New Shun 1730

The nobles, who were shocked by the sudden incident, had already half left their chairs.

Upon hearing this, they all sat down immediately.

Only Count Osterman and others were still standing there in a daze. It was not because they were brave enough, but because they were shocked by the sudden news.

What is this?

It is not a big deal for foreign ambassadors to participate in a coup, especially for Russia, it is too normal.

The problem is that I have never seen a foreign ambassador lead troops directly to the scene. In the past, at most they gave some money or diplomatic support. How could they lead troops to mutiny in the capital directly?

However, when arranging the tables before the banquet, the people around Count Osterman and his followers almost all sat together.

The Dashun soldiers who "maintained order" easily "protected" them.

Who would bring a gun to a banquet, to eat and drink?

Besides, even if they brought a gun, it would not be enough in front of the grenades and bitter burning matches held in the hands of the ferocious Dashun soldiers.

The banquet hall fell into a strange silence, the atmosphere was a bit panic and awkward. Many people whispered to the soldiers of Dashun, please be careful not to touch the fuse of the grenade by mistake.

Soon, a group of Russian soldiers entered the banquet hall. The leader was Hannibal and Count Lestock, the court doctor beside Elizabeth.

As soon as these two people entered, the nobles present knew that Liu Yu’s words were not false, and Elizabeth might have really controlled the palace.

Although Hannibal was captured by Dashun for more than ten years, he was also a member of the Petersburg aristocratic circle at that time, and he was a person with a very special skin color. How could these nobles present not know him?

Several soldiers from the Preobrazhensky Corps surrounded Count Osterman, who angrily said, "You are rebelling!"

Hannibal said, "No, sir. This is to put order out of chaos."

"The soldiers are all innocent and born to serve the country. You have made the country like this. Any soldier with a sense of justice will support Princess Elizabeth's just actions. How can you, a parasite, govern the country well?"

As she spoke, Princess Elizabeth, surrounded by a group of guards, slowly walked into the banquet hall.

She had taken off her military uniform and put on a luxurious dress. The soldier followed behind her, holding the hem of the dress with both hands.

The light gold dress was extremely bloated. If no one dragged the hem of the dress, she would not be able to walk.

A blue ribbon was hung diagonally on her chest, and she wore a gorgeous crystal headdress on her head. Her plump figure just held up the bloated dress.

Holding the orb of sovereignty in one hand and a scepter in the other, he walked slowly to the main seat in the banquet hall with the grace of a ball.

Liu Yu coughed lightly, and the Dashun soldiers holding grenades and fuses withdrew one after another, and the Russian soldiers brought by Elizabeth took over the scene.

Although the two cooperated in the coup, they had never met before.

This was the first time Liu Yu saw this legendary beauty who was known as the most beautiful woman in the European court. He glanced at her and wondered what the princesses of the Habsburg family looked like?

This was also the first time Elizabeth saw the coup collaborator. She couldn't have known that her coup was so easy in history. Naturally, she thought that Liu Yu had helped a lot and was a timely help.

She smiled at Liu Yu and nodded in greeting, but she was extremely vigilant in her heart - this kind of person is so skilled in coup, Petersburg really doesn't welcome him.

After smiling and greeting, she walked to the main seat in the hall naturally. Just like the sun rises and the moon sets, Liu Yu also naturally slid back a few steps and retreated to the edge.

There were some officials of the Dashun government who were not aware of it at all, watching everything that was happening at the moment with a confused look on their faces. But seeing Liu Yu retreat to the side without saying anything, they still guessed the general situation with their rich historical knowledge.

I thought that Jing Hou was a good man. He just told the story of Emperor Huan of Han. This is really a lesson from history. The woman in front of me has already controlled the palace, and all the ministers are present. The coup is over. It depends on how many remnants of the rebels this woman will kill.

At this time, the overall situation has been decided, and I am naturally in a pine-like mentality of watching the excitement. But when I think about it again, these people have not received any news before, and I am also afraid.

In the capital of another country, this Jing Hou is probably more courageous than Jiang Wei? Ban Dingyuan dealt with Shanshan, a small country, and the one in front of him is a Rakshasa who can pull out hundreds of thousands of troops.

These people shook their heads secretly, thinking that they didn't know what they would have to go through during this time in Europe. I hope everything can go as smoothly as today.

Liu Yu, who was standing in front of them, saw that Elizabeth had already taken the center position, and winked at the Marquis of Lachetadi of the French Legation not far away.

Liu Yu took the lead, saluted with the European etiquette of meeting the monarch, and took the lead in recognizing Elizabeth's coup in a very official Latin language.

"The Dashun Envoys, meet the only, legitimate, and all-Russian autocratic monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth."

Marquis of Lachetadi on the side also followed immediately.

"The French Minister, meet the only, legitimate, and all-Russian autocratic monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth."

China and France took the lead, and the confused Swedish ambassador had to follow.

The Swedes had a good plan, thinking that if there was a coup in Russia, there would be chaos. But it ended so quickly?

Dashun gave enough face. It had previously involved Russia's energy in diplomacy and boundary survey issues and helped Russia with the coup. But who could have thought that this coup was as simple as holding a dance party?

After the Swedes followed suit, the ambassadors and ministers of other countries remained silent.

