Xinshun 1730

Chapter 634 The Rule of "Wenjing"

The Swedish ambassador is very clear about his family’s affairs. Of course, he also understands that as long as Liu Yu can mediate, when he ensures that Adolf, who appears to be “pro-Russian” but actually “pro-Prussian”, is selected as the crown prince, Denmark will give up its claim and Russia will have no excuses. Send troops to Stockholm to "protect" Sweden, then the war is a completely decent peace.

The key is, can the Russian side agree?
From Liu Yu's point of view, the Russian side, at least the Queen's side, should be able to agree.

If this plan is followed and implemented successfully, it will be a win-win war.

Russia won face, and the queen's position was stabilized.

Sweden won Lizi, the king is a mascot anyway.

What the Empress of Russia wants is to save face, and to use her prestige to stabilize her precarious position from the coup.

Russia won, Sweden won.

The only losers are the [-] to [-] soldiers who died in battle in the ice and snow world of Finland.

With Russia's current strength, if it really wants to advance westward, it must calm down the diplomatic situation in the north.

Sweden is too close to Petersburg, and Russia moved its capital back to Petersburg. It would definitely be uncomfortable if Sweden stabbed it when it went west.

Therefore, the Swedish incident is a two-way street.

Sweden has handled it well, which can promote Russia's westward advance and form an anti-British and Prussian alliance.

And Russia's westward ambition is the basis for Sweden's affairs to be handled well.

It's a chicken-and-egg problem.

This requires the cooperation and concerted efforts of several parties.

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Shortly after finalizing Sweden's efforts with the Swedish ambassador, it snowed lightly in Petersburg.

On the second day after the snowfall, a handsome [-]-year-old boy, with a small group of young attendants, came to Duke Menshikov's mansion and conveyed Queen Elizabeth's hunting invitation to Liu Yu.

The boy's name was Ivan Shuvalov.

Those who have been to Moscow State University or Repin Academy of Fine Arts in later generations must know this person, the old school director who founded the school, who made every effort to launch Russia's polytechnic universities and art colleges, and has been a first-class person ever since.

Liu Yu didn't know much about the young man in front of him, but he did know his cousin, Peter Shuvalov.

Because the boy's cousin invented the unicorn cannon, the most distinctive artillery unit in the 18th century.

There is an old saying in China that if one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog will ascend to heaven.

It is correct to describe the young man in front of him, or the Shuvalov family.

As Peter's daughter, Elizabeth is her greatest "orthodoxy", so she must emulate Peter everywhere.

Peter created the Boys' Army, and Elizabeth, of course, set up the Boys' Guard as quickly as possible. They were all fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, similar to Dashun's current Boys' Army, and many of them were children of minor nobles.

Being able to be the head of the juvenile attendant group is obviously considered as a chicken dog ascending to heaven, which is equivalent to the Dragon Guard in Dashun.

The child certainly did not participate in the coup, but his cousin, Peter Shuvalov, who invented the unicorn howitzer, was one of the few people who followed Elizabeth in the coup.

Because his wife was Elizabeth's best friend when she was young, the kind of best friend who could write to each other and complain about their lovers.

Girlfriends intervening in politics can be regarded as a feature of the entire Elizabethan era.

Peter Shuvalov's wife, Mila Yugolovna, does not have any official position, but she is good at dancing and smart.

Known as the "Shadow Cabinet Female Prime Minister" during Elizabeth's forbearance period, even after the Queen came to power, she still had no official official position, but later the whole of Petersburg knew: If you want to do something, find Mira.

Girlfriends in politics, or nepotism, or foreign relatives electing officials, may not fail to do good things, such as Wei Qinghuo Qubing of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but the disadvantage is that few good things are done and more bad things are done.

However, this Russian best friend's involvement in politics has indeed affected a lot of Russia's future development, and it is basically in a good direction.

As Elizabeth's best friend, Mira participated in the coup, and her husband, eldest brother, and younger brother-in-law also took off one after another.

The younger brother-in-law of Mila in front of me, Ivan Shuvalov, is the head of the youth attendant group. In the future, he founded Moscow University with his friend Lomonosov, and established the predecessor of the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, which promoted the development of Russian culture. The 18th century saw the comprehensive development of science, art, and fine arts.

Mira's husband, Peter Shuvalov, later became the director of Russian artillery. He reformed the artillery system, produced unicorn guns and dense howitzers, fully encouraged Russian artillery and mathematics progress, and created two major ironworks and The cannon foundry made Russian artillery a world-class artillery for a long time.

Mila's elder brother, Alexander Shuvalov, has a low reputation, because after the coup, he served as the chairman of the Secret Criminal Investigation Office and the Prison Secret Case Trial Committee. .

However, his only daughter raised a "Golovkina Serf Ballet Troupe", which was later called...the Bolshoi Ballet Troupe.

In history, Queen Elizabeth's reputation is not obvious, not as good as Catherine II, but in fact many things are the foundation of her era.If it is a posthumous title, Ekaterina may be posthumously named "Wu", but what Elizabeth called "literary and scenic" is no problem.

