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Nurhachi used the thirteen suits of armor left by his ancestors and father to raise troops and began the journey to unify the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou. Later, he issued a proclamation to the Ming Dynasty on the grounds of the "Seven Great Hatreds", and officially launched a war with the Ming Empire for dominance in Liaodong. After Nurhachi's death, his son Huang Taiji succeeded as the Great Khan and adopted more flexible diplomacy and strategic tactics, which ultimately disintegrated the Ming Empire's rule in Liaodong. With the advent of the "Little Ice Age", millions of hungry people in the Central Plains rose up, and the fate of the Ming Empire entered a countdown. Some people say that if the Manchus had not entered the customs, perhaps China would have taken the path of capitalist revolution, but history does not allow for assumptions.