Xinshun 1730

Chapter 268 Swedes are also involved in cheating on Russia
After all this flickering, he finally managed to accomplish the most radical thing with conservative rhetoric.

The world will not change because of the deeds of one or two monarchs. Liu Yu can only use this kind of conservative remarks that seem to protect a country with one family name to plan to change the timing of the world.

After thanking him, Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the emperor put aside his thoughts of doing business in Songjiang and raising money quickly.

Today's conversation may be the last one he's afraid of in all these years.

It took him almost ten years to break the inertia of collecting money while sitting at home.

You can collect money by sitting at home, and the only fat ones are landlords and second-hand dealers.

Dashun has no pressure from external competition, labor costs are only a quarter of that of Britain at this time, and there is no crisis of external product dumping. It is impossible to rely on landlords and second-hand dealers to grow the buds.

Finally, there is a chance to break this inertia, let higher profits drive more people to open handicraft factories, rely on the export of active trade to stimulate the growth of the bourgeoisie, if the emperor wants to collect money in a short time to monopolize Western Export and that's all.

Monopoly franchise, trade initiative in the hands of foreigners, Dashun cannot expand the market, and Westerners control Dashun's shipments.

The weak bourgeoisie still needs some time to grow up to ensure that the small peasant economy will be overwhelmed by machines in the future. In Dashun, there was a violent uprising no less than the Great Uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom. In addition to destroying factories and restoring the small peasant economy, there is another more radical option.

Perhaps there will be a war of the South-East against the whole world, as Paris is against the whole of France.

It is also possible that tens of millions of people will die, but before that, it must be ensured that the east of Malacca is an inland sea, and no external forces can take advantage of it.

After finalizing this matter, the emperor showed grace and summoned the captured Lenat and other Swedish captives.

"The leaves fall back to their roots, human nature. You have been away from the country for [-] years, first captured in Luocha, and then trapped in Zhunbu. The heavenly court is kind, Zhuner and others return home. Nian Lienate has contributed to the map of the Issyk-Kul copper mine , two bolts of silk, two bolts of brocade, gold and silver..."

After the reward, Renat kowtowed to thank him, and when Liu Yu came out with them, he was very excited.

It's good to go home, of course.

Although those rewards are not worth much here, they are all tributes from the court of the Celestial Dynasty, and they are not ordinary market items in Sweden.

Moreover, Lenat can be regarded as the first Swede to meet the emperor of China. This experience, even if he goes back to write a book, is enough to become a celebrity.

Several years have passed since they were captured by Liu Yu on the battlefield. These years, they have been living in the capital city without finding a way out.

Although they can receive some money every month and chat with the Russians in Yang Erguan Hutong, but after all, no one guides them, and they don't know whether Liu Yu's promise to let them go home is still counted.

Receiving a reward today, Renat thought to himself that the people of the Celestial Dynasty really kept their promises.

"Master Earl, can we go back to our hometown now?"

"Of course. Your Majesty is merciful, not only allowing you to return to your hometown, but also sending a boat to Sweden. I said at the beginning that as long as you clarify the Issyk-Kul copper mine and smelter, you will be allowed to return home. I mean it There is a letter. Another..."

Liu Yu showed his white teeth, and smiled: "One more thing, your artillery skills are outdated. The world is changing too fast, 30 years is enough for many technologies to fall behind."

Renat didn't feel embarrassed. He knew that his artillery skills were outdated in the north of the Altai Mountains, and he also knew that Dashun's artillery was strong enough.Dashun is not Junggar, there are too many excellent gunners, it is no longer necessary for him to stay here to cast cannons and work hard for the new master.

"Yes. My lord count is quite right. My artillery is really out of date. Poor Polshewski, his Polish Lancer skills are not out of date, so he can't go back to his hometown. Outdated artillery, feel lucky. I am too old, even if I go back, the king will not call me into the army again."

The Swedes who were captured together with Lenat could return to their hometown by boat.Poor Polshevsky, the Pole who taught the Junggars wedge charge, is now left in the capital, and like the captured Raksha Cossacks, he has become a team of the Beijing camp.

