In the succession of the Khan, the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty's "order of the eldest and younger" and "the establishment of the eldest and not the long, the eldest and not the young" are not the same, they abide by the "young son guarding the property" system, and implement the system of "separating the family and the undivided family".

Nurhachi especially loves the concubine Abahai born of Azig, Dolgon, Duoduo three young "undivided sons", after his death, the two yellow flags belonging to the three brothers, Nurhachi also envisaged that Dolgon inherited the throne, by the good auxiliary government, but only thirteen-year-old Dolgon after all is young, it is difficult to hold the Khan alone, coupled with the obstruction of many Baylor at that time, Nurhachi's idea failed to realize, Huang Taiji is the eighth son of Nurhachi, ranked fourth in the eight Baylor, also known as the four Baylor.

A year later, Nurhachi died of illness, and many of his brothers, including Nakadaishan, Amin, and Lemang Gurtai, as well as the three brothers Azig, Dolgon, and Duoduo, all had the opportunity to be made khan. Huang Taiji lost his mother when he was young, and the two white flags he received were the weakest among the eight banners, and he had no direct brothers, and his military exploits were not outstanding among the Baylors, and everyone thought that there was almost nothing to do with him inheriting the throne.

But the most powerful Dai Shan and Nurhachi's Fujin relationship is ambiguous, the wind is not good, Amin and Mang Gurtai are also impossible, only Huang Taiji and Dolgon can really compete for the Khan throne, after Nurhachi's death, the bones are not cold, the battle for the Khan position is very tragic, although Huang Taiji is at a disadvantage, but its rich means of political struggle are not comparable to a few young people?

Huang Taiji only used two moves to easily defeat the most vocal Dolgon and the others.

First, Huang Taiji used the trick of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle to force Ulanala to death first? Abahai, without the appeal of the Great Fujin, the prestige of Dolgon and the others immediately fell to the freezing point.

The second is to strive for the middle wait-and-see faction to join, and Dolgon and others are at a loss, Huang Taiji may promise, or co-opt, or divide, the wavering Amin and Mang Gurtai and others have become supporters, and the biggest gain is the defection of Dai Shan, Yue Tuo and Sakha Ling out of admiration for Huang Taiji's martial arts, one effort to change the Huang Taiji, the old and cunning Dai Shan weighed the pros and cons and happily nodded in agreement.

Therefore, since then, Dolgon has complained many times: "Taizong (Huang Taiji)'s position was originally seized" The root cause is this.

Although Huang Taiji ascended the throne of the Great Khan, his life was not comfortable, and there were two mountains in front of him, one was the Eight Kings Parliamentary System.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he and Daishan, Amin, and Mang Gurtai "sat in the south" to worship, and discussed the state together, and the power of Bahe Shuobeile was quite large at that time. Administratively, the four great Baylors sit on an equal footing, jointly adjudicate the military plan, there is no monarch and minister, economically, some people must be divided by eight families, and the land must be divided by eight families, and the eight kings have the power to support, supervise, and replace the Great Khan, and the Khan and the banner lord are side by side.

In order to change his situation as a vain Khan, in order to achieve the goal of being one and the only one, Huang Taiji racked his brains and planned, and the first target he chose was Amin.

In the fourth year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji announced Amin's sixteen crimes, and he was imprisoned to death, so that the four Beile participated in politics and became the ruling of the three Buddhas.

In the fifth year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji defeated Mang Gurtai with a knife and exposed his blade, killing his mother and plotting evil, and soon Mang Gurtai died violently, Huang Taiji chased and won the title, in order not to cause a backlash from other Baylors, Huang Taiji confiscated his blue flag and handed it to his brother Dege.

Today, Huang Taiji took advantage of the situation to push the boat, relying on the crime of Lushun's defeat and banned the Derge class, and the blue flag fell into the hands of his son Haoge, Dai Shan saw that the situation was not good and immediately swore allegiance, and the goal of Huang Taiji being one and monopolizing the power of the Khan was basically achieved.

