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Chapter 431 Meeting of the King and Ministers on Political Affairs

Seeing Huang Taiji's interest, Fan Wencheng became more confident - he was planning this for both the Qing Dynasty and himself, and he couldn't say he was careless.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing in this world that cannot be compromised. The key is how to compromise.

Take the matter of the Crown Prince of the Qing Dynasty as an example. If there are two or three candidates that are difficult for Your Majesty to choose, it is better not to choose them at all, but to choose a suitable person from among these two or three people. "

"Choose a suitable person from among them?" Huang Taiji was confused when he heard this, "People other than them are even less suitable to sit on the throne, how can we choose?"

Fan Wencheng said: "Your Majesty is a fan of the authorities. There is a meeting of kings and ministers to discuss political affairs. As long as the prince has no major shortcomings, why worry that he will not be able to control the Qing Dynasty?"

When Huang Taiji heard this, he couldn't help but look deeply at Fan Wencheng, wondering whether the Han minister whom he had introduced as humerus had selfish motives in making this suggestion, and whether there was any possibility of seeking benefits for others.

Speaking of which, although the political king and minister system was officially created by him in the second year of Chongde, it actually originated from the five ministers and eight Baylor political system during the Nurhaci period.

Going back further, this system actually originated from the Jurchen tribe period, and it can be said that it has a long history.

Neither Taizu (Nurhaci), who founded the Later Jin Dynasty, nor he, who founded the Qing Dynasty, wanted to give power to Baylor or the ministers. The existence of both of them was due to political compromise.

In the first year of Chongde, Huang Taiji officially proclaimed himself emperor, changed the name of the country to "Qing", and asked each banner to appoint three additional ministers to discuss affairs.

In order to ensure that they have absolute say and even control over the company, major shareholders disperse the shares of small shareholders more and more, and even acquire them into their own hands, ultimately achieving absolute control over the company.

The Houjin initially established by Nurhachi was equivalent to a tribal military alliance. Nurhachi is the leader and has the greatest voice and military power, but other tribal leaders also have certain voice and military power.

At first, the leader of each banner, that is, Gushan Ezhen, was the leader of the tribes who had joined the military alliance earlier; later he gradually became Nurhaci's trusted general; in the end, only the Aixinjueluo clan was allowed to be the banner leader.

During the Chongde period, each banner had five people who could discuss politics, namely the flag leader Beile (or prince), Gushan Ezhen and three additional ministers.

In fact, it is equivalent to the joint-stock company of later generations - a large shareholder leads a group of small shareholders to start a business. Although the large shareholder has the largest shares at the beginning, it is not actually as large as the other small shareholders combined.

In addition, shells such as Boluo and Nikan can also be used to predict national affairs.

In order to consolidate the power of various tribes, Nurhaci first established the Black Flag Army, then the Four Banners Army, and then the Eight Banners Army.

Therefore, when Huang Taiji came to power, he first asked the chief of the Eight Banners (Gushan Ezhen) to also serve as the minister of political affairs during the Tiancong period.

Therefore, during the Nurhaci period, there were five ministers for discussion, ten ministers for council, and Beile, the leader of the Eight Banners, to assist in the affairs of the country.

In the past, there were only five political ministers in the entire Eight Banners, and only the eight banner leaders, Dabeile, could participate in state affairs.

When there are more people who can discuss politics, the weight will naturally be reduced. There will always be only one emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and his right to speak will only become more and more important compared with this group of "government ministers".

As a result, the rights of the earlier tribal leaders were greatly reduced, but the rights were not suddenly transferred to the hands of Nurhaci, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, but were divided up by the clan.

It became easy for the emperor to divide these many political ministers.

Therefore, after Huang Taiji came to the throne, he established the "Conference of Kings and Ministers on Political Affairs", which on the surface was to further improve the public deliberation system. In fact, it was to take over power from the clan (Dabeile) and the former tribal leaders (Eight Banners nobles).

If he is in good health and lives for another ten or twenty years, he should be able to naturally take over the rights of the clan and the Eight Banners nobles and become the truly supreme emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Although he is currently dying and it is impossible to complete this matter, he still feels a little unhappy when he hears Fan Wencheng propose a "meeting of kings and ministers" to compromise the crown prince's choice.

But this time he didn't get angry again. Instead, he thought about it seriously and said immediately, "I still don't understand a little bit. Can Mr. Fan explain it carefully?"

Fan Wencheng said: "There is a 'Conference of Kings and Ministers' composed of banner owners and ministers who can assist in the management of state affairs. Your Majesty will appoint the emperor's two or three hard-to-choose candidates as auxiliary kings, so you will not be afraid of the new emperor making mistakes." .

If the new emperor has the ability, he can take back power step by step in the future, enough to allow the Qing Dynasty to "advance and attack, retreat and defend." "

Establish an auxiliary king?

Huang Taiji was silent for a moment.

But several suitable candidates quickly flashed through his mind, including Dorgon, Hauge, Jierhalang, and Daishan.

As for Duduo, he was young and lacked wisdom, did not know the general situation, and hated the Han people. He was not suitable to be the helmsman of the Qing Dynasty.

However, if this is the case, the prince can only choose from his remaining princes.

Among the princes below Hauge, in terms of status, Bomu Boguoer, the youngest son born to his eldest concubine (also known as Yi Guifei according to the Han system) Abagai, is the most noble.

Because Abagai (not the same person as Dorgon's biological mother Abahai) was originally Lin Dan Khan's Dafujin (the first wife), but was later taken away by him and made a concubine - behind it were actually the Monan Mongolian tribes.

However, Bomu Bogor is too young, only over a year old, and is too involved with Monan Mongolia. If he takes the throne, it may allow the Monan Mongolian tribes to take the opportunity to grow stronger, and even overwhelm the Jianzhou Jurchens.

After that, there are Shuo Sai, who is thirteen or fourteen years old, and Fulin, who is only six years old.

These two concubines are his side concubines, one is from the Yehenala clan, and the other is from Horqin Mongolia.

Although Ye He is one of the large Jurchen tribes, he has a deep hatred with the Jianzhou tribe, and is not as credible as Horqin Mongolia.

But Fulin was only six years old after all. Although he showed intelligence, he was still too young.

The Han people have a saying that "the leader of a young country is suspicious", and the leader of the Jurchens needs to be able to convince the public...

For a time, Huang Taiji fell into difficulty in making a choice again.

After thinking for a while, he felt that his mind had become extremely dizzy, so he waved his hand and said: "Mr. Fan, please go down first - by the way, I don't want any news of what Mr. Fan said today to get out!"

At the end of the sentence, Huang Taiji's tone became cold.

Although his aura was weak, it still made Fan Wencheng feel awe-inspiring, and he hurriedly responded: "I didn't say anything today."

After hearing this, Huang Taiji nodded with satisfaction.

A few days later, Huang Taiji felt that his body was getting weaker and weaker, so he summoned Daishan, Jierhalang, Hauge, Dorgon and others one after another.

Princes such as Shuosei and Fulin were also summoned.

For a time, the Manchu nobles and civil and military ministers all felt that Huang Taiji was afraid that he would have to explain his funeral affairs.

As expected, it didn't take long for Huang Taiji to announce the imperial edict to appoint the Qing Crown Prince...

(End of this chapter)