New Shun 1730

After staying in Guangzhou for several days, Liu Yu, who was anxious, finally waited for the other two ships coming from the north as the typhoon was about to pass.

On one ship, a group of ginseng pickers who had been fighting with North Korean ginseng pickers in the Changbai Mountain area were brought in through the relationship of his old friend Jiao Laobutu through several connections.

These people are key figures in strengthening Sino-French relations and making France willing to shed more blood for North America.

These people will be sent to Canada to dig ginseng, and there are also some veterans who can grow forest ginseng that Jiao Laobutu found through his connections.

These ginseng growers have to use tricks to "invite" them.

Because these people who grow forest ginseng are all pretending to be wild ginseng and selling it. They are very clever and have no money at all, so they have no motivation to immigrate.

Although they know that ginseng can be cultivated artificially, in order to make France willing to shed more blood for North America, they can only pretend not to know and send these people over.

After all, the court could not pay for the direct blood transfusion to France. Besides, the court's money came from taxes. Why should it collect taxes from the people to give money to the French?

It would be much better to let the French sell ginseng. In this way, the money would not be paid by the court, but by the medicinal material merchants. Whoever has money to buy ginseng would pay for it.

Anyway, Dashun doesn't lack this trade volume. Taking care of the French business, France will just mix a trade balance and not care about the outflow of silver.

As long as the income of France from selling ginseng in North America can be guaranteed to reach the level of Haiti, France will be willing to shed more blood for North America.

The French government was not very interested in India. With this increase and decrease, it was easier to achieve Liu Yu's strategic concept of "Shangdang Returns to Zhao".

Another ship besides this ship was not going to Canada, but the target latitude was similar.

The sailors were still from the Celestial Empire, but the passengers on the ship were all Cossacks captured in the Battle of Heilongjiang. There were not many of them.

Most of the captured Cossacks chose to stay in Dashun as soldiers and were unwilling to go back.

Hannibal persuaded the few people who were willing to go back, and used the little money he had saved from serving as an official in Dashun, teaching fortress engineering, and supervising the construction of the Tianjin Port Fort Area as the hiring fee.

As soon as they arrived at the port, Hannibal almost ran to see Liu Yu, hoping to set off as soon as possible.

"I understand your impatience, but you have also interned in the Dutch Navy with your godfather and presided over the construction of the navy. Even if you have never been to the Indian Ocean, you should know that the wind direction is wrong in this season. You certainly have people you care about, but as a marquis of Dashun and a deputy envoy of the Privy Council, I also need to care about the people in Nanyang."

"It will not set sail in the short term. It will take at least until January next year to pass Malacca."

Looking at Hannibal's dark face full of anxiety, Liu Yu couldn't help but want to laugh.

I caught this guy in the fortress in Heilongjiang, and it has been more than ten years in a blink of an eye.

The hatred between the two was not resolved at the beginning, but it was temporarily shelved because Liu Yu promised to let him return to China.

For this day, Liu Yu used him as a tool and had waited for more than ten years.

Once Dashun began to manage Nanyang, it would face the diplomatic characteristics of Europe in the Seven Years' War - reversing diplomatic attitudes and preparing for the future alliance of China, France and Russia.

China, France, Russia.

Britain, Prussia, and the Netherlands.

Now everything is ready. In order to maintain the continuity of the alliance, Dashun allowed Britain to obtain supplies at Dashun Port, which actually drove Spanish forces out of Nanyang.

After all, the Franco-Spanish alliance, Dashun could not fight Spain by itself if it wanted to promote the Sino-French-Russian alliance after the war. This required the British to take Luzon and then take Luzon back from Britain in the future.

Thus, the complicated situation in Nanyang was turned into Dashun vs. the British-Portuguese-Dutch alliance.

Britain, Portugal and the Netherlands have always had a close relationship, and the Luzon, Sulu, Macau, Malacca, Ceylon, and even India that Dashun wants will conflict with these three countries.

It is better to hurry up and let them go together, so that they can serve as the basis of the Sino-French-Russian alliance - the common enemy.

Hannibal, who has been a tool for more than ten years, is to ensure that the coup of Elizabeth, the leader of the Western French Party in Russia, is not unexpected.

It is also to let Hannibal, who has lived in Dashun for more than ten years, tell Russia the true situation of Dashun, so that Russia will not think about moving eastward, which is a dead end.

Liu Yu can understand Hannibal's anxious mood very well. The situation in Russia is getting worse and worse. Once Count Osterman returns to his country, or once the current Queen Anna dies, a great purge is inevitable.

Elizabeth, as Peter's last surviving daughter, is the orthodoxy in the eyes of the new party; Anna has no offspring, so the German party must support a young child as regent, and will never allow Elizabeth, who has prestige and legal inheritance rights and is not a child who can be controlled, to take office; the old party does not like Elizabeth, and believes that Peter's daughter, who supports cutting beards, taking off robes, studying science, building a navy, shaving and changing clothes, is not the orthodoxy of Russia.

The three forces are now waiting for the death of Queen Anna and waiting for the outcome. No matter who comes to power, they will inevitably start the purge of the other party.

Hannibal, the tool man, is the most suitable candidate that Dashun can find to interfere in Russia's internal affairs.

