Nurhaci did not rely on his own strength to unify the state of Jianzhou, but was thanked by Li Chengliang's policy of "supporting the weak and suppressing the strong" in Liaodong.

When Li Chengliang pacified Liaodong, he relied on this move to "help the weak and suppress the strong".

In the early days of his defense, the main border troubles in Liaodong were Mongolian tribes such as Tuman and Urianha. Their daughters were just small ethnic groups that were bullied by the Mongols.

Li Chengliang then helped him to help him deal with the Mongolians.

Later, he drove the Mongols out of Liaodong. After the Nvzhi grew stronger, he supported the Hada tribe, which was among Nvzhi in Haixi, to deal with the Yehe tribe, who was the strongest and rebellious to the court at that time.

With the support of Li Chengliang, Hada's tribe quickly grew and grew stronger. Li Chengliang also used Hada's power to suppress Yehe's tribe well. But later Hada

When civil strife broke out, Ye He's tribe took the opportunity to invade its population territory, and the Hada tribe quickly declined.

Therefore, Li Chengliang hopes to find another person among the various tribes of the Nuzhi tribes, to listen to his own words, to be loyal and obedient to the court, and to be able to serve as a minion for the official army to conquer those disobedient tribes.

After all the time, he chose Nurhaci...

With the strong support of the "King of Liaodong" and the strength of Nurhaci himself, he quickly grew stronger and defeated his father-killing enemy Nikan Wailan three years later. In the fifteenth year of Wanli, he annexed the Zhechen tribe.

In September of the 16th year of Wanli (1588), the military and civilians of Su Wan's tribe, Dong'e tribe, and Yaergu tribe also surrendered to Nurhaci, causing his momentum to be shocked. In the same year, the last opponent of Jianzhou, Wanyan tribe, was eliminated. After five years of war, Nurhaci conquered the five Jianzhou tribes and became a famous chieftain in Liaodong.

At the same time, he actively moved closer to the court and took the line of Liaodong Governor Hao Jie.

In his private message to him, Hao Jie not only encouraged him to be loyal to the court to "look at the border" and also agreed to arrange for him to go to Beijing to pay tribute.

At this time, Nurhaci, at least on the surface, was the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard, who was loyal to the border for the Ming Dynasty, and of course he would not feel that there was any danger in entering Beijing.

He himself also urgently hopes to enter the pass and see with his own eyes what the Great Ming Dynasty looks like.

Speaking of which, he only followed Li Chengliang to Liaoyang and Guangning Guards when he was a slave of the Li family army. The southernmost place he had been to was Guangning Zhongwei... that is, Jinzhou in later generations. But even these garrison cities under the jurisdiction of the Ming army opened his eyes and benefited him for life.

He believed that by tribute, he would go to the real prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty and see what the capital of the Celestial Empire looked like. He would definitely learn a lot of new things and get a lot of new inspiration, which would be of great help to the development of the Zuowei of Jianzhou.

So he happily accepted Hao Zhongcheng's arrangement. After the beginning of this spring, he brought Eyidu, He Heli, among the "Five Ministers", the newly acquired Han aide Gong Zhengliu, and more than 100 members of the Jurchen tribes, to form a tribute group of 108 people. He set out at his own expense in Ala City, first went to Liaoyang to join the Ming army sent by Hao Jie.

Because of the idea of ​​carefully examining the Ming Dynasty, Nuerhaci's trip was not fast.

When he revisited the old place, he found that the Liaohe Plain was much more prosperous than he had in his memory. Especially after entering Liaoyang City, he saw shops on the streets, bustling markets, bustling traffic, and a wide range of goods.

The Han people who spoke in the street were generally tall, dressed decently, decorated with decent style, and treated people politely. Their style of a arrogant and civilian country made these slutty tatars from the mountains feel ashamed and dared not speak too loudly, for fear that their strange language would be ridiculed by the people of the Celestial Empire.

However, it is not entirely beneficial for them to speak mantras. At least they speak casually and don’t worry about anyone understanding the words they say if they are taboo.

"If we can bring people to grab one, we will send it?" Eyidu, who first started to fight with Nurhaci, felt that his eyes were not enough, and he drooled: "I thought Tieling was the best place in the world, but I didn't expect that when compared with this, it would be nothing."

"Stop dreaming." He Heli, who is also the five ministers and Nurhaci's son-in-law, smiled and said: "This place is like Tieling, and it is the family business of Grandmaster Li."

"Oh." Eyedu just tried his best to speak and said depressedly: "No wonder the Han people look down on us. It turns out that people beg for food are more decent than us."

"It turns out that Liaoyang City is not so prosperous." Nurhaci, who had been observing silently, said at this time: "In the past ten years, there have been more old noses in the shops." As he said that, he pointed to the street in front of him: "There were ghost alleys where the dilapidated military households lived, so how could there be so many people doing business?"

"This is all brought by the Northeast Company." Gong Zhengliu gently stroked his goatee and said, "They set up a Panjin Port at the mouth of Liaohe River. There are fleets traveling between Tangshan, and the transactions are fair. There are no corrupt officials exploiting them. Even Mr. Li's people never cause trouble. The transaction started all of a sudden. I'm afraid it's dozens or hundreds of times as many as before?"

