"You don't have to shirk, the Jurchens are my main enemy next, I need someone who knows the internal situation of the Dongyu very well, if I put you below to lead the troops, in case one day I was shot to death by a stray arrow, wouldn't I be a big loss!"

Listening to Liu Cheng's words, Ah Gui's mood was very conflicted, that is, he was happy for his promotion, and worried about the complicated situation he was about to face, but he finally stood up and solemnly bowed to Liu Cheng: "Thank you for your cultivation!" ”

"That's it!" Liu Cheng's face showed a relaxed smile again: "Ah Gui, let me ask you a question, if you answer correctly, I will let the flag waving exempt you from the meeting gift!" ”

"A greeting gift?" Ah Gui was stunned when he heard this: "What's the problem?" ”

"What is Huang Taiji doing at this time?"

"This-" Ah Gui was stopped by Liu Cheng's sudden question, he was completely confused, and he didn't understand why his boss asked him such an inexplicable question. In the end, he decided to admit to Liu Cheng that he didn't know how to answer, but there was a soft snoring sound in his ears, and when he looked down, he found that Liu Cheng had already fallen asleep on several cases.

Monan grassland, next to Jokhang Temple.

"Bogda? Chechen Khan! (The Mongolian tribes who submitted to the Manchu Qing Dynasty gave Huang Taiji the honorific title, Bogda Peak is the highest peak of the Tianshan Mountains, Mongolian has the meaning of heaven, the highest place, and Chechen is the meaning of wisdom and wisdom in Mongolian, which is translated into Chinese as Tiancong Khan.) ）

"Bogda? Chechen Khan! ”

"Bogda? Chechen Khan! ”

The cheers of tens of thousands of people resounded in the sky above the grassland, and Huang Taiji on the high platform seemed to feel some kind of tangible entity rushing towards him, pushing himself back, he subconsciously closed his eyes, tilted his head slightly, and enjoyed this strange feeling. At this time, a thought suddenly flashed in his heart: "Tens of thousands of people cheering in unison can do this, so what kind of feeling is it for the Great Tomorrow to accept hundreds of millions of people to cheer and worship him after the annual ceremony of sacrificing heaven and earth in Beijing?" If you can feel it for yourself, even if you die next time, what's the regret? ”

"Eighth uncle, how happy it would be if Marfa (grandfather in Manchu) could also witness all this with his own eyes!"

"Yes, if Amma could see everything in front of him with his own eyes, he would definitely be speechless with joy!"

Hearing Yue Tuo's voice behind him, the corners of Huang Taiji's eyes couldn't help but be a little moist, as the eldest son of the big Belle Daishan, the Marfa in Yue Tuo's mouth naturally refers to Nurhachi, who founded the great cause, Yue Tuo's mother died early, and his stepmother was very mean to him, and Nurhachi was treated harshly by his stepmother when he was a teenager, so he paid great attention to his sons, and when he learned that Yue Tuo was mistreated by his stepmother and father Daishan, he immediately attracted Dai Shan's words and reprimand, and presided over Yue Tuo and Dai Shan's separation of the family, living alone, because of this, Yue Tuo has a deep relationship with his grandfather Nurhachi. For the Aixin Jueluo family, the conquest of the Mongols, especially the Mongol tribes located at the western foot of the Great Khing'an Mountains, was of special significance. Tracing the history of the Aixin Jueluo family, it is impossible not to mention that in the fourth year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty awarded Meng's brother Timur as the commander of the Jianzhou Weidu, and his recommender, Aha, the chief of the Huli Reform Department, had a daughter who was still the Ming Chengzu Zhu Di as a concubine, and the Meng's brother Timur and Ahachu were in-laws, so Ming Chengzu Zhu Di said: "Meng's brother Timur, the queen's relatives." This undoubtedly greatly enhanced the prestige of the fierce brother Timur among the Jurchen tribes. The Ming government's encirclement of the Jurchen tribes had a far-reaching purpose. In order to prevent a certain careerist from following his own behavior of "Qing Jun's side, uncle and nephew", Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital from Nanjing to Yanjing and renamed it Beijing after usurping the throne, so as to strengthen the control of the border army. In this way, the strategic location of Liaodong was immediately highlighted. Just as the Han and Tang dynasties set the capital of Guanzhong, they invariably passed through the Western Regions; After the capital was set in Beijing, the Ming Dynasty also began to painstakingly manage Liaodong. The reason is very simple, once Liaodong is controlled by the strong enemy Mongolia in the north, not only can it directly threaten Beijing, but also the nomadic Mongols can obtain the long-awaited agricultural and handicraft base, upgrade to the dual empire of agriculture and animal husbandry, and the most important thing is to ally with Korea, and form a strategic situation of encirclement in the east, west and north of the Ming Empire with the North China Plain as the ruling core, and the vast area from Gansu in the west to Shandong in the east will fall under the threat of the Mongols. And if Liaodong is controlled, it will be tantamount to cutting off Mongolia's arm, and Beijing can rest easy. As the fierce dog of the Ming Empire, the Aixin Jueluo family has struggled to survive and develop for two hundred years, and it is also two hundred years of fighting hard for the Ming Dynasty and fighting hard with the Mongols and the more remote and barbaric Jurchens in the East China Sea.

