Huang Taiji reprimanded Mang Gurtai without naming him, and the Dugong Hall re-entered the silence of the oppressive atmosphere. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

All they heard was the cold wind outside the temple, whistling and blowing around.

After a while, seeing that no one answered, Huang Taiji said: "What Mang Gurtai said is not completely unreasonable. When the first Khan was there, there were also such natural and man-made disasters, my Dajin has always been difficult to self-sufficiency in food, but it has always been rich and strong, and now the price of grain is soaring, and the banner is in difficulty, but it is because of the blockade of the Ming Dynasty in the south. After a period of time, the blockade of the Ming Dynasty was broken, and the food shortage of my Dajin was naturally solved. ”

After saying this, Huang Taiji coughed a few times, and then said: "In the current situation, I Dajin only has a few choices, one of which is to go south to the Ming Dynasty, break the cities of its border towns, seize its gold, silver, grain and grass, and use the money and grain of the Ming Kingdom to make up for the shortage of my Dajin's daily needs."

"The second is to go east to Korea again, not only to avenge the shame of my defeat in Dongjiang Town with blue flags and red flags, but also to ask for the blame of North Korea and ask for money and food that should have been paid tribute and me.

"Third, it is to go north to Yilan Hara and conquer the unattached Jurchen tribes, which can not only seize their population to replenish the loss of each banner, but also seize their land, cattle and sheep to grant each banner and banner Ding as wealth.

"I have been thinking about it for a long time, and only these three strategies can solve my current predicament. As for the final decision, I hesitated, because it was a matter of my national fortune, and it was only today that the people gathered here to agree.

"What do you think, you can speak freely!"

After Huang Taiji said this, he coughed again, and drank the ginseng tea handed over by the attendant.

After a while, Dai Shan, who was the Great Baylor, finally spoke, and he said: "According to my opinion, this is not a good time to go south to conquer the Ming Dynasty, if you don't go to the East River in September last year, but lead the army south to fight Liaoxi, even if you can't go down to its two cities of Jinzhou and Yizhou, you can still plunder the population and materials outside its city."

"Now that the Ming army has completed the construction of additional forts in the two cities of Jinzhou and Yizhou, it will be protracted to fight at this time, and with the current situation of money and food in each banner, how can it be under the cities of Jinzhou and Yizhou for several months?

"As for the re-conquest of North Korea, although it can be avenged, but now Dongjiang Town has won the battle of last year, which is no longer comparable to the past, and the re-conquest of North Korea is equivalent to the re-conquest of Dongjiang. If not, it will be a protracted war.

"Therefore, if we are between us, either we will not send troops, or we must ensure that everything is perfect, and we must not damage the defeat of our Dajin army again!"

Dai Shan spoke slowly and logically, and his voice was not loud, but every word he said could not be listened to by others.

First, Dai Shan is the eldest Belle, the oldest and oldest of the living sons of the old slave.

Second, Dai Shan is the second strongest figure in the Eight Banners of the Houjin Dynasty at this time, second only to Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji, he is the owner of the Red Flag Banner, and his son Yue Tuo is the owner of the Red Flag Banner.

Third, among the sons of Daishan Lao Nu, he has always been known for his old scheming, if it weren't for his father's concubine**, it is likely that he would eventually inherit the throne.

Therefore, after Dai Shan finished saying these words, everyone else in the Dugong Hall fell into thought.

At this time, Dai Shan's son, Yue Tuo, the new banner owner of the red flag, suddenly followed his father's words and said: "Great Khan, last year's conquest of the Dongjiang Red Flag was seriously damaged, and its Dingkou was almost half damaged, although the conquest of the Ming Dynasty is the best way to relieve my Dajin grain dilemma, but this is indeed not the time to conquer the Ming Dynasty."

"If the Great Khan can give me half a year to set the red flag for his disciples, go north to conquer the tribes around Jilin Ula and Ningguta, and replenish his Ding Zhuang warriors, and in September, I can go south with the Great Khan to conquer the Ming Dynasty."

After Yue Tuo said this, the new owner of the Blue Banner Zilharang also hurriedly said: "Great Khan, the Blue Banner went to conquer the Dongjiang River, although a large number of grain, grass and ordnance were lost, but fortunately, thanks to the blessing of the ancestors, its warriors did not lose much. Then you can wait for the Great Khan to dispatch the battle. ”

Since the two white flag lords, Dolgon and Duoduo, had left Shenyang City and went to the Liaodong Peninsula to clean up the mess after the Fuzhou army defected to the Ming Dynasty, so there were only six banner masters in the hall.

As the eldest son of Huang Taiji, Haoge received the yellow flag, and although he was among the banner owners, he was not qualified to speak, because he could only be the head of Huang Taiji's horse.

Therefore, after the above people finished speaking, the next move of Houjin depends on how Huang Taiji chooses.

