I only heard Huang Taiji nod his head and muttered for a moment after Bumu Butai finished speaking, and then said:

"Of course it's good! However, when I mention this matter today, I am not suspicious of the left wing of Horqin, nor am I angry about Hari Zhula and Manzhu Xi Li's stay in the Southern Dynasty! Because they stayed in the Southern Dynasty, it wasn't all bad for Horqin, and even for me! ”

Speaking of this, Huang Taiji coughed violently, and then spit a mouthful of thick phlegm into a spittoon on the Phoenix Tower, and the original yellow, black and gray face finally had some brilliance.

I saw Huang Taiji clear his throat, and then said to Zhezhe and Bumu Butai: "I only heard about the trade between the left wing of Horqin and the caravan from the south, and the situation is not very clear, and I have no intention of sending someone to ask about it!" ”

Huang Taiji first made his attitude clear, lest the two concubines from the Korqin left-wing Borzigit clan deny or cover it up, but delay his affairs.

"You all know that I have always been in favor of trade! Now the situation of the Dajin country, you all know, without trade, the current predicament of my Dajin country will be difficult to solve for a while!

"The Han people have a good saying! If you don't have a home, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are! To govern a country, it is not enough to have soldiers who are stubborn and fierce and not afraid of death, and it is not enough to have strong bows, crossbows, armor and war horses! Even gold, silver, pearls and jade are not enough! ”

Speaking of this, Huang Taiji turned around again, looked at the Khan Palace in the wind and snow with a melancholy face and a confused look, and Shenyang City in the wind and snow outside the Khan Palace, and continued:

"I really underestimated the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty before, and despised the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty!"

After Huang Taiji said this, he sighed, and muttered in an inaudible voice: "In the final analysis, I also overestimated the national strength of the Dajin Kingdom and the strength of my Jurchen Eight Banner soldiers!" ”

Huang Taiji muttered this sentence with some frustration, turned around again, and with a determined look on his face, said to Zhezhe and Bumu Butai:

"In the past, the first Khan used to say that archery was the foundation of my Jurchen state, but now it seems that archery alone is not enough! The agricultural and commercial affairs respected by the Han people are also the foundation of the long-term national fortune of my Dajin country!

"My Jurchen lives in a corner of Liaodong, the property is not abundant enough, since only fishing and hunting, not good at farming, since last year and the Ming Kingdom, North Korea trade routes have been cut off, trade is no more, the domestic grain and tea shortage, salt and iron shortage! If this goes on for a long time, I am afraid that I will not wait for the enemy to attack, and my Dajin has weakened itself!

"Now in my two yellow flag warehouses, although there are mink, ginseng, deer antlers, and Dongzhu, there is no count, but without the trade of Jin merchants, such valuable things are of no benefit to the national economy at the moment!

"And since the Horqin Left Banner has the opportunity of Hari Zhula and Manzhu Xili in the Southern Dynasty, it is not impossible to take this opportunity to trade with the Southern Dynasties! Sell such expensive and useless things to the Southern Dynasty in exchange for salt, tea, grain, iron, and military supplies!

"If this can be the case, the collusion between the Horqin Left Banner and the Southern Dynasty is not only not guilty, but it has a great merit! What I said, can you understand the concubine and the big jade? ”

Huang Taiji said these words, his eldest concubine Zhezhe may not be ignorant and not quite understand, but for the young but already extraordinary Da Yu'er, these words could not be more plain.

Governing a country may be more difficult than governing a tribe, but there are many common truths between the two.

Just as the Mongols could not have horses without flocks, so the Jurchens could not have warriors without enough food for the warriors.

The grain shortage that had already occurred in Houjin since last winter could no longer be concealed by the spring of this year.

The trade in cloth, which was strictly forbidden since Huang Taiji inherited the throne of Khan, especially the Jurchens' torture and killing of clothed minions, began to secretly prevail in the homes of bannermen and armor-clad people in various parts of the Jurchen Eight Banners of the Dajin Kingdom.

Huang Taiji knew very well in his heart that the nobles of the Jurchen Eight Banners were destroying the foundation of the Jurchen country by themselves.

Because once there is no such huge number of clothed minions, who will reclaim and cultivate the banner fields that will be distributed to the Eight Banners in the future?

In the future, the bannermen and armor-clad people of the Eight Banners will go out to fight, who will produce the grain in the rear of the Dajin Kingdom, who will build the weapons, who will feed the war horses, and how will the people levy them? !

