"My dear, Nikolai. Pavrovich is a very stubborn person and few people can convince him......"

General Menshikov had already left Zhuge Weidao's mansion, and the Zhuge military advisor who had personally escorted him out was walking on the lawn when he heard his wife's worried words.

It was not easy to convince Tsar Nicholas I, but it was even more difficult to convince the woolly bear, who was accustomed to licking the goddesses of the West, that he was really a Third Rome on an equal footing with the West.

Zhuge stopped for the road and looked back at Natalie: "Honey, can't you too?" Or...... Let Mikhail go with him and talk to the tsar? ”

Natalie shook her head, but a smile appeared on her face: "My dear, I will definitely take Mikhail with me to persuade the Tsar, but our words are still not enough." But I know that if someone comes forward, he will definitely convince the Tsar. ”

"Who's that man?" Zhuge asked.

"Black-haired Louie!" Natalie said, "Duke of Marseille, black-haired Louie! ”

"The Duke of Marseille?" Zhuge Weidao was a little puzzled, "The Tsar has a good relationship with him?" ”

"No, the Tsar doesn't know him." "But he was French, the brother of Louis XVII, and the marshal of the French navy...... Although we Rakshasa were choked enough by Napoleon, France still has a higher status in our minds than England! ”

Yes, compared with the French goddess of freedom, democracy, and fraternity, the goddess of England is a country landlady with a few stinky money. In the court and aristocratic circles of the Rakshasas, speaking French is high-end, atmospheric, and high-grade. Even, when some Ming diplomats who didn't know much about Rakshasa first returned to Rakshasa and thought it was a Slavic country ruled by the French aristocracy!

"Good!" Zhuge nodded for Dao and looked at his wife, "Natalie, the Great Military Division will definitely let the black-haired Louis go to the Rakshasa...... But you still have to explain the position of the Ming Dynasty to Emperor Nicholas.

The Ming Dynasty looked forward to a Western order co-hosted by Eastern Rome, Western Rome, and the Arab Empire! British influence had to be ruled out, and the European continent should be ruled by two Roman Augustus and two Roman Caesars. The Rakshasa Emperor and the King of France should certainly be the Augustus of East and West Rome, and the King of Prussia and the Austrian Caesar...... All should be the Roman Caesar second only to Augustus!

As for Iraq, Syria, the coastal areas of the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, among others, they should all belong to the Arab empire founded by Ali Pasha.

If Nikolai. If Pavrovich really wanted to become the Augustus of the restoration of Eastern Rome, then he should know that no emperor of Eastern Rome would regard the Gauls, Germanic barbarians, and the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, who were even more barbaric than the Germanic barbarians, as representatives of some kind of civilizational progress! ”

The Rakshasas are still Slavs after all...... Although they say that they are the heirs of Rome, how can a real Roman kneel and lick the Germans, Anglo-Saxons and Francis like the Rakshasas?

"In addition," Zhuge said for the Tao and again, "through the territory of the Jin Kingdom, the railway from Daming to Rakshasa is the lifeline of Rakshasa and not our lifeline...... If the Rakshasa Kingdom cannot take Constantinople in a very short time, then Nicholas. Pavrovich and his empire needed our support, but now the railway is only halfway built and stopped! ”

The two "rails" that passed through the territory of the Dajin Kingdom are now only half repaired and stopped there! As for the reason for the halting of this "track" project, of course, Nicholas I did not agree. The Central Asia occupied by the Dajin Kingdom is in the eyes of the Rakshasa Kingdom as a buffer zone between the Rakshasa and the Ming Dynasty! Daming is now going to build a railway, saying that it is to support Rakshasas, but did Rakshasa ask Daming for help?

Nope!

Since there is none, why is Daming so enthusiastic?

In fact, Daming is willing to spend so much money to build the Central Asian Railway, mainly not to support the woolly bear, that is just incidental, Daming's real purpose is to turn Central Asia into its own resource collection and commodity sales place....... Central Asia is landlocked, far from the coastline, and there are few waterways to the outside. Land transportation was also inconvenient in the past, and it can be said that it is an almost closed economic circle.

