On the afternoon of December 15th.

Tsar Rakshasa Nicholas I sat on the throne in the Peter Hall with portraits of Peter the Great and Catherine I, and by his side stood his younger brother Mikhail I. Grand Duke Pavrovich, sister-in-law Natalie. Grand Duchess Pavrovna and eldest son Alexander. Grand Duke Nikolayevich, as well as the commander of the Guards, General Paskevich, and several other high-ranking generals of the Rakshasa country in straight uniforms.

The Tsar sat there with a serious face, looking at the back of Staunton as he departed from the baron, frowning, not saying a word, and seemed unpleasant—for he had just seen the portrait of the old Crown Prince of England, which was still resting against the wall, and who had put it? As for the appearance of the old crown prince, to be honest, the tsar was not very satisfied. It's just an old fat man with white hair. Considering that artists usually draw big people more beautiful than themselves, this old fat man looks a little sorry for Natalie. Pavrovna ......

What made the Tsar even more dissatisfied was that Staunton also told the Tsar from the Baron that although the British government opposed the atrocities of the Turkish Empire in Greece, it did not support the revival of the Byzantine Empire!

Although "no support" was not a very strong rhetoric, and there were also connotations of "acquiescence" and "non-interference", the British ambassador's constant reference to the Eastern Roman Empire as the Byzantine Empire during the audience made the Tsar feel the contempt and warning from the British Isles.

The Rakshasa inherited the legal system of the Second Rome (Eastern Rome), and the Third Rome promised itself that it was his destiny to recover Constantinople and restore the glory of Rome. However, after the fall of the Second Rome, those Western European barbarians actually used the name "Byzantine Empire" to refer to this thousand-year-old empire that they once looked up to...... It's a villain!

And Thomas. Staunton called Second Rome the Byzantine Empire in front of the Tsar, probably not his personal position, but a hint at the British Empire's attitude towards the revival of Eastern Rome!

But the problem is that the Rakshasa Empire does not dare to tear its face with the British Empire now - although the Rakshasa Empire's army is the first in the world, but her industry and navy are indeed inferior to the British and the Ming.

The powerful army of the Rakshasa Empire is basically beyond the reach of the Ming and the British, although the Ming mainland and the Rakshasa Empire are bordered, but the European part of the Rakshasa is too far from the Ming border, and it is also separated by the boundless Siberia. Moreover, both sides maintained a tacit understanding of "not close" and "distant neighbors", the Ming Dynasty did not vigorously develop the northern Mongolia, the Western Regions and the Outer Khing'an Mountains, while the Rakshasa did not develop the eastern regions of Eastern Siberia and Western Siberia.

In this way, the two sides seem to be neighbors, but in fact, no one can fight the other - unless one of them is particularly weak and only needs a small army to succeed, but at the moment Daming and Rakshasa are not tofu scum.

As for Great Britain, it is simply an island country, and it will especially support thugs on the European continent...... Napoleon was so capable of fighting, he was defeated by the thugs supported by the British, and Nicholas I did not want to be Napoleon's second.

Even if the Rakshasa could be defended by relying on the cold and snowy climate of the native winter, it would be contained in the ice and snow by the British Empire, and there would be no chance to go south to recover Constantinople......

So the countermeasure he can think of now is to keep swinging between the Great Britain and the Great Ming, take the benefits at both ends, and not offend both sides...... However, the position of the British Empire on the Turkish and Greek issues, as well as the "peaceful line" of the Ming Empire that lasted for more than 120 years since the reign of Queen Zhuge Wuzhong, made Nicholas I feel that his vacillating policy was likely to be messed up!

"Ming Ambassador Wei Yuanda and Ming Embassy Military Attache Zhuge are here to see you!"

With the shouts of his attendants, Tsar Nicholas I finally came out of his thoughts, sat up straight on the throne, and looked straight ahead. I saw Wei Yuanda, who was wearing a Ming civil official dress and a black gauze hat, and Zhuge Weidao, who was wearing a military uniform and had gauze wrapped around his head, walked in together, followed by Guo Xiaobao and Huang Shuren, and Guo Huang and Huang were also carrying two briefcases.

