When the Mississippi company's stock price finally exceeded 10,000 livres, the carnival finally reached its peak......

After a long period of preparation, a full 30,000 heavily armed French and Spanish troops set off in Mexico on a Ming merchant ship hired from Jinshan City, bypassing the Baja California Peninsula and landing in San Diego, which had just opened its port for less than a decade. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is so because they have too few ships on the west coast of Mexico.

Although Philip V had ships, the problem was that these ships were all in the east, and the focus of their colonization was on the Atlantic coast, and there were not many people on the Pacific coast, that is, they began to colonize on a large scale after losing Asia in these years, but after all, there were not many years, so they still cannot be compared with the east. If these ships want to be transferred to the west, they must bypass the entire South America, which is a voyage of nearly 30,000 kilometers, so it is better to simply hire the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, Jinshan City has the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and they are all fast steam ships. Although Philip V had built several shipyards in western Mexico, those shipyards were building small river boats dedicated to the transportation of the Colorado River, and the number of ships that had been built was not large, and it was absolutely not enough to transport at least 30,000 troops, only to provide them with ammunition.

If you transport food again......

Then the boat is still not enough.

So the expeditionary force had to hire a Ming merchant ship to sail San Diego, and then walk east from San Diego, through the Mexicali Valley, which was now controlled by Spanish settlers, avoiding the driest Sonoran Desert in the region, crossing the Colorado Valley, and then going north along the Colorado River.

As for the food they need, this was also transported to San Diego by the Ming merchant ships, and then the Spanish immigrants were responsible for providing land transportation support, which was only 200 kilometers, and they were all major Spanish colonies, with a complete road system, so there was no big problem in terms of transportation.

Anyway, it's temporary.

When Mexico's river boats are manufactured in large quantities, they can directly enter the Colorado River from the mouth of the river and go north, although the transportation capacity of this river is not very strong, but it is no problem to support the 30,000 coalition troops to fight, and there is nothing else except this supply line, the difficulty point is the difficulty point, but now Philip V only needs gold, as for any other difficulties and so on, you can ignore it. It is said that during this period of time, he issued banknotes so heartily, and more than a billion livres were printed, which was equivalent to 500 tons of gold according to the gold standard.

John Law had only defrauded him of less than fifty tons in total.

And he is still in the process of printing, the new printing press purchased from the Ming Dynasty at a high price, can print millions for him every day, which is much simpler than the past when he worked hard to collect that bit of gold and silver, and he printed it himself when he was short of money, the cost of this expeditionary force also relied on printing money, as for the gold and silver coins, they were used to buy arms and various materials from the Ming Dynasty, and the wages he paid to domestic merchants and those soldiers were all printed banknotes.

Anyway, he is also weak now!

The bubble was getting bigger and bigger, and it was a little unsettling, and he couldn't wait for the gold mines of the Americas to produce gold, even an ounce of gold, enough for him to sleep peacefully, knowing that France's thriving prosperity during this time was entirely on a volcanic crater. No one knows what the consequences will be if there is a little accident after the bubble bursts, if someone exchanges gold and silver coins with the Bank of France on a large scale, he will definitely not be able to pay even one-tenth of the issued banknotes, and once this happens, it will cause the Livre banknotes to collapse directly, and the banknotes in everyone's hands will become waste paper, at that time......

At that time, the French would tear him apart, and he also knew the explosive power of the French people, and even his father was kicked out of Paris during the Fronde Party.

So he had to act.

He must get his army to really control the gold and silver mines, so that the common people can completely believe in his money.

As for the Indians......

That is not in his consideration, 30,000 Franco-Spanish troops will easily sweep the arid wasteland like a pack of lions.

Of course, Philip V and his financial wizards would not know that when the Franco-Spanish army arrived in San Diego, a total of more than 100,000 Indian warriors were also pouring out from various tribes, and then converging on several tribes in the upper reaches of the Colorado River, these tribal warriors were holding the same rifled guns as the French army, carrying steel knives from the Ming Dynasty on their backs, and more importantly, they also had a large number of horses, because of the prosperity of trade, they introduced a large number of Mongolian horses with amazing endurance from the Eastern God Kingdom, especially in the steppe area, Horses have become a favorite of Indian warriors.

