After more than half a year of rest and recuperation, Huang Taiji finally came out of the pain of losing his son. After his careful care, Hai Lanzhu's body gradually recovered and began to walk around. This could not help but make Huang Taiji feel better. excellent!
Hai Lanzhu is already in her early thirties, but time has not left many traces on her face!
Her skin is as white as snow, far from being as rough and dry as other Mongolian women. She has an oval face, silky hair, and a round and plump figure, but she still has the youthfulness of a girl, especially her watery almond eyes. As long as a man takes one look at her, he will never look away!
It can be said to be the best thing in the world!
No wonder Huang Taiji is obsessed with her!
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In Guanju Palace, Huang Taiji was writing furiously, dealing with various complicated memorials and reports from the Manchu Qing Dynasty!
The current Manchu Qing Dynasty is no longer the small tribe it was when Nurhachi first founded the country~!
Now, the territory of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties extends to the Yalu River bordering North Korea in the east, and even exceeds Heilongjiang in the north, which is Vladivostok, the most important port in the Russian Far East in later generations. It is also under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!
To the west, the Mongolian tribes had already surrendered, which also gave the Manchu Qing Dynasty a strong pasture, which could continuously provide them with excellent war horses!
As for the south, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty is simply useless to Huang Taiji! When he wants to enter the pass, that will make his brave Eight Banners cavalry enter the pass!
However, now, all this has been broken due to the appearance of Liu Ruyi!
Since the Battle of Pinggu and after returning to the outside world, Huang Taiji worked hard and finally suppressed the arrogance of the Dorgon brothers!
The series of complex affairs of sorting out people's hearts and dividing the results of the war consumed Huang Taiji's energy!
Now, he has received another top-secret battle report just sent from the Ming Dynasty. Liu Ruyi defeated Zhang Xianzhong's troops of the refugee army in Agate Mountain. His strength has greatly increased, and it is inevitable to be promoted to an official position!
This couldn't help but give Huang Taiji a deep sense of crisis!
Liu Ruyi, who only had more than 3,000 soldiers and horses at the beginning, made his Eight Banners cavalry suffer a lot in Pinggu City. Even the brave and invincible Dorgon brothers were defeated in the battle. If he was allowed to Now that I have greater power in my hands, what should I do from now on?
Huang Taiji can be described as a man of great talent, great strategy, and a tyrant!
If we say that Nurhaci created the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji truly stabilized this foundation, Dorgon pioneered it, Shunzhi inherited it, and Kang Xiaomazi passed down this foundation. !
The reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to last for nearly three hundred years was largely due to the five previous emperors!
But among these five people, Nurhachi and Dorgon are brave and good at fighting, while Shunzhi is the most mediocre. Only Huang Taiji and his precious grandson Kang Xiaomazi are the ones who play tricks and imperial power. Great master!
For Huang Taiji, he can tolerate the arrogance and domineeringness of the Dorgon brothers, because after all, they are his brothers!
He can also tolerate Hauge's unscrupulousness, because he is his biological son!
But he absolutely cannot tolerate that there is someone like Liu Ruyi beside him who can threaten his future in the Qing Dynasty!
Just like what Taizu of the Song Dynasty said: 'How can you allow others to snore and sleep on the side of the couch?'
Huang Taiji actually knew that the battle between Dorgon, Duduo brothers, and the Hauge Group was dirty, but it was an internal matter of the Manchu Qing Dynasty after all, and Huang Taiji was happy to see it. After all, it was more beneficial to him. Take control of the entire Manchu Empire!
But~~~, for his close neighbor, Liu Ruyi of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji was like a lump in his throat, unable to vomit and unhappy!
In fact, since the Battle of Pinggu, Huang Taiji has spent a lot of time and carefully studied Liu Ruyi's Colored Stone Army!
Liu Ruyi's Colored Stone Army was not large in number, no more than four thousand at most. However, in the Battle of Jinan City and Pinggu Station, they defeated Huang Taiji's Eight Banners Cavalry. The most critical one was Liu Ruyi. This firearm is sharp!
Since Huang Taiji was more than ten years old, he followed his father Nurhaci in the north and south. As early as many years ago, the Battle of Shenyang, the Battle of Hunhe, the Battle of Xiaolinghe, and the Battle of Sarhu were all battles that almost established the destiny of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. , Huang Taiji almost never missed a beat!
Among them, the Ming army also had sharp firearms. For example, during the Battle of Shenyang, the Ming army set up dozens of red cannons on the top of Shenyang City, which caused the Qing army to suffer a lot!
Later, Huang Taiji found a trick, took a different approach, spent a lot of money, and bribed the defenders in Shenyang City at that time, and then he was able to capture Shenyang City!
And later, during the Battle of Hunhe, the three thousand white-armed soldiers led by Qin Liangyu's brother Qin Bangping, who were at their peak at that time, really made the Eight Banners soldiers suffer a lot! These white-armed soldiers had unique weapons. Uniform, yet unafraid of death, the two yellow flags led by Nurhaci at that time were forced to be defeated in several charges!
In the Battle of Hunhe, more than a dozen Manchu and Qing officers were killed, including Jia Lazhangjing and above. It could be said to be the most disastrous defeat the Qing Dynasty had ever suffered since the founding of the Qing Dynasty!
