Wake up early in the morning with a hangover. Qi Guogong's confidants have already sent over the draft "sky-high asking price" charter.

After freshening up and lighting the stove, Liu Yu looked at the charter drafted by Qi Guogong and felt that it was acceptable.

He doesn't care too much about the territorial issue of this demarcation, and sooner or later he will tear things up. I was very concerned about the matter that I asked for yesterday with Qi Guogong.

The Celestial Empire has been around for 2,000 years, and each dynasty has its own style. But Dashun has not yet formed its own style.

The public opinion of the entire Dashun has a bit of a "PTSD at the end of the Ming Dynasty", and it has a great stress reaction to the tragedy of almost Shenzhou Lu Shen at the end of the Ming Dynasty. So far, this kind of mental "post-traumatic stress disorder" has not subsided, and the old sores will be restored and new flesh will not be born.

In addition, Dashun chose Ye Shi and Chen Liang's school as the official Confucianism, which added fuel to the fire at the cultural and diplomatic level.

On the one hand, Li Tang compares himself with himself, hoping that martial arts will prosper, the Hu people will surrender, and the territory will be expanded. Under meritocracy, technology is not very repulsive; On the one hand, it is self-confident and orthodox, the Celestial Empire, Huayi is different, it is different from the barbarians, and in some places it is too rigid and persistent, sticking to it, and it is quite restless in terms of cultural mentality.

It seems to be contradictory, but it is actually reasonable: the scholar uses a telescope to look at the stars, and the scholar forces the woman to bind her feet, which is not mutually exclusive; Accepting Western technology and cultural self-confidence is not mutually exclusive, but mutually exclusive things like the Celestial Empire and equal diplomacy.

Hundreds of years in advance, this is not to say, the Celestial Empire is indisputably strong in culture and technology; Now they have to face external shocks that previous dynasties have not faced.

The style of a dynasty always has historical reasons, and it is always cast in the prosperous era, and the dynastic style of Dashun is about to be formed.

Liu Yu hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to facilitate a large-scale Rakshasa envoy to Beijing; The envoys of the national dynasty went to Rakshasa to participate in the enthronement ceremony. Let Dashun begin to realize the changes in the outside world.

However, it is still at the stage of asking for a price, and the issue of the throne cannot be directly mentioned in the draft charter, which should be a condition for negotiating the asking price.

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Two days later, the negotiation ground.

The Rakshasas were surprised to find that the guards of Dashun had changed their flintlock pistols and put on dogskin hats of Swedish origin that they looked somewhat familiar.

Liu Yu brought all the flintlock pistols collected in the battle of the Eastern Front, but there were not enough 200 of them, and the remaining people did not mix arquebuses, but carried the bend knives used by the honor guard of the national government.

This kind of costume change seems to convey a certain meaning. It is like showing off its might, proving that Dashun has won the battle in the east; It was as if to tell the Rakshasa people that Dashun had already begun to install flintlock pistols, or at least consciously wanted to install flintlock pistols.

In the tent, the Count of Sava also noticed the abnormality on Dashun's side. Qi Guogong's side had an extra seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man.

However, apart from the change of guards and the addition of an additional deputy negotiator, there has been no progress on the issue of negotiations. It used to be one person drinking tea in the tent, but now it has been replaced by two people drinking tea in the tent.

This time, it was Count Savoie's turn and couldn't sit still.

News has just arrived from Petersburg that Tsar Catherine I died of a heart attack.

This was expected by Savoie, the Tsarina Catherine I, who was a real figure with a horse on her arm.

At that time, Peter held a heavy marshal's staff and joked with people, asking who could lift the marshal's staff flat with only the deltoid muscles, and a bunch of guards could not do it, Catherine I rolled up her sleeves and raised her flat arms. Strong and fat, and uninhibited by nature, being a female tsar queen is even more fun, drinking and some intense exercise, it is not difficult to predict that she died of a heart attack.

But as soon as the tsaress died, Peter's 11-year-old son, Peter II, who deposed the crown prince, came to power with the support of important ministers.

Before the death of Peter the Great, in order to prevent the abolition of the crown prince and his family from ascending to the throne, the new law was abolished in favor of the old party, and even the inheritance law was changed. The purpose of allowing women to ascend the throne is to prevent the remnants of the deposed prince and the conservative faction from coming to power.

Now that the 11-year-old little tsar has come to power, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is a puppet.

11-year-olds......

A Praetorian coup d'état is about to brew again, and a large-scale purge is about to take place.

The chaos on the inside, Sava outside, can still pretend that nothing happened.

But external problems made Sava really unable to sit still.

Not long ago, on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, Dashun released some of his officers and asked them to convey to the Russian overseers in the Baikal region and Yakutsk that they should immediately withdraw from Chinese territory.

The news brought back by these officers made Sava even more uneasy.

The officer said that Dashun's siege methods were obviously the standard curriculum of the French military academy. And in the Dashun army, the figure of the French officer was found, and even the fleur-de-lis of the French royal family could be seen.

And...... In the city, they faintly heard the Ottoman military music.

These two pieces of news suddenly made Sava sit on pins and needles.

The sworn enemy of Russia and Turkey has already fought three wars, and the fourth has already begun to brew.

As for France, Catherine I was going to marry her daughter to King Louis XV of France, but Louis XV married the daughter of the deposed king of Poland. The Polish question and the refusal to marry a daughter had just led Russia to conclude an anti-French alliance with Austria.

Now, the officers who were released after being captured came to tell him that the method of attacking the city was obviously French, and that there was a French officer corps to guide Dashun's army, which was like a bolt from the blue.

