Xinshun 1730

Chapter 666 Spoils Sharing Conference ([-])

Liu Yu is not very familiar with Louis XV, at most he has heard some jokes.

But since it's a joke, it's hard to tell if it's true or not.

Just like the famous joke in France, Queen Mary asked "why don't you eat cream cake when you have nothing to eat", which originated from learning from east to west, and the enlightenment scholars made it up with the phrase "why not eat minced meat"; The great uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, eating moon cakes and killing tartars on August [-]th, originated from the Indian soldiers' uprising, which used Indian cake throwing to communicate and transmit information. It was borrowed and spread by the well-informed Nanyang Society as an allusion, and the effect was excellent.

Both the East and the West are proficient in this kind of tricky and joke-telling thing, and it is definitely not enough to know a person by jokes.

However, for a monarch like Louis XV, Liu Yu can still figure out some context by taking the history of China as a mirror.

He came to the throne at a young age, and it was not his turn to succeed, but those who were ahead of him died.

After ascending the throne, there was a regent.A certain person who later became a prime minister gave him lectures when he was young, and was very strict with him.

This lecturer became the prime minister, monopolized the power for a long time, and formulated a series of policies and reforms.

As soon as this prime minister and tutor died, he overturned many of the established policies of the prime minister before his death.

As soon as this prime minister dies, he will abolish the prime minister and take over the power alone. He thinks that if the prime minister is left, how will we rule the world.

He fought three victorious campaigns in office, the War of the Quadruple Alliance, the War of the Polish Succession, and the War of the Austrian Succession.

But before his death, he fought a failed seven-year war that collapsed France's finances and completely lost its hegemony, and could no longer suppress the rise of the Anglo-Saxon barbarians.

There is no tradition of eunuchs in France, so this Louis XV believed in his lover, let his lover advise him, and at the same time let his lover supervise the actions of the ministers.

The possible difference is that the mother in the Chinese region is alive; while the mother in the French region died early, so she is particularly concerned about women, especially mature women, and longs for maternal love to compensate.

In other words, it is not an exaggeration to say that the demise of Bourbon began with Louis XV.

To deal with this kind of person, you have to find out the mentality of this person.

He was enthroned when he was young, and he was not in charge of the government. His ancestors had a Sun King with outstanding martial arts and monopolized the power. He was opposed by the prime minister for everything he wanted to do before. Now the prime minister is about to abolish the prime minister and monopolize the power before he dies. What this kind of person lacks most at this time is " Approval, approval, praise" and flattery.

With such a general judgment in mind, Liu Yu decided that this trip to Versailles will use the most respectful attitude since he came to Europe, sycophant, and establish a good personal relationship with Louis XV as much as possible, so as to deal with the problems of the Netherlands In the end, they reached a very favorable condition for sharing the spoils for Dashun.

In the Netherlands, personal relationships are of little use, and interest groups are deeply intertwined, and a year of centralized meetings has not been resolved.

In Russia, personal connections are useful, and the power of the tsar is much greater than that of the consuls and the Grand Chancellor in the Netherlands.But the woman in Russia is too shrewd and quite clear-headed, and personal relationships can't be exchanged for anything beneficial.

Only France.

Centralized, very centralized, the king has great power.

The level is very average, the king is not the hero.

In such a situation, personal relationships are very useful and can be exchanged for very valuable benefits.

However, the envoys had just arrived in Paris, and Louis XV hadn't seen him yet. The cardinal and Prime Minister Fleury, who was already ill and knew that he was dying, sent his promoted French financial director, Philip Bel Ollie, first came to see Liu Yu.

An important reason why Fleury sent someone to meet Liu Yu before Louis XV met Liu Yu was that Liu Yu's status in going to France this time was different from that in other countries.

Going to the Netherlands and Russia is all in the name of the Dashun court, and it is an official act authorized by the Tianyou Temple and the six governments.

He came to France as a "personal envoy of the emperor" to achieve direct communication between the emperor and the King of France.

To put it more bluntly, Liu Yu was an imperial court official when he went to the Netherlands or Russia; when he came to France, he was more like a eunuch serving the emperor.

The diplomatic exchanges between France and Dashun have always been at the high level, not at the imperial court level but at the royal family level.Since the time of Louis XIV, Bai Jin came to China as the "king's chief mathematician", and it was Bai Jin who came first, and the French "tribute ship".

In addition, the things discussed this time are too confidential, and of course the fewer people who know about them, the better.

Fleury knew the level of Louis XV, and also knew that Louis XV would probably conduct secret negotiations with Liu Yu.

Even though he was seriously ill, Fleury still sent Philibert, the chief financial officer whom he had single-handedly picked up.

In his words, because "His Majesty likes war, but he doesn't even know the logistics of fighting; How much is the cost behind it?"

Old Fleury knew that once he died, it would be absolutely impossible for him to seek peace and recuperation in France for 30 years.

And the king knows how to govern the country with a hammer?

They had no idea how serious France's financial problems were, nor did they understand that wars cost a lot of money.

Since it is an inevitable trend, the negotiation between the king and Liu Yu may not even involve the issue of money.

Most of them will only seek "the glory beyond the great-grandfather Sun King" like a child who looks at a map and fantasizes about war, and may not even look at a country map, but may be looking at a globe...

Fleury hoped that Philibert could talk about economic, technical and financial issues before Liu Yu met the King of France.

