Chapter 55: The Dead Princes and Baylors in the Inner Scroll (1)
"Ai Fei, your method is really effective, after I canonized Su Mo'er as Concubine Su, this big jade seems to be much more honest recently." On this day, Dolgon said to me happily when he arrived at Yonghe Palace.
"The concubine also hopes so, but the emperor should not be happy too soon, maybe she is still planning other conspiracies!!"
'Well, I also know that this is just wishful thinking on my part, and I don't want this Qing Dynasty to kill each other internally, and I hope he will do it himself. Dorgon sighed.
"Ai Concubine knows how many princes of my Aixin Jueluo clan have died in internal strife, and the history of entrepreneurship in the Qing Dynasty is also a history of blood and tears of fratricide." Dolgon's sad expression mumbled to me.
"If the emperor is willing to speak, the concubines want to hear it!!" I touched Dorgon's strong hand.
"This first internal conflict was the struggle between my uncle, Taizu's own brother, Surhaqi, and my father Khan, this time, in addition to Surhaqi, there were also two of his sons: the eldest son Altuna and the third son Zasaktu died in this infighting."
"Aixin Jueluo Shuerhaqi, the third son of Aixin Jueluo Takshi, the same brother of the Qing Taizu Nurhachi."
In his early years, he went out with his brother Nurhachi to earn a living, and later defected to the Ming Dynasty general Li Chengliang's men as errands. Perseverance, tenacity, courage and good fighting character. In the forty-fourth year of Wanli (1616), Nurhachi was proclaimed Khan in Hetuala, and Shulhaqi was promoted to Beyler, second only to his brother, and became the second person.
In the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), Shuerhaqi was born in Liaodong. His father, Tucker, was the commander. Her mother is the eldest daughter of Wang Gao, the commander of the right guard of Jianzhou. When Shulhazi was 5 years old, his biological mother unfortunately died, and the family affairs began to be presided over by his stepmother, Nara. The stepmother was mean and cold to the Shulhazy brothers. Shuerhaqi, who was just five or six years old, followed his brother Nurhachi to the deep mountains and forests, collecting pine nuts, fungus, mushrooms, and hunting wild fowl, and then sending these mountain goods to the horse market in Fushun to sell them to supplement the family. However, their rush and toiling did not earn the slightest mercy from their stepmother. Helplessly, when he was 10 years old, Shuerhaqi left home with his brother and lived under his maternal grandfather Wang Gao.
In the second year of Wanli (1574), when Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, led the army to break through Wang Gao's Gule Village, Nurhachi and Shuerhaqi were both captured and used as young soldiers to fight with the army. Every time they fought, the Ming army let the Jurchen captives take the lead and rush into the opponent's sword array. After a few battles, most of the Jurchen captives were killed, but only the Nurhachi brothers survived and developed a strong physique and exquisite martial arts.
In the 11th year of Wanli (1583), Shulhaqi's grandfather and father died in the chaos of the Ming Dynasty. Grief-stricken, Shulhaqi and his brother Nurhachi left the Ming army together and returned home.
After some deep thought, the two decided to avenge their dead relatives, relying on the thirteen pairs of armor left by their grandfather, raising a team of more than 100 people, and began the great cause of creating Houjin. During his entrepreneurial years, Shulhazi became the right-hand man and main fighter of his brother Nurhachi.
In August of the 23rd year of Wanli (1595), Shulhaqi led the Jianzhou Jurchen tributary delegation to Beijing for the first time, and this experience opened his eyes. He was dissatisfied with his subordinate position to his brother, and he hoped to one day become the supreme ruler of the Jianzhou Jurchens. At the same time, he developed a keen interest in advanced agrarian civilization and culture.
In July of the 25th year of Wanli (1597), Shulhaqi went to Beijing for the second time to pay tribute, and this experience fueled his ambitions. After arriving in Beijing, he was warmly and ceremoniously received by the Ming court, and was rewarded with rich gifts such as gold, silver, and satin. At the same time, the Ming court also granted him the high-ranking military position of command. The Ming Dynasty used this as a strategic countermeasure, trying its best to win over and buy Nurhachi's opponents and opponents, and stir up sow discord between the two in order to intensify the contradictions between them. For this reason, Shulhaqi was indeed grateful for the favor of the Ming Dynasty, he was grateful to the Ming Dynasty, and his political attitude became more and more inclined to the Ming Dynasty. In addition to his active close relationship with the Ming Dynasty, Shulhaqi also strengthened his ties with various other Jurchen tribes through political marriages in order to expand his personal power and influence. In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli (1596) he married the sister of Beyl Buzhantai of the Ula tribe, and the following year he married his daughter Eshitai to Buzhantai. Shulhazi also maintained a fairly close relationship with the DPRK, and the DPRK envoy went to Jianju to perform the same etiquette for Nurhachi and Shulhaqi to meet and give the same gifts to both of them. The two of them also slaughtered pigs and sheep separately, and each entertained the Korean envoys in their tents and gave gifts in return. The Joseon king was also willing to maneuver between the two Jianju chiefs and impose the principle of double recognition on them, in the same way that the Ming dynasty did.
