On the bank of Xingkai Lake, there is Jianzhou City.
This large bastion under construction named after Jianzhou was designed by engineers from Spain after studying the examples of Beijing's offensive and defensive battles. The raw materials used are still the most common wood, soil and red bricks fired nearby on the plain on the south bank of Xingkai Lake.
Construction of the fortress officially started in the spring of the ninth year of Hongxing. Tens of thousands of Korean laborers, under the command of Spanish engineers and the supervision of Manchu soldiers, worked hard for more than half a year. By winter, they finally completed the hexagonal exterior of the castle. The wall, twelve solid fortresses also formed an outline, and the trenches around the fortress were almost dug. Inside the fortress, against a high wall on the north side of the fortress, a three-story Western-style building with a brick and wood structure was built as quickly as possible, and is now undergoing interior decoration.
Around the fortress, large areas of forest have also been cut down, more than 100,000 acres of fertile black land have been leveled, and irrigation canals have begun to be dug.
The completion of so much work in just a few months was of course the result of the hard work and supervision of Dodo's filial son, Doni. There is only one reason why Donny is so anxious, that is, his father Duduo contracted the disease in the winter of the eighth year of Hongxing, and the disease progressed rapidly, and by this summer he was already terminal!
In order to fulfill his father's last wish - to return to the place where his ancestors rose to rebuild Jianzhou City, and also to have a base to resist the Ming Dynasty after his father's death. Doni, who was actually in charge of the Anton Protectorate, invested a lot of manpower and material resources, working day and night to build a brand new Jianzhou City near Xingkai Lake where the first acropolis of Jianzhou Guard was located!
The plain around Xingkai Lake, starting from Wanda Mountain in the north, Shuangchengwei in the south, Xihot Mountain in the east, and the remaining mountains of Changbai Mountain in the west, was favored by Doni and became his dream Manchu vassal state. A place where dragons thrive and tigers crouch.
Although Doni wanted to establish a kingdom outside the Pass and become king, he was not without any self-awareness. He really thought that he could defend the Liaohe Plain, the Liaoxi Corridor, and the Liaodong Peninsula against the Ming Dynasty. In fact, if the Ming Dynasty really allowed Anton to capital Hufu occupies the above-mentioned territory, why does he want to cause trouble in Manchukuo? Being a protective prince, wouldn't it be nice to be safe and sound?
However, as Huang Degong's Daning Army entered the northeastern foothills of Yanshan Mountain and the pastures of Zhuosuotu League, they began to bring the Karaqin Mongolian tribes under their command, and Yongping Prefecture and Jizhou Prefecture under Hebei Province were successively established. Dhoni and the entire Anton Manchu Group feel the pressure.
Moreover, after Duduo became seriously ill, the envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty to Hanyang to visit the patient also revealed the imperial court's intention to divide the Andong Protectorate after Duduo's death and establish the Liaoyang Province and Heilongjiang Protectorate - among which Liaoyang was Direct provinces will be directly governed by the imperial court. The heirs of Duduo can only hold the Anton Protectorate and the Heilongjiang Protectorate...but the two great protectors cannot be held by one person.
Dhoni and the Anton Manchuria Group are mentally prepared to hand over the Liaohe River Basin, the Western Liaoning Corridor and the Liaodong Peninsula. Because as early as the end of Nurhachi's reign and the early days of Huang Taiji's reign, the Ming and Qing Dynasties held secret peace negotiations many times. During these peace negotiations, the Ming Dynasty insisted on restoring the entire jurisdiction of Liaodong Dusi.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty was obviously weak and the Jin Dynasty (Qing Dynasty) was strong, and there was little development outside the jurisdiction of the Liaodong General Army, so there was no foundation for the establishment of a country at all. Therefore, it is impossible for Nurhachi and Huang Taiji to agree.
But the current Ming court is so powerful that it has long been beyond the ability of the remaining forces of the Qing Dynasty, which became the Anton Protectorate, to contend with. Moreover, with the development of the Pacific fur and pearl trade and the development of the Heilongjiang Basin, when Duduo was seriously ill, the Anton Manchuria Group had the possibility of abandoning Liaodong Dusi and establishing a country on the original Nurgan Dusi territory.
Therefore, the minds of the Anton Manchuria Group headed by Doni had the idea of abandoning the Liaodong General Military Area and then turning the remaining parts of the Anton Protectorate into the Manchuria vassal state.
