"Slave Guanyin Bao respectfully invites the prince Da'an!"

"Kannon Bao! We're finally meeting again. Come up, get up, let me take a good look at you! ”

"Master, I'm fine, don't be busy with me first, you better take a look at the capital I bring you!"

"Money? How many? ”

"That's a lot! Come and see with me! ”

In the midst of a fortress made of logs called Izyum Castle, a scene of loyalty was being staged at this time. Dressed in a long robe and gown, and wearing a first-class top Guanyin Bao, I finally saw him thinking about his good master day and night, and the prince Fuquansky who had been dressed in Rakshasa clothes.

Although Fuquan has become Fuquansky, Guanyin Bao still relied on the number of etiquette, gave him a thousand salutes, and shouted a prince and master, but Fuquan was moved. Since he was arrested by Kangxi and imprisoned on Yingtai Island, no one calls him that anymore.

And there are even more good things that move Fuquan, Guanyin Bao brought him the capital!

In the past two years, he has been mainly on the side of the Rakshasa country, eating Sofia's soft rice, and then helping Sofia and the sick Tsar Fyodor III to deceive 1 million livres of aid and a group of French officers from Louis XIV. Relying on these French officers and 1 million livres of military expenses and military aid, as well as in the name of Fuquan, Princess Sofia created a "princess guard" of up to 10,000 people, which is much more than the two battalions of new troops when the little Tsar Peter the Great started in the future.

There were 2,000 people killed in those two battalions of new troops, and Sofia is now 10,000 people!

Moreover, these 10,000 people were trained by the French military advisers sent by Louis XIV, and they were not comparable to the troops trained by Peter the Great with a few German military tramps.

With this new army, Princess Sofia's thick waist is really hard, and she is now ready to take over the power as the regent after the return of Tsar Fyodor III, so she has no time to come to Izyum, she has to sit in Moscow and guard the dying Tsar.

Although Sofia is full of confidence, the heart of Foquansky, who has failed, is still very empty.

10,000 troops is too little, leaving half to control Moscow, and only 5,000 people left to dispatch, what is enough for a brigade? I can't do anything!

And Sofia can't stay in Moscow all his life and do nothing, right? She didn't do anything to establish a little prestige, and when Peter's child grew up, he would take back more power sooner or later, and what should he do with Fuquan and Sofia when the time comes? Where else can you run?

Of course, Sofia can't be the regent princess!

Because Fu Quan had already seen that Sofia's appointment as regent was not only her own idea, but also the meaning of the sick tsar. Fyodor III did not want his power to be held by his relatives Naryshkin (the mother of Peter the Great) after his death, and he trusted his own sister Sofia and his grandfather Miroslavsky more than his stepmother and grandfather.

And what the sick tsar still wanted to start by him, it is said (the tsar and Sofia said) that the great reform related to the rise and fall of the Rakshasa state will not be interrupted by the ruling of the Naryshkin family. After all, the reform will definitely touch the interests of the old nobles of the Rakshasas, and it is certain that it will not be popular. And the Empress Dowager Naryshkina is a conservative who believes in Orthodoxy and adheres to the old tradition of Rakshasas.

If the conservative Empress Naryshkina is allowed to govern, the reform will definitely be interrupted.

And the Empress Dowager's own son Peter was brought to the church by the Empress Dowager Naryshkina every day, and it is said that he was very good at reciting scriptures at a young age. Not only can I read it, but I can also memorize it, and I also know the stories in the Bible very well, and I can tell them one by one.

At first glance, he is a conservative Rakshasa Orthodox Church, and the patriarch of the Rakshasa Orthodox Church said yes when he saw him!

When such a small conservative and Orthodox fans get close to politics, there is no hope for reform or anything.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Tsar, if his fat girl is not the regent princess, the reform will inevitably not be carried out, and if the reform fails, then the woolly bear will continue to be poor and weak, and it will be finished in the future!

In order to save the rakshasas, the fat princess Sofia must be regent!

But Fu Quan, who has been a regent, knows too well that this regent is not easy to be, let alone a princess regent. If he wasn't the regent, he wouldn't have been dragged by various forces step by step to the point of becoming a mortal enemy with Xuan Ye, and maybe he would be able to be a brother and brother for a lifetime!

