Chapter 714: Yongzheng’s Achievements (Part )
Ming dynasty.

"What the hell does that mean?"

Old Zhu pointed at the sky, his eyes as big as bells.

Qianlong didn't want to live off his past? Does that mean the next emperor will at least maintain the status quo?

Maybe even further?!

"Are you kidding me?!"

This guy's eyes are about to pop out of his head.

Kangxi was a pioneer, he admitted, whether to pacify the Three Feudatories, pacify the Dzungar Khanate and take Taiwan...

He also admitted that Yongzheng was a pioneer, but he still had to copy the system...

Now you say there's another one?
What's wrong?

Can you surpass the first two?

What? Are you trying to emulate Gao Wen and Jingwu?
It’s not over yet!

Queen Ma quickly patted his back and said,

"Don't worry, it's no use."

"Let's think positively. The better they do, the more ways we can solve the problem."

"This is a good thing!"

Zhu Biao calmly gave Empress Ma a thumbs up.

Then he said:

"Yes, Dad. We must not only recall the wisdom of the ancients."

“We must also trust the wisdom of future generations.”

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

"Okay, let's wait and see how wise he is!"

……

[Diplomatic Strategy: The Shame of a Lifetime - The Treaty of Kyakhta]

[As mentioned earlier, the Treaty of Nerchinsk was the first border treaty signed between China and Russia. It was an equal treaty that stipulated the eastern section of the Sino-Russian border and confirmed that the vast areas of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri River basins were Chinese territory. The Heilongjiang and Ussuri Rivers were both inland rivers of China.]

[However, in this treaty, Chinese territory east of Lake Baikal was ceded to Russia, which was a mistake made by the Qing government in border negotiations.]

【The Treaty of Kyakhta was a treaty between the Russian Empire and the Heilongjiang River Basin. The Russian Empire also extended its aggression to the Khalkha Mongolian region in the north, actively supporting the Junggar rebel leader Galdan in attacking the Khalkha, forcing the Khalkha people to migrate south. The Russian Empire then took the opportunity to expand its influence southward, occupying large tracts of Khalkha land, and plotting to annex the Khalkha region completely.】

[After Emperor Kangxi put down the Galdan rebellion, the Khalkha Mongols returned to their homeland, but the Russian Empire continued to harass and erode the Khalkha Mongols, causing the situation in the middle section of the Sino-Russian border to become increasingly tense.]

[After the signing of the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the Qing government repeatedly requested to demarcate the middle section of the border, but the Russian government ignored it.]

……

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
Kangxi became so angry that his liver ached when he thought of this.

"Soetu..."

If I had known earlier, I shouldn’t have revealed my bottom line to him!

……

Qing Dynasty Yongzheng Period
For the first time, a trace of embarrassment and shame appeared on Yongzheng's face.

He acted too hastily and took things for granted.

But now that it’s done… let’s just wait and see.

……

Qing Dynasty and Qianlong period
"Barbarians."

The contempt on Qianlong's face was evident.

Unfortunately, several trade wars failed to defeat them.

Lao Long patted the folding fan in his hand and suddenly said:

"The Eight-Nation Alliance..."

……

[In the third year of Yongzheng's reign (1725), Peter I died, and his wife Catherine I sent Sava Vulavichai as ambassador extraordinaire to Beijing to negotiate trade and border issues.]

[The following year, Sava arrived in Beijing and held dozens of talks with the Qing court representatives, including the Minister of Personnel Chabina, the Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs Tegute, and the Vice Minister of the Ministry of War Tulichen, which lasted for half a year.]

【The Beijing negotiations only reached a preliminary agreement and agreed on some principles on border and trade issues. After that, the two sides moved to the banks of the Bur River, a tributary of the Selenga River, to hold border negotiations.】

……

Great Qin.

"His wife...for one lifetime?"

These two words put together made Ying Zheng confused for a moment.

The other four people in the hall also looked at each other.

If there is one life, there must be a second life.

The empress passed the throne to her daughter? !
Wu Zetian didn't even pass the throne to Princess Taiping!
"as big as World, nothing is nonexistent."

Ying Zheng sighed from the bottom of his heart.

……

Wu Zhou.

Taiping's pair of peach blossom eyes were almost turning into cat's eyes.

"She this!"

Taiping is in a hurry now!
She no longer cares about Yongzheng, she just wants to know what this Yeka I is all about?

Could it be that there really is a second life? !

Li Dan twirled his beard and said nothing.

……

On the canopy.

In the tent.

There were two groups of people sitting at the long table with carved rosewood patterns.

The Qing Dynasty official sitting in the main seat remained calm, holding a snuff bottle with an orchid printed on it.

He poured the cigarette butts into the palm of his hand, then smeared the cigarette butts on two fingers, put them to his nostrils, and took a deep breath.

