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"Your Majesty, Emperor Louis has come to welcome you."
Old James’ confidant, Admiral Churchill’s voice sounded. This Churchill is a rare talent—he can not only flatter, but also win wars, and he can also conduct diplomacy and engage in politics...whether it’s palace politics, bed politics, He is a master!That is really a great talent of "the king sees the king's love"!
This guy is not only old James' confidant (his sister is old James' mistress), but also good friends with old James' deadly rival, William III, and also has a close relationship with old James' second daughter, Princess Anne, and is also favored by Frank's Louis the Great. Fancy talent!
This is no longer stepping on two boats, but he has stepped on all boats!
In the original history, this Churchill also came to the front when the old James needed him the most-this kind of thing is really very rare in the European circle!Moreover, after doing such a thing of betrayal, he continued to gain the trust of Queen Mary, William III and Queen Anne, and finally became the Duke of Marlborough!Even the pound sterling that he built the Marlborough Palace in his later years was sponsored by Queen Anne...
But right now, because the coveting of the British throne by the team of Mary and William has died down, Churchill continues to be an extremely powerful minister as the younger brother of old James.After returning from America, he was made an earl, promoted to general, and even became minister of war. It seemed that he was about to become prime minister.
As soon as old James heard that Louis came out to greet him in person, he felt a lot more proud. He walked in through the gate of the marble courtyard with a smile, and greeted Louis the Great in French with a smile while walking: "Louis, nice to meet you!" To you...why did you call me from London in such a hurry? Could it be that the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire finally surrendered?"
Although the Christian coalition had won a complete victory in the Great Southern War, the Ottoman Empire was still struggling and did not immediately admit defeat... because the price of admitting defeat was too high!
Louis the Great had a great appetite. He not only wanted to recover all the lost land of Austria and the Czech Republic, but also the whole of Great Hungary—that was not the small Hungary of later generations, but included Slovakia, Croatia, and part of Romania and Ukraine. Great Hungary!
In addition, Louis the Great also wanted the Ottoman Empire to pay a large sum of compensation...at least a few million gold francs!Louis also needed the money to reward England, the Netherlands, and Sweden, the Christian brothers who could not get land from the Ottomans.
Of course, the Ottoman Empire was unwilling to accept such a costly peace, and besides, there was a Great Ming Dynasty standing behind them!Moreover, Sudan also has a powerful Yeniceri anti-ship cavalry, so it has the strength to resist.
As for the Christian camp, they are a bit exhausted now, especially England, the Netherlands, and Sweden, the warring countries that have no land to carve up, are a little tired of the war.The situation in England is the same. The Protestants and Puritans in the country don't want to fight anymore.The Catholics hope that the king can give them the same rights as the Anglicans after the victory of the Great Southern War, and return the property of the Catholic Church... In short, if this battle continues, James II will be under great pressure!
Because the longer the war is fought, the greater the contribution of all parties, and the corresponding demand for post-war benefits will be greater... If James II cannot produce enough war dividends to satisfy all parties, then his king will not be able to do it. Well, it's over!
Although no one in the Stuart dynasty can replace the old and young James, the British have another way to deal with the Stuart dynasty-behead the king!
"James, you guessed it right." With a serious face, Louis pulled James to the door of the king's suite, and said to his "old brother", "Hugo just came back, and he brought us good news... ...The Emperor Ming advocated a truce, and also proposed a plan that was more beneficial to England and the Netherlands."
"What plan?" James asked quickly.
"He advocated the excavation of the Suez Canal in lieu of part of the Ottoman reparations."
"Excavating the Suez Canal?" James asked in surprise. "Is it the canal connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?"
If this canal had been dug 100 years earlier, it might not be of much benefit to England, but now almost [-] to [-]% of the merchant ships on the western seas belong to England!And those "sea countries" in Italy have long since had no overseas trade.
Therefore, at least [-]% of the huge benefits brought about by the shortening of the east-west route belonged to the English!
"Yes!" Louis nodded, "The cost of excavating the canal is provided by Daming and Great Mongolia, and we can get a quarter of the shares. If these shares are issued on the London Stock Exchange, they will be worth anything Millions of pounds?"
"Sure, it must be worth that much!" James nodded while thinking about how much England could get.
Louis, James, Churchill, and the Frankish Foreign Minister Hugo Leonor had already entered the lobby of the king's suite. At this moment, Louis stopped suddenly, turned around and asked, "James, your North American Are the Indians on the territory of the twelve states all right?"
