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After the major military matter was settled, Louis XIV held a banquet in the Louvre to entertain William II and Jiexuan. By the way, he invited all the nobles who served him over, and everyone had a great time.
After Richelieu and Mazarin died one after another, the centralization of power that was finally formed seemed like dry sand in his hands, making Louis XIV unable to hold it even if he wanted to.
Nobles everywhere were unwilling and not afraid of this young and inexperienced king. He went his own way and acted arbitrarily. Louis XIV was very angry after hearing the news, but he was helpless.
But Finance Minister Colbert gave the king an idea. Colbert himself could not think of a solution, but he could let the wise men from the East think about it wisely.
After Louis XIV abolished the position of Prime Minister, he regained some power. However, pressure from all aspects followed, and he did not have so many ways to solve it. He could only listen to Fang Yizhi's suggestions.
This oriental wise man once advised Louis XIV to take a bath frequently, which was unthinkable in France at the time, and Louis XIV was also quite resistant.
However, after I heard that taking a bath can relax the muscles and activate blood circulation, reduce the chance of getting sick, and can eliminate body odor without perfume, I tried it a few times and the effect was indeed good.
Especially in the hot summer, if you don't take a shower, even eating ice cream regularly can't refresh your sticky body.
As for the view that dirt is a gift from God, Fang Yizhi said that because the king is a destiny, it is naturally not included in this, and there is no need to apply mortal customs.
With this excuse, Louis XIV could take a bath with peace of mind.
I wash every day in the summer and every three days in the winter, becoming the first person in France to take a bath!
As for problems that are much bigger than bathing, Fang Yizhi thinks they can be easily solved.
Because before coming to Europe, Emperor Haojing gave him a book full of various countermeasures.
The similarity between France and the Ming Dynasty is that the nobles all live in their own fiefs, which are fiefs, which makes it easier to manage and collect taxes, and at the same time resist the king's various tax increase orders.
If you want to deal with these nobles, without mobilizing the army, the only way is to move the tiger away from the mountain.
To put it bluntly, these nobles were recruited to Paris to be nurtured, which in French means - enjoy themselves!
The Louvre has electric lights, sofas, flush toilets, and all kinds of porcelain and silk produced in the Ming Empire.
As long as the nobles are willing to come to Paris to serve His Majesty the King, Louis XIV can sell some Ming Empire souvenirs at a discount.
Now Louis XIV is the largest importer in France, and his last family is Emperor Hao Jing of the Ming Empire.
Both parties conduct one-to-one import and export trade every year, which can avoid middlemen from eating the price difference and achieve a win-win situation of mutual benefit.
Louis XIV cut off part of the middleman's price, and then sold the goods to the nobles, at least 20 to 30% lower than the market price.
And as long as they come to Paris, the nobles can enjoy free food and accommodation.
Not only can you enjoy all kinds of Ming Empire food and goods, but you can also participate in various banquets, cocktail parties, and dances every day...
How could you want to go back to your own fiefdom when you are so busy having fun in Paris?
When Fang Yizhi first saw this content on the website, he thought to himself: The emperor is indeed the most virtuous person in the world!
After the initial results, the chef who arrived in France with Fang Yizhi also became the teacher of Louis XIV's chef.
Due to the reconciliation with the Netherlands, the nobles could eat Ming-style delicacies with various spices every day.
By the way, you can also enjoy entertainment programs and read the latest edition of "Journal de France".
Louis XIV saw that this trick worked, so he launched the Versailles project.
After the project is put into use, the nobles can show off their wealth in the Palace of Versailles...
In recent years, Louis XIV has imported hundreds of movies from the Ming Empire for the nobles to watch for free.
Now no one wants to go back to the countryside anymore. All the big and small things at home can be reported to the housekeeper.
At Colbert's suggestion, Louis XIV focused on developing the economy and urban construction of Paris.
Because this is the area directly under the king, the better the economy, the higher the taxes.
The effect is that the better Paris develops, the higher housing prices will be, and nobles will be willing to invest money in Paris real estate.
For Louis XIV, this was tantamount to collecting liquidity from nobles everywhere and achieving the goal of centralizing power and amassing wealth.
Colbert's trip to the Ming Empire was not in vain, especially since he copied all the good things he saw.
For example, bonded zones have been established at the ports of Calais and Marseille. As long as the goods do not enter the French mainland for circulation, merchants do not need to pay taxes and only charge storage fees when they are placed in the bonded zone.
