If Count Morpa knew how to use the idiom, he would have thought of the phrase "to drive the tiger and devour the wolf". However, it would be more accurate to say that it lures the tiger and devours the wolf.

Duprex's meaning is very clear, if the navy is not just defensive, it will lose money, especially if there is no equivalent navy in the vicinity.

The army can also suppress bandits and suppress rebellions. If the navy has no enemies, it is just a meaningless pile of garbage, and it has to be put money into it every year.

Since Dashun has built a navy, and the speed of the salvo can be known to be at least twice a week training level, it shows that this navy has invested a lot of money.

In this case, the direction of Dashun's expansion is nothing more than Japan, or Nanyang.

And if you go to the South Seas, you will definitely have a conflict with the Netherlands.

In the context of the Anglo-Dutch alliance, it was consistent to instigate Dashun to declare war on the Netherlands...... Maybe it was France, or maybe it was just the interests of the French East India Company.

Britain and France who take the whole of Bangladesh are qualified to really get involved in Southeast Asia.

It's going to be a long process, and at least at this moment, no one can imagine that India will be completely colonized in a few decades, and no one would dare to think that India will be so vulnerable.

Duprax's proposal always revolved around the explicit goal that "France's overseas interests are to be taxed in India".

The Count of Morpa did not immediately object, nor did he express his support, he wanted to see again. As Envoy Plenipotentiary, he has a certain amount of decision-making power.

After the ship docked, the gypsy band on the shore played the tune of "God Save the King". It sounds very similar to the British song "God Save the Queen", and it is actually very similar, and even the original version is a French song.

This is a standard monarchical anthem, similar to the elegant music in the Book of Songs, and different from the war anthem of the general republic, it sounds like mourning.

It's also a pretty standard "licking" song, and it's literal. This is the song presented by the "fortunate minister" to celebrate the recovery of the anal fistula after Louis XIV underwent anal fistula surgery, and it can be regarded as the national anthem of the French Bourbon dynasty at this time.

Count Morpa had never seen such a form of reception.

But he still stood aside, and after humming the ode, he met Liu Yu who came to greet him.

There is no national anthem here in Dashun, and even if there is Yale, it is not Liu Yu qualified to play.

When you arrive in the capital, the emperor may play Yale when he receives him, but it will definitely not work here.

The two sides greeted each other according to each other's etiquette, Liu Yu arched his hand, and Count Morpa used French etiquette.

Carefully selected grenadiers and tall marines made honor guards? The height of the tall Shandong Dahan still has an overwhelming advantage over these French.

An army that has fought Russia and Dzungaria with a misunderstood legend and information? Count Morpa was convinced that Dashun had a very strong army, and that it was clearly different from the European soldiers: he wore a red tasseled felt hat on his head.

In addition to the difference between military caps and military uniforms? The guns are the same.

Isn't a flintlock pistol some mysterious high-tech? If Dashun doesn't buy from France, from the Netherlands, England and even Spain? The same can be bought.

The main reason for buying French guns is to get closer to France. It's just that Dashun bought two batches here? After that, it produced it itself.

Liu Yu didn't expect this honor guard to make the French exclaim invincible? After greetings, Liu Yu got to the point first.

"His Majesty the Emperor hopes that you will be able to go to the capital as soon as possible. Set sail from here and land in Tianjin. I was the deputy envoy of the reception mission. May I ask Mr. Earl, has the letter of state been translated? ”

Count Morpa said that the letter of state has been translated? And looking for a translator from a missionary who has been in China for many years? There is absolutely nothing disrespectful, and the evasion that should be taken has already been avoided.

There are a few missionaries who have been to the court, and there should be no problem with translating the national letter.

For the sake of safety, Liu Yu took the copy and read it again, and asked Kang Buxian to find some "avoidant" professionals to study it carefully? Make sure that there is basically no problem, which is reassuring.

There are already many people in the DPRK and China who are quite dissatisfied with Dashun's behavior of engaging in diplomacy without regard for decency? At this time, there should be no mistakes, so as not to be used to play the topic.

Is there a problem with the national credentials? What to talk about becomes the question.

France is not Russia, which has a long border problem with Dashun, and this time the French mission came? What do you want to talk about? Both sides actually know it.

Liu Yu wants to send someone to France to learn shipbuilding? As well as getting the blueprints of the new French battleships, and the fact that the French king can send a few really good shipbuilders at the official level.

He wanted warships, he wanted very good French 74-gun battleships.

This intention has not been expressed once or twice, but France has always held it in its hands, and what Liu Yu has given is some outdated goods.

The new design drawings have been available in France for a long time, but they don't want to build them because of lack of money.

Liu Yu prematurely exposed what he wanted, and the French must have used it in exchange for what they wanted.

What France wants, this Liu Yu also knows in his heart.

France's signing of the Fontainebleau Amnesty caused many non-Catholic craftsmen to flee, and the crafts industry fell into decline.

Foreign trade, with the Netherlands and Britain to raise tariffs on each other, foreign exports are very bad. Advantageous industries such as wine, the Dutch tariff on France has reached 90 percent.

