Xinshun 1730

Chapter 637 Commitment and Feedback

"The right to sprinkle snow-white salt on your pickles is the cornerstone of our peace."

After shaking the salt shaker, the salt shaker made a rattling sound, just like shaking a child's favorite rattle, amusing the child to play.

Queen Elizabeth frowned, staring at the salt shaker in Liu Yu's hand, watching him put the salt shaker down, she could only vent her dissatisfaction in her heart.

"I don't want to pin the peace of the two countries on your kindness and morality. The only reason why people can abide by morality is the pressure of violating morality. But there is no morality between countries."

Liu Yu gently pushed down the salt shaker, and said sincerely: "Your Majesty, we have the right to sprinkle salt, and only once. We will not use this only power to sprinkle salt lightly."

"Because once the salt is sprinkled, either we can ensure that the Volga is maintained; or it will only delay your steps."

"Once the method of spreading salt is used, there will be no chance to use it again. I don't rely on morality to maintain peace, I rely on interests."

"If one day, we have a way to transport troops or supplies from the capital to the Omu River within ten days, then even if you don't want to, we will spread salt, but you can't stop it."

"Or maybe, when we were eating the rest of the delicacies, you and my enemy reached an alliance... Then I have to shake the snow-white salt shaker and sprinkle salt on the pickles in the Volga River."

"Precisely because it is useful, but it can only be used once, we will be careful not to choose to abuse it."

"It is precisely because opportunities are so precious that they are the guarantee of peace."

"You're right. I have the initiative. I can sprinkle salt, but you can't. But it's also because of this that there is peace between us."

"Conversely, if you can sprinkle salt, and I can sprinkle salt, then it will be like scrambling for caviar in the Black Sea, the first, second, third, fourth time..."

"Moreover, not only can we guarantee peace between us, but you can also guarantee that you will not form an alliance with my enemy. This is the basis of our peace."

Queen Elizabeth's brows seemed to be frowning tightly, but her heart was relaxed.

Liu Yu's words confirmed Bestuyev's judgment that day.

What he wants to sign is not the "Sino-Russian Non-Aggression Treaty", but the "Sino-Russian Non-Alliance Treaty with Each Other's Enemy".

The metaphor on the dining table is very clear.

Liu Yu's imagination of being able to travel from the capital to the Omu River in ten days in the future sounds like a joke.

For Central Asia, if Dashun doesn't want to attack, it means peace.

In a short period of time, Russia is unable to continue to erode in the direction of Central Asia.It was quite laborious to fight Junggar in the first place, because of the lack of cannons in Junggar and the inability to attack the city due to the characteristics of nomadic tactics.

If Dashun wants to take the initiative to attack, Russia will actually make enemies on all sides.

It is precisely because Dashun does not want to take the initiative to attack, so it is necessary to sign a treaty in a hurry. Because Dashun has the initiative to attack, so Dashun's initiative to conclude a treaty is really a guarantee of peace.

Similarly, Dashun proposed that China and Russia should not form an alliance with a third-party enemy alone, which means that Dashun's next step will definitely be a conflict with European countries.

With a long land border, Dashun has only one European neighbor, and that is Russia.

And the rest of the European neighbors that have intersections are not land borders.The biggest possibility is the Netherlands.

Only Russia can know about this, because Hannibal has lived in Dashun for more than ten years, and Liu Yu was thinking about Russia's westward advance more than ten years ago, and only Russia knows about it.

And this is not a very good bargaining chip.

Because if you use this as a bargaining chip and exchange it for Dashun's equal return, you can't get anything back.

Liu Yu said that he has seven virtues, but the seven virtues do not include honesty.

The reward that Russia can get in exchange for holding chips can only be Liu Yu's promise that he will not continue to exert influence on the Turghut Ministry - but this is of no use. The reality is that only Dashun wants to think about it, not from the material level Erase the possible rebellion of the Torghut Ministry.

In other words, Dashun has always had a chance.And promises are the most unreliable.

The legacy of the Mongol Empire is almost eaten by both sides, and Russia is temporarily unable to completely assimilate the Turghut tribe.

If you really want to assimilate, the key first step is Eastern Orthodoxy, but this first step is extremely difficult, which greatly damages the interests of the Lamas in the tribe.

The more you want to assimilate, the more you shape the centrifugal, the more beautiful the olive branch extending from Dashun will be, and the temptation of the snow-white salt shaker will be greater.

Therefore, after Elizabeth found out that Liu Yu wanted to go to Nanyang, she had already decided that it was impossible to reach any form of covenant with the Netherlands.

Pointless, and the Netherlands must lose.

Glancing at the puppet show-like dining table, Elizabeth pointed to the food on the table and said, "I want to eat caviar, sausage, and herring."

Liu Yu nodded and said, "That should belong to you, and I absolutely don't want to eat these things. Moreover, part of these foods is the reason why I pulled out a seat for you and invited you to eat."

