"Uh......"

Liu Yu and Tian Zhenyi's affairs are not secrets.

There is no impermeable wall in the noble circle, and it was just not on the surface before, just turning a blind eye.

The emperor will definitely keep an eye on Liu Yu, and he often corresponds when he is in Weihai, which can't be hidden.

It's just that Liu Yu has never mentioned it, and he has made a high-profile claim to the outside world that the Huns have not been destroyed.

Now the emperor took the initiative to mention it, although Liu Yu knew that the relationship between the royal family and the nobles was not only between the monarch and the nobles, but sometimes some elements of "family patriarchs" had to be added to maintain the relationship between the royal family and the nobles.

Controlling marriage also happens from time to time. The emperor is not the patriarch of the noble family, but when appropriate, he should make this gesture to show the difference between inside and outside, between public and private.

Now that the emperor took the initiative to bring up this matter, Liu Yu couldn't pretend to be stupid, nodded a little shyly, held his breath hard and held his face a little red, looking very shy or ashamed.

As a "secular philosopher-king with exemplary morals", the Son of Heaven must conform to Confucian regulations in every word and deed and every action.

The same is true of the nobles who are very close to the Son of Heaven.

Privately, you can play with flowers. It's no problem to pick up ashes and steal people for such things, these things are much lighter than the crime of "men and women are privately determined for life".

The former is only a moral condemnation, while the latter is a challenge to the bottom line of orthodoxy.

This is a very sick society in Liu Yu's opinion, but in fact, people like Liu Yu are sick in this world.

Now that the emperor has mentioned it, Liu Yu wants to break this matter to the perspective of "affection and courtesy", but he doesn't want the emperor to laugh: "I also heard the queen talk about the woman in the family of the Duke of Qi, she is really a strange woman." You did a good job, you were affectionate and polite, you didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and you were waiting for your parents' orders to match. ”

Let Liu Yu relax first, Li Gan is actually very happy in his heart.

He who does not care about things is terrible, thinking that he has no weaknesses.

If there are people, things, and situations that you care about, this person has weaknesses. A courtier with weaknesses can rest assured.

Xu Shu's filial piety is a weakness, so Cao Cao can take advantage of it.

Yue Fei's loyalty is a weakness, so Zhao Jiu can take advantage of it.

An emperor who can control the government is not necessarily a bad person, but he must not be a good person in a purely moral sense.

Liu Yu's performance before made Li Gan always have a pimple in his heart, because he couldn't see through it, he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't find out what Liu Yu cared about, and he couldn't find out where Liu Yu's weaknesses were.

In terms of guts, dare to risk the big crime of being a ginseng book "spying on the forbidden palace" in this cautious atmosphere in the Yiguo Gong's house, and go to make a hot air balloon, just for the sentence "to make people common, to learn from Xingshi".

In terms of desire, if you don't buy land, don't buy land, and if you have money, you will invest in the navy and the Qingzhou army.

The Qingzhou Army, which was built single-handedly, can fight well, and for the sake of Nanyang, which has always been obsessed, he took the initiative to hand it over without saying a word.

Speaking and doing things, he is even more wild and uninhibited, and he can't guess what this person is going to do.

Now I finally found out that Liu Yu has someone who cares.

This feeling makes Li Gan feel like having a cat, if he is about to leave, he doesn't know whether to scratch or snort lightly in the next second. Finally, one day I found out what this cat's favorite dried fish was, and this cat could be rubbed by someone for this dried fish.

It's wonderful.

What's even better is that Dashun is connected by sitting.

In the emperor's eyes, people like Liu Yu are a bit like being stingy: cutting off the head is only a hat blown by the wind.

This kind of person can be led by love, but he can't be forced by force.

Judging from Li Gan's previous feelings, that is, if the Tao is the same, he will be loyal; If the way is different, go to your mother's, agree to do it, and if you don't agree, you have to do it by all means.

It was useless to threaten Liu Yu, Li Gan felt useless. But perhaps it would be useful for such a person to threaten the people he cared about, especially when the person he cared about was not a single person, but a large family of thousands of people.