In their view, this idea is the complete realization of the Ming Dynasty's goals in the early Ming and Qing peace talks!
Moreover, the Manchu vassal state is still an external vassal state of the Celestial Empire, not an independent country...
But they didn't expect that the price charged by the Ming court was much higher than they imagined!
Not only must the Liaodong capital area be recovered, but the remaining jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate must be divided into the two governorates of Andong and Heilongjiang... Isn't this the method used by the Tang Dynasty in history to weaken strong towns by dividing them into towns? ?
If the Andong Protectorate accepts the sub-township, I am afraid that in a few years, Andong and Heilongjiang provinces will pop up, right?
In order to resist the Ming Dynasty's request for separate towns, Doni accelerated the pace of establishing the Manchu vassal state. In order to strengthen their own momentum, of course the name of the new country cannot be called the Manchu vassal state. That would be a lack of confidence!
So after much consideration, Doni planned to name the country he created with "Eastern Qing" to show that the country was the successor of the Qing Dynasty.
The banner that Donnie prepared for himself was not small, and it looked like he was going to have a showdown with Da Ming, but the fundamental place he chose for himself was a bit like living a life away from Da Ming. Not only did they abandon the city of Shenyang, they were not even in Hetuala, the capital when Nurhachi founded the country. Instead, they retreated to the shores of Xingkai Lake where the Jianzhou Guard was first established during the Yongle period. They also regarded the Xingkai Lake Plain as their rear area. construction.
Beginning in the spring of the ninth year of Hongxing's reign, people began to cut down trees to create farmland and build water conservancy projects. Moreover, long before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Duduo, who ruled outside the Pass, managed to buy rye that could adapt to the cold climate from the Rakshasa people in Nerchinsk City, and began to experiment with planting it in the Heilongjiang River Basin, around Xingkai Lake and near Vladivostok. And it has achieved good results.
Although these territories have a cold climate, the land is extremely fertile. They are all fertile black soil. Once you find cold-resistant crops, you can have a quite satisfactory harvest.
So Doni, who has retreated to Jianzhou City, has no worries about not having black bread, no, he should eat black dough gnocchi!
Duny, who had just finished inspecting several rye farms outside the city run by immigrants from the Pass, inspected dozens of full grain stacks, and had a meal of black noodle soup (the soup was mutton soup), was already among a group of Manchurians. Under the escort of the knight, Pegasus entered Jianzhou City and galloped all the way to the red brick and wood building. Looking at the red exterior wall of the building, Donnie felt a little desolate. Because his father Duduo was ill and moved from North Korea to Jianzhou City in the autumn - according to Duduo, even if he died, he would die on the territory of his ancestors!
Doni knew in his heart that his father did this just to give momentum to his "state and capital plan" - no matter how good the shores of Xingkai Lake are, it cannot be compared with the mature lands in eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning. How many people are willing to abandon their homes and come here?
The building where Duduo was recovering was very quiet, a bit like a mourning hall. The Korean maid wearing only socks walked back and forth silently, adding to the heavy atmosphere. Donnie walked quickly to his father's bedroom on the second floor. When he got to the second floor, he saw Obai standing there and sighing.
Obai originally served as Obaisky in Khalkha Mongolia, but Dodo sent someone to recall him after he became seriously ill. Dodo is now eager to know how long the war in Khalkha Mongolia can last?
In addition, Duduo also hoped that Obai could take charge of the situation in the Heilongjiang Basin after his death.
One Xingkai Lake and one Heilongjiang will be the future foundation of the Eastern Qing Dynasty.
"My slave, Obai, pays your respects to the young prince." When Obai saw Donnie going upstairs, he saluted quickly.
Donnie hurriedly helped him up, and then asked: "Have you met the old man?"
"See you..." Obei said, "Your Majesty looks good today..."
It's impossible for him to look good... Dodo didn't know what kind of serious disease he suffered from. Within a few months, he lost weight and lost his human shape. He also had pains here and there, and nothing he ate tasted good anymore. When I was in Hanyang, I showed it to the doctors of the Ming Dynasty, Korea and the Spanish, and they all said that it wouldn't last long... It would be good if it could survive the ninth year of Hongxing!
It doesn't matter if Duduo dies, but as soon as he dies, the short-lived peace between Ming Dynasty and Manchuria will come to an end!
