Huang Taiji knew a little about the recent ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty.

In the late Ming Dynasty, many fine works of Jiannu lurked in Beijing and border areas. They dressed up as merchants and brought back a lot of information to Huang Taiji.

For example, the famous businessman Tong Yangxing is a typical businessman's detailed work.

He had a cousin named Tong Yangzhen, who was the guy who was captured by Mao Wenlong and sent to Beijing to cut alive.

Huang Taiji was watching the flintlock rifle in his hand, which was brought back by Tong Yangzhen from the border.

This matter has to start with the Battle of Daling River last year.

In the Battle of Daling River, Degelei was defeated in a crushing defeat, and the Jinzhou front was torn apart by the Ming army, and the food route was cut off by the Ming army, and Huang Taiji was forced to withdraw his troops.

The defeated generals all mentioned the Ming army's new firearms, which were extremely powerful.

But Huang Taiji was the defeated party after all, and he had no chance to clean the battlefield. He could not get a flintlock rifle on the battlefield, so he could only go astray.

Until now, I finally got a few of them back.

Huang Taiji made people try it, and this test shocked Huang Taiji.

Most people believed that the Tartar Qing Dynasty did not pay attention to firearms, which led to the loss of the Opium War.

That's right, the Tartar Qing did not pay attention to firearms.

The artillery during the Opium War was also the Red Barbarian artillery in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and it was not improved for two hundred years.

But that was the late Qing Dynasty.

The reason why the Qing Dynasty did not pay attention to firearms was because the Manchus ruled the big clan with small clans.

What will happen if a small tribe rules a large tribe?

In order to maintain one's own rule, one will inevitably suppress the great clan.

Suppress from cultural, technological and military aspects.

Firearms are naturally among them.

The Qing Dynasty was not born to ignore firearms.

In fact, in the late Ming Dynasty, the Huang Taiji ruling group paid great attention to firearms, even more important than Chongzhen.

It has been copied according to the artillery and muskets of the Ming Dynasty many times.

Now that Huang Taiji has made a few flintlock rifles, he is naturally addicted to its magic.

"Dege class."

"The slave is here."

"You said that all the Ming army you met that day used this?"

"That's right, the Ming army lined up in rows and fired at the same time. It was very powerful, with a range of farther than all the muskets we had encountered before, and it was convenient to shoot. Our charger was shot down and dropped. Even if we barely rushed over, the war horses were very afraid of the bayonets on it."

Huang Taiji frowned tightly.

At this time, he was not thinking about the power of the flintlock rifle, but about who created such a firearm and invented the formation of queuing up to fire?

Tong Yangxing said: "Khan, I have asked someone in Beijing for inquiries. This firearm is said to be made by the Ming Dynasty Manufacturing Bureau."

"The Ming Dynasty Manufacturing Bureau?" Huang Taiji became even more confused, "Why hasn't I heard of such a yamen in the Ming Dynasty before?"

"It is the yamen of the new policy of the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

"Oh, Ben Khan remembered that the new policy you introduced to Ben Khan some time ago was mentioned in the summary of the new policy that you promoted to Ben Khan."

"Mr. Fan."

Fan Wencheng on the side said, "I'm here."

"What do you think of Chongzhen's new policy?"

"My little minister thinks that's just a treatment of symptoms but not the root cause."

"You have read all the contents of the new policy?"

"I saw it."

Huang Taiji felt thoughtful.

Judging from the recent news, whether it is the Huangcai case, the Gongtian case, or the Nanzhili case, they are all very difficult cases.

This new policy must have touched the interests of interest groups and was strongly opposed.

On this point, Huang Taiji and Chongzhen felt a little bit like him.

Because since Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he has been promoting reforms within Jiannu.

His reform was to transform Jiannu from the Khanate into an imperial state.

For example, weakening the power of Daishan, Mangurtai and others, weakening the Eight Kings' Discussions on Politics, and even thinking about emulating the Ming Dynasty to establish a cabinet and six ministries.

Huang Taiji has done all these in history and is very successful, but he has to wait until the sixth year of Chongzhen, which is next year.

And he also encountered difficulties when he implemented these things.

In particular, let the Han people be officials, give the Han people land, and ease the conflict between the Liaodong Jurchens and the Han people.

These all found strong opposition and resistance from the Jurchen nobles.

Huang Taiji did this because he realized that if the policies of Nurhaci era were followed, the Jin Kingdom would soon be over.

Why?

Think about it, what is the total population of the Jurchens?

How did the Han people be killed in the Nurhaci era?

During the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming army was beaten up with 100,000.

In the Battle of Chenyang, the Liaodong Army, the Qi Family Army, and the Baigan Army were wiped out.

Later in the Battle of Guangning, more than 60,000 Ming troops were killed.

This is just killing the Ming army.

In order to gain a foothold in Liaodong and defeat the Ming army, Nurhaci pursued a twisted tactic of firm walls and clearing the fields.

What is the twisted tactic of firm walls and clearing the field?

It's just killing, snatching, burning it all.

That is the so-called three-light policy.

Millions of Han people in Liaodong died under his butcher knife.

Many fortresses in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty were uprooted.

The reason for doing this is to clear out the bases of the Ming army in Liaodong and suppress the strategic depth of the Ming army.

This greatly intensified the hatred of the Han people in Liaodong towards the Jurchens.

For example, many generals of Pi Island, such as many generals of Guanning Army, all hate Jiannu very much.

In history, the reason why those people surrendered was because Huang Taiji came to power.

When Huang Taiji got up, the political means within Jiannu went from being tough on the Han people to being encircled.

For example, Huang Taiji personally went to welcome the famous Kong Youde incident in history.

For example, in order to persuade Hong Chengchou to surrender, Huang Taiji asked Xiaozhuang to go to Hong Chengchou's room to persuade him to surrender.

For example, Zu Dabao was released several times.

These actually reflect Huang Taiji's extremely superb political skills.

It can be said that history played a big joke with the Han people.

The Han emperor welcomed Chongzhen, the second middle-aged emperor in history, and his opponent was Huang Taiji, who had the strongest political means in the Jurchen tribe.

Without Huang Taiji, there would be no later Qing Dynasty.

From this point, we can also see that Yuan Chonghuan said that the fifth year of the first year of Chongzhen was actually not a bragging thing, because Jiannu did not experience Huang Taiji's reform at that time, and internal factional struggles were very serious and internal conflicts were numerous.

As long as the city-building tactics of Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan are adopted, Huang Taiji can be forced to death.

Huang Taiji actually thought about Zhang Chen's new policy carefully. There were many things he didn't understand at first, but after reading the books written by Zhang Chen, he understood a little.

I actually think some of the new policies are very good.

But he certainly cannot be promoted in the Jin Dynasty at the moment.

He looked at Tong Yangxing and said, "Can we imitate this musket?"

"It's not difficult for a slave to do his best."

"Try to imitate first."

"Yeah!"

Huang Taiji looked at Dorgon again and said, "Where is Lin Danhan at this time?"

"I heard that in the Korqin grassland, I was staring at it."
To be continued...