But he is an officer, and he is training a cavalry lancer for Dashun's imperial army.And those Cossacks who didn't want to go back to Russia could only be incorporated into the team as ordinary cavalry or infantry.

These are ordinary people who are bound by fate, but the tragedies of these people can only be attributed to the eastward expansion of Tsarist Russia.None of this would have happened if it hadn’t been for the expansion of Tsarist Russia to the east. Renat would have served like those captured in Russia and returned to Sweden after serving for a few years, or… went to grow rye in Siberia.

"This time you are going back to Sweden, so you can say goodbye to your Russian friends. His Majesty arranged for you to be near Yang Erguan Hutong before, also considering that you have been in Russia for many years, and you will inevitably be lonely here. After this painstaking effort, You need to keep that in mind."

He smiled and expressed his goodwill to Renat and others, but what he wanted in his heart was to cooperate with the British government to make this set of "golden knife strategy" more perfect, so that the Russians and the Dutch would believe in the content of the Sino-French secret treaty. It is in the direction of Russia, not in the direction of Nanyang.

Renat is just an artilleryman and doesn't understand too many intrigues at all, because Liu Yu is completely kind.Liu Yu said that he happened to be going to see Hannibal, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, so these people stopped by.

Liu Yu was sure that the Russian special envoy would soon know the news that Dashun had released the Swedes to return to China, and would also know that Dashun would send a ship to Sweden.

Sweden, Russia... These two centuries-old enemies, Liu Yu is not afraid that the Russian envoy will not think too much.

After riding to Yang Erguan Hutong, all the Russians who were captured at the beginning had already learned Chinese, but those who had some special skills were picked away by Liu Yu.

Either grow rye in the Whale Sea, or raise war horses in Vladivostok, and some are also at sea. It is estimated that they may have followed Bering to Seattle...

The remaining young and strong people all entered the Beijing camp, and these people were not abolished during the military reform, and became something similar to the Varangian guards to decorate the facade, making the emperor feel refreshed. The prestige of the emperor spread far and wide. pleasure.

Compared with the banned Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church in Yang Erguan Hutong was lucky, but there were not many people in the capital who wrote, and most people couldn't tell the difference between the Orthodox and the Orthodox, for fear of getting themselves into trouble.

Outside the church, Liu Yu met Hannibal who had just finished his evening prayer, and smiled and told him the news that the Swedes were going back to China.

In the past few years, Hannibal can be regarded as teaching everything he has learned. The man in the army has contributed a lot, and his attainments in fort engineering are indeed very high. He is still teaching fort engineering in the military academy in the capital. .Ordinarily, he was the most suitable candidate for the design of the Dagukou Fortress in Tianjin in terms of technology alone, but the emperor had suffered from missionary drawings, so it was impossible to entrust him with such a thing.

If this is a kind of distrust, this kind of distrust made Hannibal very excited. He believed that Liu Yu's original promise might be fulfilled—that is, when his sister was in danger, he could return from Dashun to Russia, to protect his princess.

Men are teenagers until they die, maybe there is some truth to this statement.Even if the news came from Russia, the sister he loves and wants to protect has actually gotten involved with a Ukrainian Cossack...

But this is not important.

After seeing Liu Yu, he greeted him warmly and expectantly, and invited Liu Yu to his mansion.In fact, he, the baron, knows in his heart that he is similar to the titles of the Khalkhas and Zhunbu, and is completely different from the earls like Liu Yu.

The relatively cramped baron's mansion is basically in the style of the capital, except for the statue of the Virgin and the cross lattice window, it looks like a rich man's house in the capital.

Liu Yu knew that the Russian envoy would definitely inquire about some news from Hannibal. Hannibal seemed to be doing well, but he just pretended to be a middleman. After the negotiations with the French mission, the Russian envoy wanted to meet Liu. Yu, was rejected by Liu Yu saying he was sick.

When he came to Hannibal this time, Liu Yu naturally hoped to rely on Hannibal to send some subtle signals to the Russian envoy.

