1850 American Gold Tycoon.
Chapter 328 Nicholas I
Chapter 328 Nicholas I
Liang Yao took the wine offered by Vanderbilt and clinked glasses with Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was born as a sailor, and he drank like water, and Liang Yao was definitely inferior to Vanderbilt in terms of drinking capacity.
Liang Yao wanted to be nice, but after seeing Vanderbilt drank the wine in the glass, Liang Yao had no choice but to bite the bullet and drink a full glass of brandy.
"I talked to Chinese people doing business in New York. Many of them are from your hometown. I heard that in your China, a gentleman family like yours will get engaged to other well-matched gentleman families in the local area when their children and grandchildren are very young. ?
Even when the child is still in the womb and the gender is not known, the marriage contract will be made?Do you also have such a marriage contract? "
Vanderbilt said while playing with the wine glass in his hand.
"That's true, but before I came to California, my family changed from a gentleman's family to a criminal's family, and many of the marriage contracts that were made at the beginning were dissolved." Liang Yao said as he put the wine glass on the table.
"As for my marriage contract, my status in the family is not very important, and I am not the first choice for marriage."
"That means there is no more." Vanderbilt looked a little happy, and then asked curiously, "In China, can rich and powerful men have many wives?"
"It's okay in America." Liang Yao thought for a while.
"China has a monogamy and multiple concubines system. Just like many congressmen, although they have families, it does not prevent them from having many lovers outside. Monogamy and multiple concubines are only enjoyed by the privileged class in China. Ordinary people still have The wretched wife lived her life in a mediocre manner, without even being in person, and was a bachelor for the rest of her life."
Liang Yao is a sensible person. Vanderbilt came to him not to discuss business, but to ask questions about marriage in China. Most likely, he came to propose a marriage.
"Look into my eyes!" Vanderbilt suddenly raised his voice.
The two looked at each other, and Vanderbilt looked very serious. He looked directly into Liang Yao's eyes, as if he wanted to understand Liang Yao's inner thoughts: "Do you like Elizabeth?"
Liang Yao looked at Vanderbilt calmly, without any intention of avoiding it, and he replied very seriously, "I like it, but I won't be your assistant like Clark and the others for Elizabeth."
If Liang Yao hadn't made his mark in California, it would be a good choice to be Lao Fan's son-in-law and assistant like Clark.
It's just that he has already made his mark now, and there is no need to be inferior to others.
Vanderbilt poured another full glass of wine into his mouth, and heaved a long sigh: "How can I let the general of the American Army and the Speaker of the State House of California be my assistant."
This is what Vanderbilt said in his heart. He did have the idea of asking Liang Yao to be his son-in-law and assistant.
However, he also knew that Liang Yao was not like Clark. Relying on the Vanderbilt family, Clark could be among the celebrities in New York, but Clark's upper limit was limited to this.
As for Liang Yao's upper limit, it seems that there are still infinite possibilities.
In terms of wealth, Liang Yao's current wealth may not be less than his Vanderbilt's. In terms of status, Liang Yao's current status in the United States is much higher than his Vanderbilt's.
Seeing that the brandy he brought was gone, Vanderbilt casually took a bottle of wine from the wine rack and opened it, pouring the wine while continuing to talk.
"Elizabeth's thoughts are all on you. If I give her to someone else, she will hate me forever." Vanderbilt took a sip of the wine in his glass, pursed his lips and said.
"My unqualified father has already been hated by my three daughters. I don't want my most beloved youngest daughter to hate me any more. This time I will be a qualified father to fulfill you couple."
"So you still have self-knowledge." Liang Yao teased.
The relationship between Vanderbilt's children, who are proficient in business but neglected by the family, is not harmonious with Vanderbilt. When Kony first worked as Liang Yao's assistant, he often complained about his father in front of Liang Yao.
"Propose to Elizabeth." Vanderbilt patted Liang Yao's shoulder, "According to your customs, you can do whatever you want."
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Inside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital of Tsarist Russia.
