The emperor took the money from the inner treasury, and when the New Year was approaching, he took the opportunity to sing some high-profile songs such as "thrift to cultivate virtue", which attracted a burst of praise for sycophants, but he didn't know that the emperor took 20,000 taels and voted for Liu Yu.

20,000 taels is not much, and the family of the capital lord can easily get it, knowing that Liu Yu's transaction is not bad for 20,000 taels. The emperor is too lazy to care, corruption is endless, and there are still a lot of things to count on for the time being.

Thinking that Liu Yu's approach is to dig sweet wells from the desert, not counting competing with the people for profit, this money is also very refreshing.

Liu Yu said that he would return it together next winter, and if he earned it, it would be His Majesty's, and if he lost it, he would find a way to make up for it. So intimate, where would you not agree.

Even if he knew that Liu Yu had some meaning of pulling the tiger's skin to make a banner, he felt that Liu Yu might be afraid of impeachment, and he did not make a success or failure at this time, and he did not delve into it.

After taking the money, there were a few old family members in the Yiguo Mansion who had seen the world, and they followed Lin Yunwen to the south, and they didn't rush to celebrate the New Year at home. Take out all kinds of relationships, and the customs inspection along the way is naturally a green light.

Among these people who went south to handle the goods, they also brought a handwritten letter written by Liu Yu in Latin, asking the family to hand it over to the French merchant house in Guangdong, and the recipient of this letter was the head of the French East India Company in Pudupul, India.

Liu Yu knew that the French had spies in the capital of Dashun, of course, openly and in the capacity of missionaries, similar to the open spies of the military attachés of the later embassies.

But these spies don't know so much about the internal affairs of Dashun.

In this letter, Liu Yu introduced the war between Dashun and Russia, congratulated Louis XV on his wedding, and told about the Sino-French alliance against Russia.

It was vaguely expressed that in the Shun-Russia War, Dashun was not satisfied, but said that if one day a war broke out between France and Russia over the Polish throne, China would join the war at the appropriate time.

“…… The Lena River is supposed to be a natural border between China and Russia. It is as if God had already arranged in advance those obstacles that he did not want to be crossed, in the case of France, the sea, the Pyrenees, the Rhine, Switzerland and Piedmont...... The Austrian-Russian alliance seemed to be against the Turks, but France should have been wary of it earlier. We all know the strength of the Anglo-Dutch alliance and its hostility towards France, which will ...... if Austria's tentacles reach Lorraine In the same way, once the Russians stopped expanding in Europe, it became clear that the East would be their next direction, and that there could be a Peter in Russia, and then there would be a next Peter, the Lena River......"

He instigated a wave of European contradictions, expressed the interests of the Sino-French alliance, and then talked about the trade problems of various countries in China, and lamented the fact that France was squeezed out by the Netherlands and Britain in China's trade.

He expressed some views on the indiscriminate issuance of paper money in France, the pure credit standard in this era, and the collapse of the stock price of the Mississippi bubble.

The prospects for trade between France and China were also analyzed.

It is believed that the hole left by Louis XIV is too large, that the French aristocracy is now getting poorer, and that the shrinkage of wealth brought about by the Mississippi bubble makes it difficult to sell luxury goods such as silk and porcelain shipped from China.

All countries were protecting trade, and the goods of French merchants could not be sold in England, and vice versa. Now that France's spending power has plummeted, the East India Company must change its thinking in order to guarantee sufficient profits, or it will have to go bankrupt.

In view of the emptiness of the French treasury and the difficulty of the East India Company in making money, Liu Yu suggested that the French East India Company could bring in a batch of munitions, including 7,000 flintlock muskets and bayonets, field guns with gun mounts, and if there were warships, they could sell two warships.

In order to get the French to take the bait, Liu Yu made it clear that he could guarantee that he would not charge a penny of customs duties on these goods, and that they would be paid for in gold rather than silver.

Because of the collapse of the price of silver in Europe, gold itself is a commodity that can be shipped to France for a fifty percent profit, which is a great temptation for the French Indian company.

At the same time, France's power in Southeast Asia was basically expelled by the Netherlands and Britain, and there was no conflict between China and France for the time being, on the contrary, Liu Yu also vaguely expressed his dissatisfaction with the Netherlands and Britain, plus the aforementioned Sino-Russian war and support for the French king to marry the former princess of Poland, which is a kind of geopolitical natural ally.

