New Shun 1730

The honorary guards are close ministers, and those who cannot attack the nobles can only hang around in the Fifth Army Department. Entering the Shangshe in Wude Palace is the right path, and it can be used as sand to be mixed into the officialdom, not just within the Fifth Military Department. The Fifth Army Headquarters was the former Five Army Governor's Mansion. It had a different name, and its actual responsibilities were much different from those of the previous dynasty.

Liu Yu understood this clearly. It was better to be admitted to the Wude Palace and follow the right path than to be granted a minor title now.

After listening to the Duke of Qi praising him, Liu Yu could only laugh and said: "This is what the Duke said, how should I put it... The court did misjudge the fighting strength of the Rakshasa people, but it was lucky that no big trouble was caused. . It was just that I thought it was simple and thought that the Duke was Tang Jian."

"Bullshit! I have no problem being Tang Jian. I still have a little sense of the righteousness of sacrificing my life for the country. But who is Li Weigong in the court? Who can travel thousands of miles to capture Petersburg and capture the Rakshasa King? Let me say this, From the beginning, the court was so confident that everything went well and I could show off my military power..."

Speaking of this, Qi Guogong became very angry.

Liu Yu looked at Duke Qi blowing his beard and said to himself that you also participated in formulating the strategy of the Northern Expedition. It's just that you have seen the regular Rakshasa army here, but not in the court.

Liu Yu poured another glass of wine for Qi Guogong to calm down his anger.

After drinking the glass of wine, Qi Guogong shook his head and said: "This matter has passed, so I won't mention it anymore. The court's intention has not changed now, right?"

"Yes, the bottom line has not changed. Heilongjiang and Shilka River. The bottom line is okay, but it is beyond the bottom line. You can talk about it how you want."

Speaking of this, Liu Yu put on a tone of resentment and became angry.

Duke Guo of Qi heard the displeasure in Liu Yu's words and asked, "If we don't talk about it and keep delaying the fight, are you sure?"

Liu Yu clicked his tongue, still feeling strange.

"If the imperial court mobilizes 8,000 elite soldiers, 100 heavy cannons, 20,000 auxiliary troops, and 150,000 levies in the capital camp, and allows me to command the Khalkha cavalry, and build a highway from the capital to the Selenga River, I will be given an annual salary. I will provide 4 million taels of military expenditure and provide 10,000 taels of immigration per year plus 1 million taels of immigration expenses. Give me five years and I will be sure to draw the boundary to Lake Baikal and the Lena River.”

"Bullshit! Hahahaha, five million? Go back and ask the household government, can you make a surplus of two million from the annual income this year?"

Duke Guo of Qi only thought it was a joke and didn't think Liu Yu was talking about serious matters at all.

Liu Yu spread his hands and said: "You tell the horses to run, and you tell them not to eat grass. What do you want me to do? I can blow up Irkutsk, Selenginsk, and Yakutsk with my mouth." "

"You said before that you suggested dragging out the feud, not signing a contract, and looking for opportunities to fight back in the future."

"The premise for me to say that is that if the Celestial Empire diligently cultivates its internal strength, if it can earn sixty million taels per year, it will have an army as powerful as the main Western army today. There will be a million people north of the Songliao watershed; there will be two people in the Mongolian reclamation area. Millions of Han people.”

Duke Guo of Qi really felt that Liu Yu had a fever, so he laughed so much that he suppressed the sound of boiling water in the copper furnace.

"Sixty million two-year-old income? From ancient times to the present, which dynasty and generation can achieve sixty million two-year-old income? If what you said is achieved, why care about a Rakshasa? What you say is different from saying that as long as I have one A thousand taels, I have a hundred taels?”

Liu Yu raised his wine glass and saluted, full of resentment.

"From the beginning, I felt that the imperial court wanted to solve the problem in northern Xinjiang, in the southeast. It's like a problem with a bad waist and kidneys, and doctors need acupuncture needles to spring up. But now that the war has started, what else can I say? I can only try my best I can go to Yongning Temple and build two Rakshasa Forts, but that’s not something I can decide.”

Duke Guo of Qi heard that Liu Yu was not joking, so he could only say: "Don't mention this matter. There are still people in the court who think that if we use Hami and Yumen as the boundary. If we shrink the border and don't fight, it may not lead to change. Since It may not be possible, then Why don't you fight now? You can't afford to take the blame. I'm the official, the Duke. You can't take the blame even if you want to. How much more can you draw?"

"I can't draw the west. The Khalkha Mongols can't even protect the Buryat tribe. If I could drive away the Rakshasa people to the north and prevent them from building forts..."

"Nonsense, if the Khalkha Mongols were as capable of fighting as you said, they wouldn't choose to ally and surrender. Let's not mention the west for now, but what about the east?"

"The east side should be able to draw more from the Heilongjiang estuary along the latitude line to the west."

He took out the map and skillfully drew his fingernails along the latitude line of the river mouth, demarcating an open space of about hundreds of thousands of square kilometers north of Heilongjiang.

"The Han Dynasty had the humiliation of Bai Deng, and the Tang Dynasty had the alliance of the Wei River..."

Just as he was about to say a few words, Qi Guogong was generous and nodded: "Isn't this quite big? Shouchang, tell me the truth, what do you think?"

Liu Yu was having fun.

