Chapter 9 The amnesiac strategist has no plan left! (Please collect it, vote for me, recommend me, and read more)

On the afternoon of December 15th.

Rakshasa Tsar Nicholas I sat on the throne in the Peter Hall where portraits of Peter the Great and Catherine I hung. Beside him stood his brother Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and his sister Natalie.

Grand Duchess Pavlovna and her eldest son, Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich, as well as the commander of the Guards, General Paskovich, and several other senior Rakshasa generals in neat military uniforms.

The Tsar sat there with a serious face, watching the back of Staunton leaving the Baron, frowning, saying nothing, and seemed unhappy - because he had just seen the portrait of the old British crown prince. This portrait

It is still placed against the wall. I don’t know who put it there. To be honest, the Tsar is not very satisfied with the appearance of the old crown prince. He is just an old fat man with white hair. Considering that painters usually

The portrait of the big shot is prettier than the real person. This old fat man's appearance is really a bit embarrassing to Natalie Pavlovna.

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

Although "no support" is not a very strong word, and it also means "tacit approval" and "non-interference", the British ambassador always referred to the Eastern Roman Empire as the Byzantine Empire during the interview, which made the tsar feel that he came from the British Empire.

Mishima's defiance and warning.

The Rakshasa Kingdom inherited the legal authority of the Second Rome (Eastern Rome), and regarded itself as the Third Rome, and regarded it as its destiny to recapture Constantinople and restore the glory of Rome. However, those Western European barbarians actually perished in the Second Rome.

Later, using the name "Byzantine Empire" to call this empire that they had looked up to for thousands of years was simply a villain's success!

And Thomas Staunton called the Second Rome the Byzantine Empire in front of the Czar. I am afraid it was not his personal position, but a hint of the British Empire's attitude towards the revival of the Eastern Rome!

But the problem is that the Rakshasa Empire does not dare to break up with the British Empire now - although the Rakshasa Empire's army is the best in the world, its industry and navy are indeed not as good as those of Britain and the Ming Dynasty.

The powerful army of the Rakshasa Empire basically cannot reach the Ming and Great Britain. Although the mainland of Ming Dynasty is bordering the Rakshasa Empire, the European part of the Rakshasa Empire is too far from the Ming border, separated by the boundless Siberia. Moreover, both sides maintain

With the tacit understanding of "not getting close" and being a "distant neighbor", the Ming Dynasty did not vigorously develop Mobei Mongolia, the Western Regions and the Outer Xing'an Mountains, while the Rakshasa did not develop the eastern areas of Eastern Siberia and Western Siberia.

In this way, the two sides look like neighboring countries, 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, neither the Ming Dynasty nor the Rakshasa are dregs.

As for Britain, it was simply an island country, and it was particularly good at supporting thugs on the European continent. Napoleon was so capable that he was defeated by the thugs supported by Great Britain. Nicholas I did not want to be Napoleon II.

Even if the Rakshasa can be defended by the local winter climate of ice and snow, it will be contained by the British Empire in a world of ice and snow, and there will never be a chance to go south to recapture Constantinople.

So the countermeasure he can think of now is to keep swinging between Great Britain and the Ming Dynasty, taking advantage of both sides without offending both sides. However, the British Empire's stance on the Turkish and Greek issues, and the Ming Empire's continuous development of one hundred years since Queen Zhuge Wuzhong,

After more than 20 years of "peaceful line", Nicholas I felt that his swinging policy was likely to mess up!

"Wei Yuanda, Ambassador of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhuge Zhuge, the military attaché of the Ming Dynasty Embassy, ​​have an audience with us!"

Following the shouts of his attendants, Tsar Nicholas I finally came out of his thoughts. He sat upright on the throne and looked straight ahead. He saw Wei Yuanda, who was wearing a Ming Dynasty civil official dress and a black gauze hat, and Wei Yuanda, who was wearing a black gauze hat.