At the same time, Liu Yu also threw a great olive branch to the French East India Company.

The problem he is talking about is exactly the dilemma that France is facing now:

The indiscriminate issuance of paper money, the Michelissippi bubble, the mess left by Louis XIV, and the poor French aristocracy could not afford too many luxuries.

In addition to mirrors, mechanical watches, music boxes, American ginseng, and cactus cochineal dyes, the rest of the hair in France cannot be sold in China...... So much so that a large part of the income of the French East India Company was to buy gold in China and return to Europe for silver.

Originally, it could still sell silk and porcelain to France, but now that France is poor, the big hole left by Louis XIV has not been filled, and the indiscriminate issuance of paper money and gold yuan coupons has been made, and the French East India Company will be finished if it follows the previous trade model.

Now Liu Yu has given France a new direction for trade, arms and warships.

He also said that he could pay the order for two warships in full, as long as France could bypass the Dutch and British interception and go to China. As for the specifications of the warship, this needs to be negotiated, offered, and prepaid.

At the same time, he also told the French Dashun delegation that Moscow had gone to Paris, and hoped that the French government would send a high-level envoy to negotiate by sea. He can act as a referrer.

Arms and warships were used as trade goods, and Liu Yu expressed the hope that the French East India Company would give an answer within a year and a half.

As a country that is interested in forming an alliance with France, if France has no interest, then he will choose to buy this batch of arms and ships from the Dutch and the British.

“…… Gold and silver from China could provide bread for a thousand French workers in a military factory, pay two hundred craftsmen in a French shipyard, and bring huge profits to the East India Company. ”

"If trade is reached, I, as an officer of the Emperor's Praetorian Guard and the son of a hereditary duke, can mediate some trade issues. For example, there is a high luxury tax on mechanical watches and mirrors in England and the Netherlands, and some exemptions in France are exempt, and of course, you need to offset the customs duties with arms. ”

"For every Cossack killed by the French flintlock in the Lena, there would be one less Cossack in Europe; If a French warship sank a Dutch-British ship in Southeast Asia, there would be one less French enemy ship in the English Channel. ”

"God does not let lead bullet kill people just because it is not French who wield flintlock pistols."

"The vigorous development of the arms industry and shipbuilding industry can solve the problem of food and clothing for the workers of your country on the one hand, and at the same time preserve a huge industrial army for your country. In the event of a war, they can make enough guns and warships, and if there are no Chinese imports, then in peacetime, a thousand military blacksmiths, hundreds of shipbuilding carpenters, may choose to be a farmer, a weaver, ......"

“…… In any case, please reply as soon as possible. When your envoy arrives in Canton, he may bear my name, take out my token, and sail to Wendeng, where I will meet you. If you encounter obstacles in Guangdong, you can go to Fujian, and Fujian's Jiedu envoy can give you enough convenience. ”

"If no arms arrive within a year and a half, even if we have a common enemy and a common interest, we will have to choose another ally. At the very least, the Dutch will be happy to see us reduce tariffs on their goods. ”

"Forgive us for using tariffs as a weapon, but I have to say that it works."

"Finally, the King of France and his wife were happily married. In addition, I personally admire the French locksmith skills and hope to get a beautiful lock ......"

The long secret letter did not have much polish, and Liu Yu believed that even if the French East India Company was a bunch of fools, the benefits brought by this letter would be enough for them to send arms.

Before the arms arrived, Liu Yu would not ask the imperial court for half a flintlock pistol and spear, preferring to use sticks to train the queue.

If the French do not agree, he can also go to the British, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spaniards.

Tariffs are a weapon, but people in the court will not use them for the time being.

The money is actually not expensive, and Liu Yu believes that he may only need one or two batches of arms, which can be imitated on his own side.

As for the trade of the French East India Company, it was a dead end, and no one could save it, but the early orders could be a blood transfusion for the war between France and England in India.

Liu Yu is not worried that France will win the battle and Britain occupy India, on the one hand, it is almost impossible, on the other hand, France's navy is weak and powerless, and it is impossible to maintain it, and if it wins for the time being, it will lose in the future, but it can weaken the power of Britain and the Netherlands, and do a little bit for Dashun to go to the South Seas.

