When Huang Taiji became Khan, the situation became extremely complicated, especially the relationship between Huang Taiji and Dai Shan, Amin, and Mangotai. According to the system in which the Eight Belles were in charge of state affairs, after Huang Taiji ascended to the throne of Khan, he was no different from other Belles. Theoretically, their identities are equal and equality exists. When holding palace meetings, various gatherings and major ceremonies, the four Baylors sit side by side and accept everyone's worship together. On the first day of the new year, Huang Taiji would also lead his brothers and nephews to send congratulatory gifts to Dai Shan, A Min, and Mang Gutai. There is evidence that, over a long period of time, a generally balanced situation has been maintained under the principles of this system. As the situation develops, Huang Taiji's authority becomes more and more important, and finally, the balance is broken.
First of all, the chain was broken on Erbeil Amin. The incident occurred in the fourth year after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne as Khan.
He is Huang Min Taiji's cousin. After Nurhachi killed his younger brother Shuerhaqi, he asked Amin to inherit most of the inheritance left by his father Shuerhaqi. Therefore, Amin unswervingly followed Nurhachi in his crusade against the Western Regions and made many military exploits. He has always been one of Nurhaci's most important warriors. He is one of those first-class characters who is very fierce, not afraid of death, capable of fighting, but also very rough and violent. On the issue of recommending Huang Taiji as the Great Khan, he was very happy. Unexpectedly, shortly after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, Amin asked Huang Taiji to allow him to "reside in a foreign domain", that is, he intended to form his own country, but Huang Taiji flatly refused. As a result, Huang Taiji was dissatisfied with Amin.
Huang Taiji led his troops to harass Beijing for the first time, possibly with the intention of breaking through Shanhaiguan and marching in the opposite direction. Therefore, after conquering Yongping, Luanzhou, Qian'an, Zunhua and other places, he ordered Amin, who stayed in Shenyang, to lead troops to garrison. At that time, Huang Taiji arranged for the officials and people of these cities to surrender, and strictly restrained the kings, Beile, and prohibited infringement of these people in order to expand their political influence in the Han areas within the pass. Violators would be severely punished.
Unexpectedly, Amin didn’t take it seriously at all. As soon as he arrived in Yongping, he said to his subordinates: "Since we have taken the city, why not massacre the people in the city? Now that I am here, I will not let you go back empty-handed." At that time, Sun Chengzong led the Ming army to launch a major counterattack. This guy neither organized resistance nor supported the neighboring troops. Instead, he ordered a massacre of the city, killing all the Han officials, Yongping and Qian'an people, taking away all the property, and then ran back to Shenyang.
This bloody massacre had serious political consequences. After that, the soldiers and civilians of Dalinghe and Jinzhou preferred death to surrender and starvation to death, which was directly related to the massacre.
After receiving the military report of the Ming army's counterattack, Huang Taiji immediately sent troops for emergency assistance. Then came the news that Amin abandoned the city and fled back to his hometown. Huang Tai was so shocked that he ordered Amin to stay fifteen miles outside the city and was not allowed to enter the city, and asked why.
Three days later, on June 7, the third year of Chongzhen and the fourth year of Jin Tiancong in the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji summoned all Baylor ministers and announced Amin's sixteen major crimes in one go. To be fair, Amin did have his own way of dying. He deserves it. This taste is too strong to deserve sympathy.
After the Yongping Massacre was abandoned, there was news that rivers of blood flowed in the city, and Amin deserved his death. Those other charges also clearly deviated from the oath Huang Taiji himself swore when he ascended the throne. Therefore, upon closer inspection, although it is not without suspicion of adding insult to injury, for example, there are as many as 11 charges accusing Amin of looking down on Huang Taiji and having evil intentions, which is not completely convincing, but after all, it is not made out of thin air. Huang Taiji asked everyone to discuss the solution collectively, and everyone agreed that Amin should be executed. Finally, Huang Taiji ordered him to be imprisoned. , Huang Taiji led his troops to besiege Dalinghe City. They could not storm the city and suffered heavy casualties. The next day, Manggultai found Huang Taiji and asked for the return of the soldiers he sent. Huang Taiji said: "I heard that your subordinates always disobey orders." Mang Gurtai said: "When there is a mission, my subordinates are always twice as many as others. When did you violate the rules?" The crown prince was extremely annoyed. , said: "If this is true, it is a false accusation, and I will investigate it strictly; if the disclosed situation is true, the offender must be brought to justice." After saying that, Huang Taiji blushed and prepared to mount his horse and leave.
Mangeltai became anxious and said: "Your Majesty, please show your public spirit and explain why you always have a problem with me? Because you are the Emperor and I follow you in everything, but you are so dissatisfied! Do you want to kill me?" He As he spoke, he held the hilt of the sword at his waist and stared at Huang Taiji. Seeing this, Manggutai's half-brother Dege punched Manggutai and scolded him: "You are so disobedient." Mangertai scolded: "Stupid thing, you actually You dare to hit me!" As he said this, he drew his saber half a foot away, and Dege hurriedly pushed him aside. After Huang Taiji returned to the camp, he scolded General Jubeile: "He is just a guy who killed his mother to get favors. How could he despise me to this extent?" Later he denounced the imperial army: "What's the use of raising you? When he draws his sword, you Why don't you step forward to protect him?"
Among the four great Belles, apart from Huang Taiji, there is only one Belle Daishan left.
When Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, Dai Shan recommended the best. At that time, Nurhachi's generation was basically dead. Dai Shan is the oldest, has the highest military rank, the highest seniority, and the most outstanding military exploits. His reputation is far above that of Amin and Mango Tai. His gentle temperament has won the hearts of everyone. He was the balancer and stabilizer for the decision-makers of the Later Jin Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty. It may be related to the experiences of his mother Tong Jia and his brother Chu Ying. Dai Shan is modest and mediocre, and does not show the pattern and courage of a leader. We are not sure why Dai Shan voluntarily withdrew from the Khan War and instead fully supported Huang Taiji. Are you self-aware? The affair with the eldest princess six years ago? Big picture? How popular is Huangtai? We don't know. Judging from Dai Shan's behavior throughout her life, it may be a combination of the above factors.
In general, the relationship between Huang Taiji and Dai Shan is not bad, with more unity and less struggle. Even if there is a struggle, it never involves fundamental interests. Once touched, Dai Shan immediately gave in and firmly supported Huang Taiji. For example, when Mango Taiji and Huang Taiji quarreled, it was clear that Huang Taiji was at fault. Dai Shan even scolded Mango Taiji angrily: "It's better to die for such a mess!" Later, he offered not to sit side by side with Huang Taiji, so that Huang Taiji successfully achieved "sitting alone in the south of the Yangtze River"
In the ninth year of Tiancong, Dorgon went on an expedition to Chahar and obtained Sheji, which made the people of the Later Jin Dynasty think it was destiny, thus boosting their morale. People followed the practice of electing Huang Taiji to succeed the throne and swore to support the title of Emperor Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji stated that because Da Baylor was old, he could be exempted from taking the oath. Dai Shan disagreed, took the initiative to ask for help, and finally took the lead in public to make a heavy oath of allegiance to Huang Taiji's throne, saying that if he had evil intentions like Mang Gurtai and Dege, heaven and earth would not tolerate it, and he would not die a good death. In this way, Dai Shan was generally treated with courtesy and respect by Huang Taiji. However, some of the friction between them is also interesting and meaningful. In Daishan, Huang Taiji would do things that made Huang Taiji uncomfortable from time to time to show his presence; in Huang Taiji, with the increasing authoritarianism, h
According to Huang Taiji, his sister Hada The princess has a bad temper and likes to gossip behind people's backs, so she falls into the category of a shrew and a talkative woman. So it may be that the relationship between siblings has not been good since the Nurhaci era. In September of this year, Huang Taiji led everyone in triumph to welcome Dorgon's expedition to Chahar. On the way back to Shenyang, Princess Hada and Huang Taiji were unhappy and left in anger. When passing by Dai Shan's camp, Dai Shan asked his wife to welcome the princess into the tent, hold a banquet, and give gifts of wealth. Huang Taiji was furious when he found out about this, but he didn't know who he would meet. He returned to Shenyang alone, closed the palace door, and prohibited anyone from seeing him.
A few days later, Huang Taiji summoned all Baylor ministers and guards to denounce Dai Shan face to face. He published a long speech, talked about his family history, and poured out his decades of grudges and grudges with Dai Shan. He asked Dai Shan angrily: "You see she had a bad relationship with Princess Hada in the past, why did she treat Princess Hada like this?" What is your intention? He then called out other Baylors by name. Finally, he said angrily: "You are such a mess! I will live in Dumen, and you can choose another powerful man to be your king. It is enough for me to live my own life. Later he returned to the palace in anger, He closed the palace door and never showed up again.
Finally, the troubled ministers of Baylor united with six officials to publicly try Dai Shan. They proposed to change Baylor's name, cut Baylor's position, seize ten cattle records, and fine him ten saddle horses and ten pairs of armor. , ten thousand taels of silver, and proposed to punish his son Saharian. Then, everyone came to the court, knelt down and asked Huang Taiji to come out of the palace to see the court.
The crown prince gained enough face and ordered Dai Shan and Saharian to be pardoned and fined.
Interestingly, shortly after this incident, Dai Shan and Saharian became the most active figures supporting the title of Huang Taiji. After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he named Dai Shan "Heshuo Brother Prince Li" and became the first prince under the emperor. What's even more interesting is that a year later, Dai Shan did something more meaningful.
After Empress Dowager Cixi came to the throne, she formulated regulations to limit the number of guards of the Baylor kings. Dai Shan may not be too happy. One day, he led the horse without guards and went to see Huang Taiji with a mattress under his arm, apparently deliberately to show Huang Taiji. Later, in the second year of Huang Taiji's reign, Dai Shan violated the regulations and equipped himself with twelve more guards, and told the heads of relevant departments that Huang Taiji's guards also exceeded the quota. This incident forced Huang Taiji to testify publicly. It turned out that the number of his guards was not that large, but not enough. We know that Huang Taiji reigned for seventeen years. The significance of this incident is that Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne for ten years and became emperor for two years, but Dai Shan still dared to follow him and did not treat him as the supreme emperor who could do whatever he wanted.
At the end of the fourth year of Chongde, Huang Taiji took everyone to hunt in the Yehe area. Dai Shan slipped and hurt her foot. Huang Taiji jumped off his horse, bandaged his wounds himself, toasted him, and rebuked with tears: "Brother is old, I have repeatedly advised you not to gallop. Why was eldest brother treated so badly?" Then he came back from hunting and ordered Dai Shan to sit down. The sedan rode slowly, escorting him home.
Three years later, Huang Taiji died. In order to prevent civil strife, Dai Shan supported Huang Taiji's six-year-old son Fulin to succeed to the throne, and may have personally ruined the life of a son and grandson who planned to support Dorgon. In this way, he became the most respected safety valve in the early Qing Empire, and lived his life peacefully with high prestige and honor. Although he may always feel an unpleasant deep depression.
It can be seen from these deeds that Dai Shan is obviously not a weak and incompetent person. In his actions, he could even partially appreciate that the Jurchens, with a population of less than one million, could replace the Ming Dynasty and establish the last dynasty of the Chinese Empire with a population of over 100 million!