Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 959 Paris Conference
In the middle of August in the 34th year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the envoys from various countries who participated in the Paris Conference finally got together after a while.

Therefore, the French King Louis XIV, who called himself the Sun King, presided over the meeting in person at the Louvre Museum. The theme of the meeting was to jointly deal with the Ming Kingdom in the Far East.

However, ironically, there are Ming specialties everywhere inside and outside the Louvre, including silk, porcelain and so on.

The representatives of various countries attending the meeting, because before, they could play with each other's brains, and of course they would not have a good face when they met each other.Those who are more restrained are cold faces to each other; those who have a bad temper are just sarcasm.

For example, the envoys of Poland and the Commonwealth of Lithuania and the Swedish envoys are very difficult to deal with.One is a veteran powerhouse, and the other is a recent winner. Although they signed a contract, it doesn't prevent them from disgusting each other here.

The meeting was noisy and a bit chaotic.When Louis XIV saw him, he couldn't help being very angry, he really didn't give him any face!

So, he didn't care about it, and he could do whatever he liked!

When the British, Dutch, and especially the Spanish envoys saw them, they immediately panicked and tried to persuade them from all sides, and finally the meeting was held.

Louis XIV glanced at the envoys of various countries, and said with a serious face: "I heard that there are iron-clad smoking warships in the Ming Dynasty fleet, and sailing warships are no match at all. This is very powerful. Do you have any way to crack it? Or, do you know this kind of warship? How was it built?"

In his opinion, the most concerned thing is this kind of iron-clad smoking warship.If you don't find a way to deal with it, France will be more dangerous, after all, the coastline is so long!

Therefore, the first thing Louis XIV asked was to ask this.

The envoys from all over the world heard this, but no one spoke.Obviously, no one can figure out what is going on with this iron-clad smoking warship!

Seeing that no one spoke, the Swedish envoy suddenly stood up and said: "Since we don't know, then let's dispatch the fleet and fight one out of ten ships. If we capture one ship, we will know everything!"

These words are very reasonable, and for a while, those countries that have not fought against the Ming Fleet echoed for a while.

The British envoy was Robert. Seeing them like this, he had no choice but to stand up and say: "The closest to us is the American continent, but there were already three such iron-clad smoking warships there in the past two years. How many do you know? And there are many sailing warships in the Ming Dynasty, how many are appropriate for us to go?"

"What are we all doing together? Isn't it just to join forces to fight the Ming Kingdom?" The Swedish envoy said disapprovingly, "Each family has a hundred warships, and they will go to America together to destroy the Ming fleet. Let’s take back America!”

The Spanish envoy is Don Juan Jose of Austria. He is the illegitimate son of King Philip IV of Spain. He has been granted military power before. He has led troops to fight, suppressed the rebellion in Catalonia, and participated in the Battle of Portugal. No princely status was granted.

Sending him over to participate, no matter from that aspect, will definitely win the greatest benefit for Spain.No, at this time, when the Swedish envoy said that he wanted to take America back by the way, he immediately went on to say: "It's no problem to take back America. The places occupied by the Portuguese before belong to you. The places we originally occupied in Spain still have to be returned." We are Spain!"

Upon hearing this, the Swedish envoy quit, and immediately replied with a sneer: "I've already lost it, but I still have the nerve to go back. Why?"

Jose was furious when he heard that, but when he saw that many people were on the side of the Swedish envoy, he thought for a while and said, "The places in Portugal are also ours in Spain. Those places have already been given up to you. Isn't that enough?"

Nominally, Portugal is Spain's local rebellion, and Portugal's colony is of course Spain's territory.

After the Swedish envoy heard this, he would not recognize this logic, so he quarreled with Jose again.

On the other side, the Dutch envoy raised a topic and said: "We are not interested in the American territory, but if the iron-clad smoking warship is captured, we in the Netherlands only need one!"

Robert is the most sensitive about this, and he immediately said unhappily when he heard it: "What if only one ship is captured in the end? The first initiator of this meeting is us in the UK. No matter what, we in the UK have The priority of disposing of the iron-clad smoking warship. At most, it will be pulled after us in the UK, and you are allowed to visit together!"

When the Dutch envoy heard this, of course he was not happy, so he quarreled with Robert.Envoys from other countries, those concerned about land interests, joined Spain and Sweden in the war of words; while those from countries concerned about the sea, their envoys joined France and the Netherlands in the competition for iron-clad, smoking warships.

The battle has not even started yet, but the battle over the distribution of spoils has begun!

