The timetable given by the French Admiralty Minister is carefully calculated!
Thanks to Zhu Cixiang's "golden finger", expensive naval battleships became disposable weapons that "exploded in one hit".
After repeated studies, the most outstanding shipbuilding experts from various naval powers have discovered a frustrating fact - it is impossible for them to build a warship out of wood that can withstand the bombardment of nail-head shells!
This means that after a decisive battle between fleets at sea, even the victorious side will suffer considerable losses - a warship full of holes that was blasted by nail-head bombs is not so easy to repair!
This means that if you kill one thousand enemies in a real naval battle, you will inevitably lose eight hundred!
The Navy has become a business that hurts people.
If a country cannot build and repair ships fast enough, even if it can often win naval battles, it will not be enough to control sea power for a long time.
For the French navy, it is possible to gain control of the east coast of the Pacific for a period of time by concentrating its forces in advance and then launching a surprise attack.
After all, the main force of the Ming Navy cannot be placed in the United States of New Zealand. What the French and New Spanish navies had to face in the early stages of the war was only the Ming Dynasty's squadron stationed in the United States of New Zealand.
However, as long as Ming Dynasty, which has an obvious advantage in shipbuilding capabilities, reacts, the situation will be reversed.
And when the French navy with limited strength faced the Ming Dynasty fleet coming from East Asia, it could only avoid a decisive battle in order to preserve its strength...
Because if you rush to a decisive battle, you will definitely be consumed!
If they lose a navy capable of operating in the Pacific, France and New Spain's plans to disrupt transportation between the Ming Dynasty and Xinzhou through privateering and war will not be realized.
Therefore, the French side's advantage on the west coast of America can only be maintained for 12 months at most.
"Is 12 months...enough?" the French King asked.
Marquis Marina replied: "If everything goes well, we can use these critical 12 months to seize Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Gulf of America area, so that we can seal the west coast of the North American continent."
"If everything goes well..." Louis XIV frowned, "What if everything doesn't go well? My Marquis, have you ever considered this issue?"
“My Majesty,” said the Marquis of Marina, “if things don’t go well, then we must go on the defensive... I predict that the Chinese will compete with us for the Great Plains of North America and the West Coast of America!
By then we will be facing enemies in both New France and New Spain. "
"In New France..." Louis XIV paused, "Although New France is vast, its population is too small. Can we win there?"
"My Majesty," Marquis Marriner shook his head, "The population of New France is not too small. The only small thing is the white population. There are quite a few Indians... They are a force that can be used!"
"But the Indians on the Great Plains are not easy to control. We have made long-term efforts, but with little success." The Sun King asked, "Marquis, as the new governor, how do you plan to use these savages?"
"Your Majesty," Marquis Marriner said, "the reason why the Indians of the Great Plains are difficult to control is that we have no common enemy with them! And once the United States of New Zealand moves eastward into the Great Plains, we will have something in common with the Indians of the Great Plains. enemy."
Whether the Chinese immigrants moving eastward were herding cattle or farming, they would have fierce conflicts with the Plains Indians. It is basically a fantasy to use the fact that everyone is "yellow-skinned" to establish a united front to jointly deal with white people.
Different Indian tribes will collude with white people to attack each other. How can we expect them to unite with East Asians? And East Asians and Indians are not the same race at all.
For all the barbaric races that make a living by fishing, hunting and gathering, the herdsmen’s cattle and sheep are their prey, and the farmers’ crops are their fruits…
In addition, farmers and herdsmen moving eastward will also hunt bison on the Great Plains. And their hunting efficiency is definitely higher than that of wild races. They are competing with the Indians for meat! Therefore, the conflict between them and the barbarian races is irreconcilable.
In contrast, because the white population in New France is so rare, the relationship between New France and the North American Indians is relatively harmonious.
Marquis Marriner continued: “With a common enemy, we can enlist the Plains Indians to join our army, serve the interests of the New France colony, and even spread Catholicism to them.
In addition, I think a holy war to defend New France can in turn promote the rapid development of the New France colony! "
"Really?" Louis XIV immediately became interested, "Tell me, my Marquis, do you have any good ideas?"
"Your Majesty," Marquis Marriner reminded the Sun King, "don't forget that New France is a land blessed by God, and the United States of New Zealand is a blasphemous country!"
"Blasphemy?" Louis XIV thought, "By the way...their philosophers discovered God, not God enlightened them!"
The "god" Louis mentioned refers to God and to heaven. Not an old man with a white beard, but a being who controls everything in nothingness and is the origin of everything in the universe.
Because of Zhu Cixiang's interpretation of "Heavenly Law" and "God", the relationship between the Holy See and the Ming Empire has never been harmonious.
On the one hand, the Holy See has to admit that "Heavenly Principle" is "God", because the two are basically the same thing. Moreover, the foundation of Christian doctrine is "monotheism." This "monotheism" does not mean that there is only one "supernatural" existence in the universe, but it means that there is only one creator of the universe!
Therefore, Chinese people, like Europeans, are human beings created by God. And the "source of all things" discovered by the Chinese can only be God. What else could it be? The Dark Lord? Catholicism is not dualistic (the universe is created by two gods, light and dark) and Manichaeism, so how can you believe this?
On the other hand, the theory of "discovering God" poses a huge threat to the existence of the Holy See - since Eastern philosophers can discover God, why do Western Christians have to go through priests to communicate with God?
The very fact that the Chinese "discovered God" shows that those sects who advocate that believers can communicate with God directly without going through priests are right. If Protestantism and Puritanism are right, why does the Holy See collect tithes? This is because he wants to destroy the diamond rice bowl of the Holy See!
Therefore, the Holy See's hostility to the Ming Empire cannot be resolved at all... How can this hatred of losing jobs be resolved?
“Your Majesty,” said the Marquis de Marriner, “the war to defend New France is also a war to defend the Catholic faith and the tithes… If New France falls, the fall of New Spain and New England will be far away. Is that so? The tithes collected by the Holy See from these two countries every year are astronomical. Now is the time to use some of them to support the Holy War in New France."
"Yes! The Holy See must pay for our war against the Chinese!" The Sun King glanced at his Foreign Minister Leona, "Hugo, go to Rome and discuss with the Pope how to share military expenses and Question of the Cost of Founding a Colonial City in the Mississippi Estuary Area.”
"Your Majesty," Leonard was stunned, "You mean you want the Holy See to share the cost of building a colonial city?"
The Sun King nodded: "Yes... I hope to build a city that can accommodate tens of thousands of people at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and develop the land near the city. This requires the introduction of a large number of immigrants, and also requires Invest huge sums of money in construction, perhaps millions of gold louis!
Since this city was built to protect and spread the faith of God, I hope the Holy See will bear some...preferably all of the construction costs! "