James was taken aback, why did he ask about the Indians properly?
But he still replied truthfully: "Okay, everything is fine, they all went where they should go."
Fortunately... Louis' tense face finally showed a smile, and he asked with a smile, "Where should they go?"
James II laughed and said, "Hell! They have no soul, so of course they will go to hell after death!"
"All, all killed?" The smile on Louis' face froze instantly.
James also smiled and nodded: "Of course... when I was king, the Indians there were almost killed by those Protestants and Puritans! I didn't want to care about the lives of the remaining Indians, but Leopold De's fate reminded me. So I issued an order to let the Twelve-State Colony eliminate all Indians in the territory, unless they convert to Catholicism! Now, there should be no Indians in the Twelve-State Colony!"
That anger in Louis the Great's heart!You Brits are too cruel, why do you like extermination so much?How barbaric it is... or we French civilization!
The French are indeed the most civilized among the Westerners to the Indians, and they deserve to be the lighthouse of Europe!
However, the population of New France has always been very small, with a total of tens of thousands, and the Indians of the Great Plains they faced were all hunting and nomadic peoples, and it was very difficult to exterminate them!So the French are more civilized...
"Louis, what's the matter?" James also saw something wrong from Louis' face.
Louis glanced at Leona, the foreign minister beside him.
Hugo Leonard frowned and said, "Your Majesty, because the Aztecs have complained to Emperor Ming that you have committed genocide against Indians in the North American colonies, Emperor Ming proposed that they will participate in the upcoming Versailles Conference investigation, discussion and mediation on this matter..."
"What? This, what's the matter with Daming?" James II's face changed instantly, and the back of his neck was cool...
Hugo Leonard shrugged: "It's none of Da Ming's business...but Da Ming just wants to meddle in his own business!"
"Louis, do you want to let Ming intervene in Atlantic affairs?" James II looked at Louis, "Are we still afraid of Ming in the North Atlantic Alliance?"
Emperor Louis thought to himself: "I'm afraid... I'm definitely not afraid, it's just a little headache!"
"It's not a question of being afraid or not!" Louis the Great said after deliberation, "Genocide is always wrong..."
"No?" James II looked at Louis in surprise, "Those people don't believe in God!"
In fact, he is still a relatively moderate English Catholic. When he ordered the extermination of the Indians in the Twelve States, he made a small mouth-believe in God and you can live!Of course, they had to be baptized by a Roman Catholic priest.
But how could the group of Anglicans and Puritans in North America help the Roman Catholic Church win?Don't even think about it!
Emperor Louis said with a livid face, "But Emperor Ming and the Great Khan of Mongolia are not Catholics either! One of them believes in Buddha, and the other is probably the devil himself... Shall we exterminate them?"
James said: "Da Ming and Da Mongol are too powerful!"
"What about the Aztecs?" Louis looked at James.
"Aztec... That's Spain's trouble!" James II didn't dare to conquer Mexico... The Spanish emperor died there, so he couldn't go to die!
Moreover, it is impossible for the Protestants in the UK to pay to support the UK to help the Spaniards fight the Aztecs. Before Churchill led troops to North America to defend England's own colonies, not to defend New Spain.
After the Battle of the Texas Bend, England's army actually shrank. Only England's navy moved in the Caribbean Sea in the name of opposing the Aztecs. Will land in Mexico, but won't make peace with the Aztecs either.
And because the powerful English navy was supporting the Spaniards, the coastline of the Aztec Kingdom was always under the threat of the Spaniards, which caused the Aztec king Montezuma a very headache.Montezuma sent someone to accuse Zhu and Qi of the English's genocide in North America in order to give Ming an excuse to intervene...in order to force the English to make peace with the Aztecs.
But no one thought that Zhu Heqi would come up with an excuse to play!
"Now England is in trouble!" Louis the Great said with a gloomy face, "Emperor Ming has made it clear that if the Indians in the twelve states of North America are really wiped out by you, he will provide a large number of Aztecs Military aid to support the Aztecs and the various Indian tribes of North America in their war against England!"
"This, this..." James II didn't know what to say, and it took him a long time to say, "Your Majesty, don't you plan to do something for England?"
Louis the Great looked at James II and said seriously: "Yes, I have instructed the Governor of New France to let the Governor's Office of New France help you recruit Indians on the prairie!"
Chapter 931 America invites Indians!
King James II of England and his confidant General Churchill were shocked into "wooden men" by what they said to Louis XIV. They stood there stupidly, unable to say a word for a long time.
