What kind of person is Nurhaci? This question can only be answered from his life story, so let's see what Nurhaci did. Nurhaci was born in 1559, he rose to the army at the age of 25, and gradually unified the Jurchen tribes, somewhat similar to Genghis Khan's unification of the steppe, he unified the Jurchen tribes to say that he was strengthening his own strength, clenching his fists and always being external. At that time, the Qing army could only be regarded as a corner of the northeast, but through the Battle of Salhu, it basically eliminated the army strength of the ming dynasty in the northeast and broke the "cage" from then on, which laid the foundation for the Qing army to go south.
Putting aside the topic of nationality, if we only evaluate people, Nurhaci is a character. Summing up his life, very enthusiastic and inspirational! Nurhaci ruled China for nearly three hundred years, the only dynasty in China that has ruled by foreign races for more than a hundred years, and it is also very inspiring and successful from entrepreneurship to death. Nurhaci, the founder of the Qing Dynasty, although he killed countless people, it was also forced by the situation, have you ever seen the founding emperor kill not many people?
Nurhaci is smart, how clever is that? In the historical records, he is called The Wisdom Baylor, which is a bit high. Secondly, Nurhaci's body is very good, this can also be understood, when Manchuria was just established, everyone's body was very good, unlike the later Eight Banners, in addition, Nurhaci was also skilled in bow horses, which is also an essential skill for Manchurian leaders. Nurhaci was a manchu national hero. Although Nurhaci did start a rebellion, in Chinese history, except that the Song Dynasty was defeated by the Jin Yuan regime, there was a great unification that was not overthrown internally, and the nature of the Xinhai Revolution and the uprising of the new army was not that of the Qing Dynasty army?
From the perspective of his successors and Manchus, Nurhaci was the one who led them to strength, and it was because of Nurhaci that they had such a good life. The Jiangshan laid by Nurhaci laid the foundation for his successor, Emperor Taiji, and the Eight Flags system he founded at that time was still used and perfected. It laid the foundation for Emperor Taiji, Dolgun and others to live in the Central Plains at that time, and for his successors, without him, then there may not have been the emergence of the Qing Dynasty in the future.
Before the unification of the Jurchens, the Jurchen tribes fought each other and were slaughtered by the Ming Dynasty, abounding, and after him until today, the northeast tribes have never had a phenomenon similar to the southern clans fighting each other. Later, the Qing Dynasty also unified and integrated various ethnic regimes, including the Ming Dynasty, and the state of war between the Ming Dynasty and other ethnic regimes in the Central Plains for many years ended with the Qing Dynasty, and the Huayi War before the Qing Dynasty ended with the Qing Dynasty, and the Five Nationalities Datong replaced him.
The future republic of the five ethnic groups, and the current policy of great unity is his continuation, of course, no one is perfect, Nurhaci did massacre the Han people of the Liaodong Ming Dynasty, which was his crime, and then his son Huang Taiji changed his policy and established Manchuria, he went on to unify China and establish the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's merits and demerits, it is left to posterity to evaluate!
Text: The wind is soft and the river is water
References: "Manchuria Old File", "Manchuria Old File"
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