Gong Zheng Liuben is a Shaoxing accountant who is very knowledgeable about literature. He followed the boss to Liaodong to do business, but was captured by his daughter. Last year, he returned to Nurhaci. In order to avoid becoming a slave, he raised his own value and boasted that he was a Shaoxing master who was well-educated.

This trick really worked. The development of Nurhaci's career in Jianzhou urgently needed cultural people to join. Not to mention the strategic counselors in the entire Feiara City, even the general documents were not understood. At this time, it was really thirsty for talent. Moreover, Gong Zhengliu did have some information. He not only spoke Jurchen, Mongolian, and Korean, but also wrote Mongolian and Korean.

Nuerhaci was as if he had obtained a treasure, treated him very well and respected him as his master. He was known as the "Wenjian Literature". He was in charge of documents and handled foreign affairs. He had to discuss with him any military, political, civil and other military and national affairs. He also asked him to teach himself and his children to learn Chinese. When he went to Beijing to pay tribute, the wild boar skin was afraid of making a fool of himself, so he also brought his own literary courage.

Gong Zhengliu told Nuerhaci that there was another immigration office here, recruiting people to reclaim south, and the Liaodong people went to the sea to recruit, and even many Mongolians, Jurchens, and Koreans flocked to it. The yearning for warm south by fellow villagers in Northeast China is really not something that can be built.

After hearing this, Nuerhaci pondered for a moment and said to the two ministers: "No wonder there are fewer and fewer female Naomens who have been to Shenyang in Tieling over the years. It turns out that they have all gone to the south."

"Then who won't go? Our place is so cold." Eyidu nodded with He Heli, revealing his yearning for warmth in his bloodline.

"The first thing we did when we went back was to forbid women from going south!" Nurhaci said in a deep voice: "All tribe members have been lost, what else do we do."

"Yeah!" The two of them responded quickly.

A group of women in Liaoyang and joined the official army sent by the Liaodong Governor's Office, and then headed to Shanhaiguan through Guangning Zhongwei.

In front of Shanhaiguan, Nuerhaci and his party saw the Great Wall building on the high mountains and ridges for the first time in their life.

They looked up at the majestic Shanhaiguan Arrow Tower and the five big words "The First Pass in the World" on the plaque, feeling that they were insignificant.

Looking at the city walls, the enemy towers stand high, the beacons are standing at each other, and the complete and solid fortification system is even more sighing. This winding dragon that spans the mountains and ridges and reaches into the Bohai Sea is definitely a barrier that makes all invaders despair.

This magnificent and indescribable pass shocked Nuerhaci so hard that he could not speak. It took him a long time to exhale a long breath and sighed: "The world's most powerful pass, it turns out to be so amazing!"

Eyedu nodded in shock with He Heli, "This is called a heroic pass, what are the most damn things in Liaodong..."

"If we can have such a powerful pass, it will be worth our whole life!" E Yidu murmured.

He just said casually, but Nuerhaci felt all the blood in his body pouring into his chest, and his heart was pounding. After a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "A real man should have the ideal of conquering this great pass!"

But the moment his ambition entered Chengguan, it soon disappeared. The defenders of Shanhaiguan were well-behaved and well-armed. From the moment they came into Guancheng, they looked at them coldly.

That kind of eyes Nuerhaci was so familiar with it, that was the hunter's gaze of looking at the prey...

He carefully observed the defenders of Shanhaiguan. When he was staying, he sighed and said dejectedly: "This army is probably much stronger than the Li family army..."

"That's natural, this is the Qi family's army." Gong Zhengliu sighed: "Shishuai Li's cavalry is the best in the world, but the rest are not as good as Shuai Qi, especially when he trains and leads troops, which is even worse."

"Then my ideal will never be realized in this life." Nuerhaci lies on the kang, looking desperate.

"Fortunately, Marshal Qi has been leaving office for two years," he said as Gong Zhengliu's words: "It's just because his old subordinates are still there. But there is no egg left after the nest is destroyed. At most, after the last ten or eight years, these people will probably have withered."

"That's OK!" Nuerhaci sat up again, feeling that he was OK again.

After entering the land within the pass, the group looked up and saw a scene of fertile land and prosperity. Compared with the Han people in Liaodong, they lived in remote areas and poor mountains and rivers.

Seeing Nuerhaci only felt itchy and was so itchy that he kept crying, how great it would be if it were mine...

Gong Zhengliu also told Nuerhaci that there is a new Tangshan city not far south, and it is several times more prosperous than Liaoyang, and it is also a steel capital! It is said that the steel produced by a single Tangshan city is more than the entire Ming Dynasty...

He quickly remembered the place name and thought that one day if he could cross Shanhaiguan, he would have to take Tangshan first, so that there would be endless food and steel.

Unfortunately, there were officials and soldiers monitoring each other along the way, so we couldn't take a detour to Tangshan to feast our eyes and see what the blast furnace with thick smoke looked like.

This regret disappeared the moment he arrived in Beijing.

Looking up at the Chaoyang Gate Arrow Tower more than ten feet high, the Jurchens' necks were about to break, and they were completely stunned. This great capital of the Celestial Dynasty is actually even more majestic than Shanhaiguan! Thousands of better than Tieling and thousands of times better than Liaoyang!

These Jurchens who were traveling to the city were just looking around in the crowds of people entering the city, and they were dazzled and did not notice that in the archery window above the urn, a pair of dull eyes were staring at them.
Chapter completed!