readx;?maria. Clementina gently moved a white chess pawn, looked up at her opponent, Zhu Jishi, the emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty who was in a daze, and smiled slightly, "Jason, it's your turn......"

Zhu Jishi sat upright, and his eyes were fixed on the chess board in front of him, but his thoughts had already flown to the clouds. As soon as Clementina reminded her, she hurriedly stood up as a black soldier. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "I have lost four games in a row, and this game must be won." ”

Zhu Jishi would play chess in later generations, and he thought he played well. But compared to Maria. Clementina still has a big gap - the European aristocracy of this era actually did not have much entertainment, except for horseback hunting, dancing, watching opera and going to bed, chess is also the same, and Maria's chess skills are very good, at the level of professional chess players in later generations. But Zhu Jishi likes to fight two games with her, Maria. In order not to let Zhu Jishi lose too ugly or win with a sense of accomplishment, Clementina had to put a lot of effort on the chessboard.

Today's game is Maria. Clementina won four in a row, because Zhu Jishi's mind was not on the chessboard at all, and he had just received news from Europe about the "defense of the pound".

"Maria, do you think Napoleon IV really wanted to save the British Empire?" Zhu Jishi casually moved another chess piece.

"How is that possible? He's a Napoleon! "Maria. Clementina moved the white elephant to make a typical Spanish start. "Moreover, if the Roman Empire really wanted to save England, it would not give the gold franc. Rather, it should be given to agricultural products, especially cotton and cereals, which Britain lacks. ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, Maria. Clementina knows a lot. Although she was not particularly proficient in politics, economics, and diplomacy, she knew a number of major things -- what Britain lacked now was not the gold franc, but real things, cotton, grain, iron ore, raw rubber, and other agricultural products and industrial raw materials. If the Roman Empire really wants to save Britain, it should give these things. As long as the British government has what the market needs, it can naturally be used to repatriate the currency. The pound will be able to stabilize.

But now that the Roman Empire has given a bunch of gold francs, is it really going to rely on the gold francs to return the pound? And even if it can be brought back, it is not useful. There are still no raw materials to run in factories in the UK. The British people also can't eat the gold franc for food. The only point is probably to give the British capitalists some cash to escape...... In Zhu Jishi's impression, the reactionary party in Chinese history did the same thing after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, throwing out $1 billion for nothing. There are still too many banknotes on the market (dollar bills are also banknotes, and there are too few things. If $1 billion of American flour is thrown out, inflation can be controlled to some extent. It's normal for a fat man from a military background to not understand this kind of truth, but so many bankers and big capitalists in Britain don't understand it.

"It's incredible that the British actually fell for Napoleon IV this time!" Zhu Jishi moved another chess piece casually.

"I'm afraid it wasn't Napoleon IV's trick," said Maria. Clementina smiled, "What did Napoleon IV know about finance and economics?" How is it possible to come up with such a trick? This must be the surname Rothschild. The man surnamed Berera gave Napoleon IV an idea...... I guess Napoleon IV himself didn't know what was going on, and this time it was mostly a farce directed by the British consortium and the Roman consortium! ”

Zhu Jishi looked up at Maria. Clementina. The former Duchess of Ségur and the Duchess of Ségur once ran the Ségur family, a well-known wealthy family in France, and he really knew the inside story of the European business and banking circles.

"Is it the Jewish consortium in Europe that is going to betray Britain?" Zhu Jishi suddenly thought of the "Jewish conspiracy theories" that were famous in later generations. In his early years wandering around Europe. I also knew a lot of Jews, some of whom were bankers and capitalists, including the famous Rothschilds and Berreira.

"I'm afraid it's not just Jews." Maria. Clementina shook her head, "In Europe and the United States, capital has few borders, and it often flows between countries. For example, the Ségur family is the Duke of France. But after the French Revolution, it also dispersed its assets in England, the United States, and South America. For example, our old friends, the Scopel family, their fortunes are all over Britain, France, the United States and Mexico. As for those Jews. In addition, there is no concept of a country, and they have always gone wherever there is an opportunity, and they will flee wherever there is a risk. ”

"Sooner or later, China's capitalists will be like this!" Zhu Jishi's interest in playing chess seemed to be at an end, holding the warm tea cup in both hands, feeling the heat coming into the palms, and looking at Maria who was sitting opposite. Clementina, thinking, "Is there a way to break this deadlock?" If the fat man used gold francs to buy something......"

