New Shun 1730

The person who opened the letter was the French ambassador to Russia, Jacques Joachim Trotti, also known as the Marquis de La Chetadie.

This marquis was of course a French noble, but his marquis was different from Liu Yu's.

Liu Yu's title, or the one his brother would inherit in the future, were both military honors.

Marquis de La Chetadie could squeeze into the uppermost aristocratic circle, so he should be considered a relative by marriage.

French titles are a mess. Of course, aristocratic status is the basic ticket to the upper circle, but without this "relative by marriage" status, he could not have achieved the status of ambassador to Russia.

His uncle was the confessor of Madame de Maintenon.

When Madame de Maintenon was not yet Madame de Maintenon, after her husband died, she climbed up to Louis XIV. She started as a nanny for Louis XIV's lover, and successfully became Louis XIV's lover. Later, she was also considered a semi-promoted queen.

Thanks to his uncle's relationship, Marquis de Lachetadie was able to squeeze into the upper class circle of France.

The upper class circle is also divided into different levels. The upper class of the upper class usually enters the cabinet directly after adulthood; the middle and lower classes of the upper class have several standard routines.

Go to military school, join the army, get promoted, and change jobs.

According to the official position of Dashun, his marquis is not suitable for the five nobles, but for "honor guards", "Sanqi Sheren", "juren" and so on.

He and Hannibal, who was captured by Liu Yu in Heilongjiang, were classmates in the military school.

The two served in the French army together, fought in the Quadruple Alliance War, and were promoted to lieutenants almost at the same time: the rank of lieutenant at the age of 18 is the ticket for the lower class of the French upper aristocracy to enter the upper middle class.

The so-called middle class in the upper class is a nobleman, an 18-year-old lieutenant, who survived until he was about to die: in France, he would be a lieutenant general; in Russia, he would be a third-class civil servant; in later generations, he would be a minister of a non-major ministry, who could hold large meetings but not small meetings.

After that, the two people's lives took different paths.

Hannibal returned to Russia and served as Peter the Great's night secretary, participating in the construction of the Kronstadt Fortress and artillery. After Peter's death, he was deposed and exiled, thrown to the north bank of the Heilongjiang River to build a fortress, and was captured by Liu Yu. He got the title of a baron in Dashun, which symbolized "the four barbarians came to submit."

Marquis Laschettadi was promoted from lieutenant to colonel, and seeing that he could not be promoted any further, his father-in-law found him a good job as an ambassador and engaged in diplomacy.

The European diplomatic circle of this era was full of talents, and Marquis Laschettadi was even more talented. He was handsome, spoke well, and was very likable.

First, he worked as a diplomat in Prussia, and he did quite well.

Old Frederick, who liked the giant grenadiers, once trusted Marquis Lachetadi and complained to him about a very famous and philosophical saying.

[The most beautiful girl in the world does not concern me, but the tall and strong soldiers are my inner weakness]

Frederick II also mentioned in a letter to Voltaire that [he is a very lovely young man]

If he can please men, especially those who love power, he must also be good at pleasing women.

In view of his outstanding performance in Berlin and the activities of his father-in-law, he was sent to St. Petersburg in 1939 as the French ambassador to Russia.

He went to St. Petersburg in April 1939, and became close to Princess Elizabeth in June.

After unfolding the two letters sent from Amsterdam, Marquis Lachetadi could not help but feel a little surprised.

After the surprise, there was a surprise.

Unexpectedly, Hannibal, a classmate who had lost contact since 1923 and was said to have been captured in the Sino-Russian War, actually came back.

He was very impressed by the black man, of course because of his skin color.

In this era when black people almost meant low intelligence, low ability, and could only be slaves, and France used black slaves on a large scale, there was such a person who was very good at mathematics and had excellent talent in military engineering. It was really impressive.

The two were also frequent visitors to the upper class circles and some salons.

I never expected that 20 years later, they would be connected again because of a woman.

One was a man who wanted to protect the princess like a knight and was considered the princess's non-blood brother.

The other was a man who arrived in St. Petersburg in 1939, slept with the princess soon, and was a little tired of sleeping with her.

Moreover, this princess was the same one.

I have to say that fate is wonderful.

Now, the two have come together again because of the same princess and this letter.

The purpose is very simple.

A coup to let Elizabeth Petrovna take the throne and be crowned as the Tsar.

However, Hannibal's letter was not so straightforward, and was full of concerns about Elizabeth's safety.

The other letter written by Liu Yu was simply an "invitation to a coup".

Although Marquis Lachetadi slept with Elizabeth, the reason he supported the coup was not because of the matter between men and women, but entirely for the interests of France.

France's great enemy is Germany.

Germany does not exist yet, so Austria and Prussia are both considered Germany, but not Germany.

In short, whichever German prince is the most powerful is the enemy of France.

There are a lot of Germans in the Russian court, and the German party almost controls Russia's internal affairs. France must find a way.

Empress Anna was a German widow, her lover was German, and the two regents she left behind were both Germans. The father of the young tsar who succeeded to the throne was the Duke of Brunswick of Germany. The entire Russian court almost stopped speaking Russian.

The newly formed "East Factory", the Russian criminal investigation department, was even controlled by the Germans. The young tsar had not even had his first birthday yet. From the death of Empress Anna to now, only one year, Russia has already had three coups.

It's a bit numb.

But after all the changes, the German party is still in power.

It's nothing more than the power holder was replaced by the Empress' lover, the commander of the guards, and then changed back by Count Osterman who had just returned from Dashun. The deputy prime minister also served as the deputy regent, preparing to carry out a major purge of the traditional old party and the westernized new party in Russia.

This is quite unfavorable to France.