This is not a tiger devouring wolves, if it is on land, France can still be considered a tiger. Now the Anglo-Dutch alliance, at sea, France is really not a tiger, India and France have no chance, there is no need to worry about France occupying India and expanding eastward.

Soon after this secret letter was sent, Liu Yu's arrangements had already been decided, and on the twenty-eighth day of the first month of the New Year, he would go to Wendeng to take up his post, and the silver was also being raised.

What made Liu Yu feel very funny was the new student of Jinghai Palace, not him who went to receive it.

The emperor said that in order to show his attention, he would personally go to meet the first batch of students of the Jinghai Palace official school. These students will then go to Wenden on their own.

This is the emperor's grace in the city, so that those students of Jinghai Palace believe that they are protégés of the Son of Heaven, and also guard against Liu Yu's influence in the official school of Jinghai Palace.

Liu Yu could only laugh at this, Weihaiwei and Liugongdao were too close to Gyeonggi.

Now is not the time to make trouble, and even if he does, he will not choose to take this kind of place as his starting point. The so-called sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the sky is not high in this place, and the emperor is not far away.

Lao Wuying Liangjiazi is the most loyal knife in the hands of the emperor, and history has proved that this privileged class bound to the land is the most solid royalist.

This is not the basic plate approved by Liu Yu, but as a fellow traveler at this time, he has to take the last meal to carve up the world.

The emperor likes to buy righteousness as much as he likes, and he has other plans.

The first batch of officers of the Qingzhou Army has also been selected, and the list issued by the emperor is similar to what Liu Yu guessed, there is not a single noble son, all of them are enrolled in Wude Palace from the old fifth battalion of good families.

Some of them could not be promoted to the inner house, and some of them were not able to be promoted to the upper house, a total of 120 people.

In addition to these 120 candidate officers, the emperor also specially approved 400 recruits from good families as the backbone.

Soldiers, Liu Yu recruited by himself.

There is no need to even make a military order, the emperor knows Liu Yu's situation very well, if he really can't do it after five years, it will be the fate of not being able to keep the whole corpse.

Even the emperor showed a huge wooden cabinet in front of Liu Yu, which was more than one person tall: he would stay in this cabinet for all the impeachment of Liu Yu in five years.

is not to show Liu Yu five years later to show how much trust, but to tell Liu Yu that if things can't be done five years later, this cabinet can give Liu Yu a coffin by the way. Those folds can also be used as paper money.

Even if he is an emperor, he can't keep it, because he is a Confucian son of heaven, not a Yidi chieftain; Liu Yu is also a dragon guard, not a commander of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

The more than 100 alternate officers assigned to Liu Yu all have no official positions.

Liu Yu is just a military training envoy, not a military commander, and although the conferral of officers has to go through the official documents of the military government, he, the military training envoy, is not even qualified to nominate and confer officers.

The normal process is that junior military officers are nominated by the military chief officer, submitted to the military government for review, and officially appointed after the review is passed. The more senior officers are nominated by the military government, the Tianyou Palace, the five military departments, etc.,

Although more than 100 people had to serve as officers, in fact, they were officers, but after the initial training of the small station, the emperor made everyone justifiable.

Only the weapon and the name, you can't be a dummy, and the king's office is also.

Dashun made the Wenxuan Division independent from the government and became the Wenyu Yuan, so naturally he was very strict in the granting of instruments and names, and refused to let go at all.

The only thing that the emperor gave Liu Yu a lot of face was that in the selection of talents for the official school of Jinghai Palace, he did not question the application for the steamed bun examination.

The emperor also made a rather forward-looking joke with Liu Yu: Qing's so-called "anyone who has a meritorious position and is eighteen years old can sign up", which is specially reserved for your disciples. If you are really interested in learning in the future, and divide astronomy, arithmetic and other disciplines, then when you take the exam, you can vacate a few places, for example, your relatives are studying the extremely unpopular Kanyu, you can add a sentence "Those who learn Kanyu can apply for the exam", which is a new way.

joked, and knew that there was no credible person around Liu Yu, and he didn't question it.