Zhuge Weidao, who was wearing a military uniform and his head still wrapped in gauze, walked in, followed by Guo Xiaobao, Huang Shuren, and Guo Huang carrying two briefcases.

When they came to the tsar, the four envoys of the Ming Dynasty saluted the tsar together. Among them, Zhuge Weidao, Huang Shuren, and Guo Xiaobao all raised their right hands in a military salute, while Wei Yuanda bowed in obeisance.

According to the audience etiquette in the Rakshasa palace, the four Ming envoys did not speak, but the tsar was the first to speak: "It is an honor to see you here. For the sake of Tao, is your injury better? I heard from Xie Dongnuo

Doctor Husband said you have recovered some memories."

The Tsar suddenly stopped talking here, because he found that Zhuge Weidao was not listening, but turned his head and looked somewhere to his right. Could it be that he was looking at Natalie?

Thinking of this, Nicholas I also followed Zhuge Weidao's gaze and looked over. What he saw was not his sister Natalie, but the portrait of the British Crown Prince that he forgot to take away.

"Nikolai Pavlovich," Zhuge Weidao suddenly asked, "Who is the person in the painting? His face looks like he is about to die!"

"For Dao, what did you say? That. Those are portraits of the British Crown Prince of York and the Duke of Albany." Nicholas I frowned and said, "The Duke of York and Albany are the future kings of England!"

Zhuge Weidao shook his head, "He will die soon if he can't become the king of England. He will probably not survive more than two years."

"Is this true?" Nicholas I looked at Zhuge Weidao, the "amnesia strategist" who was a bit confused, with doubts, and couldn't make up his mind for a while.

As a tsar who believed in Orthodox Christianity, he should not believe in fortune telling. However, when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, Zhuge Weidao's father, Zhuge Youde, once led his troops to Petersburg to help defeat Napoleon. By the way,

Just leave it to Nicholas, his brothers, and Natalie, who was a little lolita at the time.

Among them, the calculated result for Alexander I was that there were still more than ten years of destiny. Now it has been fulfilled!

Konstantin Pavlovich's destiny was to be rich and prosperous. It turned out to be true!

Later, Grand Duke Constantine fell in love with a Polish noblewoman whose identity did not match the Tsar's, so his descendants would lose their inheritance rights, so he no longer wanted to be the Tsar.

The calculated result for Nicholas is that he has a destiny for decades, but his military luck is not good. He should use his troops carefully. Now that he has a destiny, what will happen to his military luck?

The fortune-telling result given to Mikhail was prosperity, wealth, and the Grand Duke. This is also quite accurate, because Nicholas I's wife was particularly fertile and now has a son and three daughters. The possibility of Mikhail's accession to the throne is very high.

Close to nothing.

The result of his fortune-telling for Natalie was that if she did not lose her virginity before marriage, she could be the queen of the two countries!

This is not the most amazing thing. The most amazing thing is that Zhuge Youde later followed Alexander I to Paris, and gave a fortune to Napoleon, who had lost the war and was going into exile. He actually said that Napoleon would be emperor again. The result

They really restored the throne and continued the Hundred Days Dynasty!

The fortune telling was so accurate that Nicholas I could not help but not believe it.

Moreover, this is not the first day that the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty have dealt with each other. After the Baikal War more than a hundred years ago, the two sides established embassies in each other and established formal diplomatic relations. There is news about the clever calculations of the Zhuge family in the Ming Dynasty.

, and was inquired about by the Rakshasa embassy in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, these information were not groundless, but were well-founded.

Let’s not talk about anything else. Just talk about how many politicians, military strategists, scientists, inventors and big capitalists engaged in industry and mining have emerged among the Zhuge family’s children with the title of military advisor in the past hundred years or so, especially those scientists.

, inventors, industrial and mining capitalists have created so many things, one has to wonder whether this Zhuge family can really handle it. Because they are engaged in scientific research, invention and creation, industry, and looking for minerals everywhere.