The charges have also become more reasonable. Charges are per container. After unloading the goods, if the goods are filled with several containers, the rent will be charged for several containers.
During this period, the wharf was expanded to enable the docking of large commercial ships and increase the throughput of the port.
Coupled with the improvement of supporting facilities such as bars, hospitals, and hotels, the income of port cities will naturally increase.
In the future, Louis XIV will also build a railway from Marseille to Paris.
The reason is simple. With the opening of the Sudan Canal, more than half of the merchant ships will choose this route, making the Mediterranean region prosperous again.
In order to develop the economy of the Paris region and increase the income of His Majesty the King, Colbert introduced projects such as industrial parks, pedestrian streets, amusement parks, zoos, cinemas, and department stores.
Although they are all copycat projects, in Europe, especially in France, these projects are of epoch-making significance and the results are very good.
Thanks to the Seine River, hydropower stations, and various imported machinery and equipment, Paris has the most formal industrial park in France, with water, electricity, and smooth roads.
In order to attract business and investment, Kolbe also sent people to build some factories and warehouses, so that merchants could move in directly with equipment and goods.
This is something unimaginable in other places in France. In Paris, not only can your dream come true, but it only takes three days to complete the relevant procedures, and there is rarely any behavior like asking for cards.
After the nobles saw it, they would naturally imitate it in their own fiefdoms, which would produce a demonstration effect and stimulate the development of the local economy.
One of the most important factors that attracts them is that Paris has the best medical conditions in France.
Not only are there special medicines imported from the Ming Empire, but there are also X-ray machines. Only less than ten places in France, including Paris, Marseille, Calais, and Lyon, have such equipment.
Since there were imperial doctors in Paris and had been trained by doctors from the Ming Empire, Paris hospitals became the first choice for aristocrats and wealthy businessmen who suffered serious injuries, especially fractures or surgery.
The ultimate special medicine like Penicillin was only available to Louis XIV in France.
If you don't have a good relationship with the king and don't listen to the order, you will have to wait for death if you can't get the special medicine...
In a sense, Louis XIV can decide the life or death of a Zimin, even without sending out troops!
After defeating the Holy Roman Emperor's army and Spain from the Spanish Netherlands, France has not only become the largest military power in Europe, but also the largest economic power in Europe.
The comprehensive national strength ranks first in Europe and second in the world. Although the gap with the Ming Empire is still obvious, it firmly holds the top spot in Europe.
The development momentum is very good, and strategic decisions closely follow the Ming Empire. With the assistance of the Netherlands, a maritime ally, under the leadership of Louis XIV, the next few decades are worth looking forward to.
"Is this how you spend your day?"
"Of course!"
"I admire you so much!"
Regardless of whether others can bear it or not, Jiexuan cannot bear it.
At the banquet, he simply became the mascot for the French nobles to take photos with!
Especially when I heard that he had made two expeditions to the Viceroyalty of Spanish America and had become the wishful man of many aristocratic girls.
Before escaping, Jiexuan had answered the question of marriage no less than twenty times.
I'm fifty, and I don't like young bookboys, so how can I not get married?
But the enthusiastic and proactive French girls didn't mind this and said they could be Jie Xuan's concubines!
Being able to marry a hero is what they dream of. Youth and nationality are not a problem...
Emperor Haojing said that three women are equivalent to a hundred ducks, and Jie Xuan visually estimated that there were no less than a hundred female guests present!
To him, this is more terrifying than tens of thousands of enemies!
He couldn't fight again and again. If he really fought, the other party would definitely turn his eyes and turn his head. However, he would let out waves of melancholy sounds...
"Brother Jie, don't you want a hero to embrace a beautiful woman?"
Fang Yizhi, who was already immune to this situation, didn't mind at all and even made fun of the other party.
"Humph! I'm afraid you'll have kidney failure within three days, right?"
Jie Xuan, who has played twice in America, can be considered an insider in the industry. Although Ocean Horse is exciting, this thing is suitable for young people.
As an old man, he still has to act according to his ability. This is not a local skinny horse with weak combat effectiveness.
With so many men under his command, Jiexuan planned to push out those guys who were not picky eaters after being in a desperate situation.
They all look big and round. After meeting the French pony, it’s not certain who will eat whom!