The emperor of this sprawling state, Nicholas I, a middle-aged man with a bald head, a fat stomach, and a mustache, was waiting for the British Minister Hamilton Seymour.
He was going to explain to the British Minister Hamilton Seymour his wishful thinking about the spoils and the new European order dominated by the two superpowers of Britain and Russia in the future.
In 1453, after the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire, Sophia Paleolog, the last princess of the empire, married Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow.
Since the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI, had no heirs, and Princess Sophia was the only legal heir, the Principality of Moscow began to claim that it was the heir of the Eastern Roman Empire and called itself the Third Rome.
The Third Rome also provided the Principality of Moscow and subsequent Russian rulers with a set of ridiculous expansion logic to expand territories in all directions.
To their east are the Mongols' Kazan Khanate, Astra Khanate, and Siberia Khanate. These pagans from the eastern grasslands once invaded and enslaved Christians in Europe.
Russia attacked these Mongolian pagan khanates, occupied their lands, and enslaved their people to avenge the Christian world.
To the west of them are the Poles. Poland invaded Russia many times at the beginning of the founding of Russia, arbitrarily changing the tsar, and playing with the Russian government. It was not until the establishment of the great Romanov dynasty that the Russian nightmare ended.
Poland did evil before, and Russia carve up their territory and destroy their country, which is just revenge.
To the south of them is now the Ottoman Empire, and there is even more reason to fight the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire at the time of its rise not only blocked Europe’s commercial routes to the East, but also threatened the security of the Christian world in Europe for a long time. In the Ottoman Empire, there was also the old capital of the Roman Empire and the Holy Land of Christianity: Constantinople.
Most importantly, there is also the Black Sea estuary that the Russian Empire dreamed of.
To the north of them are the Swedes and the Vikings. These Vikings have invaded and robbed us in history, and naturally they have a reason to attack them and occupy their territory.
In short, the expansion of the Russian Empire in any direction is reasonable and just, and it is all for the benefit of the Christian brothers in Europe.
Nicholas I looked at the huge map on the wall with his hands behind his back.
The map takes Russia as the center of the world. Against the backdrop of the huge Russia, the surrounding countries, except for the Qing Dynasty in Asia, all appear so small and pocket-sized.
The huge map made Nicholas I excited. His ancestors seized the land from these evil neighbors one by one, and created today's Russian Empire, which has the largest territory in the world.
The Kazan Khanate, Astra Khanate, and Siberia Khanate in the east no longer exist, and Poland in the west is now part of the Russian Empire.
As for Sweden in the north, the land under his feet: St. Petersburg, the first outlet to the sea that Peter the Great, the saint of the Romanov dynasty, took from the Swedes.
Now, it was his turn for the majestic Nicholas I to include the weak and deceitful Aussie Empire in the south and regain the former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
He will become the third emperor of the Russian Empire after Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, not the emperor with the smallest change in the territory of the Russian Empire during his reign in history.
"Your Majesty."
The British Minister to Russia, Hamilton Seymour, took off his hat and bowed to Nicholas I.
"The British Empire and the Russian Empire are the most powerful countries in the world. Britain has the most powerful navy in the world, and Russia has the most powerful army in the world. The order and rules of this world are formulated by the strong , and we are the strongest in this world.”
Nicholas I did not beat around the bush, but went straight to the point. He was a straightforward person, and he would not beat around the bush, let alone hide his ambitions.
Nicholas I's remarks made Seymour frowned, and Seymour was organizing euphemistic and decent words in his mind to answer Nicholas I, the arrogant tsar.
After organizing the wording, Seymour was about to speak, Nicholas I pulled Seymour to the map, raised the scepter in his hand, and used the scepter as a paintbrush to point the country to the huge map on the wall.
"For half a century, the Eastern issue has been unresolved. This is a major security risk in Europe. Now that the Ottoman Empire is weak, it is the best time to solve the Eastern issue." Nicholas I said in an arbiter tone.
Nicholas I's inflationary psychology came from the anti-French war half a century ago.
