Xinshun 1730

Chapter 145
The emperor took the money from his internal funds, and as the year approached, he took the opportunity to sing some high-profile songs such as "thrifty to nourish virtue", which attracted a lot of praise and flattery, but he didn't know that the emperor took 2 taels and gave it to Liu Yu.

2 taels is not much, and the noble family in the capital can easily afford it, knowing that Liu Yu's business is not short of the 2 taels of capital.The emperor didn't bother to take care of it. Corruption and corruption have been eradicated. For the time being, there are still a lot of things to count on these nobles.

Thinking that Liu Yu's approach is to dig a sweet well from the desert, which is not counted as competing for profit with the people, and the money is very refreshing.

Liu Yu explained that it will be returned together next winter, and if he makes money, it will be His Majesty's, and if he loses, he will find a way to make up for it.With such a caring heart, how could he not agree.

Even though he knew that Liu Yu was trying to use tiger's skin as a banner, he felt that Liu Yu might be afraid of being impeached.

After taking the money, a few old family members who had seen the world came out of Duke Yi's mansion, and they went to the south with Lin Yunwen, and they didn't hurry to celebrate the New Year at home.Taking out all kinds of connections, customs inspections along the way are naturally a green light all the way.

Among the people who went south to handle goods, they also brought a letter written by Liu Yu in Latin, asking the family members to hand it over to the French business office in Guangdong. Head of Indian company in Pondicherry, India.

Liu Yu knew that France had spies in the capital of Dashun, and of course they were public spies in the identity of missionaries, similar to public spies like the military attache of the embassy in later generations.

But these spies don't know so well what's going on inside Dashun.

In this letter, Liu Yu introduced the war between Dashun and Russia, congratulated Louis XV on his wedding, and told about the big cake of the Sino-French alliance against Russia.

It implicitly expressed that during the Shun-Russia War, Dashun was not satisfied, but said that if one day war broke out between France and Russia over the issue of the Polish throne, China would join the war at an appropriate time.

"...The Lena River should be the natural frontier between China and Russia. It is as if God has arranged in advance those obstacles that he does not want to be crossed. For France, it is the sea, the Pyrenees, the Rhine River, Switzerland, and Piedmont... The Austrian-Russian alliance appears to be against the Turks, but France should have been wary of this earlier. We all know the strength of the Anglo-Dutch alliance and the hostility to France, if Austrian tentacles Extending to Lorraine, France will... Similarly, once the Russians stop expanding in Europe, it is obvious that the East will be their next direction. If there is a Peter in Russia, then the next Peter may appear, Le Take the river..."

Instigated a wave of European conflicts, expressed the interests of the Sino-French alliance, and then talked about the trade issues of various countries in China, and regretted that France was squeezed out by the Netherlands and Britain in China's trade.

He expressed some views on the excessive issuance of paper money by France, the pure credit standard in this era, and the collapse of the Mississippi bubble and stock prices.

The prospect of trade between France and China was also analyzed.

It is believed that the hole left by Louis XIV is too big, the French nobles are getting poorer and poorer, and the property shrinkage brought about by the Mississippi bubble makes it difficult for the luxury goods such as silk and porcelain shipped from China to sell well.

All countries are carrying out trade protection, and the goods of French merchants cannot be sold in Britain, and vice versa.Now that the consumption power of France has plummeted, the East India Company must change its thinking in order to ensure sufficient profits, otherwise it will only go bankrupt.

In view of the emptiness of the French treasury and the difficulty of making money for the East India Company, Liu Yu suggested that the French East India Company could ship a batch of munitions, including [-] flintlocks and bayonets, field guns with gun mounts, and sell two if there were warships. warship.

In order to get the French hooked, Liu Yu made it very clear that he could guarantee that these goods would not charge a penny of customs duties, and that he would pay in gold instead of silver.

Because the price of silver in Europe has plummeted, gold itself is a commodity that can be shipped to France to earn a 50.00% profit, which is a huge temptation for French Indian companies.

At the same time, the influence of France in Southeast Asia was basically expelled by the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For the time being, there is no conflict between China and France. On the contrary, Liu Yu also implicitly expressed dissatisfaction with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The support of marrying the former Polish princess is a natural ally in geopolitics.

