New Shun 1730

This reason directly broke through the last bit of Louis XV's vigilance.

If so, then all the actions of Dashun seemed particularly reasonable.

With Russia, both are monarchies, so they can be reconciled.

With the Netherlands, there are not only ideological disputes between parliamentary system and absolute monarchy, but also disputes over interests in Southeast Asia.

And Britain is the most capable of fighting among non-absolute monarchies, so the Dashun emperor certainly hates it.

This can also explain why it is rumored that Liu Yu was furious with George Anson of Britain in Guangzhou because of a trivial matter.

Louis XV had a feeling of enlightenment and sudden enlightenment.

He thought, yes, Liu Yu is an aristocrat, and he is an aristocrat in a centralized state like Dashun, so he naturally stands with absolute monarchy.

He muttered the word "Holy Alliance" and felt that the word was wonderful.

There was a Holy Alliance in Europe.

In 1538, the pagan Turkey began to attack the Knights Hospitaller and defeated the Pope's joint fleet. Christian countries organized the Holy Alliance and declared war on pagans.

That was a holy war.

Interestingly, at that time, the French lily and the Ottoman green crescent stood together, which was called the Sacrilegious Alliance.

With the Thirty Years' War of Religion, the sanctity of religion was greatly reduced.

The term "Holy Alliance" has not been mentioned for a long time.

Louis XV really didn't expect that after the Sacrilegious Alliance, France would once again stand with pagans.

And this time, the camp in which France was located was not humiliated as the "Sacrilegious Alliance", but the legitimate "Holy Alliance".

According to rumors, Louis XV had a famous saying.

"After my death, the flood will be overwhelming."

There are different interpretations of this sentence, just add a few words in the middle.

The original text is similar to the classical Chinese of Chinese, lacking some grammatical structures of vernacular, so it can be freely played.

"After I die, who cares if there is a flood?"

"After I die, there will be a flood."

Similar to "People can be made to do it", it is not about the words themselves, but how to interpret them, the meaning is completely different.

"After I die, even if there is a flood." If you understand it this way, Louis XV is a Yang Guang.

But if it is "After I die, there will be a flood", it means that Louis XV has seen that the bourgeoisie is likely to make the Bourbon royal family flood.

Liu Yu's "Holy Alliance" really hit the point where Louis XV was most worried.

Because the criticism of the word "holy" in the French aristocratic circle and the upper circle has reached the point where it can't be suppressed.

Louis XV must know Voltaire.

Voltaire is always praising Britain and Dashun.

Knowing that "there is no freedom on the British land, and powerful speculators and swindlers in Britain are dominant", he still used Britain as an "ideal country" and invented a perfect Britain. The political system and customs of Britain that he invented greatly attracted the French bourgeoisie and the masses.

Knowing that Dashun was the peak of the feudal dynasty, he still used Dashun as an "ideal country" and invented a perfect Dashun. The political system and customs of Dashun that he invented greatly attracted the French bourgeoisie and the masses.

So-called, the starting point is good, for enlightenment, facts are not important, what is important is enlightenment and awakening.

You have heard of the ideal country anyway, but you have never seen it. Most people have never been abroad, so just make it up, and no one will expose it.

Now that Liu Yu took the initiative to mention the Holy Alliance, Louis XV had to ask some of his long-standing doubts.

"Mr. Marquis, I am very interested in what you said about the Holy Alliance, and I agree with it very much."

"I am very curious about how your country has achieved the divine right of kings and I am the state?"

He took out a pamphlet from the bookcase in the small conference room.

This pamphlet was written by Voltaire and passed to the court through a noble salon.

Louis XV turned to a certain page and asked Liu Yu in confusion.

"Voltaire said: Chinese newspapers are the most reliable and useful newspapers in the world. There is no other. The newspapers record the people's demands in detail. Officials will listen to the people's demands, hopes, and visions for the country, and register them and print them in newspapers."

"Voltaire said: In 1728, your country fought against Russia, and the queen granted relief to poor women over 70 years old across the country. In Guangdong Province alone, there were 98,220 poor women over 70 years old who received the relief. There were 40,893 people over 80 years old. People over 100 years old, There are 3453 people. "

"Voltaire said: China can count every population, including their annual income, expenditure, age, and family size. Their demands for the country, expectations for the government, complaints against officials..."

"I really want to know, how did your country achieve "I am the country" when even the population of more than 70 in a province can be counted to single digits and even the demands of every citizen can be met?"

Louis XV did not deliberately humiliate Liu Yu or embarrass Liu Yu. He really believed what Voltaire said.