The second is their own strength, in the Eight Banners, the three Dolgon brothers occupy two white flags and sixty-five Niulu, which is the strongest, followed by the two red flags and fifty-one Niulu of Daishan father and son; the third is the two yellow flags and forty cattle records of Huang Taiji and his son; the fourth, the thirty-three bulls with blue flags led by Amin, the son of Nurhachi's younger brother Shulhachi; The fifth is the twenty-one bulls of the Zhenglan Banner led by Nurhachi's fifth son, Mang Gurtai.

Huang Taiji boldly changed the flag with the excuse of "yellow clothes call me" and "yellow is Khan", and changed the two white flags he led with the two yellow flags belonging to Azig, Dolgon, and Duoduo, that is, Huang Taiji led the two yellow flags, and the three brothers received two white flags......

Since then, he has led two yellow, one blue and three flags, and is the strongest among the eight flags.

It can be said that Huang Taiji has gained absolute strength and authority by virtue of a series of dazzling means, but he is still not satisfied, and he still has a lot to do under the pretext of Lushun's defeat.

The first is to open the knife to the flag power, the emperor Taiji said that at the beginning of the Khan, he began to reduce the flag power of the kings, resolutely improved the status and authority of Gushan Ezhen, and ordered them to participate in military affairs, Tiancong five years he has already followed the Ming system, set up the main administrative institutions of the Houjin such as officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and six ministries, the original ministries are concurrently in charge of each Baylor, and there are two members of the Mancheng government, a member of the Mongolian government, a member of the Han Chengzheng, eight members of the political participation, and a member of Qixinlang. The amount of officials below the level of political participation varied, and by virtue of this defeat, Huang Taiji ordered to stop the affairs of the Beylor Consulate Department after disposing of the household department Shangshu Dege class, and control all the rights of the six departments in his own hands.

Subsequently, the "Regulations on Leaving the Master" were promulgated, stipulating that those who reported the truth of their subordinates or slaves who had accused their masters of hunting privately, concealed what they had gained from expeditions, killed people without permission, defiled their women, failed to report the merits of soldiers, and suppressed complaints, were allowed to leave their masters.

In the end, taking advantage of the defeat of Lushun, Huang Taiji threw out the long-planned plan for the construction of the Mengqi Army and the Han Banner Army, which was approved.

Before this, the Mongolian tribes who defected to Houjin were compiled into Niu Lu, most of them were under the name of the Manchu Eight Banners, such as the Khalkha Department, the Horqin Department, etc., which is the reason why there are 20 percent of the Mongols under the Manchu Eight Banners, and only two Mongolian flags were read in the era of the Old Khan, and now Huang Taiji is determined to read all the Mongolian tribes out, and temporarily organized into five banners, Horqin, Naiman, Ao Han Niu Lu plus the thirty Niu Lu of the Karaqin Department, Huang Taiji's strength swelled again.

Huang Taiji's original establishment of the Han military banner alone can be described as well-intentioned: expanding the source of troops and attacking the Han with Han is only a superficial phenomenon, and the deeper intention is to weaken the power of the Eight Banners kings Baylor, break their monopoly on the army, and weaken the power in their hands, so as to consolidate the imperial power.

In fact, there were only two banners of the Han army flag before, and Huang Taiji had long wanted to incorporate tens of thousands of Han soldiers under the command of Kong Geng and the two into the Han army flag.

Unexpectedly, the two of them were defeated in the battle of Lushun, in order to reduce their responsibility, under the guidance of their henchmen Su Kesa and others, the two of them proposed to take the initiative to incorporate the Han army flag, and the troops and horses were handed over to the emperor Taiji, which can be said to be in the heart of the emperor Taiji.

So Huang Taiji divided the Han Banner Army into four banners, each banner set up Niulu 18 people, Gushan Ezhen 1 person, Meler Zhangjing 2 people, Jiala Zhangjing 4 people. The four banners totaled about 24,000 people, and Kong Geng and Ma Guangyuan, Shi Tingzhu and others were assigned to Gushan Ezhen.

