Baoding Mansion Office is now the headquarters of Emperor Taishu Duduo's central army.

Now the gate of Baoding Fucheng is closed, and less than 30,000 defeated soldiers have entered the city. Except for a small number who have gone to the top of the city to stand guard, the rest have occupied the empty houses in the city and slept with their heads covered.

Of course Duduo couldn't sleep. He summoned his trusted generals overnight, including Yue Le, He Luohui, Bahana, Tan Tai, Leng Sengji and others, as well as Tuhai, oh, and a five-flower tied man.

Mulima.

Too bad for Mulima, he must be the scapegoat for winning the Battle of Yodo!

If the Desheng Lake he was holding on to had not been broken through by the Ming army so quickly, Duduo would not have been defeated so miserably!

Moreover, among the nearly 30,000 soldiers lost by the Qing army in the Battle of Deshengdian, 5,000 were caused by his mistakes. First, they suffered a disastrous defeat in Deshengdian, and then they used cavalry to fight against the Ming army's black spearmen outside Deshengdian.

He hedged and killed another two thousand people.

So he also knew that something was wrong, and without waiting for Duduo to order him to be taken, he had himself tied up with thorns stuck on his back. This is called bearing thorns to plead guilty!

But his crime is so serious that it cannot be settled by beating him with wattle sticks!

"Mulima, you, you, what do you want me to say?" As Dodo spoke, he took out a handkerchief and began to pretend to wipe away tears.

Mulima is also familiar with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". When she saw this scene, she knew that something bad was going to happen. Isn't this the scene where Ma Su was killed with tears?

"Uncle Emperor, this slave deserves death." Mulima quickly kowtowed, "I am willing to atone for my sins and go and assassinate Zhu Cixiang!"

"Assassination?" Duduo didn't know what to say, "How are you going to assassinate him?"

Mulima said: "Slave, I can learn from Jing Ke, carry a sharp sword, go to Nanjing as an envoy, and bleed five steps."

Duduo was a little hesitant when he said this. He obviously killed Ma Su with tears, so how could he become Jing Ke and assassinate the King of Qin?

"Why do you go as an envoy?" Duduo asked, "Why does he see you?"

"Minion, minion." Mulima's heart sank. He seemed to have nothing to do! Could it be that he was Ma Su's fate?

"Uncle Emperor," Bahana thought of a way at this time, "I have a way. I once heard the archbishop Li Yufan from Spain say that Zhu Cixiang has been trying to open up some kind of Pacific waterway these years, so he needs to get a

I can’t get my hands on a chart of the Pacific Ocean.”

Nautical charts were the core competitiveness of a maritime country in the Age of Discovery! You can’t buy these in bookstores in Amsterdam or London, and if you buy them, they may not be authentic.

Of course, you can also explore without a chart, but the price is not low, and the requirements for the captain are higher.

Therefore, although Emperor Zhu had always wanted to "cross the Pacific Ocean", he had no nautical chart, could not grasp the conditions of ocean currents and monsoons, did not know the conditions on the west coast of the Pacific, and was unable to obtain permission from the New Spanish authorities, so it was difficult to do so.

Now New Spain is not open to the outside world. Although the Atlantic side is a little loose, the Pacific side is still iron-clad. It is difficult for the Dutch to get there, let alone the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese did go there once decades ago, and that time

The ship of the Spanish Governor of the Philippines was wrecked near Japan. The Governor himself ran to Japan, built a Spanish-style sailing ship with the help of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and returned to New Spain, thus bringing the Japanese with him.

However, the Japanese sailing ship was later forcibly acquired by the New Spanish authorities, so it only took a one-way trip. I don’t know how to get back?

"Is this happening?" Duduo thought for a moment, "What kind of chart do we have?"

"We may be able to get it," Bahana said. "Last time, when Shang Keai came back from Tsushima Island, he said that Obai might take the Pacific Navy to some New Spain for a trip and then come back this summer."

No wonder Ao Bai didn't participate in the Battle of Shengshengdian. It turned out that he was driven to America once by Zheng Jiangong. Of course he knew where the Kuroshio Belt (Japanese Warm Current, Pacific Warm Current) is approximately? The North Equatorial Current on the return trip is approximately

where?

