The conflict between Nurhachi and the Jurchen tribes was still very big. Earlier on, in the battle where his father and grandfather died, the Great Ming Empire intervened in the war because of the internal conflicts of the Jurchen, and in that war, Li Chengliang was the absolute ruler.
Nurhachi lost his father and grandfather when he was young, so it was impossible to say that he did not hate them. But it was hard to say whether this hatred was on the Ming Army and Li Chengliang, but compared with the surrounding nomadic fishing and hunting tribes, the Han people must have a deeper father-son relationship and mother-daughter relationship.
There were many factors such as cultural inheritance and social environment.
The nomadic and fishing and hunting tribes themselves had a low level of civilization, and they did not pay as much attention to the education of their descendants as the Han people did. Without the relevant social environment, they even had the custom of being young and old, so it was hard to say how much family affection there was between them.
Anyway, it was certainly not as important as their own lives.
Nurhaci hated the other Jurchen tribes who started the rebellion and caused the death of his grandfather and father. Moreover, he had successfully killed his enemies before, and after that war, he made new enemies.
The more enemies he had, the more powerful he became. Soon, his ambition appeared and swelled, and he longed for greater benefits. As for revenge for his father, it was just a very ridiculous cover, and Nurhachi himself probably did not believe it.
His behavior pattern was completely profit-oriented, and his relationship with the surrounding Jurchen tribes was very bad. They were hostile to each other, sometimes attacking each other, sometimes cooperating with each other, changing to a higher level of struggle. Nurhachi, who was deeply influenced by the culture of the Han people, was undoubtedly a high-level player, while the other Jurchen savages in the deep mountains and forests were low-level players.
While other poor small tribes still used bone products, leather products, and wooden sticks as weapons, his small tribe had already begun to use iron weapons. With iron weapons, he burned, killed, and looted all the way to develop and grow stronger.
In the history of the Ming Dynasty, Nurhachi's development was described as the beginning of the thirteen sets of armor, and the equipment was all robbed. But Nurhachi himself should know very well how much of the process of his first victory was due to Li Chengliang's efforts, and how much of his iron equipment was secretly funded by Li Chengliang.
Therefore, even now, he was very clear that his strength was above average among the Jurchen tribes, but he was definitely not the strongest. There were still people who were stronger than him. It could only be said that he had a better situation, a better source of resources, and a better reliance.
Li Chengliang needed a dog to stabilize the situation in Liaodong and balance the forces of all parties. He needed this dog to be a Jurchen, but also obedient, and Nurhachi was that dog.
Of course, the dog was not satisfied with its master's arrogance. But if the dog was strong enough to transform into a wolf and left its master's protection, or even bite back, then once the angry master ordered other wild dogs to attack and bite him, would he still be able to survive?
It was hard to say, really hard to say. At this time, Nurhachi was far from being strong enough to compete with Li Chengliang or even force Li Chengliang to compromise. Or it should be said that this year, the 26th year of Wanli, was supposed to be the turning point in Nurhachi's fate.
Because this year was supposed to be the year of Li Rusong's death.
Li Rusong's death was the opportunity for Nurhachi to get out of the cage and start to really develop his own power. At that time, Li Chengliang was not in Liaodong, and Li Rumei and Li Rubai were not capable of carrying the weight of Liaodong at all. Therefore, three years after Li Rusong's death, Li Chengliang came to Liaodong for the second time.
But at that time, Li Chengliang was already 76 years old. He was lethargic and difficult to cheer up, and Nurhachi's road to unify the Jurchen had already begun.
The Li family raised Nurhachi because they wanted to raise a dog. With the dog-beating stick in their hands, they had a way to control Nurhachi, but things did not go according to their wishes. There were always so many unpredictable things in the world.
When Li Chengliang realized that it would be too late to beat the dog, he held the dog-beating stick in his hand and looked at it. Hah, the dog had turned into a wolf and dared to bare its teeth at him to bargain.
The Li family had always controlled the Jurchen people by getting rid of the strongest ones and letting the next ones continue to wear each other down. Whoever had the momentum to rise would be killed to maintain the balance. That was how Wang Gao was killed. This was also the historical background of Nurhachi's death. Thinking about it this way, fate was really strange and ironic.
But now, the appearance and change of a person had brought unpredictable variables to Nurhaci's road to ascension. Nurhaci was dragged into the quagmire of war and could not develop. His two level-up processes were forcibly interrupted, which made Nurhaci feel depressed and unhappy. There were several times when he wanted to quit, but he did not dare to bear the consequences of doing so.
He did not dare to provoke Li Rusong, let alone Li Rusong, who was even more powerful, Xiao Ruxun. If he quit now, he would probably be killed in an instant.
He could only bite the bullet and continue to do it.
He did not know that Xiao Ruxun had regarded him as a mortal enemy from the beginning. If he had known, he would have been deeply honored and then scared out of his wits.
You are the governor of four regions with the power of hundreds of thousands of troops, and you control half of the military forces of the nine strategic towns of the Daming Empire. How can you be hostile to me, a little chief of a barbarian tribe with tens of thousands of troops? How can I live? I did not betray the Daming!
Now, he did not know what he would do to the Daming in the future, nor did he know what his six-year-old son, Huang Taiji, would do to the Daming Empire, nor did he know what his unborn son, Dorgon, would do to the Daming Empire and the entire Han people.
And all these things were clearly remembered by Xiao Ruxun. Even though it had gradually become localized, Xiao Ruxun remembered every detail of these things clearly. He knew that at present, he could not do anything to Nurhachi directly, and could only use this indirect method to contain Nurhachi. But if he really wanted to eliminate his threat, he had to use direct means.
Naturally, as long as Li Rusong was still there, Nurhachi could not jump up. Because Li Rusong could not only beat dogs, but also wolves, and even tigers. Li Rusong was too strong.
As long as Li Rusong didn't die, Nurhaci couldn't jump up. As long as Li Rusong was still guarding Liaodong, Nurhaci could only be a dog forever. He didn't even have the chance to be a wolf.
Of course, it was better for this guy to die.
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