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The bronze panes are embedded with patches of transparent glass one foot square. The early winter sunlight shines through the glass window and shines unobstructed on Zhu Jishi, who is reclining on the recliner.

The Emperor Taishang of the Ming Dynasty had not slept well for many days, not because of immorality, but because he was worried about the Armageddon in North America, which might be more than 6 million people! It's clear that both warring parties, oh, probably all four sides are already desperate.

Even Mathilde, the theoretically neutral ruler of the Roman Empire, went into battle shirtless, sending troops from the Kingdom of New France along the Mississippi River to copy the back of the Americans, who seemed to be dying at the hands of the Mexicans! It's ironic!

But having Mathilde's mother is indeed Juan's luck! Although the combat effectiveness of the Mexican army is very doubtful, who has an extra 500,000 troops at the critical moment, even if it is a tofu army, can play a decisive role.

Just beside Zhu Jishi, the most popular woman in the Hot Spring Palace, the chief maid Nanmoto Takako is reading the latest battle report for Emperor Taishang.

"The North American Army Command reports: The U.S. Northern Route Army has been routed from around Des Moines, and Marshal Han and Marshal Chen are urging all units to pursue fiercely. Up to now, more than 400,000 US troops have been killed, wounded, and captured by various armies on the northern front, and more than 1,000 artillery pieces have been captured. ”

This was a great victory for 1.35 million people over 1.1 million (the U.S. army invested 900,000 at the beginning, and then added 200,000 troops), and the final losses of the U.S. army must have increased considerably. In the end, if you can run away from three or four hundred thousand, you will be considered lucky.

'Victory! Han Si picked up a big credit this time. But he was already a prince and a marshal. It seems that all that can be done is money. Zhu Jishi squinted his eyes and thought in his heart.

In fact, the victory in the Battle of Des Moines was not the result of Han Si's fight, but the result of the surrender of Kansas City and the advance of the Donghua-Roman alliance along the Mississippi River. The U.S. military, which was originally evenly matched with the Chinese army, could only be defeated with hatred and fled in embarrassment. Moreover, the two sides fought so fiercely that the Americans could not retreat if they wanted to, and it was natural for them to retreat.

Kusumoto Takako put down this report, picked up another one, and read it softly: "The Roman Empire recently issued an ultimatum to the British Empire. Britain was required to withdraw completely from North America and return freedom and independence to the people of North America. The ultimatum also demanded a response from the UK within 60 days. ”

'60 days! It's really long enough, I guess I can't wait for the British to refuse, and the North American war is over. Zhu thought to himself that this was the act of Augustus Napoleon IV of the Roman Empire in recognizing Mathilde - and he could not help but recognize that the so-called Roman Empire was actually a partnership between Napoleon IV and Mathilde, and that in the New World, Mathilde was more authoritative than Napoleon IV. Especially after Mathilde and Jujuan won the North American War, Napoleon IV had nothing to do with the mother and son. I really want to tear my face. The big deal was the merger of the Kingdom of Donghua, the Kingdom of Mexico, and the Kingdom of New France...... Napoleon IV's Roman Empire was on the verge of falling apart.

However, if such a situation really occurs, the Donghua Kingdom may become the Donghua Empire. Become the overlord of the Americas!

Nanmoto Takako glanced at Zhu Jishi, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the father of the Great Chinese Empire, but he still squinted his eyes and did not say a word. Gao Zi changed another military newspaper.

"His Majesty the King of Donghua reports that the Duke of Juárez has met with the American Admiral Thomas. Jackson reached an agreement that the East China and the Western Empire of Rome would support him as president of the new United States of America, and that the territories of the new United States of America would include Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Hamp, Maine, New Hample, Vermont, Virginia (Jackson insisted on getting his homeland, and Juan and Juarez made some concessions in order to win as soon as possible), Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Part of Ontario ...... In addition, the king of Donghua also proposed: except for the Toronto area and the Ottawa area, all Ontario, Manitoba, Nunavut and other places under the rule of the Kingdom of North China; Tennessee (to make up for the loss of Virginia) and North Carolina were transferred to the Kingdom of Mexico, which would later exchange them for Florida and the Bahamas. ”

'It's dividing up the spoils!' And Juan's political skills have also risen. Zhu Jishi thought to himself. Zhu Juan gave the big fat of Ontario to Zhu Heng's Beihua, so that Beihua really had the foundation to become a great power. This is in the homage to Maria. Clementina and Zhu Yisha made overtures, and Zhu Yisha is Zheng Hong's daughter-in-law and Kusumoto Takako's best friend. In this way, in the palace, Maria and Nanmoto spoke for Jujuan, and outside the palace, Zheng Hong and Zhu Yisha waved the flag and shouted for him.

Of course, this kind of analysis is completely Zhu Jishi's blind thinking, and Zhu Juan has no energy to pay attention to which woman his Lao Tzu sleeps with at night. He hadn't even heard of Kusumoto Takako and his people, and even if he had heard of it, he had forgotten it. So he is the only one among all the adult children of Zhu Jishi who has not "rewarded" Nanben Gaozi - yes, even the dignified Ming Emperor Zhu Guoxiong will find a reason to give Nanben Gaozi and her mother Nanben Dao some rewards every once in a while to win their favor.

