New Shun 1730

This is not the later times.

As Tian Zhenyi sighed when reading "The Unofficial History of Female Immortals": Women like Empress Lü and Empress Wu Zetian can only rely on men to display some political talents in this era.

In the current situation faced by France, it is obviously impossible to form an alliance with Prussia.

Prussia is satisfied and has obtained Silesia, which has been recognized by Britain, the Netherlands and other countries. Prussia itself is exhausted from fighting, and it is busy digesting Silesia.

If Prussia forms an alliance with France again now, it will be a real Prussian selling a kidney to help France, and it will achieve France's war goals even if Prussia collapses itself.

However, the courts of all Europe now know that the dragon-slaying boy who wrote "Anti-Machiavellianism" is now a standard Machiavelli. How could he sell a kidney to help France?

If the war continues, what role can she play? How can the king recognize that she is talented?

War, politics, diplomacy, policy, economy... some can be influenced by women's pillow talk, and some cannot.

Under the condition that the Marquis de Pompadour confirmed that she could not mediate the Third Alliance between France and Prussia, if Louis XV chose to continue the War of the Austrian Succession or even go all in, what could the Marquis de Pompadour do?

At that time, if it was all in, what would Louis XV need?

He needed a naval genius who could lead the French navy to completely destroy the British fleet.

He needed a land warfare genius to assist the little usurper of the throne and fight all the way from Scotland to London.

But.

War is precisely where women can exert the least influence.

The Marquis de Pompadour is not Mu Guiying.

She is not Qin Liangyu.

She is not Fu Hao.

She can neither lead the navy to completely destroy the British fleet, nor command the Scottish Corps to attack London, nor can she command the French army to break through the Netherlands.

So, if she continues to fight, will she have any chance to "show her talents"?

No.

Once the war starts, and diplomacy and other things have been locked and cannot be changed, she, a woman, will have almost no chance to show her abilities.

But what if there is a ceasefire now?

That would be different.

In the final analysis, she was a member of the court, not a member of the cabinet, an inner court official, not an outer court official.

And Louis XV established the "secret du roi", a diplomatic intelligence strategic agency directly under the king. She could not participate in the affairs of the cabinet, but she could participate in the "secret du roi".

If the war is stopped now, the "secret du roi" agency will have room to play.

The armistice is just the beginning.

In the subsequent efforts to establish good relations with Austria, establish good relations with Russia, alienate Russia and Britain, and make friends with the Russian empress and the Austrian queen, the Holy Roman Queen, there is room for her, the female marquis, to play.

The purpose of Louis XV establishing the "Military Council" was, first, to dominate the power of diplomacy, to prevent the cabinet from interfering, and to isolate the influence of the cabinet.

The second purpose was to "the king's heart is unpredictable", to be high above, and to grasp the cabinet's party struggles. As a monarch, especially when he is ready to control the party struggles from a high position, he does not like the cabinet to guess the emperor's true thoughts.

Before Marie Nelle, she was supported by the third Duke of Richelieu. In Dashun, this was called "collusion between the harem and foreign ministers", a serious crime; in France, this was not a big deal.

Since the Marquis Pompadour could participate in the affairs of the "Military Affairs Office" and she was also the leader of the diplomatic circle controlled by the king himself, she could know the king's mind better than those ministers in the cabinet.

Knowing the king's mind in advance, she could contact the ministers of the cabinet and support some people so that they could follow the king's wishes.

In this way, the king's goal could be achieved.

She could also contact some cabinet ministers to expand her influence.

At the same time, she could also show her talents in subsequent diplomacy and achieve political achievements no less than Marie Nelle's promotion of the Second Franco-Prussian Alliance.

If the subsequent Franco-Austrian Alliance and Franco-Russian Alliance were all helped by her.

Then, wouldn't her position be stable?

Even if she is old and ugly in the future, she can still be the king's confidante, the king's close person, and the king's female adviser.

This has nothing to do with age and can gain long-term trust.

For example, a certain marquis or duke wants to gain the trust of the king, but does not know how to go along with the king's mind. At this time, the Marquis de Pompadour, as the king's bedside, quietly told the duke or marquis: the king actually wants to form an alliance with Austria.

Then, the duke or marquis knew the king's mind and would put forward opinions that would satisfy the king. The king saw it and thought, oh, this kid is good, he is capable, let him join the cabinet.

This way, this way, for the Marquis de Pompadour, it is naturally to expand her political power and influence.

At the same time, the Marquis de Pompadour had a certain understanding of Louis XV.

To use the common saying of later generations, Louis XV is actually "a person with a strong addiction to being a weakling".

