At this time, Abatai had already wiped off the feces from his eyes, and after listening to Babutai's words, he poked the other party's ribs with the tip of his elbow, and scolded in a low voice: "Just your kid ghost elf, you don't remind your seventh brother when he is unlucky, your sister-in-law really hurts you in vain!" ”

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The two were talking small words, and when the people in the hall had arrived, they glanced at Huang Taiji, and when he saw Huang Taiji nodding slightly, he stood up and said in a deep voice: "All the irrelevant personnel in the hall retreat to the bottom of the corridor, there is no need for you to wait here!" Wakda (Dai Shan's fourth son), you go to the corridor and keep guard, and if anyone comes up without permission, you will correct the Dharma on the spot! ”

"Wow!" Wakda answered, walked to the door and stopped, his right hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist, and the servants, palace maids, attendants, and Qixinlang hurriedly retreated. Abatai and Babutai glanced at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes, obviously what was going to be discussed next must be confidential, otherwise even Qi Xinlang, who was responsible for the secretary's task, would not be allowed to stay at the scene.

After a while, the idlers in the hall were gone, and Wakda walked out of the door, closed the door with his hand, sat down cross-legged, and put his saber on his knees, looking like a gatekeeper. Dai Shan saw that there were no idlers in the hall, and nodded to Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji coughed low and said, "Everyone sit down!" ”

"Thank you for the grace of the Great Khan!" Everyone bowed to the emperor and sat down one after another.

"I summoned everyone here today because I received an urgent military situation, and I want to discuss with you and come up with a countermeasure!" Speaking of this, he nodded to Dai Shan, Dai Shan coughed lowly, and said in a deep voice: "According to the news from Datong's spies, just nine days ago, Liu Cheng, the chief soldier of Datong in the Ming Kingdom, led the army out of the fortress!" “

The news of Dai Shan was like a stone that broke the calm water, causing a ripple. For the Houjin relatives and nobles in the palace, Liu Cheng is not an unfamiliar name. This is not only because of the excellent intelligence work of the Houjin side, but more importantly, this person successfully broke through the city of Helinger last year, Yue Tuo was captured, Kong Youde was killed in battle, and another Han army descended to the king Geng Jingzhong also died in the siege of Guihua City, which has never been seen in the confrontation between the Later Jin and the Ming army in the past, and they can't help but raise their vigilance against it.

"Then Liu Cheng is out of the plug, where is the soldier pointing?" It was Azig (Nurhachi's twelfth son) who spoke, the eldest of the three brothers Dolgon, Azig, and Dordor (all three of whom were born to the same mother), and although he was brave and good at fighting, he had a rough personality, and he was the first to speak.

"There is no definite news now, but it should be an attack on the left flank of Mongolia!" Dai Shan replied.

Hearing Dai Shan's answer, all the relatives and nobles talked in low voices, almost all of them were generals above the level, they were not laymen in the military, and they all had their own opinions on the judgment of Liu Cheng's military actions, and they all said the Tao. Seeing everyone like this, Dai Shan frowned and shouted in a deep voice: "Silence! ”

The palace was silent, Dai Shan glanced at Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji nodded: "As Da Beile said, Liu Cheng led the army out of the fortress, and nine times out of ten he was going to send troops to recruit the left-wing departments, although I have not confronted it, but from its past experience, it is really a fierce opponent that we have never seen." Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and his eyes stayed on Azig, who had just spoken: "Old Twelve, how do you say we should deal with it?" ”

"Naturally, we are going to send troops!" Azig replied loudly: "And I want to send a large army to break this guy in one fell swoop, avenge Yue Tuo, and snow the shame of the defeat of my Dajin country!" ”

"Hmm!" Huang Taiji's gaze turned to Dolgon on the side, he was still a young man in his early twenties at this time, and he looked a little dazzling in front of most of the relatives and nobles who were already over thirty: "What do you think, old fourteen?" ”

"Troops!" Dolgon replied: "The foundation of our Dajin Kingdom is Manchurian and Mongolian goodwill, and if we lose the left wing of the Mongols, then the foundation of our Dajin Kingdom will be shaken, and we must not do it." Moreover, last year, the Great Khan, you had just sent troops to the west, and the left-wing tribes supported you as Bogda Chechen Khan, how could any of the troops be attacked by the enemy, but the king of the Khan ignored them. As far as I can see, not only should we send troops, but we should also send messengers to inform the left flank tribes that they should move their old and weak cattle eastward to avoid the advance of the Ming army, and we should also arrange pastures for them in advance, as well as tents, tea, salt, grain, and clothing, so as to show the kindness of our Dajin Kingdom and unite the hearts of its people! ”

