After clearly telling the French mission that it was impossible to exchange porcelain and silk, the Count of Morpa was a little bittersweet.

Judging from the booklet of this new type of firearms and tactical system, a glimpse of the whole leopard shows that Dashun's army is still very strong.

However, no matter how powerful the army is, it is impossible to defeat the great power of nature.

The desolate and vast Siberia, and the drought and lack of supplies in the deserts of Central Asia made it impossible for Dashun to participate in the war in Europe. It is possible to contain Russia a little, but it is impossible to attract too much energy from Russia.

On the sea, Dashun's navy was quite weak. Now it has just started, and the six cruisers, together are less than 5,000 tons, which is at least 30 million taels of silver from the 200,000-ton battleship tonnage of the British, not counting personnel training.

If you want Dashun to have more power to contain Britain and the Netherlands, it seems that it is best to let Dashun have a similar navy.

The good news is that the new tactics and the new bullets are really useful for France.

Worryingly, this kind of trade is only a last resort, and relatively speaking, France wants porcelain and silk technology more.

In fact, before coming to China, most of the French mission was full of confidence.

They think they have a lot of hole cards that they can exchange for what they want. Moreover, Liu Yu prematurely exposed his impatience to want the design of a new battleship, and for a negotiation, the negotiator who prematurely exposed the bottom is the negotiator who failed.

Even in Puducherry and Duplex, who had been in India for many years and had presided over the East India Company's trade with China, thought that France could exchange a lot of things.

For example, the French flat glass technology, this thing is too expensive to ship, and the price is too high, although the profit is large, but the sales are not good. This technology can be used as a bargaining chip to exchange porcelain technology.

However, when they arrived in Songjiang, they saw a lot of flat glass, and knew that Liu Yu had also begun to produce flat glass.

What is even more terrifying is that a few years ago, Dashun still needed to buy flintlock pistols from France, and in just a few years, he was able to sell new arms and army tactics to France in reverse.

It was a quick and unpleasant thing to say, and it made Count Morpa feel a deep shock.

It seems that the descriptions of the missionaries are not known to be for the sake of missionary flattery, and this ancient Eastern empire has its own peculiarities.

Thinking about it now, Count Morpa realized that Liu Yu had prematurely exposed what he wanted in the negotiations, and he was really fearless.

Because Dashun can exchange too many things, and France can exchange too few things.

"Dear Earl of China, I think we can negotiate this deal slowly. As you say, if talking about the acquisition of technologies such as porcelain silk can lead to hostility towards us in your country, I can give it up. ”

"However, the effectiveness of this new tactic you envisaged needs to be tested in real combat. And the French warships, as you know, are the best design in the whole of Europe, or indeed the whole world, this is recognized. ”

"I don't think it's a fair trade for a technology that needs to be tested in exchange for a technology that is recognized as good."

Liu Yu thought to himself, hammer, you are clearly bargaining. But I have expressed my hope to get the design drawings of the new battleship many times before, and at this time, it is too late to say anything like "you can learn it, you can not learn it", and you can pull back a game on your lips.

But this matter is best settled in Weihai. If you go to the capital to discuss it publicly, you may have to put a hat on your head that is a foreign expert. The ministers of Dashun, even if their brains are rusty, know that new weapons cannot be leaked.

"Mr. Count, as the Lord Chancellor of the French Admiralty, you should have some knowledge of the present situation in Europe. France needs to be clear about its strategy. ”

"France is not England."

"If you can get Flanders and Northern Italy, in fact, everything you have overseas can be discarded. After all, France is a land power. ”

"Even if you're Lord of the Admiralty, I have to say that. The new army tactics and rifled bullet loading methods were urgently needed by France at this time, and they were also extremely advantageous. ”

"France has to figure out whether it wants to be the hegemon on the European continent or expand overseas?"

"Judging by the policy of the Polish Succession this time, the cardinal's foreign policy of easing Franco-Austrian relations has gone bankrupt. Northern Italy, Flanders, these fertile lands, may fall into the hands of the French or the Bourbons because of this bullet and the tactics that go with it. ”

"Dashun, in turn, is now on the periphery, and there are no decent, strong enough enemies. And this new type of lead bullet is not urgently needed for Dashun. On the contrary, in Southeast Asia, and especially in Batavia, where there are large numbers of our diaspora, a good navy that can rival the Dutch East India Company is a must. ”

"It's a win-win deal. Southeast Asia is the blood vessel of the Netherlands, and once it is cut, the Netherlands is weakened; Britain in India will also be affected, and if necessary, we can cut off trade with Britain, which is also beneficial to France. ”

In the era of cold weapons, with the size of the Central Plains and the constraints of the ruling limit, it was impossible to expand in both land and sea.

In the Gunpowder Age, especially in the Flintlock Age, the pressure of this two-way expansion was relieved, just as Liu Yu described Nanyang as the Western Regions of Dashun.

Children make choices, and adults naturally choose me.

It's just that I want this, and France is not qualified to say it.

A bunch of enemies on the European continent, France had to maintain a sufficiently strong army, and the navy was always secondary.

Even Count Morpa, as the Minister of the Navy, had to agree with Liu Yu's statement.

As far as France is concerned, Flanders and Italy, if they can get their hands on it, those overseas territories can actually be thrown away or exchanged.

Don't look at Duplex so cheerfully, he is an outlier in France.

