New Shun 1730

Adhering to this strategy, the Dashun envoy quickly got involved with the new French Minister of State, the Duke of Choiseul.

The first thing a new official does when he takes office is that he urgently needs to accomplish something to stabilize his position.

The Duke of Choiseul is also a veteran of the court.

Although there are great cultural differences between China and France, the universality of feudal autocratic kingship and court fighting is still greater than this cultural difference, and communication between the two sides can be said to be without obstacles.

52 years ago, the Duke of Choiseul was quite dissatisfied with Madame Pompadour.

In 1952, Madame Pompadour's position was already solid, and Duke Choiseul immediately rebelled and asked his niece to secretly inform Madame Pompadour through the female circle that someone in the court was trying to get her, and it was finally confirmed that this was true. So it was approved by Madame Pompadour.

Although according to the traditional culture here in Dashun, this is called Si Chen. However, Dashun's court tradition was ideologically critical of Si Chen, but it did not mean that they were unfamiliar with this set of things.

When Liu Yu came to Europe in his early years, he had already got in touch with Madame Pompadour. Of course not physically, but through blending as another "enlightenment scientist".

Liu Yu knew this kind of woman, or this kind of person. In short, she was arty and followed fashion.

Fashion does not necessarily mean sea dragon skin, fine silk, Jingde porcelain, or a Chinese-style manor like the Swedish Royal Palace.

Sometimes, practicing this kind of doctrine or that kind of consciousness is also a special form of arty and following fashion.

Moreover, Madame Pompadour's surprising glimpse at the hunting ground and the tricks of the Wushan Goddess were noticed by Louis XV. It was also the idea given by people from Dashun.

This relationship is here.

Another one is what was mentioned before. Louis XV’s former mistresses, the four Nelle sisters, pursued a line of promoting the Franco-Prussian Alliance.

As for Madame Pompadour, because she wanted to eliminate the influence of the Nelle sisters, the Nelle sisters pursued the strategy of the Franco-Prussian Alliance. Naturally, she wanted to promote the Skirt Alliance, that is, the Alliance of Russia, France, and Austria, to oppose Prussia.

Dashun definitely has no interest in opposing Prussia.

But the only thug Britain could find on the European continent was Prussia.

There are many reasons for this.

For one thing, Czarina Elisabeth was pursuing a westward expansion strategy, and she would definitely not deal with Prussia.

The second one is Liu Yu's previous blending with Russia, which was mainly about trade.

For example, the previous trade between China and Russia mainly passed through the trading cities on Lake Baikal, and the two sides exchanged furs and tea.

Those who monopolize this trade line are old nobles and belong to the Moscow Gang.

After waiting for the coup, Dashun first exported to the "innocent" Danish East India Company, looking for trouble. This was purely a fire at the city gate that affected the fish. First, he imposed a wave of export tariffs on the Danish East India Company.

During the previous coup, due to the issue of succession to the Swedish throne and the Swedish-Russian war, Liu Yu promoted the Baltic trade controlled by the tripartite cooperation between China, Sweden and Russia.

The premise here is that through the issue of Swedish captives in Junggar due to the Western Region Incident, an agreement was reached early with the Swedish East India Company.

And taking advantage of the collapse of the Austrian Ostend Company in the "State Rescript", he appropriately put pressure on the Swedish East India Company and reached Sino-Swiss cooperation.

Then during the Russo-Swedish War, he participated in the Petersburg coup and took advantage of the assassination of Tsar Elizabeth... Well, it cannot be said that the assassination was ruthless. But in short, the Swedish embassy, ​​which supported Tsar Elizabeth in the coup, suffered a heavy loss.

Then, with the help of Denmark's claim for the Swedish throne, he used mediation to put pressure on Denmark, and finally reached a tripartite trade alliance between China, Sweden and Russia.

The essence of this trade alliance is that Dashun used the market vacancy after the collapse of the Ostend Company, coupled with the suppression of the Danish East India Company, to allow China and Russia to occupy Denmark without harming the interests of the shareholders of the Swedish East India Company. The East India Company and the Ostend Company's share from time to time, thus achieving a result satisfactory to all three parties.

After this result was achieved, a special ambiguous relationship emerged between Rakshasa and Dashun.

The tea trade originally took place through Lake Baikal and Kyakhta.

That was the private land of the old Rakshasa nobles.

Nowadays, the tea trade goes through the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea, which are the territory of the new aristocracy of the Czarina, especially through Petersburg, bypassing the group of old people in Moscow.

The trade between the two sides is not the key. The key is Rakshasa's rhubarb and tea monopoly, which allows whoever controls the trade to control enough power in the country.

Later, after Liu Yu returned from Europe, he sent people to Rakshasa and carried out a simple industrial transfer using the system of "serfs serving in factories" left by Peter I.

For example, glass production in Dashun is very good, but if you sell it across the ocean to Rakshasa, you can pay for your pants.

Another example is the linen textile industry developed through cooperation between the two sides.

This kind of industrial transfer will not see much effect in the initial stage.

But as time accumulates, the effects of this industrial transfer are becoming increasingly apparent.

Trade disputes gradually emerged between Britain and Russia.

Originally, the trade volume between Britain and Russia was very large.

Through the system of serfs going to work in industry and commerce, Peter I allowed Rakshasa's iron smelting industry to develop greatly. Before the emergence of the Industrial Revolution, Rakshasa's iron smelting industry had always dominated Western Europe, and the trade between Britain and Russia was complementary.

However, along with the industrial transfer of Dashun's strategy of "I can't get it, but I don't allow others to get it, just to disgust others", Russia's glass, linen, textile and other industries have serious conflicts with British trade goods.

