In the middle of August of the 34th year of the reign of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the envoys of various countries attending the Paris Conference finally gathered almost together.

As a result, King Louis XIV of France, who called himself the Sun King, personally presided over the meeting, which was held at the Louvre, and the theme of the meeting was to unite against the Ming kingdom in the Far East.

But, ironically, inside and outside the Louvre, there are Ming specialties everywhere, including silk, porcelain, and more.

The representatives of the countries attending the meeting, because in the past, they could play each other's dog brains, and when they met each other, of course, they would not have a good face. Those who are restrained are cold to each other; If you have a bad temper, then it's just cynicism.

For example, the envoys of Poland and the Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Swedish envoys were very unopposed. One is an old powerhouse, and the other is a new winner, although the contract is signed, it does not prevent the other party from disgusting here.

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

So, he doesn't care, he loves it!

When the British, Dutch, and especially Spanish envoys saw this, they immediately panicked, and hurriedly persuaded all parties, and finally a meeting was held.

Louis XIV glanced at the envoys of various countries and said with a serious face: "I heard that there are ironclad smoking warships in the fleet of the country, and the sail warships are not opponents at all. This is very powerful, do you have any ways to crack it? Or do you know how such a battleship is built? ”

In his opinion, what he cares about most is this kind of ironclad smoking battleship. If you don't find a way to deal with it, then France will be more dangerous, after all, the coastline is so long!

Therefore, the first thing Louis XIV did when he opened his mouth was to ask this.

When the envoys of various countries heard this, no one spoke. Obviously, no one can figure out what is going on with this ironclad smoking battleship!

Seeing that no one spoke, the Swedish envoy suddenly stood up and said: "Since we don't know, then we will send a fleet, ten ships to fight one, and if we catch one, we will know everything!" ”

This is a good and reasonable statement, and for a while, it attracted those countries that had not fought with the Ming fleet to echo it for a while.

The British envoy was Robert, and when he saw them like this, he had no choice but to stand up and say: "The closest to us is the American continent, but in the past two years, there were already three such ironclad smoking warships, and I don't know how many there are at this time?" And there are a lot of sail warships in the Ming Kingdom, how many should we go? ”

"What are we all doing together? Isn't it just to unite to fight the Ming Kingdom? When the Swedish envoy heard this, he said disapprehantly, "A hundred warships from each family will go to the Americas together, destroy the Ming fleet, and take back the Americas by the way!" ”

The Spanish envoy was named Don Juan José of Austria, the illegitimate son of King Philip IV of Spain, who had been granted military power before, had always led troops to fight, suppressed the Catalan rebellion, and participated in the Portuguese war, but did not grant the status of prince.

Sending him over would certainly be in Spain's best interest in that respect. No, as soon as he heard the Swedish envoy say that he wanted to take back the Americas by the way, he immediately continued: "It's no problem to take back the Americas, and the places occupied by the Portuguese before will be yours." Originally, our place in Spain still has to belong to our Spain! ”

As soon as he heard this, the Swedish envoy stopped doing it, and immediately replied with a sneer: "I'm embarrassed to go back after I've lost everything, why?" ”

José was furious when he heard this, but when he saw that many people were on the side of the Swedish envoy, he thought for a moment and said: "The places of Portugal are also our Spain's, and those places have been given to you, isn't it enough?" ”

Nominally, Portugal was a local rebel of Spain, and the Portuguese colony, of course, was Spain's territory.

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

On the other side, the Dutch envoy himself raised a topic and said: "We are not interested in the territory of the Americas, but if the ironclad smoking battleship is captured, we in the Netherlands only need one!" ”

Robert was most sensitive to this, and immediately said unhappily when he heard it: "What if only one ship is captured in the end?" The first initiator of this meeting was our United Kingdom, and in any case, we Britain have priority in disposing of ironclad smoking warships. At most, after pulling us to the UK, you will be allowed to visit together! ”

When the Dutch envoy heard this, of course he was not happy, so he quarreled with Robert. The emissaries of other countries, who were concerned with land interests, joined the war of words between Spain and Sweden; And those who were concerned about the sea, their emissaries joined the French and Dutch in the battle for ironclad smoking warships.

