Xinshun 1730

Chapter 571 Reversal of Diplomacy
After staying in Guangzhou for a few more days, seeing the typhoon was about to pass, the anxious Liu Yu finally waited for the other two ships from the north.

On one of the boats, a group of ginseng harvesting gangs who fought with North Korean ginseng harvesters in the Changbai Mountain area were brought in through several connections through the relationship of the old friend Jiao Laobutu for many years.

These people are key figures in strengthening Sino-French relations and making France willing to shed more blood for North America.

These people will be sent to Canada to dig ginseng, and there are also some veterans who can plant ginseng under the forest found through the relationship of Rao Bututo.

Those who will plant ginseng have to use means to "please" them.

Because these people who grow ginseng in the forest are all pretending to be wild ginseng and selling them. They are clever and not short of money at all, and have no motivation to emigrate.

Knowing that ginseng can be planted artificially, but in order to make France willing to shed more blood for North America, it can only pretend not to know and send these people there.

After all, it is impossible for the court to pay for blood transfusions directly to France. Besides, the court's money depends on taxes. Why should it collect taxes from the common people and give money to the French?

It would be far better to let the French sell ginseng. In this way, the money will not be paid by the court, but by the medicinal material merchants. Whoever has the money to buy ginseng will pay the bill.

Anyway, Dashun is not short of this amount of trade. Taking care of the French business, France will have a trade balance and don't care about this little silver outflow.

As long as France's income from selling ginseng in North America can be guaranteed to reach the level of Haiti, France will be willing to shed more blood for North America.

The French government has little interest in India, and it is easier to achieve Liu Yu's strategic concept of "returning the party to Zhao" under the current situation.

The other ship in this boat is not going to Canada, but the target latitude is similar.

The sailors were still Chinese, but the passengers on board were all Cossacks captured in the First World War in Heilongjiang, and there were not many of them.

Most of the captured Cossacks chose to stay in Dashun as soldiers and were unwilling to go back.

These few people who are willing to go back are Hannibal's way of saying that he used the little money he had saved in the past few years as an official in Dashun, teaching fortress engineering, and supervising the construction of the Tianjin Port Fort area as employment expenses. It was easy to get.

As soon as he arrived at the port, Hannibal almost ran to see Liu Yu, hoping to leave as soon as possible.

"I understand your impatience, but you said that you also followed your godfather to intern in the Dutch Navy and presided over the construction of the navy. Even if you have never been to the Indian Ocean, you should know that the wind direction of this season is wrong. Of course you have your concern But as the Marquis of Dashun and Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council, I also need to care about those people in Nanyang."

"It won't set sail in a short time. At least until January next year before passing through Malacca."

Seeing Hannibal's dark face full of anxiety and darkness, Liu Yu couldn't help but want to laugh.

It has been more than ten years since I captured this fellow in the fortress in Heilongjiang.

The enmity between the two was not resolved at the beginning, but it was temporarily shelved because Liu Yu promised to let him return to China.

For this day, Liu Yu regarded him as a tool and had waited for more than ten years.

Once Dashun starts to manage Nanyang, it will face the diplomatic characteristics of the Seven Years War in Europe—reverse the diplomatic attitude, and make preparations for the future alliance of China, France and Russia.

China, France, Russia.

English, Pu, Dutch.

Now that everything is ready, in order to maintain the continuity of the alliance, Dashun allows the British to obtain supplies at the Dashun port, which is actually driving the Spanish forces out of Nanyang.

After all, if the Franco-Spanish alliance and Dashun want to promote the Sino-French-Russian alliance after the war, they cannot go to fight Spain by themselves. This requires British people to take Luzon, and then retake Luzon from the British in the future.

As a result, the intricate situation in Nanyang was transformed into Dashun against the three-nation alliance of Britain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Britain, Portugal, and the Netherlands were originally relatively close, but the Luzon, Sulu, Macau, Malacca, Ceylon, and even India that Dashun wanted would have conflicts with these three countries.

It's better to hurry up and let them go together, or as the basis of the tripartite alliance of China, France and Russia - the common enemy.

Hannibal, a tool man who has been raised for more than ten years, is to ensure that the coup of Elizabeth, the leader of the West French Party in Russia, does not go wrong.

It is also to let Hannibal, who has lived in Dashun for more than ten years, tell Russia the real situation in Dashun, so that Russia will not think about moving eastward, which is a dead end.

Liu Yu can understand Hannibal's anxiety very well. The situation in Russia is getting worse. Once Count Osterman returns to the country, or once the current Queen Anna dies, a big purge is inevitable.

Elizabeth, as the last surviving daughter of Peter, is orthodox in the eyes of the New Party; Anna has no heirs, and the German Party needs to support a young child as regent, and will never allow Elizabeth, who is a prestige, legal succession and not a child that can be manipulated, to come to power; the old The party doesn't like Elizabeth, and thinks that Peter's daughter, who supports cutting beards, taking off robes, studying science, building a navy, and shaving and changing clothes, is not Russian orthodox.

The three forces are now waiting for Queen Anna's death, waiting to decide the outcome.No matter who comes to power, it will inevitably start the purge of the other party.

Hannibal, a tool man, is the most suitable candidate for interfering in Russia's internal affairs that Dashun can find.