The help of Louis the Great is also very good... He is not helping England to fight the Aztecs, but helping England to spend money to invite Indians to come to the twelve states of North America to deal with the investigation!
The twelve states of North America spent a lot of energy and financial resources in order to exterminate and drive away the Indians there, and finally cleared a relatively clean land belonging to the whites.Now, because they are afraid of the invasion of the Aztec army supported by Ming Dynasty, they spend money to invite Indians from other places... What is this called?Now spending money to invite the Indians back, wouldn’t it be extinct before that?
In addition, when the survey team is gone, what about the Indians who paid for it?Does the Kingdom of England have to pay another sum of money to exterminate them again?So what if the Aztecs dragged the Ming Dynasty to find fault after a while, what should they do?Do the English have to spend money to recruit Indians?
Even if England has money, it can't spend it like this!
"Your Majesty the Emperor." Admiral Churchill's psychological quality is relatively strong, and he has already reacted, "I don't think it is possible for the Ming Empire to send troops to the Atlantic Ocean to participate in the war?"
"That's not true." Louis shook his head.
"If that's the case, what else is there to be afraid of?" The King of England's courage grew stronger immediately.
Emperor Louis the Great shook his head, looking very worried: "But the Aztecs will be fully armed... The Aztecs have 600 million Indians, and if they are fully armed, they will have a huge army of 40 to [-] people!"
"Yes, there are so many?" The King of England was taken aback.
Admiral Churchill frowned and leaned into the king's ear: "Your Majesty, the Aztec Kingdom confiscated all the land of the Spanish nobles and the church, and then divided it equally among the Indian serfs and slaves, so that universal military service was implemented. .So every Aztec adult male has the obligation to perform military service, and the Aztec Kingdom can recruit a particularly large number of troops when necessary!"
"Isn't this a group of ordinary people carrying guns? Such an army can fight? Can they have iron-like discipline?" The King of England was still a little skeptical about the combat effectiveness of the Aztec army.
"Your Majesty," Churchill said, shaking his head, "As far as I know, their combat effectiveness is no less than that of the New Spain Army. In the battles of Tampico, Puerto Isabel and Veracruz, the Aztec army Relying on their bravery, perseverance, hard work, and powerful firepower, they finally defeated the Spanish Royal Army composed of Germans, Spaniards, and Indo-Europeans!"
The King of England also knew about the battles of Tampico, Puerto Isabel, and Veracruz, three major battles that broke out in the months following the Battle of Mexico City.These three battles all followed the same pattern, that is, the Spanish imperial army clung to the coastal port fortresses, while the Aztec army launched a fierce attack without hesitating casualties.
Although the Aztecs paid a heavy price in these three battles, with 3 to [-] casualties, they all finally took down the port fortress that the Spanish held firmly.Especially in the battle for the port of Tampico, the largest port in the Gulf of Mexico, Admiral Eugen von Savoy, the number one general of the Spanish Empire, took command.After fighting hard for three months with [-] Spanish imperial troops and [-] Aztecs, they were finally defeated and retreated.
Frank Emperor Louis said worriedly: "According to the report submitted by Admiral Eugen later, the Aztec army is extremely strong in fighting will, and they are also extremely hardworking... because all of them are convinced that Aztec was defeated. It means that their race will be completely extinct!
In order for their race to survive, for their children to have the right to grow up, and to keep the land they bought with their lives and blood, they have no choice but to fight to the end! "
The Aztecs killed Leopold I, liquidated the white people in Mexico City, confiscated the church, divided the land of the Spanish nobles, etc., in fact, completed a triple revolution of national revolution, peasant revolution and religious revolution revolution.
The strength and thoroughness of this triple revolution even surpassed the Battle of the Resurgence of the Ming Dynasty, and it was far from comparable to the Mexican War of Independence in history.Therefore, the Aztec army born from this triple revolution is actually a revolutionary army. Their morale and fighting spirit are incomparable to the European mercenaries of this era!
"Even though they are many and brave, they don't have any navy, and they can't reach our North American colonies at all!" King James II of England still shook his head again and again.
Louis XIV's foreign minister Leonard said: "However, the Indians in the Appalachian Mountains will be armed with money from the Aztecs and guns from the Ming Dynasty, and Aztec officers will go Command and train them... Your Majesty, I think you should know the situation in New France. There are too few white people there to prevent the Aztecs from entering and passing through the land of the Merchant Kingdom.
