France, Versailles, Grand Trianon.
King Louis XVII of France, the most harmless king in Europe, and his biological black-haired half-breed brother, the Duke of Marseille, came early this morning to the Grand Trianon Palace where their grandfather, Zhuge Liang, had lived for a long time.
As soon as the two brothers entered the hall, they bumped into Zhuge Weijiu and Marie Antoinetto drinking tea and chatting together.
Zhuge Weijiu, who was almost eighty years old, was in good spirits and had a loud voice. When he saw Louis XVII and the Duke of Marseille, he smiled and greeted them with a feather fan and said: "Seventeen, little Louis, you two come here It's just right, I just discussed with your mother about doing some small business to earn some pension money."
Louis XVII was stunned for a moment, then glanced at his old lady who was spending a lot of money, then walked to Zhuge Weijiu and sat down next to him, and asked with a smile: "Father, have you been spending a little too much recently? Why did you think of doing small business? ?”
The Duke of Marseille also pulled up a chair and sat down next to his brother, and asked with a smile: "Father, how small is your small business? Is it a small business of hundreds of thousands, or a small business of several million?"
Zhuge Weijiu shook his feather fan and said with a smile: "It's not just that. It's hundreds of millions anyway!"
"Several hundred million?" Louis XVII's eyes widened, "Why is the deal so small?"
The Duke of Marseille also asked: "Father, do you want to sell arms to the Ottoman Empire? This is not easy. Because the British are already selling! And there are British and Rakshasa warships patrolling the Aegean Sea. It’s not convenient for our ship to go there.”
"No, no," Zhuge Weijiu shook his head and smiled, "Now the Rakshasa and the Ottoman Empire are at war. If we sell arms to the Ottoman Empire, won't we destroy the neutrality of our Ming Dynasty?"
The long-delayed eighth "Mao-Tu War" has now begun!
Nicholas I personally led the expedition and sat in the Sevasportor Fortress. He used radio to control three armies and launched attacks from the direction of the Danube River, the Caucasus and the Aegean Sea. And it is progressing smoothly, with overwhelming momentum in both the Danube and Caucasus directions.
The Turkish army did not dare to fight a decisive battle with the Rakshasa soldiers. They quickly abandoned the Principality of Moldavia in the direction of the Danube River and shrank to the Danube River Basin between Wallachia and Rumelia for defense. Therefore, Peter Wittgenstein's army is making rapid progress in the direction of the Danube River, and it seems that it will not take long to capture the entire territory of Wallachia.
In the direction of the Caucasus, the Turkish army adopted the tactic of holding on to the fortress, but the Rakshasa army still made rapid progress. Less than half a month after launching the attack, it had surrounded the fortress city of Batumi in the Transcaucasus and the Kars Province of Turkey. Karls Fortress - now just waiting for the cannon to arrive at the front line to demolish the city wall.
In the direction of the Aegean Sea, the Rakshasa fleet commanded by Menshikov caught the Turks by surprise as soon as they took action. The Turks originally thought that the Rakshasa fleet came only to block the Aegean Sea channel, so they adopted the strategy of "preserving the ship and controlling the enemy" and took the fleet into the Sea of Marmara.
But I didn't expect that Menshikov's fleet also carried thousands of naval infantry. After discovering that the Turkish fleet had disappeared, he landed directly on Crete! There were not many Turkish defenders on the island of Crete, and the Rakshasa people were not expected to land. As a result, they collapsed at the first touch. Now that the Rakshasa naval infantry has established a foothold on Crete, about 20 Jinguo Haihang airships took off from Sevasportor and landed directly on Crete. With these airships conducting condescending reconnaissance, it would not be easy for anyone to smuggle arms into Constantinople.
It can be said that Rakshasa Kingdom had a pretty good start!
However, people of Louis XVII, the Duke of Marseille, and Zhuge Weijiu of course knew that it would not be easy to win the Rakshasa Kingdom. Because the British Empire actually sided with Turkey, although Britain also declared war on Turkey along with the Rakshasa Kingdom, France, Austria, Prussia, and the Jin Kingdom.