And once Central Asia is connected to the Ming and Rakshasa by rail, then sooner or later it will integrate into the economic circle of the Celestial Empire ruled by the Ming Dynasty instead of walking with the Rakshasas. The reason is simple, the scale of the Celestial Empire's economic circle is twenty times larger than that of the Rakshasa Kingdom!

Once Central Asia is economically integrated into the Celestial Empire's economic circle, it will not be possible for it to continue to play the role of a buffer between the Rakshasa and the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the great fighting power shown by the Jin State in the Battle of Peshawar also worried Nicholas I......

But compared to the defeat of Constantine and the upgrading of Rakshasa to Rome, the gains and losses in Central Asia are really irrelevant.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said to his wife again: "Please tell the Tsar that now is the best time for the Rakshasa to become Rome, and whether this matter can succeed depends on the determination and dedication of the Tsar himself!" ”

"Okay, I see!" Natalie nodded, "I'll be sure to relay your words to Nikolai. Pavrovich's, if the black-haired Louis can get to Petersburg in time, then I will definitely bring back the contract for the purchase of warships. ”

......

"Louis, let me tell you, now there is a chance to become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, do you want it?"

In Versailles, in the Grand Triana Palace, the French father Zhuge asked his godson Louis XVII a question that was easy to answer with a smile and a sigh.

"No, I don't want to." Louis XVII immediately replied in the negative.

"Don't want to? You say you don't want to? How could you not want to? You've had big ambitions since you were a kid! ”

"Yes, I've wanted to restore the Bourbon dynasty since I was a child." Louis XVII smiled loyally, "Now that I've done it, I'm King Louis XVII of France, I'm satisfied." ”

"Satisfied? But that's the Roman Emperor! Zhuge still refused to give up for a long time, and continued to persuade, "You really don't want to?" ”

"No, I really ......," Louis XVII said, "Father, I really don't want to be emperor of the Western Roman Empire." Because according to statistics, of the 69 rulers of the Western Roman Empire, only 24.8% died of natural causes, and the rest of the Western Roman emperors all died of unnatural death! ”

"But Nicholas I wanted to be emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire!"

Louis XVII laughed: "Because only 30% of the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire died unexpectedly, this figure is even far less than the abnormal mortality rate of the Rakshasa Tsar." ”

"Well, well," Zhuge said for a long time, "then what do you want?" ”

"I want Algeria," said Louis XVII, smiling, "and I want to become the master of the Mediterranean after the power of the British Empire has faded, and I want to take back Quebec." But I really don't want to be a Roman emperor...... Let Ferdinand I of Austria take this position. ”

You little fox!

Zhuge Weijiu looked at Louis XVII carefully and felt that he did not look like Louis XVI at all...... It's so cunning!

Thinking of this, he asked again: "What about heroes?" How many do you want? What configuration do you want? High or top? ”

Louis XVII looked back at his brother Louis the black-haired.

The Duke of Marseille smiled and said, "Father, France deserves the best...... So, let's not want a high-end version, and we don't want a top-of-the-line version...... What we want is a custom-made version developed specifically for the Mediterranean region! And our naval naval architects are involved in the development of the project to facilitate the localization and upgrading of this battleship in the future. ”

Zhuge Weijiu laughed: "You two, you have endured hardships in the end, and you really know how to live...... France is lucky to have you! Well, I'll let Lao Shi arrange it for you, and of course the price is also favorable. But little Louie, you have to help me get on a trip to the Rakshasa country! ”

"Okay!" The Duke of Marseille nodded, "Father, do you want to persuade Nicholas I to give up cooperating with the British in the development of battleships and choose the hero class and hero class of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Zhuge Weijiu smiled and glanced at Louis XVII: "Children only do multiple-choice questions, and when the emperor is the king, of course they want it!" Louie, don't you say? ”

Louis XVII smiled: "Of course, of course, the design of the British battleship is also very desirable. ”

Chapter 197: Louis, Do You Want to Be Roman Emperor?