Of course Nurhaci is a very idealistic person, but this is actually not the key point, at least not at the moment.
Military conflicts must have prerequisites as a foreshadowing. Sometimes this foreshadowing is political, but more often, especially for the Jurchens who live in difficult living conditions, the origins of contradictions and conflicts mostly stem from disputes over economic interests.
Even in the early Wanli period when the Southern and Northern Passes were fighting internally, the trade scale of the Fushun Horse Market and the Kaiyuan Horse Market were at least ten times different. This shows that the Fushun Horse Market was only partial, limited to trade with Jianzhou Jurchens;
Yuanma City connects Liaodong and Eastern Mongolia, and trades in the entire Jurchen region. In other words, under the pressure of opening Yuanma City, Fushun Horse City has been in a state of repression for a long time, and can only serve as a state.
This is also the economic root of the Jianzhou Jurchens being dominated by the Haixi Jurchens for a long time, especially the northern and southern Guanhada and Yehe.
Over the past two hundred years, the Ming Dynasty opened the horse market to trade, controlled the powerful Jurchen chieftains in the North and South Passes, and then indirectly controlled the Jurchen tribes. Gao Pragmatic saw this clearly.
In this way, the rise of the Jianzhou Jurchens will inevitably impact the Liaodong border system centered on Kaiyuan, as well as the economic structure of inland Asia, especially the trade alliance between Kaiyuan and the Southern and Northern Passes.
The rising number of powerful Jurchen chiefs in Jianzhou not only represents the challenge of the Jurchen tribe's middle class or small aristocracy to the vested interests of frontier leaders (i.e., the vested trade interests of the powerful chiefs of Kaiyuan and Nanbeiguan), but also attempts to break the long-term
The Haixi Jurchens suppressed the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the Kaiyuan Horse Market suppressed the Fushun Horse Market.
Among them, Wang Gao, Atai and his son can be regarded as the pioneers of Nurhachi's challenge to the North and South Passes.
The deeds of Wang Gao and his son have been described earlier in this book, so I won’t go into details here. In short, the emergence of powerful chiefs such as Wang Gao, Atai, Lailihong, and Wang Wutang marked the rise of the Jianzhou Department, and they are gradually challenging
The trade monopoly of the North and South Passes. In this regard, they are indeed the pioneers of Nurhaci.
As for Wang Gao, the reason for the failure of the Atai Group is actually very simple. It lies in the deterioration of its relationship with the Liaodong border generals: they extorted fugitives, plundered the border residents, led the northern barbarians to invade the border and killed Pei Chengzu, and finally were defeated by the Ming Dynasty - especially
Li Chengliang’s military group launched a nest-like revenge.
Although Gao Pragmatic always sits upright, it does not mean that he does not understand the truth. In fact, the development of the Jurchen farming economy in Jianzhou will inevitably make it more dependent on Fushun Horse Market. Because of this, how to
Expanding the trade scale of the Fushun Horse Market and breaking through the suppression of the Jurchens in Kaiyuan and Haixi will inevitably become the primary goal of the rise of the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe.
Wang Gao and his son were like this, and now it was Nurhachi who could only do the same. There was no other choice - unless he was willing to Jianzhou Jurchen to always be a cow and a horse, working hard and complaining without getting the rewards he deserved.
Gao Jingshi thought carefully and found that the Jianzhou Jurchens had been suppressed by the Haixi Jurchens since the early Ming Dynasty. From Dong Shan to Wang Gao and Wang Wutang, they all tried to break through the suppression of the Haixi Jurchens, but they were all suppressed by the Haixi Jurchens and Kaiyuan Jurchens.
The generals will unite to kill him.
The rise of the Wang Gao Group and the infrequent rebellion caused by its request to expand the trade scale of Fushun Horse City had its own intention to challenge the trade monopoly of the North and South Passes. Unfortunately, this was also the reason why Li Chengliang and the powerful chiefs of the Nanguan Pass jointly killed Wang Gao
group reasons.
