"Great joy! Great joy, Guogong! ”

Rushing into the tent in a hurry, a great gust of wind was brought out.

Fortunately, Qi Guogong didn't pray for the seven-star lamp there, but he was tired of being a female slave sent by a Mongolian nobleman, and he could see that he was really choking enough.

Seeing Liu Yu running in in a hurry, Qi Guogong made a crisp sound and told the woman to leave.

"Why are you so happy?"

"The mentality of the Russians is broken! We've dragged it down! Backstabh! The new kid is a backstabber! ”

The excited words were a little unpleasant, but Qi Guogong keenly heard the familiar word "back to the pot".

Immediately he ordered the tent to be guarded, and no one was allowed to approach, and asked, "What is the matter?" ”

Liu Yu said the general situation, and Qi Guogong suddenly came to his senses.

Although it is difficult to remember the tongue-twisting name of the Rakshasa people, there is not much difference between the East and the West in palace politics, and it is really "universal".

He is a national prince, so he naturally understands the key.

Listening to Liu Yu's introduction to Peter, Qi Guogong was also quite admired.

It seems that Song Shenzong changed the law, and in order not to abolish the new law, he even made a will: those who abolish the new law will not succeed to the throne. For this, then Peter himself beheaded and killed his own son? Would you rather a woman ascend the throne? This Peter...... It's a hero, indeed. ”

Liu Yu smiled: "It doesn't matter if he is the male lord or not, this person is dead." The one who is now replacing Sava is the father he captured the current little Rakshasa King back then, and it is also the death sentence he read. What does it mean to let him come here...... Isn't it clear to the Prince? ”

"Hahaha! It couldn't be clearer! ”

Qi Guogong laughed loudly, thinking that this kind of thing was simply obvious.

It's just waste utilization, anyway, this old man definitely can't get along, and he's getting older, so he's just here to take the blame.

Otherwise, Sava would have continued to talk about it.

"Boy! Not bad. Your Majesty didn't choose you wrong. Otherwise, I don't know what is going on inside the Rakshasas, and even if I know that there must be a reason for the change of generals, I can't guess it. I'm afraid that I will think that the Rakshasa is going to war, so I changed to a veteran on the front line. ”

"The two hundred taels of silver are spent, and they are not wronged, and they make a lot of money. If it were someone else, who lacked understanding of the Rakshasas, they would never know that there was such a big mess inside the Rakshasa because of the change of generals. ”

"Wouldn't this be able to drag on? The longer it drags on, the better it will be for me? ”

Qi Guogong was overjoyed, thinking that His Majesty really chose the right person this time, and changed someone else, how could he seize such an opportunity?

But after Liu Yu heard Qi Guogong's statement that he wanted to continue to delay, he shook his head and said, "I thought that if you delay, don't delay it anymore." Let's get down to business, dragging it out will be very bad for me. ”

"Huh?"

Liu Yu frowned and said, "This old man is over eighty, and if it drags on for too long, I'm afraid he will die." If he dies of anger, what if no one is willing to take the blame? ”

Qi Guogong thought about it, he was over eighty years old, and when he negotiated in such a place in the winter, it seemed that he was definitely ready to back down, and it was very likely that he would die of anger.

"There's another thing. Now that the Rakshasa is in power, he is a powerful minister who is not rightly named. The minister sent this old man to take the blame, and what I'm worried about now is that the minister can't sit steadily. Once the ministers step down, I'm afraid it will be difficult to talk about it again. ”

"You see, Guogong, if it is talked about now, then it is this old man surnamed Tolstoy who is behind the blame on the surface, but when the minister dies, it is the minister Menshikov who is really responsible. In this way, the Rakshasa King also looks good: I am not a traitor, but a powerful minister betraying the country. I am not a traitor, but a traitor. ”

The issue of face is still very important for the monarchy.

Qi Guogong nodded, his expression turned serious, and asked, "Are you sure that the man named Menshikov can't sit in a stable seat?" ”

Liu Yu thought to himself that history proved that he just couldn't sit still.

But if you pinch your fingers and count this kind of thing, it is easy to be regarded as a magic stick, and you still have to put facts and reason to prove that you are "strategizing and calculating everything".

