When the British and French ambassadors left the Qingxi Book House, Song Enming, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, walked in, he had been communicating with Eriksson before, and the two sides naturally did not have such discord as Ning Yu and the British and French ambassadors, but had reached a lot of preliminary agreements.

"Diplomacy is really a university question, and the minister has learned a lot from it."

Song Enming sighed with a little sigh on his face, although the war between Chu and Russia was a matter that had been prepared, but the chain reaction after it happened still made him a little anxious.

Ning Yu didn't have the unhappy look on his face just now, in fact, he also knew the reaction of Britain and France, so after seeing Song Enming come in, he said softly: "That's right, our ancestors all know the truth of long-distance friendship and close attack, since we want to fight the Russians, we can't fight alone." ”

"We don't have any real allies in Europe at the moment, Sweden can barely count one, but they will only stand with us in the affairs of the Russians, and if it is other interests, I am afraid they will not support it so much. As for the British and French ideas, it is even simpler, they just want to make Ning Chu a gun against the Russians. ”

Ning Yu couldn't help but sigh when he said this, "There is no friendship between countries, only the relationship of interests. When we deal with other countries, we should pay special attention to this, we have to deal with them, but we can't really treat them as so-called friends. ”

Song Enming thought for a moment and said softly: "Then our current relationship with Sweden, can we consider further cooperation?" ”

In the past, Ning Yu did not approve of an actual alliance with Sweden, and until now he has started a war with the Russians, he does not seem to have this intention.

"Cooperation naturally needs to be deepened, but it cannot be a substantive ally."

Sure enough, Ning Yu was still opposed to forming an alliance, and he immediately explained: "We must not only look at the current war, but also look at the future diplomatic interests in Europe, and we must not be bound by Sweden, otherwise we will be in a very unfavorable situation in the future." ”

In Ning Yu's heart, he is willing to fight against the Russians with Sweden, but he is never willing to be too deeply involved with Sweden, because Sweden's goal has always been to restore the hegemony before the Great Northern War, and Ning Chu's involvement is not in his interests in Europe.

You must know that the Great Northern War was not only the Russians against Sweden, but also other European countries, such as Britain, France, Prussia, Denmark and Saxony, etc., were against Sweden, so a rising Sweden would only be attacked by the crowd.

Song Enming nodded and said softly: "What Your Majesty said is very true, but there is one thing to enlighten Your Majesty first, the list of our ambassadors to European countries has been preliminarily decided, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to take a look." ”

As he spoke, Song Enming took out a finger-wide note from his sleeve and handed it over.

Ning Yu took the thin note, only to see that there was not much information on it, mainly the names of several people, and behind these names were their positions.

"Xu Wenjun, it seems that he is the second class in the first imperial examination, I remember him, this person's ability is still very strong, and now he should be the prefect of Hunan, why did he send him to the embassy in France?"

These words startled Song Enming, he could not be regarded by the emperor as the kind of minister who stretched out his hand arrogantly and arbitrarily, and then hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, it was not that our Ministry of Foreign Affairs had no talents, so the minister also specially asked for the purpose of selecting relevant diplomatic talents among the officials of the whole country, and Xu Wenjun was one of them, especially he himself was also very happy, and he still took the initiative to resign from the position of the prefect of Baoqing, Hunan." ”

Ning Yu smiled slightly, and then looked at it again, but there was nothing worthy of his attention in the list behind, so he put it down casually and advised: "The world in the next hundred years will be a world of change, and these diplomat seeds of ours will directly lay the foundation for the future diplomatic situation of Da Chu, or pay more attention to cultivation, and we have to give a ride when we help the horse!" ”

"Pick up the horse and give it a ride?" Song Enming felt that this statement was really fresh, but he could also understand the meaning of the words, but he didn't understand what the emperor meant.

Ning Yu said softly: "I think that we need to carry out a special training course for diplomats, in addition to cultivating their basic diplomatic qualities, we must also talk to them about the world well, and don't limit our vision to the country....... When the time comes, a special exam can be organized, and if you succeed in the exam, you can be promoted by one liter, and our third-level diplomats are only from the fifth grade now, is it a little too low? ”

"Your Majesty, at present, there are secretaries among the divisions of the Executive Yuan, that is, from the fifth grade, and it is not small for our third-level diplomats to follow the fifth grade......."

Song Enming was a little helpless, in the final analysis, the third-level diplomats are at most the first level of work, and the ones who can really be sent out are at least the second-level diplomats, and they are from the fourth grade, as for the diplomats sent to Britain and France and other big countries, they are at least first-level diplomats, and the grade of the first-level diplomats is the third grade, which is half a level lower than the political envoys.

Ning Yu smiled and said softly: "In this way, all the diplomats' grades will be raised by half a level, and the third-level diplomats will be on errands with the rank of the fifth grade." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will never disappoint Your Majesty's expectations."

Song Enming was suddenly overjoyed in his heart, to put it bluntly, among the current departments of the Executive Yuan, everyone's grades are about the same, and now they can be promoted by half a grade, which can be regarded as more or less a raise of eyebrows.

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Originally, after the end of the military operation of the Fu Han army in Mobei, the army did not withdraw to the Beijing division, of which 30,000 people under the leadership of Dong Ce launched an attack on the Jungar Khanate, in response to the western army of Shaanxi and Gansu, and the other 70,000 people were also divided into two parts, of which 30,000 were stationed in the Mobei grassland, in order to deter the newly recovered Mobei tribes, while the other 40,000 people marched north along the direction of Heilongjiang and attacked the Russians in the north.