Of course, Obai couldn't figure it out, but Obai also had relatively reliable Europa Bannermen around him. Through them, Obai might be able to get the chart.

With this meeting gift, Mulima can at least meet Zhu Cixiang. As for whether she can do a bloody five-step, that's a matter of course.

Dodo looked at Mulima's tense face pretending to be tragic, sighed, waved his hand and said: "Pull it down."

Why did he pull her down? Not to behead her in public, right? Mulima's heart was lifted.

"Let's hold him in custody for now!" Duduo said, "We'll talk about it later when Obai comes back."

If Ao Bai can't come back, or if he can't bring back the sea chart that can be used to deceive Zhu Cixi, then Mulima's head will still have to be moved!

Mulima has been dragged away, and Dodo sighed: "Deshengyian is defeated, the liquidation is over, but we are not over yet! Let's discuss a way out now!"

"Uncle Emperor," Tu Tu commented, "I heard that Zhu Yuanzhang received advice from an expert and used the strategy of building walls high, hoarding grain, and slowly becoming king to dominate the world. This is how he finally won."

Duduo nodded: "That's right. Now is not the time when I was the emperor. In the past, when the late emperor was here, I negotiated peace five times, but unfortunately it was not successful. Otherwise, there would be so many casualties!"

I don’t know if there are 20,000 old Manchu men from the Eight Banners in Duduo’s hands now. Even if you include the old Manchu men from the Eight Banners in the pass, there are definitely less than 30,000. This number is less than half of what it was when Nurhaci fought the Battle of Sarhu.

.

Although Duduo can still recruit the Han people to make up the number, the problem is that if things continue like this, there will be fewer and fewer old Manchus in the Qing Dynasty, will it eventually become the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty?

Yue Le took up the topic and said: "Peace talks can only help the emergency. The Southern Dynasties still need time to pacify all parts of the pass. They should agree to peace, but when they calm down the pass, they will still send troops outside the pass. Uncle Huang Tai, we have to learn from Yu Wentai

"

Duduo nodded silently.

Tan Tai said again: "Uncle Emperor, we are still short of people! We need to plunder more people from the pass to get out of the pass! Let's plunder people from Jizhou and Yongping Prefecture!"

Leng Sengji interjected: "With so many people going out, how can we solve the problem of food? This year's spring sowing and summer planting have been completed, so there will be a shortage of food after autumn."

"Let the Koreans provide food!" He Luohui said, "Let the Koreans provide one million shi of rice!"

"Are they going to give it to me?" Leng Sengji asked.

Duduo said in a sinister tone: "Fight! Defeat North Korea! If we lose the customs, we will have to use North Korea to make up for it!"

On the same night, Emperor Shunzhi was also discussing countermeasures with his confidants.

"The most important thing now is to protect the emperor and leave Tianjin Guard. I can agree to any conditions, as long as I can leave Tianjin Guard!"

"Can Beijing also allow people to leave?"

"You might as well agree to it first and decide whether or not to give in later."

"But can Zhu Cixi believe our empty words?"

"You have to give this a try, right? Your Majesty, how about I go to Xuzhou personally and see if I can convince Emperor Zhu!"

The one who was going to take action personally was Soniso Zhongtang. In fact, he was not sure, so he had no choice but to die in the Qing Dynasty and become a living doctor in the Qing Dynasty.

He could agree to anything from professing vassalship, acknowledging his father, ceding territory, sending princesses to others, as long as he could let Shunzhi leave!

Because Shunzhi is inseparable from Tianjin Wei, sooner or later he will be captured and taken to Nanjing City to become Prince Gong, and he will probably have to taste Hedinghong!

"What are the conditions?" Shunzhi asked him.

Sony gritted his teeth: "Only one, the emperor cannot be taken as a prisoner. The emperor is my Qingshan Qingshan. If the emperor is captured by Zhu Cihong, then the Qing Dynasty will really be over!"

Shunzhi sighed, he knew this was a comforting lie. Maybe if he found a rope to hang himself, the Qing Dynasty would be saved!

Sun Zhixian said: "I think it's okay! The emperor is trapped in a shoal. As long as he can escape, the dragon will enter the sea and the tiger will return to Nanshan. It doesn't matter if the Qing Dynasty is temporarily gone. There is always a chance for revival!"
Chapter completed!