This conflict has sharply reduced the possibility of an alliance between Britain and Russia.

In the end, the last diplomatic attempt between Britain and Russia failed completely.

The common enemy in the sentence "We have to deal with a common enemy" required by Russia refers to Prussia, and of course, it also includes Denmark, which affects their trade in the Baltic Sea.

The common enemy in the sentence "We have to deal with a common enemy" required by Britain refers to France. After all, before this, Russia and France had been fighting each other, and France repeatedly used the Ottoman Turkey to disgust Russia.

Britain's diplomatic strategy is to pull Russia first, and then scare Prussia: Little Prussia, if you don't ally with me, guess who I will ally with Russia to attack? I won't tell you, you guess whether it is to attack you.

Basically, this strategy is a bit wishful thinking. According to this diplomatic strategy, Russia was first pulled in to scare Prussia, and then Prussia was pulled into the alliance to form a tripartite alliance of Britain, Russia and Prussia.

According to the British idea, I pulled Prussia in to deal with France, so that Prussia could be my thug to help me protect Hanover. Austria, you should understand my intentions, so don't be nervous.

But for Austria, what they saw was this: Damn it, in the last war of succession, you appeased and let me cede Silesia. In the end, Prussia ceded Silesia, which was an inseparable territory of Austria. Now you are allying with Prussia, what does it mean? It means that you admit that Silesia is Prussia's territory, and we Austrians can't take it, right?

Except for your father and mother, no one spoils you, and everything must be done according to your interests. You are not the emperor who conquers the world, so don't think about diplomacy with the emperor's thinking.

This is the most basic diplomatic principle without the existence of the emperor. If there is a "son of heaven", that's another story.

At this time, Austria's core interest is Silesia. It's not just how much Silesia is worth, but who is Germany?

In terms of core interests, the century-old conflict between Austria and France is a secondary conflict.

In itself, the relationship between Russia and Britain is not so solid. With the clarification of Austria's attitude - the relationship between Russia and Austria also involves a relationship of fighting the Ottoman Turks together - Russia's attitude towards Britain has also become clear.

Either choose me.

Or choose Prussia.

The relationship between Britain and Russia is just a trade issue.

The relationship between Britain and Prussia involves the Hanover issue.

So, protect Britain? Or protect Hanover?

This is not a problem for the King of England. The King of England is first the Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, and then the King of England. After all, he can't communicate with his subjects in English, and he has to use Latin to communicate with his subjects.

The trade cooperation between Britain and Russia, accompanied by some industrial transfers of Dashun, has led to trade conflicts between Britain and Russia.

This kind of trade conflict, in the first year, can't see anything; in the second year, it seems that there is little impact... But after three, five, and seven years, quantitative changes have caused qualitative changes.

The trade of tea, rhubarb, and raw silk went through the Baltic Sea instead of Lake Baikal, which intensified the conflict between the Petersburg gang represented by the tsar and the old power Moscow gang, and the Petersburg gang defeated the Moscow gang.

Trade trade-offs offset each other; strategic trade-offs gradually moved from a seemingly accidental Russian-Austrian-French alliance to an inevitable Sino-Russian-Austrian-French alliance.

Against this backdrop, after Duke Choiseul accurately stood on the side of Madame Pompadour in 1952, he helped Madame Pompadour to reach an almost inevitable Austrian-French alliance. Now that he has been promoted to Minister of State, he is naturally interested in dragging Dashun into the war.

Therefore, the Dashun envoys and Duke Choiseul met, and the two sides really fell in love.

After the meeting, the Dashun envoys politely asked Duke Choiseul a question that seemed simple but was actually very difficult to answer.

"My Lord Duke. If the main fleet of France can defeat the main fleet of the British fleet, then does the French transport shipbuilding operation and the plan to land in Scotland make sense?"

"If it doesn't make sense, does it mean that all your plans are based on a gamble?"

"That is, you know that if the main fleet of France can defeat the main fleet of Britain, then the transport ships and the landing fleet are meaningless icing on the cake."

"And you still choose the desperate plan to land in Scotland, which means that you don't think the French fleet can defeat the British fleet, but you hope for a military adventure to let the French army land in Scotland. The premise of the whole plan is to assume that the main force of the British fleet did not discover the movement of the French fleet, and the wind direction was suitable, there was no storm, and it arrived in Scotland smoothly, and in Scotland, the people responded to the call and came to welcome them with food and drink, and the Scottish people instantly stood with France. Is that right?"

The words made Duke Choiseul speechless.

Although the people of the Dashun envoys spoke very unpleasantly.

But the General Staff's understanding of war is scientific, if war is also a science or an art.

The reason is very straightforward and simple.

Assuming that the French fleet can defeat the British fleet, there is no need for landing operations, because once the British sailing Great Wall is defeated, Britain will choose to surrender.

Then, the plan to land in Scotland is just icing on the cake.

At this moment, France has failed in the direction of Hanover, failed in India, lost Louisburg in North America, and was harassed by the British Navy in West Africa. The icing on the cake operation plan is meaningless.

Even if you fight to the death, God bless, God bless France, and send more than 15,000 people, what's the use? The British Army is bad, but it's not so bad that it can't even beat more than 15,000 French troops without rear, logistics, and supplies, right?

So, this is a battle plan with a problem in the brain. If it is placed in the Privy Council of Dashun, it can be directly rated as a poor grade, and it will never be promoted to the core layer of the General Staff in this life. It's better to spend your whole life in the map of letters, and get a colonel until you die, and then receive a retirement annuity.