"It's a pity that the Chahar department and the right-wing Tumut department are missing." Huang Taiji looked at the various flags under the high platform, and his face showed dissatisfaction: "What a fly in the ointment!" ”

"Yes!" Yue Tuo also sighed, this time the Western Expedition Huang Taiji only dispatched Zhenghuang, Mosaichuang, and the Tianyou Army in the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Right Wing, a total of more than 20,000 people, fighting the idea of "having a conquest without a war", that is, the strategy of military offensive supplemented and political offensive based. In dealing with the Mongols, Huang Taiji did not take their land as he did with the Han people in Liaodong, thinking that he would organize the people together; Nor did he amass his wealth and seize his population for real national use, as he did with the Ming Dynasty, but tried every means to form an alliance with it, using a two-pronged approach of civil and military, recognizing the status of the noble khans of the Mongol tribes, weakening its strong, helping its weak, forcing it to recognize the suzerainty of the Later Jin, and tying it to the chariot of the Later Jin Empire to attack the Ming Empire. After years of hard work, Huang Taiji finally succeeded in forcing dozens of tribes such as Korqin, Zalut, Balin, Naiman, Aohan, and Karaqin to elect him as the co-leader of the Mongol tribes - that is, Bogda? Chechen Khan, but this does not include the two divisions of Chahar and Tumut, the former has always been led by the Mongol Great Khan, and the latter is the most powerful of the 30,000 households on the right wing. Chechen Khan's color is naturally much worse.

"Great Khan, according to the report from the spies, these two departments crossed the Yellow River five days ago and migrated westward, obviously trying to avoid my Dajin's troops!" When Yue Tuo said this, he lowered his voice and said, "If you don't give me two thousand fine horses, one person and three horses, I will definitely chase these two men and horses back!" ”

In the face of Yue Tuo's plea, Huang Taiji hesitated for a moment and did not give an immediate reply, which was an extremely rare thing for him who had always been decisive. It's not that he doesn't trust this nephew's ability, the thirty-six-year-old Yue Tuo is in the heyday of a general, and it was he who accompanied Huang Taiji on his expedition to Chahar two years ago, and he had been to the Hetao region and was very familiar with the local terrain. What made Huang Taiji hesitate was a deeper and even more unspeakable reason - the succession to the supreme power of the Later Jin Empire.

Like most barbarian peoples who had just entered civilization, the Jurchens of the early seventeenth century were not very clear about the distinction between private and public power, and they saw no difference between a chieftain who gave his men to his sons before his death and a farmer who gave his land and cattle to his sons before his death. But as the Jurchens conquered the Han people in Liaodong, they also learned some very wonderful things from these conquered people - such as the **** monarchy.

Thanks to the blessing of a large number of Enlightenment thinkers in modern times, for the vast majority of modern people, **** monarchy is almost synonymous with AIDS, fascism, and racism, and they are all the root causes of evil. But in political science, **** monarchy is a completely neutral word, in a sense, in ancient society **** monarchy is still a very advanced system, because in ancient society this system is almost the only way that can perfectly solve the problem of political power inheritance and legitimacy of the great empire - after a military strongman seizes the supreme power, through religion, bribery, violence and all imaginable methods to hand over power to one of his own heirs, maybe modern people think this method is ridiculous and absurd, After all, talent, morality and prestige cannot be passed on like genes and wealth, even if you are a talent than Guan Zhong or a Zhou Gong, as long as the little kid on the throne has the blood of the first emperor in his veins, you have to bow down and obey orders. But for the subjects of the empire, it is much better to have a mediocre emperor than to have a civil war every other generation.

