New Shun 1730

Quoting the famous saying of Emperor Taizu of Song Dynasty, he said that being an official and fighting for merit is just to make some money and enrich descendants.

These words really made the dozen people present very unhappy.

Chen Tongfu had a poem, saying:

I haven't seen the southern teacher for a long time, and it's useless to say that the northern group is empty. I am alone on the spot, and after all, I am still a hero among ten thousand men. I laugh at myself as a dignified Han envoy, but I am like a vast river, which still flows eastward. Let's bow again in the tent, and meet in Gao Street.

The capital of Yao, the land of Shun, and the fief of Yu. There should be one or two ashamed ministers in it. The thousands of miles are so bloody, where are the heroes of the ages, and when will the majestic be connected. Why ask about the fate of the barbarians, the bright sun is in the middle.

The founding of the Dashun Kingdom started when the Tartars were bloody and the world was in danger, and then held high the banner of "protecting the world", and then regarded the Yongjia and Yongkang school of learning as the best. Which of the people present could not recite this poem by Chen Tongfu?

They all thought that this was the capital of Yao, the land of Shun, and the fief of Yu. There should be at least one or a half people in it, not for the sake of wealth and honor, not for promotion and wealth, but for seeking a way out for the world. There should be at least one or a half people who are fighting for their ideals.

If they were always trapped in the Celestial Empire, and only thought that those outside the Celestial Empire were all barbarians and not worth mentioning, then it would be fine.

But the group of people who were the guests today should be the first group of people in Dashun to open their eyes to the world.

They knew the crisis of this era of great contention, and they were also subtly educated by Liu Yu for more than ten years. They knew that the size of the earth was fixed now. If they did not fight at this time, they would probably have no chance in the future.

Among the dozens of people, although most of them were for promotion and wealth, or for a future, after all, this "capital of Yao, land of Shun, and fief of Yu. There should be one or a half people in it", who really had ideals.

They also knew Liu Yu's daily personality, and knew what Liu Yu had said to them over the past ten years. Now that Liu Yu said these obviously nonsense words, they certainly did not believe that this was Liu Yu's original intention.

It was just that Liu Yu said this, and for a moment, the spirit of these people seemed to be drained.

What do you mean by the great struggle in the world, what do you mean by the benefit of the future, what do you mean by the glory of the motherland, in the end, you are just a family slave and a private minister? The hero Ru Jinghou had no choice but to say this. Now think about it, what is the purpose of the more than ten years of fighting and fighting, and the heroic spirit?

Since it is for the sake of rich descendants, why bother? Going to Nanyang, you should be greedy, bribe, make money, and take advantage of others... You are not even allowed to speak, and you are not even allowed to express your ideas, so what is the heroic spirit?

Seeing farther, learning more, consciously Dashun is sick all over, and it should be treated vigorously. This Nanyang is good or Xiyi, but it is just like the porridge that patients drink, after all, it is not medicine.

It can even be said that Dashun's legs are sick, and the affairs of the Nanyang and the Western Barbarians are just like a pair of crutches. However, crutches are only a temporary solution, and they are only for walking temporarily. In the end, the disease still needs to be treated.

Before, I thought that I would fight bravely and be in a high position in the temple in the future, so that I could discuss national policies.

Now it sounds like a group of gatekeepers. The lofty sentiments of the past few years are just a smile.

It's just self-touching.

Self-touching is the cheapest thing, what's the use?

Apart from these "fools", the rest of the people were not immediately broken up by Liu Yu's words, but they all tasted Liu Yu's words today and compared them with his usual lofty and passionate words.

I thought, yes, Jinghou is teaching us how to do things, and it's better to be low-key in the future.

It is said that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of every man.

But this Nanyang, since it is outside the world, the rise and fall of the world seems to have nothing to do with Nanyang.

If the previous dynasty had abandoned Hami, given up Hetao, and retreated to Annan, the world would not have been destroyed. Since we are outside the world, there is no such thing as the rise and fall of the world. Let's do whatever we want.

More than ten years ago, in Weihai, I only heard that I was a "citizen with responsibilities, obligations, and rights for the rise and fall of the Xia Dynasty", and I actually believed it.

Now it seems that I am just a subject, a group of dogs raised by the emperor.

Thinking of this, it seems that the heavy burden that I have carried for more than ten years has been unloaded. Everyone raised their glasses to celebrate and said: "Listening to the words of the Whale Marquis is better than reading for twenty years. Originally, what I read and learned before was just self-deception. Today, I have been taught and I have corrected my status."

Liu Yu also laughed and said: "Yes! Correcting your status is a great truth. Come on, come on, now that you understand, let's toast together."

He took the lead and drank it all, and the others also raised their glasses to drink together.

But

Some people laughed bitterly and laughed at themselves, and turned this bitter smile into wine, drank it all in one gulp, and turned into urine and sweat in a moment. At most, it would relieve the liver and make the head hurt for a night. When they woke up tomorrow, the sun would rise as usual, and the bitterness and self-mockery would all be gone.