And considering the Aztec kingdom has the second largest silver mines in the world, the battle in Appalachia will be long, bloody and expensive! "
Hearing Leonard's analysis, the old face of the King of England was so pale that there was no trace of blood in it!
Because the colonies of the twelve states in North America were laid out along the Appalachian Mountains, and the flat land near the sea to the east of the mountains was occupied by English colonists, who established a large number of manors relying on black slaves as the main labor force.The Indians who originally lived there were either exterminated or hid in the Appalachian Mountains to the west to live a hard life.
Of course, the white colonists who occupied the coastal plains of North America would not allow the Indians to hide in the Appalachian Mountains-are they trying to recharge their batteries in the mountains so as to regain their homes in the future?
Moreover, the Indians in the mountains also blocked the route for white people to explore westward and search for gold and silver mines... It's really hateful!
That's why the group of manor owners in the twelve states of North America who are full of martial arts and armed with guns will go into the mountains and kill people whenever they have the opportunity. down.
And the Indians in the mountains also went out to rob from time to time because of the hunger and cold, so the ties between the two sides became deeper and deeper, and they were already inseparable.
Since the Indians inside the mountains are inferior to the whites outside the mountains in terms of weapons, organization, training, and strategies, they can only slowly go extinct in the struggle against the whites... This is a rather desperate process!
But now the Aztec kingdom of the Indians was born, and defeated the white Spanish Empire, killed the white Spanish emperor, and killed more than [-] white people in Mexico City at one time!
For the desperate Appalachian Indians, the distant Aztec Kingdom is their only hope!
If these legendary Aztecs, with the military aid of Ming, crossed the completely undefended New France (a total of [-] to [-] whites) and arrived in the Appalachian Mountains to help the desperate Indian tribes there ...The twelve states in North America can't be killed like blood?
When Louis XIV saw James II's face, he knew that the old man was a little bit cowardly, so he said: "If we can avoid unnecessary conflicts and ease the tension with the Aztecs and merchants, at the same time Wouldn’t it be good not to give Ming any excuse to interfere in Atlantic affairs? It’s nothing more than 20 million Indians. As long as the Kingdom of England is willing to pay, are you afraid of insufficient recruitment? There is also the Spanish Empire! There are many Indians in the Viceroyalty of Peru in the Spanish Empire. As long as you spend a few hundred thousand pounds, you should be able to solve the problem."
The Frankish emperor seemed to admire his IQ very much, and said with a smile: "In this way, we can concentrate on dealing with the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Those Tianfang believers are the enemy...We can take advantage of the opportunity that the Turks are fully committed to excavating the Suez River." Seriously prepare for a new, large-scale war."
Emperor Louis looked excited: "Once they have dug the canal, we will send an army of 30 people to Constantinople! At the same time, we can also send 20 troops to land in Jerusalem and Egypt by sea, and destroy the Ottoman Empire in one fell swoop." !
At that time, not only Constantinople will be ours, but Jerusalem will be ours, and even Alexandria, Cairo and the Suez Canal will be ours too! "
It turns out that Emperor Louis still had a lot of ideas!
He is the Sun King of my country, how could he leave the important task of rebuilding the Roman Empire to his children and grandchildren?
And in his view, although the construction of the Suez Canal will have great long-term returns, it will definitely cost people and money in a short time.Especially for the Ottoman Empire, which has just been defeated in the Great Southern War, and the local economy is relatively depressed, it is impossible to realize the canal shares, and it is difficult to obtain financing... The canal project is likely to become the last to crush the Ottoman Empire's finances. a straw.
So Louis the Great planned to take advantage of the canal to be repaired, but before he started making money, he launched a war and destroyed the Ottoman Empire. Then everything belonged to the Frankish Empire.
But James II and Churchill were not happy... Everything belongs to France, so what can England get?One or two million Indians who cannot be killed and cannot be supported?
But he had nothing to do except to scold Emperor Louis the Great by gnashing his teeth in his heart.
James II can also see it now, because of Leopold's death and the three subsequent port battles, Louis XIV has regarded the Aztec Kingdom as a "do not mess with the country"... He didn't want to at all, probably I dare not send the Frankish Expeditionary Force to Mexico.
Thinking of this, James II could only let out a long sigh, and then glanced at his most trusted Minister of War Churchill: "John, what do you think of His Majesty's suggestion?"
What can Admiral Churchill say?I can only say good things, "Of course...very good, very wise!"