With the unification of the Jurchen tribes, Nurhachi had enough strength to confront the Ming Dynasty, and his hostile attitude towards the Ming Dynasty became increasingly obvious, and his subordinates often engaged in armed conflicts with the Ming army. The Ming Dynasty was disturbed by the situation in Liaodong. In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli (1601), the Ming court used Li Chengliang, the former general of Liaodong, who had been deposed, in the hope that he could reverse the bad situation at that time. At the beginning of his tenure, Li Chengliang adopted the original policy of dividing and disintegrating the Jurchen ministries. He took advantage of the contradiction between Shulhazy and his brother, vigorously wooed him, and was very kind to him, especially high. Li Chengliang asked his son Li Rubai to marry Shuerhaqi's daughter as a concubine, which made the relationship between the two parties closer. In the thirty-third year of Wanli (1605), Shuerhaqi's wife died of illness, and Li Chengliang and his son prepared a rich sacrifice to go to the funeral, which was very grand. In the face of the favor of the Ming Dynasty, Shulhaqi was even more grateful, and he was determined to rely on the Ming Dynasty as a backstage to establish his position as the supreme leader of the Jurchens.
Shulhachi's blatant assertion of personal authority gradually challenged Nurhachi's position, and the relationship between the two became increasingly strained, and the two often quarreled over disagreements at meetings attended by Zhubel, and Nurhachi began to try to eliminate him as a potential adversary.
In March of the 35th year of Wanli (1607), a small Jurchen tribe living in the city of Shuyou, unable to endure the slavery of the neighboring Ula tribe, wanted to attach themselves to Nurhachi. Nurhachi sent Shulhaqi and his sons Chu Ying and Dai Shan, and the generals Fei Yingdong, Yanguli, Chang Shu, and Hu Erhan led 3,000 troops to Shuyou City to collect the department. [5] When Shulhaqi and the others were halfway through the journey, he told his fellow generals suspiciously that he saw a faint glow on the banner and wanted to retreat. However, under the opposition of Chu Ying and Dai Shan, they could only give up. After arriving at the city, the tribe's chieftain Tsemuthei's 500 families were ready to set off, and the team soon set out on the way back.
When Urabeleb Zhantai heard the news, he immediately led 10,000 cavalry to intercept the attack, and the armies of both sides put on a fighting position. But at this time, Shulhazy retreated to the side with his five hundred men, and he did not want to destroy the friendly relations with his in-laws. Only Chu Ying and Dai Shan led the army to fight bravely, Shulhaqi only watched from the side, and his subordinates Chang Shu and Naqib did not join the battle. It was precisely because of Shulhaqi's passive retreat that in the end, although Chu Ying and Dai Shan defeated the Ula cavalry, they failed to deal a fatal blow.
After Shulhaqi's division returned to the court, Nurhachi prepared to execute his subordinates Changshu and Naqib on charges of desertion, in order to cut off his right-hand man and set an example for the monkey. But Shulhaqi's reaction was very strong, saying that killing them was equivalent to killing me, and he vowed not to bow his head, and he had the position to fight to the death. In the end, Nurhachi made concessions in order to avoid an open conflict. He fined Chang Shu only one hundred taels of gold, seized Nazib's men, and henceforth deprived Shulhazi of the right to command the army, pushing him out of the top military leadership.
In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli (1607), Shulhaqi's status plummeted, and he became a nominal figure, and he felt that he and Nurhachi could not coexist. So, he consulted with his eldest son, Altuna, and his third son, Zasaktu, and plotted to set up another door to fight against his brother.
So Shulhaqi took a few sons and a few subordinates to Heitumu, southeast of Tieling, where he cut down wood to build houses and open up new bases. [10] The proximity of Tieling, an important military town of the Ming Dynasty, allowed him to rely directly on the military protection of the Ming Dynasty, and to the east of him was adjacent to the Ula tribe, which allowed him to receive assistance from his allies at any time.
Shulhaqi began to become more and more estranged from Nurhachi, and moved closer to the Ming Dynasty. Li Chengliang saw this great opportunity to divide the female truth, so he added fuel to the fire and deliberately provoked contradictions. He canonized Shuerhaqi as the head of the right guard of Jianzhou, which was the highest local military governor established by the Ming Dynasty in the Liaodong region.
Nurhachi first ordered Shulhaqi to give up the idea of establishing himself as king, and when persuasion failed, he resolutely took tough measures, and in March of the 37th year of Wanli (1609), Shulhaqi's two sons, Artuna and Zasaktu, were killed by Nurhachi, and the general Wuerkun was also executed. Nurhachi was still angry, and still planned to put his second son Amin to death, but it was only under the extreme efforts of Huang Taiji and others that Amin escaped death and saved him from death, but half of his family property was confiscated.
In the face of his brother's aggressive posture, Shulhazy lost the courage to continue the struggle. He knew that his strength was far inferior to that of his brother, and the backer he was counting on, the Ming army stationed in Liaodong, was also in a precarious situation, and he was not Nurhachi's opponent at all. In a desperate situation, Shulhazy returned to his brother's tent. This time, however, Nurhachi no longer spoke of brotherhood to him, and Shulhachi was imprisoned in a dark room, locked with iron locks, with only two holes to bring him food.
