The first negotiations between the Ming and Tsarist Russia were held in September, and the negotiations did not go well, although the Russians lost the war, they still only agreed to use the Ob River as the boundary, while the Ming insisted on using the Ural Mountains as the boundary. The two sides agreed to hold a second negotiation in May next year.

Although the first negotiations broke down, the Ming military campaign east of the Urals did not end, and the Ming army began to build military cantonments and more military forts in this area in order to create a de facto occupation. The Russian army is powerless in the face of the large-scale construction of the Ming army east of the Ural Mountains, and now the center of gravity of the Russian army has shifted to Ukraine and Belarus, and on the eastern front, the Russian army does not dare to take the initiative to start a war with the Ming army.

At the end of October, Zhu Cijiong led 10,000 soldiers and 10,000 female prisoners to Moody. Zhu Cijiong's 10,000 soldiers consisted of 5,000 Juntun soldiers and 5,000 soldiers brought by Feng Shuangli. As for the remaining nearly 5,000 male prisoners, they were assigned to the military cantonment area to be responsible for the production of animal husbandry.

And Li Dingguo's army was also on the way back from the squad at the moment, and the cold weather that had arrived made Li Dingguo have to end his military operations. In this pursuit, which lasted for several months, the Ming army again captured tens of thousands of Manchukuos. Of the remaining Manchukuos, more than seven fled to the Iroquois, two went south into the Western colonies, and the remaining one went north into Nunavut.

It wasn't until early November that Zhu Cijiong's team set off from Moody's Wai and left the Great Northern Wilderness Dongzhou for the Southern Great Wilderness Dongzhou. In order to ensure the safe arrival of the Southern Great Wilderness Dongzhou, Zhu Cijiong hired all the ships of the Royal Shipping Company, and the ships of the Royal Shipping Company are armed transport ships and have a very high reputation in the world.

When Li Dingguo returned to Indian Province, he found that Zhu Cijiong's team had left the Indian area, and he also felt that something was wrong. Li Dingguo immediately sent someone to send the news to the empire, and at this time, the empire was forming a new navy in the Great Wilderness Dongzhou, and the matter of navigating with the empire mainland in winter had already begun.

A.D. 1661, the first year of Xingfu. Xingfu is the name of Zhu Cijun's year, which means "Zhongxing blessing".

In February, Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Youxiao received the news that Zhu Cijiong had defected from the country at about the same time.

At the court meeting, most of the court ministers demanded that Zhu Cijiong be severely punished, and some ministers even asked to send troops to arrest Zhu Cijiong. But Zhu Cixuan didn't dare to decide privately, after all, this matter involved Zhu Youxiao, and he wanted to know what Zhu Youxiao meant.

"Your Majesty, what are you going to do?" Zhu Youxiao asked rhetorically.

"I know why the eldest brother led 10,000 troops to leave the empire and go to the Southern Great Wilderness? But I really didn't mean to hurt him. ”

"I think it's a good thing that Cijiong left the empire itself, he is far away in the Southern Wilderness and Dongzhou, starting from scratch, and he can't threaten the empire for at least a hundred years." Zhu Youxiao said softly.

"I know what to do." Zhu Ciyan nodded.

"After all, Cijiong's move has violated the "Da Ming Law", and what should be said must be said."

"I see."

"In March of this year, I will go south, and my idea is to go to Luzon. In the future, all the affairs of the empire will be handed over to you, and every decision you make in the future will be related to the future of the entire empire, and you must not let the people of the world down. Zhu Youxiao advised.

"I will not disappoint my father, let alone the people of the world."

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According to Zhu Youxiao's handling opinions, Zhu Cijiong strongly condemned Zhu Cijiong's pretentiousness and defection to the empire, but after the condemnation, he did not have an opinion on Zhu Cijiong's handling of it.

Clear-eyed people can understand at a glance that there may really be Zhu Youxiao's shadow behind this, which is obviously conniving at Zhu Cijiong. Of course, no one is stupid to break it, and even some people in the empire began to use this matter to spread Zhu Ciyan's filial piety.

Before this matter could be settled, Zhu Cijun issued another decree to promote Li Dingguo to the governor of the Luzon Metropolitan Governor's Office, promote Ma Jinzhong to take over the military affairs of the Great Wilderness Dongzhou, and promote Chen Qice to take over the military affairs of the Great Wilderness Dongzhou.

This series of appointments shows Zhu Cijiong's attitude towards Zhu Cijiong. So far, no one has talked about Zhu Cijiong.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, Zhu Youxiao officially toured the south. Zhu Youxiao sat on a large ship specially built by himself, carrying a part of his concubines from Tianjin and going south along the coastline of the empire. Zhu Youxiao stopped while walking, and it is expected that it will be a year or two later in Luzon.

Compared with Zhu Youxiao's stop-and-go, Zhu Cijiong ran all the way, in addition to the necessary supply stops along the way, he tried to avoid stopping and delaying time as much as possible, and by April, Zhu Cijiong's team had arrived at the Spanish colony.

The arrival of Zhu Cijiong caused the entire colony to fall into a panic, although Spain has a strong military strength here, but since Spain lost the war with the empire and the war with the Netherlands one after another, Spain has been unable to compete with the Ming Empire, especially the Ming Empire now has naval strength that can almost fight the entire Western Ocean.

To counter Zhu Cijiong, the Spanish and Portuguese quickly formed an alliance. For the time being, they didn't know that Zhu Cijiong had defected from the empire, but they only knew that Zhu Cijiong was the eldest prince of the empire. However, Zhu Cijiong knew very well that he was now a foreign powerhouse, and his power could not resist the Spaniards and Portuguese, who had been operating here for hundreds of years.

In order to gain a firm foothold in the Eastern Continent of the Southern Great Wilderness, Zhu Cijiong took the initiative to invite the Spaniards to negotiate with the Portuguese to redivide the colonies of the Eastern Continent of the Southern Great Wilderness.

At the end of April, the three parties held negotiations in the city of Bogotá. This time, Zhu Cijiong's posture was relatively low, and neither the Spaniards nor the Grape people knew the details of Zhu Cijiong, and the negotiations between the three parties were quite smooth. Five days later, the three parties reached an agreement that all the colonies south of the Negro River in the Eastern Continent of the Southern Great Wilderness would be returned to Zhu Cijiong, and in fact this area was still uncolonized. But Zhu Cijiong didn't care about all this, he only wanted to be able to gain a firm foothold in the Southern Great Wilderness Dongzhou as soon as possible.

After the agreement was signed, Zhu Cijiong led his team south again, entered the south of the Negro River, and established the first stronghold here, named Xinying Tianfu. Just when Zhu Cijiong built his first stronghold, he received news from the empire, and the empire really did not pursue his defection to the empire. And Feng Shuangli also knew at this moment that he had been deceived by Zhu Cijiong, but now he couldn't go back.

(End of chapter)