The nobles of Dashun were in charge of the army, and after the situation of the country gradually stabilized, there was gradually an unspoken rule: the lords and nobles would no longer marry.

Liu Yu's parents' generation is the last batch of noble marriages. After that, basically try not to marry as much as possible.

If the nobles are all waste, completely reduced to decorations, there is no problem with marriage. But as long as the nobles still have military power and are still in charge of the army, this kind of marriage is not liked by the emperor.

Now it is necessary to carry out military reform, so that the nobles have status, but no military power; He can lead the army, but he cannot lead the army; He can be a general, but he has no private soldiers...... The marriage between the nobles is no longer so taboo.

On the contrary, in Li Gan's view, for people like Liu Yu, the more things they carry, the safer and easier it is to be controlled.

The Earl's Court is in the capital.

Naturally, the earl's family is also in the capital.

Once knighted, it is actually a separation, and the relationship with the Yiguo Mansion will be different from then on. If Liu Yu really wants to do something, the first person to oppose is not others, but the Yiguo Mansion, the Xiangguo Mansion, and the possible Qi Mansion in the future.

The emperor didn't think about the possibility of Liu Yu's rebellion, but only thought about Liu Yu's way of "forcing the government". Carrying a few big burdens behind him can at least make him a little more restrained and have some worries when doing things.

Liu Yu really had no worries about doing things before, and the habit of cutting off his head only as a wind hat made the emperor appreciate that he could make meritorious contributions, but also inevitably gave birth to a lot of unhappiness.

Changing to an emotionless one, squatting in the Earl's Palace, Li Gan estimated that Liu Yu must want to do something, but I am afraid that he may not care.

It's just that Liu Yu did this thing, there are really too many slots, if it really spreads, the reputation will definitely be bad, and it will definitely attract a lot of criticism.

Fortunately, Liu Yu was not born in the imperial examination, and the constraints of science and morality on him are limited, as long as he doesn't go too far, this matter can be solved.

"Qi Guogong should be back soon. Since you were able to be affectionate and polite before, I don't have to tell you too much. Just remember, don't lose your dignity and make people criticize. You are now the son of the Duke of Wing, and the new Earl of I. ”

"If it's really out of line, it won't look good on the face."

Hearing the emperor's acquiescence, Liu Yu was quite excited, made a few grateful and lowly actions, and scolded in his heart for new tricks.

Seeing Liu Yu so excited, Li Gan was even more relieved, and said with a smile: "If this matter is in the market, it will be a beautiful talk; If it is in the court, it is despised by people. It's better to be more cautious. Don't talk about it, you just have to know it. ”

"However, after the return of the Duke of Qi, you also said that the French Kingdom of France was going to send an envoy. I read about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period a few days ago, and I have a little understanding, but there are still some things I can't figure out in my heart. ”

"Thou hast thou said, The nations of the West shall go to war over the throne of the Ottoile. Anglo-Dutch Rakshasa as a gang; Faossi is a gang. According to you, the king of Oridi is too old to have another male child, and he does not have a few years to live. You are going to wage war against the Netherlands again, as I depicted 'several spices taxed in Henan'. ”

"At this time of tension, if we entertain the French mission in a high-profile manner, will it not be for the French to borrow the prestige of our court? It may even make Britain and the Netherlands and other countries hostile to our DPRK? ”

Hearing that the emperor had such worries, Liu Yu was overjoyed.

Such worries prove that the emperor really let go of the figure of the Son of Heaven with his eyes closed and considered combining vertical and horizontal.

Although it has not been used for many years, the method is a little rusty, and the information is unknown, so it is inevitable that there is something wrong with the thoughts.

"Back to Your Majesty, I have my own needs in this matter with the French country. France wants to use the prestige of our dynasty to deter the Anglo-Dutch rakshasas; Didn't our dynasty take advantage of the power of France to threaten the rakshasas? ”

"Although there have been great changes in the world, the Western heroes can be called great powers, but the name of the emperor is the most respected in this dynasty."

