"Ha, two brothers each guard a gate?" Cao Yu laughed loudly when he heard this: "What kind of clever plan is this?"
Qi Jin also found it incredible and frowned: "General Rong's words are reasonable. What kind of strategy is this? In my opinion, it can't even be considered a normal response."
Although Ma Chengxun was born in the Xuanda general family, he actually trained under Ma Fang when he was young. He is good at cavalry rather than infantry combat. He is a relatively rare offensive general in the Ming Dynasty, but he is not so good at defending cities. Therefore, he
After hearing these words, I couldn't help but be a little surprised and asked: "Why is this? Oh, I mean why is it not even a normal response?"
Qi Jin also knew that Ma Chengxun was a cavalry commander, so he replied: "Ma Canrong, since Nurhachi is already quite suspicious of Shuerhaqi, but now he has to rely on his troops to defend the city, then generally speaking
, even more so that Shulhaqi should not be used alone.
If I were Nurhaci, there are two things that I should do most at this moment. One is to disperse Shuerhaqi's troops as much as possible and never let them gather together; the other is to firmly tie Shuerhaqi himself.
Be by your side and don't let him have the chance to act alone.
So when it comes to the specific defense of the city this time, Shuerhaqi and I must jointly sit in the center of Hetuala, and the east and south gates will be left to our generals Eyidu and Anfeyangu to guard respectively. Shuerhaqi
There are also four generals under Haqi's command, namely Urkun, Naqib, Changshu and Yangshu brothers, so these four are appointed as the deputy of Eyidu and Anfei Yanggu respectively.
In this way, although Shuerhaqi has three thousand soldiers and horses, they are stationed in two gates, and they have a large number of troops. An Feiyanggu takes command and sits in command. Although the force is huge, it is not difficult to control it.
As for me, I only need to keep an eye on Shuerhaqi so that he cannot give orders to the soldiers of the two sects. Then Wuerkun and others have no reason to cause trouble and are worried about the safety of their master, so they naturally dare not act rashly. In this case, Shuer
Haqi's three thousand army is as good as my own hand, how good is it?"
Ma Chengxun suddenly said: "So that's it, I understand, what Qi Shenrong said makes sense." This is the difference in thinking between offensive cavalry generals and defensive infantry generals.
According to Ma Chengxun's habitual thinking, if everyone has cavalry under their command and they are fighting in the wild, Eyidu and Anfeyangu will definitely not be able to look down on Urkun and others.
The reason is simple: if Wuerkun and others are determined to escape with their men, Eyidu and Anfeyangu will not dare to pursue them deeply. This is the characteristic of Mangu's evil tactics. The person in front shoots arrows in the back.
, the people behind you will only get shot when you chase them, and fighting back is purely wishful thinking, because you can't shoot them at all. This is a matter of relative speed.
Qi Jin's thinking is very consistent with the situation of defending the city, so there is no need to explain this.
Now that Qi Jin had explained the truth clearly, Cao Yu made a summary and said: "So in short, Nurhachi was either stupid and unwise in doing this, or he had ulterior motives."
Ma Chengxun thought about it, Nurhachi had successfully ambushed him and defeated Li Chengliang through deception. Such a person could not be stupid or unwise. In other words, he had ulterior motives for doing this.
"But this news was sent by Shuerhaqi." Ma Chengxun frowned and thought: "The war situation is clear now, Nurhachi is already a turtle in the urn, it is hard to believe that at this moment, Shuerhaqi is planning to fight for Nurhachi.
Bury with all your loyalty."
Qi Jin pondered and said: "Is there a possibility that Nurhaci temporarily promised Shuerhaqi a huge benefit, and Shuerhaqi saw the benefit and sided with Nurhaci again?"
This time Cao Yu did not answer immediately, but showed a thoughtful expression on his face.
In fact, Cao Yu himself had this suspicion. However, the meaning expressed in several confidential letters given to him by Gao Jingshi was very clear. Gao Jingshi believed that Shuerhaqi and Nurhaci would not be of the same mind for a long time. Sooner or later,
There is going to be a falling out, and as long as Daming exerts more force on Shuerhaqi, the time for this falling out will definitely come earlier.
Gao Pragmatic has always not relied on intuition to control his actions, and he may not even rely entirely on "historical proof." His decisions must be made after detailed inferences. The same is true for the conclusion that "Shurhaqi will fall out with Nurhaci sooner or later."
Again, mainly from his own inference.
Shuerhaqi was imprisoned and killed by Nurhaci, which is a fact basically recognized by later generations of Chinese and foreign historians. For a long time, most historians believed that Shuerhaqi died in a power struggle with his brother Nurhaci.