The French Embassy, ​​of course, supports Princess Elizabeth to take the throne, so as to carry out a major purge and completely purge the German party. Anyway, it is impossible to completely Germanize the Russian court.

Now that he has received the letter from Dashun's European delegation and the letter from his old classmate Hannibal, Marquis Lachetadi feels that it is simply God's help.

Until now, Marquis Lachetadi still believes that Princess Elizabeth is a naive person. As long as he helps her to take the throne, relying on their "close" relationship, won't Russia completely turn to France?

In the eyes of Marquis Lachetadi, Princess Elizabeth is a weak kitten who likes French style and exotic atmosphere, and is a little woman who is devoted to love.

It is because of his charm that Princess Elizabeth can't extricate herself and takes the initiative to sleep with him, conquering the heart of this girl who needs comfort.

However, in fact, he was wrong, very wrong.

This is not a kitten at all, but a lioness.

A lioness who could force Frederick II to hang himself if she died a year later, and who could make Hitler think of Queen Elizabeth's old story when he heard Roosevelt's death many years later, and think that the story is about to repeat itself.

After her father and mother died, and she was targeted and guarded against, Elizabeth was a naive, innocent girl in love.

She didn't care about politics.

She didn't ask about political affairs.

She only cared about love, love, dances, and romance.

She was a poor, weak, and indecisive little girl who was hurt because her fiancé died early, and she relied on sex, desire, and dances to numb her heart, and relied on love to make up for the trauma.

It seems that the reason why she became a lover with the Marquis de Lachetadi was just because she liked the romantic sentiment of the French and the handsome Marquis.

Every time she broke up with a different lover, she would cry for a long time, so that every man at a social dance, seeing her big blue and melancholy eyes, would not help but comfort her and give birth to a desire to protect her.

It was such a poor little cat, as the last blood of Peter the Great and the spiritual totem of the Russian New Party, who survived safely during the reign of Queen Anna, who killed thousands and exiled 10,000 or 20,000 people.

In fact, it is not surprising that Marquis Laschettadi thought so. In fact, even Queen Anna thought so, and the mother of the current little tsar thought so too.

When someone even told the mother of the little tsar that Elizabeth might stage a coup, the mother of the little tsar was sure that this little cat who was looking for love would not do so.

And Princess Elizabeth's main activity place on weekdays was the camp of the Russian "Jinyiwei" Preabrazhensky Corps.

Generally, she did not do anything. When she went there, she did not put on the airs of a princess. She asked the soldiers of the Jinyiwei Corps how they were doing, whether they had no money to drink again, and how their family life was. She took out some high-quality tobacco and asked the soldiers to taste it, or danced and sang with them.

The soldiers affectionately called her "Mom". Sometimes when the soldiers' children were born, they would also ask the princess to baptize them...

In Dashun, this was equivalent to the "abandoned prince" hanging around the children's army all day, often caring about the living problems of the children's army soldiers, so that everyone in the children's army privately called the abandoned prince godfather.

In the eyes of the Russian rulers, this turned out to be a manifestation of "Elizabeth is kind and lively, a simple girl, without any threat or ambition, empty and sociable, and so unrestrained that she is willing to hook up with even lowly civilian soldiers."

In history, the Marquis de Lachetadi also confidently told the Palace of Versailles: Soon, this naive female tsar will make Russia regress to the state before Peter the Great's reforms, and will no longer actively participate in European affairs. I can handle Russia's foreign policy alone and be pro-French.

Louis XV looked forward to it, hoping that Russia would "return to the state before Peter's reforms" as the Marquis de Lachetadi said.

In return, the Marquis de Lachetadi was kicked out of Russia and prohibited from entering the country; the Russian army was preparing to go south to support Austria, and the Netherlands and Britain would fight France, forcing France to withdraw from the War of the Austrian Succession... Louis XV was so angry that he threw the Marquis de Lachetadi directly into the Montpellier Castle and stayed in prison for several years.

After the diplomatic situation was finally reversed, he was released and worked his way up to lieutenant general, and went to the small country of the Holy Roman Empire to form a coalition against the Prussian Empire. As a result, he won the jackpot and caught up with Frederick II's most classic and historic battle - the Battle of Rossbach. After the war, the marquis was directly kicked out of active service in France.

It can be said that the Marquis of La Chestadi did only two things in his life, and both were done in Russia, which to some extent completely changed the situation in Europe.

One thing was to help Princess Elizabeth in the coup.

Another thing was to help Xiao Ye when the young Catherine II first came to the Russian court and determine Xiao Ye's status as the crown princess.

They were all about women, and they were all the kind of women who looked weak and pitiful, but actually had a tiger hidden in their hearts.

But in fact... let alone control, it is hard to say whether he slept with Elizabeth or Elizabeth slept with him.

He really had never experienced the various struggles in the Dashun court, and his previous years were too smooth.

His brain was the kind of person who could imagine Wu Zetian as a Mary Sue heroine, and he had never seen a decent power struggle in his life.

The key was that he had no chance to see it.

He made his diplomatic debut as a diplomat in Prussia. Frederick William of Prussia was known as the "Soldier King". He didn't want anything else except fighting. His slogan was "obey, obey, and obey again"; the idea was to expand the army. The son and daughter were all beaten and kicked, and there was really no court struggle in Berlin.

Such a person is the "important ally" of the group of people who tried to participate in the coup in Russia, such as Liu Yu and Hannibal.

This "important ally" is now considering how to persuade the "weak" Elizabeth to launch a coup.

At least before today, Elizabeth looked innocent and kind, and did not reveal the slightest idea of ​​wanting a coup. Even during the secret meeting, she said that she was safe and would not be in any danger. She was simply "silly" and cute.