"Actually, I don't care how much more I can ask for beyond the bottom line. So I have been humming songs all the way. What I care about is whether the court has the intention to change. If it can change, once the Rakshasa goes to war in Europa, I will come to the court. You can send troops to the north; if you can't change, you will continue to sink like this Go, even if it reaches the Lena River now, what's the use of the treaty... If the treaty was really useful, the Westerners wouldn't be fighting all day long. It's been eighty years since the Treaty of Westphalia. No, I haven’t seen the treaty achieve peace. It’s just a matter of signing it today and tearing it up tomorrow.”

When the Duke of Qi heard this, he was also happy.

"You think clearly. In fact, I am still a little dizzy about this matter. What people are most afraid of is things they have never seen before. I have read through history books, and I have never seen such a demarcation and contract. Mountains and rivers are not easy. , just draw it on the map as a boundary, I have no idea in my heart. I used to think that the world is huge and endless. Now Westerners put a globe here and tell me that the world is so big, you can take more. I'm missing something. I feel uneasy."

"What do you think the Duke said?"

"Didn't you mention Shi Jingtang? If Zhu Hongwu hadn't raised his troops to retake the Yanyun land, it would have been hard to say. Besides, even if we retake it, Shi Jingtang will still bear the infamy. The key is whether we can get Kaer before I die. To get back all the old land in Kamgolia? To get it back before you die is to climb the Weishui River and endure the humiliation. If you can't get it back, then won't I still be Shi Jingtang when others get it back? In the Song Dynasty, the horizon was in Liao. But it’s in the Arctic Ocean you mentioned.”

After that, he looked at Liu Yu and asked, "Do you understand the key to this matter?"

"My lord, everyone is different. What you think is the key may not be what I think is the key."

The Duke of Qi tapped the palm of his left hand with the back of his right hand and said: "The key to this matter is that the Khalkha tribe has surrendered. It is not paying tribute or restraining, but becoming a prince of the Xia. This is different from the past. The difference is that now Mongolia is not the Protectorate of Shiwei or the Protectorate of Beiting, but has Jiedu envoys who want to garrison troops. Therefore, the old pastures of the Khalkha tribe are the land of the dynasty, otherwise they will not come back. That’s traitorous.”

"In order to have fewer disputes on the border in the future, and for the sake of Junggar affairs, we have to give in to the title of Rakshasa. To establish the two emperors as emperors is to humiliate the country. This is the real blame we both have to bear. Emperor Taizong's legacy at that time , you are not allowed to be punished for your words; you are also encouraged to discuss political affairs in public, and you are encouraged to talk freely about state affairs in wine shops and teahouses..."

Liu Yuxin said you don’t need to say this? I have been clear about this matter for a long time, but the rice is almost ready, so it is useless to chatter. He smiled and said: "How big of a deal do I think it is? Let them talk about it. It doesn't matter whether it's betrayal or humiliation. Regardless of the country, it’s like this, what else can I do? I think it’s not sold enough.”

The Duke of Qi was stunned.

With his eyes wide open, through the swaying water vapor, perhaps because of the surge of alcohol, he felt that Liu Yu was a little distorted. "Not enough? How else do you want to sell?"

"Add an article to the treaty. The Rakshasa envoys are allowed to enter the capital to meet the emperor. And our court also sent people to Petersburg to congratulate the Rakshasa Tsar on his accession to the throne. It has been established as a rule that each will hold the throne and the new emperor will congratulate each other. It is best. We can also take this opportunity to send some people to Europe. I estimate that with the current tradition of the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Forbidden Army Coup, we can go there every three to five years. This can help us learn more about Western affairs. A window to the world.”

"It would be best to select some noble disciples who are both good in character and academics to study in the Rakshasa Academy of Sciences. If they can be elected as academicians or something, they will return to the country in the future..."

Duke Guo of Qi put his hand on his forehead and cried out in pain: "Do you know when the last emperor congratulated the emperor?"

"I don't know."

"Eighty years ago, Zuo Maodi was forced to congratulate the Southern Emperor and the Northern Emperor. The two emperors became uncles and nephews, and asked Wu Sangui to follow the example of Su Qin and become the Prime Minister of the Six Kingdoms. He became the King of Pingxi in the Qing Dynasty and the Duke of Ji in the Ming Dynasty. You still call it selection. A noble son goes to study in Rakshasa and is evaluated as an academician? Why, do you really want to imitate the Wu thief, the honorary guard of Dashun, and the academician of Rakshasa? You really think this scapegoat is not big enough, and you have to bear another one. "

Liu Yu laughed so hard that his stomach hurt, and he thought to himself, "Where is this going?"

Such smoothness is really interesting, good or bad.

The advantage is that at the moment of humiliation, if there are two crows, they will burst out with amazing power, refuse to surrender, and fight to the end. But it would be better not to have this opportunity.

This tragic sentiment is beautiful, but painful.

Speaking of taking the blame, Liu Yu couldn't help but think of what the emperor said.

"Don't worry if you have too many debts, and don't itch if you have too many lice. My lord, we have already taken the blame, so we don't need this one. Don't you want to regain the old territory of the Khalkha tribe before you die, and be a 'bearing humiliation' person behind you? With this added, it becomes 10% more possible to investigate the situation of Rakshasa and learn Rakshasa skills when the day comes."

Hearing the familiar saying "If you have more debts, you won't have to worry about it, and if you have more lice, you won't be itchy". He also laughed and wiped the two drops of salt water from the corner of his eyes. He didn't know whether he was laughing or being smoked by the heat of the copper stove. He said after a while: " Well, I'm in charge of this. I'll send envoys to congratulate each other as a rule. Is there anything else weird?"

"No, it's all normal. I'll have a good sleep after dinner. Tomorrow I'll write out the high-priced articles of association, and we'll have a formal discussion the day after."