In fact, from a military point of view, it is irrational to attack the Russians in October, because the northern Xinjiang is about to enter winter, and a hasty war will only bring more unnecessary losses, after all, in cold weather, it will test the logistics supply capacity of an army even more.

In fact, even in the Privy Council's plan, it was necessary to wait until the beginning of next spring to start the plan to attack Russia, but the problem was that the battle of Mobei was fought too smoothly, not only the Privy Council did not expect it, but the emperor did not expect it, and even the Russians did not expect it, so they cleaned up Jungar at once.

This has led to a problem, a large amount of grain and grass and horse material prepared in the north before the war have been saved, and these grain and grass can fully guarantee the needs of tens of thousands of Fu Han troops in the north to fight all winter, in addition, the Fu Han army has prepared a large number of winter cotton clothes, so it can be changed into combat only in winter, and it will not affect the combat effectiveness.

But the problem is that the Russians don't have such confidence, after all, they have just entered the Far East, and with the current supply capacity in the direction of Siberia, it is not enough to support too many troops to fight in winter, especially in the direction of Yunchun and Vladivostok.

Therefore, Ning Yu and the Privy Council also made a bold determination to launch an attack before the arrival of winter, and when winter began, the fully protected Fu Han army would have an advantage over the Russians.

Of course, the rhythm after the real start of the battle is not very fast, after all, the Russians are stationed in a wide area, from the entire north of Mobei Mongolia and even north of Manchuria, almost all of them have become the sphere of influence of the Russians, and the number of troops is very small, they are a few dozen people to control a large area, so the Fu Han army can only disperse its forces and gradually sweep away the Russian forces.

When the Fu Han army advanced in an orderly manner, Yunchun City naturally became the focus of the two sides of the front-line battlefield, the Tumen River began to sound sporadic artillery on both sides of the river, although the two sides have not officially fought, but the attack and defense around the Tumen River has begun, and the fire of war has finally been rekindled here.

In Yunchun City, the flags of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty finally replaced the Russian flags of the past and were re-hung on the city, but these tattered Eight Banners flags were only fluttering weakly, perhaps when they were checked out from under the box, they never expected such a day.

The so-called Qing Empire, in fact, has long since died, but it has not been buried until today.

Emperor Qianlong sat indifferently in the yamen of Yunchun City, which was a relatively desolate room, with only a little sunlight shining through the half-hidden door, so he almost sat in a shadow.

In the past three days, Qianlong has dismissed those warblers and Yanyan around him, after more than a year of hard work, he has not been able to let those women conceive heirs, and now in this precarious environment, he finally chose to give up completely, and now he is accompanied by only some Qing court widows.

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, the Empire's power in the Far East is relatively limited now, and it must be used where it is truly valuable, so the Empire's army will not continue to fight against the endless Han army in the Tumen River...... Now I can only regret to inform Your Majesty that we will abandon Yunchun City, and ask Your Majesty to follow us out of Yunchun and go to Vladivostok. ”

Count Sarahulla's whole body was bathed in sunlight, and his face still had a warm smile, but the words that came out of his mouth were as merciless as a sword.

"There is another thing to tell Your Majesty, this time to Vladivostok, Your Majesty has a noble status, so you can choose to bring two people as your servants, but you can only bring two people, after all, there is not much food now, and we can no longer feed other useless populations."

When the last sentence of 'useless population' was translated, the eyes of almost all the old and young people of the Qing court instantly despaired, and they did not dare to express their inner anger at Count Sarahula, and could only look at the emperor sitting in the shadows with a longing look, but they did not dare to say a word.

Since the Qing court completely became a vassal of the Russians, such scenes are not uncommon, from the beginning of the reduction of all aspects of the Eight Banners, to the enlistment of the soldiers of the Eight Banners to build a fortress, in these processes, the high-level leaders of the Eight Banners have opposed from the beginning, but since those opponents were killed by the Russians for various reasons, no one dared to say a word.

At this critical time, everyone lost the courage to resist, they looked at the emperor in front of them hard, hoping that Qianlong could choose them to leave, but Zhang Tingyu, who was standing in the corner, was not in a hurry at all, just looked at everyone calmly.

How can you continue to live?

Obviously, at this moment, Zhang Tingyu and Count Sara Gula almost agreed, in their opinion, waste does not deserve to continue to live, nor does it deserve any resources.

Emperor Qianlong neither agreed nor objected, but just sat quietly and remained silent.

The whole room was silent, everyone looked at Emperor Qianlong, waiting for his decision, even the Count Sara Hura, who had always been unkind, did not have any intention of urging at this time, just waited quietly.

After a long time, Emperor Qianlong slowly spoke, and what he said made everyone feel that this emperor's brain was broken.

"I don't want to run anymore."

Count Sara Tura frowned slightly, he looked at the young man in front of him, and said softly: "Your Majesty the Emperor, do you know what you are talking about? If you don't want to go to Vladivostok, you will only be captured or killed by the Fu Han army, just like your father. ”

Even the old and young remnants of the Eight Banners, who had become numb, were still extremely angry when they heard that Count Saraula was suspected of insulting Yongzheng in his words, and they glared angrily at the Russian in front of them, and some even began to curse in their mouths, using all vicious words to attack the person in front of them.

However, Sara Wula didn't even look at these people, she still stared at Qianlong, and said unceremoniously: "See, what you can rely on now is such a group of people, they don't even have the courage to come up and attack me, they will only insult me like a lady!" ”