When he came to power, France was a huge sinkhole created by the Mississippi bubble. After the currency reform in 1726, Fleury has maintained a deflationary policy, hoping to fill the big hole of the Mississippi bubble.

The two consecutive CFOs were promoted by Fleury, and they were all carried out according to his will.And it implements the economic policies formulated by Korber 60 years ago - state investment, economic establishment, technology learning, skilled workers recruitment, state control, and government orders.

Fleury hopes that Philibert can reach a series of technology transfer cooperation before Liu Yu meets the king.

Such as silk textile industry, cotton textile industry, paper industry and so on.

Although he also hopes to obtain the skills of Dashun's porcelain manufacturing industry, he knows that it is impossible, so his greatest hope is to obtain the technology of the textile and paper industries.

Such a thing, the king must have never imagined.

The king just thought he was a genius strategist and didn't care about these trivial matters in economics and trade.

Because I know it too well, I know it is impossible, so I can only settle these few "little things" before Liu Yu meets the Dharma King.

Colbert’s policy has continued to this day, focusing on the paper industry, and the route is also very clear: recruit skilled workers from Dashun, invest in the establishment of a paper factory from the French treasury, and raise tariffs to protect the local paper industry after ensuring production. The royal family and government orders ensured that the paper industry flourished to meet domestic demand and then began exporting in exchange for gold and silver coins.

Papermaking and textile industry, this is the development plan set by Fleury before his death.

Try to rely on Dashun's cotton spinning and silk weaving technology to make France the cotton spinning and silk weaving center with the best technology in Europe within five to ten years; rely on Dashun's papermaking technology to make France no longer There is no need to import British paper, or even sell it abroad after meeting domestic needs.

In addition to these technical issues, before his death, Fleury also wanted to understand the "Chinese-style development model", especially the control, promotion and taxation of ancient Chinese handicrafts.See if you can "the stones from other mountains can attack jade".

France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands are not on the same path economically.

Colbert's series of policies, which have continued to this day, are quite familiar to the people of Dashun, at least more familiar than the British and Dutch ones.

For example, Philibert, the chief financial officer at this time, tried his best to promote the construction of the "French Straight Road" - building roads extending in all directions with Paris as the center. Every non-privileged class in France has to serve for two weeks every year for road construction and conscript labor.

For example, the "Canal Project" he tried to promote at this time.Civil servants were conscripted, canals were built, and the San Quentin Canal was continuously dug through, connecting several large rivers, and improving infrastructure and transportation levels.

These canals and road networks, as well as the surveying and mapping preparations for the construction of these road networks and canals, are the basis of the accurate Cassini map of the Falcon era. Without the road infrastructure laid down in this era, there would be no accurate Cassini map.

In "A Tale of Two Heroes", Alexandre Dumas wrote that "a map of Cassini is spread out on the table, and even the smallest rough path can be found on it".

So the French public "sees" their country, and identifies with their country from the earliest maps of national consciousness, finds their homes, villages, and towns where they live, and understands that the place where they live is called France.

Every inch of land on the map is defined as France, binding people and land together, not to a monarch, but to an impersonal, imaginary national community called France.This is the origin of most of the maps hanging on the classroom walls of compulsory education later.

Another example is the "official handicraft industry" which has always been very important in France. Of course, in France, it is called "Royal handicraft workshop", which is exclusively operated by the royal family. It's completely different from the Anglo-Dutch set.

From the perspective of pure Eurocentrism or Western centrism, the modern history and modern history of the world seem to be the continuation of the hegemony between the Anglo-Dutch and French: the Anglo-Dutch model, free trade, VS, Colbert’s state-owned industrialism, the French Revolution , Rousseau's theory of popular sovereignty, the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution, the planned economy... It's just that the orthodoxy of the opponents continues to move eastward.

From the perspective of historical theology, the modern and modern history of the world seems to be a normal and universal development pattern, VS, the unexpected, abnormal, and mutation line of the Onsa people.It seems that the normal and common development model should eventually lead to the peak of the feudal monarchy of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but the Angsa people have changed suddenly.

This is all wrong thinking.However, the correct view of history has not yet been born at this time.

So Fleury, from the illusory picture of China drawn by those Enlightenment scholars and missionaries, seems to have seen a different road that is applicable to France, and a road that is so close to Colbert's system.

In particular, Dashun did not completely deny Wang Anshi's reform.And a series of titles such as Dashun Wude Palace and the internal Sanshefa made the missionaries sent by France to China have to learn about Wang Anshi's life, and then use their way of thinking to come up with Wang Anshi and Ke Ke. Albert came to somewhat similar conclusions.

But just like the criticism and irony in the later "Manifesto", "When this kind of writing was moved from France to Germany, the material basis of France did not move there at the same time. Under German conditions, French literature completely lost its direct practice. meaning, but only in a purely documentary form".

To be honest, even Dashun and Ming Dynasty couldn’t reproduce the Song Dynasty’s system, because the material foundation was different, the continuous decline of the government-run economy, the government-run monopoly and the all-round business, taxation and trade monopoly system in the Song Dynasty were fundamentally different. Can't learn.

Neither Dashun nor Daming learned the law, let alone France.

The most basic labor service system, craftsmen’s registration, buying and selling, the proportion of government-run handicrafts, trade control, and bureaucratic proportions are all completely different, and can only “completely lose the meaning of direct practice, and only have the form of pure literature.”Even Dashun himself, facing the ancient books, was like this, unable to learn at all.

(End of this chapter)