He has a French background, has studied in France, attended a French military academy, met French aristocrats, and talked and laughed happily with Voltaire and other enlightenment scholars.

The French embassy in Russia is almost the base of the Elizabeth faction of the new party. France does not want Russia to be controlled by a group of Germans, and also hopes that Russia will come to power and think that the leader of the new party will implement a westward policy. After all, there is still a Germany between France and Russia.

He is the adopted son of Peter the Great. He followed Peter to the Netherlands, built a navy, and participated in the construction of St. Petersburg. The imprint of the "New Party" can hardly be erased from his body.

And the...one-sided yearning between him and his adoptive father's daughter Elizabeth.

Liu Yu can actually understand this feeling.

Life is but a succession of isolated moments in which, by memory and fantasy, many meanings emerge, then disappear, and then emerge again.

As a black man from Chad who was a slave in Turkey, these days were of course dark.And Peter adopted him as his adopted son like a savior, and let him spend the happiest time in his life. At that time, he was still young, and the unrelated sister who was often in contact with him, how could he not have feelings?

Captured by Liu Yu in the First World War, he was thrown into the capital and squatted for more than ten years. Although he has an official position, a low title, and a career, he will not be happy after all.There is no suitable woman around him, and the women on Dashun's side have a cultural gap with him.

In this case, the memories and fantasies of the past have become the meaning of his life. Everything is in the memories and fantasies that have lasted for more than ten years. These fragments are all covered with a beautiful and intoxicating filter.

Perhaps like Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame de Paris, Hannibal knew that it was impossible and absolutely impossible for him to be with the person he yearned for. Those beautiful fragments of the past with filters made him " Silently guarding" as a meaning of life conceived by myself.

Originally, this kind of self-impressed meaning of life that I fantasized about would not last long. It was okay to be so touched when I was in my twenties, but when I was forty, I would probably look back and scold myself for being a fool.

But Liu Yu was tempting him to think this way from the very beginning. The reason why he was willing to teach everything he had learned in the French military academy was that Liu Yu promised him that he would send him back in the future to protect the people he wanted to protect.

This was said more than ten years ago, and he has always been a marginal person in his long life in Dashun Capital.

Although he has an official position and even a title, he is just a "symbol of the barbarians entering the court". Dashun officials don't like him, and the emperor has almost no trust in him, and there are very few people who can communicate with him.

This kind of marginal life reminds him from time to time that Liu Yu lures him to impress himself and the meaning of life he gave himself—to live, to go back to Petersburg, to save the person he yearns for, like a knight saving a princess same story.

From contact more than ten years ago, Liu Yu could tell that this black man in black was an orthodox Russian: he gave life a certain meaning, endured a lot of suffering and torture for this meaning, suffered physical pain, and was spiritually satisfied. .

The more bitter, the more refreshing.The more bitter, the more refreshing.

If it is for a certain purpose and meaning, preferably to save the world or for all mankind, or even for someone else, if you suffer to the extreme, die yourself, no one understands, rotten and forgotten, then you can be canonized .

Hannibal is actually very inferior. Whether in Dashun or in Russia, he is an outsider, a marginalized person, and implicitly discriminated against.

This kind of person especially likes to sublimate himself by saving others, and realizes his own value by playing the role of a savior. This is a form of superiority complex that people who cannot eliminate their inferiority complex often fall into.

Liu Yu has studied fortress engineering and French military academy courses with Hannibal, and has a lot of contact with him, so he has a good understanding of him—a pure Russian literary and artistic aristocrat, otherwise how could future generations make Pushkin...

Historically, the relationship between Hannibal and Elizabeth was pretty good.

After Peter's death, Hannibal was exiled to the Selenge River near Lake Baikal to build a fortress to guard against the invasion of the Qing Dynasty.After Elizabeth came to power, he promoted him to the governor of Estonia, and as a black man, in the 18th century of the slave trade, he was mixed with the rank of general of the Russian army and the Alexander Nevsky medal.

In fact, Hannibal also knew that Liu Yu just used him as a tool.

But Hannibal himself was grateful for being able to be this tool, and even vaguely thanked Liu Yu for protecting and caring for him after he was arrested.

As for how to coup d'etat after returning to Petersburg, Liu Yu didn't need to teach him. Since he was an orthodox "Third Rome" nobleman, he was familiar with the coup d'état of the Praetorian Guard with Roman characteristics.

Judging from the news received from Count Ostermann, some of his old acquaintances are still in the Guards. Know.

I didn't bring many Cossacks back to Petersburg from Dashun, but for a coup d'état, sometimes a hundred or ten more people could have the power to change the overall situation.

In order to reassure him, Liu Yu knew that Queen Anna was going to die this year, but he couldn't let himself be a magic stick, so he said, "Don't worry. You can rest in Gothenburg first when you get there. If you need money, just follow Let me tell you. China's navy and fortress engineering, as well as China's most outstanding combat engineers, all have your credit. I will remember this friendship in my heart."

"If there is a change in Petersburg, you can sail in a starry night and land in a few days. Your friend from the beginning should be in a high position now. You say that you are going to commemorate the birthday of Peter the Great. How can you say that he is also your godfather? This is the reason No one should be able to object."

(End of this chapter)