At the same time, Liu Yu also offered a great olive branch to the French East India Company.

The problem he mentioned is exactly the dilemma facing France now:
Indiscriminate issuance of banknotes, Mimisippie bubble, the mess left by Louis XIV, and poor French nobles who can't afford too many luxury goods.

Except for mirrors, mechanical watches, music boxes, American ginseng, and cactus cochineal dye, French hair cannot be sold into China...so much of the income of the French East India Company is to buy gold in China and return it to Europe for silver.

Originally, silk and porcelain could be sold in France, but now France is poor, and the big hole left by Louis XIV has not been filled, and the issue of banknotes and gold coupons has been indiscriminate. If the French East India Company continues to follow the previous trade mode, I'm afraid it will end.

Now Liu Yu has given France a new trade direction, arms and warships.

He also stated that he could pay the full amount for the order of the two warships, as long as France can bypass the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and sail to China.As for the specifications of the warship, this needs to be interviewed, priced, and paid in advance.

At the same time, he told the French Dashun Mission that Moscow was going to Paris, and hoped that the French officials could send a high-level special envoy to negotiate by sea.He can act as a referrer.

Arms and warships are trade goods. Liu Yu expressed the hope that the French East India Company would give a reply within one and a half years.

As a country that intends to ally with France, if France has no interest, then he will choose to buy this batch of arms and ships from the Dutch and the British.

"...Gold and silver from China can provide bread for a thousand French military factory workers, salaries for two hundred craftsmen in French shipyards, and can also bring huge profits to the East India Company."

"If the trade is reached, I, as an officer of the Emperor's Guards and the son of a hereditary duke, can mediate some trade issues. For example, I can impose high luxury taxes on mechanical watches and mirrors from the UK and the Netherlands, while France can Exempt some, of course, you need to use arms to offset the tariff."

"For every Cossack killed by the French flintlock on the Lena River, there will be one less Cossack in Europe; if a French warship sinks a Dutch and British ship in Southeast Asia, then there will be one less French enemy in the English Channel." ship."

"God didn't let buckshot kill no one just because it wasn't a Frenchman who used the flintlock."

"The thriving arms industry and shipbuilding industry, on the one hand, can solve the food and clothing problems of your country's workers, and at the same time preserve a huge industrial army for your country. Once a war breaks out, they can manufacture enough guns and warships, and If there were no imports from China, then in peacetime, a thousand military blacksmiths and hundreds of shipbuilders and carpenters might choose to be farmers and textile workers..."

"...In any case, please reply as soon as possible. After your envoy arrives in Guangdong, you can report my name, take out my token, and take a boat to Wendeng, where I will interview you. If you encounter obstacles in Guangdong , you can go to Fujian, the Jiedushi in Fujian can give you enough convenience."

"If no arms arrive within a year and a half, even if we have a common enemy and a common interest, we will have to choose another ally. At least the Dutch will be happy to see us reduce tariffs on their goods."

"Forgive us for using tariffs as a weapon, but it has worked."

"Finally, I wish the King of France and his wife a happy new marriage. In addition, I personally admire the skills of French locksmiths and hope to get a beautiful lock..."

The long secret letter did not have much embellishment. Liu Yu believed that even if the French East India Company were a bunch of idiots, the benefits brought by this letter would be enough for them to send arms.

Before the arms arrived, Liu Yu would not ask the court for half a flintlock and a spear, but would rather use sticks to train the queue.

If the French do not agree, he can also go to the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spaniards.

Tariff is a weapon, but people in the court will not be able to use it yet.

Money is not expensive, and Liu Yu believes that he may only need one or two batches of munitions, which can be imitated by himself.

As for the trade of the French East India Company, it is a dead end, and no one can save it, but the early orders can be a blood transfusion for France and Britain in the war in India. Fight for a while, don't be so quick.

Liu Yu is not worried that France will win against Britain and occupy India. On the one hand, it is almost impossible. On the other hand, the French navy is weak and unable to maintain it. If it wins temporarily, it will lose in the future. It can weaken the power of Britain and the Netherlands. , to do my best for Dashun to go to Nanyang.