"Guogong rest assured. He couldn't sit still. It's hard for this person to make a big deal. ”

"Didn't I say that before? In order to change the law, Peter killed his own son and changed the inheritance law, preferring to let his daughter ascend to the throne. The Rakshasa queen who just died was his second wife, and Peter and his ex-wife had some daughters. ”

"I heard from the Rakshasa king's righteous son that this Menshikov and Peter grew up together, roughly similar to the former dynasty? Anyway, when Peter killed his son, he was the first to support him. The reason why he put Peter's grandson on the throne was because he had a daughter, and he wanted to marry Peter's grandson, the current Rakshasa King, and later his grandson would become the Tsar. But the elders of the previous dynasty were all involved in Peter's killing of the son...... Therefore, most of the patriarchs still supported the accession of Peter's daughters, fearing that Peter's grandsons would liquidate them after they ascended the throne. ”

When he heard this, Qi Guogong was almost choked by his own spit.

At this level, you still want to learn Cao Cao?

At this time, the reasonable choice is obviously to support Peter's daughter to come to power, after all, you are a person with the blood of the son of the world. When a woman comes to power, her position is unstable, and she must ask for you, and your position as a powerful minister can also be stable.

In the struggle between the old and new parties, you should use the new party as your aid. The New Party has the blood of the Waste Son on its hands, but you supported the blood of the Waste Son to come to power, it is really ......

It's really a power to lose its eyes, doing this, the ambition is obvious, and where are the old ministers who supported the killing of the prince together?

If your grandson will succeed to the throne in the future, what will happen to the rest? If you don't have a friend, how can you be a powerful minister?

couldn't help but shake his head, and said in his heart that this Rakshasa Palace fighting level is very ordinary.

"Well, as you say. This man is really short-sighted. You are right, this man will not last long. We'll have to talk about it quickly. One is that the old man must not be allowed to die, and the other is that it must be negotiated before that Menshikov steps down. Give the Rakshasa a step. ”

Qi Guogong made his own judgment, judging from what Liu Yu said, this Menshikov will definitely not last long.

As Liu Yu said, once this Menshikov steps down, no one will be willing to carry this big black cauldron of losing power and humiliating the country.

If you can sign it now, the pot can be carried by this Menshikov, and the Rakshasa country will not have troops now, and it will not raise a large army to come in a short time, so it can only admit the matter by taking advantage of the situation. You can also clean up Menshikov's remnants by the way.

Judging from Qi Guogong's many years of experience in the court, most of them are so.

Liu Yu saw that Qi Guogong also recognized his "inference", and thought that Qi Guogong also knew in his heart, and if he fought for a long time, Dashun might not be able to take advantage, so he would accept it if he saw it.

Taking advantage of this, he smiled again: "So the conditions of this negotiation have another rule." I still have to ask the prince for one thing. ”

"Tell me about it."

"Ask the prince to write a secret fold and state this matter. Please allow Your Majesty to sign a secret agreement: 30,000 taels will be taken out of His Majesty's internal funds every year and given to the Rakshasa people, and it will not be issued in secret, for a period of ten years. With these 300,000 taels, as a ransom fee, the Rakshasa people bought a fortress and a small village from the Shilka River to the Selenga River. There's no time to attack it for the time being, so it's better to buy it. If it drags on, once Menshikov steps down, no one will take the blame for the new ministers and new kings, and it will be difficult to give in. If you really fight, 300,000 taels is not enough. ”

"What can I get back?"

"All the basins of Heilongjiang. All tributaries are the land of the dynasty. Including the Jingqili River on the north bank. 300,000 taels of silver, for a period of ten years, for a million miles of land on the eastern front, the Shilka River and the Martyr's River. In this way, the map does not have to go in a straight line and can be bounded directly along the watershed peaks. What flows to the Heilongjiang River and the Whale Sea in the watershed is ours; It is theirs who flows northward from the watershed. ”

Taking out the map that had already drawn a straight line before, Liu Yu pointed to the mountains such as the Outer Xing'an Mountains on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River, and said the requirements for this negotiation.

Taking the mountains as a watershed and asking for the entire tributary basin of the Heilongjiang River, this is the courage that the Rakshasa will bring to Liu Yu.

exchanging money for a small fort on the Shilka River, that is to complete the signing of the contract as much as possible before the Chinese New Year this year, otherwise once the Rakshasa country coups again, I am afraid that no one will be willing to take the blame.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Qi Guogong is also a person who knows the severity, and the 300,000 taels are bought from the Shilka River.

Originally, you didn't need to buy it, and you could capture it if you delayed it for a while, but now that the Rakshasa has changed in the country, it is not appropriate to delay it here in Dashun, so as not to have many dreams at night.

Whether you can agree or not, that's the emperor's business. Although there was a bottom line before, but now that the incident happened suddenly, this kind of thing is not something that can be decided on the spot.

