Chapter 489 Han Eight Banners
"Improving the status and number of Han people in the army" Hearing these words, several Tartar generals frowned subconsciously.
Seeing that Huang Taiji did not speak, he fell into deep thought.
He was irritable and had the power of the Houjin Banner. He was as if his own thing had been snatched away by someone else, and he directly opposed it.
"No, our Later Jin Dynasty has always paid attention to the superiority and inferiority. Since I was born, the Han people were our slaves. This is the rule set by our ancestors and must not be changed."
"As for increasing the number of Han people in the army, it is even more impossible. After the proportion of Han people in the Later Jin army is greater, can we still truly master this army? Will the Han people with a large number of weapons obey our command, fight for us, and work hard for us?"
Just as the Tatar general finished speaking, another Tatar general looked at Fan Wencheng and had become hatred invisibly, and pointed at Fan Wencheng and cursed.
"Yes, Han people are born to be our slaves and will never be able to turn over."
"Fan Wencheng, you asked the Khan to improve the Han people's status in the army and increase the number of Han people in the army. Is there any secret that you cannot tell? Do you want to bring these Han troops to rebel against the Khan and betray the Later Jin Kingdom?"
"Yes, it must be that the Han people have a large number of in the army, so they can rebel against the Khan for the future of the Later Jin Dynasty and the stability of the Later Jin army. We must not agree to this request."
In the hall, except for Huang Taiji's direct subordinates, who kept silent because Huang Taiji did not speak. The opinions of other Tartar generals seemed to have been discussed, but were surprisingly surprising.
That's against this idea.
Because, after the Han people's status in the army is improved, their interests in the army will undoubtedly suffer great losses. Therefore, for their own interests and for the so-called esteemed and inferior, people raised objections without thinking about it.
Just as several Tartar generals were making noise in the hall, Huang Taiji, the founder of the entire Qing Empire, was analyzing the suggestion put forward by Fan Wencheng with a contemplative look on his face.
As an aspiring Khan, Huang Taiji had the idea of taking over the Ming Dynasty in his lifetime and making the Later Jin master the world from the beginning.
However, if you want to defeat the Ming Dynasty and rule the tens of millions of Han people, a crucial prerequisite is that the Later Jin Dynasty, which they ruled, must have sufficient strength, especially military strength.
However, to achieve this ambition, the price you need to pay is far beyond your imagination.
Because the system of the four kings unique to the Later Jin Dynasty in which the eight banners of the Later Jin Dynasty was destined that Huang Taiji could not fully grasp the military power of the eight banners of the Later Jin Dynasty. Without complete military power, if he wanted to realize his ambition to defeat the Ming Dynasty, it would become an impossible thing.
Because of this, since Huang Taiji took office, he has been trying his best to weaken the other three kings' rule over the Eight Banners of the Later Jin, increase his rights in the Later Jin, and gain military power step by step.
However, under the constraints of the ancestral system, no matter how hard he tried, he took several years to gain military power from the two banners of Zhengbai and Yingbai.
With the military power of the two banners Zhenghuang and Xianghuang, as the Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, he also controlled less than half of the military power of the Later Jin Dynasty. The reason why it was less than half was that among the two banners Zhengbai and Xiangbai, there were many tribal leaders who did not really join him and became their confidants.
In this case, if you want to fulfill your ambitions and increase your military power in a short period of time, you can only change your methods and find another way out.
At this moment, the opinions put forward by Fan Wencheng were like a key, which suddenly solved all the questions in his mind, making him feel suddenly enlightened.
Since there is no way to take down the military power of the four major flags of Zhenghong, Inlaid Red, Inlaid Blue, Inlaid Blue, Inlaid Blue, then you will increase the army of the Later Jin. By increasing the army, the proportion of these four major flags in the later march will be reduced, thereby increasing your right to advance later and controlling the entire later march step by step.
As for the various concerns raised by these subordinates in front of him, Huang Taiji did not care at all.
In Huang Taiji's eyes, as long as he arranges a warrior from the Han army to serve as an officer, no matter how many Han people advanced, he would not be able to rebel against the Later Jin.
Because, without a strong commander, no matter how many Han people gather together, they are all a mess of sand and it is impossible to pose a threat to the later march.
Besides, with the cowardly character of the Han people, no matter how brave they are, they will never dare to rebel against their masters.
As for the so-called ancestral system, Huang Taiji took it even more seriously.
If the ancestral system is truly followed, the later march will not leave the mountains and forests, learn Han culture, give up hunting, and switch to grazing and farming, increasing the strength of the Later Jin Dynasty little by little.