Therefore, in the early days, Nurhaci learned the lessons of Wang Gao and his son, and adopted the same strategy as Wan Khan: maintaining border order in exchange for dominance of the horse market trade, and forming an interest transfer alliance with Liaodong border generals, aristocratic families, etc.
This is also the reason why a letter from Gao Pragmatic was able to force Nurhachi back to his home base last time.
Gao Pingshi has his life in his hands, and he doesn't have the ability to resist with force now. What else can he do if he doesn't give in? How can he be killed?
Gao Jingshi carefully reviewed the original history and discovered to his surprise that the rise of Nurhachi itself was a process of constant competition for trade control with Kaiyuan, Yehe, and Ula.
This discovery made him quite excited. After leaving the palace gate, he immediately got into the green sedan chair and ordered to rush back to the household department. The accompanying servants of the Gao family thought that something big had happened, and strode back to the east side of Yu Street.
The Hubu Yamen.
Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili had heard that Gao Situ Zhao had returned, and they were planning to wait for his summons to discuss the trouble they encountered today - they must have been in trouble if they rushed back in such a hurry. Who knew that nothing happened after they waited and waited?
, after sending someone to ask, they found out that Gao Situ locked himself in the check-in room alone.
If the windows of Gao Situ's room were not wide open, he could be seen writing furiously inside from a distance. Cheng Wen was afraid that he would have to send someone to see if there was any accident.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic is just sorting out some basic relationships between the Liaodong Horse Market trade and the rise of Nurhaci, so as to be able to accurately judge how Nurhachi and even other forces surrounding Liaodong will react under certain circumstances.
"Knowing things like a god" never relies on genius or intuition, but can only rely on rigorous logical thinking.
In the original history, Kaiyuan's central position in the Liaodong border system made Fushun Ma Shi and Jianzhou Jurchen suppressed for a long time. Of course, the situation at that time was different from the current situation. At that time, Ye He and Nuan Tu were in a trance.
The alliance with the Southern Pass continued to oppress Nanguan, so Li Chengliang adopted the policy of using the Jianzhou Ministry to marry Nanguan and support Nanguan to fight against Beiguan.
For example, in history, Nurhaci's marriage to a ruthless businessman, his promotion to governor, and even to general Longhu were all the masterminds of Li Chengliang and others.
There is evidence for this statement. According to Gu Yangqian's "Mr. Gu Chong'an's Memorial to Fu Liao":
"Deputy envoy Cheng Xun said to his ministers: Hachi, the slave of Jianzhou chieftain, wanted to marry a rogue merchant in Beiguan at the beginning. He spied on my movements several times and became the eyes and ears of Beiguan. Now that he heard that I was anxious to engage in rogue merchants, he also wanted to marry rogue merchants. Evil merchants.
The marriage promised by Shang is also a feather, so it is better to make it happen. The commander sent Tong Weidong, the general official, to Fushun Pass to pass the message to Nu'er: You missed the deadline and did not pay tribute, and you want to marry Beiguan. Attack the rogue merchant.
He also punished you. You gave up your marriage at Beiguan, married a bad merchant, and came to pay tribute quickly, so I released you and sent you to Changdong Yi. As soon as the words were passed on, Tong Wei moved and returned without looking back."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The commander here refers to Li Chengliang, and Chengxun is also a person close to Li Chengliang. Only Tong Weidong’s life and deeds are unknown. However, at the end of Wanli, there was a general officer Tong Weixun, who was later
He was executed as a spy for Kim. Considering that the traditional characters of Dongxun are very close, they may be the same person.
In original history, on March 12, the 16th year of Wanli, Gu Yangqian and Li Chengliang conquered Beiguan and returned in defeat. They entered the border on March 16, and on April 1, Nurhachi sent Ma Sanfei to welcome his bride. It can be seen that
, this marriage was led by Gu Yangqian, Li Chengliang and others, aiming to support Nurhaci and solidify the affiliation between Li Chengliang and Nurhachi.