When Louis XIV saw this scene, he was immediately annoyed, and he patted his butt and left again. What kind of bullshit meeting, let's talk about it after the quarrel is over!

That's it, after arguing for three days, I finally calmed down a bit.But Louis XIV learned to be good, and he knew that if he went back to advance the meeting, if there was any benefit, another country would definitely quarrel, so he did not participate, and no one respected him anyway, so he sent his most powerful fighter The courtier, that is, Turenne, the old enemy of the Grand Condé, attended the meeting on his behalf.

As expected by Louis XIV, this meeting has been going on in a row.After a full month, no effective agreement was finally reached.Whether it is the scale of troops sent by various countries or the distribution of post-war benefits, no agreement can be reached.

The Swedish envoy was the first to pat his butt and leave. Whoever likes to hold this kind of boring meeting, anyway, Sweden is growing strong, so I'm afraid he will be a fool!

He took the lead, and other countries also left. In the end, the first Paris meeting was anticlimactic!
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On Daming's side, one year after Catherine asked Emperor Chongzhen for revenge, she couldn't wait any longer, and often wrote memorials to Emperor Chongzhen, asking to lead the troops back for revenge.

Regarding the situation in Europe, Emperor Chongzhen knew about the general situation of the Paris Conference because he released a lot of Grade A eavesdropping seeds, whether it was Mustafa, Lu Xiangsheng, or other vassal states. .

Regarding this meeting, for some reason, Emperor Chongzhen had an illusion.It's like going back to later generations, seeing the European powers dividing up the spoils against the map in the history books.

However, there is a little difference from this plane. In the original history, they shared the fish on the chopping board; however, on this plane, they discussed at the foot of a giant oriental dragon. The spoils after killing the dragon.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but sneered in his heart: I was afraid that you would not unite!To fight country by country, Ming’s military strength in the past was not enough to occupy so many countries, so it’s better for you all to unite, concentrate your forces, and then fight all in one go!
Based on this idea, Emperor Chongzhen felt that it was necessary to put a little pressure on European countries.It was only under pressure that they could truly unite and successfully hold their Paris conference.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen agreed to Catherine's request to fight.But there are conditions, she is only allowed to lead a group of fleets to the Americas, join the American Fleet of Ming Dynasty and the Portuguese Fleet, and attack European countries across the Atlantic Ocean.

In addition, the command of specific battles, including the Portuguese fleet, should be handed over to Zheng Zhilong.Whether to fight or retreat, Zheng Zhilong has the final say on how to fight.

Of course Catherine knew, but she certainly couldn't.It would be best to have the most famous naval commander in Ming Dynasty to lead the fleet.Therefore, without further ado, just kowtow to thank you.

In this way, Catherine bid farewell to the prince and her son, led more than 100 warships, including three steam iron-clad warships, stopped in Fusang Province, and headed for the American continent.One thing she didn't know was that Emperor Chongzhen sent a secret decree to Zheng Zhilong.

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On the European side, King Philip IV of Spain was the last thing he wanted to see about the failure of the Paris Conference.For this reason, he also scolded José, the illegitimate son.

If the Ming army really wanted to fight over, they would definitely fight Spain first. He would be under too much pressure.

As a result, Philip IV began to re-initiate the meeting, and threatened that he would not want the American continent.But this time, not many countries responded.

Cromwell in the United Kingdom is also a little disappointed with the failure of the Paris Conference.After a period of consideration, he decided to send a fleet to the American continent, with a scale of about [-] ships. He wanted to rob once, not only to rob money, but also to see if he could hit the single armored smoking warship.

As for doing so will draw the anger of the Ming army, he is not afraid.Anyway, they have fought in the Persian Gulf before, once and twice, no matter what, it is always a hostile relationship!

On the Swedish side, Carl Gustav has completely secured the throne that his cousin Zen gave him after a series of war victories against Poland and Tsarist Russia.After hearing what happened at the Paris conference, he was ready to move again.

Karl wants to prove that Sweden is so strong, what qualifications do you have to compete with Sweden?

It is normal to have this kind of thinking. At this time, Sweden has reached the strongest in history.Norway in the later generations has not yet become independent. The territory of Sweden, including Norway, also occupies a large territory of Poland, and the territory of Tsarist Russia is even more. The Baltic Sea is Sweden's inland sea.

And these were all won by him, Carl Gustav, through fighting.As far as his great achievements are concerned, how many people in Europe in history can achieve them?

Of course he would not admit that he had achieved such an achievement by standing on the shoulders of the giant Gustav II.

That's it, Carl Gustav used his troops alone.

(End of this chapter)