New Shun 1730

I woke up in the morning, still hungover. Duke Qi's confidant had already sent the drafted "sky-high asking price" charter.

After washing up and lighting the stove, Liu Yu flipped through the charter drafted by Duke Qi and thought it was okay.

He didn't care too much about the territorial issue of this demarcation, which would be torn up sooner or later. But he cared a lot about the request he made to Duke Qi yesterday.

The Celestial Empire has been around for two thousand years, and each dynasty has its own style. But Dashun has not yet formed its own style.

The public opinion of the entire Dashun is somewhat like "PTSD in the late Ming Dynasty", and has a great stress reaction to the tragedy in the late Ming Dynasty that almost sank the land of China. To this day, this kind of "post-traumatic stress disorder" in mentality has not yet been resolved, and the old wounds are about to heal, but the new flesh has not yet grown.

In addition, Dashun chose the schools of Ye Shi and Chen Liang as the official Confucianism, which further fueled the flames at the cultural and diplomatic levels.

On the one hand, it compared itself to Li Tang, hoping that martial arts would flourish, the Hu people would submit, and the territory would be expanded thousands of miles. Under the utilitarianism, they are not very averse to technology; on the one hand, they are confident in their orthodoxy, the Celestial Empire, the difference between Chinese and barbarians, and they are different from barbarians. In some places, they are too rigid and persistent, and they stick to their cultural mentality.

It seems contradictory, but it is reasonable: the use of telescopes by scholars to watch the stars and the scholars forcing women to bind their feet are not mutually exclusive; accepting Western technology and cultural confidence are not mutually exclusive, but what is mutually exclusive is the Celestial Empire and equal diplomacy.

Hundreds of years in advance, there is no doubt that the Celestial Empire is an undisputed cultural and technological power; now it needs to face external shocks that no previous dynasty has ever encountered.

The style of a dynasty always has historical reasons and is always forged in a prosperous era. The style of the Dashun dynasty is about to take shape.

Liu Yu hopes to take this opportunity to facilitate the large-scale envoys of Luosha to enter Beijing; the envoys of the Guochao went to Luosha to participate in the enthronement ceremony. Let Dashun begin to realize the changes in the outside world.

However, it is still the stage of asking for a sky-high price. The issue of the throne cannot be directly raised in the drafted charter. This should be a condition for negotiating the price.

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Two days later, at the negotiation site.

The Luocha people were surprised to find that the guards of Dashun changed to flintlock rifles and put on dog-skin hats of Swedish origin that looked familiar to them.

Liu Yu brought all the flintlock rifles collected in the battle on the eastern front. Before he could collect 200, the remaining people simply did not mix matchlock rifles, but leaned on the curved swords used for the Duke's ceremonial guard.

This change of clothes seemed to convey a certain meaning. It seemed to show off its strength and prove that Dashun had won in the east; it also seemed to tell the Luocha people that Dashun had begun to equip flintlock rifles, or at least was aware of equipping flintlock rifles.

In the tent, Count Savoy also noticed the abnormality on the Dashun side. There was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old beside the Duke of Qi.

Except for the change of uniforms of the guards and the addition of an additional deputy envoy for negotiations, there was still no progress in the negotiations. Originally, one person was drinking tea in the tent, but now two people were drinking tea in the tent.

This time, it was the turn of Count Savoy to sit still.

News just came from Petersburg that Tsar Catherine I died of a heart attack.

This was expected by Savoy. Catherine I, the female tsar, was a person who could really run a horse on her arm.

Back then, Peter was joking with people while holding a heavy marshal's baton, asking who could hold the marshal's baton horizontally with only the deltoid muscle. A bunch of guards couldn't do it, but Catherine I rolled up her sleeves and held it horizontally. She was fat and unruly by nature. After becoming a female tsar, she had more fun. It was not difficult to predict that she would die of a heart attack due to alcoholism and some intense exercise.

But as soon as the female tsar died, Peter II, the 11-year-old son of Peter's deposed prince, came to power with the support of important officials.

Before Peter the Great died, in order to prevent the deposed prince's line from ascending the throne, the new law was abandoned to support the old party, and even the inheritance law was changed. Allowing women to ascend the throne is to prevent the remnants of the deposed prince and the conservatives from coming to power.

Now the 11-year-old little tsar has come to power, and everyone with a discerning eye knows that he is just a puppet.

11-year-old child...

It seems that a coup by the Guards is brewing again, and a large-scale purge is about to take place.

In the internal chaos, Savoy can still pretend that nothing has happened.

But external problems make Savoy really unable to sit still.

Not long ago, on the Eastern Front, the Emperor of Dashun released some officers and asked these officers to convey the Russian governors in the Baikal region and Yakutsk to immediately withdraw from Chinese territory.

The news brought back by these officers made Savoy even more uneasy.

The officers said that Dashun's siege methods were obviously standard courses in French military academies. Moreover, French officers were found in the Dashun army, and even the iris flag of the French royal family could be seen.

And... in the city, they vaguely heard the Ottoman military music.

These two pieces of news immediately made Savoy feel uneasy.

Russia and Turkey have fought three wars with each other, and the fourth war has begun to brew.

As for France, Catherine I was originally planning to marry her daughter to King Louis XV of France, but Louis XV married the daughter of the deposed king of Poland. The Polish issue and the rejection of marrying her daughter led Russia to form an anti-French alliance with Austria.

Now, the officers who were captured and released came to tell him that the Dashun's method of attacking the city was obviously French, and there were French officers in the Dashun army to provide guidance. This was nothing less than a bolt from the blue.