The Netherlands, Britain, Prussia and other countries clearly smelled the smell of French conspiracy. Although it seems that China has contributed more in this coup, after all, China is still far away and cannot directly affect the war situation in Europe.

Once Russia is pro-French... Isn't this the end? The news of Sweden's defeat has come, which was originally good news, meaning that once Russia defeated Sweden, it could go south to support Austria and fight against France. But now... the good news of Sweden's defeat has become bad news.

While they were still hesitating whether to admit it, those fence-sitter Russian nobles also declared their allegiance and recognized the legitimacy of Queen Elizabeth.

Elizabeth took the opportunity to give a speech.

The content is all nonsense, nothing more than that she is the orthodox Russian party, these German parties are rampant in Russia, sucking the bones and marrow, abolishing the Privy Council, which symbolizes Russian tradition, disintegrating the power of the nobles and opposing tradition, etc.

Beyond the nonsense, the real key point is here.

Elizabeth announced on the spot that the notorious cabinet would be abolished, and the Privy Council, which symbolizes Russian tradition, would be restored and held by the nobles.

There were only seven people declared guilty, including the Tsar of Mecklenburg, Count Ostermann, etc., and some people only wanted to punish the chief culprit.

And she filed a lawsuit against Count Ostermann, pointing out the seven major sins, hoping that the fair Privy Council would accept her accusations and set up a trial committee for trial.

The accusations include:

Ostermann signed the will of Catherine I and vowed to abide by it, but turned around and broke his oath. My mother was going to pass the throne to me in the will, and you tampered with the will.

After Peter II's death, Osterman removed me, Elizabeth Petrovna, from the line of succession. Peter the Great had amended the law of succession, and women could inherit the throne of the Tsar.

He had suggested to Queen Anna that I, Elizabeth Petrovna, marry a "poor" foreign prince, so that I would completely leave the Russia I loved and never have the chance to inherit.

He gave the position of the country to the Germans, so that the Germans ruled Russia.

During his tenure, he and Byron severely persecuted the Russian people.

On behalf of the interests of the Germans, he carried out a great purge of the Russian nobility, to destroy Russian culture and make Russia completely Germanized.

He made "disgusting" insults to me, Elizabeth Petrovna, and created various "shameless" rumors, even saying that she had "miscarried", which was a serious slander.

After Count Osterman's guilt was explained, all the Russian nobles present breathed a sigh of relief.

I thought, Osterman must be killed, because... in fact, they were more or less involved in many things here.

The Queen did not try the case herself, but handed it over to the nobles of the Privy Council for trial, which was equivalent to giving a step back for the nobles: let Osterman take all the blame, and let your past be forgiven.

In theory, after the Queen took the throne, she could have restored the status of the Preobrazhensky Corps during Peter the Great, and let the Jinyiwei come to interrogate them, but she did not.

Instead, it was handed over to those nobles who had more or less cheated Elizabeth before. The political skills reflected in this were enough to make those nobles loyal.

After the nobles expressed their loyalty, Elizabeth made another appointment that surprised almost everyone present.

Appointed Alexei Bestuyev, a Russian noble who had recently stood up for Byron and lost power after the coup, as Deputy Prime Minister of the Privy Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

This is to show that the nobles who supported Anna, Byron and others in the past will not be held accountable - even Byron's die-hard supporters have been appointed as deputy prime ministers of the Privy Council, so do the others have to worry?

And this appointment also made the French ambassador, Marquis Lachetadi, stunned.

This Alexi Bestuyev is a staunch anti-Prussian and pro-Austrian faction.

The problem is that France is now in alliance with Prussia to fight Austria, and Marquis Lachetadi has no idea that Frederick II is ready to pit France. He is trying to promote the tripartite alliance of Russia, Prussia and France.

In theory, the princess is full of fascination with French style and has infinite tenderness for herself. Shouldn't she obey her own ideas?

He looked at the empress who was "pushed" by him, his lover, and the woman who thought he could completely control, with some astonishment.

And this woman's eyes did not stay on him too much.

As people in later generations commented on him: Marquis Lachetadi is a typical French aristocrat. Talented, overconfident and reckless. Elegant and proud, yet conceited and superficial.

Russians once commented that this typical French aristocracy often understands politics as a kind of living room conspiracy.

It's like a little girl's game of house, which is only suitable for happening in the living room.

Elizabeth glanced at the Marquis Lachetadi and thought: I know you want a lot, but I don't want to give it to you. I am the queen, you can be my appendage, but I will not be your appendage. You should think about how to gain my favor, not how to control me. You have got your position wrong.

She must appoint an anti-Prussian, pro-Austrian, pro-British, and anti-French person as the deputy prime minister to check and balance these pro-French factions, so as to express her attitude that she is not a 180-degree reversal of diplomacy, and to prevent the pro-French forces from taking the opportunity to unite and attack the dissidents and become bigger. At the same time, the firm anti-Prussian attitude of the Privy Council Deputy Prime Minister Bestuyev will also help to eliminate the pro-Prussian factions in future politics.

Because, either she will have a child with her lover.

Or, if she doesn't have a child herself, the heir she can choose is the son of her own sister, her own nephew, a child who can't speak Russian and grew up with a German education. For the future, she must plan ahead and achieve a delicate balance.

Only in this way can she, the empress who came to power by relying on the conflicts among the aristocrats, control the government by means of the art of balancing.