Gao pragmatic originally agreed with this point of view, but after living in the Ming Dynasty for so many years and serving as the governor of Liao for a period of time, he had a different view on this. He now believes that the dispute between the Shuerhaqi brothers is not just about dominance.
The regular tragedy within the class re-enacts the struggle for power in the same room, but it is a political struggle arising from the collision of two ideas of "supporting the Ming" and "rebeling the Ming".
Since Nurhaci himself had created the "Seven Great Hatreds", there is no need to elaborate on his thoughts of rebelling against the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the first point of Gao's pragmatic inference is the social foundation of the Ming-supporting faction and the formation of the "Shurhaqi Supporting the Ming faction".
For this reason, Gao pragmatic carefully recalled the history books he had read, and found that there was a very noteworthy issue in the early records of Nurhachi's military rise, that is, the compilers of Nurhachi's various records all painted a picture with thick ink and color.
The thrilling scene in which "Taizu" was repeatedly assassinated by his tribesmen and enemies.
From the second month after they raised their troops to May of the following year, there were as many as five assassinations recorded. Later historians generally believed that this was an inherent phenomenon of the Jurchen tribe's transition to a class society. However, Gao Pragmatic believed that,
This theory only pays attention to the internal development of things, but ignores the external connections of things. The compilers of the records of Emperor Taizu of the Qing Dynasty called this "taboo to the heroic and military", and avoided an important historical premise, that is, the descendants of the Sixth Patriarch
Why did the assassination activities with enemies happen just after Nurhachi raised his army? Is this a coincidence, or does it have a far-reaching historical background?
There is a more historically accurate record in "Records of Manchuria". In the eleventh year of Wanli, when Nurhachi asked the Ming Dynasty border minister for Nikan Wailan, "The father of the Ming Dynasty border minister Ri Erzu died because our soldiers accidentally killed him...
…I also gave him a letter from the governor, and the matter was completed. From now on, I will help Nikan Wailan build the city and work hard, and make you the Lord of Manchuria. Therefore, the people of the country believed in it and returned to Nikan Wailan."
This record seems ordinary at first glance, but upon closer inspection you will find that it shows that "the people of the country believe in it" is the order of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of the country support the leader designated by the Ming Dynasty. Because of this, "the descendants of his fifth ancestor swore an oath to the gods."
, also wanted to kill Taizu in order to return to Nikanwailan." In other words, they all made the same political choice as the "countrymen".
It can be seen that the Ming Emperor's concept of "the common master of the world" has indeed been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This traditional concept, inherited from generation to generation, has become an insurmountable barrier in people's minds. It has strong appeal and authority, and even
Even Nurhachi himself did not dare to openly raise the banner of anti-Ming for a long time.
Forty years later, in July of the eighth year of Tiancong's reign, his son Huang Taiji still admitted in a letter to Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty that "Manchuria was originally a vassal state. This is not only what the emperor said, but even if he accepted it, he would not think it was wrong."
In fact, it was the strength of the Ming Dynasty to maintain national unity, and it was also the ideological basis for the Jurchen tribe to support the Ming sect after Nurhachi raised his army.
Therefore, when Nurhachi raised his army in the 11th year of Wanli, it was difficult to find close friends. Once political allies were enlightened by the rights and wrongs of the Ming court, they immediately "reneged on the promise and refused to go."
What is particularly "unfortunate" is that Nurhaci's only main supporter in the early days, his brother-in-law Gahashan, was also killed by his tribe. When Nurhachi wanted to gather a crowd to collect his bones, "no one from the tribes came", and Nurhaci became a
"All tribes are enemies of each other", and a lonely man is betrayed by all his relatives. This situation of being beleaguered on all sides truly reflects the support of people's hearts. This is the first aspect of the problem.
In the second aspect, after the Ming Dynasty inherited the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the Northeast, in terms of the subordinate relationship between the central government and the local people, it adopted the policy of "giving seals, subordinates to each other, encircling and grazing, each making a living, doing business, and facilitating exchanges."
" policy.
This measure of letting the chiefs of each tribe control their tribes can, on the one hand, make the tribes subordinate to each other, preside over the affairs of the tribe, develop the economy of the tribe, and achieve the actual effect of "grazing around and grazing, and everyone can make a living"; on the other hand, it has formed the "everyone can make a living"
There are countless local power groups, large and small, scattered in various places, each village is the leader and each clan is the leader.
By obtaining the Ming court's edict, these groups enjoyed their own independent political and economic rights, and their special political and economic interests closely linked them to the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, any efforts to change this status quo are bound to be met with fierce opposition.
of resistance.