Before the battle began, the quarrel began to be made over the distribution of the spoils!

When Louis XIV saw this scene, he was immediately annoyed, and patted his ass again and left, what a bullshit meeting, wait until the quarrel is over!

That's it, after three days of arguing, it can be regarded as a little convergence. But Louis XIV learned to be obedient, and knew that if he went back and pushed forward with the conference, there would be a quarrel among the countries, so he did not participate, and no one respected him anyway, so he sent his most powerful courtier, that is, Tyrrenne, the old enemy of the Grand Condé, to represent him in the meeting.

As Louis XIV expected, the meeting was noisy. After a full month, no effective agreement was reached. Neither the scale of the troop contributions nor the distribution of post-war benefits could be agreed upon.

The Swedish envoy was the first to pat his ass and leave, this kind of boring meeting, whoever likes to open it, anyway, Sweden is strong, I'm afraid that he will be a hairy country!

He took the lead, and other countries left, and in the end, just like that, the first Paris conference was over!

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On the Ming side, a year after Catherine asked Emperor Chongzhen for revenge, she couldn't wait any longer, and often played a chapter to Emperor Chongzhen, asking to lead the troops back to take revenge.

Regarding the situation on the European side, Emperor Chongzhen also knew the general situation of the Paris Conference because he had put a lot of Grade A eavesdropping seeds, whether it was Mustafa's side, Lu Xiangsheng's side, or other vassal states.

For this meeting, I don't know why, Emperor Chongzhen had an illusion. It's like going back to the afterlife, and seeing in the history books the scenes of the European powers dividing the spoils against the map.

However, one thing is different from this plane, in the original history, they were divided on the chopping board to slaughter fish; However, in this plane, they were at the feet of an eastern dragon discussing the distribution of the spoils in case they defeated the dragon.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but sneer in his heart: I'm afraid that you won't unite! Fighting country by country, the Ming Dynasty's past troops were not enough to occupy so many countries, it is better for you all to unite, concentrate all your forces, and then fight them all!

Based on this idea, Emperor Chongzhen felt the need to put a little pressure on the European countries. It was only under pressure that they could truly unite and successfully convene their Paris conference.

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen agreed to Catherine's request for war. However, there are also conditions, and she is only allowed to lead a fleet to the Americas, merge with the American fleet and the Portuguese fleet of the Ming Dynasty, and collapse the Atlantic Ocean to attack European countries.

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

Catherine knew, of course, but not herself. It is best to have the most famous naval commander of the Ming Dynasty to command the fleet. Therefore, without saying a word, I will kowtow and thank you.

In this way, Catherine bid farewell to the crown prince and her son, and led more than a hundred warships, including three steam ironclad warships, to the American continent after stopping in Fuso Province. One thing she didn't know was that Emperor Chongzhen also 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, he also rebuked José as an illegitimate child.

If the Ming army really wants to fight, it will definitely fight Spain first, and he will have too much pressure.

So Philip IV began to re-initiate the council, and threatened that he would not want the American continent. This time, though, not many countries responded.

Cromwell, on Britain's side, was also a little disappointed by the failure of the Paris Conference. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to send a fleet to the American continent, with a scale of about 200 ships, and he thought about robbing it once, not only to rob money, but also to see if he could hit the lone ironclad smoking warship.

As for the anger of the Ming army in doing so, he was not afraid. Anyway, it has already been fought on the Persian Gulf side before, once and twice, no matter what, it is always a hostile relationship!

On the Swedish side, Carl Gustaf had completely secured the throne given to him by his cousin Chan after a series of victories against Poland and Tsarist Russia. After hearing about 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 for benefits?

It's not uncommon to think this way, and Sweden is at its most powerful in history. Later, Norway had not yet become independent, and Sweden's territory, including Norway, also occupied a large part of Poland's territory, and the territory of Tsarist Russia was even more, and the Baltic Sea was Sweden's inland sea.

And all of this was won by him Carl Gustav through the war. With such a great achievement as his, how many people in history in Europe can achieve it?

Of course, he would not admit that he stood on the shoulders of a giant like Gustav II to achieve such an achievement.

That's it, Carl Gustav went his own way.