I want to be emperor

Chapter 931 Landing in England
In the winter of Chengshun 39, Jinling City once again received good news from Europe!

After the European Expeditionary Force defeated France, the Chu Empire forced several small European countries near France such as the United Provinces of the Netherlands to sign an agreement to fully open their markets, cede leased lands, and accept the protection of Chu.

In the autumn and winter of last year, the Chu army launched the French Campaign and defeated the main force of the French army in the Battle of Paris, which greatly shocked Europe.

After all, the contemporary French are already a veritable big country in Europe. However, even the French cannot stop the attack of the Dachu Empire's expeditionary force. How can other countries stop it?
After the defeat of the French at that time, although they wanted to continue to resist, subsequent resistance suffered a disastrous defeat. By the beginning of Chengshun 39, more than 15 regular troops mobilized and organized by the French before the war had been lost. Although they continued to recruit a large number of farmers to form a mobilization army, the training and equipment were far from insufficient.

France has been completely defeated...

Immediately afterwards, some of the French nobles rebelled, raising the banner of resisting the tyranny of Louis XIV, welcoming the Chu State, and embracing the new civilized world... And the people of Chu also welcomed the French civil strife, and the French were immediately The rebels sent a large amount of aid, and in March of the year 39, France was actually torn apart...

The only areas directly controlled by the French king were parts of the southeastern Mediterranean coast. There were independent actions led by big nobles in the south and north, while many areas along the Atlantic coast were directly controlled by the Chu army.

Under various internal and external pressures, Louis XIV was finally forced to accept a series of conditions and surrender proposed by the Chu army!

After France surrendered, France was divided into four parts, and the southeastern region of France, still controlled by Louis XIV, continued the French system.

A new country was established in the southern part of France, which the Chu State called the 'Kingdom of Aquitani', and a new country was established in the northern part of France, which the Chu State called the 'Bilgica Kingdom'.

The previously directly controlled area of ​​the Chu Empire, which was a large area along the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel including Paris, was established as the Kingdom of Kirtika.

The above four countries have all signed similar agreements with the Great Chu Empire. From then on, they are all protectorates of the Great Chu Empire. Their military, financial and administrative aspects need to receive guidance from the Great Chu Empire and are dispatched by the Great Chu Empire. The Governor supervises.

And signed various agreements, such as the most important comprehensive open market agreement.

At the same time, there was an agreement to cede all overseas territories to the Chu Empire.

Subsequently, the four new kingdoms each ceded a coastal port to the Chu Empire to serve as a trading area.

And then they all bear high war reparations...

Basically, the terms are similar to those in Spain... completely reduced to a colony of the Chu Empire!
Even more than half of the aristocratic system in power in their country has disappeared. The remaining aristocratic groups are all anti-war groups before the war. During the war, they gathered to contact the Chu army. As for the die-hard elements who advocated the war, they were directly involved in the war. It has been completely eradicated.

Of course, Louis XIV is still alive and continues to be the king... but his France has become a small country and a colony of the Chu Empire. Although he is still a king, like the kings of Spain and Portugal, There is only the name of a king left, and no actual power.

In this process, these nobles followed the example of the Spanish nobles and selected more than 30 high-quality beautiful women from the noble groups across the country to be sent to Jinling City to serve His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Chu Empire...including many A beautiful young woman from the French royal family.

Paris, the former capital of France, was evacuated by the expeditionary force.

France's fate was even more miserable than that of Spain, but it frightened other European countries... Although Portugal and Spain were defeated and became a protectorate, at any rate, the country's mainland was actually still intact, and Chu State did not Divide and rule Spain and Portugal.

But what about France... it was directly divided into four parts by the Great Chu Empire Expeditionary Force, and even the historical term France will disappear in the future.

Because although Louis XIV is still the king, his kingdom is no longer the Kingdom of France, but the Kingdom of Narbonnans... Well, the Chu State found a rough map of the French historical period, that is, the Caesar period, and then according to Southeast, Southeast, and Northwest gave these four new protectorates new names!
The names of these four new kingdoms that were split from the French Kingdom are all geographical terms from the Caesar period BC... This also has the bad taste of the senior leaders of the European Expeditionary Force. They have used this naming method to flaunt the greatness of the world. The Chu Empire was the second conqueror of Gaul after Caesar!
Therefore, the names of these four new kingdoms are extremely insulting... This represents the history of France being conquered by foreign nations.

