Hei Shumu is located more than 80 miles southeast of Tieling. This place was originally the Sanchaer Fort of the Ming Army in Liaodong.

In July last year, after Shurhazi's Zhengbai Banner military power was taken away by his brother Nurhaci, he was discouraged and took several sons with his remaining sons to seek shelter from the Ming army in Liaodong.

Li Chengliang was old and was too partial to Jianzhou Nurhaci. As long as Nuerhaci expressed his loyalty, he would submit a memorial to the official and helped Nuharchi unify the Jurchens. For this reason, he even gave up the Kuandian Six Forts stationed in tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to Jianzhou. This made many knowledgeable officials in the Liaodong Dushi worried.

The Liaodong Inspector Xiong Tingbi submitted a memorial to impeach Li Chengliang and even claimed that Li Chengliang could die. This move privately received support from many Liaodong officials.

However, Xiong Tingbi's memorial was kept by the emperor and refused to be published. Although the court talked a lot, in the end, there was no follow-up to this matter.

Within the Li family, there are many objections to Li Chengliang's intention to help Nuerhaci.

Li Chengliang's fifth son Li Rumei privately told his father that Jianzhou now has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, which is even stronger than when the four Jurchen tribes in Haixi were in full swing. If they were not curbed, they might become a major disaster in Liaodong in the future.

In view of this, Li Chengliang became somewhat wary of Nurhaci. It happened that at this time, Nurhaci broke up with his younger brother Shurhaci and robbed Shurhaci's Zhengbai Banner, making Shurhaci dare not stay in Jianzhou anymore and seek shelter from the Ming Dynasty.

At the suggestion of Li Rumei and others, Li Chengliang submitted a memorial to Shuerhaqi for the right guard of the feudal prefecture, which was the highest leader of the Jurchen tribes in the name of Liaodong. At the same time, he won the opportunity to go to Beijing to pay tribute, which made Shuerhaqi grateful to Li Chengliang. It should be noted that paying tribute to Beijing was the official recognition of Jianzhou by the Ming Dynasty. Whoever could pay tribute to him was the real lord of Jianzhou.

The last time I went to Beijing was Nurhaci, which was in the 29th year of Wanli. Not long after returning from Beijing, Nurhaci officially moved the capital to Hetulala and established his Jurchen Khanate.

Li Rumei went to Tieling in person and ordered the local defenders to hand over Hei Samu to Shurhaqi, and sent food and some weapons to his troops.

In order to obtain support from the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, Shurhazi settled his subordinates and took his second son Amin and third son Zasaktu to Beijing, and Hei Samu handed it over to his eldest son Alton Ah and his general Wu Erkun to stay.

Shurhazi's trip to Beijing was generally quite successful. The Ming court attached great importance to his arrival. In addition, Li Chengliang kept writing letters to the court to show the benefits of supporting Shurhazi, so Shurhazi not only received the book of the Ming court, but also received the Ming Dynasty's promise to him, that is, if necessary, troops could be sent to protect and help him.

But there is one thing that always makes Shulhazi rebellious.

That was when he was in Beijing, he heard a nursery rhyme.

Zasaktu told his Ama that this nursery rhyme implied that Jianzhou would kill each other, so he advised his Ama that he must be careful when he goes back.

Shurhazi disagreed. Although he and his brother eventually parted ways because of his different attitude towards the Ming Dynasty, he believed that his elder brother would never attack his younger brother.

The Jurchens, who are not Han people, will never do such a traitor.

However, when he returned to Hei Sai Mu from Beijing, he heard bad news. His most trusted general Wu Erkun was captured by the people of Nurhaci, and even more than 300 captured men were beheaded.

Wu Erkun was Gushan Ezhen when Shurhazi took over the White Banner. He followed Shurhazi for nearly 20 years and made great contributions to him and the founding of the state.

But now, just because Wu Erkun followed him to Hei Shumu, his eldest brother Nurhaci held a grudge, sent someone to ambush him, and chopped off his head with his own hands.

This made Shulhazi very angry. He wanted to ask his elder brother to find out. He had already taken his son away from Jianzhou. His troops had only a few thousand people together, so there was no threat to the elder brother. Why did the elder brother kill him?

Shurhazi's eldest son Altona tried his best to persuade his Ama not to go to Hetulala because the rumor said that his uncle had vowed to kill his younger brother. If Ama went now, he would undoubtedly die.