"Okay then," James II said with a gloomy face, "then I will accept your appointment as the Governor of New England, and... another 20 pounds from the royal property will be allocated to you to hire the Indians!"
Speaking of spending 20 pounds out of his own pocket to invite Indians, James II was so distressed that he was about to cry.
There is nothing more absurd than this in the world!
Twelve states in North America actually have to spend money to hire Indians... and the money has to be paid by the King of England himself-it is impossible for the British Parliament to approve the appropriation, the money can only be paid by the king, and if it is estimated, he will be scolded!Be scolded by the white colonists of the twelve North American states!I feel wronged just thinking about it!
When James II made up his mind to spend his own money to save the United States and invite the Indians to rescue him, Zhu Hechi, the mastermind behind the whole incident, did not expect that the problems he posed to the English would be easily resolved by Louis XIV—— Louis XIV was so smart that it went beyond common sense, and he came up with a clever trick to make the United States spend money to hire Indians. Who would have thought of this?
Still, Zhu and his ministers prepared for the worst.The worst-case scenario they imagined was that the English, angered by the demands of the Aztecs, would then, with the support of Louis XIV, join forces with the Spanish Empire to attack the Aztecs.
And Zhu Hexi's preparation was to order Zhu Celing, who was only 15 years old, to lead the [-] chain armored cavalry that his mother Anu raised for him to conquer the New World in advance!
In the past two years, due to the increase in the number of ships traveling to and from the Pacific Ocean, and the fact that the merchant country obtained a large number of horses and sheep from the Aztecs—this allowed ships bound for the New World to carry less livestock and more people, so they went to The number of Ming immigrants in the New World has increased again.And the Yin family of the New World also annexed many small tribes of Indians in the process of moving eastward, causing their population to surge. In addition to the [-] households brought by Zhu Celing, it can almost make up [-] households!
Mongolia with three ten thousand households can of course pose a great danger to the European colonists in the New World, but this power cannot be easily used, because it is too precious to be consumed!
That's why the Ming Dynasty also made a plan to fully arm the Aztec Kingdom - the Aztec Kingdom itself had already formulated a plan for all the people to be soldiers, and has been carrying out the necessary organization and training - because this country is constantly facing On the verge of extinction (not extinction, but extinction), so the sense of crisis is overwhelming.Nearly all men capable of fighting with a gun were required to attend regular military training, ready to go into battle and fight for the survival of the Aztecs under the blessing of the Holy One!However, the handicraft industry in Aztec is not very developed, and it cannot produce enough munitions to equip tens of thousands of people, so it can only rely on Daming to supply... and so many munitions are also very valuable to Daming, let alone easy can be taken out.Therefore, Zhu and Qi have not approved the provision of sufficient armaments to the Aztecs, and now the matter is a bit urgent and cannot be delayed any longer.So he finally made a decision to go to the New World with Zhu Celing with a large number of guns, ammunition and artillery!
The Indians in the New World must have enough muskets!
Chapter 932 Nomadic Great Plains, the Scourge of America
Shanghai, Wusongkou Wharf.
Hundreds of Pacific-type or New World-type galleons have lined up on the Huangpu River, waiting for tugboats driven by water wheels to tow them one by one to the berths at Wusongkou Military Port.
On the edge of the wharf at Wusongkou, tens of thousands of Mongolians, oh, it should be the Yin family are dragging their families, carrying luggage, and queuing up to board the ship.Because a big person came to see him off today, the guards outside the pier were heavily guarded, wearing breastplates and carrying rifled guns on their shoulders, standing straight at five steps and one post at ten steps.
Now the last batch of "late Yin family members" who are about to go to sea... They should have gone to the New World 600 years ago. Home in North America that has been since ancient times!Well, it's all recorded in the official history, and it's outdated, so it can't be wrong.In addition, various cultural relics and historic sites are also being worked overtime.The "restoration" project of the ancient city of Shangdu and the "restoration" project of the ancient city of Yindu were also carried out.What other "boom" devices from 2000 years ago, "big boom" from 1000 years ago, and "thunder" devices from 500 years ago have all been buried in the soil and are waiting for archaeological excavations.
In addition, Zhu Heqi also asked people to prepare a lot of tortoise shells, and carved characters on them, and sent them to America and buried them in the soil!
In short, the Westerners colonized the Americas, while the merchants have been colonizing America since ancient times-this nature is completely different, so the merchants have no original sin of colonization!Moreover, there are not many Indians on the territory occupied by the merchants...