Now no one knows, or even dares to imagine, that it will be as simple as the later British conquest of India. In terms of contradictions and negotiations with China, this contradiction is even smaller than Liu Yu thought.

In the last century, British power was expelled from Southeast Asia by the Dutch and retreated to India. The French East India Company also had a great influence in Siam, but soon after the collapse of the East India Company, the fall of Pondicherry to the British, and the change of internal economic policy, it can be said that France is now completely on the defensive in India.

The cardinal also repeatedly admonished the East India Company to be calm and not to provoke the British.

Of course, France hoped that Dashun would share the military pressure of Britain and the Netherlands in the direction of the South Seas, cut the blood vessels of the Netherlands, and contain the military strength of Britain.

Even India can give up if it can.

The East India Company was half-dead, and the French court considered India to be a loser, no match for a small island in the West Indies where sugar cane or indigo could be grown.

However, Count Morpa also knew very well that the battleship was the biggest reliance on French negotiations, and he wanted to determine whether this was really as Liu Yu said, so he could only use this exchange? Or is it that Liu Yu just faked the holy decree, and the emperor did not instruct that porcelain and silk technology could not be traded at all?

"If you really can't get the technology of porcelain and silk, this can be exchanged. But now, this condition cannot be agreed. These Chinese are cunning, not the natives who can be deceived with glass balls. ”

Thinking like this in his heart, he did not completely reject Liu Yu's proposal, but went around in circles, saying that this matter could be discussed slowly in the future.

At least, talk about it in the capital.

How could Liu Yu not guess the other party's thoughts, it was nothing more than that he didn't want to die in the heart of the Yellow River, and he wanted to exchange for more and more valuable things.

Thinking that if it weren't for your ignorance of sail battleship design, if you didn't have one or two hundred years of experience in naval warfare, if it weren't for the fact that the navy couldn't develop by leaps and bounds, Lao Tzu would have already thrown his face: it's okay to talk, it's okay not to talk, what's there to talk about with France? Trade is not good, the navy and navy are pulling their hips, and they have to bear the pressure of Russia and Britain!

After scolding a few words in his heart, a smile appeared on his face.

"Okay, in that case, then let's go to the capital as soon as possible."

After agreeing, he led the French mission around several places in Weihai and Liugong Island.

I visited the military academy and took an open class on the siege of the fortress, which showed the soft power of Dashun on the side.

Then he took this negotiation with no result at all, and went to Tianjin by boat.

deliberately took a turn around the newly repaired Dagukou Fort, and did not allow them to visit the interior of the fort, so naturally they could not see that those terrible cannons were all wooden.

Judging from the appearance alone, some of the knowledgeable people in the French mission can conclude that this is a fairly good battery.

After looking at the fort from a distance, I also saw a new army that the emperor had just transferred here, performed some drills and formations, and made it look like an army power, and then arrived in the capital.

The accommodation was arranged to be the same as the place where the Russian mission had stayed when the Russian mission came, but a sum of money was allocated from the interior to renovate it.

Long before the ban on Christianity, there were many Catholic churches in the capital. Later, there were a large number of Rakshasa captives serving as soldiers in the capital, and the people in the capital were also well-informed, so naturally they would not make a fuss about these Westerners.

When I arrived at the residence, it was no longer under Liu Yu's control.

Officials will come, ask about the rank of the other party, choose those who are qualified to enter the palace to meet the emperor, and teach them the etiquette of prostrations and prostrations.

Just as the Duke of Qi went to Paris, he used the etiquette of meeting the King of France; Count Morpa met the Emperor of the Celestial Empire here, and he also used the etiquette of the Celestial Empire.

There is nothing to argue about this, just a few years ago, because of the etiquette of Catholics, Dashun chose a strict policy of banning Christianity.

This news was transmitted back to France, and since the French court had sent people here, it naturally knew that local etiquette had to be observed.

It is nothing more than a matter of interests, and now Dashun can bring benefits to France, even if there is not much commercial contact, it will have a deterrent effect on Britain, Holland and Russia.

The arrival of the French mission was also carried out with great fanfare in the capital, for fear that the Russian envoy in charge of the western border negotiations here would not know that the French were coming.

It seems that there is already a little bit of vertical and horizontal flavor, these small actions Liu Yu has not arranged, seeing these small actions Liu Yu is in a good mood, it seems that those people in the court who are eager for change still have brains.

Liu Yu, who was happy because of this small diplomatic move, took advantage of the fact that the French mission was still learning etiquette to visit the British envoy who was presiding over the negotiations this time.

The British princess, who is already very old, is still quite strong, and he is very happy to see Liu Yu coming. The two families are entangled in interests, and he has to have his grandson follow the Qingzhou Army to train, and the battle in the Western Regions has played a style, which makes the British Duke feel very relieved that he can rest assured.

"Usual, you've come just in time. I'm older, and I don't interact much with Westerners. I'm only going to drink tea and seals. This time, it's up to you to do it. ”

"Your Majesty is also relieved, if you change someone else, Your Majesty is not at ease."

"Remember a word. Your Majesty's meaning, this time, is to make the thunder louder and the rainier smaller. ”

This thunder is loud and the rain is small, which is the attitude of the emperor and the Tianyou Hall towards this visit of the French mission.

The thunder was loud so that the Russians could hear it clearly.

The rain is small because the rain is really not big, and the ministers of the Heavenly Blessing Hall have thought about it for a long time, and they can't think of any great benefits between China and France.