Jujuan's surrender of Ontario to Juheng was actually an attempt to bring in North China and East China to counter the whites in North America - although this time the battle between yellow and white ended in a great defeat for the whites. But Donghua is also exhausted, more than ten years of accumulation have been exhausted, and the loss of personnel exceeds 1 million, which is really a crushing victory. Although the white people were defeated in the war, they still retained more than 3 million square kilometers of rich land and more than 30 million people in the northeastern and southeastern United States and eastern Canada. Therefore, bringing Beihua, which will definitely be vigorously supported by the Ming Dynasty, to the front line will definitely be beneficial to the future of Donghua.

Takako Kusumoto picked up another military report, which was the latest progress on the Mississippi River front line in the North American battlefield. Memphis, an important town on the Mississippi River, was besieged, and the river fortifications of Memphis were captured by white troops from Donghua. However, the main force led by Juan and Mathilde did not stop, but marched along the Mississippi River - because of the ships on the Mississippi River to transport logistical supplies, Juan's army advanced rapidly, and in four days it advanced 280 kilometers, and the vanguard had been recommended to the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Russian River last night. It is estimated that it will be able to hit St. Louis in three days! And Castis. The U.S. forces under Lee's command were pursued by the Donghua Army under the command of Yang Xien, and were now at least 200 kilometers away from St. Louis. It seems that it is inevitable!

After talking about the North American battlefield, there is still a large stack of military newspapers. The wars in Singapore, Australia and Afghanistan are still going on. Two weeks ago, 50,000 troops boarded more than 400 transport ships, and landed in the port city of Palmeston (later Darwin) in northwest Australia under the escort of more than 50 warships, occupying this small city with only a few thousand inhabitants, which can be regarded as landing on Australian soil -- according to the plan formulated by Jiao Liang and Feng Ziye, the Australian strategy was not to go south from the northeast, but from west to east, from the island of Java, to occupy Palmerston first. It then crossed the Sea of Arafura, bypassed Cape York and attacked Port Moresby, and then attacked the east coast of Australia.

By the time Kusumoto Takako finished reading these military reports one by one, it was almost noon. Zhu Jishi yawned, straightened up, and just wanted to take a hot bath with Takako Kusumoto. A maid came to report: the emperor and the left and right sides asked to meet.

This is the emperor and Zai Zhi came to ask the emperor for advice, and it almost became a practice after Zhu Jishi's abdication. Every other day, Zhu Guoxiong would take the two prime ministers to the Hot Spring Palace.

"Sit down." Zhu Jishi beckoned Zhu Guoxiong, Pan Zuyin, and Li Hongzhang to sit down, but he stomped in the study of the Heart Cultivation Hall with his hands behind his back.

"Father, King Donghua has just sent a telegram, he has decided to give up the title of Prince of the Roman Empire to the lord of Bonnie, and Bonnie will be called the princess of the Roman Empire." As soon as he sat down, Zhu Guoxiong told Zhu Jishi the content of the telegram he had just received from Zhu Juan. "In addition, the king of Donghua is also preparing to resign from the rank of marshal of the Roman Empire."

Zhu Jishi smiled and was noncommittal. "The Roman marshal also resigned? I'm really not going to help Henry. Bonaparte is in chaos? ”

Li Hongzhang responded with a smile, "Emperor Taishang, King Donghua is my vassal king of the Ming Dynasty after all......"

"Juan is not the king of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Jishi corrected in a deep voice, "Donghua is only a member of the Great Chinese Empire, not a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Juan is indeed not the king of the Ming Dynasty, although he has the title of Prince of the Ming Dynasty, but his king of Donghua is indeed not the title of the Ming Emperor. From a legal point of view, it is indeed not a vassal of the Ming Emperor. However, on the two sides of the Ming Dynasty and Donghua, there are many people who believe that there is a de facto superior-subordinate relationship between the King of Donghua and the Ming Emperor. Of course, the two sides are not entirely on the same page. The people of Donghua thought that Zhu Jishi was older than Zhu Juan. The Ming side believes that the Ming Emperor is greater than the King of Donghua......

"Emperor Taishang, but I, Daming, sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people for Donghua and paid hundreds of millions of military expenses!" Pan Zuyin carefully said the words.

"More than a million have been sacrificed now, and there will be more than a billion in the future!" Zhu Jishi said lightly, what he said about more than one million is the price that the entire Chinese nation will pay in this world war, and one billion is that the population of China will be one billion more than in another time and space in the future! Zhu Jishi knew that the peak of the Chinese population in later generations was more than 1.4 billion. In this time and space, the territory of the entire Great China Empire is several times larger than that of later China, and it will also take most of North America, the vast expanse of Australia, and the warm and rich South Seas. There should be no problem with a peak population of 2.5 billion in the future - there will probably be so many people in the territory owned by the Great China Empire in later generations, right? (To be continued.) )