In addition to the flag power and the Menghan banner, he also took the opportunity to throw out the three courts, the six departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Lifan Yuan, collectively known as the three courts and eight yamen systems, to further weaken the power of the flag and strengthen the centralization of power.

In this way, with a small excuse for the defeat of Lushun, Huang Taiji killed several birds with one stone and won a great victory. Militarily, he led the three flags of two yellows, one blue and four banners of Mongolia and Han, and no one was his opponent in the entire Eight Banners, even if others colluded together. Politically, he not only weakened the participation of Zhubeile to the minimum, but even the flag power was greatly impacted, so to speak, as long as he instigated, the rest of the subordinate Niulu no longer had the same unity as before.

However, Huang Taiji needs to calm the anger of everyone's defeat of Lushun, as well as veto the ensuing proposal to send troops again, he needs time to digest the results of these victories, Huang Taiji's countermeasures are very simple, anger is one thing, interests are another, if any of you are not convinced, you can gnaw this hard bone yourself.

Sure enough, on the third day, during the court discussion, Duoduo with a white flag jumped out under the pinch of Azig, and shouted that this defeat was unbearable, especially after occupying Lushun, it was driven out by the Ming army, which was an unprecedented defeat in Houjin Henggu, if a large army was not sent to sweep Lushun, the blow to the morale of the banner people would be very serious, and it would also be unfavorable to the personal authority of the Great Khan......

Huang Taiji stared at Azig, and then at Duoduo, silent, in all fairness, the Ming army rescued by Lushun gave him a very strange feeling, like a poisonous snake ambushed in the grass, but suddenly stretched out its fangs at Yue Tuo!

But neither the Battle of Lushun nor the Battle of Jinzhou could get useful information, nor did they capture a prisoner, and they didn't even know which part of the Ming army was, they only knew that the banner of the Ming Army was under the banner of the Dongjiang River.

But in any case, Huang Taiji must also have a rhetoric, at the beginning, he was the one who tried his best to persuade everyone to send troops to seize Lushun, and now the two banners are losing troops and generals, he must have something to say, what to say? The Ming army is strong? This sentence is not suitable for him.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji looked at Dai Shan......

Dai Shan saw Huang Taiji's embarrassment, he thought about it, turned the wrench in his hand and said leisurely: "As Tie Moda said, this Ming army firearms are fierce, and they are all fierce and not afraid of death, but there are some legendary Zhejiang soldiers, I estimate it this way, it is likely to be a new army trained by the Ming Dynasty according to the training minutes left by Qi Jiguang......"

Hearing Dai Shan's words, there was silence in the hall, and they remembered the combat effectiveness of those Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers in the First Battle of Hunhe, and according to the narrative of Yue Tuo and others, the combat effectiveness of this Ming army was even higher.

Dai Shan glanced at Huang Taiji, and said: "Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty lacks financial resources, and the cost of supporting such an army is too high.

"In my opinion, it's better that this Lushun doesn't fight"

Dolgon suddenly spoke: "Although the number of this Ming army is small, they firmly hold the city, and with the ferocity of firearms, our hard attack casualties are too great, it is better to find an opportunity to lure them out of the city and annihilate them in one fell swoop." ”

Hearing Dolgon's words, Azig was so angry that he almost kicked his brother to death......

"This dog stuff that eats inside and out!"

Azig scolded angrily in his heart, but he stiffened his neck and shouted at Huang Taiji: "Could it be that those Han dogs don't go out of the city for a lifetime, so let's wait for him for the rest of his life?" ”

Dolgon sighed, bowed his head deeply and stopped talking, he knew that his estrangement with Azig could not be repaired, Azig was short-tempered, had no city, did not understand his good intentions, and kept angrily denouncing him as an unkind and unfilial beast, his own mother's corpse was cold and the enemy was hot, Dolgon did not go to defend him, and from time to time created some contradictions in front of everyone, and now Azig saw Dolgon, no different from strangers.