He has a French background, studied in France, attended a French military academy, and is acquainted with French nobles. He also talked and laughed with enlightenment scholars such as Voltaire.

The French Embassy in Russia is almost the base of Elizabeth's faction of the New Party. France does not want Russia to be controlled by a group of Germans, and also hopes that Russia will come to power to promote the westward policy for the leader of the New Party. After all, there is Germany between France and Russia.

He is the adopted son of Peter the Great. He followed Peter to the Netherlands, built a navy, and participated in the construction of St. Petersburg. The mark of the "New Party" is almost indelible on him.

And the kind of... one-sided love between him and Elizabeth, the daughter of his adoptive father.

Liu Yu can actually understand this feeling.

Life is just a series of isolated moments. Relying on memories and fantasies, many meanings emerge, then disappear, and then emerge again.

As a black man in Chad, who was a slave in Turkey, this period of time was of course dark. And Peter adopted him as his adopted son like a savior, allowing him to spend the happiest time of his life. At that time, he was still young, and how could he not have feelings for his non-blood-related sister who was often in contact with him?

He was captured by Liu Yu in a battle and thrown into the capital for more than ten years. Although he had an official position, a low title, and a career, he was not happy after all. There was no suitable woman around him. The women in Dashun had a cultural gap with him.

In this case, the memories and fantasies of the past became the meaning of his life. Everything was in the memories and fantasies that lasted for more than ten years. These fragments were all covered with a beautiful filter that made people intoxicated.

Perhaps like Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame de Paris, Hannibal knew that he could not and absolutely had no chance to be with the person he admired. Those beautiful fragments of the past with filters made him regard "silently guarding" as a meaning of life that he conceived.

Originally, this self-imagined self-touching meaning of life would not last too long. It was okay to be so moved in your twenties, but at the age of forty, most people would look back and secretly curse their past selves as stupid.

But Liu Yu had been tempting him to think so from the beginning. The reason why he was willing to teach everything he learned in the French military academy was that Liu Yu promised him that he would send him back in the future to protect the people he wanted to protect.

This was more than ten years ago. During his long life in the capital of Dashun, he was always a marginal person.

Although he had an official position and even a title, he was just a "symbol of the four barbarians entering the court". Dashun officials did not like him, the emperor had almost no trust in him, and there were few people he could communicate with.

This marginal life made him think of Liu Yu tempting him from time to time to move himself and give himself the meaning of life - to survive, return to Petersburg, and save the person he loved, like the story of a knight saving a princess.

After more than ten years of contact, Liu Yu saw that this black man was an orthodox Russian: he gave life a certain meaning, and for this meaning he endured a lot of suffering and torture, physical pain, and spiritual satisfaction.

The more bitter, the better. The more bitter, the better.

If it is for a certain goal and meaning, it is best to save the world or for all mankind, and then it is for someone else. If it is extremely bitter, he dies, no one understands, and his body rots and is forgotten, then he can be canonized.

Hannibal actually had a low self-esteem. Whether in Dashun or in Russia, he was an outsider, a marginalized person, and was implicitly discriminated against.

This kind of person especially likes to sublimate himself by saving others, and to experience his own value by playing the role of a savior. This is a form of superiority complex that people who cannot eliminate their inferiority complex often fall into.

Liu Yu studied fortress engineering and French military academy courses with Hannibal, and had a lot of contact with him. He had a relatively clear understanding of him - a pure Russian literary aristocrat, otherwise how could his descendants produce Pushkin...

Historically, Hannibal and Elizabeth had a very good relationship.

After Peter's death, Hannibal was exiled to the Selenga River near Lake Baikal to build a fortress to prevent the Qing Dynasty from invading the north. After Elizabeth came to power, she promoted him to the Governor of Estonia. As a black man, he got the rank of General of the Russian Army and the Order of Alexander Nevsky in the 18th century when slaves were traded.

In fact, Hannibal also knew that Liu Yu only used him as a tool.

But Hannibal himself was grateful for being a tool, and even vaguely thanked Liu Yu for protecting and caring for him after he captured him.

As for how to stage a coup after returning to St. Petersburg, Liu Yu didn't need to teach him. He was an orthodox "Third Rome" nobleman, and he was familiar with the Roman-style coup of the Guards.

According to the news from Count Ostermann, some of his old acquaintances are still in the Guards. Although they pretended to be loyal ministers due to the strength of the German Party, it is unknown what they think in their hearts.

He didn't bring many Cossacks back to St. Petersburg from Dashun, but in a coup, sometimes a hundred or so more people may have the power to change the overall situation.

To reassure him, Liu Yu knew that Queen Anna would die this year, but he couldn't let himself be a charlatan, so he said: "Don't worry. When you get there, you can rest in Gothenburg first. If you need money, just tell me. The navy and fortress engineering of the Celestial Empire, as well as the Celestial Empire's most outstanding combat engineers, all have your contributions. I remember this friendship in my heart."

"If there is any change in Petersburg, you can set sail overnight and land in a few days. Your former friend should be in a high position now, so you can say that you are going to attend the birthday commemoration of Peter the Great. After all, he is your godfather, and no one should object to this reason."