Well, the current international situation can be said to be quite complicated. It is not necessarily the enemy who declares war, and the enemy may also remain neutral. For example, the Ming Dynasty has remained neutral and did not join the war against the Turkish Empire, but they supported Aripa of Egypt. Xia's behavior in the Arab Empire was also fatal to the Ottoman dynasty.
Just for this reason, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to sell arms to the Ottoman Empire!
"Father, what is the big deal you are talking about?" asked the black-haired Louis Duke of Marseille.
"It's oil!" Zhuge Weijiu said with a smile, "It's the Baku oil of the Rakshasa Kingdom. The batch of warships our Ming Dynasty sold to Rakshasa. The Rakshasa people planned to use Baku oil to pay for it. But Baku's oil is not convenient. They are shipped to the Ming Dynasty, so I want to sell them in Europe. Seventeen, little Louis, can we do this business?"
"Well," the Duke of Marseille said, "Yes! As long as you can make money, what's not possible? Brother, what do you think?"
Louis XVII smiled and said: "That's right, I am France, and I wanted to dominate Europe back then. Now France does not have heroes like Louis XIV and Napoleon. As a king, I just want to sell some oil and make a little money. Britain Can anyone stop me?"
When Zhuge Weijiu heard this, he quickly shook his goose feather fan and said: "It's not enough to make a little money, you have to make a lot of money!"
"Make a lot of money? How?" Louis XVII asked with interest.
Zhuge Weijiu smiled and said: "We are hoarding this oil. Let's not rush to sell it. This is a strategic resource! In recent years, there have been more and more internal combustion engines, oil-fired boilers, and kerosene mixed-fired boilers, and wars have started at the sight of it! The price of oil will definitely rise sharply in the next few years!”
"Father, you still know how to do business!"
"Yes, yes, we need to quickly build a few more large oil depots to store all the oil so that we can sell it at a higher price in the future."
Zhuge Weijiu smiled again and said: "There is also saltpeter! The Bengal saltpeter mines in the Indian Empire are almost exhausted. Although there are still saltpeter supplies from Chile, Peru and Bolivar, these three countries are all countries on the Pacific coast. They are all It is a neutral country, but once the Ming Dynasty and Great Britain break up, it is hard to say whether these South American saltpeters can be transported to Europe. We also need to store more, and then we can give it to the British in exchange for their gold and silver!"
"What?" Louis XVII was stunned, "Father, aren't you afraid that the British will use the saltpeter we sold them to make bombs to kill the people of the Ming Dynasty?"
"Don't be afraid," Zhuge Weijiu said with a smile, "Bolivar and the Chilean authorities are both trying to do two things. They will not sell all the saltpeter to one side now. They will definitely sell a little to both sides. Of course, France is on the side of the British Empire, so the share sold to France will not be deducted from Ming Dynasty. If you don’t buy it, then Britain can buy more. Instead of letting the British buy more, you, France, should buy it first, and in the future Then sell it to the UK for twice as much or twice as much money.”
The Duke of Marseille was still a little worried, "Father, if we don't sell saltpeter to the British, won't they lose faster?"
Zhuge Weijiu smiled and said: "Little Louis, don't pretend to me that you are the Duke of France, not the Duke of the Ming Dynasty! But if we, the Ming Dynasty, want to win the final victory, we cannot rely solely on weapons and troops. After all, the British They have India in their hands, and they recently brought home that treacherous son of America. India has this saltpeter mine! And even if there is no saltpeter, it can still collect saltpeter. The British can order 200 million Indians to poop more every day, but the United States There are at least hundreds of millions of livestock there, as well as 20 million Americans who have to poop every day! The UK also has a lot of people and livestock. Hehe, so as long as the British, Indians and Americans work hard to poop and collect saltpeter, they will still be able to poop. Way to support it.
To make it impossible for them to survive, the pound must collapse, all British gold and silver must flow to France, and London's financial center status must be replaced by Paris! Recently, I also want to meet James Rothschild! "