"Can't buy it!" Maria. Clementina shook her head, "Unless you can convince Mathilde to dismantle Napoleon IV's throne, there will be no corn and wheat from Mexico, raw rubber from Central America, sugar from Cuba, cotton from France, and wool from Japan and Texas to sell to England...... As for the food and raw materials of the Roman Eastern Empire, they themselves did not have enough of it. ”

This time, the Roman Empire's solution to bring down Britain was actually very simple, give gold francs but jam supplies. If it had been before the outbreak of the Great War, this trick would have certainly not worked. Because there were so many places to supply iron ore, grain, cotton, and wool, the British Empire was self-sufficient from its colonies and the American Empire. But now Britain's original raw material supply areas are either occupied, in turmoil, or cut off from transportation lines. Agricultural production in the British Isles has also declined significantly due to the large number of laborers joining the army. By the spring of 1877, unemployment in major cities such as London, Manchester, and Liverpool had begun to rise sharply, while prices were rising.

This is the root cause of the ongoing wave of protests in Britain – large numbers of British people are starving, they have no pounds, no jobs, and can barely survive on the minimum food rations!

And the same thing is happening in Russia, and the situation is getting worse.

St. Petersburg, Hermitage.

A lavishly furnished room has been furnished into a hospital room, and Tsar Nicholas II (certainly not the one in history is lying quietly on a white hospital bed). The lighting in the room is soft and serene. There was also a bouquet of flowers on the bedside of the sick man Tsar, was it Empress Maria? Fedorovna picked it with her own hands. The Empress of the Russian Empire from Denmark is now napping at the Tsar's bedside. She knew that her husband had not been dead for a long time, and it would be good to be able to spend more time with him now.

Although His Majesty the Tsar's health has not been good, the relationship between the Tsar and his wife has always been very good, they are loyal to each other, and there is no rumor of "the Empress's cheating", Alexandra. Grand Duchess Nikolaevna's biological father was undoubtedly the Tsar in the hospital bed, and no one else.

But the problem is that rumors that the Archduchess was not born to the Tsar have spread in all corners of the empire these days, and there are also rumors that the Archduchess is the same as the Tsar's younger brother Alexander. Grand Duke Aleksandrovich has such a leg! The Grand Duchess was born of adultery between the two - although it was also of the Romanov dynasty, but the children born of adultery could not have the right to inherit, and Alexander, who was an adulterer. Grand Duke Alexandrovich was also unworthy of the tsar's throne. So the legal heir of the tsar should be the third son of Alexander II, Vladimir. Grand Duke Alexandrovich.

Such rumors did not fly in the streets and alleys of the city, but spread among the garrison of Petersburg and the tsar's guards! It's not something to laugh at. This is Russia, not Britain or the Roman Empire. Tsarist succession in Russia was often accompanied by bloodshed and carnage!

At the beginning of Peter the Great's accession to the throne, his sister Sophia instigated a coup d'état of the Guards, creating a strange system in which the big and small tsars were juxtaposed and the princess was regent. After the death of Peter the Great, Menshikov used the Guards to put his old lover Empress Catherine on the throne.

A generation after Catherine I, less than two weeks after the young Tsar Ivan VI ascended the throne, the Guards staged a coup d'état to arrest the regent and take control of the Tsar's mother and son. Soon after, Peter the Great's daughter Elizabeth instigated a coup d'état, arrested the Tsar, who was more than a year old, and his mother, and took the throne herself—and the Empress sent a secret decree to the prison chief who held Ivan VI ordering him to execute Ivan VI in the event of an attempted robbery, which was actually carried out in the time of Empress Catherine II.

Catherine II herself became empress by a coup d'état that overthrew her husband Peter III, her son Paul I died in another coup d'état, and Paul I's eldest son, Alexander I, died (or possibly after seclusion, there was another Decembrist revolution in Petersburg!). It can be said that since Peter the Great, in the process of inheritance of Russian tsars, only Peter II (Peter the Great's grandson, whose father was killed by Peter the Great, Paul I, Alexander II and Nicholas II) and other four tsars did not appear in the process of the enthronement of the Guards and arms!

Tsar Nicholas II, who was dying on his hospital bed, knew very well about the Romanov succession to the throne, which was always accompanied by bloody traditions. Knowing that he would die soon, the Tsar's only concern was to keep his wife and daughter away from the bloody Russian politics.

The Tsar opened his energetic eyes and glanced at his wife, who had a long time to live, and it seemed that he must find a reliable protector for them! To be continued) R655