, it is very important to find the right direction! If you go in the right direction, you will get twice the result with half the effort. If you go in the wrong direction, your efforts will be in vain. And the military advisors of the Zhuge family seem to be very good at finding the direction, and they will find it accurately.

According to incomplete statistics, at least two-thirds of the major inventions and scientific research achievements made by the Ming Empire in the past hundred years were contributed by the Zhuge family's military advisers or the institutions they led. The founder of the Zhuge family

The inventions and creations of King Zhuge Wuzhong and the various scientific theories he proposed are indeed more conjectures. At that time, together with Newton and Leibtzny, they were also regarded as the three great scientific giants of mankind, and they were still recognized

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 he can predict the future based on his ancestral skills!

Moreover, this ability is "inherited" from the Zhuge family and cannot be learned by other families. Zhuge Weidao was a talented person in the Zhuge family before he "lost his memory". Maybe he also has the ability to predict the future?

"Nikolai Pavlovitch," Zhuge Weidao saw that Nicholas I seemed to be frightened, and hurriedly struck while the railway was hot, "if you marry Natalie Pavlovna to this old man who is not going to die soon, what will happen to you in the future?"

You will definitely regret it. If you want to marry the Hanoverian Dynasty, there is a better candidate."

"A better candidate? Who?" Nicholas I was a little confused. Among the Romanov family, only Natalie could marry, and among the Hanover family, only the Dukes of York and Albany could marry. Apart from them,

Between the two, who else could there be?

"Him!" Zhuge Weidao raised his hand and pointed at Nicholas I's side.

Nicholas I looked in the direction of Zhuge Weidao's finger and saw a blond and blue-eyed little boy in military uniform, who was his eldest son Alexander.

Nicholas I turned to look at Zhuge Weidao and asked: "Who is he with?"

Zhuge Weidao replied: "Of course it is with Alexandra Victoria, the third presumptive heir to the British throne. If Prince Frederick dies, then she will be the second presumptive heir to the British throne. And she ranks before Victoria.

Although Prince William, Duke of Clarence, has ten illegitimate children, he does not have a single legitimate child. Therefore, once Grand Duke Alexander marries Princess Victoria, he will have a high probability of becoming the British royal husband in the future. And according to

According to British rules, the children born to him and Victoria will bear the surname Romanov."

Nicholas I took a deep breath, and his heart pounded. If the plan proposed by Zhuge Weidao could really come true, then the Romanov Dynasty and the Rakshasa Empire would make a lot of money. The dilemma they faced

Everything was solved at once. As long as Alexander and Victoria got married and became the prince and queen of England, and the Rakshasa Empire marched into Constantinople, the British couldn't stop it anymore, right?

If the British continue to stop her, won't they just let the queen beat the prince's husband?

"But, Alexander Nikolayevich and Alexandra Victoria are still young." Nicholas I said, "And what the British want now is Natalie Pavlovna."

"Age is not a problem," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "If I remember correctly, Emperor Catherine the Great was only thirteen years old when she was elected as the Crown Princess, and she was only sixteen years old when she held her wedding to Peter III.

.I think this time is still worth the wait!

As for the British who want Natalie Pavlovna. If I take her away, won’t there be no Natalie Pavlovna to hand over to the British? Then you can push Grand Duke Alexander to come out and get engaged to Victoria. Britain

If people are unwilling to accept it, then one can imagine their attitude towards the Rakshasa Empire. Facing Britain like this, what is the use of sending Natalie Pavlovna?"

Nicholas I nodded slightly, and then looked at Zhuge Weidao with strange eyes: "Weidao, have you calculated that the British will definitely reject this marriage?"

"Historically, it was rejected," Zhuge Wei said in his heart: "But there is no Ming Dynasty in history!"

"Nikolai Pavlovich," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "With the Ming Empire here, the British may not necessarily reject it, and the Ming Empire is not afraid of the alliance between the Rakshasa Empire and the British Empire at all!"

Nicholas I stared at the Ming Dynasty Ambassador Wei Yuanda who was also stunned: "Is what he said true?"
Chapter completed!