Of course, he knew that this situation was the same as that of the Mang Gurtai brothers over the wall, but it was slightly different, Dolgon was not worried about the recurrence of the tragedy of the Derge class in himself, the identity of their three brothers was not comparable to that of Mang Gurtai, and Huang Taiji did not dare to openly bully and force the three brothers too much, otherwise he would be angry, but he had to endure the humiliation, carefully stammer, and obey Huang Taiji's words.

It's a pity that Huang Taiji didn't plan to let Dolgon go, and he was absolutely unwilling to give up the opportunity to create a split between the three brothers, so Huang Taiji said to Dolgon with a smile: "What do you say? ”

Dolgon saw Huang Taiji's name, so he stepped forward and said: "At this time and that time, at the beginning, Ruitu proposed because Lushun was empty, and Huanglong's four thousand soldiers and horses were not our opponents, so there was a proposal to send troops to Lushun, but now that the Ming Court has defense, it is not appropriate for us to attack the fortified city, although this Ming army is hateful, but we don't have to rush for a while, our main goal is still Liaoxi."

Huang Taiji nodded again and again, and praised: "The old fourteen is reasonable, I think that the Jinfu area is barren, the army is on an expedition, and the logistics of rice and grain transportation are inconvenient, if Lushun is captured, it is not much, and it was originally with the purpose of a surprise attack, since it is impossible to do it now, what if we wait a few more years?" ”

At this moment, Duoduo suddenly spoke: "Since this Ming army is fierce, after they hold Lushun, the Jinzhou that can be reached will be destroyed at any time, how should the Great Khan deal with it?" ”

Huang Taiji rubbed his forehead vigorously with his hands, he knew that this problem would have to be faced sooner or later, but now it was difficult for him to choose in his heart.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji slowly said: "The area around the Dongjiang River in Lushun is barren, those Dongjiang people are more miserable than our Mandate of Heaven for eight years, and the price of grain is eight taels and one stone, and North Korea is even more unbearable, we not only can't grab anything but also have to divide the troops to guard, the burden is not good, it is really a bit more than worth the loss, but Jinzhou can not be careless, I mean, Tiemoda has one more Niu Lu over there, with the Jinzhou city to hold on, if the Lushun defenders come to attack, my soldiers and horses will come out of Fuzhou, the Ming army is mostly infantry, let's use light cavalry to drag the Ming army, and send troops and horses to cut off its back road, then Lushun can also go down with a drum"

Azig stammered despite Huang Taiji's words, and retorted loudly: "That minion of Tiemoda, even the field wave battle is not the opponent of the Ming army with the same number of people, expect him to hold on to Jinzhou City and wait for reinforcements?" I'm afraid that the soldiers and horses of Fuzhou have not moved, and Jinzhou has already fallen. ”

Disheveled!

Dai Shan suddenly slammed the table and stood up, angrily reprimanding Azig: "What if you lose Jinzhou? Lost Jinzhou we retreated to Fuzhou, the south was originally with the Ming Dynasty is a holding trend, why bother with the gains and losses of a city and a place? Didn't Nan Siwei also go down with a drum back then, and fought until Lushun ran out of food and retreated? If the Lushun Ming army continues to move north, it will not be too late to clean them up at that time."

Everyone present was shocked, Dai Shan has always been observant of words and feelings, and it is very accurate to figure out Huang Taiji's thoughts, could it be that Huang Taiji is also preparing to give up Jinzhou?

Huang Taiji saw that the scene was cold, so he laughed and said: "It's one thing for the Ming army to dare to attack Jinzhou, and it's another thing to defend it after defeating it. Tie Moda was careless for a while, suffered a small loss, but the city can still be defended, the top priority is to find out what the Ming army is, I think, this Ming army will definitely not stay in Lushun to defend the city, we have a chance in Liaoxi in the future, and we can't let them be too idle, we have to find something to do for them. ”

Seeing everyone looking at him inquiringly, Huang Taiji said coldly: "Use the room! ”

Yang Bo didn't know that Huang Taiji was related to him, and he needed a certain buffer time to consolidate the results, and he didn't know Huang Taiji's means to him, he was very busy now, because the reward of the imperial court finally came down after the Tartars retreated for ten days.

