For the high-level leaders of the Houjin Jurchens, Huang Taiji's death was far less shocking than the death of nearly 7,000 Jurchen Eight Banner elite soldiers. 【Reading.com】

In 1630, the Houjin Jurchen said that it was a country, and it also set up a Houjin banner, but in essence, whether it was a wild boar skin or Huang Taiji, they were the nominal co-leaders elected by the tribal alliance. The reason why Huang Taiji fought so hard with his brothers and relatives was that he could see the instability of such loose tribal alliances.

Take Huang Taiji himself as an example, he can become the Great Khan of Houjin Nuzhen, not simply because he is the son of a wild boar skin and has the blood of a wild boar skin. The legitimacy of the Aixin Jueluo family's leadership of the Later Jin Jurchen regime itself is not too high, but the wild boar skin eliminated and subdued the opposition forces in the various tribes of the Later Jin Jurchen through warfare. So in this way, the legitimacy of Huang Taiji he designated is not very high.

There are many sons of wild boar skin, and each of them has their own soldiers and forces. Everyone else knew that the boar skin was obtained by killing and fighting, and his sons knew better how this so-called Jurchen Great Khan came to be.

Therefore, when Huang Taiji came to power, the designation of wild boar skin only played a small role, mainly because Huang Taiji himself pulled out a little bit of power in a group of barbarians, and he himself was more likely to use the intelligence of traitors, so that he found a lot of supporters among his brothers, and finally let him ascend to the position of this Jurchen Great Khan.

After Huang Taiji came to power, he clearly realized that it was a matter that could not be longed to compete with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, which was rich in land and wealth with the unfading barbarians in the Jurchens. It is precisely because of this that Huang Taiji changed the practice of slaughtering Han people with wild boar skins to support the Jurchens, on the one hand, formulating a relatively mild system to allow the Han people to better undertake the task of agricultural production for the Jurchens, and on the other hand, using the traitor intelligence to carry out feudal reform of the post-Jin Jurchen regime.

Like the Ming Dynasty, in order to divert internal contradictions, consume the power of opponents, and at the same time expand his influence within the Jurchens, Huang Taijicai learned the local methods of the Mongols while conquest of Korea in the east and Mongolia in the west to supplement the population and materials, and invaded and plundered the increasingly weak Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji's idea is actually very simple to explain. That is, in the process of feudalizing the post-Jin Jurchen regime, it is inevitable to hurt the interests of the Eight Banners and Jurchen ministries. Then, through the process of continuous conquest, he used the powerful radical opposition forces to compensate the moderate opposition forces whose interests had been damaged in the feudal transformation with a large amount of war proceeds.

In such a process, Huang Taiji, on the one hand, continued to concentrate the forces under the banner of the Eight Banners into his own hands under the pretext of operational needs, and on the other hand, he continued to gain the support of the politically demented Eight Banners through the bribes obtained from looting.

History proves that Huang Taiji succeeded. The Later Jin Jurchen continued to grow their strength in the process of five expeditions to the Ming Dynasty, and finally not only consumed the main strength of the Ming Dynasty and caused it to die at the hands of the peasant rebels, but also realized the transformation of the Later Jin Jurchen, a tribal alliance, into a feudal centralized Manchu Dynasty.

If it weren't for Huang Taiji's single-handedly making the barbaric Later Jin Jurchen complete the process of feudalization and establish a formalized feudal state, the Han landlords and bureaucrats would not have been able to defect to the Manchu Dynasty in large numbers. Without the Manchu system established by Huang Taiji to allow traitors to survive, traitors such as Hong Chengchou, Kong Youde, and Wu Sangui would not have played such a big role in the Manchu Dynasty's acquisition of Chinese rule.

After all, relying on sixty or seventy thousand real Jurchens to rule a country with a population of 150 million or 60 million is pure delusion. Yuan Meng, who was bent on turning the Central Plains into a pasture, was driven back to the grassland in less than a hundred years.

Wang Shuhui just wanted to accurately transmit the news of Huang Taiji's death and the annihilation of nearly 30,000 Houjin Jurchen forces back to the Houjin side, so he asked Haoge to carry Huang Taiji's body back to Shenyang on horseback.

Huang Taiji has not yet made the wise exploits of two expeditions to Korea, three expeditions to Mongolia, and five expeditions to the Ming Dynasty. For the Jurchens, they were not arrogant enough to think that they were invincible. Therefore, they can understand the defeat of the Eight Banners warriors, and they can accept Huang Taiji's defeat.

However, Huang Taiji's death did still have a great impact on the Jurchen high-level. What's more, he hasn't waited for any reaction from the Jurchen upper echelons. When the departments of the Eight Banners learned that 7,000 Banners had lost their lives in southern Liaoning, the banners themselves were the first to make trouble.

As mentioned earlier, at this stage, the total population of the entire Houjin Jurchen is less than 200,000, and the number of young and strong men who can be pulled out to fight is only 60,000 or 70,000. Seven thousand Jurchen were strong and died in southern Liaoning, and the entire Eight Banners were really filial piety.

In the system of post-Jin Jurchen, every time they go to war, they are drawn from each Niu Lu under the Eight Banners. It is true that the Aixin Jueluo family holds high-end positions such as the owner of the Eight Banners at the top level, but not all the bannermen of the Eight Banners are **Xinjueluo, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners are all of all ethnic groups and surnames.

A total of 60,000 or 70,000 Eight Banner Qingzhuang died at once, and nearly 20,000 Mongols and Han Chinese of all ethnic groups and names were lost, and such a loss was unbearable for the Jurchens. Such a loss is also unprecedented after the establishment of Houjin. In the past, the Jurchen tribes fought with Wild Boar Pi and Huang Taiji, because they could win the battle and reap the benefits. Now that everyone has suffered such a loss, it is natural that all families and surnames will make trouble.

Therefore, the upper echelons of the Later Jin Jurchens did not have time to discuss the aftermath of Huang Taiji, the succession of the Later Jin Great Khan, and what was going on with the Baxing Army, and they had to concentrate on suppressing the troubles of all ethnic groups and surnames under their command first. After all, in this case, not to mention who will be the Great Khan of the Later Jin Jurchen, even the legitimacy of the Aixin Jueluo family's rule over the Later Jin Jurchen regime has begun to waver.

In this way, from May to August, the potatoes on the farms in the southern Liaonan base area of the Baath Party were harvested, and it was only then that the Jin Jurchen side pacified and suppressed all the families and surnames under the Eight Banners.

However, by this time, there was also a split in the upper echelons of the Later Jin Jurchen. On the question of who will succeed the position of the Later Jin Great Khan, two candidates appeared.

One is the first of the four Baylors that are currently the only remaining fruits, and the highest-ranking daishan among the children of wild boar skin. One is the young but outstanding white flag master in the Zhengmeng and Zhengming, and the strongest Dolgon at present.

Among these two people, Dai Shan has great prestige among the Jurchen leaders of the older generation because of his high seniority and seniority.

Dolgon's advantage was that after Huang Taiji's death, most of the families in Shangsanqi who were originally loyal to Huang Taiji chose to pledge allegiance to Dolgon.

Around the position of the Great Khan of the Later Jin Jurchen, the high-level of the Later Jin Jurchen was divided into two factions and fell into a tragic battle