Chapter Eighty-Four: The Prince Baylors Who Died of Involution (2)
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. And Hei Tuomu is close to Tieling, an important military town of the Ming Dynasty, and can directly rely on the military protection of the Ming Dynasty, and is adjacent to the Ula tribe to the east, so he can get the assistance of 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.