Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Sending troops to Yehe

Everything is finalized, but there is still a long-standing scruple in my heart: "Ye He's tribe has always been friendly with the Ming Dynasty, and has always relied on the Ming Dynasty as its backer-sent troops to fight Ye He, and must prevent the Ming Dynasty from interfering-in any case At the moment, Jianzhou cannot be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty. We must first have a proper excuse to deal with the Ming Dynasty before we can send troops..." He went to Li Chengliang's house when he was a teenager, and in the past few years, he used "tribute" as an excuse many times, and went to Beijing to watch everything in person. He knows the Ming Dynasty far better than any Jurchen in Liaodong-the Ming Dynasty's territory is large, The large population, the prosperity of the capital, the prosperity of the economy, and the prosperity of culture and education are far beyond what Liaodong can match—he believes that in the future, he will be able to overtake the strength of the Ming Dynasty and thus defeat the Ming Dynasty; however, it is not yet possible .

"If you are attacked by the Ming Dynasty and Yehe, you will kill yourself - the foundation established over the past few decades will be destroyed once, and the people of the whole Jianzhou will be reduced to prisoners, and the future hope of the Jurchens will be completely shattered It's..." So he was very, very careful. The proposed strategy is still the same as the previous "cutting off branches and leaves" against Ula - first gradually eliminate the surrounding sanitation towns, slowly reduce the strength of Yehe's tribe, and finally attack Yeheben City. In order to deal with the Ming Dynasty, he also thought about his words and the method of proceeding step by step.

Therefore, while actively preparing for the war in secret, he sent two groups of envoys, one to the Yehe tribe and the other to the Liaodong governor's yamen in the Ming Dynasty. The missions of the two groups of envoys were different, but their statements overlapped a bit—the main statement of the envoys who went to Yehe was to ask for Buzhantai: "When Buzhantai was defeated in the previous battle, he was captured by our Jianzhou. I became a prisoner; the lord of Jianzhou treated him kindly, supported him, and married his daughter to him, but he was ungrateful and rebellious; my Jianzhou department asked the teacher to punish him, but he fled to the Yehe tribe—— ——Please Yehebeile hand over Buzhantai to Jianzhou, and let Yehe and Jianzhou be the best!"

However, the envoy who went to the Liaodong Governor's Yamen in the Ming Dynasty asked: "Bu Zhantai shot and killed the daughter of our Minister of Jianzhou. The Minister of Jianzhou asked him to question him. He fled to Yehe. He handed it over—please ask the Ming Dynasty to uphold justice and order the Yehe tribe to hand over that ungrateful Bu Zhantai!" The Ming Dynasty accepted this request, so they sent someone to tell the Yehe tribe to hand over Bu Zhantai. However, the two Baylor Jintaishi and Buyangu of the Yehe tribe refused to hand over Bu Zhantai, and ignored this request at all.

But for Nurhachi, this is "just in the middle of his arms"—— He first made a superficial appearance that he respected the Ming Dynasty very much and didn't want to be an enemy of the Yehe tribe, but the Yehe tribe ignored it, and he sent an envoy to say it again—this was repeated three times, and even the officials of the Ming Dynasty were shocked. Surprised by Ye Hebu's attitude. "What's the matter with Jintaishi and Buyangu? I've said all the good things, and I still don't appreciate it?" Nurhachi also took advantage of the situation and made a look of aggrieved and angry, and cursed angrily: "Ye Hebu is too much!"

As a result, there was a reason to send troops, and the Ming Dynasty had already pushed the boat forward—the Ming officials who were impatient with Ye He's attitude already agreed with him to teach Ye He a lesson. The time was chosen in September. It was not a deliberate delay, but an accident happened around him, which took him a lot of time to deal with. That was caused by Chu Ying—— The radical Chu Ying did not fully and deeply understand the reasons for his scruples about the Ming Dynasty, so he disapproved of his slow-moving approach to Ye He after he wiped out Ula in a big way, and the strategy he drew up was still reduced in scale Attacking the sanitation of the small city, so there are often dissatisfied words: "Why don't you take advantage of the victory and pursue the attack, go straight to the city of Yehe, and destroy Yehe in one fell swoop?"

In front of him, of course, this word was not spoken casually; but behind his back, this word was spoken from time to time, and it began to spread among the crowd, and people often talked about this topic. Chu Ying even said boldly and clearly: "I really don't know what's wrong with Father Khan. To deal with such a small Ye He, I have to compare with Ula—it's better for me to bring some troops and go straight into Ye He's city. Destroy the Yehe tribe in one fell swoop!" Soon, he heard about this situation, and also understood some of the impact of Chu Ying's words to the masses: a few people have expressed their sympathy after hearing these words, and have also spread these words. Come on.

"How did this happen?" He was taken aback, and he knew the consequences: "If you don't stop him, it won't be long before the entire army of Jianzhou will be mobilized by him, not to mention, the words will spread..." So, he quickly sent someone to find Chu Ying, and ordered Chu Ying decisively: "You must never mention your nonsense in the future—otherwise, I will severely punish you!" How did you know that Chu Ying was not convinced at all, blushing, puffing her cheeks, and loudly argued: "Where did I go wrong? The conquest of Ye Hebu was originally your established idea, why did you delay it again and again? Fight some small battles? What is there to be afraid of in the Ming Dynasty? Don’t you often say that the Ming Dynasty is just a paper tiger. It went to aid North Korea, but was defeated by Japan instead; moreover, there are no generals sent to Liaodong. ..."

Conflict happened. He was so angry that his body trembled, he slapped the small table in front of him to pieces, and cursed angrily: "You don't care about life and death..." But Chu Ying replied coldly: "If Ye He was killed early, how can there be any life or death?" He couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped Chu Ying on the face, and said reproachfully, "Are you talking to me?" On the one hand, he gave him a stern and stern look, and then lowered his face and said: "If you are desperate, you can go alone - don't drag people from Jianzhou to be buried with you!"

Then, Chu Ying couldn't help but ordered: "Tie me up—lock it in an empty room!" The guards were all in front of him, and no one dared to disobey his orders. As soon as a few people came up, they tied Chu Ying firmly; He didn't say anything, and even turned his eyes away from looking at him. His attitude became even colder: "I'll give you a few days to think about it—if you don't change your mind, you won't see the light of day again!" After all, he waved his hand and instructed the guards to take Chu Ying down. As soon as the person left, there was silence in front of him.

He sat down alone, and after thinking for a while, he let out a long sigh: "I can't let him go on like this..." His son contradicted him, although he, who had always been very authoritative and aloof, was furious, but the real reason in his heart was that he had to take the overall situation into consideration and resolve this matter as soon as possible, so as not to drag down the whole Jianzhou. After thinking about the matter, he simply sent someone to find Zha Qinglai, and said to her right away: "Your good son will ruin the whole Jianzhou!" Za Qing had already reported that Chu Ying was imprisoned, and was about to ask him carefully at night when he was resting, but he was told such a serious sentence on his own initiative—— She turned pale, she had nothing to say, and stood frozen on the spot, unable to move.After a while, she came up with a sentence that seemed to be pleading: "But, after all, he is your son! Please forgive him!" However, as soon as the words reached her throat, she suddenly remembered Shuerhaqi's previous example; in an instant, there was a surge of soreness, she quickly bit her lower lip with her upper teeth, endured it with all her strength, and then slowly lowered her head , After avoiding his sight, her tears came out, and her heart was icy cold.

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