June 6, 1706, Palace of Versailles, Apollo Room.
"Mary Anne, did you know? In today's Europe, many people already regard Great Mongolia as a country governed by parliament and charter like Britain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands! Is this true? ?Is your husband Yinti now the master of the country or a servant of the parliament?"
The person who was angrily asking Mary Anne, Queen of the Great Mongolia, who had come all the way from thousands of miles away, to inquire about the state of the Great Mongolia was, of course, the Sun King of Europe, I, the Frankish Emperor Louis XIV of the country.
Because of the victory of the Great Southern War, French America, and the emergence of Louis' successful election as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the Frankish Empire under the rule of Louis the Great entered its heyday.
Now, a huge empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to White Rus in the east has appeared on the European continent. Moreover, this country not only has vast territories on the European continent, but also has vast colonies outside the European continent. According to the "North American Continent" signed between the Frank Empire and the Shangfang Kingdom, the Yin Family, the Aztec Kingdom, and the Kingdom of England, According to the Delimitation Agreement, the Frankish Empire owned about 40% of the land of the North American continent, including the extremely valuable "Jiangdong" (east of the Mississippi River), "Hunan" (south of the Great Lakes), and "Hubei" ( North of the Great Lakes), "East of the Lake" (east of the Great Lakes), "Western" (west of the Appalachian Mountains), and French-American and Quebec regions.
Although Zhu Heji had worked hard to promote the eastward expansion of the Shang and Yin families, he also gave the Aztecs a lot of support, and even asked the Aztecs to send people into the Jiangdong area to help the Jiangdong Indians establish settlements and develop agriculture. But after the Great Southern War, Louis the Great had freed up his hands from the European continent and could massively increase his troops to North America!
At the same time, Louis the Great also gave many preferential treatment to the Indians in New France - because France had too small a population on the North American continent, it had always adopted a policy of wooing the Indians, and thus accumulated many Indian allies. The Yin family's harsh policies towards the "Jiangxi" Indians aroused resentment among some large Indian tribes in the Great Plains. Once a war breaks out in North America, the Great Plains Indians will definitely side with the Frank Empire!
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Under this situation, Zhu Yimei and Zhu Celing had to try to persuade the radical King Montezuma to give up his plan to develop power in "Jiangdong" and "Shanxi" and instead go south to invade the remaining lands of the Spanish Empire in North America. .
In the direction of Black Africa, the Frankish Empire has also made great progress in recent years. Although restricted by various infectious diseases, it is still difficult for Europeans to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Black Africa, but in the coastal areas of Black Africa. Black Africa's most valuable Pepper Coast, Gold Coast, Ivory Coast and Slave Coast (all located in West Africa) were almost all divided up by the four countries of Frank, England, Netherlands and Portugal! On the east coast of Black Africa, Frank's progress also satisfied Louis. Relying on the European colonies in southern India, Franks, the Netherlands, Portugal, England and other countries have established settlements on the East African coast and Madagascar in the past few years. Over fifty settlements!
According to the "first come, first served" principle among the Franks, Ming Dynasty, and Mongolia regarding the Black African land, most of Black Africa will probably be divided up by the Franks, England, the Netherlands, and Portugal in the future!
Due to civil strife in Great Mongolia, they have not sent anyone to Black Africa at all in the past few years. The Ming Dynasty took action, but they were too far away from Black Africa, so they only established a few settlements in the desolate and dry southeastern corner of Black Africa and established a South African kingdom... I don’t know who is so unlucky that he will be sealed off to South Africa. To be king?
And just when everything satisfied Louis the Great, unexpected trouble came from Mongolia to Frank!
Great Mongolia... a country that is very barbaric, cruel, and unreasonable just by looking at its name, actually turned into a "parliamentary charter" similar to England's after a murderous murder between father and son and brother. country"!
Are you kidding me?
Shouldn't they implement the same bloody parricide inheritance laws as the Ottoman Empire? Shouldn't Yinzhen and Yinzhen kill all the other brothers first, and then fight a long, bloody civil war, and finally decide the winner of my country?
