Chapter 8 Chapter Eight Eight Banners

Nurhachi's strategy of avoiding direct conflict with the Ming Dynasty and secretly expanding its strength was implemented more thoroughly by Nurhachi. The news of the assassination of the prince's "brick attack" case also reached his ears briefly, and he secretly remembered it, but because he couldn't think of any connection between this matter and Liaodong for a while, he stopped thinking about it. In the past two years, he has no longer had any disputes with the Yehe tribe, let alone sent troops to attack—he has worked hard to maintain the apparent peace so that the Ming Dynasty will reduce his attention.

All kinds of methods are more conducive to him creating a brilliant new era—— In the past two years, the several development priorities he established have all been completed smoothly and on schedule. First of all, he planned very carefully the plan to make friends with Mongolia, and the first step was intermarriage. Since several sons have reached the marriageable age, it is more convenient to implement. One after another, he married the daughter of Zhong Nenbeile of the Mongolian Jalut tribe as his wife for Daishan, and married the sister of Nazibeile for Mangurtai—— Then, when he heard that Zhezhe, the daughter of Mongolian Horqin Baylor Manggusi, was both beautiful and wise, and virtuous and knowledgeable, he immediately went to marry for Huang Taiji; Zhezhe had a niece named Bumbutai who was still young, but he did not Without hesitation, he made a marriage arrangement for Huang Taiji.

Later, Dege also married the daughter of Erzigbeile from the Jalut tribe of Mongolia—— In terms of the expansion of force, he narrowed down his actions, and only sent a small number of troops to annex Xilin, Yalan, Ehekulun of Ojibu and other places, and reduced his goal to mainly capturing humans and animals—— However, in the internal affairs of Jianzhou, he launched a substantial and active expansion effort. He clearly established the political system, and set up five ministers of governance and hearing, and ten Zarguqi, to specialize in the internal management of Jianzhou.And because of the rapid expansion of the personnel and soldiers in Jianzhou over the past few years, the original establishment of the "Four Banners" was not enough. After a period of consideration, he decided to expand the establishment.

After repeated thinking and deduction, and based on past strengths and weaknesses, gains and losses, he reorganized the military system, made some reforms, and expanded the original "Four Banners" into "Eight Banners". Half of the households in each of the original yellow, red, blue and white banners were divided into the newly established four banners of bordered yellow, bordered red, bordered blue and bordered white. This additional "Four Borders" flag still uses the original flag color and borders - he drew the drawing himself, adding the yellow, blue and white flags with red borders, and the red flag with white borders, which is the same as the original "Sizheng" flag. A total of eight banners.

Then, he selected the most capable of his nephews to serve as the leader Baylor with him: He personally led the Zhenghuang and Xianghuang flags.The two banners of Zhenghong and Xianghong are led by Daishan.The Zhenglan Banner is led by Mang Gurtai.The Xianglan Banner was led by Amin.The Xiangbai Banner was led by Huang Taiji.The Zhengbai Banner is led by the eldest grandson Du Du. In this way, it took a long time, and finally everything was sorted out in an orderly manner, and everything was on track. A new generation is about to be unveiled.

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