Chapter 18 Chapter 5 The Origin of the Name of the Qing Dynasty

In Manchu there is a legend about why the Qing Dynasty was called Daqing.According to legend, Nurhachi used to have a big green horse. He was defeated in a battle, so he rode the big green horse to escape desperately. In the end, the big green horse died of exhaustion, but Nurhachi survived.Nurhachi was very grateful to the Daqing horse, and swore to the body of the Daqing horse: Daqing Daqing, thank you for saving me. When one day I succeed, I will build a country in your name.This is how the Manchu people said about the origin of the Qing Empire. But in fact, "Great Qing Empire" is a word that did not exist in Huang Taiji's mind.As mentioned earlier, when Huang Taiji was fighting wits and bravery with his three elder brothers, the belief of entering the Central Plains and ordering the world never stopped in his mind.Here we also want to reveal a secret: why did Huang Taiji win against his three elder brothers, instead of the three elder brothers beating him?The answer is simple, because he is right, he has been doing what is good for their tribe, he is advancing his tribe to the power center of China, everyone is watching, everyone knows that his efforts are effective , so they support him and follow him.

Why did his efforts work?Because he is a super good advertising planner.How good is he?He's good enough to make something out of nothing.What is creating something out of nothing?We now have a word called innovation, innovation is to create something out of nothing, that is, to create a new thing under the original situation.Huang Taiji is such a master who creates something out of nothing.After he defeated his three brothers and gained power, he did two more things.First thing, he gave himself a title.Before him, Nurhachi was called the Old Khan King, and Huang Taiji was no longer called the Khan King. He wanted to be called the Emperor, and he even got a title for himself, the Emperor Kuanwenrensheng.The purpose is to send a signal to the Han people who are suffering from military chaos in the pass: There is a generous and benevolent emperor here, and you should support me.

After sending out this signal, he found that the effect was not very good.Because the Qing Empire did not exist at that time, Nurhachi created the Later Jin, which was called the Kingdom of Jin at the time, why did he create the Kingdom of Jin?Because the Jurchens and the others are the descendants of the Kingdom of Jin, Nurhachi is still known as the Kingdom of Jin in order to restore the glory of their ancestors.But Huang Taiji knew that the people of the Central Plains were resistant to the Jin people. He knew that there was a Yue Fei, and he knew that the people in the Central Plains knew that Yue Fei resisted the Jin. If he named himself the Jin Kingdom, the Han people would instinctively think it belonged to them enemy.Therefore, the word Houjin can no longer be used. He wanted to create a new word, so he created a word called Manchuria out of thin air in his mind.

You may not feel much when you hear this word now, but you must know that creating something that does not exist and creating a word that does not exist is the genius of an advertising planner.From then on, he changed the name of Jin to Manchuria, and then named the country as Qing Dynasty. Whether Manchurians or Qing Dynasty, these things are very unfamiliar to Chinese people, and they have never heard of them before.After Huang Taiji coined these two words, it is very important that he concealed the history of Hou Jin and resolved the Han people's instinctive repulsion and resistance to them. Huang Taiji's wisdom is fully reflected here.So where does his wisdom come from?Originated from reading, he is the only one who reads books among Manchurians and Manchurian children.

Why is he studying?As mentioned earlier, this has something to do with his life experience.His mother is the spoils of war contributed by the defeated side to the victorious side, and the birth of Huang Taiji is a by-product of beating rabbits.Against this backdrop, he had to struggle and struggle desperately to get what he needed. We have already mentioned the same question before: why him?Why not someone else?As we said earlier, Li Zicheng's experience formed him with a strong anti-social personality. He believed that everything was like a moon in the water, a flower in a mirror, and that food disappeared after eating. His personality was mainly destructive, but why did the emperor Didn't Tai Chi form a destructive personality?Because Emperor Chongzhen lived in a tragic situation in his childhood, he formed a mouse personality. Why didn't Huang Taiji develop a mouse personality?The key is that Huang Taiji has a very important ability called self-saving ability.If we compare Emperor Chongzhen, Huang Taiji, and Li Zicheng, and observe the ambitions of each of them, we will find:

The only ambition of Emperor Chongzhen in his early years was to survive. When he was forced to save a country, he had no such ability at all; Li Zicheng's ambition was also very simple, just to eat, drink, and cause destruction. He never had any other ideas Of course, he does not need to be responsible for this, because he successfully completed his historical mission; and Huang Taiji, his ambition is to save the common people in the world. It is precisely because of this belief that he has a very terrible talent for maneuvering. During the whole process when Huang Taiji set up a power trap for his three elder brothers, he was upright and had a clear conscience. He didn't have the slightest intention of stealing. What he thought was: the Ming Empire over there has collapsed. We must create a high-quality moral platform to carry it.It is precisely because of this idea that his lofty thoughts and ideas prompted him to defeat his brothers.But his three elder brothers are still primitive people with primitive thinking, unable to accept this advanced culture, so they were eliminated by history.In other words, among the opponents along the way, what contributed to Huang Taiji's victory and his three brothers' elimination was a grand ideal, or a grand social conception.This grand conception of society has made Huang Taiji complete, and it has also shaped today's history, while the other three people are still thinking of primitive people without such a grand conception, so they were eliminated by history.

Tracing this period of history, the significance lies here.