And if Sofia, the regent princess, wants to die a good death, in Fuquan's opinion, there are only two ways, one is to firmly hold the power for the rest of her life, it is best to be Peter who is of sound mind, and help the mentally unsound Ivan to the throne of the tsar, and even become the empress herself in the future; The second is to use the opportunity of serving as regent to create a territory of her own and set up a duchy or kingdom, and when Peter grows up, Sofia will return the power to Peter and return to his own duchy or kingdom to live a stable life.

And both of these methods require strength!

If you want to hold power for a lifetime, you have to make meritorious contributions and play prestige! How is it possible without strength? What can a brigade of 5,000 people do?

If you want to play a piece of your own territory, you must also have strength, who can you beat without strength?

And this strength. The support of Louis XIV alone was certainly not enough.

Whether Fuquan's deposit in Yang Qilong can be recovered is the key!

And this matter is also related to Fu Quan's status in the family in the future, if Yang Qilong refuses to pay back, then he only has soft rice to eat, and he has to guard a tigress every day, and he has to do everything possible to coax her to be happy, it is really "a companion is like a tiger"!

But if Yang Qilong returned the 10 million taels of silver to him, then he would be able to raise his eyebrows a little bit in the future.

And the good news that Sival brought back to him two months ago made him overjoyed!

Yang Qilong not only gave money, but Li Zhongshan and Zheng Jing also exchanged this money for porcelain, silk, sugar, tea and spices, and the 10 million silver shipped from China to Europe was still 10 million, which could not increase in value. And the freight worth 10 million to Europe, that is 50 million starting board!

Even if Louis XIV eats all the profits, then Louis XIV also owes Fuquan a big favor Sun King's love debt, which must always be repaid!

What made Fuquan even more overjoyed was that Silva also told him that Yang Qilong and Li Zhongshan also helped him hire 3,000 "Qing soldiers" from Japan.

That's real strength!

With 3,000 Qing soldiers in hand, Fu Quan dares to think about finding a mistress, and he must find someone who is about the same size as Yang Xiaomi!

While thinking about his mistress, Fuquan followed Guanyin to the outside of the small Izyummu Fort, and then walked outside the fortress, and suddenly heard an unknown number of people shouting in unison: "Slaves and others respectfully invite the prince Da'an!" ”

When Fuquan looked up, he saw that the samurai wearing a blue gown, a red tasseled warm hat, and a small black pigtail on the back of his head, which made Fuquan extremely kind, already knelt in six rows in the open ground in front of him. Every half-kneeling pigtail soldier was holding a flintlock pistol with a bayonet on it, and when it was shining by the sun, it was called a sparkling one!

It's really powerful!

Fu Quan took a sharp breath, opened his throat and shouted: "Okay, stand up and go back to Moscow with this king!" ”

"Huh!"

The 3,000 "Little Warriors" shouted in unison again, then stood up together, then puffed up their chests, shouldered their flintlock pistols, and swaggered towards the gates of Izyum.

It's a little shorter, but it's really energetic!

Guan Yinbao, who was beside Fuquan, pointed to a row of four-wheeled carriages behind the group of dwarfs at this time, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, most of those carriages are loaded with boxes of Livre. That's 10 million! And that's just the first batch, and there may be five or six more to come. After deducting the 1 million livres that Louis XIV gave you before, you will receive at least 50 million livres this time. ”

"And 50 million? That's 60 million in total? Fuquan's voice trembled, "Third Brother Yang is really righteous!" ”

Guanyin Bao smiled: "There is more! ”

"And?" Fuquan looked at Guanyin Bao with a look of surprise, "How many more?" ”

Guanyin Bao took out an account book from his arms at this time, and handed it to Fuquan with both hands: "Lord Wang, this is the account book that Yang Sange asked me to bring you, and you have deposited a total of 10.34 million taels of silver with him, and there is more than 1.83 million taels of interest.