The first one in the exam was Chen Qinghai, who Liu Yu secretly stuffed the question. Du Feng, who boasted that he wanted to be the first before the exam, didn't even enter the top three, he was admitted to Wude Palace, which was equestrian, meritorious service and instant chopping and slashing to raise a lot of points, but the test paper of Jinghai Palace was not tested.

But he also created another unique: he was the only student who applied for Jinghai Palace from the outer house of Wude Palace, and was called "able to climb Mount Tai, but go to Dongshan" for a while, and laughed about the capital for a while.

Approaching the end of the year, Liu Yu went to Yang Erguan Hutong again and gave some gifts to those Rakshasa people who would be able to use it in the future.

At this time, there is a demand for others, and the face has to be passable.

The Rakshasa people do not have a Spring Festival, but there is a very important festival, the Thanksgiving Festival, which is just in time for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In order to express his attention, of course, it is also for those who can be used in the future to make more efforts, Liu Yu gave a lot of small gifts, and built a big swing with them.

Hannibal is now given a very strange title by the emperor, a man.

Hannibal was grateful, but he couldn't go back anyway and didn't want to go back now, so he thought about waiting for his godsister to go back one day when she was in danger.

He didn't read the "Book of Han", so he naturally didn't understand what the "Qin" of the seal meant, and he didn't know what his godfather was if he was a man from Qinxian County, and he didn't know what this letter said in Qinxian...... It's also beautiful.

The pile of Rakshasa captives captured, the emperor really put this group of people together, sent some officers, and the remaining captives who were picked up by Liu Yu and raised horses and carpenters formed a separate army.

Hannibal, a man from Qinxian County, also hung the number of a five-grade Wujie general, this kind of baron viscount is not a regular title, even those barons in Mongolia and other places are not as good, and when he sees Liu Yu, he has to call an adult.

Hannibal asked Liu Yu a question that he was very concerned about: Is the baron of Dashun common in the European court?

Liu Yu said that it is absolutely universal, if you go back to Europe and say that you are a baron, no one dares not to admit it.

Now this crown of the Chinese Empire still has weight, at least now it is very heavy.

Although he knew that Dashun was a false lord system, Hannibal still asked where Qin County was.

Liu Yuxin said that Qin County was out of Bole, and the reason why the first person to seal Qin County was because he had raised horses for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the Imperial Horse Prison, and he was sealed in Qin in the name of Bole.

Let's talk about the allusion, just say that now it is called Chengwu, not Qin.

He also said that it was very appropriate for the emperor to make him a man from Qinxian County, after all, these captives were all cavalrymen, hoping that he could raise a good Ma Yunyun, but he did not say the true meaning of the emperor's bad taste. only said that if he had the opportunity, he would take him to Qinxian County to see the peony, and the peony flowers near Heze were still very famous.

In fact, the emperor deliberately wanted this person who had studied military engineering in France and participated in the construction of St. Petersburg to preside over the construction of forts in Humen and other places, because Liu Yu told the emperor that the stone forts were backward and had to use mounds.

The emperor may have felt that the Rakshasa people could not run to Guangdong, and should make the best use of them.

Liu Yu wrote to say that the matter of repairing the fort should not be handed over to outsiders, and that when the missions to Rakshasa and France and other places come back, they can repair it themselves.

Whether the emperor is willing to let him raise horses, or is willing to follow the spirit of the Han and Tang dynasties and make a baron to lead the Varangian guards to dance, after all, don't let them do such a thing as repairing the fort, otherwise they will all be exposed.

Hannibal was an expert in civil engineering and fortress engineering, and when he saw that the southern fort was completely devoid of anti-artillery mounds but masonry structures, he could know that the true level of Dashun was a few catties and a few taels.

After the book was written, Liu Yu gave Hannibal another piece of paper and asked him to learn the two lines of the poem: the south branch of the bird's nest and the north wind of Humayi.

If one day Peter II dies and his sister is really in danger, play these two poems, and His Majesty will probably agree. His sister died half a year late, Frederick II was about to hang herself, and England would have some blood.

With this kindness, Liu Yu also exchanged some of the drill codes and artillery skills of the French military academy compiled by Hannibal these days. It seems that Hannibal has already written it, and has been waiting for Liu Yu to express his sincerity and promise that day.