Xinshun 1730

Chapter 632
"This matter is really difficult. In fact, there are some things that you should see more clearly. The Russian empress has just succeeded in a coup, and her position is not very stable. She needs a war, and a victorious war to stabilize her position. .”

"Moreover, Marshal Rasi, who is now commanding operations against Sweden, was appointed by the mother of the deposed little tsar and the former regent. At this time, to end the war, for those generals who are eager for military merit and promoted by the former regent It’s really unacceptable.”

"Russia will definitely continue to fight. It is useless for you to expect me to mediate."

"Although the Celestial Dynasty is powerful, it can't reach Northern Europe. Rather than relying on me to mediate, it is better to seriously consider how to surrender decently, get a decent result, and minimize Sweden's losses as much as possible."

Liu Yu didn't go around in circles, and directly pointed out that there was no need to mediate this matter, and it was impossible for him to intervene.

The position of the person who came to power in the coup was not stable enough. At this time, recalling the army that had won a big victory on the front line was purely looking for trouble.Especially when the frontline generals were appointed by the old faction before the coup.

Moreover, Sweden is pro-French and has deep trade cooperation with China.

The coup d'état was hosted by the ambassadors of China and France, which is well known to all the world.Because of this, the Swedish incident made Elizabeth have to stand firm, and it was impossible to accept mediation.

This perspective is based on the experience of Dashun or China's thousands of years of court struggle.

After thinking about it, the Swedish ambassador also felt that this was indeed the case. The question is how big is Russia's appetite?Or does Russia accept surrender?

In fact, the current situation is not bad.

Historically, the Marquis of La Schettadi had long drawn up the Swedish ambassador, and he had promised before the coup, saying that with the backing of his relationship with Elizabeth and French mediation, as long as Sweden supported Elizabeth to come to power, Elizabeth would return all Petersburg money. North land.

This is indeed naive. How attractive is France or him, the Marquis of La Chettadi, to think that this is possible?

What the Russians eat, expect them to spit it out?
Fortunately, this time the Swedes had no chance to participate in the coup, nor did they get any promises in advance, but they had a greater chance of returning to the world.

Otherwise, even if it was a rumor, in order to clear up the rumor, Elizabeth would definitely be extremely harsh on Sweden, in order to prove that she was not the kind of person who sold Russia's interests to power a coup.

The Swedish ambassador thought for a while, but still felt that it was difficult to find a breakthrough. How could he surrender decently?
"Master Marquis thinks, what kind of conditions should we provide? Or, where should we start?"

Liu Yu stretched out two fingers leisurely.

"It is impossible for Russia to occupy Sweden. Doing so will inevitably trigger an anti-Russian alliance in the Great North."

"So, what Russia wants is nothing more than two."

"Cut off all of Finland."

"Or, change to a pro-Russian, at least superficially pro-Russian heir, to solve the plight of the north in a way similar to a tributary state. Push the border to Finland for a certain distance to defend the security of Petersburg."

"You have to consider that the current crown prince is the empress' nephew and the grandson of Peter the Great. If the empress herself is barren, in order to stabilize the rule of Peter's bloodline, it is very likely that her nephew will come back to be the heir of Russia."

"I think you should try your best to find an heir acceptable to the empress, in exchange for Russia not taking away all of Finland."

"Even if France can help mediate, you have to come up with a plan that the queen can accept, right?"

This is indeed something that the Swedish ambassador did not expect for a while.

Yes, the queen is already 32, and it is basically impossible to get married. The fiancé died before getting married. Although the queen has many lovers, it is basically impossible to have another one.

The most likely "prince" of Russia mentioned by Liu Yu is the later Peter III, but now he is the crown prince of Sweden.

In these years, the royal families of European countries are basically relatives.

If you look at the inheritance rights of the genealogy, there will often be various combinations that are outrageous.And the key is to find "legitimacy" wherever you go up to your ancestors.

For example, Catherine II, a German, insisted that she had the blood of the Rurik family, that she was the natural ruler of Russia.