The French emperor Napoleon I, who once swept across the European continent and was invincible, almost occupied the whole of Europe, shrouded the whole of Europe under the cloud, and made the royal families of all European countries tremble with fear, did not fall in the Austrian Empire, nor in Prussia kingdom, but in the Russian Empire.
It was the great Russian Empire that defeated the majestic French Empire.
The empire with the most powerful army in the world was defeated by the Russian Empire, so the army of the Russian Empire is naturally the most powerful army in the world.This is the logic of Nicholas I.
Besides the British Empire and the Russian Empire, who is the hegemon today?
The anti-French war brought the influence of the Russian Empire in Europe to an unprecedented peak. After the war, the rulers of the Russian Empire were very concerned about the affairs of the European countries, and actively participated in and intervened in the affairs of the European countries, as if they were the arbitrators of Europe. , the European Gendarmerie calls itself.
Just 5 years ago, Nicholas I enthusiastically sent Field Marshal Paskovich to lead 18 troops into Hungary to replace the [-]-year-old Emperor Franz Joseph of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who had just ascended the throne. Revolutionary movement in the country.
Tsarist Russia's overzealousness in European affairs naturally aroused the vigilance of Britain, which had always pursued a continental balance of power policy.
Britain will never sit back and watch any powerful country break the balance of power on the European continent, not France under Napoleon I, nor the Russian Empire under Nicholas I.
It's a pity that the arrogant and arrogant Nicholas I didn't realize this clearly. He believed that this reliable ally who had been in the anti-French alliance with him would solve the Eastern problem together, that is, carve up the Ottoman Empire in the Near East. In fact, this reliable ally will also stand with the mighty Russian Empire this time.
As for the Anglo-French alliance?Nicholas I thought it was a big joke. How could these two feuding enemies cooperate?
Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon I, just became emperor in France this year. Have the British forgotten the fear that Napoleon I's First French Empire brought to them?Want to face a Second French Empire as powerful and as full of martial arts as the First French Empire?
The British will definitely cooperate with the powerful Russia, this is what Nicholas I thinks now.
This chapter has been changed for a long time, please read and cherish it, I really don't understand the trend of public opinion in recent years.
(End of this chapter)
Liang Yao took the wine offered by Vanderbilt and clinked glasses with Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was born as a sailor, and he drank like water, and Liang Yao was definitely inferior to Vanderbilt in terms of drinking capacity.
Liang Yao wanted to be nice, but after seeing Vanderbilt drank the wine in the glass, Liang Yao had no choice but to bite the bullet and drink a full glass of brandy.
"I talked to Chinese people doing business in New York. Many of them are from your hometown. I heard that in your China, a gentleman family like yours will get engaged to other well-matched gentleman families in the local area when their children and grandchildren are very young. ?
Even when the child is still in the womb and the gender is not known, the marriage contract will be made?Do you also have such a marriage contract? "
Vanderbilt said while playing with the wine glass in his hand.
"That's true, but before I came to California, my family changed from a gentleman's family to a criminal's family, and many of the marriage contracts that were made at the beginning were dissolved." Liang Yao said as he put the wine glass on the table.
"As for my marriage contract, my status in the family is not very important, and I am not the first choice for marriage."
"That means there is no more." Vanderbilt looked a little happy, and then asked curiously, "In China, can rich and powerful men have many wives?"
"It's okay in America." Liang Yao thought for a while.
"China has a monogamy and multiple concubines system. Just like many congressmen, although they have families, it does not prevent them from having many lovers outside. Monogamy and multiple concubines are only enjoyed by the privileged class in China. Ordinary people still have The wretched wife lived her life in a mediocre manner, without even being in person, and was a bachelor for the rest of her life."
Liang Yao is a sensible person. Vanderbilt came to him not to discuss business, but to ask questions about marriage in China. Most likely, he came to propose a marriage.
"Look into my eyes!" Vanderbilt suddenly raised his voice.
The two looked at each other, and Vanderbilt looked very serious. He looked directly into Liang Yao's eyes, as if he wanted to understand Liang Yao's inner thoughts: "Do you like Elizabeth?"