Nurhaci sent Ma Sanfei to Kaiyuan, "Those who are from the Jianzhou Yi Ma Sanfei can kowtow in Chinese and say: Xiangzhi's troops are coming to Beiguan... The small barbarians are all afraid to obey after hearing this, so that the Jianzhou chieftain can marry the evil merchant."
, I wish to be obedient to the east border for a long time. I ordered the evil merchant to marry me and send him off with a small reward."
"We are willing to defend the Eastern Frontier for a long time." Apparently, Nurhachi learned the lesson from Wang Gao and his son, and adopted the same strategy as Wan Khan: that is, maintaining border order in exchange for dominance of the horse market trade, and collaborating with Liaodong border generals
, the aristocratic families formed an alliance to convey benefits.
Therefore, in the 16th year of Wanli, Nurhachi proposed to the evil merchants of Nanguan in order to gain the support of the military and political circles of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty. When the imperial edict was divided equally between the North and South Passes, Nurhaci had already rushed to pay tribute to express his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.
However, the current situation is obviously different from that in history. Although Nurhachi still expressed deference to Gao Pragmatic, he also felt that Gao Pragmatic was too powerful and worried that he would never be able to get rid of the situation of being "forced to retreat" by Gao Pragmatic.
Dilemma.
At the same time, Tumen's expedition to Yehe also gave Nurhaci another opportunity, which was to take advantage of Tumen's east wind to "equally divide the northern and southern passes" with it.
Why is it said to be taking advantage of Tumen? Because Tumen is the number one thorn in the side of the Ming Dynasty. Nurhachi and Tumen sent troops at the same time. The Ming Dynasty's focus must be on Tumen and not Nurhaci.
In this way, assuming that Tumen has the upper hand in this battle, not to mention defeating the Ming Dynasty's "intervention army", as long as the Ming Dynasty can be driven back, Nurhachi can easily obtain Nanguan and will not be "keyly cared for" by the Ming Dynasty, which is very cost-effective.
Another hypothesis is that Tumen was defeated and the Ming Dynasty continued to maintain actual control over Beiguan Yehe. At this time, Nurhaci would of course have to face the Ming Dynasty, but Gao Pragmatic had every reason to believe that once such a situation came to pass, Nurhaci would definitely
quibble.
The method of sophistry is very simple. For example, he could say that he sent troops as a temporary measure to prevent Tumen from continuing to invade Hada from the south. Of course, Ming could choose not to believe it, but as long as Nurhaci expressed his willingness to return the jade to Zhao intact, he would hand over Hada to Ming in its entirety.
Disposal, I think even Ming Dynasty will not care about it anymore.
After all, fighting has a cost, and the cost is very high. Before Tumen was destroyed, the Ming Dynasty could not waste time, effort and money to build a state. This move was contrary to national policy.
Not only did the Ming Dynasty not care about it, but judging from its usual habits, I am afraid that it would have to give Nurhachi some rewards to reward his loyalty - even if everyone knew what was going on.
Politics is never about conscience, it is only about interests.
After straightening out this relationship, Gao Pragmatic can be sure of one thing: as long as the Ming Dynasty does not take the initiative to attack Nurhachi before solving Tumen, Nurhachi will never make any military provocation against the Ming army!
This was of course a very weighty judgment, but with high pragmatic caution, he could not give orders to Cao Yu based on it.
Gao Pragmatic, who was "over-calculating", planned to add an extra layer of insurance to this matter, so after a little thought, he decided to write another letter to Nurhachi.
In the letter, Gao Pragmatic did not blame Nurhaci for sending troops to Hada without permission. Instead, he pretended not to know the agreement between Nurhaci and Tumen, and based on Nurhaci's own public remarks, he determined that the action was caused by Meng Gebulu not allowing him to cross the border.
unexpected disputes.