If we really want to talk about it, this Rurik lineage may be traced back from her mother's Oldenburg dynasty to Alexander who fought against the Livonian Knights and went to Hara and Lin to meet Guiyu the Great Khan. Nevsky's father's generation.He is of the same generation as Guo Jing and Torrey.

This is comparable to the fate of Yan Han, Liu Yuanfei, the Hun, said that he had Yan Han blood and founded the country as a puppet Han.

The key point is that there is no imperial examination system in Europe, and the bloodline system has not been destroyed. Everyone really recognizes this thing.

When it comes to Sweden, there are many strange situations.

In fact, Sweden doesn't need a king at all. The power of the parliament is already big enough, but everyone is not used to having no king on top of their heads.

When Mantou sent Swedish prisoners of war back to Gothenburg, it collected information about Sweden.

The reason why the Swedish Parliament pushed the Queen to power is also because the Queen promised more power to the Parliament, and in fact she is basically considered a hypocrite.

The queen's father announced the establishment of an absolute monarchy, and the monarchy was granted by God.

Parliament said that if the queen gives up the absolute monarchy, we support you.

At that time, it was the son of the queen's own sister who was competing with the queen for the seat, that is, the queen's nephew.

According to the principle of male succession priority, her nephew's son is higher than hers... Although Liu Yu doesn't quite understand how this succession law is calculated, thinking that the former king is the queen's brother, isn't this the succession order? Should the younger sister be higher than the nephew?But according to the Swedish inheritance law, the nephew with a foreign surname is higher than the sister, that's it.

In order to ascend the throne, the queen agreed to the request of the parliament, and finally succeeded in ascending the throne.The parliament is in power, and although the queen has sealed a lot of nobles to fight against, they still fail.

And the son of the queen's sister, unable to be the king of Sweden, had no choice but to marry the eldest daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I, who is now the sister of Queen Elizabeth, who gave birth to that Frederick's brain-dead fan Peter III.

The Queen of Sweden and her husband did not have a baby, and although she gave up the throne to her husband, there have always been rumors in Sweden that it was the Queen's husband who shot the former Swedish king to death, so the Queen's husband has no inheritance rights of.

Therefore, according to the order of succession, Peter III is the first heir to the Crown Prince of Sweden.

The father of Peter III had to call the Queen of Sweden my aunt.Counting from the side of blood, there is only such a male seedling.

Now that Elizabeth's coup has succeeded, she is over 30 years old, and it is basically unlikely that she will get married and have children again.As for the heir, it is likely that this Peter III will be chosen.

The Swedish Parliament enacted a law that year, and it was impossible to reach a federal co-ownership with Russia.

Therefore, once Peter III is chosen as the heir by Elizabeth, then Peter III will automatically give up his status as the heir to the Swedish throne.

To be the king of Sweden?
Or the Tsar of Russia?

Choose one of the two, generally speaking, normal people know what to choose.

As for Elizabeth's decision to establish Peter III, it is basically a certainty-even if the queen is thinking about getting married and having another child, she must first appoint Peter III as the prince before she is born.

Because the little Tsar Ivan VI, who was abolished by her, did not die, but was arrested.

In order to show her "governing the country with benevolence and righteousness", she couldn't even kill the children, so she could only hide them and raise them.

This is a very hidden danger. What if someone comes back in a coup?

Moreover, Britain and Austria all supported Ivan VI.As long as little Ivan is alive, her position will be very dangerous.

Even if little Ivan died, he couldn't be said to be dead, because Elizabeth's succession was unstable, and she killed the infant baby when she came up. The image was really bad, and it was also contrary to her benevolent personality that she promised not to kill political enemies before she came to power.

So seize the time to establish a prince, this is almost the first major event after ascension to the throne.

If there is no crown prince, the abolished little tsar will always have the right to inherit, and many people are staring at it.

