The door of Duduo's dormitory opened, and under the dim light. Duduo, who was only 43 years old, was not lying on the bed, but sitting on an armchair.

His face still looked majestic and inviolable, and his magnanimity as a king outside the customs had not diminished due to his illness.

If you want to ask who the Lord of Ming Zhongxing is most afraid of in Laoshan Palace? There is no doubt that it is the terminally ill Duduo in front of him!

Although Duduo lost the battle to enter the Pass, he retained his strength. His kingdom outside the Pass still has a population of two to three million, and can still draw out 50,000 or 60,000 elite troops at any time. If you add the Horqin Mongolia who are attached to Duduo,

He Zhaowuda Mongolian troops, plus the elite soldiers of the Korean Kingdom, might be able to pull out an army of hundreds of thousands!

In addition to the large number of troops, Dodo also has two important "Pacific trading ports", Vladivostok Port and Busan Port, on its territory, and also produces precious furs and pearls.

The furs produced between the white mountains and black waters can be transported to New Spain via the Pacific route, and then transported to Europe from New Spain. They can be used to exchange for Dodo’s army original muskets, artillery and gunpowder produced on the European continent! It can also provide Dodo with

Invite Spanish and German military advisors!

Therefore, the equipment, tactics and training level of Duduo's army are even better than those of the Qing soldiers at the same time in history!

If the Qing soldiers in history met the current foreign troops, they would undoubtedly be hung up and beaten violently!

Of course, Duduo's foreign legion still did not have the strength to fight Zhu Cixiang's new Ming army head-on - the new Ming army had developed to the stage of transition from matchlocks to flintlocks (because the current muskets are still a manual work,

Therefore, the output cannot be compared with that of the industrialization era, so the transition period to flintlock guns will be relatively long), and it also has the only wooden-supported shells in the world!

However, the relatively powerful army in Duduo's hands and his other trump card could give the emperor of Nanjing a huge headache.

This trump card is outside the customs and its vast territory!

Now no one can force Dodo to sign an unequal treaty to cede the Outer Northeast! With Dodo’s new army that has absorbed the advanced military technology of Spain and Germany, let alone the Cossacks in Siberia, the Rakshasa Kingdom cannot win.

, even if we mobilize another 20,000 to 30,000 "Santa Claus soldiers" from Moscow, they will still die.

Therefore, the land outside the customs that Duduo has in hand includes Outer Northeast and Sakhalin Island, with a total area of ​​24.5 million square kilometers!

Moreover, due to the existence of the Heilongjiang Navy and the Pacific Navy, Duduo's control over these two 14.5 million square kilometers is still very real - the army stationed in the Xingkai Lake Plain can pass through the Wusuli River or the Pacific Ocean

Waterway (Tatar Sea), quickly and in large quantities were transferred to the Heilongjiang front line.

Similarly, the Heilongjiang army, including the Horqin Mongolian army that retreated to the Hulunbuir Grassland, can also use the Heilongjiang-Ussuri River water transport to quickly mobilize to the Xingkai Lake Plain or Vladivostok.

With the Xingkai Lake Plain as its base, the Guanwai Legion had enough room for strategic detours. It could easily cope with the Ming Dynasty's crusade with a protracted war.

In addition, it is now the Little Ice Age! As soon as winter begins outside the Pass, it is covered with ice and snow. It is as cold as anything. The Ming army from the south cannot adapt to it at all.

Therefore, as long as Duduo's Guanwai Army holds the base of the Xingkai Lake Plain and relies on Heilongjiang's support, they can drag the war until winter...

Precisely because Duduo was not easy to deal with, after defeating the Qing Dynasty in the Pass, he did not pursue the victory outside the Pass, but stopped in front of Shanhaiguan. Even when Duduo entered North Korea, he chose to settle the matter and recognized North Korea's

Replace Li with gold.

Zhu Cixiang's "appeasement" was of course not because he was afraid of Duduo, but because he needed time to digest the fruits of victory in the war to destroy the Qing Dynasty. The large tracts of land in Hebei, Henan, Shanxi and western Shandong Province needed time to sort out and distribute, and the Yellow River River was in disrepair.

The dam needs major repairs, the blocked canals need to be cleaned, the depressed commercial city needs to be restored, the Beijing Castle needs to be repaired, and the four towns of Daning, Beiping, Anbei, and Shuofang need time to take care of, and two more towns need to be established in Mobei.

