Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 571 Launching the Second Opium War

Looking at the golden sycamore leaves and elegant and fashionable buildings all over the street, Zhu Youxiao, who entered Paris for the first time, couldn't believe that this place would belong to his territory.

It's just a pity that there is no Arc de Triomphe at this time, otherwise, Zhu Youxiao must let his team pass through the Arc de Triomphe, and then blow it up.

When Louis XIV withdrew in a hurry, he only brought his guards with him. Most of the nobles and officials, as well as the army and all kinds of gold and silver property were left behind, and they were only his lovers.

Zhu Youxiao walked into the Palace of Versailles, and this world-famous palace belonged only to Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao at this time.

Louis XIV's lover, the Marquise de Montespain, was a famous beauty in Paris and also Louis XIV's favorite lover, but this time she had to make love to Zhu Youxiao.

And Zhu Youxiao not only enjoys his women in Louis XIV's bedroom, but also enjoys his treatment.

Zhu Youxiao spent five days in the sinking of the Palace of Versailles, and then directly ordered an army to loot the entire Palace of Versailles, and then sprinkled fire oil on the Palace of Versailles, burning it into ruins.

Originally, France in history was one of the robbers who burned down the Old Summer Palace after the Second Opium War, and at this moment Zhu Youxiao wanted to make his French Palace of Versailles suffer this disaster.

What architectural art treasures, representatives of Western architecture, none of these can stop Zhu Youxiao from burning down the palace.

The Palace of Versailles in Nuo Da was burned for three days and three nights. All the French people cried and felt great shame because of it, but they could only bear it, because now Daming is stronger than France.

Paris is by far the largest city occupied by the Ming Dynasty in the Conquest of Europa. After all, the previous city of Rome has not fully recovered due to a war, and there is still a gap compared to Paris.

The significance of occupying Paris today is naturally not inferior to the significance of occupying Rome.

After occupying France and Switzerland, Zhu Youxiao accepted the advice of Fu Dahai and other generals, and simply continued to use the Eastern Front Group and the Navy to sweep the southwestern part of France and directly attacked Francois, while the Western Front Group attacked the Netherlands, Austria and other countries, and the Northern Front Group The Li Dingguo Department of the group returned to the Isle of Wight and headed for the Nordic region.

Frangji was basically unable to parry the two armies of the Ming Dynasty. After occupying the port of Marseille, Heiwa's troops marched directly along the coastline of France, and took control of the Mediterranean sea area of ​​Frangji in one fell swoop.

The Strait of Gibraltar has also become a decoration at this time, and it cannot stop the main force of the Ming Navy, and the three main fleets of the Ming Navy have already jumped directly across the Strait of Gibraltar to capture the two ports of Hales and Huelva. Arrived outside of Victoria.

The entire Franchi navy was compressed around Porto, and the army around Madrid.

In half a month, Frangji's navy was completely wiped out, and Madrid's army was also directly defeated. Zhu Youxiao got the news that Frangji was wiped out almost before he had time to go to Switzerland.

At the same time, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries were also destroyed one after another.

Li Dingguo's conquest of Northern Europe with a partial division was almost destructive, and he joined the Western Front Group in Poland one month later.

So far, the whole of Europa has been included in the territory of Ming Dynasty except England and Luocha Kingdom.

However, Zhu Youxiao was not surprised by this. With Daming's current strength, Europa would not be an opponent even if they were all united, so it was not surprising.

At this time, in the entire world, except for the tribes or indigenous peoples who were still in the primitive society, there were only five countries, namely the Ming Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire, the Raksha Kingdom, England, and North Korea.

What Zhu Youxiao wants to do is to make Ming a global empire and let Han culture dominate the world. Therefore, except for North Korea, which has accepted Han culture, these countries will perish.

Even in North Korea, Zhu Youxiao forcibly abolished the vassal status of North Korea and changed it to the governor-in-charge system, that is, the king of the Li Dynasty continued to be named, but the person who took over the power was the governor-general appointed by the court. To be an assistant officer, the chief officer at each level must be an official from the Ming Dynasty.

Many noble families in North Korea opposed Daming's outrageous strategy and accused Emperor Zhu Youxiao of violating the ancestral system.

Zhu Youxiao hated others talking about the ancestral system, so he simply let the domestic army defending the capital go directly to the Yalu River in North Korea by train, scaring North Korea into obedience.

However, according to Zhu Youxiao’s instructions to the Ministry of War, after resolving the Eurasian War, find a way to seize North Korea’s independent military power, abolish North Korea’s local army, and let Ming take charge of its national defense, so as to achieve real control over North Korea.

The Ottoman Empire is a country that is about to die but not dead, and the same is true for the Raksha Kingdom, and after Siberia was occupied by Ming Dynasty, its vitality was also seriously injured.

Therefore, Ming Dynasty was not in a hurry to destroy these two empires that had sunk into the sky, and Ming Dynasty had to deal with the Stuart dynasty in England first.

Before that, it was in the interests of Ming to maintain the rule of the Stuart dynasty in England so as to suppress the rise of nationalism and bourgeois revolution in England. It is the biggest obstacle to destroying England.

However, at this time, many in power of the Stuart dynasty still believed that Ming had no intention of destroying them, and naively believed that as long as Ming's needs were met, the Ming army would not destroy England.

What the people in power of the Stuart dynasty would not have imagined was that at this moment, Ming Dynasty was already planning to find an excuse to launch a war against England.

When the Ming Dynasty swept across northern Europe and the central and northern parts of Western Europe, the armed forces of the Meisheng Company clashed with a group of British maritime merchants in the Daming Concession in Birmingham according to the instructions of the Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty. Then, a cargo ship of the Meisheng Company transported opium It was hit and sunk by an English maritime merchant ship, which caused an uproar.

Li Dingguo, Governor of White, immediately sent a note to Charles I, king of the Stuart dynasty, after learning of the incident, and strongly demanded that Charles I explain the matter.

Then, there was another incident in which it was suspected that the British army in London forcibly seized the cargo ship of the Meisheng Company. Although the Meisheng Company defeated this army, it also aroused Daming's anger.

The Ming Navy directly crossed the English Channel to the vicinity of London, and the Ming Army also gathered in the major concessions, and all kinds of war materials were continuously transported to these concessions.

At this moment, the entire English Stuart dynasty realized that Ming had already intended to destroy England.

However, at this time, England has no allies due to the previous appeasement policy, and can only rely on its own strength to resist Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)