Peter III cannot be the crown prince of Sweden. If Sweden wants to have a decent peace, if it wants to find another person who is acceptable to Elizabeth and has a close relationship with Russia to be the crown prince of Sweden, it has to continue to find a bunch of relatives from far away. .

The Swedish ambassador also understands that Liu Yu is right to think so.

Or, Russia ate Finland and completely got enough safe land to defend St. Petersburg.

Or, Sweden turns pro-Russian and supports a crown prince who is acceptable to Queen Elizabeth and has a close relationship with Russia.

The Swedish ambassador sorted out all the people who have the right to inherit, and according to Liu Yu's "instructions", he probably knows it well.

Since you want to be emotional, look pro-Russian, and have something to do with the Russian Empress, there is only one.

The Swedish ambassador didn't believe that Liu Yu was powerless to mediate the Swedish issue. He doubted whether Liu Yu had discussed it with the Queen in secret. In fact, the Queen used Liu Yu's mouth to say this acceptable plan.

According to this standard, the one who can be selected is the godfather, uncle, guardian of Peter III, and the regent of Peter III's father's hereditary territory, Adolf.

This person has a triple identity.

First of all, he is Peter III's guardian, uncle, and he is entirely responsible for Peter III's education.If Peter III became the heir to the tsar, then the guardian, as the crown prince of Sweden, should be regarded as having a close relationship with Russia.

Secondly, Princess Elizabeth had a marriage contract back then, but when she was about to get married, her fiancé died.Her fiancé is Adolf's elder brother. At 27 years, he died.

In history, Ekaterina II was selected as the crown princess of Peter III, partly because of her mother, who was the sister of Adolf and the sister of Queen Elizabeth's fiancé.

Queen Elizabeth has never been married in her whole life. Although her private life is relatively turbulent, she has always missed her fiancé in her youth. When she sees her fiancé's niece, she is naturally emotionally inclined.Peter III and Catherine II are cousins ​​within three generations. Peter III's grandfather and Catherine II's grandfather are the same person, a standard Bao Dai relationship.

Of course, the most important point is that this Adolf, from the point of view of blood, has the right to inherit.

Adolf's mother is the granddaughter of the queen's grandfather's sister. This has already turned more than a dozen corners, but according to the inheritance law, she is indeed a relatively close heir.

The key is that these generations are actually the only seedlings, otherwise it would not be the turn of Peter III to be the crown prince.If you can't find anyone within three generations, you can look for them according to the relatives of your grandparents.

These days, there is no king above their heads, and many people feel uncomfortable all over.

But the problem is that the throne of the queen's grandfather, Karl X, was given up by Queen Christina, who is the one who in the legend Descartes wrote a heart-shaped equation to confess.Queen Christina is the daughter and sole heir of the Nordic lion Gustav II.

Karl X is the queen's cousin, a child of the queen's aunt's family, which means that the "Vasa" blood of the current Swedish queen comes from the female line.Karl X, the queen's ancestor, is not from the Vasa family, but his mother is from the Vasa family.

If you start counting from the women's side, in fact, Denmark's line of succession is basically as far away as this Adolf, and the line of succession is basically the same.

No one can snatch Peter III's position as crown prince.It was indeed the son of the eldest sister's family of the Queen of Sweden, the son of a nephew, and he was nowhere nearer than an unrelated relative.

But if Peter III didn't become the crown prince of Sweden and asked Adolf, it would be far away.

Denmark must also have requirements: If Peter III becomes the crown prince of Sweden, we have nothing to say.But since we have found such a distant relative, then we are also qualified.

This matter cannot be considered with Dashun's thinking.

In Europe, the affairs of the aristocratic circle are the affairs of the aristocratic circle; the affairs of the country are the affairs of the country; sovereignty is sovereignty, and governance is governance.

The aristocratic circle only looked at the lineage and the line of succession. As for which country the person came to be the king, it only looked at the lineage.As for whether it is an enemy country or whether it is harmful to the country, that is not important.

