Chapter 597: Unleashing the Second Opium War

Looking at the golden sycamore leaves and elegant and fashionable buildings all over the street, Zhu Youxiao, who entered the city of Paris for the first time, couldn't believe that this would belong to his territory.

It's just a pity that there is no triumphal arch at this time, otherwise, Zhu Youxiao must let his team walk through the triumphal arch and then blow it up.

Louis XIV evacuated in a hurry, taking only his guards with him, and most of the nobles and officials, as well as the army and all kinds of gold and silver belongings, were left behind, and none more than his lovers.

Zhu Youxiao walked into the Palace of Versailles, a world-famous palace that only belonged to the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao at this time.

Louis XIV's lover, the Marquise de Montesbane, was a famous beauty in Paris and Louis XIV's favorite lover, but this time she had to be courteous under Zhu Youxiao.

And Zhu Youxiao not only enjoyed his women in Louis XIV's dormitory, but also enjoyed his treatment.

Zhu Youxiao sank in the Palace of Versailles for five days, and then directly ordered a unit to loot the entire Palace of Versailles, and then sprinkled fire oil in the Palace of Versailles, and burned it to ruins.

Originally, the historical France was one of the robbers who burned down the Old Summer Palace after the Second Opium War, and at this moment Zhu Youxiao wanted to let his Versailles Palace in France suffer this catastrophe.

What architectural treasures, representatives of Western architecture, these could not prevent Zhu Youxiao from burning down this palace.

The Palace of Versailles was burned down for three days and three nights, and all the French people wept and felt a great shame because of this, but they could only endure it, because now the Ming is stronger than the French.

Paris is by far the largest city occupied by the Ming Dynasty in the Europa Conquest, after all, the previous Roman city has not fully recovered because of a war, and there is still a gap compared to Paris.

And the capture of Paris today is no less significant than the capture of Rome.

After occupying France and Switzerland, Zhu Youxiao accepted the advice of Fu Dahai and other generals, and simply continued to use the Eastern Front Group and the Navy to sweep the southwest of France and directly attack the Franco, while the Western Front Group attacked the Netherlands, Austria, and other countries, and the Northern Front Group Li Dingguo's troops returned to the Isle of Wight and marched towards Northern Europe.

The Franc machine was basically difficult to parry the Ming naval and land forces, and the Heiwa Department directly advanced along the French coastline after occupying the port of Marseille and controlled the Mediterranean Sea of the Franc machine in one fell swoop.

The Strait of Gibraltar has also become an ornament at this time, unable to stop the main force of the Ming Navy, and the three main fleets of the Ming Navy have directly jumped across the Strait of Gibraltar to capture the two ports of Hores and Huelva, and at the same time, the advance army of the Eastern Front Group of the Ming Army has arrived outside Victoria.

The entire Franc Navy was condensed around Porto, and the Army was confined around Madrid.

However, in half a month, the navy of the Franc machine was completely annihilated, and the army in Madrid was also directly defeated, and Zhu Youxiao got the news of the destruction of the Franc plane almost before he could go to Switzerland.

At the same time, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries were also wiped out.

Li Dingguo's expedition to Northern Europe with a partial division was almost devastating, and he joined Poland with the Western Front Group a month later.

At this point, the entire Europa, except for England and Rakshasa countries, was all included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Youxiao was not so surprised by this, with the current strength of Daming, Europa is not an opponent even if it is all united, so it is not surprising.

At this time, in the whole world, except for the tribes or indigenous people who were still in the primitive society, there were only five countries, namely the Ming Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire, the Rakshasa Kingdom, the English Kingdom, and the Korean Five Countries.

What Zhu Youxiao wants to do is to make the Ming Dynasty a global empire and let Han culture dominate the world, so these countries will all perish except for North Korea, which has accepted Han culture.

Even in North Korea, Zhu Youxiao forcibly abolished the vassal nature of Korea and changed it to a governor-general responsibility system, that is, the king of the Lee dynasty continued to be crowned, but the person who held the power was the governor sent by the imperial court, and the Korean own scholars could only be adjutants, and each level of chief official must be an official of the Ming Dynasty.

Many powerful families in North Korea opposed this brutal strategy of the Ming Dynasty and accused the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao of violating the ancestral system.

Zhu Youxiao hated others talking about the ancestral system the most, so he simply asked the army of the Gongwei Beijing Division in China to take a train directly to the Yalu River in North Korea, so frightened that North Korea had to obey.

However, according to Zhu Youxiao's instructions to the Ministry of War, after settling the Eurasian war, it is necessary to find a way to seize the independent military power of the DPRK, dismantle the DPRK's native army, and put the Ming Dynasty in charge of its national defense, so as to achieve real control over the DPRK.

The Ottoman Empire was a dying country, and the same was true of the Rakshasa Kingdom, which was also devastated after Siberia was occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was not in a hurry to destroy these two empires at sunset, and the Ming Dynasty had to deal with the English Stuart Dynasty first.

Prior to this, it was in the interests of the Ming Dynasty to maintain the rule of the Stuart dynasty in England to suppress the rise of nationalism and bourgeois revolution in England, but now that the Stuart dynasty is the representative of the unified power of England, it has become the biggest obstacle to the Ming Dynasty's destruction of England.

However, many rulers of the Stuart dynasty at this time still believed that the Ming had no intention of destroying them, and naively believed that as long as the needs of the Ming were met, the Ming army would not destroy the English.

What the rulers of the Stuart dynasty would not have imagined was that the Ming Dynasty was already brewing at this moment to find a pretext for launching a war against England.

When the Ming Dynasty swept through northern and central Western Europe, the armed forces of the Meisheng Company clashed with a group of British maritime merchants in the Ming concession of Birmingham according to the instructions of the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao, and then one of the cargo ships of the Meisheng Company transporting opium was rammed and sunk by the British maritime ships, which caused an uproar.

When the governor of White, Li Dingguo, learned of this, he immediately sent a note to Charles I, the king of the Stuart dynasty, and strongly demanded an explanation from Charles I on the matter.

Then, there was another incident in which it was suspected that the British army in London forcibly seized the cargo ship of the Meisheng Company, although the Meisheng Company defeated the army, but it also caused the anger of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming navy directly crossed the English Channel and directly descended near London, and the Ming army also gathered in the major concessions, and all kinds of war materials were constantly arriving in these concessions.

At this moment, the entire English Stuart dynasty realized that the Ming Dynasty had already intended to destroy England.

However, at this time, England did not have any allies at this time because of the previous appeasement policy, and could only rely on its own strength to resist the Ming Dynasty.