Pondicherry.

The former French Indian colony, now with its red flag, is now the largest colony of Chen Han on the Indian continent – nearly 500 square kilometers, comparable to half a county in the Han Central Plains.

When Puducherry was in the hands of the French, it was only 60% the size it is today, but after the Chinese took over, they successfully expanded their territory to its present size by relying on the gun trade.

Compared to the actual muskets and cannons, land was not very rare for the Indian princes, especially a small piece of land.

In a small town outside the city, it was a particularly lively day, with forty or fifty residents huddled together in a brick and cement house, watching a group of local Ah San hired men carry a few small boxes into the house.

This is the capital of a trading company invested by Chen Zhizhong, the mayor of the town, and Li Xiang, the 'big tycoon', both of whom are quite appealing in the town, and the current forty or fifty people are the 'minority shareholders' who respond to their call.

The registered capital of this company is 50,000 yuan, and in addition to the 35,000 yuan raised by the two bigwigs, the remaining 15,000 yuan is made up by the current thirty or fifty small shareholders. It can be said that after today, this private joint-stock company will make its debut.

And this brick and cement house is the town's bank depository.

The 50,000 Chinese dollars were not just paper bills, but also some gold and silver, all of which had to be deposited in the savings bank now.

Since the 'calm' of the Indian region has returned, the volume of trade between China and India has quickly returned to its pre-war levels, and there are signs of further improvement. After all, the war in Europe also affected British industry and sea transportation, and the British imported less, and the market for Chinese goods became correspondingly larger, and the price of Chinese goods was lower than that of the British.

Like cigarettes.

India has a large population and a vast tobacco market. When Chinese cigarettes entered India, the novelty quickly became popular as it did in China.

Both the Chinese and the British trade tobacco in India and set up factories in India. Even the introduction of top-up cigarettes for opioid smokers in China was quickly learned by the British. And they also sell back to their own home in Europe.

India's tobacco planting area is expanding rapidly, and the number of high-quality tobacco leaves exported to China has soared from 100 tons a year a decade ago to more than 1,000 tons today, a tenfold increase in 10 years. In today's India, there is no shortage of high-quality tobacco leaves.

Although the demand for homemade cigarettes in India has increased, and many indigenous princes have started cigarette factories for profit, their production efficiency is too low.

Chen Han has developed the cigarette industry in recent years, and has long produced rotary cigarette machines, which are driven by steam power, which is much faster than manual work. It's just that there are still a little flaws in the quality of the finished cigarettes, and there are refined cotton wool as filter raw materials, so the process and efficiency are three streets away from the British, let alone the indigenous Indians.

They also rely on abundant labor and pure manual production, and the inferior cigarettes in the production department cannot even guarantee the uniformity of the tobacco, let alone the filter and the essential oils and spices added to it.

The British also came up with a hand-cranked cigarette machine, although it is not as sharp as the steam-driven cigarette machine, the efficiency is not comparable to pure labor, and the quality assurance is better than the steam cigarette machine. China and Britain saw this vast market of interests, and their first reaction was to increase their own productivity, only Indians, pure handmade, in addition to pure handmade or pure handmade.

China and Britain don't make their money, whose money do they make?

Soon this cigarette became the second largest textile industry in India, which exported raw materials - tobacco leaves, and imported industrial products - cigarettes.

By now, the tobacco industry has become a profiteering industry in the Indian market between China and the United Kingdom, comparable to the textile industry.

Xinyuan Trading Company is mainly engaged in the pharmaceutical business, you must know that Li Xiang, one of the major shareholders of the company, his cousin is Chen Antong's personal soldier, and Chen Antong is the boss of Chen Han's military police. He has been in charge of military discipline and military regulations for 30 years, and was awarded the title of Marquis at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Although Li Xiang's cousin is only a guard with the rank of sergeant, with this relationship, his business is much easier.

And Mayor Chen Zhizhong is also a member of the distant relatives of the royal family, of course, the blood relationship is not close, but it is more or less related.

Their trading companies can get the most sought-after gold sore medicine, and they can also get refilled cigarettes.

In today's era when there is no penicillin and no amsule, the Chinese gold sore medicine with Tian Qi added is an absolute treasure. And the cigarettes that are added are strictly controlled by Chen Han.

But if you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach thousands of miles. No matter how big the relationship is, it is useless if there is no capital. Chen Zhizhong and Li Xiang worked hard to scrape together enough money to buy what to do, and then the remaining capital was only 35,000 Chinese dollars, and they mobilized the masses to get 15,000, which is really very little. This bit of capital is mixed up in this industry, it's really a small shrimp into the sea.

At the same time as the establishment of this Xinyuan trading company, the fourth cigarette factory in Puducherry had already started. Compared with the small company with a capital of 50,000 yuan played by Chen Zhizhong and Li Xiang, more than 300 workers were recruited in this cigarette factory alone, with a total investment of no less than 300,000 yuan.

