On the shore of Xingkai Lake, Jianzhou City.

The large fortress 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 also wood, mud and red bricks fired nearby, which are most common on the plains on the south bank of Xingkai Lake.

Tens of thousands of Korean laborers worked hard for more than half a year under the command of Spanish engineers and under the supervision of Manchurian soldiers, and finally completed the hexagonal exterior wall of the castle in winter, and the twelve solid forts were also piled up with an outline, and the trenches around the fortress were almost dug up. Inside the fort, a three-story Western-style brick and wood building was built as quickly as possible, and the interior is now being renovated.

Around the fort, vast areas of forest have also been cut down, more than 100,000 acres of fertile black soil have been leveled, and irrigation canals have been dug.

The amount of work that was completed in just a few months was, of course, the result of the efforts of Doni, the filial son of Dordor to supervise him. And there is only one reason why Doni is so anxious, that is, his father Duoduo contracted an illness in the winter of the eighth year of Hongxing, and the disease progressed very quickly, and by the summer of this year, 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 Great Ming Dynasty after his father's death. Doni, who was actually in charge of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, invested a lot of manpower and material resources, rushed to work day and night, and built a brand-new Jianzhou City near Xingkai Lake, where the first acropolis of Jianzhou Wei was located in the past!

The area around Xingkai Lake, from Wanda Mountain in the north, to Shuangchengwei in the south, from Xihote Mountain in the east, to the plain between the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain in the west, was favored by Doni and became the place where the dragon and tiger of the Manchurian domain of his dream were laid.

Although Doni wanted to establish a state outside the Guanxi and claim the throne, he was not without a little self-knowledge, and really thought that he could defend the Liaohe Plain, the Liaoxi Corridor, and the Liaodong Peninsula against the Great Ming Dynasty - in fact, if the Great Ming Dynasty really allowed the Andong Protectorate to occupy the above-mentioned territory, what else would he make trouble in Manchukuo? Isn't it good to be a prince who protects the prince?

However, with Huang Degong's Daning army stationed at the northeastern foot of Yanshan and the pastures of Zhuosuo Tumeng, the Karaqin Mongol tribes began to be incorporated into his command, and Yongping Mansion and Jizhou Prefecture under Hebei Province were established one after another. Dhoni and the entire Anton Manchurian group are feeling the pressure.

Moreover, after Duoduo became seriously ill, the envoy sent by the Ming court to Hanyang to visit the sick also revealed the intention of the imperial court to divide the Andong Protectorate after Duoduo's death and set up Liaoyang Province and Heilongjiang Metropolitan Protectorate - among them, Liaoyang is a direct province and will be directly governed by the imperial court. And Duoduo's heirs can only receive the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate and the Heilongjiang Metropolitan Protectorate...... But the two protectors cannot be led by one person.

For the surrender of the Liaohe River Valley, the Liaoxi Corridor and the Liaodong Peninsula, the Doni and the Anton Manchurian Group were mentally prepared. Because as early as the end of Nurhachi's reign and the early days of Huang Taiji's reign, the Ming and Qing dynasties had many secret peace talks, and in these peace activities, the Ming Dynasty insisted on restoring all the jurisdictions of the Liaodong Prefecture.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was weak and the Jin (Qing) was strong, and it was not developed much outside the Liaodong General Military District, and there was no foundation for the establishment of the country at all. So it is impossible for Nurhachi and Huang Taiji to agree.

But the current strength of the Ming court is no longer something that the remnants of the Qing Dynasty that have become the protectorate of Andong can fight against. Moreover, with the development of the Pacific fur and pearl trade and the development of the Heilongjiang River Valley, during the period when Duoduo was seriously ill, the Anton Manchurian group had the possibility of abandoning the Liaodong Prefecture and going to the territory of the original Nuergandu Division to establish a state.

Therefore, the minds of the Andong Manchurian clique led by Doni had the idea of abandoning the Liaodong General Military District and then turning the remaining part of the Andong Protectorate into a Manchurian vassal state.

In their opinion, this idea is the complete realization of the goals of the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming and Qing dynasties!

Moreover, the Manchurian vassal state was still a foreign vassal of the Celestial Empire, not an independent state......