Jiexuan resigned from Louis XIV and William II on the grounds that he was too drunk.
Originally, the former wanted to arrange for this distinguished guest to stay at the Louvre, but considering those nymphomaniac girls, he could only agree to let him stay in the Ming Empire's embassy.
After returning to his residence, Fang Yizhi introduced the preparations for war between France and the Netherlands.
According to Louis XIV's order, the grain was calculated as two kilograms per person per day, and the needs of 100,000 Ming army soldiers for two years were prepared.
However, they are all wheat, not rice. As for whether to make buns, dumplings, stew or bread, it can be decided according to Master Wang's personal taste.
Although you have to pay for it, it would be good if you can buy food near the war zone. If you can't buy it, you will have to eat it from the enemy.
After the beginning of spring, the supply of fruits and vegetables is not a big problem.
Although there are fewer fruits, the supply of vegetables, especially potatoes, is completely guaranteed.
Louis XIV also followed Fang Yizhi's suggestion and dug many vegetable cellars across the country, especially in northern France, to store cabbage, potatoes, radishes and other vegetables.
Even if the first batch of vegetables cannot be harvested before summer, the army will not have to worry about not having enough food to eat when marching to Britain.
As for meat, as long as you pay, you can even eat beef.
The Netherlands is good at fishing, and William II has verbally guaranteed that the army will not be short of seafood supplies.
In this way, there is no need to worry about meat, vegetables, and grain, and the remaining coal is not a problem. There are a bunch of coal mines in France.
As for the food and fodder for the war horses, Jiexuan's war horses were not many, and a little squeezed out from the teeth of the French army was enough.
Since France and the Netherlands had previously provided one hundred steam tanks to each side free of charge, Louis XIV had already guaranteed this.
Ensure the supply of food and fodder for the Ming army's horses within 3,000 horses, and it is free. The standard is the same as the treatment of French cavalry mounts.
One hundred steam tanks are still original. Not only are they powerful in firepower, but they can also save the French army from killing many soldiers.
If one less person dies, the imperial finance will allocate one less pension.
Louis XIV was not a fool, so he would naturally reciprocate the favor.
Even if His Holiness did not speak, Kolbe would reveal the convenience and act accordingly.
If you can't satisfy your partners with this little thing, how can you do big business in the future?
Losing big things because of small things is something that only fools and smart-aleck people can do.
Since the Ming Empire was too powerful in terms of military, economy, and technology, France's current established strategy was to satisfy this major customer.
Only in this way can you maximize your own interests.
An example of this is that New France is about to arrive after the war, and its area is more than ten times the size of mainland France!
All the resources on this land belong to France. What a huge harvest for the soldiers!
In the past, Spain relied on the dividends from the two major viceroyalties in America to suppress France for a long time. Now the two sides have finally changed positions.
Louis XIV did not know who was third in the world, but there was no doubt that France was the second in the world.
Without falling out with the world's number one, France is number two in the world and number one in Europe, and has also eliminated its two old enemies - Britain and Spain.
This is enough to make Louis XIV one of the most meritorious kings of France in history, perhaps second only to Charlemagne in ranking!
Especially after the Marquis of Turenne brought good news from the Spanish battlefield, Barcelona was captured, and Madrid was besieged by the Ming army, Louis XIV was really happy to hear the news.
This shows that the French allied forces have taken the initiative in the Spanish battlefield, and they have also eliminated the main force of the Spanish army, leaving little time for their opponents...
After Spain is destroyed, Britain will become an isolated island without reinforcements. The result waiting for it is destruction, that's all!
Britain once invaded the French mainland and recently had a fierce fight with the Netherlands, so both France and the Netherlands very much hope to eliminate this bastard country.
Of course, hope is hope, whether it can be eliminated is another matter.
But if this bastard insists on provoking the Ming Empire, there will be no way for him to survive.
When the Ming Empire's expedition fleet arrives in Europe, it will be the death knell for Britain!
The Ming fleet is currently the most powerful fleet in the world, far more powerful than the Invincible Fleet of the past.
With the strong support of this fleet, it is impossible for the French and Dutch fleets to lose the naval battle.
Britain has no naval fleet, its army is trapped on the island, and Cromwell is about to die. This is an obvious sign of national destruction!
The two neighbors to the west and north were destroyed one after another. This was probably the happiest thing for Louis XIV since he succeeded to the throne.