Some people thought: The ancients said, "If you hear the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening." What I have read and learned in the past 20 years has made me know the right way for the motherland. The sages of the pre-Qin Dynasty said: Follow the Tao, not the king! The Tao is clear, and the road is dangerous, but the most difficult thing is to seek it up and down on the long and arduous road. Now that I have heard the great way, there is no need to seek, even if it is dangerous, as long as I keep going, how can I not reach it?

Some people also thought: Follow the Tao, not the king. The Tao is already clear, but the world thinks that our way is a crooked way. So, am I wrong? Or is the world wrong? If I am not wrong, why don't I let the world regard my way as the right way?

Some people even thought: Get your identity right? Oh, I am standing upright, but the world is crooked. Why don't you let the world be crooked so that I can be upright, but ask me to twist my body?

Everyone has their own ideas and thoughts.

At this time, Liu Yu, who was holding a cup and pretending to be confused, was in a completely "watching the excitement and not minding the big things" mentality.

He knew very well that these people in front of him, who were subtly influenced by the two thousand years of loyal and good ministers and the idea of ​​taking the world as their own responsibility, combined with the ideas that he had instilled in the past ten years and were not very compatible with the current time, would produce what kind of wonderful reaction.

Tian Zhenyi said that the emperor now wanted them to be a group of "eunuchs", which didn't matter.

The emperor asked this group of people to come to him and let him make his words clear, just as Tian Zhenyi said: The emperor was in a dilemma, unwilling to give up the current pioneering career, and worried about the future.

In this case, if you understand the emperor's mentality, the rest will be easy.

If there is no accident, the emperor can live for another ten or twenty years, which is enough for him to accomplish some of the things he wants to do.

As for what these people will be like in the future and what will happen after the emperor's death, we will take it one step at a time.

As far as this is concerned, there is not much impact.

After a few drinks and a few words, Liu Yu didn't care about the emperor's current thoughts, nor did he care about what kind of controversy the emperor's trip to the south of the Yangtze River would cause next year, nor did he care about what the people in front of him were thinking.

At this moment, what he cared about was Europe, tens of thousands of miles away.

Can the Dutch thing be done?

This is the cornerstone of Dashun's future external expansion and industrial and commercial development.

Compared with this matter, the emperor, the ministers, the thoughts, and the conspiracy really don't enter his mind. If this matter fails, many subsequent things are castles in the air, and there is no need to worry at this time.

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At this moment.

The situation in Europe is expected to run wildly in a direction that is very beneficial to Dashun. In other words, it is running wildly on the road that is beneficial to Liu Yu's design for Dashun.

At this time, both sides of the European battlefield are exhausted.

With the collapse of the Dutch financial market brought about by Dashun's trip to Southeast Asia, both sides of the war have turned their attention to Russia in the north.

If this war of Austrian succession is a story with multiple protagonists,

The protagonist of 1945 must be the Dashun army that went to Southeast Asia, which used thunderous means to disintegrate the strongest combat power of the Netherlands - the financial bonds of Amsterdam.

And in the upcoming 1946, the protagonist must be Russia - if the two sides continue to fight.

The war is about to enter its fifth year.

At this time, the powerful countries and big countries in the world have basically participated in this war.

The Dashun army made a stunning attack in 1945, but that was it. A spent force cannot wear mourning.

After all, the Dashun army did not have the ability to transport even 10,000 troops to Europe; it did not even have the ability to participate in the naval battle west of the Indian Ocean.

Both sides who were still fighting were exhausted and knew that if there was an army that could conquer Europe now, it would be a force that would directly change the situation of the war.

Whoever this army stood on would win.

So, after experiencing the shock of the Dashun army going to Southeast Asia and the collapse of the Dutch financial system, the whole of Europe turned its attention to St. Petersburg.

Before the war began, Russia was still a "German" country, and the German party was too powerful. In order to prevent Russia from participating in the war, France instigated Sweden to declare war on Russia, making Russia unable to participate in the Central European dispute.

However, Sweden is no longer the Sweden it once was. The French envisioned that Russia and Sweden would fight another long war of the Great Northern War level, but it did not happen. Instead, in less than two years, the Russians conquered Finland all the way, and the fiancé of the coup empress became the crown prince of Sweden. Halfway through the war, Russia also had a coup.

The Swedish-Russian War ended long ago.

The storm of the Russian coup has subsided.

When Britain, France, Austria, and the Netherlands were exhausted, this northern behemoth, who it would ally with, would directly determine the final direction of the war.

At this time, St. Petersburg was full of vitality.

Forty years ago, Peter the Great decided to reform and move the capital here.

Reform must have pains, and Russia is small in size, so this pain only lasted for forty years.

From the relocation of the capital, which almost emptied the Russian treasury, to the change of customs and habits, which made the old party not recognize Peter as the orthodox Russian, to the killing of the crown prince with his own hands... and the waves of coups, counter-coups, and coups after his death, this pain lasted for forty years.

Now, the pain of forty years has finally passed, and many people believe that Russia will become stronger from now on.

