The Secret History of the Qing Dynasty: Iron Horse Liaodong: Nurhaci

In the eleventh year of Wanli, the Liaodong was overthrown by chaos. The Jurchen tribes outside the Pass were fighting each other, and people were scattered. The Ming Dynasty's border troops were looking outside the Pass and exerting strong checks and balances. Murder and chaos abounded in the white mountains and black waters. In a blood disaster in Gule Village, Nurhaci lost his grandfather and father. The court's frivolous "manslaughter" buried the blood feud between two generations and completely shattered the stability outside the customs. At the age of twenty-five, he swore an oath in a desperate situation, angrily raised an army with thirteen pieces of armor, and embarked on the iron-blooded road of revenge and rise. The road ahead has never been smooth. Outside, there are rampant Nikan and Wailan forces, the Ming Dynasty is oppressing the country, and heroes from various tribes are eyeing them. Inside, there are members of the same clan who are jealous of talents, secretly forming secret parties, and deliberately plotting against each other. On the eve of the revenge battle against the city of Tulum, his trusted brother-in-law Gahashan Hashu was ordered to open the way, but he was secretly ambushed by a villain of his own clan and died tragically. This heartbreaking betrayal of his own people completely shattered Nurhachi's forbearance and concession, and made him understand the way to survive in troubled times: foreign troubles can be mitigated, but internal traitors must be eliminated. This book abandons joking and is based on official history, realistically describing Nurhachi's counterattack. He lost his youthful tenderness in the betrayal and fighting, used iron-blooded means to purge the tribes, disintegrate the feuds, sweep across the tribes, break up the nine-department coalition, establish the Eight Banners, promulgate the Seven Great Hatreds, and break the shackles of Liaodong that had been shackles of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. From an orphaned boy to a heroic leader of the Later Jin Dynasty, he fought with an iron horse to end the Jurchen's troubled times and laid the foundation for the Qing Dynasty's 300-year-old magnificent foundation.