Cutting 1719

Chapter 518 The Land of the Qing Dynasty

Ernst's eyes froze. He didn't quite understand what the emperor meant. Judging from the emperor's tone, it seemed that this battle was destined to be fought, but it seemed that it was not the right time yet.

"Your Majesty, is it a bit hasty to establish diplomatic relations?"

"No rush, no rush at all."

Ning Yu laughed, stood up and retracted the long sword into the scabbard, handed the long sword to the female officer beside him, then stood up and walked towards the outside of the hall. With a beard on his lips, he looked very heroic.

There are many flowers, birds and trees in Changchun Garden, and the shady land is also very dense. Therefore, with the gusts of breeze, people can't feel the slightest heat at all. I just wish I could enjoy it in such coolness. .

Ning Yu walked in front, with his hands behind his back, and said softly: "Right now, we have to gradually turn our eyes away. Cheng Ming won a big victory in Upper Burma last month, which basically established his advantage in Burma. I believe It is not a problem to completely occupy Burma, but after taking Burma completely, the empire will no longer go to war in the southwest."

Ernst was thoughtful, "Your Majesty wants to see how the enfeoffment system and the Protectorate's system work in Myanmar?"

"That's right, Myanmar is a test field for the empire's future external development. If you can't get convincing results, then you have to start all over again—" Ning Yu turned his head slightly, "So as long as you can't get relevant results , then there is no way for me to continue throwing money and food into the water."

In fact, there is another sentence that Ning Yu did not say, that is, when the enfeoffment system fails completely, it means that domestic nobles and chambers of commerce are not worth supporting at all. At that time, he can only choose to establish another foundation, but right now he can With the power of belief, only the army is left, and what will happen at that time will naturally be self-evident.

Of course, there is no need to talk to Ernst about these words.

Ernst shook his head, "Your Majesty, in fact, the colonial activities of Western countries are also full of hardships. So far, despite decades of hard work, Britain and France have only achieved a little success in India. Although the Spaniards and the Dutch occupied the Spice Islands, everyone knows that it is not difficult for the empire to occupy them."

"Your Majesty's current enfeoffment system has a higher ability to mobilize resources - so I think that as long as we stick to it, we can get a lot of gains."

Ning Yu shook his head and said: "I am by no means the kind of person who will not repent for the sake of face. Adapting measures to local conditions is the right way. Compared with Myanmar, the Northeast is another development direction. The practice of immigration and armed farm systems can also Give us an alternative."

Speaking of this, Ning Yu warned again: "No matter what our relationship with Britain and France will be in the future, this will not prevent us from building a good relationship with them now, especially now that we still have a great interest relationship with the UK, such as the relationship with the UK. Trade can be scaled up to a much larger scale, and with Russia, there seems to be common ground.”

Ernst smiled. The accuracy of the emperor's cognition of the situation in the West is really surprising. After all, in today's Western countries, the relationship between the British and the Russians is very delicate.

In the past 20 years, Russia fought a Great Northern War with the Kingdom of Sweden in order to seize the access to the Baltic Sea. In this war, the United Kingdom has always taken a hostile stance against Russia and given Sweden diplomatic support and supplies, military aid.

Although the war has been over for several years, Sweden has been hit to the lowest point, and the Russians have also obtained the coveted seaport, but the British have not given up on restraining the expansion of the Russians in Europe, so the relationship with the Russians has always been very tense. cold.

"Unite the United Kingdom and Sweden to bring the Russians back to Europe."

Ernst pondered for a while, and said: "Perhaps we can try to rebuild the Triple Alliance, then Sweden will become the top priority."

Ning Yu nodded, "That's right, but the matter of contacting Sweden against Russia can be slowed down. They are still licking their wounds, I'm afraid they don't have the spirit. We can do more trade first, as long as the trade volume increases Together, our influence over Sweden will also increase."

For Ning Yu, Sweden can only be used as a pawn in Europe. He does not expect Sweden to defeat the extremely strong Russians, but it can also delay the Russians when the Fuhan Army and Russia confront each other in the Far East. hind legs.