The most happy thing is that the question of the ownership of Lushun has been settled, and now it is divided separately from the jurisdiction of the Dongjiang River to Dengzhou, which is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai, and the supply of Chang is also paid by Dengzhou. In fact, the idea of dividing Lushun to Dengzhou was proposed a long time ago.

At that time, Wu Zhiwang, the governor of Denglai, specifically alienated the overseas situation and defense mechanism on the ownership of Lushun: "Lushun is too far away from Dongzhen, and on human favor, Lushun is estranged from Dongjiang and Dengzhou, if it belongs to Dongjiang, then Mao Wenlong should be ordered to sit in Lushun command, and the islands of Dongjiang should be sent to another general. A member of the peripheral tour or garrison stationed in Huangdao is to receive assistance. The two ministers of Fuzhen are stationed in the south of the sea, and there are not many soldiers and horses, so it seems that they should be cut off. From then on, Lushunkou should add a member of the tour or deputy general as the main general, and the east and west islands should add four or five garrison members, in order to help the defense and defense, and the town should go out of the imperial city on time to help. These two strategists always listen to consideration. The second department of the edict is sure to discuss the performance"

At that time, because of Mao Wenlong, this proposal failed to pass at that time, but now it is different, as soon as Mao Wenlong died, the imperial court's control of the Dongjiang River was greatly weakened, and Yang Bo's proposal that he originally thought was full of resistance was passed very quickly.

According to Yan Kunzhi's request, coupled with Wu Zhiwang's previous proposal, Lushun is now assigned to Dengzhou, with a deputy general of Lushun as the main general to guard the town, a deputy general to the western islands, stationed on Miao, Shuang, Huangcheng and other islands, and a general on the eastern islands, stationed in Guanglu, as for Mayang, Zhu, Chahe, Changsheng Islands and other islands as appropriate, each set up garrisons and stationed separately, and the above soldiers and horses are under the jurisdiction of the Dengzhou General Army, which has nothing to do with the Dongjiang River, and the salary is also allocated from Liaoyu. Shen Shikui was promoted to the Dongjiang General Army because of his merits, and still had jurisdiction over Phi Dao and the Dongjiang Provinces.

Li Weiluan was promoted to the general army of Dengzhou, Tan Yinghua, the general of the Huanglong Department, was promoted to a general, and led 3,000 troops to be stationed in Guangludao, Shang Kexi was promoted to deputy general army, and led 3,000 troops to be stationed on Shuangdao, and led the western islands, Zhou Guangbi was promoted to Lushun Deputy General Yao, and the Jimo battalion was stationed in Dengzhou, and a new water battalion was set up in Dengzhou, which was also under the jurisdiction of Lushun. The painstaking efforts of factional checks and balances, and those who have direct jurisdiction over these soldiers and horses are Yan Kunzhi, Zong Yuanfang, Zhou Guangbi, etc., one controls the salary, the other controls the promotion assessment, Denglai Governor in addition to the main barracks under his jurisdiction, Qi, aid, tour, water and other battalions, the original Jimo battalion was renamed the guerrilla battalion, Yang Bosheng guerrilla post stationed in Lushun, plus a strange barracks, as well as a new water battalion, etc., the entire Lushun garrison will reach 6,000 people, of which Yang Bo can directly command nearly 3,500 troops, in order to supplement the guerrilla battalion, The imperial court authorized the guerrilla battalion to draw the military households from Andong, Lingshan, Aoshan, and Dasong to supplement the number of soldiers, and this reward made Yang Bo happy to close his mouth, and the guerrilla function had already made him overjoyed, you must know that the regular soldiers are under the direct jurisdiction of the general army, and the odd soldiers are stationed in the town, and the guerrillas are the freest, and they can even attack across the town without the command of the military department! Unexpectedly, the imperial court also gave him an extra privilege to recruit soldiers, because as long as the operation is legal, the four guards and six institutes around Jimo will be under their control, and they can raise the butcher's knife against the gentry who encroach on the land in the name of checking the military fields, and then the surrounding area of Jimo will become the most solid grain base in Lushun.