Walking to the tsar, the four Ming envoys saluted the tsar together, among which Zhuge Weidao, Huang Shuren, and Guo Xiaobao raised their right hands and saluted, and Wei Yuanda bowed and bowed.

According to the etiquette of the audience in the Rakshasa court, none of the four Ming envoys spoke, but the tsar spoke first: "It's an honor to meet you here...... For the sake of the Tao, are your injuries better? I heard from Dr. Sechenov that you have recovered some of your memories......"

The Tsar's words suddenly stopped at this point, because he found that Zhuge Weidao was not listening, but turned his head to look somewhere on his right, could it be that he was looking at Natalie?

Thinking of this, Nicholas I also followed Zhuge Weidao's gaze, and what he saw was not his sister Natalie, but the portrait of the British crown prince who forgot to take it.

"Nikolai. Pavrovich," Zhuge Weidao suddenly asked, "who is the person in the painting?" Look at his countenance, like he is dying! ”

"What do you say for the Word? That...... It was a portrait of the British Crown Prince York and the Duke of Albany. Nicholas I frowned and said, "The Duke of York and Albany are the future kings of England!" ”

Zhuge shook his head, "He can't be the king of England anymore..... He was dying, probably less than two years to live. ”

"Is this true?" General Nicholas I looked at Zhuge Weidao, the "amnesiac military advisor" who was a little chattering, and couldn't make up his mind for a while.

He was an Orthodox czar, and it stands to reason that he should not believe in fortune-telling. But...... When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, Zhuge Youde, Zhuge Youde, the father of Zhuge Weidao, once led a trip to Petersburg to help fight Napoleon, and by the way, he gave Nicholas and his brothers, as well as Natalie, who was still a little Loli at the time.

The result of the calculation for Alexander I was that there were still more than ten years of Mandate of Heaven...... Now it has been fulfilled!

Constantine. Pavrovich's destiny is rich and glorious without destiny...... And it came to pass!

Later, Grand Duke Konstantin fell in love with a Polish noblewoman whose identity did not match the Tsar, so his descendants would lose the right to inherit, so he didn't want to be Tsar anymore.

The result calculated for Nikolai is that there is a mandate of heaven for decades, but the military luck is not good, so he should use his troops carefully...... Now that the Mandate of Heaven has been established, Wu Yun doesn't know what to do?

The fortune-telling for Mikhail turned out to be glory, wealth, and peace. This is also quite accurate, because Nicholas I's wife is particularly capable of giving birth, and now he has a son and three daughters, and the possibility of Mikhail ascending the throne is close to none.

And the result of his fortune telling Natalie is that if he does not break his body before marriage, he can ...... Now the two queens are optional!

This is not the most absolute, the most absolute is that Zhuge Youde later followed Alexander I into Paris, and also gave Napoleon, who lost the battle and was going to exile, and actually said that Napoleon would be the Son of Heaven again...... As a result, the people really restored and continued a 100-day dynasty!

The fortune teller was so accurate that Nicholas I could not believe it.

And it is not the first day of dealing with the Rakshasa and the Ming Dynasty, the two sides set up embassies with each other after the Baikal War more than a hundred years ago, and established formal diplomatic relations. And these news are not groundless, but well-founded.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about how many politicians, military strategists, scientists, inventors and big capitalists engaged in industry and mining have been produced among the sons of the Zhuge family who have been named military advisers in the past hundred years, especially how many things have been made by those scientists, inventors, and capitalists in the industrial and mining industry, it has to make people doubt that this Zhuge family can really pinch it. Because it is important to find the right direction for those who are engaged in scientific research, invention and creation, industry, and those who are looking for minerals everywhere! If you go in the right direction, you will get twice the result with half the effort, and if you go in the wrong direction, your efforts will be in vain. And those military advisors of the Zhuge family seem to be very good at finding directions, and they are looking for an accurate one.

