1825 My New Daming

Chapter 222 Let them win, we can just lie down and make money (please subscribe, please collect)

France, Versailles, Grand Trianon Palace.

The most harmless French king in Europe, Louis XVII, and his direct black-haired half-breed brother, the Duke of Marseilles, came early this morning to the Grand Trianon Palace where their father Zhuge Wei lived for a long time.

As soon as the two brothers walked into the hall, they bumped into Zhuge Weijiu and Marie Antoinette drinking tea and chatting together.

Zhuge Weijiu is almost eighty years old, but he is in good spirits and has a loud voice. When he saw Louis XVII and the Duke of Marseilles, he smiled and greeted them with a feather fan: "Seventeen, little Louis, you two come here!" It's just right, I just discussed with your mother about starting a small business to earn some retirement money."

Louis XVII was taken aback for a moment, then glanced at his lavish old lady, walked up to Zhuge Weijiu and sat down next to him, and asked with a smile, "Yafu, have you been spending too much recently? Why did you think of doing a small business?" ?”

The Duke of Marseilles also pulled a chair beside his brother and sat down, and asked with a smile, "Yafu, how small is your small business? Is it a small business of hundreds of thousands, or a small business of several million?"

Zhuge Weijiu waved his feather fan and said with a smile, "More than that. It's worth hundreds of millions!"

"How many hundred million?" Louis XVII's eyes widened, "Why is the deal so... small?"

The Duke of Marseille also asked: "Yafu, do you want to sell arms to the Ottoman Empire? This is not easy. Because the British are already selling it! And there are still British and Raksha warships patrolling the Aegean Sea. It's not convenient for our boat to go there."

"No, no," Zhuge Weijiu shook his head and said with a smile, "Now that Rakshasa and the Ottoman Empire are fighting, if we sell arms to the Ottoman Empire, won't it destroy our Ming's neutral position?"

The long-awaited eighth "Mao-Tu War" is now underway!

Nicholas I personally marched, sitting in the fortress of Sevas Potor, using the radio to control the three-way army, and launched a fierce attack from the direction of the Danube, the Caucasus and the Aegean Sea.And it's going well, both in the direction of the Danube and in the direction of the Caucasus.

The Turks' army did not dare to fight the Rakshasa soldiers at all. 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, and it seems that it will not take long to take the entire territory of Wallachia.

In the direction of the Caucasus, the Turkish army adopted the tactics of sticking 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 region and the territory of Kars province in Turkey The Kars Fortress - now it's time to wait for the cannons to arrive at the front line and tear down the city walls.

In the direction of the Aegean Sea, the Rakshasa fleet commanded by Menshikov caught the Turks by surprise.The Turks thought that the Rakshasa fleet was only here to block the Aegean sea route, so they adopted the strategy of "protecting the ship against the enemy" and taking the fleet into the Sea of ​​Marmara.

But I didn't expect that Menshikov's fleet still had thousands of naval infantry. After discovering that the Turkish fleet had disappeared, he landed directly on Crete!There were not many Turkish defenders on Crete at all, and they didn't expect the Raksha people to come to land, so they were about to collapse.Now that the Rakshasa naval infantry has gained a firm foothold on Crete, about 20 airships of Jin Guohai Airlines took off from Sevas Potor and landed directly on Crete.With these airships condescending for reconnaissance, it is not easy for anyone who wants to smuggle arms into Constantinople.

It can be said that the start of Raksha Kingdom is quite good!

But people at the level of Louis XVII, the Duke of Marseille, and Zhuge Weijiu certainly knew that it would not be so easy for Rakshasa Kingdom to win.Because the British Empire is actually on the side of Turkey, although the United Kingdom has also declared war on Turkey along with Rakshasa, France, Austria, Prussia, and Jin.

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, Ming now maintains neutrality and did not join the war against the Turkish Empire, but they support Aripa in Egypt Xia's behavior in engaging the Arab Empire was also fatal to the Ottoman dynasty.

Just for this point alone, it is impossible for Ming to sell arms to the Ottoman Empire!

"Yafu, what's the big deal you're talking about?" the black-haired Duke of Marseille asked.

"It's oil!" Zhuge Weijiu said with a smile, "It's the Baku oil from the Raksha country. We Daming sold the warships to Raksha. The Raksha people plan to use Baku oil to pay for it. But Baku oil is inconvenient." They were shipped to Daming, so the old man wanted to sell them in Europe. Seventeen, little Louis, can we do this business?"

"This." The Duke of Marseille said, "Yes! As long as there is money to be made, why not? Brother, what do you think?"

Louis XVII smiled and said: "That is, I am a great France, and I wanted to dominate the European continent. Now France does not have such heroes as Louis XIV and Napoleon. As a king, I just want to sell some oil and make a little money. Can people stop it?"

When Zhuge Weijiu heard this, he quickly waved his goose feather fan and said, "It's not enough to make a little money, but to make a lot of money!"

"Make a lot of money? How do you make it?" Louis XVII asked with interest.

Zhuge Weijiu smiled and said: "Hoarding. This oil, let's not rush to sell it, it is a strategic resource! In recent years, there have been more and more internal combustion engines, oil-fired boilers, and kerosene-fired boilers, and wars have arisen as soon as we see them!" This price of oil will definitely rise sharply in the next few years!"

"Yafu, you know how to do business!"

"Yes, yes, we have to quickly build a few more large oil depots to store all the oil so that we can sell it at a high price in the future."

Zhuge Weijiu smiled again: "There is still saltpetre! The Bengal saltpetre mines of the Indian Empire are almost exhausted. Although there are still saltpeter from Chile, Peru and Bolivar, these three countries are all countries on the Pacific coast. They are all It’s a neutral country, but once Ming and Great Britain break up, it’s hard to say whether these South American saltpetres can be shipped to Europe. Let’s store up more, and then we can exchange them for gold and silver for the British!”

"What?" Louis XVII was taken aback, "Yafu, aren't you afraid that the British will use the saltpeter we sold to them to make bombs and kill people in Ming Dynasty?"

"Don't be afraid," Zhuge Weijiu said with a smile, "Bolivar and the Chilean establishment are on the same boat, they won't sell all the saltpetre to one side, they will definitely sell a little to both sides. And France is of course on the side of the British Empire, so the share sold to France will not be deducted from Ming. If you don’t buy it, then Britain can buy more. Instead of letting the British buy more, it’s better for you France to buy first. In the future, it will be resold to the UK at double or triple the money."

The Duke of Marseilles was still a little worried, "Yafu, but if we don't sell the saltpeter to Britain, 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 Ming! But if our Ming wants to win the final victory, we cannot rely on weapons and troops alone. After all, the British People have India in their hands, and they recently brought home the traitor from the United States. This saltpeter mine exists in India! And even if there is no saltpeter, it can still collect saltpeter. The British can order 2 million Indians to shit more every day, while the United States There are at least hundreds of millions of livestock there, as well as 2000 million Americans, who are pulling every day! Britain also has a lot of people and livestock. Hehe, so as long as the British, Indians, and Americans work hard to collect nitrate, there will still be There is a way to support it.

And if they can't survive, the pound must collapse, British gold and silver will flow to France, and London's financial center will be replaced by Paris!Recently, I still want to meet James Rothschild! "

(End of this chapter)