Those French people naturally felt aggrieved... but they had to grit their teeth to admit their aggrievedness, and even had to laugh and say that the master of the country was very good at picking names...

The tragic situation of the French was seen by other European countries, and they were frightened... Some countries, such as Denmark, Sweden, Austria and other countries in the north, have successively expanded their armies and prepared for war, and several of them have tried to make contact. Work together to resist the Chu Empire.

However, some countries feel that they are too weak to resist and choose to surrender. They adopt a more proactive attitude and try to exchange for better conditions for surrender.

There are also some countries where some nobles and other interest systems within them have had close business dealings with the Chu Empire. Instead of opposing the arrival of Chu people, they are very welcoming. For example, many nobles in the Netherlands The merchants... they actually welcome the arrival of Chu people.

Because they originally made a fortune by doing business with the Chu people. After the Chu people came, they could continue to do business with the Chu people, and even do bigger things... Well, they were probably the comprador groups in various countries in Europe. .

In fact, these people are quite numerous and possess considerable strength.

The compradors in the Netherlands were relatively strong. They quickly came to power relying on the external pressure of the Chu people, and then entered into a series of agreements with the Chu Empire such as the full opening of the market.

Relatively speaking, the conditions obtained by the Dutch were relatively good. They only signed a comprehensive market opening agreement and leased a port for the Chu people to do business. However, their autonomy in internal affairs, diplomacy and even military affairs was still retained.

The Chu people did not come to Europe to become emperors. In fact, the Chu people had little interest in becoming parents in Europe. The purpose of the Chu Empire's expedition to Europe was very simple and only from beginning to end: the market!
As long as we get the market, everything else actually doesn't matter... The reason why France and Spain are so ruthless is mainly because the local indigenous resistance is too fierce. In order to prevent any future troubles, it is also to deter other European countries. Chu The army would naturally choose to beat him to death with a slap, and even purged most of the local nobles for this purpose.

Even so, all local nobles including the king were not killed directly, but they were left to serve as rulers of the colonial area.

After all, the Chu people also need a certain number of indigenous ruling classes to rule the large number of indigenous people on their behalf, and to farm and mine to supply the Chu country.

As long as you understand the core needs of the Chu people, you can easily understand the series of actions of the European Expeditionary Force, and you can also understand why the Dutch received preferential treatment from the Chu country after choosing to take the initiative to send it to the market. Treated.

Chu State has little interest in ruling Europe... and has no plans to immigrate to Europe on a large scale for the time being, especially in western and central Europe.

What they want from the beginning to the end is the market!

The Dutch gave the market, which satisfied the core demands of the Chu people. Everything else is easy to talk about... Several other small European countries that chose to voluntarily surrender also received similar treatment. As long as they liberalized the market and gave them a concession port Such things allow Chu people to settle down and do business, but other Chu people are actually not interested...

Of course, fully opening up the market and even handing over tariff power is no different from becoming a colony, so most European countries are still unwilling to do so.

It is not fun to fully open the market to the Great Chu Empire... If you dare to open the front foot, your handicraft industry will no longer be available. Then, under the influence of the huge economic size of the Great Chu Empire, these places will inevitably They will produce specific crops and excavate specific minerals according to the needs of the Chu Empire.

For example, in some areas in India that are suitable for growing cotton, in order to obtain enough cotton purchases, the Chu Empire would deliberately raise the local cotton purchase price, and then conduct grain dumping in the early stage, forcing the local grain prices to plummet... and finally let In order to obtain higher economic returns, the Indian landowners and princes who controlled a large amount of land gave up growing food and replaced it with cotton!
After several years of economic adjustment, even after the local food and cotton prices return to normal, a large number of excellent local farmland will still grow cotton... because the big landowners can get slightly higher returns from growing cotton, and there is inertia in growing crops at the same time. Yes, it requires experience and even the support of related tools.

In these indigenous-controlled areas, that is, the colonies, the Da Chu Empire used economic means, such as controlling the sale and purchase price of related materials, to easily guide these indigenous people to plant specific crops, and then meet the needs of the Da Chu Empire itself.

Therefore, it is not that easy to fully open the market. There is a whole set of economic kidnappings hidden behind it. It will not be up to these indigenous people to decide how to change it.

Although many people in indigenous countries do not know these things, there are also elites among the indigenous people. Even if these elites cannot clearly see all the logic behind this comprehensive open market, they can still see a few things... Just what they saw was enough to scare them.