"Well, that's a good point!" Huang Taiji nodded with satisfaction: "It's still the old fourteen thoughtful, this is also a good opportunity for my Dajin country, originally we didn't count the population and livestock of the left-wing departments, and we didn't have a chance to calculate it in normal times, if they were to send troops to the south together, there would be too much requisition, and it would hurt their people's strength, which would cause resentment; There is less requisition, and we suffer again. This time, if the left-wing units move eastward, we can ask them to report the number of livestock and the number of households, arrange the pasture, and distribute the goods, and they will certainly not lie. ”

Hearing Huang Taiji's appreciation, Dolgon hurriedly bowed his head and thanked him, and then a relative next to him complained: "Great Khan, like salt, tea, and grain, we are also short of food, especially tea, we are at war with the south, trade has long been broken, and tea is bought from Han and Korean merchants at a price more than ten times higher than usual, and now I have to give it to those Tartars for nothing, I am really not convinced!" ”

The whining immediately caused a chorus in the temple, and it was no wonder that these relatives and nobles would complain that at that time, Houjin maintained a standing army of 60,000 or 70,000 with a population of about 1 million, plus more than 100,000 militiamen, and fought a war that had lasted for more than ten years with a huge empire with a population, land area, and economic volume that was dozens or even hundreds of times that of him, and the end of the war was far from in sight. Even if the Houjin won a hundred battles, but the war is a bottomless pit that devours life, even if the Jurchens are all reincarnated as half-orcs, extremely strong, they can be one enemy and ten on the battlefield, and they can have ancient health conditions and supply technology level, even if an expedition is not fought, the loss of one-tenth of the soldiers due to sprained ankles and diarrhea is within the average; If you run into an infectious disease, it is not uncommon for an army of 10,000 people to collapse in more than ten days. Not to mention that the climate, water and soil conditions in Liaodong outside the Guanxi are very different from those in the Guannei, and the population density and sanitary conditions in the developed agricultural areas and the semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas are also completely different. Even though the Jin won astronomical spoils in the war, it was a pity that most of these booty were in the form of gold, silver and jewelry, and the hunger could not be eaten and thirsted, which only increased the inflation in the region ruled by the Later Jin. According to historical records, Huang Taiji once bought grain at a high price of more than a dozen taels or even dozens of taels per stone; At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the most economically developed area in the south of the Yangtze River in Chongzhen for most of the time grain prices stabilized in the range of one tael to two taels per stone, even in the last two years of war and chaos, when grain prices soared, the price of grain did not exceed five taels and one stone, not yet half of Liaodong. The Jiangnan region was the most developed economy of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the most prosperous area of foreign trade, there was a large amount of silver currency circulation in the people, and even there was a silver bean to replace copper money as a small currency, which shows the embarrassment of the internal economic situation of Houjin at that time, even if the palace is pro-noble, the relatives at home may not be able to eat fine grain, like grain and salt gold can also be self-produced and extorted from North Korea, but tea can only rely on smuggling from the Ming Dynasty, it is definitely a rare goods in the rare goods, to take out to the Mongols, It's like cutting meat from the body and giving it to someone else to eat.

Huang Taiji was not annoyed when he saw everyone complaining, and he smiled at Dolgon: "Old Fourteen, tell me the reason for giving tea and grain to the Mongols?" ”

"Yes, Great Khan!" Dolgon answered, and turned to the people: "Rank, when we hunt in the mountains, no matter how embarrassed we are, we must not starve the hounds, because without the hounds, we will not be able to hunt the prey, and we will starve to death sooner or later after eating the food; And without the help of the Mongols, it is impossible for us to defeat the Ming people, give them some tea and grain now, and in the future they will help us lay down a large area of land, with land, will there still be a shortage of food and tea? ”

"Well said!" Huang Taiji smiled: "Do you understand?" Lao Fourteen said well, we have to look at the big picture, look at the distance, if we don't feed the hounds, how can we hit the deer? You understand this, right? ”

"Humph!" Abatai, who was sitting at the end, muttered, "Don't we have less land now?" Even I have more than a dozen Zhuangzi and thousands of rings, but no one farms, and everyone goes to fight as soldiers! There is gold and silver, ginseng and mink skins are piled up, but unfortunately they can't be exchanged for a price, and the wife and daughter don't have any rouge gouache if they want to order a better one, so it's better to mix it under Li Chengliang at the beginning, at least you don't have to eat dozens of taels of silver and a stone of white noodles. ”