In the original history, historians usually believed that Nurhaci had completed the unification of Jianzhou Jurchen headquarters in the 16th year of Wanli. However, judging from the records of the tribute paid by Jianzhou Jurchen guards in the Ming Dynasty, the internal struggle against Nurhachi was not over yet.
The opponents used tribute as a link to continue to strengthen political ties with the Ming court, trying to rely on the power of the Ming court to compete with Nurhaci. From the seventeenth year of Wanli to the twenty-third year of Wanli, it is clearly recorded that the governors and commanders of the left and right guards of Jianzhou
Many people came to Beijing to pay tribute.
More importantly, there are records from North Korea. In the book of Shen Zhongyi in the first month of the 24th year of Wanli, when talking about the internal situation of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, he quoted Ma Chen as saying, "The mortal guards are thirty, and the surrenders are two."
"More than ten guards". It can be seen that as of the end of the 23rd year of Wanli, Nurhaci had not yet fully controlled the Jurchen headquarters in Jianzhou.
This fully demonstrates that the political influence of the Ming court on the founding of Jurchen states is deeply rooted. The consistency of the fundamental interests of the leaders of the guards and the rulers of the Ming Dynasty determines the long-term, intense, and complex nature of the anti-annexation war. This
This tangible and intangible force controls people's psychology and influences people's opinions. Even those who defected to Nurhaci had to pay a heavy price.
According to historical records, in the 16th year of Wanli, when the minister of Yargu, Xilahu, came back, he did one thing first: "Kill the brothers and clan leaders." In the same year, when He Heli led his people to return, his ex-wife also "swept out of the country and wanted to
"Fight with it". The fierceness of the struggle is a concentrated expression of the conflict of interests, and also reflects the fundamental opposition between right and wrong. This is the reason why Nurhachi was very isolated politically when he started his army. This is also the reason why the Jurchens support the Ming Dynasty.
political basis.
The third point is that due to the uneven economic development of the Jurchen tribes, any annexation by force will inevitably encounter armed resistance. At the end of the 16th century, the economic development of the Jurchen tribes was very uneven. In the advanced Liaodong region, some tribes had already
New production relations have emerged, but most tribes are still stuck in the clan commune stage, and even advanced tribes still tenaciously retain the remnants of the clan system.
What are the remnants of the clan system? For example, in the twelfth year of Wanli, when Nurhachi wanted to seize the opportunity to annex the Dong'e tribe for the first time, the generals warned him that "soldiers should not enter other people's territory lightly". This was the typical Jurchen clan system remnant thought at that time.
, that is, the existing social order cannot be easily broken.
Although due to economic development, there has been a trend of union among the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the people at the bottom began to have expectations for unification, the idea of "unification" was not generally accepted by everyone - especially the upper-class nobles.
As the Jurchen ruling class, they will not allow such changes to occur.
Because of this, in June of the 21st year of Wanli, the four coalition forces of Yehe, Hada, Ula, and Huifa launched the first military attack on Nurhaci. After this attack failed to achieve its goal, in the same year
In September, Yehe, Hada, Ula, and Huifa united with the Mongolian and other nine troops to take preemptive military action against Nurhaci.
These actions all show that maintaining the stability and legitimacy of the existing political and economic life is still a principle generally accepted by people at that time and a common goal for which they strive - at least the common goal of the nobles who control the political and military power of various ministries.
.And this is the soil on which the Ming-supporting faction within the Jurchens relies for their survival and development.
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, even though they are afraid of him and don’t say anything, how can there be no resentment in the heart?” Moreover, when the majority of Shens (i.e. Jurchens) mentioned the heavy burden of corvee, they all seemed “quite resentful”.
This even led to the fact that after Nurhachi's victory in the Battle of Sarhu, the situation was still that "all slaves, big and small, look forward to the success of peace, and only regard themselves as great blessings if they do not fight for anything." This is how the Jurchen masses and their middle- and lower-level leaders treat themselves
fundamental attitude towards war.
What does it mean? In short, the Ming Dynasty relied on its political, economic, and military power to influence and support a number of special power groups among the upper echelons of the Jurchen tribes. The special economic and political interests of these groups determined
As a result, they maintained inextricable ties with the Ming Dynasty.
Coupled with the unbalanced political and economic development of various ministries, any attempt to disrupt the status quo is bound to be resisted and resisted by traditional forces. Since Nurhachi raised an army to rebel against the Ming Dynasty under such historical conditions, he naturally created his own opposition. So
, as a representative figure of the opposition, Shuerhaqi gracefully entered the stage of history.
Gao Pragmatic discovered that as a representative figure of the opposition, the conflict between Shuerhaqi and Nurhachi went through a complex development process. Looking at the trajectory of his activities, it is not difficult to find that Shuerhaqi’s thoughts have duality.