Once the market is fully opened, the country will not be destroyed and the species will be destroyed. After all, the Chu people still need these indigenous people for farming and mining. They will not deliberately starve them to death. They will give them some food at least!

But don’t expect to turn around in the coming decades or even centuries, and don’t expect people to have enough to eat...

They have to be lucky that the Chu Empire does not engage in slavery, otherwise the end will be even more tragic.

These terrible consequences made many European countries who felt that their strength was acceptable and at the same time unwilling to be reconciled actively expanded their armies and prepared for war, and contacted everywhere in an attempt to form an anti-Chu alliance.

As for the actual effect... I can’t say there is none, but it’s almost the same!

The Great Chu Empire's expedition to Europe was based on its strong national defense strength and the huge domestic economic strength. This kind of strong hard power was not something that the European natives could expand their armies and prepare for war, or the alliance of various organizations. Confrontational.

Because for those line troops in Europe who are still in the early musket era, giving them 200 million is unlikely to pose any practical threat to the Chu Army's European Expeditionary Force.

Neither side is on the same level!

Of course, in order to avoid the expansion of the war, reduce the European market to ruins, and turn many cheap labor into corpses, the generals of the European expeditionary force of the Dachu Empire decided not to give these European countries a chance to unite to resist, and first The dance was the most fun, and at the same time, several countries on the coast were cleaned up.

Such as the UK!

After the Chu people arrived in Europe, this island country has always shown strong resistance to the Chu Empire's invasion of Europe. Previously, it also strongly supported the French in rejecting Chu's conditions, supported French armed resistance to the Chu army, and They promised to send reinforcements and weapons... Unfortunately, until France fell and split into four countries, the reinforcements and weapons and supplies promised by the British did not arrive... The British had no intention of giving them.

To put it bluntly, even if the British planned to give, they would not be able to cross the English Channel controlled by the Chu State and send reinforcements and supplies to French soil.

After the demise of the French, the British continued to jump up and down, and began to encourage the Habsburg family in Austria and many larger vassal states in Germany, as well as Denmark, Sweden and other countries to form an anti-Chu coalition.

A real shit stirrer!

The people of Chu didn't pay much attention to the jumping up and down of these British people before. Anyway, they would have to deal with them one by one in the future...

But after killing France, it was discovered that these British people were still so picky. The British happened to be opposite France, and they took advantage of the large number of military transport ships, armed merchant ships and other ships needed for large-scale landing operations in the Dachu Empire in Europe.

Therefore, the European Expeditionary Force plans to get over the European continent first and deal with Britain first.

So in this winter, the Chu people officially dispatched a landing fleet and officially landed at Dover on the English Channel coast in southern England.

Although the weather is quite cold in winter, the Chu people have adapted to fighting in winter in Europe, and the logistical support for winter fighting is very sufficient... Relatively speaking, the European natives are very uncomfortable fighting in winter. , even if they were fighting at home, it would be very difficult to pull out the army to fight the Chu army in the winter.

The issue of winter clothing has caused headaches for countless generals from indigenous countries!
But not every country can distribute sufficient or even excess winter equipment to soldiers participating in the war like the Chu State.

After landing at Dover, the Chu army followed the old tradition and headed straight for the enemy's capital, London.

The distance between Dover and London is closer than the previous distance between Normandy and Paris. The straight-line distance is only about a hundred kilometers.

When the army landed in Dover, the navy's offshore patrols and a fleet of inland gunboats also entered the Thames estuary, controlled nearby ports, and established a maritime logistics supply base here.

The subsequent shallow water fleet will also enter the Thames River to cover the army's attack on London!
There was nothing special about the battle against the British... They fought all the way, and most of the time it was a battle, let alone robbery... The Chu army spent more time on seizing spoils of war and confiscating materials from the hostile forces than on marching and fighting. Much more time.Unexpectedly, the French, whose army was several times stronger than the British, were unable to stop Chu's attack. Naturally, the British were even less likely to stop the Chu army's attack... The British were not even able to organize a large number of troops to defend London!

Time entered the 40th year of Chengshun. After a march and defeating several groups of British resistance, more than 1 Chu troops successfully arrived in London. The British troops with more than [-] people in the city resisted for a time, but soon they Taking the initiative to abandon the city and flee, the Chu army captured London without much fighting.

As for the British royal family and a large number of nobles, they fled north in a hurry before the Chu army arrived in London...

But Britain is only such a big place, and it’s still an island. They can’t run far or hide for long!

(End of this chapter)