Russia cannot establish an imperial-level enemy in the west, center and east. Whether it is France, Turkey or Dashun, any party requires Russia to consume a huge amount of power.

Is it necessary for Russia to shed too much blood for the sake of the Far East?

The surrender of the Khalkha Mongols made Sava panic about the long border. How many Cossacks and bastions are needed?

The combination of internal coups and external enemies finally made Sava unable to sit still.

Seeing Dashun sending new people, the guards began to equip flintlock guns and wear dog-skin hats with Swedish origins. This made Sava decide to speak first.

"Your mission must explain why your country has not declared war? The Russian Empire expresses great indignation at your country's aggression. The Amur River Basin already belongs to His Majesty the Tsar, and your behavior is aggression."

Latin for Savoie.

This time there was no need for anyone to translate. Liu Yu immediately took out the map he had prepared and laid it on the table.

"The Heilongjiang River Basin has been China's territory since ancient times. Could it be that the Poles captured Moscow a hundred years ago and your recapture of Moscow is an invasion?"

When you really want to talk about business, be careful not to slap someone in the face. But in the bullshit stage before getting down to business, you have to specifically slap people in the face.

Speaking of Poland's capture of Moscow, Sava said angrily: "The capital of your country was also occupied by the Tungus people eighty years ago. Moreover, the leading nobles in the Amur River Basin have surrendered to His Majesty the Tsar. That is naturally the Russian Empire. territory.”

Liu Yu pointed at the map and said: "During the Ming Dynasty, there were already garrisoned troops here. This is the inscription at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. The inscription is still there. You can send people to follow us to investigate. The relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Dashun is For example, the Rurik dynasty and the Romanov dynasty should inherit all their legal lands. "

Sava looked at the rubbings of the Yongning Temple stele and the standard locations of various Ming Dynasty guard posts on the detailed map. He could only argue: "At that time, they surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but now their leaders have surrendered to the Tsar. ”

Liu Yu laughed.

"The prince of Huaxia is different from you. There is no royal land in the world. There are no real nobility in China, only virtual nobility."

"Your king's full title is the King of Great Russia, Little Russia, and Belarus; the Duke of Kiev, Smolensk, and Pskov; the Prince of Tver, the Prince of Perm, Ryazan, and Belozhelsk..."

He read out the full name of the Tsar in the text that Savoie had submitted as if he was reciting the name of a dish. He almost held it back, took a deep breath and said: "The prince of China is not the one who has many positions. Isn't it the land of the king in the whole world, the shore of the land?" Could it be the royal ministers? You said that some leaders in the Heilongjiang River Basin have surrendered to you, but what does that have to do with their people? ? You can take away the nobles who have surrendered to you, but the land belongs to the people living there. They have already expressed their surrender to the Emperor of China. Everyone is a direct subject of the Emperor, and the Emperor of China is their direct subject. It is normal to want to return the land, how can it be called invasion? "

After that, he used Qi Guogong as an example.

"This is the Duke of Qi from Dashun. Qi is a place. Does it mean that the Duke of Qi has sovereignty over the land of Qi? This is not the same thing at all. If the nobles there surrender to you, then they will no longer be the subjects of the Emperor of China. The Prince of China will choose a minister to take charge of the land there. He is no longer a minister of the Prince of China, so why does he have jurisdiction over the land there? Moreover, having jurisdiction does not have ownership. Does the mayor of Moscow have jurisdiction? Can you sell Moscow to me directly?”

Both sides are talking nonsense, and their understanding of the legal principles are not in the same channel at all, and they cannot explain it clearly at all.

Duke Guo of Qi continued drinking tea without saying a word.

I neither understand nor want to listen. This kind of talk is the most boring thing. He trusted Liu Yu. Since the emperor asked Liu Yu to come over as his deputy, he naturally let Liu Yu handle this kind of thing.

Liu Yu was naturally not afraid of verbal sparring. With the map "sent" by Bering, he had the map in his hand and spoke without hesitation.

The nonsense has come to a later stage, and it has already been mentioned that Tang Gaozong and Li Zhiyou claimed to be the king of kings, mapped the borders, and denounced Russia's invasion of Persia.

Anyway, Liu Yu was not in a hurry. He knew that Russia was now unable to carry out a large-scale war. At least in the Heilongjiang Basin, it was unable to assemble a field force.

We quarrel during the day and drink and eat hot pot at night. Take the weekend off and go hunting.

He's dragging.

The political situation in Russia was in chaos.

It lasted from mid-July to mid-August of the lunar calendar, and finally a turning point was reached.

This day is Sunday, and as usual there will be no negotiations. Liu Yu discovered that a group of new people had appeared in the Russian mission. He thought that Russia was getting tough again, and he couldn't help but feel nervous.

But the next day, Sava, who had been negotiating with them, disappeared, and it was an old man in his eighties who was also a count who came forward.

Liu Yu asked Duke Qi to write a note, took two hundred taels of public funds, and spent money to bribe the people of the Russian mission. After asking about the identity of the old man, he suddenly became excited.

This old man's name is Pyotr Andreevich Tolstoy. It should be that Tolstoy's grandfather. The year he was born was the year when Luck Dehun was killed in the Great Battle of Dashun and Jingzhou. He is now over eighty years old.

One thing this man did... was that he went to Naples and captured the father of the current little tsar, the deposed prince. It was he who, as the presiding judge, sentenced the deposed prince to death.

The scapegoat.

It couldn't be more obvious.