Since the empress ascended the throne, she has always regarded herself as the "true successor of Peter the Great", and everything has been moving forward along the reform path of her father.

Even the crown prince who was appointed in succession, the future real German stick and true fan Peter III, in the edict of his appointment of the crown prince, the first title is "grandson of Peter the Great".

This title, rather than other titles, is ranked first, and the attitude is already very clear.

In order to reform, Peter killed the crown prince with his own hands, and in order to ensure the results of the reform, he amended the inheritance law to allow women to inherit in order. After forty years of pain, this reform has finally continued.

The reforms of Dashun could only do something outside the world, not to mention the emperor personally killing the prince to ensure the results of the reforms.

Russia was lucky, it was not big at this time, and only needed to go through forty years of pain.

Russia was lucky, it was not small at this time, the pain was over, and all countries were exhausted. At this time, it was a force that could influence the post-war pattern of Europe more than Dashun.

Unique advantages, several years of watching the tigers fight from the mountain, reconciliation with Dashun and resolution of border issues, and the war with Sweden revealed that Sweden was no longer the Sweden of the past without worries, so that Russia at this time sat at home and waited for the exhausted two sides to make an offer.

Since Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne, she has demonstrated very superb political skills.

Although she seems to be keen on balls and banquets and ignores the government, Russia has not been in chaos. Instead, she has moved forward in an orderly manner under the leadership of her confidants.

She only cares about the strategic direction and lets go of all the details.

After dealing with the enemies of the coup, the queen announced that "the death penalty will not be imposed on the doctor", and no nobles will be sentenced to death. At most, they will be exiled. This changed the fear of Queen Anna's frequent chariots and the East Factory's rule of the country. The nobles cheered and shouted long live.

The decree was officially issued, declaring that the nobles had absolute control over the serfs, continuing the policy of "using serfs to serve and work in factories regularly" in the Peter era, allowing Russia's handicraft industry to develop with the advantage of almost zero labor costs.

The official abolition of various local tariffs in the country has made Russia's commercial activities steadily active.

At least, until now.

Except for the fact that the empress had spots on her hair a few days ago, which was extremely ugly, and the doctor suggested that she shave her head, so she had to wear a wig, and therefore issued an order that [all courtiers must shave their heads and wear black wigs to attend court], there are basically not many policies that offend the nobles and the citizens.

As for this shaving order, the nobles also responded with great tolerance - loving beauty is a woman's nature. Wouldn't it make the empress unhappy if she shaved her head and had a lot of good hair?

Even if there was no such order, she would have to take the initiative to say that her scalp itched.

It was just that the empress issued an order last year to allow the spread of Lamaism as long as the lamas declared their loyalty to Russia. Then came the shaving order, which inevitably made some people who like gossips think wildly.

However, in the aristocratic circle, there is no space for the spread of such gossips.

It's not that the nobles don't like gossip, but considering the Queen's attitude towards her lovers, especially the attitude towards the Marquis of Lachetadi of France, this lover, who made great contributions to the coup, and was even called "little daddy" by the Russian guards during the coup, did not make Russia lean towards France, so how could the Queen order the shaving of hair just because she found a lover?

The entire Russian aristocratic circle knows that Bestuyev, the current Deputy Prime Minister of the Privy Council and the one who is in full charge of the Queen's foreign affairs, is an extreme anti-French and pro-British faction.

He opposes any alliance with France, believes that Russia's best ally is Britain, and has been selling his idea of ​​a grand alliance between Russia, Britain and Austria.

This person is not only an open anti-French faction.

He is also a "remnant of the previous dynasty", not only the right-hand man of Queen Anna's lover Byron, but also the direct descendant of the former Queen Anna in 31.

With such a resume, it should be said that after the empress came to power through a coup, exile to Siberia was considered a blessing from the Virgin Mary.

Not only did she not do that, but after the coup, she was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Privy Council. Not long ago, she was awarded the Cross of Saint Andrew.

Such personnel arrangements made everyone clear about the empress's diplomatic strategy.

No one knows what the Marquis of Dashun talked about with the empress in private when he came to St. Petersburg to help with the coup. But it is certain that Dashun does not seem to care much about their French allies, at least they will not conflict with Russia for their French allies.

So.

It's natural.

Or perhaps it was the British ambassador who deliberately leaked the news.

The whole of St. Petersburg, or the entire European diplomatic community and the European court, knew such a news.

When both sides of the War of the Austrian Succession were unable to fight.

After the Dutch financial industry was collapsed by Dashun.

After France won a great victory in the Austrian Netherlands.

The Russian Empire signed the Anglo-Russian Mutual Defense Treaty and the Anglo-Russian Subsidy Treaty with the Kingdom of Great Britain.

These two treaties were clearly "secret treaties", but they became known to the world on the day they were signed.

Britain provided money and guns, and Russia provided two-legged animals. 30,000 infantry, 10,000 Cossacks, and 15,000 Torghut cavalry were about to march to the River Lane.