Strictly speaking, this matter should be handled by the people of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After all, it is better to let the people of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handle it. However, the current Ningchu Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not clear enough about some small routines of the Europeans. It is better to let Ernst negotiate. Anyway, when the time comes He, the emperor, has to check it out himself, so there is no need to worry about problems.

The reason why Ning Yu is going to deal with this matter right now, apart from Myanmar is one reason, and the other reason is the Russians in the Far East.

He has become more and more aware that the battle with the Russians is getting closer.

In August, Hamgyong Daojing City.

Teams of Eight Banners soldiers occupied this city located in the northeast of the Korean peninsula. They plundered the supplies of the people from all over Hamgyong, and even developed to the point of plundering wildly. Like hell, there are burning flames and crying people everywhere.

This time the soldiers of the Eight Banners were clearly organized looting. Under the leadership of various assistant leaders, they conducted a centralized search and looting of the people from all over the place. All goods or food were directly robbed by them, even Almost all those who were stopped by the people were slaughtered.

Under the raging flames, Jingcheng no longer had the peace it used to have. The soaring black smoke almost blackened half of the sky, and the crying people in Jingcheng almost made the Eight Banners soldiers even more excited.

"Master Zhang, Eight Banners... No,... Is it necessary for the Qing Dynasty to do this?"

Emperor Qianlong wore a bright yellow satin armor embroidered with multicolored clouds and golden dragon patterns. A steel heart mirror was hung in the middle of the clothes, and the mirror was decorated with golden cloud and dragon patterns. Wrapped in clothes, with a sable fur helmet tassel on his head and an oriental bead inlaid on the top, although he is still young, he looks very mighty under the background of this set of armor.

Zhang Tingyu said deeply: "Reporting to the emperor, it is impossible for my Qing Dynasty to continue to rule North Korea. The defenders in Seoul probably won't last long. When they find out that we have arrived in Jingcheng, I am afraid they will attack us in a large scale. Why not Wash Xianjing Road earlier, and then you can bring enough belongings to Yunchun."

Emperor Qianlong hesitated and nodded, but was about to say something else, but Xu Yuanmeng who was next to him also said, "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang is right. After Yunchun, only a few thousand of us will be able to I'm afraid I can't do anything, and if I have a lot of money, I can ask the Russians to send more soldiers."

Emperor Qianlong felt a little disdainful. He knew how far the Russians were from here. Let alone sending troops, it took a lot of effort to see such a few people in front of him. He didn't know that there would be enough food when they passed by. not enough to eat
Just when Emperor Qianlong was a little worried, an Eight Banners cavalry came from afar, but he stopped quickly, and then trotted slowly to kneel down in front of Emperor Qianlong, but this time the emperor saw clearly Oh, it turned out to be Shen Mude, the current young talent of Eight Banners, but there was a smile on his face at the moment.

"Report to the emperor, my servant Shen Mude just got the news that Chu Ni has captured Seoul." Shen Mude showed a bit of anger on his face.

"What, Seoul lost so soon?"

Before Emperor Qianlong was in a hurry, Xu Yuanmeng and Zhang Tingyu began to worry. Not only did they say that there were more than 3 people in Seoul, but also if they were sticking to Seoul, it was impossible to fall so quickly anyway!

Shen Mude sighed slightly: "That's right, Your Majesty, there are two adults, Seoul was lost too quickly, first the North Koreans betrayed us, and then they let Chu Ni in at night, caught off guard , let them occupy Seoul in one fell swoop, and as for our [-]-banner army, although we had gathered our troops at that time, we were driven out of the city.

"What, what should I do?" Qianlong's face turned pale in an instant, and even his words became a little trembling.

Zhang Tingyu sighed deeply. Of course he understood the reason. After all, it was because the Eight Banners did too much in North Korea, and the time was too short, so that after the Fuhan army came over, almost everyone in North Korea refused He led the way for the Fuhan army, and even provided a lot of information to the Fuhan army, so that the Qing army had no way to resist it. "

Fortunately, the monarchs and ministers of the Qing Dynasty knew early on that there was nothing to be done, so they chose to set off from Seoul ahead of time and arrived at the current Hamgyong Road.