This is not to drive tigers to eat wolves. If it is on land, France can still be regarded as a tiger.Now that the Anglo-Dutch alliance is at sea, France is really not a tiger. India and France have no chance, so there is no need to worry about France occupying India and expanding eastward.

Not long after this secret letter was sent out, Liu Yu's arrangements had already been finalized. After the 28th of the first lunar month, he would go to Wendeng to take up his post, and the money for the approval was also being raised.

What made Liu Yu amused was the freshmen from the Jinghai Palace Official School, not him to receive them.

The emperor said that to show his importance, he would personally meet the first batch of Jinghai Palace official school students.These students will then go to Wendeng on their own.

This is the emperor's kindness, to make those Jinghai Palace students believe that they are the emperor's disciples, and to guard against Liu Yu's influence in the Jinghai Palace official school in advance.

Liu Yu could only laugh and say nothing about this, Weihaiwei and Liugong Island were too close to Gyeonggi.

Now is not the time to make troubles, even if he does, he will not choose this kind of place as his starting point.The so-called sky is high and the emperor is far away, the sky is not high in this place, and the emperor is not far away.

The old Wuying Liangjiazi is the most loyal knife in the hands of the emperor. History has proved that this privileged class bound to the land is the most solid royalist party.

This is not the basic dish that Liu Yu approves of, but as a fellow traveler at this time, he has to take the last meal to carve up the world.

The emperor can buy favors and buy righteousness as he likes. He has other plans.

The selection of the first batch of officers of the Qingzhou Army has also been completed, and the list drawn up by the emperor is similar to Liu Yu's guess. There is not a single honorable son, and all of them are from the good families of the old fifth battalion who entered the Wude Palace.

Some of them are from the outer house and cannot be promoted to the inner house, and some are from the inner house and cannot be promoted to the upper house. There are 120 people in total.

In addition to the 120 alternate officers, the emperor also specially approved 400 Liangjiazi recruits as the backbone.

Liu Yu recruited soldiers himself.

There is no need to issue a military order. The emperor is very clear about Liu Yu's situation. If things can't be done after five years, it will be the fate of not even keeping the whole body.

Even the emperor showed a huge wooden cabinet in front of Liu Yu, as tall as a person: he would keep all the memorials to impeach Liu Yu within five years in this cabinet.

It's not to show Liu Yu five years later to express how trustworthy it is, but to tell Liu Yu that if things can't be done in five years, this cabinet can be used as a coffin for Liu Yu by the way.Those memorials can also be used as paper money.

Even if he is the emperor, he can't keep it, because he is the emperor of Confucianism, not the chief of the barbarians; Liu Yu is also the dragon guard, not the admiral of the imperial horse supervisor.

None of the more than 100 alternate officers allocated to Liu Yu had official official positions.

Liu Yu is just a military training envoy, not a military chief officer. Of course, the official documents of the military government are required to be awarded an official. As a military training envoy, he is not even qualified to nominate an official.

The normal process for junior and middle-level military officials is to be nominated by the military chief officer, submitted to the military government for review, and officially appointed after passing the review.Senior military officers are nominated by the Military Government, Tianyou Temple, and the Five Military Departments.
Although these more than 100 people will serve as officers, in fact they are officers, but after the initial completion of the small station training, the emperor will let everyone be justified.

Only implements and names are not allowed to be fake, and the emperor is also in charge of it.

Dashun separated the Wenxuan Department from the official government and became the Wenyu Yuan. Naturally, it was extremely strict about the granting of utensils and names, and refused to let it go at all.

The only thing that the emperor gave Liu Yu a lot of face was that he didn't question Mantou's application in the selection of talents for the official school of Jinghai Palace.

The emperor also made a forward-looking joke with Liu Yu: Qing's so-called "anyone who has a honor and is eighteen years old can sign up", this is reserved for your disciples.If you really want to learn practical things in the future, and separate subjects such as astronomy and arithmetic, then you can vacate a few places when recruiting. Only those who study the public opinion can apply for the exam", which is an innovative method.

The joke was made, and I knew that Liu Yu didn't have a trustworthy person around him, so I didn't question it.