Why did you just sit down and hold a parliamentary vote?
Of course, the fact that the Mongols wanted to vote for Khan had nothing to do with Louis. He did not believe that a scattered country like Mongolia could be successfully governed through majority voting and charters - this was simply nonsense! In Louis' view, a large and chaotic country like Great Mongolia must have a strong monarch like him and Zhu Heji! We must not let a group of big nobles who control the territory and the army argue with each other in the parliament.
But the aristocratic elites and intellectuals in Europe don't think so. They feel that even the Mongols, who are so barbaric, so vicious, and so unreasonable, are now making charters, convening parliaments, and voting for khans and emperors. It's like a Frankish empire. But they are still saying "I am the country"... This T-mom is so backward, it will be over if this continues!
When the "various doctrines" of original kings, original ministers, original laws and original people were spread to Europe, Louis could plausibly say: "Serris has been an advanced and civilized country since ancient times. Their monarchs are certainly enlightened. But their people also generally have enough knowledge and wisdom to participate in the management of the country, which is incomparable to the ignorant European serfs and civilians... So Frank must implement an absolute monarchy!"
This theory seems quite correct. Now the European market is flooded with silk, porcelain, tea, sugar, perfume, wine, Chinese medicine, lacquerware (actually from Japan), dyed cotton... and even from Ming Dynasty. Even the glass used in the telescope was produced in Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, ordinary Europeans think that the people of Ming Dynasty are super smart, and of course they can participate in the management of the country. They are all stupid, so they should listen to Louis the Great.
But now that the Mongols are so advanced, are the Franks still inferior to them? At this time, the Frankish intellectuals who were concerned about the country and the people quit their jobs, and calls for various political reforms gradually began. Although Louis the Great could still suppress the situation now, it would always be troublesome in the long run.
Therefore, today he took advantage of the opportunity to summon the visiting Queen Mary Anne of the Great Mongol Khan and the envoy Longkodo of the Great Mongol Emperor at the Palace of Versailles. In front of a group of Frankish court nobles, he asked about the establishment of a charter and the convening of the Parliament of the Great Mongolia. , the matter of voting for the Great Khan and the Emperor.
He has to let people know that what Great Mongolia did is not going to work... It is Great Mongolia that is going to end, not Frank!
"Dear father," Mary Anne certainly understood what Louis was thinking. She said after careful consideration, "The situation in Great Mongolia is very complicated... This is actually an alliance formed by the losers of the Ming and Qing wars in East Asia. A colonial country established after conquering Kazakhstan, Bukhara, Khiva, Afghanistan and other places in Central Asia, as well as northwest India!
In the process of the establishment of this country, the 'Loser Alliance' was continuously expanded. Kangxi Khan continued to absorb the elites of the enemies he defeated into his ruling group, and also absorbed some who were defeated by the Ming Dynasty. The exiles formed new Eight Banners clusters. From eight banners at the beginning, it has grown to forty-eight banners plus an armed sangha, with a total population of about three to four million. These people are the real citizens of Great Mongolia, and the others are just oppressed slaves or lackeys who manage slaves. The real citizens of Greater Mongolia can now transmit their will to the Eight Banners Conference of Greater Mongolia through intra-banner meetings and monk group meetings, thereby exerting a certain influence on national policies.
If they don't do this, the Great Mongolia is likely to fall apart in a very short period of time... This is the conclusion reached by the upper-class elites of the Great Mongolia by analyzing the history of India and Central Asia!
In the end, everyone but the ruled Indian people will have much to lose. Therefore, they must adopt the Eight Banners Conference and the double-elected king system to keep the Indian part and the Central Asian part of the Great Mongolia from being separated and provide support to each other. "
"Analyzing history?" Louis XIV frowned, "The Mongols still know how to learn lessons from history?"
"Yes," Mary Anne replied, "This is a skill they learned from the Han people. They are good at recording history and looking for answers from history. From this perspective, they are far stronger than the Indians in the past. ruler!"
Although Indians are very good at practicing religion, they are not very good at recording history, let alone studying it...so that later generations of Indian historians have to read the travel notes of Chinese monks such as "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" Go study the history of your country.
