New Shun 1730

After a lot of deception, he finally used very conservative words to accomplish the most radical thing.

The world will not change because of the actions of one or two monarchs. Liu Yu can only use this conservative speech that seems to protect the country of one family and one surname to seek the opportunity to change the world.

After thanking the emperor, Liu Yu was relieved to make sure that the emperor had given up the idea of ​​opening a trade port in Songjiang to make money quickly.

Today's conversation may be the last conversation he has encountered in these years.

He spent almost ten years just to break the inertia of being able to collect money by sitting at home.

Sitting at home and collecting money, the only ones who can make money are landlords and middlemen.

Dashun has no external competition pressure, and the labor cost is only one-fourth of that in Britain at this time. There is no crisis of external commodity dumping. It is impossible to grow the buds by relying on landlords and middlemen.

Finally, there is a chance to break this inertia, let higher profits drive more people to open handicraft factories, and rely on active trade exports to drive the growth of the bourgeoisie. If the emperor monopolizes Western exports in order to raise money in a short period of time, it will be all over.

Monopoly, the initiative of trade is 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, so that in the future, it can be guaranteed that the small peasant economy will be destroyed by machines, and in the event of a violent uprising in Dashun that is no less than the great uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Dashun will have another more radical choice besides "conservative restoration, destroying factories, and restoring the small peasant economy".

Perhaps there will be a war between the southeast and the whole world, just like the war between Paris and the whole of France.

It may also cost the lives of tens of millions of people, but before that, it is necessary to ensure that everything east of Malacca is an inland sea, and no external forces can take advantage of the fire to rob.

After finalizing the matter, the emperor showed mercy and summoned Lenat and other Swedish captives.

"It is human nature to return to one's roots. You have been away from your country for thirty years, first captured by the Russians and then trapped by the Junggar. The Celestial Empire is merciful and allows you to return home. Considering Lenat's contribution to the Issyk-Kul Lake Copper Mine Map, he will be rewarded with two pieces of silk, two pieces of brocade, gold and silver..."

After a round of rewards, Lenat kowtowed to thank him, and when Liu Yu came out with them, he was very excited.

Going home is of course good.

Although those rewards are not worth much here, they are all tributes from the Celestial Empire court. They are not ordinary market goods when they are taken to Sweden.

Moreover, Lenat can be regarded as the first Swede to meet the Celestial Emperor. This experience is enough to make him a celebrity even if he goes back to write a book.

It has been several years since he was captured by Liu Yu on the battlefield. In these years, they have been living in the capital and can't find a way out.

Although they can receive some money every month and chat with the Russians in Yangerguan Hutong, no one will lead them, and they don't know whether Liu Yu's promise to let them go home is still valid.

After receiving the reward today, Lenat thought that the people of the Celestial Empire really keep their promises.

"My Lord, can we go back home now?"

"Of course. His Majesty has shown mercy and not only allows you to return home, but also sends a ship to Sweden. I said at the beginning that as long as you clarify the matter of the Issyk-Kul Lake Copper Mine and the smelter, you will be allowed to return home. I am trustworthy. Another thing..."

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

Lenat did not feel embarrassed. When he was north of the Altai Mountains, he knew that his artillery skills were outdated, and he also knew that the artillery of Dashun was strong enough. Dashun is not Junggar. There are too many excellent gunners. He no longer needs to stay here to cast cannons and work for the new master.

"Yes. The Earl is right. My artillery skills are really outdated. Poor Bolshevski, his Polish lancer skills are not outdated, so he can't return home yet. I feel lucky for my outdated artillery skills. I am old, and even if I go back, the king will not recruit me into the army again."

The Swedes captured with Lenat can all take a boat back to their hometowns. Poor Bolshevski, the Pole who taught the Junggars the wedge charge, is now left in the capital, and like those captured Russian Cossacks, he has become a team in the Beijing camp.

But he is an officer, training a lancer for the Dashun Imperial Guard. And those Cossacks who don't want to return to Russia can only be ordinary cavalry or infantry and be incorporated into the team.

These are ordinary people who are caught by fate, but the tragedy of these people can only be attributed to the eastward expansion of Tsarist Russia. If it weren't for the eastward expansion of Tsarist Russia, none of this would have happened. Lenat would have served in Sweden for a few years like those captured in Russia, or... went to Siberia to grow rye.

"You are going back to Sweden this time, and you can say goodbye to your Russian friends. His Majesty also arranged you near Yang Erguan Hutong before, considering that you have been in Russia for many years and it is inevitable that you will be lonely here. You must remember this painstaking effort."

He smiled and expressed goodwill to Lenat and others, but what he was thinking in his heart was to cooperate with the British Duke to make this set of "Golden Knife Plan" more perfect, so that the Russians and the Dutch would believe that the content of the Sino-French secret agreement was in the direction of Russia, not the direction of Southeast Asia.