Amin and Zasaktu also pulled their father, and the concubine Tong Jia knelt in front of him. In the end, Shurhazi gave up the idea of ​​going to Hetuala and decided to send someone to Chenyang to ask Li Chengliang for help, asking the Liaodong general to uphold justice for him.

Shurhazi had been canonized by the Ming Dynasty as the governor of the Right Guard of Jianzhou, and Li Chengliang also agreed to support him, so Shurhazi believed that Li Chengliang would definitely seek justice for him.

However, what he did not expect was that Li Chengliang ignored him. Not only that, his brother Nurhaci also led 5,000 elite troops to Fushun Pass, proclaiming that he would ask Gao Huai, the great eunuch of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming army in Tieling used to regularly transport food to Hei Shulimu, but now it has stopped. All signs indicate that Nurhaci and Li Chengliang have reached a deal, provided that Li Chengliang no longer supports Shulhaci.

Without the support of the Ming army, Shurhazi could not compete with his elder brother with the lonely city of Hei Shumu, just because of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people.

During this period, he would drink with a jar of wine every day without asking anything. His subordinates and sons saw it, were anxious in their hearts, but they didn't know what to do.

Finally, the eldest son Altona couldn't bear to watch it anymore, and he rushed into his father's house with his younger brother Amin and Zasaktu.

"Ama, you can't drink it anymore!"

Seeing that his father was still holding the wine jar, Altona and the others were both angry and distressed, because their Ama looked very haggard and was no longer the hero of the former female protagonist.

"Ama, stop drinking, you're already drunk." Zasaktu walked to his father with distress.

"I'm not drunk, how could I be drunk?" Shulhazi yelled loudly, shaking the wine jar on the table, and then pushed Zasaktu away, "You go out, you all go out!"

"Ama!" Zasaktu's tears and in his eyes.

"Brother, you can't let Ama do this!" Amin's face turned red with anger. He suddenly rushed forward and threw the wine jar on the ground, cursing at his father: "What is Ama like now? Do you know where your previous ambitions have gone? Do you know that our troops are running away? If Ama continues like this, we will become lonely!"

"Ama, we have left our uncle and the Ming Dynasty has repented again. But you are like this. Do you really have to wait until your uncle's knife is on your neck before you wake up?" Altona clenched his fists tremblingly.

Shurhazid was there, slowly looking at his three sons, and smiled bitterly: "What do you think of me? Your uncle's troops are dozens of times that of mine. If he wants to kill us, we have no way to resist."

"But you can't wait for death like this!" Alton Adao.

Amin said, "Ama, I think my uncle doesn't necessarily want us to die. He may just want Ama to change his mind."

"Amin, you underestimate your uncle too much." Altona shook his head, "If he wanted Ama to go back, he wouldn't have killed Wu Erkun."

"No, brother, I think differently from you. I think the purpose of killing Wu Erkun is to let us go back." Amin said.

"Did the Han people say that killing chickens for monkeys?" Zasaktu read the Han people's books. Although this sentence was a bit wrong, he couldn't think of a better description.

"Yes, uncle is giving us a warning to us to go back. Otherwise," Amin did not continue. He always disagreed with the division between his father and uncle, and he always wanted to go back.

There is one thing that Amin didn't tell his father and brother, that is, his cousins ​​Daishan and Hong Tai asked someone to send him a message to him and ask him to find a way to persuade his father to go back. The two brothers swear to him that as long as they go back, the uncle will definitely not kill them and will treat them the same as before.

"Amin, you are too naive to think. Your uncle won't let me live." Shulhazi stared at Amin. He knew that this second son had a good relationship with Daishan and the others.

Amin was silent. If his father really didn't want to go back, as a son, he would be powerless.

"Amma knows that uncle wants to kill us, why is he still like this?" Altona couldn't understand why his father became a drunkard.

"You must remember that when the enemy is stronger than us, the only way we can survive is to show weakness." Amin's eyes suddenly became terrible, "If I don't do this, your uncle will not be Fushun now, but is shaking wood."

"Ama, even if my uncle doesn't come to attack us now, we can't wait for death like this?" Alton Ah understood, understood his father's painstaking efforts. He was so sad that he misunderstood his father.

"No, we will be alive." Amin walked towards his eldest son step by step, "Ama decided to go to Beijing."

"Go to Beijing?" Alton and the other two were stunned.
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