Huang Taiji was still thinking about it here, and another person said over there: "Your Majesty King Khan, the servant Fan Wencheng has a saying, I don't know if to say it or not?" ”

Fan Wencheng is a Liaoyang Xiucai, after the old slave used Neiying to seize Liaoyang, he was greedy for life and afraid of death, shaved his hair and braided, and took the initiative to take refuge in Houjin, at first the old slave hated the Han people, so although he appeased a lot of Ming Dynasty talents, but did not reuse them, knowing that Fan Wencheng met Huang Taiji at that time, he thought that he finally had to meet the Ming Lord, and began to do his best to help Huang Taiji plan various conspiracies.

Huang Taiji is different from the old slave, he knows that the Han people have no other skills, but he is more clever than the Jurchens under his command I don't know how many times, so he also deliberately accepted, for a while, Huang Taiji's Sibeile Mansion became a gathering place for the Ming Dynasty to show talents, and they all took refuge in it to give advice, and Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan I are the "outstanding" people among these traitor literati.

At this time, seeing that Fan Wencheng stood up and was about to speak, Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai, Zierharang and others were all full of color, and Mang Gurtai also said: "Dugong Hall is the place where my Dajin Eight Kings discuss politics, what are you?" Where is there a place for you, Nikan, to speak?! ”

As soon as Mang Gurtai's words fell, Huang Taiji said: "Sanbeile's words are wrong! Fan Xiucai is a coated slave under the Zhenghuang Banner, and he is also a review of my Dajin Jixian Academy, how can it be compared to the average Nikan! ”

After saying this, Huang Taiji looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "Fan Jian has something to say, you can speak boldly!" ”

After the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the old slave period was the Eight Banners each governed their own banners, villages and clothed slaves, and there was no so-called imperial court on the Eight Banners, but after Huang Taiji inherited the throne, on the one hand, adhering to the tradition of the Eight Banners to discuss politics, there were still eight banners to set up their own banner yamen, full authority to govern their own affairs in the banner, on the other hand, but also according to the suggestions of the Han talents who came to take refuge, began to set up other official offices in addition to their own two yellow flags, such as this Jixian Yuan, Help yourself manage the affairs of the Houjin Kingdom above the Two Yellow Flags and the Eight Banners.

This is equivalent to setting up a small court higher than the Eight Banners on top of the Eight Banners.

This was a practice of Huang Taiji to listen to the words of the Han people and reform the Eight Banners system in an attempt to strengthen the centralization of power by the Khan King, which was of course opposed by the other six banner owners.

However, the other six banner owners did not dare to oppose Huang Taiji openly, but they all vented their anger on the Han people under their banner.

As for those Han talents who took refuge in Huang Taiji, that is, those Han people in the Houjin Jixian Academy, that is, the Han people's pen post style, they are a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh.

But whoever finds him in the city must give orders to him to be thrown to the ground on the right and left, and his official robe must be taken off and he will be scourged.

Brother Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan showed talents like me, and they were beaten a lot.

But Fan Wencheng and others were hard-hearted, no matter how many beatings and scoldings they received, they all wholeheartedly and unchangeably assisted Houjin Khan Huang Taiji, hoping that one day they would destroy the Ming Dynasty and become a minister of Conglong.

At this time, Fan Wencheng stood tremblingly in the Dugong Palace, his hands were folded, and he was about to bend his waist to the ground, and when he heard Huang Taiji's words, he quickly said: "Your Majesty the King of Han, the origin of my Dajin's predicament today is neither the failure of the previous expedition against the Dongjiang River, nor the laziness of the clothed minions under the banners.

"Although the looting of various flags can alleviate the temporary difficulties, the long-term solution lies in breaking the blockade of the Southern Dynasties."

Before Fan Wencheng finished speaking, Jilharang reprimanded disdainfully: "You ignorant Nikan. The Great Khan asks you to speak, and you pick up the main thing, who are all here, and which master has the leisure to listen to you! ”

Listening to Zierharang's words, Fan Wencheng nodded like pounding garlic, even claimed that it was, and hurriedly continued: "In the opinion of a slave, the Liaodong Peninsula needs to be guarded against, and the direction of Dongjiang Town cannot be careless, even if I Dajin does not go south to send troops to conquer the Southern Dynasty for a while, as long as the army is dispatched, we must prevent Dongjiang Town from sending troops to contain the attack." ”

Fan Wencheng said as he looked at the other banner owners with the rest of his eyes, and seeing Dai Shan's unhappy face, he immediately continued: "In addition, among the minions, while the crusade is not satisfied, the trade with the Mongolian tribes and Shanxi merchants cannot be cut off.

"As a Han Chinese, the slave knows the nature of these Han business travelers who are greedy for money and profit, and they are bold and outspoken with the slave, and the slave is willing to contact the prince of the Southern Dynasty to contact the wealthy merchants of Zhangjiakou to go out of the customs and trade with me. In this way, on the one hand, we will not accept the conquest, and on the other hand, we will trade and trade at the same time, and the dilemma of our Dajin can be solved, and we will persist until September this autumn, and our Dajin will be strong again, enough to conquer the Southern Dynasty and completely solve the dilemma of our Dajin in terms of money and food in the future. ”