Liang Yao looked at Vanderbilt calmly, without any intention of avoiding it, and he replied very seriously, "I like it, but I won't be your assistant like Clark and the others for Elizabeth."
If Liang Yao hadn't made his mark in California, it would be a good choice to be Lao Fan's son-in-law and assistant like Clark.
It's just that he has already made his mark now, and there is no need to be inferior to others.
Vanderbilt poured another full glass of wine into his mouth, and heaved a long sigh: "How can I let the general of the American Army and the Speaker of the State House of California be my assistant."
This is what Vanderbilt said in his heart. He did have the idea of asking Liang Yao to be his son-in-law and assistant.
However, he also knew that Liang Yao was not like Clark. Relying on the Vanderbilt family, Clark could be among the celebrities in New York, but Clark's upper limit was limited to this.
As for Liang Yao's upper limit, it seems that there are still infinite possibilities.
In terms of wealth, Liang Yao's current wealth may not be less than his Vanderbilt's. In terms of status, Liang Yao's current status in the United States is much higher than his Vanderbilt's.
Seeing that the brandy he brought was gone, Vanderbilt casually took a bottle of wine from the wine rack and opened it, pouring the wine while continuing to talk.
"Elizabeth's thoughts are all on you. If I give her to someone else, she will hate me forever." Vanderbilt took a sip of the wine in his glass, pursed his lips and said.
"My unqualified father has already been hated by my three daughters. I don't want my most beloved youngest daughter to hate me any more. This time I will be a qualified father to fulfill you couple."
"So you still have self-knowledge." Liang Yao teased.
The relationship between Vanderbilt's children, who are proficient in business but neglected by the family, is not harmonious with Vanderbilt. When Kony first worked as Liang Yao's assistant, he often complained about his father in front of Liang Yao.
"Propose to Elizabeth." Vanderbilt patted Liang Yao's shoulder, "According to your customs, you can do whatever you want."
------------------
Inside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital of Tsarist Russia.
The emperor of this sprawling state, Nicholas I, a middle-aged man with a bald head, a fat stomach, and a mustache, was waiting for the British Minister Hamilton Seymour.
He was going to explain to the British Minister Hamilton Seymour his wishful thinking about the spoils and the new European order dominated by the two superpowers of Britain and Russia in the future.
In 1453, after the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire, Sophia Paleolog, the last princess of the empire, married Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow.
Since the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI, had no heirs, and Princess Sophia was the only legal heir, the Principality of Moscow began to claim that it was the heir of the Eastern Roman Empire and called itself the Third Rome.
The Third Rome also provided the Principality of Moscow and subsequent Russian rulers with a set of ridiculous expansion logic to expand territories in all directions.
To their east are the Mongols' Kazan Khanate, Astra Khanate, and Siberia Khanate. These pagans from the eastern grasslands once invaded and enslaved Christians in Europe.
Russia attacked these Mongolian pagan khanates, occupied their lands, and enslaved their people to avenge the Christian world.
To the west of them are the Poles. Poland invaded Russia many times at the beginning of the founding of Russia, arbitrarily changing the tsar, and playing with the Russian government. It was not until the establishment of the great Romanov dynasty that the Russian nightmare ended.
Poland did evil before, and Russia carve up their territory and destroy their country, which is just revenge.
To the south of them is now the Ottoman Empire, and there is even more reason to fight the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire at the time of its rise not only blocked Europe’s commercial routes to the East, but also threatened the security of the Christian world in Europe for a long time. In the Ottoman Empire, there was also the old capital of the Roman Empire and the Holy Land of Christianity: Constantinople.
Most importantly, there is also the Black Sea estuary that the Russian Empire dreamed of.
To the north of them are the Swedes and the Vikings. These Vikings have invaded and robbed us in history, and naturally they have a reason to attack them and occupy their territory.
In short, the expansion of the Russian Empire in any direction is reasonable and just, and it is all for the benefit of the Christian brothers in Europe.
Nicholas I looked at the huge map on the wall with his hands behind his back.
The map takes Russia as the center of the world. Against the backdrop of the huge Russia, the surrounding countries, except for the Qing Dynasty in Asia, all appear so small and pocket-sized.
