Wanli 1592

Chapter 1024
There is a political economist in the West named Malthus, who once put forward a famous theory.

The development of the population owned by a civilization cannot exceed the level of agricultural development. Once it exceeds, the excess population must be eliminated in some way.

The history of the rise and fall of countless civilizations from ancient times to the present proves this theory.

This theory is called the "Malthusian trap" or "Malthusian catastrophe", or more directly, the "population trap".

The occurrence of war always kills many people and brings great pain to the surviving people, so people criticize war for rejecting war and even want to destroy war, but most wars may not be due to the greed of some people driven by people, but by the very existence of people themselves.

Population growth has exceeded the development level of productivity in most historical periods, and all of this is also driven by climate, especially for the land of China.

During the warm period of history, the food in the ground grew much longer, and both nomads in the north and farmers in the south could have enough to eat. The necessary factors to start a war did not exist. Greed and desire were not enough to cause a full-scale war, but once entered During the Ice Age, war was inevitable.

The large number of people accumulated during the warm period could not get enough food during the ice age. Under the constraints of productivity and climate, the food output was not enough to feed such a large population. Therefore, if they did not fight or plunder, they would starve to death. Before the two options of starvation and starvation, any normal human being will choose the former.

And this dilemma also exists in the current Jurchen tribe.

The Jurchens are a fishing and hunting people who live by fishing and hunting. Because they are close to the Han land, some Jurchen tribes also learned how to farm. As time goes by, many of the Jurchens also rely on farming. feed yourself.

Farming, hunting, fishing, gathering, relying on this way of life to survive and multiply on this land.

It is conceivable how low the intensity of this production model is. In the past, because they were not unified with each other, there were often large and small frictions. Wars were not uncommon. The population and productivity levels among the tribes barely kept up with get on.

However, in the past six or seven years, due to the intervention of the Han Chinese and Li Rusong's strong suppression, the major Jurchen tribes have begun to experience an increase in population.

To say that this is a good phenomenon, they really need strong soldiers, but as the population increases, they gradually find that there is not enough food, no matter how hard they hunt, fish and farm, they still feel that there is not enough food.

This situation makes them very puzzled and frightened. Hunger is enough to make anyone terrified.

The seeds of war began to brew quietly.

There were great conflicts among the tribes because of land, food, prey, and rewards from the Ming Dynasty.

Until the Great Qin Dingding, Li Rusong was transferred away, the Liaodong Army was divided as a whole, and the external oppressive force changed, they were already ready to move, but they didn’t know the policies of the Great Qin Government, so they didn’t dare to mess around, but the Great Qin Government was open to them This changed after the arms ban.

Some people can't wait.

And it was not Nurhachi who caused the trouble first, but the Haixi Jurchen Department who had long wanted to kill Nurhachi.

Nurhachi started out with little effort, and in a sense he was a Jurchen civilian counterattack, so he has always been looked down upon by the Haixi Baylors who consider themselves "world-famous".

But as Nurhachi unified the state, his power grew, which finally aroused the uneasiness of the Haixi Jurchen.

Hadabel Huergan, Yehebel Nalinbulu and others tried to control Nurhachi through marriage, and blackmailed Nurhachi several times in an attempt to coerce him to cede land to limit the expansion of Jianzhou Jurchen, but Nurhachi sternly refused.

After non-combat methods lost their effect, Nalin Bulu and others decided not to sit back and watch Nurhachi's development, but to eliminate him, so they decided to jointly attack Nurhachi in the 21st year of Wanli. As a result, Nurhachi's troops were recruited by the Ming court to assist in the attack The Japanese pirates and Nurhachi Jianzhou Guard were protected by Li Rusong, and the Haixi Jurchen did not dare to fight against the famous Li Rusong, so they had to strike down.

In the next few years, Nalin Bulu and others had a slight friction with Nurhachi, but because of the Ming court's intervention, the battle was never fought, and it dragged on for six years.

But this time, no one can stop it.

Nalinbulu could no longer bear the desire to do something to Nurhachi.

So after returning to the territory with the weapons obtained from the trade and arming the soldiers, he immediately led them to the territory of Jianzhou, robbed a cave village, killed more than 100 people, and captured more than 300 people. returned to their territory, and then spread the news to the Haixi Jurchen tribes.

When Nurhachi returned to Hetuala and knew the news, he was very angry and immediately sent someone to ask Nalinbulu why he broke the covenant. Nalinbulu's younger sister is Nurhachi's wife, and the two can be counted as relatives. But this kinship is insignificant compared with tribal interests.

Nalinbulu prevaricated Nurhachi's messenger back, which made Nurhachi even more annoyed. After discussing with He Heli, Nurhachi directly sent troops to attack a cave village under Nalinbulu's jurisdiction, an eye for an eye.

This angered Nalinbulu, and Nalinbulu immediately prepared to send troops to fight back. At this moment, Nalinbulu received news from the three departments of Huifa, Ula, and Hada, saying that the three of them The Ministry is willing to unite with the Yehe Ministry to attack Nurhachi.

After several years of recuperation, the four parts of Haixi have strong strength. After possessing such a strong strength, the four parts of Haixi naturally want to expand outward.

The first goal was Nurhachi, Jianzhou, which made them very unhappy.

So Nalinbulu stopped sending troops, and immediately replied to the three departments, asking them to send troops to help, and strive to wipe out the Jianzhou Jurchen Department in one fell swoop, and get rid of Nurhachi, a serious problem.

Something, dare to call itself Shulebeile.

Baylor, the nobles of Haixi, decided to make Nurhachi a history.

And this news was learned by the black water spies lurking inside the Jurchen, so the news was quickly sent to Liao Zhong and Ma Chong, and at that time, the four Haixi departments had not yet assembled.

After Liao Zhong and Ma Chong learned that the Jurchens were about to start a civil war, they immediately became vigilant. They realized that this was a good opportunity to observe the Jurchens' fighting methods and understand the strength of the Jurchens. They wanted to know why His Majesty the Emperor was so afraid of a group of barbarians.

They immediately asked the spies to accurately convey all the internal actions of the Jurchen to them.

(End of this chapter)