Chapter 17 Chapter Four Seizure of Power in the Name of Virtue

As mentioned earlier, when the four Baylors worked together to hang Abahai, power had already fallen into the hands of the Four Baylors.The four major Baylors are Da Shan Daishan, the second Baylor Amin, the third Baylor Mang Gurtai, and the fourth Baylor is Huang Taiji, he is the last one.No matter how you look at it, this power has nothing to do with him. If it is Big Baylor or Er Baylor who seizes power, it will not be his turn.Therefore, he had to defeat his three elder brothers with one against three, and take the power from his three elder brothers.How can he take it?Huang Taiji seized his brother's scepter, and the secret was only eight words: rule the country with virtue, please enter the urn.

What do these words mean?There is a long history hidden in it, and this historical allusion even reflects our modern times.When Huang Taiji was on an equal footing with his three brothers, he was already thinking about how to take all the power back.What is certain is that his three older brothers were also thinking about it, but in the end the winner was Huang Taiji. So how did he propose to rule the country by virtue, and how did he invite the king into the urn?It looks like this: After hanging Abahai and regaining the power of the empire, Huang Taiji suggested to the three brothers, saying: Three brothers, look at the current Ming Empire, which is rotting day by day, becoming more and more corrupt. Li Zicheng If it gets more and more noisy, then Emperor Chongzhen will definitely die, and we will definitely replace him.

If we want to replace Ming Dynasty, then we must be a wise ruler and rule the country with virtue; if we don’t rule the country with virtue, if we don’t become a wise ruler, will the Han people welcome us in the past?His words hide a deep political trap, but these three Baylors don’t study, they are stupid, and when they hear it, they feel: It’s good to govern the country by virtue. I’ve heard the slogan of governing the country by virtue since I was a child, and I can’t be more familiar with it. , We are all such great figures, don't we rule the country with virtue?Okay, we will rule the country with virtue from now on, let's be a wise king.

After the passage of this resolution, a terrible political trap has been formed.What is this political trap?Erbeile Amin fell into this trap first.When the political slogan or political decision-making or national policy of "ruling the country by virtue" was put forward, Erbeile Amin led his troops to march, following the old rules, breaking down the city, killing all the men, and abducting the women. When Erbeile Amin came back excitedly, he found Sibeile Huang Taiji looking at him angrily, and asked: Erbeile, did you kill someone when you broke through the city?Er Baylor said of course, if you don't kill people in war, what do you kill?Huang Taiji said: How can you kill someone?Erbei Le is a bit confused: Your question is simply inexplicable. Since our father's generation, the Ming army has used such a tactic against us. When we were in the city, all our Aixinjueluo men were killed, and all the women were taken away as slaves.Now we fight tit for tat.How do you say that?Huang Taiji said: No, have you forgotten what our national policy is?We rule the country by virtue, and you kill people all over the city. Is this ruling the country by virtue?You are so cruel, can you establish our image as a Mingjun?If this kind of thing is known by the Han people, will they welcome us to go?

Erbeile Amin finally came to his senses when he heard it, no wonder he said he wanted to rule the country with virtue, there was a trap here.At this time, Erbeile Amin was also anxious, saying that I had already been killed, what should I do? Huang Taiji said that this is easy to handle, and we will hold an "enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee".Perhaps everyone will find it strange that we say "enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee", but this trick was indeed invented by Huang Taiji.Why did Huang Taiji invent this trick?It's very simple, if he wants the four major administrative teams - Big Baylor, Second Baylor, Third Baylor, and Fourth Baylor - to meet together to discuss how to punish Second Baylor, both Big Baylor and Three Baylor will know what's going on Will not agree, because it will not benefit them.He thought to himself: If the three elder brothers all come together to fight my Huang Taiji, am I looking for death?

So Huang Taiji came up with such a trick: to discuss this issue is not to be discussed by the four major groups, but to invite all the prominent figures in the tribe to discuss it together.Huang Taiji first asked: Should we govern the country with virtue?Everyone expressed their opinion: Of course, the country should be governed by virtue, not by virtue.Huang Taiji then asked: What should we do if someone violates the program and national policy of governing the country with virtue?Everyone discussed and said: He must be punished.In the final meeting, a resolution was passed to expel Erbeile Amin from the leadership team, and he was imprisoned at home and died soon.By setting the trap of ruling the country by virtue, Huang Taiji seized Erbeile's handle, which is called inviting the king into the urn, and then expelled Erbeile from the core circle of power.

Erbeile Amin was expelled from the leadership team, leaving only Dabeile Daishan, Sanbeile Mang Gurtai, and Huang Taiji himself.At this time, Huang Taiji sharpened his sword and began to aim at Sanbeile Manggurtai.Mang Gurtai is very good, he resolutely does not lead troops to go out; if he does not lead troops to go out, this avoids murder and arson;He felt that he was already safe, but one day, Huang Taiji asked to hold an enlarged meeting, and everyone came, and then Huang Taiji said: A few days ago, Sanbeile Manggurtai was discussing a problem with me, and he suddenly pulled out the When the knife came, he gestured at me to cut me.

As a member of the leadership team, can you do this?This is too unethical to rule the country.So everyone said: Mangurtai, what you did was wrong, and you should be punished.How to punish?Still expelled from the leadership team. At this point there are only two members of the leadership team left.Afterwards, Huang Taiji looked back at Da Bei Le Dai Shan.Why did Big Baylor Daishan stay until the end?Because Da Bei Le Daishan has a criminal record, and his criminal record has an unclear relationship with the beautiful woman Abahai.The reason why Huang Taiji didn't move him, including that in this series of processes, Da Bei Le Daishan never played a role in protecting the first two people, was because he was afraid that if he opened his mouth, Huang Taiji would come to cover him up.But when he didn't protect the second Baylor, nor did he protect the third Baylor, after these two people were cleared out, he was the only one left.According to the history books, Da Bei Le Dai Shan was very wise and powerful. When he found out that Huang Taiji had no good intentions for him, he offered to hold a meeting of the leadership team.Huang Taiji thought to himself: Hey, he did it before I did it?Let's see how he does it first.When everyone was in a meeting, Big Baylor stood up and first admitted his mistakes, saying: I have done a lot of wrong things, I am sorry for our country, especially for Huang Taiji, so I request to quit the leadership team.At that time, Huang Taiji couldn't wake up for a long time-he asked to quit before he could do anything, and he seemed to be a sensible person.So Huang Taiji let Da Baylor Daishan go in this way, and he only punished Da Baylor Daishan, and let him go back to continue to lead the army. From then on, the four major Baylors were in charge of the government and Huang Taiji was in charge of it alone.

The power of the Qing Empire was quickly concentrated from a dispersed state to one person. It took Huang Taiji eight years to complete this process.During these eight years, he set the three brothers in a trap of governing the country by virtue, and then patiently waited for them to fall into this trap, and then tried his best to fool the people below to rise up to oppose, and made the other three brothers one by one. Cleared from the core of power.Going to check the history now, you can see that the first old Khan was Nurhachi, and the second was Huang Taiji, but in fact he racked his brains and exhausted his knowledge to win the position of Huang Taiji. Start governing the country.In fact, the Qing Dynasty did not exist at this time, what existed was a post-Jin Dynasty.