But knowing that he knew it, he couldn't force the nobles of the Jurchen Eight Banners to transfer their small rations to those clothed minions, so that they could be used to feed those coated minions.

Therefore, since last winter, Huang Taiji has repeatedly verbally advised the Eight Banners Banner Owners Baylor to relieve their people and clothed minions without any effect, and he has simply turned a blind eye and no longer cares about the affairs of each banner itself.

Because his two yellow flags are also facing the problem of food shortage.

At this point, Da Yuer, as Huang Taiji's very favored Xigong Fujin, has long known from Huang Taiji's own mouth and from his own observations.

Similar situations have been encountered many times in the history after the founding of the Jurchen people, and the so-called killing of fat pigs during the Nuer Hachi period, and the so-called killing of poor ghosts after the killing of fat pigs, are all countermeasures taken in this situation.

At that time, the so-called fat pigs or poor ghosts in the mouths of the Jurchens of the Dajin Kingdom referred to the Han people in the Houjin Kingdom at that time.

In those days, when the Jurchens were about to survive the war and food shortage, they killed and robbed the Han people in the occupied areas to obtain food, livestock, and clothed slaves in order to support themselves.

After killing the wealthy Han people, when there were disasters and food shortages in the Houjin Kingdom, they also took measures to kill the Han people in order to reduce expenses and save food.

That is, to kill all the Han people in need of relief in the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Jurchens called it "killing poor ghosts".

The old slave Nuer Hachi's actions at that time caused millions of Han people who originally lived in Liaodong to either be killed, flee, or become loyal servants of the Jurchens.

After that, the population of the Han people in Liaodong decreased sharply, and when there was a food shortage, the Jurchens could only go out to rob, such as robbing Korea, robbing the Ming Dynasty, and even robbing Mongolia.

However, in the winter of the third year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty and the fourth year of Tiancong of the Later Jin Kingdom, when the Later Jin country once again encountered a serious food shortage, Huang Taiji found that not only the trade route that was vital to him in the Mongolian direction had been completely cut off, but also looked around, and his Jurchen Eight Banners soldiers had no way to grab it.

To the east, the Koreans had long been hiding behind the Fifth Route General Military Office in Dongjiang Town, and no longer bordered the Jurchens.

And the places that once belonged to the Koreans are no longer as easy to loot as they were when the Koreans were still around.

The Ming army in Dongjiang Town and a large number of Han immigrants built a large number of large and small fortresses along the east bank of the Yalu and Tumen rivers.

Nowadays, these fortress groups with Dongjiang Town's official army and a large number of militia garrisons are not something that the Jurchens can easily break.

The Blue Banner Banner Lord Zilharang, who was stationed along the Yalu River, and the Zhenghong Banner, the Valgar Beyl Beyen Dynasty, who was stationed along the Tumen River, had all tried.

The proceeds of their attacks and plundering across the river were not at all proportional to the price they had to pay.

To the south, the same is true of the fortress groups on the western Liaoning corridor, Jinzhou, Yizhou, Songshan, Tashan, and even the Ningyuan defense line, which are more difficult to shake than the Andong and Tumen towns east of the Yalu River.

Whether it is Huang Taiji or the Zhenglan Banner army stationed in Daling River and Quang Ninh City, they do not dare to imagine what kind of price it will take to attack such a strange city fortress complex with a large number of garrisons and a large number of heavy artillery.

Similarly, in the past year, since Huang Taiji returned from the defeat in Monan, both Dolgon, the famous white flag owner, and his eldest nephew, Du Du, the white flag owner, have wisely given up the idea of launching an offensive in the south in the face of Fuzhou City and Jinzhou City, which have been operated by the Lushun Town Guard for a long time, as well as the many new forts and forts built between the two forts.

As for the west, Lin Dan Khan not only fled from the Eastern Mongolian steppe, but also fled from the Monan steppe, and the tribes that remained in the Mongolian steppe had either all been annexed to his Dajin State, and he could no longer send troops to rob them.

For example, how to grab the four flags of Horqin Mongolia? Isn't robbing them the same as robbing yourself?

As for the rest, those who remained on the grassland and were closer to the Dajin Kingdom basically all belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and with the support of the Ming Dynasty, they had been in full swing to build strong castles in their respective territories.

For example, the Karaqin tribes, the Kulun tribe, and the Duolun tribe are no longer the same as in the past, driving cattle and sheep, pulling lele carts, and living in tents.

Now they live in the sturdy giant castle funded by the Ming Dynasty, and it is no longer possible to send a powerful Jurchen cavalry to carry out a surprise attack as in the past.