Lenat was just an artilleryman and didn't understand many conspiracies at all, because Liu Yu was completely well-intentioned. 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 convinced that the Russian envoy would soon know the news that Dashun had released the Swedes and returned home, 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.

Riding to Yang Erguan Hutong, the Russians who were captured at the time had all learned Chinese, and those who had some skills were picked out by Liu Yu.

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

The remaining young and strong people all joined the Beijing camp. These people were not abolished during the military reform. They became something similar to the Varangian Guards, which made the emperor feel happy and the power of the emperor spread far and wide. of pleasure.

Compared with the banned Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church in Yang Erguan Hutong has good luck, but few people from the capital have written to it, and most people can't tell the difference between the Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church, for fear of getting themselves into trouble.

Outside the church, Liu Yu met Hannibal who had just finished evening prayers and told him with a smile that the Swedes were about to return home.

In the past few years, Hannibal has taught everything he has learned. This person has contributed to the army reform, and his attainments in fortress engineering are indeed very high. He is still teaching fortress 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. However, the emperor had suffered from missionary drawings, so it was impossible to leave such a matter to him.

If this is a kind of distrust, this kind of distrust makes Hannibal excited. He believes that Liu Yu's original promise may be fulfilled-that is, when his sister is in danger, he can return from Dashun. Russia, to protect his princess.

There may be some truth in this saying that a man will remain a boy until he dies. Even if there is news from Russia, the sister he loves and wants to protect has actually been involved with a Ukrainian Cossack...

But that's not important.

After seeing Liu Yu, he greeted Liu Yu warmly and expectantly, and invited Liu Yu to his mansion. He, a baron, actually knew in his heart that his title was similar to that of the Khalkhas and Quanbu, and was completely different from a count like Liu Yu.

The relatively cramped Baron's Mansion is basically in the style of the capital city. Apart from the statue of the Madonna and the cross-paned window lattice, it looks like a house belonging to a wealthy man in the capital city.

Liu Yu knew that the Russian envoy would definitely get some information from Hannibal. Hannibal seemed to be doing pretty well, but he was just acting as a go-between. After the negotiations with the French mission, the Russian envoy wanted to meet with Liu Yu. Yu, Liu Yu refused because of illness.

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

But this must be said in reverse.

"These Swedes have suffered enough. They were captured first by your godfather, and then by the great strategist Lingdun Dobu. Now it's time for them to go back."

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

"Actually, to be honest with you, I just want Swedish wood tar distillation technology. As you know, 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 was very rare. However, Hannibal doubted the authenticity of Liu Yu's words. The French envoy arrived with great fanfare and the standard of hospitality was so high. Could it be that they had just negotiated several conventions? This is obviously not credible.

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

A few years later, when Hannibal opened his mouth, he spoke Beijing Mandarin with a hint of Shaanxi flavor.

"Mr. Liu, I can only convey it for you. 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 British Duke's golden sword plan has not yet been carried out, and Hannibal still doesn't know that Liu Yu has mini bombs in his hand. Liu Yu doesn't mention it. He just treats it as a friend he hasn't seen for many years and has a few drinks together. .

When the drunkenness slowly came over, Liu Yu pretended to be drunk and muttered: "The French firearms are really good. If Dashun can also have craftsmen and firearms designers like France, this military reform will be smoother. "

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 the saint are the great road, and the craftsman's skill is just a trivial matter. It's difficult! It's difficult!"

"Do you know, I asked Lenat, when he fought with Russia, most of them were matchlocks or spring guns. At that time, the Russian Tula Arsenal had not yet been built. By the time he was captured by the quasi-corps, France had already tried to popularize the bayonet. By the time he was caught, the world outside had changed."

"But, what can I do? Can I just rely on learning and imitation?"

After muttering a few very frustrated words, Hannibal felt slightly that something was not right. What kind of stimulation did this young man who said to him in high spirits on the banks of Heilongjiang, "I come, I see, I conquer", feel like this today?

The flintlock gun has been imitated and produced by Dashun. Now Dashun's military reform is also in progress. Ordinarily Liu Yu should not be so depressed.

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

The thought flashed across his mind, and Liu Yu seemed to know that he had made a mistake. He stopped mentioning this matter, and instead talked about the things that Hannibal was most concerned about, but that the Russian envoy might not be interested in.

"By the way, Hannibal, maybe in a few years, you can return to Russia. His Majesty said that you taught well in the military academy, and you did not hide those fortress engineering skills for yourself. I will also put in a good word for you. After a few words, I am a person who keeps my word. I promised you to translate everything you learned in the French military academy. I promise that you can return to China to help your god-sister in the future. "

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

After the strategic deception of the Sino-French secret treaty, Dashun wants to expand in Southeast Asia. Once the cover period of strategic deception is over, a slightly friendlier Russia is needed to allow Russia to feel free to cause trouble in Europe and make Europe more chaotic. Compared with Anna I, who now relies on the German Party, Liu Yu is still more optimistic about Peter's daughter Elizabeth.

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