After a long while, Longkodo sneezed with a yawn, and then he slowly said:

"I don't want to chat with you anymore."

"You have to give back Mobei, and you have to give back Selengas as well."

The translator at the side was stunned, and translated it randomly and fluently.

Then the translator on the other side was stunned.

He translated it haltingly to the Russian representative.

Without waiting for the representative on the opposite side to speak, the Qing Dynasty official slowly stood up.

He left a word and walked out.

"You guys take your time to discuss it."

……

[At that time, Tsarist Russia actually controlled Selensk, and the Qing Dynasty actually controlled Kyakhta. According to international practice, the border should be the middle line between the areas actually controlled by both sides.]

[If we dig deeper, we will find that the Tsarist Russia’s control over Selengesk has never been recognized by the Khalkha Mongols.]

[During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the Tushetu Khanate had sent troops many times to attack the Russian strongholds of Selengsk and Tongkinsk.]

[Therefore, Selengesk is considered an illegal building in the eyes of the Mongols, and the area where the city is located has always been under the jurisdiction of the Mongols.]

[Longkodo, who served as the negotiating representative, had worked in the Lifanyuan for a long time and had rich diplomatic experience. He was also familiar with the grievances between Khalkha and Tsarist Russia.]

[His uncle Tong Guogang had participated in the negotiations at Nerchinsk, and his family had a good understanding of the Russians.]

[Before the negotiations, Longkodo conducted an on-site survey of the Russian-Kazakh border area and demanded that Tsarist Russia return the large tracts of Mongolian land that it had occupied from China, with a very firm attitude.]

【Longkodo’s tough attitude gave Tsarist Russia a headache. In the eyes of the Russians, “Longkodo obviously had ill intentions towards the Russian court”; “he seemed to want to drive Russia out of the Heilongjiang River basin, or at least take back the land that had been encroached upon by Russia and set the border between the Selensky and Bol rivers”】

[However, the Russians really underestimated Longkodo's appetite. He wanted more territory than the Russians imagined.]

【Longkodo's proposal is the northern border of Khalkha envisioned by Emperor Kangxi at that time, "from Hulunbeier and Ononbarji in the east to the Selenge River in the north."】

[This plan would include the Russian strongholds of Selensk and Udinsk, which had already been built, into Chinese territory, and Sava would definitely not agree to it.]

【Seeing that the talks failed, Sava ordered all Russian troops in Siberia to enter a state of combat readiness and sent letters to Mongolian tribes near the border, declaring war.】

……

{I don't understand...please give me a detailed explanation.}
{I’m awesome! Here I come! “Hulunbuir” is the Hulunbuir grassland.}
{“Onon Barji” is the Onon River, where Temujin rose to power.}
{The "Selenge River" is the Selenge River, which originates from the Khangai Mountains. It has a wide basin and many tributaries, and flows into Lake Baikal. The Russian Selengesk stronghold was named after it was built on the banks of this river.}
{Therefore, according to Kangxi's idea, the Hulunbuir grassland, the Onon River basin, and the Selenge River basin should all be the nomadic areas of the Khalkha.}
{If this plan is followed, part of the China-Russia border will be bounded by Lake Baikal, which is quite beneficial to China.}
{Then why did the Treaty of Nerchinsk turn out like that?}
{This was Kangxi's best idea, but there was a bottom line, but Suo Etu revealed the bottom line right from the start... and the negotiations turned out to be a mess.}
……

The period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
Liu Che felt that the Qing people would not negotiate.

Qing Dynasty officials did not love the Qing Dynasty either.

"You should learn more from outstanding kings and negotiators."

Wei Zifu squinted and said suddenly:
"Your Majesty, don't you want to kill one person from the enemy camp first?"

Liu Che clapped his hands!

"You think we should do this, right?"

Wei Zifu shut her mouth.

I think you're getting sicker.

……

Dayuan.

Kublai Khan glanced at everyone in the hall and suddenly laughed:
"The Jin people really have no blood in their veins!"

"How can you negotiate without beating him half to death?"

"He should try every possible means to get the other side to kill him!"

"Then let your emperor have a legitimate reason to be your disciple!"

“This is the correct way to negotiate!”

No one in the hall spoke at all.

This is not a question of blood or not, right? Are diplomatic envoys some kind of sacrifice?

Do you know what diplomacy is?!

……

[At the same time, Sava sent people to Beijing to bribe the Qing Dynasty missionary Baduoming and the cabinet minister Ma Qi to get rid of Longkodo.]

[The former received a bribe of 0.67 rubles, and the latter received a bribe of rubles. At that time, one ruble was equivalent to taels of silver.]