To abolish the prime minister and no longer set up the position of prime minister, the premise is that the ability must be sufficient.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang, he naturally has such ability; but if his level is at most the level of Zhu Yunwen, and his personality is still the kind of person who thinks he is very powerful and is ready to do everything by himself, this will cause problems.

You are capable enough to depose the prime minister, no big deal.

In order to seize power, the king set up the "secret du roi" military council, but what about the king's level?

War, fighting, politics, economy, trade, diplomacy... In fact, there is no high level.

If you are good at fighting like Frederick II, politics like Queen Elizabeth, diplomacy like Queen Theresa, strategic awareness like William Pitt... It would be good, and you don't need a "close friend" to give you advice.

In reality, let's not say that Louis XV is nothing, at least it's not wrong to say that he is ordinary and average.

If we stop fighting now and prepare for fighting again in the future.

Then, in diplomacy, contact Austria and Russia; in military, carry out military reforms; in trade, change the harsh policies of Colbert; in economy, reverse the sluggish French industry and commerce... and other problems will make the king anxious.

Without a prime minister, wanting to be arbitrary, and having no ability, he must seek comfort from women and seek an answer.

The Marquis de Pompadour believed that she was capable of doing what she could do, that is, as a woman, she could mediate the relationship between Austria and Russia, which was to play a role in the "secret du roi" in the inner court.

As for military, trade, economy, etc., she attended the salons in Paris all day long. If she didn't understand something, she could ask others, and if she didn't know something, she could recommend others.

In this way, wouldn't her position be more stable?

The premise for her to plan like this was that Louis XV was a loser, but he didn't know that he was a loser.

If they were Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shimin, even if they abolished the prime minister, would they need to ask women what to do in military and national affairs?

At most, it was because the ministers made direct remonstrations and complained after returning, and women gave a few words of advice on issues such as Naruhito.

As for the people of Dashun, could they imagine Zhu Yuanzhang asking Empress Ma how to deal with the national taxes and military registrations; how to deal with the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and neighboring countries?

Therefore, under this premise and reality, the most favorable policy for her and the Marquis de Pompadour is to cease fire now and prepare for the next war.

Unless, she can now either be like Joan of Arc and lead the French army to victory, or persuade Prussia to go to war again for the benefit of France.

Since nothing can be done, it is meaningless to continue the current situation.

Her strengths, or where she can play a role, are diplomacy, economy and other matters, and definitely not in the war of gambling the fate of the country.

Louis XV's character is actually very easy to understand.

Lack of love, especially lack of family love and maternal love in childhood, often leads to a seemingly deformed, distorted and contradictory mentality.

On the one hand, you are extremely eager for recognition from others, because you have never had parents who praise you unconditionally and without desire from the perspective of your parents since childhood.

Instead, tutors, strict teachers and the like demand you with extremely high standards.

If your grades improve, your performance is good, and it meets their wishes, they will praise you and encourage you.

If you don't perform well or badly, they will scold you.

But real parents shouldn't be like this. Real parents should be when you are young, whether you are peeing and playing in the mud, or making mud sculptures, they will praise you for your beautiful work.

So Louis XV was extremely eager for praise, understanding, support and compliments from others.

He was not confident, paid too much attention to the evaluation of others, and even had an almost pathological pleasing personality.

As the king of a country, this extreme desire for recognition from others is reflected in the hope that he can accomplish something without the help of others.

Let me show you, am I awesome? Am I strong?

I have no help or advice from others, but I still accomplished a lot.

Come and praise me!

Come and praise me!

Don't say I'm not good, don't say I can't do it, don't scold me for doing something wrong like I did when I was a child!

Don't force me to be like when I was a child, hiding my true thoughts from the age of seven or eight. You ministers, guardians, and tutors, I can only say what you like to hear, otherwise you will be unhappy and scold me.

Now, I have grown up!

I have done well!

I am very powerful!

Praise me! Praise me!

I did not do it based on your suggestions. I did it based on my own opinions. You may not agree, approve, or oppose my opinions, but I still did it!

What to prove? Prove that I am right and you are wrong!

You are wrong, you are wrong. When I was young, you scolded me so much, but in the end, you scolded me not because I was wrong, but because you were wrong, so in your eyes, the right is wrong.

On the other hand, this kind of person has a very special requirement for sexual partners.

First of all, in a purely sexual relationship, the partner is required to have maternal nature, so that he can feel the charm of the mother, preferably someone else's wife, so that when he is in the family, he will have a special, perverted pleasure: I got the mother I want most!

Can I ask her whether she likes her husband or me?

I can't express my love for my woman who just gave birth to someone else's baby.