The Mongolian vassal state... has a lot of troubles, all of which have to be spent with real money!

Moreover, in order to enter the New World, they fought against Spain, and also joined France and England to bite Philip IV, who thought he was the king of the earth.

Therefore, I can only throw Duduo aside... If Emperor Zhu could choose Duduo's lifespan, he would really like to let Duduo live for another ten or eight years. Because Duduo will not die,

There is no problem of succession or splitting up the Andong Protectorate - the Protectorate is an internal vassal town, not an external vassal state. According to the Ming Dynasty's internal vassal law, unless Ming Dynasty's permission is obtained, the owner of the internal vassal town is

It cannot be long-term and hereditary.

And Zhu Cixiang never agreed that the chiefs of Andong Fan Town should be hereditary, but only allowed Duduo to be appointed as Anton for a long time. The area of ​​Andong Fan Town covers an area of ​​more than 2.5 million square kilometers! It also occupies the fertile Northeast and Outer Northeast. Zhu Cixiang

How could An Dong Fan be allowed to practice hereditary rule like Anxi Fan?

Duduo can't compare with Wu Sangui! Wu Sangui is Wu Sanmei's second brother, the general of the Wu family is the first relative of the Ming Dynasty, and he is also the leader of the Liao faction of the New Army. Who is Duduo? He is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, it is beneficial to the stability and unification of the Ming Dynasty to have Wu Sangui inherit the throne in Anxi - Anxi is still so poor and close to Central Asia ruled by the Tianfang Sect. The Wu family's rule in Anxi is extremely dependent on the central dynasty, and there is no possibility of independence.

sex......

Anton Town is different. With 2.5 million square kilometers of fertile soil, it would be strange if generations of people were placed outside the central government and did not seek independence. Now there are ten major vassal towns in the Ming Dynasty, Anton and Beiting.

, Anxi, Hexi, Anbei, Shuofang, Beiping, Daning, Jinou, and Jinghai, the most likely to be independent is Andong Town, followed by Beiting Town, and the other eight towns are actually unlikely to be independent.

The Ming court itself had plans to split Beiting Town into the Zhungeer Khanate and Beiting Fan Town, but it had no room for concessions to Andong Town.

Therefore, while Duduo was alive, Zhu Cixiang was only wary and wary, but once Duduo died, Emperor Zhu would have to face a feudal rebellion that would give him a headache!

"Doni, Oboi, you all sit down!"

Doni and Obai entered Dodo's dormitory together. Oboi had just greeted Dodo, and Dodo asked him to wait for Doni outside. Doni would come to see him together after Doni came back - because Dodo

My energy is very low now, I need to take care of myself.

Seeing that Duoni and Aobai had finished their salutes and were sitting respectfully on the embroidered pier, Duduo sighed softly and said: "It's all God's will... I thought I could protect you from the wind and rain."

, I didn’t expect that God would take me away!”

"Your Majesty..."

"Amma..."

Duduo waved his hand to stop the two people's disgusting words, and then continued: "I have finally figured it out these days...God not only wants to accept me, Duduo, but is also looking for trouble with Zhu Cixun!

Because if I don’t die, the status quo of the Anton Protectorate can be maintained! This is also the situation that Zhu wants to see most. If I don’t die, whether we fight or not will be in the hands of Zhu.

And as soon as I die, the initiative to fight or not will be in your hands! Zhu Cihong cannot tolerate hereditary rule in Anton Town...Doni, you are only twenty-one years old this year. Once you attack the Great Protector, what will happen to you?

But it will only last a long time! How can Zhu Cixi tolerate Guanwai being in our hands for another few decades? So he will definitely make trouble over the inheritance of Anton Town!

If you are not convinced, then it will be a rebellion among the feudal towns! I think what Ming Dynasty is most afraid of now is the chaos among the feudal towns! There are ten major feudal towns! If one of them cannot be reconciled, the remaining nine will try to separate themselves.

...If he just tolerates it, the Ming Dynasty in the future will be the Tang Dynasty! Moreover, he is now at war with Spain and in Mongolia. He also wants to interfere in the domestic troubles in Japan, and Siam has to rescue them.
Chapter completed!