Domestic demand, France is more crotch-pulling. The Mississippi bubble has finished cutting French leeks, but export sales are not good, domestic demand is even more finished, and the annual trade deficit with Dashun is off the charts.

The French are very confident, and Dashun is too far away after all, it is estimated that although France is interested in Dashun as an ally, it is more interested in money.

Silk, porcelain, tea, the old three, Liu Yu estimated that France wanted to exchange the battleship design drawings.

This certainly cannot be changed.

It's not that you can't sell.

It won't be long before some low-end European porcelain will be crowded out.

At this time, it is definitely possible to sell at a high price, but the problem is that the blueprints used to exchange for battleships are not very cost-effective.

It will take at least a few decades for European porcelain to catch up, and during this period, there will be a silver surplus of tens of millions of taels.

But there is nothing else to change.

It is impossible for the French navy to defeat the British, and at such a distance, it is more about using each other to contain the common enemy, and it is not possible to count on cooperative operations for the time being.

The new things that Liu Yu has in his hand, the French are not interested in flat glass, because plate glass is originally more advanced in French technology, and Britain has to steal teachers.

Cigarette rolls don't make much sense, matches can be sold, and in any case, such flammable matches can't be shipped to Europe for sale. But if the match-making technology goes to change the drawings, the French will certainly not agree.

Fortunately, on the arms, Liu Yu still has a few hole cards at the bottom of the box in his hand, and he wants to give it a try.

The new type of battleship, by starting with the cruiser to figure it out little by little, is not impossible to figure out. It's just that it's taking too long.

Time is exactly what he lacks.

Today's allies may be tomorrow's enemies, and India, a place that can provide cotton for the Dashun Industrial Revolution, will definitely be fought for, and it will certainly not be possible to rely on these few broken cruisers and the 64-gun old battleships that can't keep up with the slow running.

As for the prestige and fame that the emperor wants, Liu Yu actually doesn't care too much.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu pretended to ask unintentionally: "On the mast of the French Navy, there are gunners, right?" Are they rifled guns? ”

Rifling appeared earlier than flintlock guns. The accuracy is much higher, except that to make the buckshot spin, the bullet must be thicker than the muzzle. This leads to the trouble of loading, you need to use a hammer to knock inside, at this time there is no tolerance of standard parts, from time to time there will be two hammers down the lead bullet does not fly out, blocked in the case of exploding.

Count Morpa said, "It's all with smoothbore guns." Although the rifled one is more accurate, it is too cumbersome to load. ”

"Your gunners are fast reloading, and it seems that your navy is very well trained. But a navy with only cruisers cannot be called a powerful navy. ”

Although France now has only seven or eight battleships left that can leave the port at any time, the foundation is there, as long as the money is charged with kryptonite and the patriotic agitation and donation, a fleet can be built soon. Count Morpa is still entitled to express a little pride in Weihai's fleet.

"Yes, our navy is just getting started. But China must have a strong navy to safeguard the interests of our diaspora. ”

"In Batavia, there are tens of thousands of Chinese people whose lives there have been discriminated against, many of whom are descendants of labor slaves who were taken from Zhoushan, Penghu and other places by the Dutch and British decades ago. This is not allowed. ”

"Moreover, Spain also slaughtered the people of the Celestial Empire in Luzon."

"Without a strong fleet, their interests cannot be guaranteed. law, only within the range of naval guns. ”

"It's just a pity that your country does not provide us with the blueprints for the design of the latest battleships. We just need to step up our training and use all kinds of methods to increase our firepower. ”

"Our cannons can fire faster; On our masts, too, rifled gunners who hit farther away. Moreover, a new technology makes it possible to make the loading of rifled guns simpler, the same as smoothbore guns. ”

Before throwing out the temptation, he also made it very implicitly clear to France that the interests of Dashun were in the South Seas, and that the first target was Batavia in the Netherlands.

Anyway, the hand of France has not reached so far now, and there are no Chinese in the places they control.

The Dutch East India Company was the backbone of the Dutch economy, and if a conflict broke out in the South Seas, it could almost immediately put Dutch money out of order.

This was extremely advantageous to France at this time, and the Anglo-Dutch alliance was aimed at France.

Count Morpa was very curious about the artillery innovation that Liu Yu said, but he didn't care too much about the new rifled gun loading technology.

Because I didn't see it with my own eyes.

But I saw with my own eyes the speed of the salvo of naval guns, it was indeed very fast, and it was a bit ridiculously fast. Although there is a bonus to rigorous training, it is also a little too fast.

Hearing Liu Yu say that there was a new technology in the naval guns, Count Morpa, as the Minister of the Navy, immediately became extremely interested.

However, Liu Yu did not let him visit, nor did he emphasize the flintlock on the naval gun, which was not technically difficult, but just a matter of thinking.

"Mr. Count, you may see the drill of our new rifled flintlock pistol, which I think is so much needed in your country. Although you are the Minister of the Admiralty, and although the navy needs artillery, France is faced with the same situation as Dashun: to maintain a strong army and a strong navy, and the total military expenditure is limited. ”

"Perhaps, this new rifled gun loading technology can improve the level of the French army, so as to save money and invest in the navy."