"Especially when I served Dzungaria in the new service, I defeated the Rakshasa in the bitter cold land of the northeast, and it has only been 20 years since the Western countries changed their flintlock pistols and new army formations."

In their eyes, the Celestial Empire is rich and all-encompassing, with tens of millions of finances and taxes at their fingertips, and a population of 20,000, which is the largest country in the world. Even though the military formation is backward now, if you want to change, it is easy, and they don't know the details of our country, let alone the difficulty of our military reform and the thinness of taxes. ”

"Moreover, there are still real nobles in Western countries, and it is extremely difficult to centralize power, such as the French great Confucian Voltaire, etc., all think that the system of this dynasty is the best, and there are arms and fingers from top to bottom. In their eyes, this dynasty is really the posture of Kunlun, majestic and upright, the largest empire in the world, and the most noble emperor. At least for the time being. ”

"The minister is not to grow the ambition of others and destroy his own prestige. If this dynasty does not change, the only thing that can stop the Westerners is the waves of thousands of miles. If there are no waves thousands of miles away, if it is in the surrounding countries such as Japan, such as Annam, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries, any country can take out one-third of its fleet, and we can fight our dynasty to move the border and forbid the sea, and the south of the Yangtze River will shake. ”

"But...... They don't know yet. The gold and jade are defeated outside, and they can only see the gold and jade, but they can't see the defeat. ”

"If we declare war on the Netherlands, Britain will have to send a mission to take the initiative to make a pilgrimage to His Majesty, so that our DPRK will be neutral towards Britain. Not so arrogant as to go to war directly against our DPRK because of the Anglo-Dutch alliance. ”

"Therefore, the visit of our DPRK to the French mission must be so powerful that the whole world knows it; But in terms of specific negotiations, he only promised and did not sign the alliance covenant, but he did not refuse all at once. The great sin of the minister, please compare it with a woman in the dust, that is, a smile and a smile make the heart seem to be intentional; But it doesn't promise to hook and fish. To grasp the importance of the matter, it is really necessary to be able to be subordinate. ”

"Instead, a tariff agreement could be signed to reduce taxes on French merchant ships. The minister asked the French, and the trade of their country is the most seventy or eighty thousand taels a year, and they signed it today, and the situation can change in the future. For the time being, France really has nothing to sell to our dynasty, and American ginseng and the like are medicinal materials, so it is just right to reduce tariffs as a gesture. ”

"It is also possible to sign a secret treaty, allowing it to supply and repair in the port of the country and the DPRK during wartime, but it can only be France, Spain, etc."

"The momentum is huge, and it is for Rakshasa and Britain to see."

When Li Gan heard this, he already understood. After thinking for a moment, he laughed and said, "Yes." The negotiation of the Rakshasa to survey the northwest border will be delayed. dragged to the Rakshasa and the Turkish war; After the French envoys came to the capital in a big way, they negotiated with the Rakshasas. ”

"As for the British, they maintained an attitude and sent people to come to Hajj and take the initiative to ask for a meeting."

"In your eyes, the dynasty is not capable of participating in the affairs of the South Seas or even India, so it cannot make an alliance with France at this time. But it also convinced France that there might be an opportunity for an alliance in the future to seek its own armaments. ”

"In the future, you can advance or retreat. retreat, then stick to the Nanyang to reproduce the Yongle Dynasty Nanyang Domain, and the Western countries are treated equally; Advance, then compete for the sea to divide India, and combine vertical and horizontal to use its military strength to have allies and enemies...... If Nanyang India is really as profitable as you say. ”

Liu Yu thought to himself, it is not too profitable, and it may lose money in the short term, for the treasury. The investment in the early stage of colonization was quite large, and the South Seas did not produce silver, and the mortality rate of tropical immigrants was too high. It is India that is really beneficial, but the spices of the Dutch can also take advantage of the chaos in Europe, and they can be used as bait.