Yang Bo didn't know that his name had been on the lips of Emperor Chongzhen several times, and he didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen was quite disappointed in his courage to crush his opponent with his weight after seeing Zhou Guangbi, since Zhou Guangbi did nothing, then the hero of Lushun's victory focused on Yang Bo, and Emperor Chongzhen even took great pains to reward Yang Bo, regardless of the accusations of court officials, Yang Bo's agency rank was promoted from a thousand households to a guard commander, and the military position was promoted from Jimo to a guerrilla, and he directly skipped the general and garrison, Yang Bo didn't know, It turned out that the guerrilla post was to go to Beijing to report to the Ministry of War, and Emperor Chongzhen planned to take this opportunity to meet Yang Bo.

As for Yan Kunzhi, the market has risen sharply, and even if the position of governor of Denglai sits for a few more years, it is very likely that he will enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister, of course, it is just a rumor, and Zong Yuanfang is even more famous, and he is almost on par with Gao Qiqian in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen.

But as soon as I heard that I wanted to allocate the salary and silver of the soldiers and horses of Lushun from Liao, there were more objections in the court, you must know that in addition to the visible salary, others such as building a city, placing henchmen and other incidental ties, the interests of the Guanning army and horses do not know how many of the hearts of the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, the result is that Yang Bo, who originally held his own military exploits, was hit hard, not to mention that the infantry army who originally wanted to be comparable to the Guanning army was one or two or five silver, and the five buckets of rice in their true colors shrank significantly, and even the salary and silver with the family members became the same treatment as the infantry, plus drifting, diversion, etc., In the end, the salary that fell into the hands of the Thunder Brigade was full, and it was only less than six months a year at most, this was still the result of Yan Kunzhi, Zong Yuanfang and others giving him thin noodles and not withholding too much, Yang Bo saw that his hopes were dashed, and he jumped to his feet and scolded a few times, but what could he do, the remaining six months of salary and silver had to fall on himself to solve!

Yang Bo's henchmen naturally have their own rewards, except for the battalion commanders who have basically been promoted to the thousands, other absolute henchmen such as Tie Niu and Mo Chou have been promoted to the command of the guard station or the officer, although they are all empty titles, but it is better than nothing, and some other low-level company platoon commanders occupy the position of the general flag without hundreds of households, the imperial court likes to mix sand, Yang Bo also mixes sand, and stuffs these people into the Jimo Battalion Four Guards and Six Offices, when the time comes

As long as he waved his hand, the Jimo area was under his absolute control.

Chen Bilian's father-in-law Gao Hongzhong was still on the way to the Wa State Maritime Trade, and Yang Bo, the general position of the Dengzhou Water Battalion, was given to Gao Yuanxiang, and other Han Qiaoshan, Fernandez, etc. as auxiliaries, and Jiaozhou Bay began to recruit experienced mechanics one after another, rectify and maintain the old ships, and also prepare for the new construction of warships in the Dengzhou Water Camp.

On 28 July, all the chief officials, including the responsible persons of Shijiu Institute and Jimo, rushed to Lushun to prepare to attend the second congress of Lushun, Jimo, and Shijiu, which was scheduled to be held on 1 August and presided over by Yang Bo himself.

All the people who have participated in the first congress are at least the main person in charge of a department internally, and the lowest official rank is also a thousand households, all of whom are the henchmen of the absolute trust of the adults, and many of the people who were elected this time are happy, it is foreseeable that with the continuous promotion of Yang Bo and the continuous expansion of the organization, how can they occupy a more important position in the minds of adults as soon as possible? (To be continued.) )