And the target of these Indian warriors was the combined forces of France and Spain.

"Has Han Kwang's stock been sold?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Your Majesty, it has been sold, sold at a price of 11,000 livres per share, but the vast majority of what he has recovered are banknotes, and now it is rare to see the use of metal money in France, and livre banknotes have become the mainstream in the market."

Feng Xu said.

"Tell him, don't rush to redeem it yet, this play has not yet reached the end."

Yang Feng said.

At this time, it is difficult to cause the effect of the collapse, after all, now the French are waiting with confidence for the news of the victory of the French army, anyway, they have an information advantage, and it is very simple to play how they want, if the French army suffers a crushing defeat in the Americas, even if the news is the fastest, it will take several months to reach France, but the Ming merchants will be able to know it in less than a day, and the time difference in the middle is enough for Han Guang and these people to retreat calmly.

"This game is not for everyone."

Yang Feng said sinisterly.

"Your Majesty, what if the French are victorious?"

Feng Xu cautiously reminded him.

"Although those Indians are brave and have the weapons we provide, they still can't compare with the regular army, and the Franco-Spanish army is also a full set of arms produced by us, and the vast majority of them are elite veterans who have been honed by a long war, and it is not easy for the Indians to win."

Then he added.

"Hit? Why fight? Wouldn't it be better to cut off supply lines and starve them to death in that arid wasteland? ”

Yang Feng said.

Indeed, the Indians do not need to go head-to-head, the French have traveled thousands of miles, the only reliance is on a Colorado River, the supply of materials is very tight, the Indians only need to keep attacking, every day to keep hitting them black guns to rob them of supplies, and this is the Indians are the most proficient, and then it will not be long before the French themselves are finished, in other words, Nevada and Utah are very poor, leaving the rear transportation, the French want to find food is not easy.

"What happened to the Ottomans?"

Then he turned his head and asked Prime Minister Shao.

"The reparations have been paid in full, and about 2,000 acres of land have been set aside in Istanbul as our concession, backed by a small wharf, and now the construction has begun, and our merchants there welcome it, so that they will no longer have to endure the messy taxes of the Ottomans."

Prime Minister Shao said.

"What about the Persian side?"

Yang Feng asked.

"The line exploration on the Persian side has resumed, Hussein was afraid that we would take the opportunity to beat him again, so he simply suppressed those elders by force, and the latter also knew that it would be really troublesome to provoke us, so it would be honest to make a fuss, anyway, it is useless for them to make trouble, it is nothing more than not buying our goods, and their ordinary people who are so poor that it is a problem to eat will not be able to consume much, but those elders are now almost inseparable from our Bliss Pill."

Prime Minister Shao said with a smile.

Although the elders were secretive about tobacco consumption due to their faith, fortunately, there were many kinds of exports in this area, such as the Pill of Bliss, which was certainly not within the scope of the Prophet's prohibition, so as soon as it was circulated, it was immediately regarded as a treasure by the elders. It is said that now they all regard taking the Bliss Pill as a means of communicating with the Zhen Lord, especially the series of blows over the years, which have made them more and more confused in terms of faith, and they urgently need to communicate more with the Zhen Lord, not only in Persia, but now all the elders and monarchs who serve the Zhen Lord have begun to strengthen their faith in this way, so the situation of KE medicine is becoming more and more common.

Including in the courts of European countries, this thing is also becoming more and more popular, especially in France, at the ball of Philip V, a group of ladies and princes and dukes, after a lavish dinner, come to order this, and then dance and dance into a carnival, in recent years this thing has become the third largest export after arms and cotton.

"Count them sensible!"

Yang Feng said.

"Also, there is a truce in India."

Prime Minister Shao said.

