issued yesterday afternoon, and I'm afraid I've arrived in the army at this moment." ”
Song Xiance looked up at Amin and said calmly: "Then Baylor thinks that he can control the situation in Shenyang City and close the city gates to fight against the army led by the Great Khan outside the city?" ”
Amin thought for a long time, and finally muttered: "Each part of my Eight Banners lives in various parts of the city, and it may be difficult to suppress the power of each banner in the city with a blue flag, not to mention that there is still a large army to deter outside, and if you want to close the city gate to control the situation in the city, I am afraid it will be difficult to do it." ”
Song Xiance closed his eyes and thought for a long time, before he opened his eyes and said again: "In this way, the students have two strategies for Baylor to consider." ”
Amin was amazed, he didn't expect that Song Xiance could come up with two strategies in such a short period of time, he hurriedly said: "Let's talk about it, what are these two strategies?" ”
Song Xiance turned around and looked at the surrounding environment, and made sure that there were no outsiders present, so he whispered to Amin: "Is this the best policy, that is, Baylor personally went out of the city to the army to apologize to the Great Khan, and then ordered the prince and his cronies to lead the soldiers with blue flags to remove the guards at the south gate and the west gate."
With Baylor personally going to the army, it is thought that neither the Great Khan nor the two Baylors would suspect that there would be an ambush in the city. When the army returned to the city, it took either the south gate or the west gate.
Once the Great Khan entered the urn city, he closed the gates and attacked it. As soon as the Great Khan died, Hauge's prestige was not established, and the two yellow flags would inevitably fall into chaos without a leader.
Although Dai Shan has a lot of prestige in the army, but the two red flags have been separated by the Great Khan over the years, and the two fathers and sons of Dai Shan and Yue Tuo are mixed up.
Therefore, if the Great Khan dies, it will be either the third Belle Mang Gurtai or Dolgonbeyler who can compete with Baylor for the power of the Houjin government.
Baylor has exchanged prisoners for the two white flags this time, and has already formed a good relationship with the two white flags, if he shows favor to Dorgon again and declares his support for him to inherit the throne of the Great Khan, then Mang Gultai will have to concede three points to Baylor. If the Great Khan is gone, who else will hold Baylor accountable? ”
Amin thought for a long time, and finally sighed and said: "This strategy is too risky, the vitality I lost in North Korea with the blue flag has not yet recovered, if we take a risk and fail to succeed, then we will be crushed." You'd better talk about the next step, right? ”
Song Xiance was very disdainful in his heart, he could be regarded as seeing the essence of Amin's fierce and timid nature. Since you want to seize power, you naturally can't look ahead and backward, otherwise it is better to be an honest minister.
Although he thought so in his heart, he said in a tone without fluctuation: "In this case, the only way to do this is to ask Baylor to send an order to publicize the victory and return of the Great Khan with his army, and to tell all officials and people to prepare a ceremony to welcome the return of the soldiers who went out on the expedition."
In addition, he sent Shizi to lead the wine and food to the army to reward the sergeants, in order to resolve the misunderstanding caused by Baylor's previous orders to the people. Baylor lowered his posture to apologize, thinking that the three big Baylors would not have to settle accounts with Baylor in order to maintain the stability of Houjin..."