If Peter III became the crown prince of Russia, he would not be able to become the crown prince of Sweden, not because of the bad relationship between Sweden and Russia and the two sworn enemies.

It is because the Swedish succession law clearly stipulates that the Russian heir is not allowed to serve as the crown prince of Sweden.The succession of nobility requires legal procedures, otherwise Emperor Shinra would not have exchanged so many benefits and several secret agreements for the "Decree on the Basic Law of Austrian Succession to the Throne".

So if Peter III is not the crown prince of Tsarist Russia, even if he is the grandson of Peter the Great, whom the Swedes hate most, he is still the crown prince of Sweden.

The Swedish ambassador took a look at these messy blood relationships, but he was not so worried about the Danish invasion, but worried about...

At that time, I am afraid that Russia will send troops to Stockholm under the pretext of Denmark's objection to this, saying that it wants to ensure the smooth succession of the throne, so it will stay in Stockholm and become a substantive occupation.

Russia can't do this.

After expressing his worries, Liu Yu thought to himself, other countries are fine.But Denmark... is considered one of the few countries in the Celestial Dynasty that speaks a little bit of influence.I should be able to settle myself.

In fact, there are so many European countries, and Dashun is far away, so there are really not many who can really speak well.

However, Denmark has the East India Company, and not only has it, but the cargo volume in recent years has been greater than that of the British East India Company.

Whether it is tea or porcelain, the amount is huge.Of course, the smugglers must be selling the goods.

It is easy to say that Denmark is also an "imperialist power" with a colony in Tamil Nadu.

Moreover, in the era of the thirteen lines of the Qing Dynasty, the Whampoa Island of the Whampoa Military Academy was called Danish Island by businessmen.This is a bit like a name like Chinatown. It doesn't mean that it is a colony, but a designated foreigner settlement.

Because they were not allowed to live in the city, sailors from various countries moved in different places, and the Danes mainly moved on Huangpu Island, hence the name.

Denmark is also the first one on the left in the earliest history of Thirteen Banks, and the location of the first one on the left is considered C in the Eastern cultural circle.

After all, the position C needs to reflect its own value, which is earned by trade volume.For a long time, the volume of porcelain and tea shipped by Denmark was larger than that of Britain, and it can even be said to be far larger.

The geographical location of the Danes makes it very convenient whether it is smuggling to the United States and Britain, or selling to Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Europe.

Even the Manchu Qing Dynasty had such a large trade volume with Denmark in history, and the trade volume between Dashun and Denmark was about the same.

Not too much more, but definitely not less.

Such a large trade volume gave him, the special envoy of Dashun, the confidence to mediate.

　PS: The history of the Swedes says that before the coup, Elizabeth colluded with Sweden and promised to cede all the land in the north to Sweden once she came to power.

　　The history of the Russians says that there was no such thing at all, it was a Swedish lie.But this, it is likely that the Russians "taboo for the venerable".It's just a king who sells his country. In this era of Europe, it's too normal.

　　In addition, in a few years, the trade volume between Denmark and China was indeed extremely high. Not only did the smuggled tea far exceed that of the UK, but even porcelain was several times higher than that of the UK. In some years, the number of boxes of porcelain was even the highest among all European countries. .Sweden's East India has also risen in recent years, and the Gothenburg is what happened in the past few years.

　　But just like the group of maritime merchants in the previous story who conquered Taiwan and lifted the sea ban, they went to Ryukyu to trade with the experience of moving the border sea ban, thinking that they would sell short in an instant and make a fortune.

　　The Swedish East India Company blindly built ships to expand the amount of trade based on the experience of the Austrian King’s succession war, and it turned out to be a mess—the Fujian and Zhejiang maritime merchants were able to smash up Shuri Castle, press the Ryukyu King’s head to demand that the goods be eaten, and forced to buy strong Sell.The Swedes are really incapable of robbing the Anglo-Dutch French market after the war, and they are incapable of pressing the heads of the British and French to demand trade.

　　
　
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