On August 19, 1611, Shulhaqi died in captivity at the age of forty-eight.
Shulhaqi is the second hero of the Qing Dynasty, his original status is only under Nurhachi, when the chiefs of the various departments visit, the two brothers are congratulated at the same time, divided into north and south. The border generals of the Ming Dynasty called Nurhachi the second governor. Shulhaqi was also a figure who was very capable of fighting at the beginning of the army, and he made many military exploits and was an indispensable arm of Nurhachi. Moreover, Shulhaqi also considered himself the heir of Nurhachi.
Since May of the 11th year of Wanli (1583), after Nurhachi raised an army, Shuerhaqi helped Nurhachi not only destroy the forces of Nikan Wailan, the enemy of his father and the lord of Tulun City, but also conquered the Hunhe tribe, the Dong E tribe, the Sukesuhu tribe, the Zhechen tribe, the Wanyan tribe, the Zhusheli tribe, and the Neyin tribe, and unified the Jianzhou Jurchens. In the forty-fourth year of Wanli (1616), Nurhachi was called the king, Shuerhaqi was called the general, and he was the second person in Manchuria, with more than 5,000 elite soldiers and more than 40 generals, and his power was quite huge. “
"But for the sake of power, my father Khan killed his own brother with his own hands, which is the sorrow of my love for Xinjueluo, and it is also the beginning of cannibalism." Dolgon's expression grimaced.
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"The second time it was Zhu Ying who killed each other! He was the eldest son of his father, Khan, and was very respected at first, but ended up with a tragic death!! “
"Chu Ying was born in the eighth year of Wanli (1580), Nurhachi was 21 years old this year, and Chu Ying was only 4 years old when Nurhachi raised the army. Due to the early death of her mother, the young Chu Ying followed her father all the way to the shadow of the sword. At the beginning of Nurhachi's army, the first thing he faced was the confrontation and assassination of some tribesmen. When the Assassins attacked, Nurhachi hid his eldest son Chu Ying, second son Daishan, and daughter Dongguo Gege under the cabinet. Chu Ying grew up with his father in a dangerous situation, and the sword and sword, the bloody rain and bloody wind created his character of bravery and madness.
After growing up in the first month of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli (1598), Nurhachi ordered him to crusade against Anchulaku, he was not afraid of dangers, put on armor and went into battle, led the troops to advance rapidly, galloped to the starry night, took 20 tunzhai, and the rest of the tunzhai was subdued, and won more than 10,000 people and animals, and returned to the division in victory. After returning home, he was named Humba Tulu by Nurhachi and promoted to Baylor.
In the first month of the 35th year of Wanli (1607), the lord of the city of Huyou, Muthei, went to Hetuara to submit to Nurhachi, and asked Jianzhou to send troops to meet his family and subordinates. Nurhachi ordered his younger brother Shulhaqi, Chu Ying and his second son Daishan to lead 3,000 troops to the city. On the way to the march, a strange thing happened: one night, the clouds were thick, and the five fingers could not be seen, and a white light suddenly shot out from the big banner of the army waving in the wind, tearing the night sky like lightning and piercing people's eyes. The soldiers put down the banner and looked closely, but there was no light on the flag. But when they raised the flag again, it shot a dazzling white light again. Shuqihach was shocked and said: "I have been on a campaign with the Great Khan since I was a child, and I have experienced a lot of things, but I have never seen such a strange thing. This is a bad omen! We should withdraw our troops and avoid this omen. Shulhaqi's words were resolutely opposed by Chu Ying and Dai Shan. At their insistence, the army finally reached the city. On the way back from escorting 500 households, the Jianzhou army was intercepted by the Wula soldiers in a place called Wujieyan. Seeing that the enemy army exceeded 10,000, Shulhaqi was afraid that the enemy would be outnumbered, so he cowered in front of the mountain and did not move. Seeing this, Chu Ying and Dai Shan encouraged the soldiers and said: "Buzhantai, the leader of Ulla, was once a prisoner of our Jianzhou, and because he was obedient to his father, his father released him back. We were able to put him back in the past, and we can get him back today. Although he has more soldiers than us, we have the favor of God and the prestige of our father, as long as we fight bravely, the enemy will be broken. "The morale of the troops was boosted, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted. They set up camp on the hill and sent troops to guard the 500 households. 200 people from Huerhan and Yanguli fought to the death with the advance of the Ula army to attract the attention of the enemy. Chu Ying and Dai Shan each led 500 troops to attack the Ula army in two ways. Chu Ying took the lead in rushing into the enemy formation, and the roar shook the sky, and no one dared to stop it. The Ula soldiers were defeated and fled, "like the heavens falling apart". In this battle, the Jianzhou soldiers killed more than 3,000 Ula soldiers, won 5,000 horses, 3,000 pairs of armor, and captured and beheaded the Ula general Bokeduo.