Nurhaci is a northeasterner, and the northeast has been part of our country since ancient times, so does Nurhaci Ganha want to go to other places to develop? He himself accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty and belonged to the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty still had a certain degree of relaxation in its rule over ethnic minorities. For example, in Yunnan- Guizhou, Sichuan and other places, it is generally managed by the local toasts themselves, and the situation in the northeast is the same, which is managed by the local Jurchen tribes themselves, as long as they pay taxes regularly.
The Ming Dynasty's rule over the northeast adopted a method of differentiation and checks and balances. During Li Chengliang's reign, the three tribes of Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen and Yehe Jurchen balanced each other, which made the Ming Dynasty's rule more successful.
01 Nurhaci had political resources in the Ming Dynasty, and there was no need to go out and create his own.
Starting a business is a very hard thing because it requires a lot of resources to help. Can Nurhaci take over the world with his bare hands? Of course not.
He had helpers in the Ming Dynasty, and Li Chengliang was the best helper. Nurhaci took advantage of his relationship with Li Chengliang to develop and grow in the northeast without anyone to govern.
Taizu's appearance is majestic, his ambition is broad, shen is a few inner connotations, his voice is like a bell, he can't forget it, and he extends his generosity. The lord of the neighboring Gule City, Ah Tai, was attacked by the Ming general Li Chengliang, ah tai, the son of Wang Gao, and the daughter of Li Dun. Jing Zu looked at his grandson. There are Nikan Wailan, lure Ah Tai Kaicheng, ming soldiers into the annihilation, the two ancestors are in trouble. Taizu and his brother Shu'erhaqi were not in the army, and became Liang's wife, who was strange in appearance and indulgent. The way meets the forehead, with its disciples nine people from. --- Draft History of the Qing Dynasty
At first, Nurhaci was poor and white, and it was because he leaned on the mountain of Li Chengliang that he gradually had his own team. Through Li Chengliang, Nurhaci continued to transport materials from the northeast to the Central Plains for sale, thus obtaining the first pot of gold for the uprising.
Of course, his point of mention to Li Chengliang was definitely higher than the sky, otherwise how could the ming Dynasty Liaodong commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty buy his account? In Li Chengliang's view, this is also a good deal.
After all, he believes that the growth of Nurhaci will not affect the overall situation, and the Yehe Jurchens and the Haixi Jurchens are very large Jurchen tribes
As long as they and Jianzhou Jurchen check and balance each other and don't unite together, everything is easy to do, and it is harmless to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money.
It is precisely because of This idea of Li Chengliang that Nurhaci's ambitions have gradually expanded.
After he unified the entire Jurchens, he was not satisfied with the current scale, and he hoped to unify the entire Jurchen clan and establish his own empire like Genghis Khan.
If this idea is conceived for a long time, of course, it still depends on the help of the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, There was no money and no grain outside Guanwai, and if you wanted to build an empire, you had to import a large amount of materials, and the Li Chengliang family was the most important material supply channel for Nurhaci.
When things got out of hand, Li Chengliang himself retired, and he didn't know that he had made a big mistake. But no one else would have anticipated what would happen later.
02 Nurhaci originally lived in the northeast, and the northeast was part of the Ming Dynasty.
Many people have a misconception that the Manchu Invasion was a foreign invasion. In fact, we can't look at this matter in this way, the Ming Dynasty is not a single ethnic country, not only the Han nationality.
The Ming Dynasty, like any period after the Han Dynasty, was a multi-ethnic state. The Jurchens, without exception, are part of the Majority of the Chinese nation.
After the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Liao and Jurchens established by the Khitans are actually an inseparable part of Chinese history, and even many scholars believe that the Song Dynasty is not orthodox, and jin is the orthodox dynasty, after all, people control the Central Plains.
There is a certain reason for this, the so-called Central Plains chasing deer and winning the Central Plains, this refers to the hegemony of the Central Plains, it is equivalent to dominating the whole of China.