Although the Qing court has less than 3000 people left in Hamgyong Road, these 3000 people are the most elite of the Eight Banners. Even if you go to Yunchun, you don’t have to worry about being in danger. If you go further north, the so-called method of docking the gecko's tail will naturally make it smaller and smaller.

Thinking of this, Zhang Tingyu immediately said decisively: "Your Majesty, we have to run away as soon as possible. After we reach Yunchun, we can still do big things!"

Going to run again.
Emperor Qianlong felt a little dissatisfied. He ran from inside the pass to outside the pass, from Shengjing to Seoul, and now he is going to Yunchun again. Maybe where will he go?
However, for the sake of his life, Emperor Qianlong nodded wisely, and then said: "Shen Mude, quickly gather the army. Tell them not to kill any more, and prepare to leave in Yunchun."

"Hey, Your Majesty."

Shen Mude quickly knelt down to accept the order, and then trotted over, riding a horse with a group of soldiers, and began to gather the soldiers who were acting recklessly in the city, but at sunset, all the soldiers basically brought Packages, large and small, began to slowly return to the camp. As for Jingcheng itself, it was almost reduced to a piece of scorched earth.

Three days later, thousands of Qing troops surrounded Emperor Qianlong and other monarchs and ministers, but they arrived at the border of Yunchun. Everyone looked up and saw a military fortress that had begun to take shape on the distant horizon. However, it is not the kind of square city, surrounded by crooked walls, it looks very weird.

Five miles in front of the military fort, there is an extremely tall watchtower, on which some Russian soldiers seem to be standing guard. They saw a large group of Qing soldiers approaching gradually, but they sounded the alarm, and it took only a moment , I saw that nearly a thousand Russian soldiers had gathered in formation and set their positions, as if they were waiting for the order to be issued.

When Zhang Tingyu saw this scene, cold sweat came out of his forehead immediately. Although he had written with the Earl of Sawaula and asked to take refuge in Yunchun, he did not say that it was today. The gun went off, not to mention how the relationship with the Russians will be in the future, they will not be able to pass the current test.

As for taking the opportunity to occupy Yunchun?This is simply an impossible conjecture.

Through the current scene, Zhang Tingyu can basically conclude that although the 2000 Russians in Yunchun do not seem to be many, they are far more elite than the Qing army. Whoever wins goes.

Not only Zhang Tingyu thought of this, but also other people. They all showed a embarrassed look at Zhang Tingyu. The Russians in front of them are not easy to deal with!

Just when Zhang Tingyu was planning to meet Sara Wula, he saw an opening suddenly appeared in the Russian phalanx, and Earl Sawaula walked out of the opening with a bit of a smile on his face. Smiling, he said loudly in the direction of the Qing army: "My friends, I am really happy that you can come here. But there is one thing, there are too many of you, if you are just let in like this, I'm really not worried."

Since Earl Savaula has been speaking Russian at an extremely fast speed, he was stumped by the translation of the Qing court. He tried his best to listen to Savaula's Russian, and then translated two sentence.

"My Majesty, what the Raksha people mean is to let most of us leave here, and only a small number of people can go in." The translator looked at the emperors and ministers of the Qing Dynasty whose faces were gradually darkening, and bit the bullet. One sentence.

"A minority? Then do I count as this minority?"

"The emperor naturally counts."

"Does the courtiers who were born and died for me count?"

"this."

Seeing that Emperor Qianlong was getting more and more angry, Zhang Tingyu had no choice but to stand up, he said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, why don't you let the servant go to see Sawaula first. The servant can tell him the reason behind this, and then report back to the Emperor. "

Emperor Qianlong took a deep breath. Looking at those Russians who were showing off their might in the distance, he suddenly felt a kind of shame from the bottom of his heart.

Here, it should have been the land of the Qing Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)