Although the Jurchens are very bright students, but also consider the course of history, they can not jump from the primitive tribe to the people under the **** monarchy in just one or two generations, their leaders from the military leader of the tribal alliance to the **** monarch took several generations, Nurhachi did not have an heir when he was in power, but made out the "four major Baylor by month, all the machine affairs in the country, are in charge of the month Baylor" This wonderful system, and the princes of each banner also have a lot of powerAll matters are to be decided by the princes together. If it weren't for the fact that the military pressure from outside the Houjin was too great at the time of Nurhachi's death, and the three of Dai Shan, Amin, and Mang Gurtai were all heroes who knew the general situation and knew how to advance and retreat, and Huang Taiji was a rare political genius, the newly established Houjin Empire would probably have collapsed in the civil war for the throne.

As the successor of Nurhachi, Huang Taiji shouldered the heavy responsibility of establishing a **** monarchical state, and for this he used all possible means to strike at his brothers, weaken their power, and strengthen his position. After several years of hard work, Amin has been imprisoned, Mang Gurtai died early, and only one of the four major Baylors is left, Dai Shan, who is the only surviving one, and he is silent in political affairs on weekdays. But Huang Taiji didn't feel safe, on the contrary, he sensed a new threat - Yue Tuo.

Huang Taiji is not worried about what happened to him, Yue Tuo may be a first-class commander on the battlefield, but in the political arena, Huang Taiji is not afraid of any opponent. But Yue Tuo had a huge advantage - he was born in 1599 BC, a full seven years younger than Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji's physical condition is not good, while the eldest son Haoge is brave and reckless; The rest of the children are still young, if they die early, then Yue Tuo, who is the secretary of the military department, is in charge of the army, and the big Belle Daishan is the elder in the clan, and the two of them will join forces, then it will become the biggest threat to their children, although the relationship between Dai Shan and Yue Tuo's father and son is not good, but after all, the two of them are biological father and son!

At this time, Huang Taiji was very envious of the Son of Heaven of the Ming Kingdom, although the Ming Dynasty's civil ministers and military generals had this and that kind of shortcomings, but the balance of power composed of eunuchs, scholars, nobles and other forces could ensure that in most cases the throne would not fall to his family. During this period of time, Huang Taiji often dreamed of the Ulanala clan (Nurhachi's wife before his death, the mother of Dolgon, Akig, and Duoduo, after Nurhachi's death, Huang Taiji united with the other three Beylers, under the pretext of Nurhachi's will, forced him to be martyred. This beautiful woman, dressed in the splendid dress she wore at the time of the funeral, with a strange smile on her face, said to Huang Taiji: "What you did to me after the death of my father Khan, others will treat your wife and children!" I curse every descendant of Aisin Jueluo, I hope that you will kill each other, your siblings, your filthy blood will flow together, and the wealth you have stolen will be taken away by others! "Every time at this time, Huang Taiji will wake up from the bed, no matter how he summons shamans, lamas to do all kinds of rituals, trying to dispel this terrible ghost, but to no avail, whenever night comes, everything is quiet, she will walk into Huang Taiji's dream, where his martial arts, strategy, power are useless, can only despair to bear the terrible curse.

"Great Khan, Great Khan? What are you thinking? ”

A hurried voice woke Huang Taiji from his thoughts, and he turned his head to see Yue Tuo's face full of concern, and his heart couldn't help but move: "Oh, I'm just thinking about the matter of the Ningxia General Army of the Ming Kingdom. In this case, you are my deputy, and I don't need to bother you with this little matter of pursuing the Chahar and Tumut departments, just let Hauge go, you have more important things at the moment. ”

"More important?"

"Yes, the most important thing now is to take Naturalization City!"

Hearing this, Yue Tuo couldn't help but scold Huang Taiji for being despicable, he naturally knew that the "Naturalization City" in the other party's mouth was not the Saiwaixiong City built by Alatan Khan and the Three Niangzi, this city had been burned down by his own troops more than a year ago. The Ming army rebuilt a small fortress not far from its ruins, and this time after the Houjin army reached the Yellow River, all the Ming troops retreated to the side wall, but this "new naturalized city" was defended by the infant city. Although Yue Tuo has not seen the appearance of this new city with his own eyes, he knows the truth that big cities are easy to attack and small cities are easy to defend, and it is said that the new city of the army is on the side of the Yellow River, even if he surrounded this city, the Ming army could still transport supplies to the city by water. Although the Ming army is not good at field battles, there are still a few brushes to defend the city with firearms, and Huang Taiji's mouth is good, but he asked his son to lead the cavalry to eat the fat meat of the pursuit, and let himself gnaw the hard bones of the siege, and the heart is biased to the creaky nest. (To be continued.) )