According to incomplete statistics, at least two-thirds of the major inventions and scientific research achievements made by the Ming Empire in the past 100 years or so were contributed by the military advisors of the Zhuge family or the institutions they led...... The inventions and creations of Zhuge Wuzhongwang, the founder of the Zhuge family, and the various scientific theories, public truths, and conjectures he put forward, were even more in that year, together with Newton and Leibutzny, he was called the three great scientific masters of mankind, and he was also recognized as the first of the three great masters.

This King Zhuge Wuzhong also made it clear that the reason why he is so powerful is because of the ancestral ability to pinch and calculate, that is, to predict the future!

Moreover, this ability is still "inherited" by the Zhuge family, and people from other families can't learn it...... And Zhuge Weidao was a talent of the Zhuge family before "amnesia", maybe he also has the ability to predict the future?

"Nikolai. Pavrovich," Zhuge Weidao saw that Nicholas I seemed to be bluffed, and hurriedly hit the railroad while it was hot, "If you take Natalie. Pavrovna married this old man who was dying, and you will regret it in the future. If you want to marry the Hanoverians, there is a better candidate. ”

"A better candidate? Who is it? "Nicholas I didn't understand that only Natalie could marry in the Romanov family, and only York and the Duke of Albany could marry in the Hanover family. Who else but the two of them?

"Him!" Zhuge raised his hand for the Tao and pointed to Nicholas I's side.

Nicholas I looked in the direction of Zhuge Weidao's finger and saw a blonde and blue-eyed boy in a military uniform, who was none other than his eldest son, Alexander.

Nicholas I turned his head to look at Zhuge and asked, "He and ...... Who? ”

Zhuge replied: "Of course, it is with Alexandra, the third presumed heir to the British throne. Victoria ...... If Prince Frederick dies, she is the second putative heir to the British throne. Prince William, Duke of Clarence, who was ranked before Victoria, had ten illegitimate children, but he did not have a single legitimate child. Therefore, once Archduke Alexander marries Princess Victoria, he has a high probability of becoming the royal husband of England in the future. And according to British custom, the children born to him and Victoria would bear the surname Romanov. ”

Nicholas I took a breath of cool air, and his heart pounded. If Zhuge Weidao's plan can really be realized, then the Romanov Dynasty and the Rakshasa Empire will make a lot of money. The dilemma was solved at once...... As long as Alexander and Victoria get married, and become the husband and queen of England, and the Rakshasa Empire marches into Constantinople, the British can't stop it, right?

If the British want to stop it again, isn't that just to let the queen beat the princess?

"But, Alexander. Nikolaevich and Alexandra. Victoria was still ......," said Nicholas I, "and what the English wanted now was Natalie. Pavrovna. ”

"Age is not an issue," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "If I remember correctly, Catherine the Great was only thirteen years old when she was chosen as the wife of the crown prince, and she was only sixteen when she married Peter III. I think I can afford to wait!

As for the British wanting Natalie. Pavrovna ...... I'll take her away, or there won't be Natalie. Can Pavrovna be handed over to the British? When the time comes, you push Archduke Alexander out and get engaged to Victoria. If the British refuse to accept it, then their attitude towards the Rakshasa Empire can be imagined. In the face of such a UK, you put Natalie. What's the use of Pavrovna sending it? ”

Nicholas I nodded slightly, and then looked at Zhuge Wei with strange eyes: "For Dao, do you calculate that the British will definitely refuse this marriage?" ”

"History is a refusal," Zhuge said for the Dao heart, "but there is no Ming in history!" ”

"Nikolai. Pavrovich," Zhuge said with a smile, "With the Ming Empire, the British will not necessarily refuse...... And the Ming Empire is not afraid of the alliance marriage between the Rakshasa Empire and the British Empire at all! ”

Nicholas I stared at Wei Yuanda, the ambassador of the Ming Dynasty, who was also stunned: "Is what he said true?" ”