But this has to be said in reverse.

"These Swedes have suffered enough. First captured by your godfather, then by Da Ce Ling Dun Dob. Now they should go back."

"This time when they return to Sweden, I hope you will convey this news to the Russian envoy. It is purely a commercial act and has no other purpose. I hope Russia will not be overly nervous."

"Actually, to be honest with you, I just want Sweden's wood tar distillation technology. You also know that I am building a navy in Weihai, and I have to buy asphalt and tar from others, which is really expensive."

What he said was basically the truth, which is very rare.Hannibal doubted the authenticity of Liu Yu's words. The French envoys came with great vigor, and the reception was so high. Could it be that they just discussed several conventions?This is obviously not credible.

It's just that Hannibal doesn't have much deep affection for the current Russia.He is a black man, so he cannot be said to be a Russian. His feelings for Russia only lie in the dead Peter and those god-sisters.

A few years later, when Hannibal began to speak, it was already a capital mandarin mixed with a Shaanxi flavor.

"Master Liu, I can only convey it on my behalf. I can't guarantee whether they believe it or not. You should be very clear about the relationship between Russia and Sweden. At this sensitive time, I'm afraid they won't believe it either."

The Duke of England’s golden knife plan has not yet been staged, and Hannibal does not know that Liu Yu has a miniature bomb in his hand, and Liu Yu does not mention it, just treat it as a friend who has not seen for many years, and have a few drinks together .

Liu Yu pretended to be drunk and muttered until the drunkenness gradually came up: "The French's firearms are really good. If Dashun can also have craftsmen and firearms designers like France, this military reform will be smoother this time. "

It seemed that he just muttered something casually, and said some miscellaneous words to deepen Hannibal's impression. Liu Yu sighed again: "The words of a sage are the great way, and the skills of a craftsman are just a small way. Difficult! Difficult!"

"Do you know, I asked Renat, when he fought against Russia, most of them were arquebus or wheel-wheel guns. At that time, the Tula Arsenal in Russia had not yet been built. When he was captured by the Ministry of Defense, France has tried to popularize the bayonet. When he was caught by me, the outside world changed again."

"But what can I do? Only by learning and imitating?"

Muttering a few frustrated words, Hannibal sensed that something wasn't quite right.What kind of stimulation did this young man who said to him on the bank of Heilongjiang, "I come, I see, I conquer" feel so excited today?
Dashun has already imitated and produced the flintlock gun, and Dashun's military reform is also going on now, so Liu Yu shouldn't be so depressed.

Could it be that...something brought by the French this time shocked him?

The thought flashed by, and Liu Yu seemed to know that he had made a slip of the tongue, so he stopped mentioning this matter, but talked about something Hannibal cared most about, but the Russian envoy might not be interested in.

"By the way, Hannibal, maybe in a few years, you will be able to return to Russia. Your Majesty said that you taught well in the military academy, and those fortress engineering skills are not hidden. I also speak well for you. A few words, I am a person who keeps my promise. I promised you to translate everything you learned in the French military school, and I promise you can return to China to help your godsister in the future. I am a person who keeps his word."

He didn't want to make his visit seem a little abrupt, and he didn't want to make this intentionally leaked plan to cooperate with the British Duke appear too deliberate, so he talked about sending Hannibal back home...to assist Elizabeth in the coup.

After the strategic deception of the Sino-French secret agreement this time, Dashun wants to expand in Nanyang. Once the cover period of strategic deception is over, it needs a slightly more friendly Russia, so that Russia can feel at ease to do things in Europe and make Europe more chaotic.Compared with Anna I who is now relying on the German party, Liu Yu is still more optimistic about Peter's daughter Elizabeth.

As for the threat of Russia in the future, Liu Yu is betting on the railway from the capital to the Songhua River and Mongolia, which will open earlier than the Siberia Railway. He is sure that he can win the bet, instead of the high consumption and high supply in the bitter cold Siberia, which has almost no return. battle.

(End of this chapter)