Under such circumstances, a very bold idea came to Huang Taiji's mind bit by bit.
Like the Eight Banners of Manchuria, they used millions of Han people in the Later Jin Dynasty to establish the Eight Banners of Han whose troops were no less than those of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.
If you arrange all the eight commanders of the Han Eight Banners into your own people, and you will fully control the military power of the Han Eight Banners. Then, as a great khan, you will have more than 70% of the military power of the Later Jin Dynasty.
With military power, you can realize your ambitions step by step.
Besides, with the limited Manchu warriors, if the Han people in the Later Jin territory were not drawn to form the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the troops of the Later Jin army would never be expanded.
As the wars in the future become bigger and bigger, the enemies they encounter will become more and more powerful. The losses of the later advance will become greater and greater. In this way, without the young and middle-aged tribes, the strength of the Later Jin army will become weaker and weaker.
Therefore, only by expanding the number of Han people in the army can the Later Jin army become more and more braver in the war, without the embarrassing situation of insufficient troops.
Therefore, the establishment of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the increase of the proportion of Han people who later marched. Even if Fan Wencheng did not propose this idea, he would also propose it sooner or later.
Of course, there is another reason, which is also an important factor in Huang Taiji's decision to form the Eight Banners of Han.
Through understanding of the Tiger and Leopard Army, Huang Taiji knew that if the Later Jin Dynasty wanted to defeat the Tiger and Leopard Army, he could only form his own firearm unit like the Tiger and Leopard Army.
However, everyone knows that the Eight Banners of Manchuria are good at riding and shooting, and are not good at firearms.
Therefore, in the entire Later Jin Dynasty, the best candidate for forming a firearm unit was the Han people.
However, if the Han people's enslavement status in the Later Jin army was not changed, even if these Han people formed firearm troops, these firearm troops would not be truly used by me.
Therefore, it is inevitable to improve the status of the Han people in the army and increase the number of Han people in the army.
So, under the gaze of shocking eyes in front of him, Huang Taiji spoke in a shocking affirmation: "I agree with the idea of military advisors to increase the proportion of Han people in the army and improve the status of Han people in the army."
"Not only that, the Han Han also plans to separate the Han people among the army and form a new army."
"The name of this army is Han Eight Banners, which echoes our Manchu Eight Banners warriors. Only in this way can our Han people in the Later Jin Kingdom truly become our people and serve our Later Jin."
"Of course, in order to avoid these Han people's misconduct after they had weapons and military power, they rebeled against the Han Eight Banners, which were about to form generals in the Later Jin Dynasty, all the main generals were all served by our Manchu warriors. The Han people could only serve as deputy positions and did not have the right to lose their military power."
Faced with Huang Taiji's decision that there were almost no loopholes, several Tartar generals could only shut their mouths awkwardly.
Because Huang Taiji's decision has solved all the problems they are worried about.
In this case, if you still disagree with Huang Taiji's decision, it is to challenge Huang Taiji's authority in the Later Jin Dynasty.
In the Later Jin Dynasty, which has a very strict hierarchy, as long as they do such a challenge to the royal power, even if they are the owners of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty, they will only be dismissed from office by Huang Taiji and even exterminate the clan.
Therefore, in the face of royal power, these people could only give up their immediate interests and watched Huang Taiji form the Eight Banners of Han and gain more and more military power in the Later Jin Kingdom.
Under the leadership of Fan Wencheng and other Han ministers, it was not seen for a few days. The news that the Great Khan Huang Taiji decided to improve the status of the Han people in the army and formed the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty was like a gust of wind, spreading in the Later Jin Kingdom.
Faced with this news, the Han people who had been staying in the Later Jin Kingdom as slaves, and who were inferior to pigs and dogs, began to be confident about the future as if they had eaten chicken blood.
In order to get rid of their slave status, these Han people who were oppressed by the Tartars for many years made the decision to join the army and join the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty without hesitation.
Of course, the status of Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, invisibly, in the hearts of these Han slaves, was also the most advanced by forming the eight banners of the Han people.
Huang Taiji was in full swing. While the Later Jin Dynasty formed the Eight Banners of Han, he did not forget the more than 10,000 tiger and leopard troops burned, killed and looted in the Later Jin Dynasty.
In order not to allow the Tiger and Leopard Army to gain a foothold in Liaodong and not allow the Tiger and Leopard Army to continue burning, killing and looting in the territory of the Later Jin Dynasty, Huang Taiji directly drew his most elite 10,000 elite soldiers in the Yellow Banner and drove them to the battlefield, and drove the Tiger and Leopard Army out of the Later Jin Dynasty with a thunderous momentum.
Chapter completed!