In addition, Brother Yang also collected all your shares in Credit Suisse Hall for a price of 2 million taels. This money was paid to Emperor Yang. Yang Fujin. ”

"I still have more than 2 million in Brother Yang's place? That's more than 1,000 lifolks! Fuquan was so moved that he was about to cry, he didn't expect him to be so powerful.

Guanyin Bao said: "Lord Wang, Third Brother Yang suggests that the more than 200 yuan you have stored in Credit Suisse Hall be turned into merchant ships and silk, porcelain and other goods, and sent to Arkhangelsk by the Northern Route. Do you think that's going to work? ”

The northern shipping route mentioned by Guanyin Bao is actually the summer shipping channel of the Arctic Ocean, which has not yet been completely opened, but it has been partially opened. The reason why the Rakshasa Kingdom can get involved in Eastern Siberia and build the Yakutsk fortress on the Lena River is because of the existence of the Arctic Ocean summer shipping lane. This is also the biggest advantage of the Rakshasas in Siberia - although the Arctic Ocean is only navigable in summer, and the navigability of several large rivers in Siberia is limited, it still has a great advantage over land transportation.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, or the Great Mongolia, as long as there is no way to use the summer shipping lanes of the Arctic Ocean for transportation, it will suffer in the struggle with the Rakshasas for Eastern Siberia.

And Foquansky did not think about the significance of monopolizing the summer shipping lanes of the Arctic Ocean for the Rakshasa country, all he could think of now was the huge benefits that the summer shipping lanes of the Arctic Ocean could bring.

So Fuquan nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, when Sophia becomes the regent princess of the Rakshasa Kingdom, this matter will be a piece of cake." ”

Guanyin Bao was stunned: "Lord Wang, your new Fujin is going to be the regent of the Rakshasas?" ”

Fuquan looked left and right, and then pulled Guanyin Bao to the carriages that were pulling silver, and while pretending to count the money, he said to Guanyin Bao in Manchurian: "That's what the tsar meant. He was already dying, and his half-brother was a fool, and he was unwilling to let his half-brother take power, so he wanted Sofia to be the regent.

Originally, I wasn't sure, but now that I have these tens of millions of miles, I can be sure of it."

He said with great ambition: "With this money, I can expand the Rakshasa Braided Army to 30,000 people!" It is also possible to open a bank, a trading company, a mine, an arsenal, a school. And well, hehe."

"Master, do you still want to fight back to the east?"

Hearing Guanyin Bao ask, Fuquan pondered for a while, and then asked rhetorically: "Guanyin Bao, you tell me the truth, can I still go back?" ”

"Difficult!" Kannon Bao's answer was only one word.

Fuquan sighed: "I also think it's very difficult!" 30,000 people in Rakshasa is a lot, but Kangxi and Wu Yingqi can pull out an army of 300,000."

He was defeated by Kangxi once, and now he is really a little unconfident!

Besides, defeating Kangxi is not the same as victory, he still has to deal with Li Zhongshan!

Thinking of this, he asked again: "The three kingdoms in the east are about to fight?" ”

Guanyin Bao nodded: "The major events in the world must be divided for a long time, and they must be divided for a long time." From the perspective of the slave, it is time for the Chinese world to be divided for a long time. ”

Fuquan lamented: "In the past forty years, the family and the country have been ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers...... What a glorious dream! ”

Guanyin Bao understood Fuquan's complicated thoughts, so he comforted him and said: "Lord, this time Kangxi colluded with eleven countries including the Netherlands, Spain, England, and Germany, and there were only four countries at most on the Ming side. ”

"Which four?"

"The American empire of the Ming Dynasty, the Rakshasas, the French and the New World." Guanyin Bao said, "Eleven to four...... The advantage is not on the side of Daming, besides, the American empire has just opened, and Rakshasa may not be able to help. The one who can really stand with Daming is a Sun King, Louis XIV. ”

"Why can't the rakshasa help?" Fuquan asked, "Is it because of this king?" ”

"Not really." Guanyin Bao said, "This time the minions were borrowed from the Ottoman Empire, and then through Ukraine, and then arrived in Izyum." And he also made friends with the khans of the Crimean Khanate.