Russia could not establish an empire-level enemy in the western, central, and eastern directions. Whether it is France, Turkey, or Dashun, either side will require Russia to expend great strength.

Is it necessary for Russia, for the sake of the Far East, to shed too much blood?

The submission of the Khalkha Mongols made Sava even more panicked at the long border, how many Cossacks and bastions were needed?

The internal coup d'état and the external enemy, these two things together, finally made Savoyard unable to sit still.

Seeing that Dashun had sent new people, the guards began to be equipped with flintlock pistols and wore dogskin hats with a very Swedish style, which made Sava decide to speak first.

"Your mission must explain why your country is not declaring war. The Russian Empire expresses its great indignation at the aggressive actions of your country. The Amur River basin, which has already belonged to His Majesty the Tsar, is acting aggressively. ”

Latin in Savoy.

This time, without the need for others to translate, Liu Yu immediately took out the map that had been prepared and spread it on the table.

"The Heilongjiang River basin has been China's territory since ancient times. Could it be that the Poles captured Moscow a hundred years ago, and your recapture of Moscow was an invasion? ”

When you really want to talk about business, pay attention to hitting people and not slapping people. But in the stage before talking about business, you have to slap people in the face.

Referring to the Polish capture of Moscow, Sava said angrily: "The capital of your country was also occupied by the Tunguska eighty years ago. Moreover, the chiefs and nobles of the Amur Valley have submitted to His Majesty the Tsar. There, naturally, was the territory of the Russian Empire. ”

Liu Yu pointed to the map and said: "In the Ming Dynasty, there was already a garrison here. This is the inscription of the Heilongjiang estuary, and now the inscription is still there, you can send someone to follow us to investigate. The relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Dashun was like that of the Rurik Dynasty and the Romanov Dynasty, which naturally inherited all their legal lands. ”

Sava looked at the rubbings of the Yongning Temple stele and the location of the various Ming Dynasty guards on the detailed map, and could only argue: "At that time they were subservient to the Ming Dynasty, but now their leaders have submitted to the Tsar." ”

Liu Yu laughed.

"The Son of Heaven is different from you. The whole world is not the king's land. There is no real lord in Huaxia, only a virtual lord. ”

"Your king, the full name of which is the king of Great Russia, Little Russia, and Belarus; Duke of Kiev, Smolensk and Pskov; Princes of Tver, Perm, Ryazan, Belochersk, ......"

As if announcing the name of the dish, he read the full name of the tsar in the text submitted by Sava before, almost held back, took a deep breath and said: "The Son of Heaven of China does not wear many hats. The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. You said that some of the leaders in the Heilongjiang valley are vassals to you, so what does it matter to their people? You can take away those nobles who are vassals to you, but the land belongs to the people who live there, they have already expressed their submission to the Son of Heaven, everyone is a direct subject of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven wants the land back for their direct subjects, this is a very normal thing, how can it be said to be an invasion? ”

After speaking, he used Qi Guogong to make an example.

"This is the Duke of Qi in Dashun. Qi is a place, can it be said that the Duke of Qi has the sovereignty of Qi? This is not the same thing at all, the nobles there call you vassals, then they are no longer the vassals of the Son of China, and the Son of Heaven of China will choose a minister to govern the land there. He is no longer a minister of the Son of Heaven of China, so why does he have jurisdiction over the land there? Besides, having jurisdiction does not mean ownership, can the mayor of Moscow sell Moscow directly to me? ”

The chickens and ducks on both sides are talking and talking, and their understanding of the law is not on the same channel at all, so they can't understand it at all.

Qi Guogong continued to drink tea without saying a word.

I don't understand it, I don't want to hear it, this kind of mouth cannon is the most boring. He can trust Liu Yu, since the emperor asked Liu Yu to come over as a deputy, this kind of thing is naturally for Liu Yu to do.

Liu Yu is naturally not afraid of verbal battles, with the map "sent" by Bering, he has a map in his hand, and he does not panic when he speaks.

Talking nonsense to the back, it has already been pulled to the claim that Tang Gaozong Li Zhi has the king of kings, the map opens the territory, and denounces the Russian invasion of Persia.

Anyway, Liu Yu is not in a hurry, he knows that Russia is now unable to fight a large-scale war, at least in the Heilongjiang Valley, it will not be able to assemble a field army.

Quarrel during the day, drink alcohol and eat hot pot at night. Weekends off, go hunting.

He's dragging it.

The political situation in Russia was chaotic.

From the middle of July of the lunar calendar to the middle of August, it finally dragged on to a turning point.

It was a Sunday, and negotiations were not held as usual. Liu Yu found that a group of newcomers had appeared in the Russian envoys, and he thought that Russia was tough again, and he couldn't help but be nervous.

But the next day, Savoy, who had been negotiating with them, was gone, and it was an old man in his eighties, also a count, who came forward.

Liu Yu asked Qi Guogong to write a note, took two hundred taels of silver of public funds, spent money to bribe the people of the Russian mission, and after asking the identity of the old man, he was immediately excited.

This old man is called Pyotr Andreevich Tolstoy. It should be the old grandfather of Tolstoy, who was born in the year when Dashun Jingzhou fought to kill Lekdehun, and now he is over eighty.

This man did one thing...... It was he who went to Naples and captured the father of the current little tsar and the deposed prince of the year. It was also him, as the presiding judge, who sentenced the deposed prince to death.

The Man Behind the Pot.

It couldn't be more obvious.