Before Elizabeth's death, the legacy left to Russia was Moscow University and the first batch of native Russian academicians, the soon-to-be-completed Winter Palace complex, the predecessor of the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, a prosperous cultural, artistic and scientific atmosphere, and the complete elimination of foreign forces. The impact on Russia, Europe's first-class artillery and unicorn artillery, the famous general Rumyantsev honed in the war, and a Prussia that is about to collapse, and the near-perfect diplomatic environment of the French, Austrian and Russian alliance, and the cancellation of domestic tariffs Form an internal industrial and commercial environment for a unified market.

For such a woman, Liu Yu is sober, and will not feel that this woman can be manipulated like the French Marquis de La Chettadi.

This kind of woman is extremely sober, and the only thing that can really move her is Russia's interests, or her own power security.

As for the love and affection that the Marquis of La Schettadi thought about; the promises and secret agreements that the Swedish ambassador thought about were all nonsense.

From her arrangements for those who supported her coup, it can be seen that she is an emotional person, and she can be regarded as a lover, but she must have her own bottom line.

Above the bottom line, gentlemen, old friends and friends who have helped themselves, follow them to toss, corruption and so on will turn a blind eye.

Below the bottom line, as cold as ice, I'm afraid it will be hard to miss the old love.

Liu Yu and Elizabeth are not old friends, but they are old friends because they helped with the coup d'état, so I can try to say something.

After receiving the Queen's invitation, Liu Yu and his entourage put on the hunting uniforms of Dashun's side. Under the guidance of the young attendants, they rode a sled through the dark streets of Petersburg, all the way to the south bank of the Gulf of Finland outside the city. Summer Palace.

The queen didn't wear a long skirt, but a hunting suit suitable for hunting. She was holding an exquisitely crafted air pump gun for noble hunting, rather than a gunpowder gun that might explode.

After seeing the ceremony, the attendants brought some horses to Liu Yu.

The queen looked at the white snow in the distance, and sighed: "What a beautiful snow. Before the snow falls, the beasts can always hide their tracks. After the snow falls, no matter how cunning the beasts are, they will reveal their tracks. Lord Marquis, do you think so?"

Liu Yu chose a brown horse at random, and when he heard the queen fighting with him, he said with a smile, "There are also some wild beasts, which may not be cunning, but they will not show their footprints. For example, brown bears. They ate too much before." There is enough fat to support it until the snow melts. Before the snow melts, the footprints will not be exposed."

"A wise hunter will never provoke a hibernating bear. After being awakened, it will be the wildest beast."

"It's like Russia under your rule. After more than ten years of chaos after the death of your father and mother, but with the previous foundation, once it wakes up, it will definitely make the whole of Europe tremble."

While speaking, he handed over the reins of the selected horses to the adjutant next to him, flattered him by the way, and then changed the topic from the Queen's test of Dashun to the current situation in Europe.

It's getting late today, so it's probably impossible to hunt. After all, this place is sixty or seventy miles away from Prince Menshikov's mansion. It's just a suburb of the suburbs. It's equivalent to starting from the Forbidden City and crossing the Lugou Bridge to Fangshan. .

It seems that the queen and the others have been hunting for a while, and they probably will stay in the summer palace at night, and they will have a hunt tomorrow morning.

He didn't want to play this kind of veiled temptation with the empress. Others were playing the game gracefully. He was directly destroying the beauty and going straight.

"The war of succession to the Austrian throne is like this heavy snow, revealing the footprints of all countries. Her Majesty must have seen their footprints clearly."

Elizabeth smiled slightly, and handed over the air pump gun in her hand to her lover Razumovski. She came to a distance of about two meters from Liu Yu, and stared into Liu Yu's eyes for a long time.

"Master Marquis is a nobleman of Dashun, so do the nobles of Dashun also like hunting?"

Liu Yu shook his head.

"I don't like it very much. The nobles like it 2000 years ago. Hunting is not only entertainment, but also a kind of war exercise, which is an essential skill for military nobles."

"But now...the population is too large, with a population of 2000 to [-] million, and there are farmlands, mulberry leaves, and tea gardens everywhere. Some big cities even had a population of nearly one million before [-]."

"Going hunting at this time will lead to the loss of people's property. The emperor represents morality, and the nobles, as the people around the emperor, must abide by some morality."

"If our capital city only has a population of 10,000+, and there are dense forests thirty miles away from the city, I think the habit of hunting will continue."

"Unfortunately, we are too rich, we have too much farmland, and the scale of the war is calculated by 10 people. Hunting can't even achieve the most basic military training purpose of the military nobles. So as time goes by, the habit of hunting gradually changes. became something else."

Queen Elizabeth smiled and listened to Liu Yu's bragging, and teased in a friendly tone: "If I closed my eyes and listened to you just now, the imaginary you must have stood up proudly when you said these words. Chest, eyes shining like stars."

(End of this chapter)