The first place in the test was Chen Qinghai, who Liu Yu secretly stuffed the questions.Before the exam, Du Feng, who boasted that he wanted to be number one, didn't even enter the top three. He was admitted to Wude Palace. It was equestrianism, meritorious service and horse chopping, which raised a lot of points, but Jinghai Palace did not take the test paper.

But he also created another uniqueness: he was the only student who applied for the Jinghai Palace from the Wude Palace.

As the year approached, Liu Yu went to Yang Erguan Hutong again to give some gifts to those Raksha people who would need them in the future.

At this time, if you want something from others, you have to live with it.

The Raksha people do not have a Spring Festival, but they have a very important festival, the Maslenitsa, which falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month this year.

On the Messenger's Day, there were swings and shirtless fights. In order to show that he valued them, and of course to contribute more to those who would need them in the future, Liu Yu gave them a lot of small gifts and built a big swing with them.

Hannibal is now conferred a very strange title by the emperor, the male.

Thank you very much Hannibal, anyway, he can't go back now and doesn't want to go back, he just thinks about going back someday when his godsister is in danger.

He doesn't read "Han Shu", so naturally he doesn't understand what the "秺" in the seal means, and he doesn't know what his godfather is if he is a man from the county, and he doesn't know what this letter says in the county... It's so flattering .

For the group of Raksha captives captured, the emperor really organized the group together and sent some officers, and the remaining captives who were picked away by Liu Yu after Jiarong, the horse-breeding carpenter, formed an army alone.

The male Han Nibal of Jixian County also took the title of a fifth-rank General Wujie. This kind of baron viscount is not a regular title, even inferior to those barons in Mongolia and other places.

Hannibal asked Liu Yu a very concerned question: Is the baron of Dashun commonly used in European courts?
Liu Yu said that it is absolutely universal, if you go back to Europe and say that you are a baron, no one will dare to deny it.

The crown of the Chinese Empire still holds weight, at least right now.

Although he knew that Dashun was a virtual noble system, Hannibal still asked about the location of Ji County.

Liu Yuxin said that he was born in Bole County, and the first person who was granted the title of Ji County was because he had raised horses for Emperor Wu of Han in the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and he was granted the title of Bole in the name of Bole.

Let's just talk about the allusions, just say that now it is called Chengwu, and it is no longer called 秺.

He also said that it was very appropriate for the emperor to designate him as a man of Jixian County. After all, these captives were cavalry soldiers. He hoped that he could raise Ma Yunyun well, but he didn't say the true meaning of the emperor's bad taste.He only said that if he had the opportunity, he would take him to see peonies in Jixian County. The peonies near Heze are still very famous.

In fact, the emperor intentionally wanted this person who had studied military engineering in France and participated in the construction of St. Petersburg to preside over the construction of forts in Humen and other places, because Liu Yu told the emperor that the stone fortresses were backward and had to use earth mounds.

The emperor probably felt that the Raksha people could not go to Guangdong, and they should make the best use of them.

Liu Yu wrote a letter saying that the repair of the fort should not be handed over to outsiders. When the missions to Luocha, France and other places come back, they can repair it themselves.

Whether the emperor is willing to let him raise horses or follow the example of the Han and Tang Dynasties and become a baron and lead the Varangian guards to dance, in the end, don't let them do such things as repairing forts, otherwise they will be exposed.

Hannibal is an expert in civil engineering and fortress engineering. Seeing that the southern fort has no anti-gun mounds but masonry structures, he can know the real level of Dashun.

After writing the book, Liu Yu stuffed Hannibal with a piece of paper, and asked him to learn the two poems on it: Yue Nest Nanzhi, Humayi Beifeng.

If one day Peter II dies and his sister is really in danger, I will play these two poems, and His Majesty should agree.His sister died half a year late, and Frederick II designated that he was about to hang himself, and Britain would bleed a lot.

With this kindness, Liu Yu also exchanged back some drills and gunnery skills of the French military academy compiled by Hannibal these days.It seems that Hannibal has already written it, and has been waiting for Liu Yu to express his sincerity and promise that day.

(End of this chapter)