The previous conquerors of India were not very good at studying history, so they did not learn from the lessons of their predecessors. No one thought of blocking the Khyber Pass, let alone robbing India. Use the money to support Central Asia... Only when Central Asia is good can India be good!
But the conquerors of Kangxi Khan knew history. They quickly concluded the reasons why India was conquered again and again, so they adopted a targeted dual system structure. In the end, Kangxi got himself involved because of the failure of this dualist structure.
The sons and subordinates of Kangxi Khan quickly learned his lesson and came up with a very "progressive" solution... Although this solution will not turn Mongolia into a truly powerful country, But it can greatly extend the Mongolian empire.
Because there are no new conquerors from Central Asia, the Mongol rule in northwest India can be maintained, and the wealth that the Mongol grabs from India can ensure the stability of its Khan branch in Central Asia.
The Western colonists, whether they were Franks, England, Portugal, the Netherlands or Sweden, were not enough to conquer Mongolia, which had a national population of three million and was supported by Central Asian Tianfang believers and Rakshasa Cossack mercenaries. Not to mention, this kind of conquest will also attract the Ming Empire to the direction of the Mongolian Ocean!
Even Mongolia, with a population of only 3 million, can use the 70 to 80 million Asans colonized by it to create an illusion of wealth, civilization, and power! The Frankish Empire may have been troubled by this illusion for a long time.
Thinking of this, Emperor Louis could only sigh.
At this time, Longkodo, who came with Mary Anne, smiled and said to Emperor Louis the Great in French: "Emperor, I have brought the credentials of the Emperor of Mongolia and the Great Khan, as well as letters written by them and the Queen Mother Kong. personal letter."
Nowadays, Great Mongolia has one emperor and one khan, so it naturally has two imperial courts. However, these two imperial courts share the same Prime Minister's Affairs Office and the Great Council. The Grand Council and the Prime Minister's Office are both located in the summer resort, so Longkodo is now the envoy shared by the Mongol Emperor and the Great Khan - this system is really a bit strange!
At the same time, he was also running errands for Queen Mother Kong, holding many positions, and he was almost catching up with Su Qin, who held the seal of the Six Kingdoms.
The credentials and letters brought by Longkodo were all bilingual, written in Chinese and French respectively - there are five official languages in Mongolia, namely Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Sanskrit and Urdu. However, because Confucianism has always controlled the education of the Confucian Eight Banners, the Qing Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Horqin Eight Banners, Chinese was the official language mainly used by the courts and Khans of Great Mongolia.
Louis XIV first unfolded his credentials and looked at them pretendingly. They were all mere words without any substantive content. Then he took out Yinti's autographed letter. It turned out that he wanted to find a Frankish princess for his son Hongyu. He didn't need a legitimate daughter, just a "legal illegitimate child". You can't be too old, you can't be more than 10 years old... Because Hongyu is only 10 years old this year, this is a baby kiss. To really get things done, it will take a few years until both parties are 18 years old.
Louis XIV thought about it for a while. His illegitimate daughter was not that young, but he had sons and grandsons. It shouldn't be a problem to look for them in their homes - there were no legitimate daughters, and there were a lot of illegitimate daughters. Moreover, illegitimate daughters generally have better looks than legitimate ones, their brains are better, and their bodies are much better!
Then he looked through Yinzhen's autograph letter. It was not about marriage proposal, but about the Suez Canal. The canal project has been underway for several years, and although it will take several more years to succeed, that day is not far away after all. Now Yinzhen wants to give the canal shares held by Mongolia to Queen Sophia, so he says hello to Louis. In addition, Yinzhen also told Louis in the letter that Mongolia will soon join forces with Rakshasa to attack Persia... This matter is a bit complicated, and Louis needs to think about it carefully.
Finally, he took out Queen Mother Kong's letter and read it. After reading a few lines, he exclaimed: "What? Queen Mother Kong wants to open a bank to engage in East-West exchange business, and also wants to invest in real estate in the Frank Empire? Is this Queen Mother still a banker?"