I can ask myself, how did my "mother" do those things with my husband...

Secondly, the abnormal desire for recognition from others, but in front of the woman he desires, turns into a child-like attachment to his mother.

To outsiders, he is afraid that others will look down on him, look down on him, and murmur about him. So what he has to do is not to ask others, not to ask others, to do his own thing, and to do it well, so that you will admire me, respect me, think I am powerful, awesome, and strong from the bottom of your heart.

And the person who opens his heart to himself is like a child: he likes to lie on the knees and legs of others, and be gently touched by the person he trusts most, who is like a mother.

Then he is asked: Why are you unhappy? Why are you unhappy?

After he tells it himself, the woman gives some advice with the attitude of a mother to her children.

Give him a feeling: this woman is my lover, my mother, my best friend, the one who appreciates me the most, and the one who can help me out of trouble and give me advice.

She is the person closest to me.

When outsiders give me advice, it is to humiliate me, distrust me, and look down on me. I don't need your advice. I want to use my own judgment to tell you that you are all wrong and I am right!

When the closest people give me advice, it is for my own good, for my own good, and they love me like a close friend, a mother, or a lover.

This mentality is incomprehensible to ordinary, normal, non-perverted, unexperienced, and love-free childhood people.

It's just... disgusting.

But the women around him can actually understand it.

Let's not talk about the Marquis de Pompadour in front of us, let's talk about Madame du Barry behind us.

Who is she? She is a Parisian socialite. From the third-generation Duke of Richelieu in his sixties and seventies to the lowest-level barber of seventeen or eighteen, what kind of men have she not seen? What kind of twisted mentality does she not understand? Isn't it as easy to play with her as a high-level green tea playing with an innocent boy?

The Marquis de Pompadour in front of us is much higher than the later Madame du Barry who slept with half of Paris and became famous.

She had made a perfect plan for herself before getting married.

She got married because her husband's family was a financier in Paris, which allowed her to enter the upper class.

Entering the upper class, with the money of her husband's family, she could participate in salons, gatherings of enlightenment scholars, and chat in the salons of aristocrats to improve her status.

Only by improving her status can she have the opportunity to "encounter" the king and become the king's lover.

This is called gilding your own thing.

Although it is very straightforward and unpleasant to hear, it is actually the case.

In the salon, chatting and laughing with Voltaire, Montesquieu and others, is that something that ordinary people can do?

Dashun is not without such people. A certain baron who surrendered to the four barbarians, the godson and adopted son of the captured Peter the Great, the black Hannibal, could chat and laugh with a group of people in the upper class of Paris. What did he rely on?

He relied on the fact that he was Peter's night secretary and Peter the Great's adopted son. He was afraid of taking a boat, so Peter granted him special favors and did not take a boat to return to St. Petersburg by land.

According to the normal route, the graduate of the military academy is a French captain, and he will go to the battlefield to gain experience and be promoted to major at the bottom, and then he will be promoted to lieutenant general in his forties.

You can't look down on lieutenant generals, thinking that they are just so-so, small people.

In France, it is the ministers of some non-critical departments in later generations, who are at the level of not qualified for small meetings but must go to large meetings. But you can't look down on "not qualified for small meetings" because there are not many people who are qualified for small meetings.

In Russia, it is the first-class and second-class civil servants who need to work hard and have opportunities, but the third-class civil servants are the foundation. What is a third-class civil servant? Intuitively, the president of Moscow University, the governors of Kazan Province, Azov Province, Astrakhan Province, Belarus Province, Novgorod Province, the governor of Estonia and Latvia...

In Dashun, it is the level of provincial governors and the Imperial Academy Jijiu officials.

Or, to put it more bluntly, a member of the Privy Council, but not a standing member of the Privy Council.

Say low? It is true that he is not at the core decision-making level, and is a little inferior to the six government ministers and the twenty-three founding dukes.

But, but to say that this is not an upper-class circle... that is really arrogant.

Privy Council members are not considered upper-class circles, so what is an upper-class circle?

A woman, a woman whose father she doesn't know, can get into such a circle and talk and laugh freely. It is impossible for her to be a white lotus.

Looking at a man like Louis XV, you can see through him at a glance and know what he likes and pursues in terms of the opposite sex.

After all, the king is a person.

Not a rational philosopher king, a pure personification of national sovereignty. Or the incarnation of a country in a certain social game in the future.

Since you understand the king's character and know that it is impossible for Prussia to sign the Third Franco-Prussian Alliance Treaty, then the strategic advice proposed by Dashun... does not need to consider the community interests of France, but only consider yourself, which is the most beneficial.

Not for the distant China, but for herself.