After receiving this guarantee, Elizabeth was completely relieved.

He can't control things that are too far away.Prussia, Poland, Turkey, and Dashun also had no exchanges.

Only Sweden, which is worried, is not prepared to mediate based on what Dashun means.

There are secret reports that the Swedish ambassador went to meet Liu Yu, but it is impossible to know what they talked about.Since Dashun is not going to mention the Swedish matter now, presumably Dashun has already conveyed to the Swedish side the intention not to mediate.

The queen clapped her hands, motioning for everyone to return to their respective seats, and brought back newly prepared dishes.

Then she gently held the wine glass with her hand, but did not raise it, and said: "The Russian Empire recognizes the two boundary treaties with Dashun and promises to abide by them. The Russian Empire recognizes that the tributary countries have no diplomatic rights, and recognizes Japan and North Korea. It is the tributary state of Dashun."

Liu Yu also held the wine glass, but also did not raise it, and did not repeat the Queen's words, but used similar toasts.

"Dashun recognizes the two boundary treaties with the Russian Empire and promises to abide by them. The Dashun Empire will not sign any form of alliance agreement with Ottoman Turkey and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and promises not to have conflicts with Turkey and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. No trade whatsoever. And absolutely no ambassadors in Constantinople."

Poland just made up the numbers. Apart from Polshevski, a Junggar prisoner of war who helped Dashun train Lancers in the capital, Dashun really had no connection with Poland.

Turkey is the top priority.

It is unlikely that there will be too many close ties between Dashun and Turkey, but if they send ambassadors to each other, they will definitely hit it off immediately.

Russia didn't promise much, and Liu Yu didn't give much feedback.

Russia has the ability to trade with Japan, and Dashun also has the ability to trade with Turkey, but the benefits are not great, and both parties agree to give up, which is considered equal.

The queen was quite satisfied with this feedback, and said: "The Russian Empire promises that it will not have any alliances with the belligerent countries of the Chinese Empire. Even if it was an alliance before, it will guarantee that the treaty will be abolished after the official declaration of war. And promises not to join any Dashun's third-party covenant."

She really wanted to know how Liu Yu should repay this promise.

In the eyes of her and her core diplomatic staff, the "third party" mentioned probably refers to the Netherlands.

In the case of the Netherlands, there are some trade ties with Russia, but in terms of a firm alliance, there is indeed no such thing.

On the one hand, the Netherlands has lost its status as a great power, and did not go to the meeting to share the spoils. The entire European diplomatic circle believes that this is the end of the Dutch era.

On the other hand, the Netherlands does not have a close relationship with Russia, and it is basically unlikely that it will form an alliance with Russia for European affairs, or Russia's interests in Europe, and the Netherlands will not be of much help.

The promise was made, but Liu Yu did not give back with words, but took out a letter and handed it to Queen Elizabeth by the maid.

After reading it, the queen nodded to Liu Yu, rolled up the letter paper, handed it to the maid and threw it into the burning fireplace, and then raised her wine glass.

"To peace and cooperation between China and Russia."

Although the people present didn't know what Liu Yu wrote in the letter, judging from the empress's expression, it must have reached a fairly satisfactory result, and it was quite beneficial to Russia.

However, they couldn't figure out what Dashun had exchanged.

But since the queen is happy, they can see from the queen's personnel arrangements these days that this is not a person who can be easily manipulated or manipulated by emotions.

So they all raised their wine glasses and followed the queen's speech.

The banquet is just to deepen understanding and confirm consensus. It is not a negotiating table, and there is no need to sign a treaty between the two parties at the banquet.

After the banquet, Queen Elizabeth thought about the contents of the letter and invited Liu Yu to meet alone, but accompanied by her secret husband Razumovsky.

Razumovsky is a person who knows how to advance and retreat. As a Cossack herdsman, he knows that he has no foundation. The only thing that can keep him in the aristocratic circle is to "keep male virtue" and hold the queen tightly. a thigh.

The relationship between the two was well known in the upper circles of Petersburg, and it was most appropriate for Razumovsky to accompany them.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, the queen's face was flushed, and she was obviously a little excited. She didn't know whether it was because of the alcohol or because of Liu Yu's letter.

As a reward for Russia's promise not to form an alliance with the enemy of Dashun, Liu Yu's letter gave a lot of rewards, and it seemed that Bestuyev's conjecture on that day was more and more verified.

Although, actually they guessed wrong.

In the letter, Liu Yu proposed a plan to "monopoly China's trade goods around the Baltic Sea", which seemed to be aimed at dealing with the Netherlands, but in fact the purpose of this plan was to create conflicts between Britain and Russia.

There was no conflict between Britain and Russia, but when Dashun gave more money, conflicts arose.

(End of this chapter)