I felt that Dashun was simply invincible. The population and age structure of each province could be counted to single digits; by the way, the newspapers could also count the demands and expectations of the people in detail.

And such a country can actually be ruled by the emperor, with unlimited power.

This... Even if Jesus himself came to be the king, that's it, right?

Louis XV asked sincerely, his heart was full of envy, and as a "colleague in the circle", he had endless respect and admiration for the Emperor of Dashun.

If it really was as written in the pamphlet, it would really be beyond Louis XV's not-so-pathetic imagination. How did an absolute monarchy achieve this level?

Could it be that the Emperor of Dashun was really as those aristocratic salons said, that every Emperor must be a "philosopher king"?

After listening to Louis XV's words, Liu Yu felt that Louis XV was looking for trouble, slapping himself in the face, mocking himself, disgusting himself, and humiliating Dashun.

He didn't blush, Dashun was the pinnacle of the feudal monarchy, Liu Yu knew it very well. Even if he was mocked, he couldn't be mocked on him. He didn't think he was a Dashun person at all. He was wearing the skin of a Dashun noble, and he was thinking about how to end the Li Dynasty all day long.

But during this kind of negotiation, Louis XV's words made Liu Yu very depressed.

He thought to himself, if you want to be sarcastic, just say it directly. I was quick-witted to fool you with the Holy Alliance, but you can't disgust me like this, right?

Dashun has this level? If Dashun has this level, let alone other things, it would have already earned 200 million taels of silver per year - what he didn't know was that Voltaire believed that the fiscal revenue of the Chinese treasury was 200 million taels of silver per year.

What kind of grassroots organizational ability is this?

Even the legendary "tyrannical Qin" can only have such grassroots organizational ability in the 800-li Qinchuan. It is conceivable that if they leave the 800-li Qinchuan, Xiang Liang, who was caught and would definitely be torn to pieces, can chat and laugh with the governor of Kuaiji.

Dashun is even worse. It is good enough to make detailed statistics on the old soldiers and good families of the descendants of marquises in the old Shaanxi and Henan as the basic base.

One is asking sincerely.

The other feels that the other party is weird and sarcastic.

Even if the two of them didn't get along, Liu Yu felt that Louis XV took the suggestion of the "Holy Alliance" as a joke.

Liu Yu thought that this was not right. As a feudal ruler and a beneficiary of French centralization, Louis XV should be equally vigilant when he talked about the bourgeoisie.

Could it be that the ideological dispute he mentioned was not enough to explain why he was anti-British in Louis XV's eyes?

Although the reason for his anti-Britishness was because of the power of British industrial capital and the colonial market, it had nothing to do with the so-called Bill of Rights. Even though Dashun was a constitutional monarchy, it was not much different from the British ideology, and British industrial capital absolutely opposed Dashun's goods entering Britain and the North American colonies.

But how could Louis XV have such a worldview? How could he understand the contradictions between industrial capitals of various countries? How could he understand that Dashun was in urgent need of hard currency and precious metals, and relied on inflation to promote the concentration of rich capital in industry rather than land and cellars?

Could it be that Louis XV was still hiding his true colors?

When a person hears a sincere compliment as sarcasm, it is a kind of sarcasm in itself.

Fortunately, Louis XV asked Liu Yu again in a moment of doubt: "Mr. Marquis, how much of Mr. Voltaire's introduction to China is true?"

Louis XV himself did not believe that all these words were true.

Liu Yu slowly raised his head, not knowing how to answer.

Later generations evaluated Voltaire's historical level, saying that "as a more personal understanding, he did not even deliberately refer to a large number of books to clarify the details, but tried to provide a general understanding of the world."

This statement has a high emotional intelligence.

To put it in a low emotional intelligence statement, it is "the history he wrote, without reference to books, without clarifying the details, all made up."

Not to mention the later generations, Montesquieu of the same era said that Voltaire was "his intention in writing history was to promote his own sect, that is, to promote his non-religious religion."

The ideal country is not the kingdom of heaven on earth, not heaven, so it is not a religion. But the way he promoted it has a strong religious flavor. That is not the ideal country, that is heaven, so it is called a non-religious religion.

Liu Yu respected Voltaire very much, but he was disgusted by this kind of "enlightenment" method of making up lies. At this time, Louis XV asked Liu Yu to make some comments, but Liu Yu really couldn't comment.

After being embarrassed, Liu Yu had to say something dejectedly.

"Your Majesty, if that is true, then there will be no Holy Alliance between China and France."

"As a monarch, the philosopher king does not need additional, irrational sanctification."

"Because it is not sacred enough, we have to form a Holy Alliance."

"As for his introduction to China... do you believe in Atlantis?"