[To be honest, as a member of the cabinet, Ma Qi would not be tempted by these several hundred taels of silver.]

[However, since Longkodo was also a member of the team, taking down Longkodo was equivalent to removing a competitor for him.]

[At the same time, Yongzheng hated Longkodo very much. Before he set out for the negotiations, Yongzheng said to the cabinet: "If Longkodo has ulterior motives and wants to make trouble, and the border he sets is inappropriate, and he causes trouble in Tsewang Arabtan and Orus, I will definitely punish him."]

[This is no longer a hint, it is a clear indication that you can find some dirty information so that I can have a reason to punish Long Kedo.]

[So, this bribery soon had an effect, and a group of censors impeached Longkodo for "secretly copying the imperial edict and keeping it at home." ]

[On the eighth day of the sixth month in the fifth year of Yongzheng's reign, Yongzheng used this as an excuse to order Longkodo, who was in the middle of the negotiations, to be dismissed and questioned.]

[The ministers advised: "We should wait until the border incident of Russia is resolved before dismissing him." However, Yongzheng was impatient and said: "What you are suggesting is to wait until Longkodo finishes the Russia issue before bringing him back. This is not what I want. The Russia issue is the easiest to handle. Send Longkodo back and order him to come back quickly."]

……

Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi Period
Fulin felt that he was actually quite outrageous.

But this is really outrageous, there is always someone better than you.

"He doesn't think that negotiating border demarcation with Tsarist Russia is easy and anyone can do it, right?"

Is the most urgent task to punish Longkodo?
This is the border of my Qing Dynasty!
Xiaozhuang thought about Yongzheng's foreign wars at that time and couldn't help but sigh.

"Thank goodness for the internal affairs."

Otherwise, he would definitely be a "Bao Zong" of the Qing Dynasty.

……

【After Longkodo was imprisoned, Celeng, the former second negotiator, became the chief negotiator.】

[Celeng was a warrior who didn't understand diplomatic negotiations. But he wasn't stupid either. When he saw the Russians' aggressive attitude, he prepared 300 elite soldiers to take to the negotiation venue to protect the Qing delegation.]

[However, at that time, Yongzheng was already impatient to take action against Dzungar, and he wanted to quickly end the Sino-Russian negotiations.]

[Therefore, during the negotiations, he ordered the Khalkha tribes not to "take unreasonable actions" against Tsarist Russia.]

[The third representative, Yongzheng's confidant Tulichen, disagreed with Celeng bringing armed forces to the negotiations.]

[In the subsequent formal negotiations, the unarmed Qing delegation encountered the Russian delegation guarded by 1,300 infantrymen and 100 cavalrymen.]

[July 1727, the fifth year of Yongzheng’s reign ().]

[Representatives of China and Russia signed the Burlinsky Border Treaty on the banks of the Bur River.]

[According to this treaty, the old city of Kyakhta, the source area of ​​the Ergou River, the disputed Uriankhai outside the Sayan Mountains, and most of the Onon River where Temujin was born, which were previously controlled by the Qing Dynasty, were ceded to the Russians.]

[After the signing of the treaty, the Russians were ecstatic. In his report to his government, Savoie said: "The demarcation of the border is very beneficial to the Russian Empire", "A large amount of empty Mongolian land is now incorporated into the territory of the Russian Empire", "Some places have expanded the area of ​​a few days' journey, and some have expanded the area of ​​a few weeks' journey." ]

[Evaluation: D level, one point]

……

{I can see, it’s just pure friendship...}
{If we can sign an equal treaty, that would be a disaster...}
{Generally speaking, this period of history is recorded as Yongzheng mistakenly withdrawing Longkodo to avoid a breakdown in the negotiations, replacing him with Celing as the chief representative. Celing’s attitude was relatively weak, and he finally accepted the Russian boundary demarcation plan.}
{Because the "Draft History of Qing Dynasty" records that after the treaty was signed, Celeng "deployed troops and fired cannons" on the border.}
{So now almost everyone believes that this is a "celebration" held by Celeng after the border was demarcated.}
{But the question is, as a unit of Tushetu Khan, how could Tsereng not know about the bloody battle of Selengsk? How could he not know how many Mongols the Russians killed before?}
{Now, he has personally ceded the Mongolian land to Russia. What is there to celebrate?}

{Perhaps this is a manifestation of anger that has nowhere to vent.}
……

Cao Wei.

Cao Cao couldn't help laughing:

"You might as well just give it to someone else."

"Signing a treaty isn't troublesome enough!"

However, Cao Pi felt that it was understandable.

Just like the friendship point on the sky screen.

If you think about it, the fifth year of Yongzheng's reign was the time when he was carrying out reforms, and he also had to deal with the rebellion in the Junggar Khanate in the northwest, so the pressure could not have been great.