That is the unity of progress and conservatism.
When he was in a dominated position, his enterprising thoughts once drove him to "follow the expedition since childhood and go everywhere", becoming a fellow traveler of Nurhachi in "revenge of his grandfather", and laid the foundation for the unification of the Jurchens in Jianzhou
For his outstanding achievements, Nurhachi was hailed as the "Darkhan Batulu" hero.
But Shuerhaqi's thoughts are not static. With the victory of the military campaign, Shuerhaqi's political status and military strength are also growing. In June of the 15th year of Wanli in the original history, Nurhaci came to Feala.
King, Shuerhaqi is also called the ship commander - the so-called "ship commander" is also commonly known as "the helmsman". In other words, from this time on, Shuerhaqi has become the second-ranking figure in Nurhachi's political and military group.
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In the 23rd year of Wanli, Shuerhaqi's elite troops had grown to more than 5,000, and there were more than 40 civil servants and generals. At this time, Shuerhaqi was famous among various tribes for his "war exploits".
"Winning the hearts of the people", his reputation is higher than that of his disciples and nephews.
With the change of status, progressive thoughts and conservative thoughts have been suppressed and the other has waxed and waned. In the 23rd year of Wanli and the 25th year of Wanli, Shuerhaqi went to Beijing to pay tribute twice and received special favors from the Ming court.
He was given preferential treatment and the same political treatment and courtesy as Nurhachi.
This made Shuerhaqi actually ascend to the political throne as the second leader of the Ming Dynasty's Jianzhou Wei Jurchen, and unexpectedly opened the door to happiness. As a result, the high morale and enterprising spirit of his youth gradually faded away.
, the influence of various inherited forces and traditional ideas took advantage of the situation.
Shuerhaqi began to wander around in the existing social order, which meant that his relationship with Nurhaci's fellow travelers had come to an end. After bidding farewell to Nurhaci and his own enterprising ideas, Shuerhaqi continued to explore the traditional and traditional ideas.
Under the double pressure of real politics and external pressure, he continued to retreat and became a conservative in real life.
In order to remain invincible, Shuerhaqi unswervingly surrendered to the Ming court. In December of the 34th year of Wanli, when Nurhaci "refused to pay tribute for two consecutive years", Shuerhaqi for the third time
He went to Beijing to pay tribute. The Ming court once again confirmed his political status as governor and commander.
Under the continuous wooing of the Ming Dynasty, Shuerhaqi's thoughts were also undergoing drastic changes. His desire to support the Ming Dynasty and become self-reliant grew day by day, and his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty had reached the level of "everyone who declares disobedience to China will obey it."
At the same time, Shuerhaqi also actively developed his relationship with Ula. In the 24th, 26th and 31st years of Wanli, he married Buzhantai three times, and his political influence has exceeded the tribal barrier.
, the strength has also been greatly strengthened. Within the Jianzhou Jurchens, Shuerhaqi also finally became a major force to compete with Nurhaci because of his "popular support".
Due to ideological differences, the political relationship between Shuerhaqi and Nurhaci became increasingly tense. Fierce quarrels occurred from time to time "in the context of major national affairs."
Political opposition will inevitably lead to military non-cooperation and confrontation. According to historical records, in September of the 27th year of Wanli, Nurhaci led his troops to conquer Hada. In such a major battle, Shuerhaqi first "stopped fighting" and then
He also "crowded in front", causing Nurhaci to fall into a passive position of being beaten, and "many sergeants were injured." This is not so much negative as opposition.
Another example is that in March of the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, Nurhachi ordered Shuerhaqi and others to lead troops to capture the city of Feiyou, where Ula belonged. Shuerhaqi favored Ula, and his passive and confrontational attitude was very obvious. He first wanted to retreat without fighting, and then
Stay and don’t pursue.
After the battle, the scheming Nurhaci wanted to kill two of Shuerhaqi's subordinates for the crime of "disobedience" and weaken their strength. Shuerhaqi immediately "showed off" and said, "Killing the two ministers is the same as my death."
His tough attitude forced Nurhachi to make concessions. At this point, their brotherly relationship finally reached the point where they were on the same level.
In today's world, it is only the beginning of the sixteenth year of Wanli, and because of the butterfly effect last year, Nurhachi was first warned by the Ming Dynasty for colluding with Tumen, and now he was punished for invading the Dong'e tribe, so he did not have time to say
King, so the two of them are still the "Ningguta Big Belle" and "Ningguta Second Belle" within the Jurchens.
However, this does not prevent Shulhaqi's ideological changes from happening faster than in the original history.
Why? Of course it was because Ming Dynasty’s support for him was far stronger than in the original history.
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