From this khan, the minions learned that the Ottomans were about to attack the Holy Roman Empire...... The Sultan is ready to use a national army, and the number of troops is likely to exceed 200,000! This is a gamble for the whole country! ”

"What does that have to do with Rakshasas?" Fuquan asked.

"Lord Wang," said Guanyin Bao, "if you don't want to fight back to the East, you want to make a career in the West...... Isn't the battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire the best chance? ”

"This ......," Fuquan's eyes lit up, "yes! The Rakshasas have always thought that they are descendants of the Eastern Roman Empire and want to recover Constantinople. If I and Sophia do this, then we will have no worries for the rest of our lives. ”

"Lord Wang, you are Shengming." Guanyin Bao said, "The minions have seen the so-called Ottoman Guards in Constantinople. ”

"How?" Fuquan asked.

"No," said Guanyinbao, "the upper class has decayed, the middle level knows how to make money, and the lower level is a group of small traders...... It has long been lost in the courage of the past. I don't think they can beat the armies of European Christians. ”

"Oh, isn't that about the same as the Marksmanship?" Fuquan smiled, "The shooting army is the elite soldiers of the Rakshasas, and they are no longer as brave as they used to be." It seems that no matter whose soldiers are, once they are contaminated with the atmosphere of the Yamen of the market, they will not be able to fight. ”

"Lord Wangming!"

Fuquan waved his hand and said, "What is the Holy Ming and not the Holy Ming?" I don't want to come here if I want to be really Shengming, go back to Moscow first, go and discuss it with Sofia, and if she thinks this can be done, then let's try to do it. ”

"Huh!"

When Fuquan and Guanyin Bao returned to Moscow with 5,000 Rakshasa "Zhengxiong Banner" and 3,000 Qing Dynasty "Little Warrior Banner" soldiers and horses, carrying a huge sum of up to 10 million lifolks, it was already the winter of 1681, and Moscow was already covered with heavy snow and was silvery white.

Due to the serious illness of the Tsar, the atmosphere in Moscow was also quite tense, even a little tense. The Moscow ministers and nobles were now divided into two factions, both ready to put their own men on the throne as the new tsar after the tsar had his last breath.

The group of supporters of the young Peter, mainly the more conservative ministers, and the patriarch of the Orthodox Church were also supporters of Peter—they did not realize that Peter, who could be tall, handsome, smart enough to memorize the Bible, and tell Bible stories in a colorful way, would grow up to be a radical reformed demon!

There is also a faction that supports the fool Ivan, in fact, they want the fool Ivan to be a puppet, and Ivan's sister Princess Sofia is regent.

This group was mainly reformist, including Sofia and the teacher of Fyodor III, Simeon Polotsky (who also taught Peter), their elder brother Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Minister Golitsyn, and so on.

But these reformers, even the seemingly barbaric and brutal Sofia, are in fact moderate reformists. When the conservatives of the Rakshasa Kingdom tasted the power of Peter the Great, they knew how gentle Sofia's temper was.

Now, of course, they don't know.

Because this princess has recently had some opinions on the Rakshasa version of the "Nine Grades Zhongzheng System", and wants to abolish it and change it to an examination to select talents, so she is a thorn in the side of conservatives, a thorn in the flesh!

"What? Do you really want to abolish the system of assigning official positions according to the rank of the nobles? The Tsar, who was lying on the hospital bed and dying, heard the girl who came to visit say that she wanted to abolish the Mendi system and carry out the "imperial examination", and he was so shocked that he did not dare to see his father for the time being, and the whole person was in a lot of energy.

"Sofia, do you know what you're doing?" The Tsar sat up in shock and glared at his sister-in-law.

"Yes," Sofia nodded, and said resolutely, "Your Majesty. Without abolishing the practice of assigning official positions to the door, there is no hope for the rakshasas, those people will not do anything, and they are not competent officials at all. ”

The tsar shook his head: "I also know that they are incompetent, but have you thought about it, if I am not there, do you have the strength to carry out this reform?" ”

"Yes!" Sofia nodded, and his tone was very affirmative, "Foquansky has returned from Izyum, bringing back a full 10 million lifolls, and 3,000 Qing soldiers loyal to him!" ”

(End of chapter)