"Okay, I'll write an excerpt and ask someone to send it back quickly. If this happens, you will be the first to do it! ”

Liu Yu smiled, and Qi Guogong said again: "After this incident, the matter of diplomacy in the future will really change." Someone needs to be stationed abroad, so that if there is any situation, it is easy to know. If it weren't for you this time, such a good opportunity would be here, and it would be useless to change someone else. Go ahead and prepare, and I'll figure it out. ”

…………

The old Count Tolstoy did not speak Chinese.

If he could, he would have wanted to say that now.

"Shaft! Deficiencies and conspiracy! ”

The eighty-year-old body grew old at an accelerated pace in the bitter cold of the Mongolian plateau, and the coughing did not stop since passing Irkutsk.

The old earl knew that his life was short, and he might have to bear the infamy of losing power and humiliating the country. What's even more hateful is that Menshikov, who is inadequate and scheming, is simply carried away by power, fame and fortune.

The execution of the deposed prince Alexei was the first to be signed by you, Menshikov, you are really bold, just to make your daughter the queen and your grandson to be the tsar in the future, you dare to do such a thing as letting the son of the deposed prince ascend the throne?

Do you really think that the first person you signed to agree to the execution of the deposed prince was dead?

Most of the ministers wanted Catherine I's daughter Elizabeth to ascend the throne, because they feared that Peter II would be purged when he came to power, especially many of the old ministers in the case of the deposed crown prince.

Menshikov, a fool, did not agree, and dreamed of his grandson or granddaughter becoming the Tsar, thinking that at least he could deceive his daughter into marrying Peter II.

Tsarist Russia has a tradition of secret police, and the old Count Tolstoy is the head of Peter the Great's secret police and Peter the Great's "commander of the brocade guard".

This venomous snake in the shadows, of course, will be left behind.

Old Tolstoy was sure that Menshikov would soon fall, but unfortunately he himself might not have seen that day.

Even this infamy of losing power and humiliating the country is borne by himself.

The old courtiers all believed that the war with China could not be expanded. This is especially true after learning that there are French officers on Dashun's side and that Dashun has adopted French-style siege methods.

Although Russia is large, it is not capable of facing a tripartite alliance between France, Turkey, and China.

The interests of the Far East are ranked after the Black Sea and Poland, and expanding the war against China at this time is tantamount to giving up the shame of the third Russo-Turkish war and the possibility of retaking Crimea; It is more likely to face China's backstab on the Polish throne.

They had thought that the empire of the East knew nothing about the outside world. But now it seems that this is not the case, not only is it not ignorant, I am afraid that even the timing of the war was deliberately chosen when Peter died and the government was in chaos.

Menshikov did not want to bear the reputation of losing power and humiliating the country, he was not Peter the Great, and he could not be defeated several times and still firmly control the government. So, this back-the-back affair was finally found out from the scrap heap of old Tolstoy, who had lost power.

The 130,000 troops left behind by Peter the Great were already about to bring down Russia's finances, and seventy percent of the annual revenue was thrown into the army.

Now there is no financial resources to support a war of 10,000 people, and it is even more urgent to resume trade with China, and get tea and rhubarb, and raw silk, in exchange for enough money to feed the army that would make Russia a European power.

The advance of Dashun in the east was too fast, and several fortresses did not stop them at all, and I heard that the emperor of Dashun came to the front line in person, which was similar to Peter coming to the Swedish front line, declaring that Dashun must recapture Heilongjiang.

At least, that's what most of the courtiers in Korea thought: the cunning Chinese chose the time when Russia was weakest to start the war, and their French and Turkish allies must have eagerly awaited the continuation of the war between China and Russia.

Amid the cough, the elder Tolstoy looked at his negotiator gloomily and sighed in his heart.

It can be seen that the person on the other side who is really presiding over the negotiations is the seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man.

Energetic, like the sun at seven or eight o'clock, hot, red, always with a smile on his face, but when he smiles, his eyes are as sharp as a poisonous snake, constantly using sarcasm to seize momentum.

But he was like the sun that was about to set, trying to set as late as possible, but it was painful to sit up straight, not to mention that the continuous coughing made his every word lack momentum.

The Latin background when he was studying naval technology in Venice was now suppressed by a young man who could not say a complete rebuttal.

The duke who was leisurely drinking tea on the opposite side put endless pressure on old Tolstoy.

When the first Latin text of the formal terms of negotiation on the side of Dashun arrived, the old Tolstoy glanced at it a few times, and could no longer hold on.

Shortness of breath, coughing repeatedly. Frightened, Liu Yu jumped over the table and jumped next to the old earl, patting him on the back and making him pant evenly.

I thought: Don't die yet, and then die in two months. Now that you're dead, who will carry this big black cauldron?