New Shun 1730

After Liu Yu left the camp, Li Gan couldn't help but reach out and rub his head, which was a little headache.

It's hard to say whether the method is really feasible. But with the previous attack on the fort, Li Gan already believed in some of Liu Yu's tricks.

It's just that this style of behavior is very inconsistent with the system of the Celestial Empire.

The trade between Mongolia and Luosha is not so bad. Although it is not in accordance with etiquette, Luosha is a foreign country after all, not within the tribute system.

When doing it, you can still cover it up and let people know.

Anyway, Mongolia and Luosha don't read the Four Books and Five Classics, and they can't write articles to criticize, and even if they criticize, they can't criticize to the point.

But the method for North Korea is purely to shock the world.

According to Liu Yu, North Korea should open ports and lift the sea ban, but only Dashun merchants are allowed to trade in North Korea. If other countries want to trade in North Korea, they need the joint consent of North Korea and North Korea's suzerain country.

A commissioner will be stationed in North Korea to open ports. Once a conflict occurs between the Koreans and the Dashun merchants, it should be referred to the commissioner stationed there, not to the Korean side.

The Dashun merchants' fleet is allowed to sail near the coast of Korea, and if they encounter storms, they can go to the Korean ports to take shelter. The tariffs imposed by the Korean side should be negotiated with the suzerain state.

I won't mention the rest, but these few points alone are probably enough to shock the scholars of the world.

This is called the suzerain-vassal system?

Where is benevolence and righteousness?

Where is the etiquette and law?

The system has been consistent for thousands of years, and there has never been such a suzerain-vassal system. In this way, how is it different from the barbarians?

The Koreans read the Four Books and Five Classics. Once this kind of thing is publicized, it will surely shock the scholars and think that they are the kings of Zhou and Jie.

This is equivalent to the suzerain state itself thinking that "the traditional suzerain-vassal system is going to end."

This is the Zhou emperor destroying the rituals and music.

Li Gan is not stupid. He can see that after this operation, the suzerain-vassal relationship between Korea and Dashun will be more stable.

And Dashun can easily control Korea's internal affairs and economy.

Taking advantage of the current civil unrest in Korea, the Korean side is entirely likely to accept such terms.

But such a thing is absolutely impossible.

Even if the control over Korea is appropriately strengthened, it will never follow the terms Liu Yu said.

"Korea, Khalkha, Luosha, Junggar... all rushed together and became a mess. For the first time, the Celestial Empire has to use a diplomatic method other than the vassal tribute system to face a neighboring big country. Could it be that in his opinion, this vassal tribute system cannot last forever?"

The more he thought about it, the more impatient and upset he became. He rubbed the corners of his eyes with his fingers, and the attendant hurriedly offered him rose gold silk incense from Luzon.

He picked it up a little, sniffed it vigorously with his nose, closed his eyes and sneezed twice, and then he was a little sober.

The self-ringing clock in the tent also rang eight times, and it was already a little late at night.

I went out for a short walk, looked up at the starry sky which was very different from that in Beijing, and looked at the Big Dipper which was much higher than that in Beijing, until my neck was a little sore, and then I returned to the big tent.

I sat beside the table, facing the blank rice paper, without picking up a pen, just sitting there stupidly.

After a long time, I sighed.

"You want to poke a big hole in this house, but I can only poke a small hole in the window paper."

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The Selenga River Valley on the southern shore of Lake Baikal.

Two hundred elite guards of the Dashun Jingying and two hundred Russian veterans who participated in the Great Northern War or the Third Russo-Turkish War stood in two rows facing each other.

The elite soldiers of the Jingying carried knives on their waists and heavy matchlock guns on their backs.

The elite soldiers of the opposite Russians who were used to support the scene all carried flintlock guns.

Soldiers from both sides stood on both sides of the road, leading to several large tents in the valley.

In recent years, along with Peter the Great's reforms, under the pain of reform, the average height of Russia has dropped to 1.62 meters. The Guanxi men selected by the old fifth battalion are not short, and the two sides stand there on equal terms.

In the tent, a unique negotiation is going on.

Duke Qi said nothing, and the attendants kept adding tea for him.

Count Savoy on the opposite side also said nothing and kept smoking there.

The battle is still going on thousands of miles away, and the negotiations here have never stopped, but both sides said nothing.

At the beginning, Dashun went to war with Russia. Count Savoy, the plenipotentiary envoy of the Russian delegation, wanted to scare Duke Qi and wanted to take the lead, so he invited Duke Qi to continue the negotiations.

But in fact, he didn't know what to talk about at all, just wanted to scare and humiliate Duke Qi who didn't dare to come.

Duke Qi was not scared, so he came with his guards and didn't speak after he came.

Every morning at ten o'clock, he sat here and started drinking tea.

Have lunch at noon, come back at 3 pm to continue drinking tea.

