Nurhaci returned to the tribe with a full load of armaments and fighting spirit. He felt unprecedentedly satisfied and happy. Even He Heli, who had always been calm, was shocked by this unprecedented harvest.
They used these weapons to arm themselves, and as a result, they no longer needed to use the weapons that they had cultivated themselves or the craftsmen that they had abducted from the Han Empire to make.
The first thing Nurhaci did when he brought back the weapons was an experiment. He used a standard saber of the Qin Army to fight with the one made by the craftsmen in his tribe. After three strikes, the Qin Army's saber was intact, while his own tribe's saber had three cuts.
This was a suppression of quality, and it also proved that the Han people did not favor any tribe. They just wanted to maintain the balance.
However, the stupid Han people never thought that people were different from each other. Haixi and Donghai only had a bunch of arrogant and dissolute leaders, but the Jianzhou Guard Nuzhen had a leader who had seen the world and was a great strategist.
In the face of the leaders of Haixi and Donghai, who were not as capable as Nurhaci, Nurhaci had a sense of superiority. He believed that he could crush them.
So Nurhaci immediately began to train the elite troops and prepare for the war of conquest against Haixi.
According to Xiao Ruxun's memory, in the past few years, Nurhaci had launched an attack on the Haixi Jurchen Guards after taking full control of Jianzhou. He began to conquer Haixi, and after several battles, he gradually annexed Haixi.
But because Xiao Ruxun recruited Nurhaci and his soldiers twice, Li Chengliang and Li Rusong sheltered Nurhaci's Jianzhou Division. Moreover, Li Rusong did not die at all. Li Rusong had been maintaining the balance between the various divisions in Liaodong for several years, so the decisive battle between Jianzhou and Haixi did not even happen.
For example, the famous war between the nine divisions of Haixi and the Jianzhou Division did not happen, but disappeared under the power of Li Rusong.
When Li Rusong was there, Nurhaci served Li Rusong carefully. Now that Li Rusong was gone, and the Daqin Dynasty did not care much about the situation in Liaodong. Instead, they wanted to maintain the balance in this way. It seemed that Xiao Ruxun was not as powerful as he thought, or he did not have time to pay attention to this for the time being.
If he did not take advantage of this time to develop and strengthen himself, when would he?
Nurhaci made up his mind.
But what Nurhachi didn't expect was that the Liaodong Inspector-General Liang Menglong had nothing to do with the opening of the border market. He was only responsible for civil affairs, organizing the people to restore their homes and build houses as soon as possible. As for military affairs and border affairs, Xiao Ruxun didn't give him the power to control.
The border and military affairs were in the hands of Liao Zhong and Ma Chong, and the Black Water Spies arranged for spying. Everything was under the overall planning of Xiao Ruxun, including the arrangement of the border.
Because of his intervention, the Jurchen tribes did not fight. Their population was growing stronger and stronger. Although they were scattered, it was not a good thing for the Daqin Dynasty. It was necessary to force them to fight a few bloody battles to consume each other. Otherwise, if there were too many people and they could not calm down, Xiao Ruxun's policy could not be carried out.
Therefore, he gave them the standard weapons of the Daqin to increase their casualty rate. At the same time, the White Tiger Battalion in Liaodong should be prepared to play the role of savior and arbitrator.
As early as before Liao Zhong led his troops to Liaodong, Xiao Ruxun told Liao Zhong that the Northern Barbarians and the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong were nothing to worry about. The only one worth paying attention to was the Jurchen leader of the Jianzhou Guards, Nurhaci.
Xiao Ruxun said that Nurhaci was different from the leaders of other Jurchen tribes and Northern Barbarians tribes. He was really an ambitious person. He told Liao Zhong to put Nurhaci and his family on the must-kill list.
Liao Zhong was very surprised. In his opinion, the three tribes of the Jurchen were scattered in different places and could not pose any threat to the Daqin Dynasty.
Even if there was a threat, he could take tens of thousands of cavalrymen to kill them in one battle. Moreover, now he had the military intelligence and military topographic map prepared for him by the Black Water Spies. He knew these places like the back of his hand.
If he still could not win the battle, he could commit suicide to apologize to the world.
Xiao Ruxun severely reprimanded him for this view. He issued three imperial edicts in a row to make Liao Zhong realize his mistake. He used his experience of fighting side by side with Nurhaci to describe Nurhaci's military talent, so that Liao Zhong fully realized his mistake of underestimating the enemy.
Seeing the emperor reprimanding him with three imperial edicts in a row, Liao Zhong also panicked a little. He realized that he seemed to have underestimated the enemy, so he immediately sent troops to strengthen the defense of the Jurchen guards of Jianzhou and asked the Black Water Action Group to speed up the intelligence collection of the Jianzhou guards.
This kind of intelligence gathering operation soon showed its value. Liao Zhong soon received the intelligence that Nurhachi had been preparing for war ever since the end of the border market, and the same intelligence was also passed to him by the Haixi tribes.
Obviously, the conflict between Jianzhou and Haixi had been going on for a long time. Because of Li Rusong's suppression, it did not break out. As soon as Li Rusong left, the Daqin sold them weapons, which directly ignited the conflict.
Unless the Daqin directly sent troops to intervene, this war was bound to happen.
"His Majesty means to sit back and watch the progress of this war. In short, we must not let the Jurchen guards of Jianzhou gain an absolute advantage or even use this war to suppress the Jurchen guards of Haixi. Once the Jurchen guards of Haixi lose and are in danger, the Daqin must immediately send troops to intervene.
Before that, the Daqin can provide the Haixi tribes with military intelligence about Nurhaci and help the Jurchen guards of Haixi. Without the help of the Daqin, the Jurchen guards of Haixi will probably fail miserably, which is not in line with the requirements of His Majesty. If the war between the Jurchen guards of Haixi and Jianzhou can become a long confrontation, it will be really good for the Daqin. "
Liao Zhong and Ma Chong were discussing military affairs.
Both of them were experienced generals on the battlefield. Even so, they did not know why Xiao Ruxun was so wary of the Jurchen guards of Jianzhou. Was it really because Xiao Ruxun appreciated Nurhaci's military talent during the war?
What military talent could a barbarian have?
Barbarians either did not have military talent, or once they did, it would be a disaster.
But military talent was something that had no clue. If one had it, then one had it. If one didn't, then one didn't.
Who would have thought that Temujin, who only knew how to shoot eagles with a bow, would be able to create such a huge foundation that no one in history would be able to replicate?
No one would have thought that it would happen, but it did happen. This was the wonderful thing about history.
Xiao Ruxun's strict reprimand made Liao Zhong not dare to slack off. He constantly paid attention to the movements of the Jurchen tribe. Finally, in late July, a small scale conflict broke out between the Jurchen guards of Jianzhou and Haixi guards of Haixi.
This conflict directly ignited the conflict between the Jurchen guards of Jianzhou and Haixi guards that had been suppressed for more than ten years. Once it broke out, neither Nurhaci nor the leader of the Yehe tribe of Haixi, Narimbulu, expected it to be so intense.
After understanding the scale of this war, Liao Zhong finally understood why Xiao Ruxun was so afraid of these Jurchen guards.
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