"Seventh brother, be quiet, the Great Khan has come over here!" Babutai patted Abatai's thigh: "Don't make yourself unhappy!" ”

"Hmm!" Abatai lowered his head, and waited until Huang Taiji's gaze turned to him, and then asked in a low voice, "Lao Jiu, don't you think it's strange?" ”

"Strange? What's so strange? ”

"When did the Great Khan and Lao Fourteen have such a good relationship, they live like they were born from a mother. Have you forgotten that when Old Khan died, how did Old Fourteen and his mother die? ”

"Be quiet!" Babutai looked at the attention of the people next to him and was attracted by Huang Taiji, and then whispered: "You want to die, you dare to even mention this matter!" ”

"Huh! They are the phoenixes on the mountain, and we are sparrows on the ground, what are you afraid of, just talk about it, just talk about it! Abatai laughed twice, it turned out that the mother of Dolgon, Azig, and Duoduo was the last wife of Nurhachi, Abahai, so Dolgon and Duoduo were still teenagers, and the ranks of the people assigned to them and the rank of Jinjian Nurhachi were far above Abatai, who was far above them in age and merit. When Nurhachi died in 1626 AD, Huang Taiji, in order to seize the throne, united Mang Gurtai, Amin, and Daishan, and forced Abahai to commit suicide and be martyred for Nurhachi. Therefore, Huang Taiji and the three Dolgon brothers had a grudge against their mother, but even so, because Azig was already an adult at that time, and the three of them also had considerable power in their hands, in order to avoid giving others a handle, Huang Taiji swore and cursed in front of everyone when Abahai was dying: "Second younger brother, if we have no grace, we will forget our father." If so, you will die by the sword! Later, as the three of them grew older, the power they mastered gradually increased, and they suddenly had their own line, although it was not enough to take revenge on Huang Taiji, but it was more than enough to protect themselves, and the relationship between the two sides seemed to be quite harmonious on the surface, all of which was naturally incomprehensible in the eyes of such a rough person as Abahai.

"Seventh brother!" Babutai's face became serious: "It's right if you don't understand this, otherwise why is the starling sitting in the position of the Great Khan, not you?" ”

Abatai smiled: "Look at what you said, we are both concubines, where can I sit in the seat of this Great Khan?" ”

"You can't say that!" Babutai said in a low voice: "We Jurchens have an old saying: 'Brothers are enemies!'" 'Do you think about how the second uncle died?' Fifth Brother or Amin, how did they die? Whoever sits in the seat of the Great Khan is whoever sits on it, and how can there be any concubines? When the eighth child sat on the throne, it was Dolgon and the three of them who came out! ”

Hearing Babutai say this, Abatai's face changed slightly, how could he not hear the deep meaning of Babutai's words? It's just that although he is brave and good at fighting, he is also quite dissatisfied with his position in the post-Jin regime, but he is not a very ambitious person by nature, and it is precisely for this reason that although he acted recklessly on weekdays and made a lot of mistakes, Huang Taiji always fined silver and horses, at most cut off the title to do things, and did not investigate deeply, and Dolgon did not embarrass him after coming to power, and did not die of illness until the third year of Shunzhi (1646), which can be regarded as a good death, which cannot be said to be a kind of luck in the bloody high-level politics of the early Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Abatai thought about his own thoughts, and Babutai was silent. At this time, Abatai suddenly heard Huang Taiji calling his name, and hurriedly stood up: "Great Khan, you called me?" ”

"Not bad!" Huang Taiji smiled: "Old Seven, how are you doing in the Ministry of Industry?" ”

Abatai was stunned when he heard this, he was distracted, and he didn't know what Huang Taiji had just said, why he suddenly asked about his affairs in the Ministry of Industry, and hurriedly responded: "I'm busy in the Ministry of Industry, and I also flipped through the account books of the morning this morning, there are more than a dozen books, and my eyes are spent!" ”

Abatai's answer caused everyone to laugh, even the emperor Taiji couldn't help but laugh dumbly, everyone here knows his details, the favorite is to ride a horse and hunt, the least favorite is to read and write, if you read the military order Tang newspaper when you are fighting, it is okay to pay off those money and grain accounts in the Ministry of Industry Abatai can hold on to half a meal, not to mention a morning. (To be continued.) )