Since it was Vasa who proposed the idea of ​​starting the war in front and continuing the negotiations in the rear.

Duke Qi came to drink tea on time every day, and Vasa had nothing to talk about, so he could only come to smoke on time every day.

Sit quietly for an hour, and then go home to eat.

This time, the Russians wanted to cross the border issue and directly choose to enter Beijing to negotiate trade.

The Russians felt that there was no need to discuss the border issue for the time being, and it had become a fait accompli. What else could they talk about?

But Duke Qi kept pestering them for a long time, and refused to give in on the issue of etiquette, and finally delayed until Dashun was ready to start the war.

When the news of the war came, Duke Qi knew it long ago, but Count Savoy was unprepared and was in a mess for a while.

It took one or two months for the news to be reported to St. Petersburg urgently. Before the instructions from St. Petersburg arrived, Count Savoy thought of intimidation.

Who would have thought that Duke Qi would not care about such intimidation. If you say to talk, I will talk. Whoever dares not to come is a grandson.

With the posture of the Mianchi meeting, both sides sent out 200 guards each and agreed to meet in the Selenga River Valley in the border area.

Five miles away from the meeting place, the main forces of both sides gathered and were ready to fight. Try to avoid conflict, but be ready to launch an attack once you receive the order.

Duke Qi and Savoy sit in the tent every day, the soldiers are ready to fight outside at any time, but those business personnel who survey the boundary cannot sit in silence.

This time, a large number of mathematics students from the Russian Academy of Sciences also came to this small border town. Their majors are very suitable for boundary surveying.

The professor of these students is very famous. The professor of physics and mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences at this time is Bernoulli, the Bernoulli of the Bernoulli equation of fluid mechanics.

Before these students came, they also heard one thing: Euler, who was admitted to university at the age of 13 and published a paper at the age of 19, was going to St. Petersburg to be a professor of their mathematics department. The Russian Academy of Sciences is finally going to teach calculus, and for a long time to come, the level of Russian mathematics will be world-class, and there will be many talents. This is indisputable.

The students of the Academy of Sciences are always enthusiastic, even if they are eager to return to the Academy of Sciences to continue to study mathematics and meet Professor Euler, who has become famous at a young age. But when they think of the border issue, they are still passionate, braving the wind and sand to survey the boundaries and draw pictures every day.

Their professors are terrible, and the Russian Academy of Sciences is also terrible.

Even a time traveler like Liu Yu still feels empty when facing Bernoulli and Euler at this time. Even if he is born three hundred years later, his mathematical level is far behind, and he dare not compare. That is a fierce man who can do calculus in his mind.

Dashun also brought out almost all its mathematical and surveying talents.

Those clerks who followed the missionaries to draw longitude and latitude maps, except for some who followed Liu Yu to the east to survey the border, all followed Duke Qi to come here.

The difficult part now is still the eastern line, that is, the Heilongjiang section from the Onon River and the Shilka River to the east.

The Russians in the west seem to have an advantage, but it is also clear that when the Junggar tribe attacked the Khalkha Mongols in the north, the Khalkha tribe did not choose to surrender to Russia but chose to go south for help, and the border of the western line was basically fixed.

This is not a semi-no man's land like the east. The population of the Mongolian tribe is still not small, and Russia is now unable to fight against the combination of Dashun artillery infantry and Mongolian cavalry.

What the two sides really want to talk about is still on the eastern line.

The Russians were also unsure about what Dashun meant in the east; Duke Qi was even more unsure. When he came, he didn't even have a map of the eastern front. It was not until he received the Chinese version of the map "sent" by Bering that Duke Qi was relieved.

Fortunately, Liu Yu came up with an idea in the early stage and insisted on the etiquette issue. As expected, he forced Count Savoy to take the initiative to refute and argued about the title for several months.

Savoy thought it was the arrogance of the Eastern Empire until the news of the war came.

Taking advantage of these few months, the map-drawing clerks who came with Duke Qi hurriedly drew a map of the western border.

Up to now, the two sides have almost done the boundary survey on the western front. Dashun at least knows some cartography, so it won't be fooled too much.

On one side is a promising student who studied mathematics with Bernoulli; on the other side is a clerk who studied N-hand cartography with missionaries. Although there is a big gap in mathematical level, there is not much difference in boundary survey and mapping.

Russia, which looks scary, actually exposes its fragility: Westernization has just begun, and there is a shortage of manpower, so even the mathematics students in the Academy of Sciences have to be used to do the work.

But besides being fragile, it also reveals its ferocity: just ten years after its establishment, the Russian Academy of Sciences has produced its first fruit - Lomonosov, the son of a fisherman, who discovered the law of conservation of mass, laid the foundation for modern chemistry, founded Moscow University, and perfected Russian grammar and rhetoric.

And Dashun... is still catching up on the Elements of Geometry.