In the first month of Xin Ugly Spring, Ming blamed hada for destroying it, and sent Wu'ergudai, the son of Mengge Bulu, to return to Hada. Hada was invaded by Yehe and the Mongols, so that he sued Yuming, ming should not, and hada told Ming with hunger, and should not. Taizu returned to Wu'ergudai and took over his people, and Hada died. In December, Taizu returned to pay tribute to Yuming. It is a military system that allows the people to raise silkworms. --- Draft History of the Qing Dynasty
Therefore, the evolution of the Jurchens into the later Manchus is also an inseparable part of us. The Battle of the Ming and Qing Dynasties can only be said to be a contradiction within the country and between various nationalities, and it cannot be said that it is an invasion by foreign nationalities, and there is an essential difference between it and the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Nurhaci himself is a northeasterner, he lives and grows up in his own land, why should he run outside to develop entrepreneurship? At that time, there was no north to guangzhou and deep to float, and there was no hometown anywhere.
The northeast is also under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, so Nurhaci belongs to the secondary entrepreneurship within the enterprise, which is a manifestation of a new stove and does not belong to the invasion of foreign enemies. Since it is an internal contradiction, it must be resolved internally, and there is no need to run away.
03 The Central Plains region is a place coveted by Dorgon.
To be honest, whether Nurhaci really had the ambition to swallow the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it is not counted. Because the Ming Dynasty is really too big, Nurhaci's little bit of people is really not enough for the Ming Dynasty to plug the teeth.
In February of the third year, the general Jian Junshi was edicted and the Law of War was promulgated. Ren Yin, Shangfa Ming, with the seven great hatreds to the heavens, worship the children of the temple. Divide the left four banners to the east of the state, Magen single two cities, down. The commander of the right four banner soldiers tended to be smooth. Ming Fushun guerrilla Li Yongfang surrendered, thinking that he was the commander-in-chief, and had jurisdiction over the surrender of people and destroyed his city. Ming general Zhang Chengyin and others came to pursue, and returned to the army to kill Chengyin and others, the class division. --- Draft History of the Qing Dynasty
At that time, the peasant army uprising did not become a climate, and the two dynasties of Tianqi Chongzhen had every way to cope with the situation in the northeast and northwest. Therefore, Nurhaci should only be self-reliant in the northeast region, even if he thought of winning the Central Plains, it was not something that a generation could accomplish.
Nurhaci's son, Emperor Taiji, changed the Later Jin to manchu Qing and established the Qing Empire. After that, he only often went into the customs to sweep and loot some materials, and the real large-scale southern expedition was rare.
It can be seen that Emperor Taiji also had no ambition to compete for the world, and by the time of Dorgon, the situation was completely different.
He was also nurhaci's son, but relatively younger.
After Dorgon came to power, the Manchus had ruled the entire northeast region, and the major Mongol tribes were subject to Manchu rule.
In this way, all the opponents outside the guan have been eliminated, so you can focus on the kannai.
At this moment, the situation in Guannei suddenly changed, and the leader of the rebel army, Li Zicheng, broke through the momentum and invaded the city of Beijing, destroying the Ming Dynasty.
Dorgon saw the period and planned to compete with Li Zicheng for the world, so he plotted against Wu Sangui and led troops into the pass.
Nurhaci started a business, Huang Taiji consolidated his foundation, and Dolgun forged ahead. These three people laid the map of the later Qing Dynasty, which shows that success cannot be achieved overnight in a short period of time.
Summary: Nurhaci may only want to split the earth and crown the king.
Later, we know that Nurhaci issued the Seven Great Hatreds, expressed his intention to completely break with the Ming Dynasty, and fought the Battle of Salhu and killed many Ming troops.
But after that, Nurhaci stagnated, why? Because he wants to run the northeast region well, at least his generation is not willing to go one step further.
In Nurhaci's eyes, it seemed that the Split Earth King was enough. If you want to truly annex the Ming Dynasty, you must have all three of them.
At that time, although there was the help of the Xiaoice River period and the peasant rebel army, the Ming Dynasty was still full of confidence and did not fear the threat of Nurhaci at all, so the time of heaven was not enough. For this reason, Nurhaci can only keep this inheritance and let future generations wait for the opportunity.
This is very wise, as Zhuge Liang said in Longzhong, wait for the heavens to change, and then go north to the Central Plains. Timing is definitely the most important thing, and it seems that Nurhaci did not read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms less.
Resources:
History of the Ming Dynasty
Draft History of the Qing Dynasty