The huge map made Nicholas I excited. His ancestors seized the land from these evil neighbors one by one, and created today's Russian Empire, which has the largest territory in the world.
The Kazan Khanate, Astra Khanate, and Siberia Khanate in the east no longer exist, and Poland in the west is now part of the Russian Empire.
As for Sweden in the north, the land under his feet: St. Petersburg, the first outlet to the sea that Peter the Great, the saint of the Romanov dynasty, took from the Swedes.
Now, it was his turn for the majestic Nicholas I to include the weak and deceitful Aussie Empire in the south and regain the former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
He will become the third emperor of the Russian Empire after Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, not the emperor with the smallest change in the territory of the Russian Empire during his reign in history.
"Your Majesty."
The British Minister to Russia, Hamilton Seymour, took off his hat and bowed to Nicholas I.
"The British Empire and the Russian Empire are the most powerful countries in the world. Britain has the most powerful navy in the world, and Russia has the most powerful army in the world. The order and rules of this world are formulated by the strong , and we are the strongest in this world.”
Nicholas I did not beat around the bush, but went straight to the point. He was a straightforward person, and he would not beat around the bush, let alone hide his ambitions.
Nicholas I's remarks made Seymour frowned, and Seymour was organizing euphemistic and decent words in his mind to answer Nicholas I, the arrogant tsar.
After organizing the wording, Seymour was about to speak, Nicholas I pulled Seymour to the map, raised the scepter in his hand, and used the scepter as a paintbrush to point the country to the huge map on the wall.
"For half a century, the Eastern issue has been unresolved. This is a major security risk in Europe. Now that the Ottoman Empire is weak, it is the best time to solve the Eastern issue." Nicholas I said in an arbiter tone.
Nicholas I's inflationary psychology came from the anti-French war half a century ago.
The French emperor Napoleon I, who once swept across the European continent and was invincible, almost occupied the whole of Europe, shrouded the whole of Europe under the cloud, and made the royal families of all European countries tremble with fear, did not fall in the Austrian Empire, nor in Prussia kingdom, but in the Russian Empire.
It was the great Russian Empire that defeated the majestic French Empire.
The empire with the most powerful army in the world was defeated by the Russian Empire, so the army of the Russian Empire is naturally the most powerful army in the world.This is the logic of Nicholas I.
Besides the British Empire and the Russian Empire, who is the hegemon today?
The anti-French war brought the influence of the Russian Empire in Europe to an unprecedented peak. After the war, the rulers of the Russian Empire were very concerned about the affairs of the European countries, and actively participated in and intervened in the affairs of the European countries, as if they were the arbitrators of Europe. , the European Gendarmerie calls itself.
Just 5 years ago, Nicholas I enthusiastically sent Field Marshal Paskovich to lead 18 troops into Hungary to replace the [-]-year-old Emperor Franz Joseph of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who had just ascended the throne. Revolutionary movement in the country.
Tsarist Russia's overzealousness in European affairs naturally aroused the vigilance of Britain, which had always pursued a continental balance of power policy.
Britain will never sit back and watch any powerful country break the balance of power on the European continent, not France under Napoleon I, nor the Russian Empire under Nicholas I.
It's a pity that the arrogant and arrogant Nicholas I didn't realize this clearly. He believed that this reliable ally who had been in the anti-French alliance with him would solve the Eastern problem together, that is, carve up the Ottoman Empire in the Near East. In fact, this reliable ally will also stand with the mighty Russian Empire this time.
As for the Anglo-French alliance?Nicholas I thought it was a big joke. How could these two feuding enemies cooperate?
Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon I, just became emperor in France this year. Have the British forgotten the fear that Napoleon I's First French Empire brought to them?Want to face a Second French Empire as powerful and as full of martial arts as the First French Empire?
The British will definitely cooperate with the powerful Russia, this is what Nicholas I thinks now.
This chapter has been changed for a long time, please read and cherish it, I really don't understand the trend of public opinion in recent years.
(End of this chapter)
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