The cigarette factory directly hired local cheap Indians, and although the wages offered were pitiful compared to those of their domestic counterparts, the factory's recruitment office was almost overwhelmed by the influx of Indians.

Also in the evening of this day, a 1,000-ton flying shear bow ship sailed into the port of Thames. The red flag ship was made in France, and Gao Zhisi and Xie Qing landed in Egypt, rode a camel across the desert, took a flying shear bow in Alexandria to France, and then took a horse-drawn carriage to Paris, where Napoleon met and sailed directly to England in Port Podol.

When the ship docked in London, Xie Qinggao could barely maintain the demeanor of a diplomat, while Gao Zhisi could only get off the ship with the support of his attendants.

When Chen Ming in Nanjing received his son's letter, he was overjoyed.

Louisiana is like a fruit tree that he has cared for with great care, and now the fruit on it is finally ripe.

Chen Ming didn't even pause, and immediately ordered Gao Zhisi and Xie Qinggao, as his chief and deputy envoys, to go to Europe to trade Louisiana with Napoleon.

It's just that although Gao Xie and the two came quickly, they are still not as good as the United States.

Although today's United States has turned its face and does not recognize people, there are still deep ties between the United States and France. The personal friendships between some of the big names are quite good.

Moreover, Napoleon wanted to sell Louisiana, which was strenuously opposed by many of his important ministers. For example, his Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs, his brother, his brother-in-law, and so on.

So, the current president of the United States, the third president, Thomas Jefferson, unsurprisingly received this important news.

And then the whole of America was detonated by this shocking secret.

As a newly established country, the world's policeman in later generations, and the symbol of freedom and cooking, the lighthouse country, is now only a small country that is inconspicuous in international politics.

But that doesn't mean that the lighthouse nation will 'keep to itself'. In the second Anglo-American war in history, although there were complex reasons for this, the United States took the initiative to attack Canada, but it was also the most direct fuse.

These Yankees, who had just become independent from the British, dared to covet Canada, where the British were entrenched, and naturally they could also covet the vast Louisiana and the Great West.

The current situation is different from the original plane. Lao Mei in the original time and space, with unique geographical advantages, in addition to the strong enemy of the British in the north, the others are France and Spain, which are already rotten, and the weak United States can recuperate and eat what they want to eat calmly.

But that's no longer the case. To the south and west of the Lighthouse Nation is no longer the decaying Spain and the chaotic Mexico, but the hopelessly powerful Chinese Empire.

That's why the Lighthouse Nation is so nervous about Louisiana's belonging. At the same time, no one in American politics will clamor that Jefferson has made a 'wasteful and useless' deal.

All of the Beacon Nation aspirants are well aware of Louisiana's importance to the United States.

With Louisiana, the future lighthouse nation will be able to compete with China on the North American continent. And if this vast and fertile land belongs to China, hehe, then what the lighthouse countries are pursuing in the future should not be 'freedom', but 'defending the country'.

Because China and China's expansiveness have given the lighthouse country too much shock and fear.

Now God knows how much the Americans want to get Louisiana, and if they get Louisiana, the size of the United States will at least double, even if the United States can't take New Orleans back.

Americans were very interested in Louisiana, and many Americans even realized that the United States should have access to the Mississippi River outlet and the city of New Orleans, otherwise it would be difficult for the United States to keep the eastern part of the North American continent in a long-term strategic sense.

Jefferson's own foreign policy had already determined all of this – the inevitable conflict between China and the United States would inevitably arise in Louisiana.

Jefferson's act for freedom, the concentration of state power, and the use of force as the situation so required were not incompatible with an expansionist policy.

In 1801, Jefferson sent Robert Livingston as an envoy to Paris, during which negotiations involved Louisiana.

Last year, he sent another special envoy, James Monroe, who would later become the fifth president and known for the Monroe Doctrine, to France, and the negotiations also involved the purchase of land.

But how could Napoleon sell Louisiana to the United States, so he just wanted to completely break relations with China.

Napoleon's mind did not yet have in mind the 'yellow-white dispute' over the overall situation in the world. Because his position has not yet reached that height. If Napoleon had taken over the entire European continent, he would have really been worried about the 'international situation' when he looked at the world. Now his eyes saw only the European continent, only the interests of France itself.

He will not offend the powerful China because of the weak lighthouse country, and he will not talk about the impact of Louisiana's gains and losses on the lighthouse country......

In this year [1803], Pierre Samuel Dupont, a French nobleman living in the United States, at the request of Jefferson, went to France to help negotiate.

A negotiation that is not too difficult will take place in the coming days.

Although Gao Zhisi and Xie Qinggao were so tired that they were about to be paralyzed, they were helped into the European Office with a smile.

"Your Highness need not worry. Napoleon was a smart man! ”

Napoleon was a smart man, and just seven words speak for itself.