However, Gao Pragmatic also emphasized that Menggebulu was a meritorious person during his time in the Liao Dynasty. Although he did something wrong this time, "you two have no deep hatred" and are both "old friends of the headquarters." Therefore.
, "Honbudo" plans to be a mediator and make peace between you two.
Gao Pragmatic's approach to peace was also very sincere. He said that he would ask Mengbululu to change his original intention and not only allow Nurhaci to cross the border freely, but also provide Nurhaci with some conveniences within his power, such as setting aside some areas for Nurhaci as a
Temporary residence.
At the same time, temporary trade between the two sides can be opened, with the Hada people trading with Nurhaci's troops and providing Nurhaci's troops with some daily necessities such as fruits, vegetables and wild vegetables, etc.
At the same time, Gao Pragmatic even said that since "you two" are "old friends of the Honbu Hall", the "Benbu Hall" also hopes that you can take this opportunity to understand each other, deepen your friendship, and jointly maintain the stability of Liaodong and Jurchen.
Create a new situation of common prosperity and so on.
This article was not written by Gao Pragmatic suddenly. Since Nurhachi was willing to marry Nanfeng in history, of course he can do it now. You must know that no matter in history or today, Nurhachi still does not have the strength and ability to confront the Ming Dynasty head-on.
confidence.
At this time, if the Southern Pass is willing to cooperate with him and has the support of the Ming Dynasty behind him, then the situation of Fushun Pass being suppressed by the North-South alliance will be greatly improved.
Why must we fight a problem that can be solved without fighting? Nurhaci only has a few thousand soldiers in total, why should he waste them? Wouldn't it be nice to keep them in his hands and continue to accumulate wealth?
Gao Pragmatic felt that there was at least an 80% to 90% chance that Nurhaci would be willing to accept his peace proposal, and the remaining 10% to 20% might not be against it, but might make more demands.
It's okay to make requests. I'm not afraid of you making requests, I'm just afraid of you messing around. As long as you are honest now and don't be naughty, it will be fine. When I finish Tumen in three or four years, I will talk to you slowly later.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Now that Nurhaci’s problem has been basically solved, Gao Pragmatic will now consider how to let Cao Yu fight this battle.
Cao Yu was able to become the second-largest figure in the Liaodong military circle after Li Chengliang by fighting. Of course, he had a few skills. His ordinary tactical command and the combat effectiveness of his elite servants should be relatively reliable. Gao Pragmatism mainly needs to explain his matters.
, basically all about strategic judgment.
Generally speaking, there are four key points: First, although Nurhaci is not a friendly army, it is not an enemy either. Find a way to appease him first.
Secondly, although Hada's Menggebulu, Kang Gulu and Daishan are not of the same mind and their abilities are relatively worrying, they are all afraid of the power of the Ming Dynasty. If possible, they can still be roped in and let them serve as the Ming Dynasty.
Serve.
Thirdly, although Ye He and the two old Baylors died not long ago, they are now facing a desperate situation. They have to ask for help from me and have to submit to Ming's order. They can also win over.
Fourth, Tumen is not terrible, but he must have brought Burihatu with him when he sent troops this time. We must be careful of Burihatu's methods, whether it is military or other conspiracies.
Among these four items, Gao Jingshi believed that the first three were easier to handle. As long as he reminded himself, Cao Yu could handle them according to the instructions. Only about the fourth item, Gao Jingshi was really worried.
After thinking about it, Gao Pragmatic wrote a letter to Cao Yu, listing the most likely tricks that Burihatu could use, and at the same time told Cao Yu: Gao Yimin, the military staff officer previously sent to Menggebulu,
Although he was capable, Menggebulu failed precisely because he did not listen to his advice. Therefore, he had decided to temporarily send Gao Yimin to Cao Fan as a "temporary staff member" and asked Cao Fan to contact him and pay attention to him.
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