In the end, it was Huang Taiji who spent a lot of money to mobilize the artillerymen of the Ming Army in Shenyang City at that time to bombard Qin Bangping's position with huge red cannons, causing Qin Bangping to be seriously injured. Although the white-armed soldiers were powerful, they were helpless. were defeated by sharp firearms!
Later, Saerhu, Xiaolinghe, and the Qing army all encountered resistance from the Ming army's firearms to varying degrees, but they were all saved by the Qing army in the end!
But right now, the firearms of Liu Ruyi's Caishi Army are far beyond Huang Taiji's knowledge!
Those bird blunderbuss are not only amazingly powerful, but also have more accurate ballistics. The Qing army's archers are simply unable to fight against them. The most important thing is that the Caishi Army's bird blunderbuss do not seem to be afraid of changes in the weather, even in the coldest winter. At this time, it can still ignite the match rope and fuse, which makes Huang Taiji puzzled!
And those so-called 'mountain-opening thunders' were extremely powerful, comparable to the killing effect of red cannons, but they were lighter and more practical than red cannons. The Qing army also suffered many hardships!
Huang Taiji has received the news. At present, the various Ming army departments that have good relations with Liu Ruyi, such as Shanxi Hu Dawei, Wang Pu, Shaanxi He Renlong, Gao Jie, etc., have received strong support from Liu Ruyi. Their various departments, as a whole, are Firearms and firepower have been upgraded to more than one level!
This is something Huang Taiji absolutely cannot bear!
In particular, Hu Dawei and Wang Pu of the Shanxi Army directly threatened the security of the Manchu hinterland!
"Huh~~!" Huang Taiji took a deep breath and rubbed his temples tiredly!
As the saying goes, 'If you are not in your position, you will not seek your government!'
Dorgon, Hauge, and the others all have their eyes on the throne under his butt, but how do they know how much pressure they are experiencing sitting on this seat?
Huang Taiji smiled a little self-deprecatingly, but quickly adjusted his spirit and picked up the memorial next to him that had been marked with red letters!
After all, he is a hero. Although he occasionally has some affection for his children, he is more rigorous and serious about state affairs than anyone else!
This memorial was written by Kong Youde, the ‘King of Obedience’ of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!
Although Kong Youde was a reduced general of the Ming Army, he was quite capable, especially since his subordinates were all veterans of Liaodong who had fought many battles. The most important thing was that these people were all firearms masters!
Although Kong Youde did not participate in the plunder of the Pass, he very carefully studied the battle of Pinggu and the Qing army's encounter with Liu Ruyi's troops!
He believed that if he wanted to restrain Liu Ruyi's troops, he had no other choice but to use firearms, against firearms!
As long as the Manchu and Qing court increased their investment in the artillery troops of the Han military camp under his command, he could train Huang Taiji to have an elite artillery force that could compete with Liu Ruyi's colorful stone army!
In fact, Huang Taiji also observed many times to inspect the power of the firearms of the Han military camp under Kong Youde's command. To be honest, the strength of Kong Youde's army was much stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers!
Even Emperor Chongzhen’s capital camp was probably not as good as the elite troops under Kong Youde’s command!
But if you compare Kong Youde and Liu Ruyi, they are completely on two different levels!
Huang Taiji carefully read every sentence in the memorial. In fact, he had read this memorial no less than ten times. He also knew what Kong Youde said was correct. But the tragedy was that when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs this time,
Although the goods received are quite generous, the price is definitely not small!
Especially the Battle of Pinggu City!
The commander-in-chief, Ao Bai, was killed in battle, and nearly five thousand taels of yellow flag elites were wiped out. Just the funeral arrangements and pensions for these people can already make Huang Taiji vomit blood!
Not to mention that the Manchu Qing Dynasty currently needs huge expenditures on all sides!
Especially those unruly and undisciplined Mongolians. Although their fighting power was not very good, they all opened their mouths, hoping to get more money from Huang Taiji!
At this moment, although the Manchu and Qing Dynasties seem to have strong military power, in fact, they still have a primitive tribal system. The subordinate tribes send troops, but they all cost money!
Although Huang Taiji was very moved by Kong Youde's proposal, at the moment, he was really strapped for money!
After thinking for a long time, Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind!
He held the brush in his hand vigorously, dabbed some cinnabar, and stamped a big red word "accurate" on Kong Youde's memorial!
Then, he waved his hand and said to the little eunuch waiting on the side: "Go, quickly go and recruit the respectful king into the palace!"
"Yes!" The little eunuch didn't dare to neglect and hurried away!
Huang Taiji, however, seemed to have lost his mind, leaning weakly on the soft couch, thinking silently!
"Your Majesty, why did you fall asleep here? You're going to catch a cold! Come on, get up quickly?"
Huang Taiji was just about to wander into the sky when he heard a voice as sweet as an oriole ringing in his ears. Huang Taiji opened his eyes suddenly and saw that it was Hai Lanzhu wearing a nightgown.
Hai Lanzhu just got up. Since her beloved son died young, her body has been very weak. Although it was already three o'clock in the morning, it would be noon soon. She just got up and saw Huang Taiji taking a nap in the study nearby!
"My beloved concubine, hehe, you're up? How are you? Do you feel better?" Seeing that it was Hai Lanzhu, Huang Taiji quickly put on a smile!
Only when facing this woman would Huang Taiji show his most sincere smile!