The door of Duduo's dormitory opened, under the dim light. Dodo, who is only 43 years old, is not lying on the bed, but sitting on an armchair. He is wearing a big face. His skinny face still looks majestic and inviolable, and he has the bearing of a king outside the customs. Not diminished by illness.
If you want to ask who the master of Ming Dynasty and Zhongxing is most afraid of in Laoshan Palace? There is no doubt that it is the terminally ill Dodo in front of him!
Although Duduo lost the battle to enter the customs, he retained his strength. His kingdom outside the customs still has a population of two to three million, and can still draw out 50,000 to 60,000 elite soldiers at any time. If you add the troops of Horqin Mongolia and Zhaowuda Mongolia who are attached to Duduo, plus the elite soldiers of the Korean Kingdom, you may be able to pull out an army of hundreds of thousands!
In addition to the large number of troops, Duduo's territory also has two important "Pacific trade ports", Vladivostok Port and Busan Port, and also produces precious furs and pearls.
The furs and dongzhu produced between the white mountains and black waters are transported to New Spain via the Pacific route, and then transferred to Europe from New Spain. They can be used to exchange for Duduo's army original muskets, artillery and gunpowder produced on the European continent! We can also invite Spanish and German military advisers to Dodo!
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 legions outside the Pass, they would undoubtedly be hung up and beaten!
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 longer), and it also has the world's only wooden-supported shells!
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 the vast territory outside the customs!
Now no one can force Duduo to sign an unequal treaty ceding the Northeast! With Duduo's new army that has absorbed the advanced military technology of Spain and Germany, let alone the Cossacks in Siberia, the Rakshasa Kingdom cannot defeat them. Even if they mobilize 20,000 to 30,000 "Santa Claus soldiers" from Moscow, it will be the same. It is to die.
Therefore, the land outside the customs in Duduo's hands includes the 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 Ussuri River or the Pacific Ocean Waterway (Tatar Sea), quickly and in large quantities were transferred to the Heilongjiang front line.
Similarly, Heilongjiang's troops, including the Mongolian troops of the Horqin tribe who retreated to the Hulunbuir Grassland, can also use the Heilongjiang-Ussuri River water transportation to quickly mobilize to the Xingkai Lake Plain or Vladivostok.
And the legion outside the Pass, which is based on the Xingkai Lake Plain, has enough strategic space for detours. It is easy to deal with the Ming court's crusade with a protracted war.
Plus, it’s the Little Ice Age right now! It was freezing and snowy as soon as winter began outside the Pass, and it was as cold as anything. The Ming army from the south couldn't adapt to it at all.
Therefore, as long as Duduo's Guanwai Army holds the foundation 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 to the outside of the pass, but stopped in front of Shanhaiguan. Even when Duduo invaded North Korea, he chose to settle the matter and recognized North Korea's replacement of gold with gold.
Zhu Cixiang's "appeasement" was certainly not because he was afraid of Duduo, but because he needed time to digest the fruits of victory in the battle to destroy the Qing Dynasty. Large tracts of land in Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, and western Shandong provinces need time to be organized and distributed. The dilapidated Yellow River dam needs major repairs. The blocked canals need to be cleaned. The depressed commercial cities need to be restored. The Beijing Castle needs to be repaired. There are also large The four towns of Ning, Beiping, Anbei, and Shuofang need time to take care of. In addition, two Mongolian vassal states have to be established in Mobei... A lot of troubles, all of which have to be spent with real money!
In order to enter the New World, they fought against Spain and joined forces with 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 another ten or eight years. Because Duduo did not die, there was no problem of succession or splitting up the Anton Protectorate - the Protectorate was an internal vassal town, not an external vassal state. According to the Ming Dynasty's internal vassal law, unless approved by the Ming Dynasty, the leader of an internal vassal town cannot be appointed hereditary for a long time.
And Zhu Cixiang never agreed to the hereditary leadership of the leaders of Andong Fan Town, 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! Moreover, it also occupies the fertile Northeast and Outer Northeast. How could Zhu Cixi allow Andong Fan to practice hereditary rule like Anxi Fan?
Duduo can't compare with Wu Sangui! Wu Sangui is the second brother of Wu Sanmei. The general of the Wu family is the first relative of the Ming Dynasty and the leader of the Liao faction of the New Army. Who is Duduo? He is the enemy of Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, it is beneficial to the stability and unification of the Ming Dynasty to let Wu Sangui inherit Anxi hereditary - Anxi is still so poor and close to Central Asia ruled by Tianfang Sect. The Wu family's rule in Anxi is extremely dependent on the central dynasty, and there is no possibility of independence...
Anton Town is different. With 2.5 million square kilometers of fertile land, 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. Among , Anxi, Hexi, Anbei, Shuofang, Beiping, Daning, Jinou and Jinghai, Andong Town is the most likely to argue for independence, followed by Beiting Town, and the other eight towns are actually unable to argue.
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 afraid 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, so 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 for Zhu Cixang!
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. Whether I die or not, whether we fight or not, is in the hands of Zhu.
And once I die, the initiative to fight or not to fight will be in your hands! Zhu Cixiang cannot tolerate hereditary rule in Anton Town...Doni, you are only twenty-one years old this year. Once you attack the Great Protector, it will last for a long time! How could Zhu Cixi tolerate Guanwai being in our hands for several more decades? So he will definitely make trouble over the inheritance of Anton Town!
If you are not convinced, it will be a feudal rebellion! I think what Ming Dynasty is most afraid of now is the chaos in the feudal towns! The top ten feudal towns! If one of them cannot be reconciled, the remaining nine will be tempted to separate themselves... If he just tolerates it, the future Ming Dynasty 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. He also has to rescue Siam. He is very busy! Do you know what to do? "