But they didn't expect that the asking price of the Ming Dynasty was much more ruthless than they imagined!

It is not only necessary to recover the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Prefecture, but also to divide the remaining jurisdictions of the Anton Prefecture into the two prefectures of Anton and Heilongjiang...... Isn't this the method of dividing towns in the Tang Dynasty to weaken strong towns in history?

If the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate accepts the sub-town, I'm afraid that in a few years, Andong Province and Heilongjiang Province will pop up, right?

In order to counter the Ming court's demand for sub-towns, Doni accelerated the pace of establishing the Manchurian feudal state. And in order to strengthen its own momentum, of course, the name of the new country cannot be called Manchuria, so you will not have enough confidence when you hear it!

Therefore, after thinking twice, Doni planned to use "Eastern Qing" to name the country he created, to show that the country was the successor of the Qing Dynasty.

The banner that Doni prepared for himself is not small, and it looks like he is going to compete with Da Ming, but the fundamental place he chose for himself is a bit of a way to hide from Da Ming. Not only did he give up the city of Shenyang, but he was not even in Hetuala, the capital of Nurhachi, but retreated to the shore of Xingkai Lake, where he was located when he first established the state during the Yongle period, and also regarded the Xingkai Lake Plain as his own rear for construction.

Since the spring of the ninth year of Hongxing, he began to cut down trees and build fields, and build water conservancy. Moreover, long before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Duoduo, who ruled outside the Guan, managed to buy rye from the Rakshasas in the city of Nebuchu that could adapt to the cold climate, and began to try to grow them in the Heilongjiang River Valley, around Xingkai Lake and near Vladivostok, and with good results.

Despite the cold climate in these areas, the land is unusually fertile, all of which are black soil that is fertilized with oil, and once you find a hardy crop, you can have a very satisfactory harvest.

So Doni, who retreated to Jianzhou City, is not worried about not having black bread, no, he should eat black gnocchi!

Having just finished inspecting a few rye-growing farms run by immigrants outside the city, inspecting dozens of full grain stacks, and eating a meal of black gnocchi soup (the soup is mutton soup), Doni was already escorted by a group of Manchurian knights, Pegasus entered Jianzhou City, and galloped all the way to the red brick and wood building. Looking at the red façade of the building, Dhoni felt a little desolate. Because his father, Duoduo, dragged his sick body in the autumn and moved from Korea to the city of Jianju - according to Duoduo's words, even if he died, he would die on the territory of his ancestors!

Doni knew in his heart that his father did this in order to give his "plan to build a state and build a capital" - no matter how good Xingkai Lake is, it can't be compared with the familiar land in eastern and western Liaoning. How many people are willing to abandon their homes and come with them?

The building where Duoduo was recuperating was very quiet, a bit like a mourning hall, and the silent back and forth of the Korean maid wearing only socks added to the heavy atmosphere. Doni walked briskly to his father's bedroom on the second floor, and when he reached the second floor, he saw Ao Bai standing there sighing.

Ao Bai had been in the Khalkha Mongols as Aobaiski, but when Duoduo became seriously ill, he sent someone to recall him - Duoduo was now desperate to know how long the Khalkha Mongol war could last?

In addition, Duoduo also hoped that Ao Bai would be able to preside over the situation in the Heilongjiang River valley after his death.

A Xingkai Lake and a Heilongjiang River are the fundamental places for the future of the Eastern Qing Kingdom.

"The slave bowed to the little prince, and said goodbye." Ao Bai saw Doni go upstairs and hurriedly saluted.

Doni hurriedly helped him up, and then asked, "Have you seen the old man?" ”

"I saw ......," Ao said, "The prince looks good today......

It is impossible for the complexion to be good...... Duoduo didn't know what kind of serious illness he had, and in a few months he lost his human shape, and he hurt here and there, and he didn't taste good food. When I was in Hanyang, I let the doctors of the Ming Dynasty, the Korean Kingdom and the Spaniards all look at it, and they didn't say it long...... It's good to survive nine years of Hongxing!

It's nothing if Duoduo doesn't die, but as soon as he swallows his breath, the short-term peace between Daming and Manchuria is coming to an end!