If a war with Russia breaks out under these circumstances...

With Yongzheng's military capabilities, the Qing Dynasty would have quickly entered its end before the reforms were completed.

"But...killing a general in battle...is something he can do."

No matter what Longkodo did later, doing something like this during the negotiations was a bad idea.

"It would be better for Yongzheng to be a stable emperor who governs the interior."

……

{Don't just talk about Mobei, there's also Annan.}
{On October 18, the fourth year of Yongzheng's reign, Yongzheng made a generous "grant" to shrink the southern boundary of Kaihua Prefecture in Yunnan by 120 li. Due to the differences in terrain, some areas had more than this.}
{“From now on, the border will be forever secure” was just wishful thinking of the Qing Dynasty. Soon, border disputes in the southern part of Lin’an Prefecture arose again.}
{Anything related to the military, Yongzheng's actions are very frustrating.}
……

Ming Dynasty: Xuanzong Period
Zhu Zhanji could relate to this point.

The Celestial Empire is “the world”.

The emperor is the common ruler of the world. Annan and other countries are vassal states, but the emperor is unwilling to rule directly.

Therefore, we can either take their lands back and make them the property of the Celestial Empire, or grant the lands directly under the Celestial Empire to the vassal states and let them guard the lands for the Celestial Empire.

This is what is meant by “guarding against the four barbarians”.

Because the dignity of the Celestial Empire and the obedience of its vassal states were more important than territory.

Zhu Zhanji suddenly thought of Yongzheng's policy of converting native peoples into officials, and was a little dazed for a moment.

The loss of land in the past dynasties was mostly the result of invasion and occupation by foreign enemies, but there were also some generous rewards from the great Celestial Empire, or they simply didn't take it seriously...

As a result, a large amount of territory was lost inexplicably.

I don't even know how I lost it.

but……

"Oh...it's so difficult..."

Annan is far away.

The sound of gunfire costs a fortune and depletes national strength.

Giving the generals military power to govern the south was also a worry that the generals would become independent after the conquest.

"Disaster."

……

[Employing and identifying people: The ability to identify people is fully acquired, and the way of employing people is greatly affected by emotions. 】

[The most important characteristic is "If you love someone, you want him to live; if you hate someone, you want him to die"]

【But apart from military affairs, he is good at listening to others. 】

[Evaluation level A, score 4 points]

[Later influence: Yongzheng inherited the historical legacy of Kangxi and reformed the bad policies of Kangxi in his later years. ]

[It not only laid the foundation for Qianlong's prosperity, but also prepared the conditions for Qianlong's prosperity. ]

[There are more than 35,000 Chinese memorials and more than 6,600 Manchu memorials from the Yongzheng period. ]

[He was in office for twelve years and eight months, or 4,668 days in total. He reviewed about ten memorials a day, mostly at night, and wrote his comments in person, without asking anyone else to do it. Some of the comments on the memorials had more than a thousand words.]

[These are important archival materials for studying the history of the Yongzheng Dynasty.]

[Evaluation S level, 5 points]

【Total score: 21 points】

……

On the canopy.

The golden light skyrocketed!

The entire capital was shrouded in golden clouds!
A golden lotus bloomed from the sky.

A mythical beast with the head of an ox and the body of a horse rushed out from the lotus towards the Qianqing Palace.

"Ox and Horse God: If the Ox and Horse God possesses you, you will gain the strength of nine oxen and one horse."

"Characteristic 1: The more you work, the more energetic you become. For every twelve hours of full work, you gain one hour of lifespan."

"Don't lose your energy when working."

"Characteristic 2: Blessings."

"You can assign a characteristic to a person you like, and the other person will get the same characteristic."

『Characteristic 3: Abnormal』

"When the territory under your rule enters a new stage of system, the Ox and Horse God will change its shape."

"Advanced to Dragon-Elephant Power Bodhisattva."

The ox and horse gods circled above the Qianqing Palace and then dived into Yongzheng's body.

Radiant!

Yongzheng opened his eyes wide and shouted loudly!
"Bring fifteen... ten stone bows!"

The attendant beside him was stunned for a moment, then hurried to find a bow and arrow.

Yongzheng swears!

I will no longer be at level 4.5!

...As for his father's fifteen powers...don't worry, just stabilize it first...

Then he began to study the "Bull and Horse God"

At first, he thought this was clearly a blessing.

But the more I study, the less it tastes...

He turned his head to look at Hongli who was tiptoeing out, narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice:
"What on earth did you do in the future?"

Hongli, who failed to sneak away, smiled awkwardly.

"Yeah... Ama... I want to know too..."

This is totally telling you!
The emperor behind is really terrible!

My future self!

What have you done? ! !
……

(End of this chapter)

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