"How much territory is left in the Mughal Empire?"

Yang Feng asked.

The war in India was very chaotic, the Marathas and the Mughal Empire fought, the Sikhs and the Muslims fought, the governors of various places grabbed land and fought each other, the governors fought with the emperor, in short, it was a pot of porridge, and the entire subcontinent was beaten into a bloody storm, but in general, it was a little bit, the once huge empire was divided by different nationalities and religions, and there were too many religions and too many nationalities in this land, so it was extremely chaotic, and after so many years, this big melee finally came to an end.

"Only a small piece of the northwest corner remains."

Prime Minister Shao said with a smile.

"It is estimated that it is not even a tenth of the area compared to the past, and basically controls the areas around Delhi, Multan, Lahore, Peshawar, plus the valley area of the lower Indus River to Karachi by the sea."

Then he said.

In fact, this is equivalent to the territory of the Mughal Empire in 1738, but it is missing a piece around Kabul, and it is said that this territory is shrinking faster than in the original history, of course, this is mainly due to the credit of those Ming merchants. This war fattened countless Ming merchants, arms, food, clothing, and even intelligence, as well as mercenaries to provide all-round services, while making India lose more than 20 million people, it also gave Daming a large number of millionaires. These bottomless guys, standing on the bones of the Indian people, wearing the most luxurious clothes, wearing the most expensive pocket watches, riding in the latest cars, holding the most beautiful women, showing their paper obsessed life.

These are the upstarts of the Ming Dynasty.

"How many countries are there in India now?"

Yang Feng asked.

"It's hard to say, except for the Mughal Empire, the rest of the Maratha Alliance is the strongest, but this is not a real country, it is an alliance of dozens of tribes of different sizes, each of which can be regarded as a small country. In addition, the governors who originally belonged to the Mughal Empire also set up more than a dozen, but these governors are also tribal in nature, in fact, many of them are also an alliance, if you really want to count them, it is estimated that there must be more than a hundred separatist forces, if you count them carefully, then two hundred is no problem. There are small lords below the big lords, there are even smaller lords under the small lords, and it is even possible that a small village is a separatist force, anyway, it doesn't matter what emperor and king in the tribe divided by ethnicity and religion, the patriarch and elder are the boss. ”

Prime Minister Shao said.

India can only be unified in the hands of foreign conquerors, if there is no foreign rule they will be scattered, in fact, this is also the state of the subcontinent before the Mughal conquest, and now the decline of the Mughals will naturally return to its original state, one or two hundred separatist forces are not much, think about the five hundred and eighty princely states when the British ruled, Yang Feng feels that he has a long way to go.

"Your Majesty, are you beginning the conquest of India?"

Prime Minister Shao asked.

It is said that India is already a ripe apple, as long as you stretch out your hand to pick it, and there is Bangladesh as an example, more and more people in this land are also eager to become a part of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army has a circle of military bases around the Indian peninsula, as long as you want, you can easily annex it from the outside to the inside, and the trade that lasted for more than ten years also made almost all parts of India be well known to those Ming merchants.

"Annexation?"

Yang Feng was a little hesitant.

Now it can be annexed, but it is not annexed, there is only Japan and India left, as for Japan, which is a slave breeding base, and this role is also played very well, even the cabinet has little interest in conquest, and India is different, although the population here is large, but because of the quality problem, it has not been attractive in the slave market, but it is a good dumping market, annexation will not change this, after all, all Ming subject countries are dumping markets.

Still, he didn't feel like the time was right.

After all, the current India is still close to 580 earth kings.

"Let's put it first, if there are people who take the initiative to ask for attachment and are willing to convert to Wanghua, you might as well accept this, but if you are still willing to adhere to their ignorant beliefs, don't be too demanding, anyway, as long as they abide by the things signed by the Mughal Empire and us back then, although it was signed by the Mughal Empire, but I don't care how they divide the family, don't think that they can not abide by the agreement if they stand up by themselves."

After thinking about it, Yang Feng said.