Philip V's final choice was to borrow 50 million dragon dollars from Han Guang, using the Spanish island and the colonies of Quebec as collateral. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, the former is not island-wide.

The island of Spain belonged to France and Spain respectively, and the part of France was relatively small, and Philip V mortgaged only France, that is, Haiti in the original history, because of the Central American trade has caused the dissatisfaction of the Spanish aristocracy, and for the time being, he does not want to continue to sell Spanish territories to maintain the war in France.

As for Quebec, it goes without saying.

In fact, 50 million dragon dollars is still far from enough.

Fifty million dragon dollars is basically equivalent to 400 million livres, Philip V must use this money to make up for the losses of Spain and the French nobles who supported him, although it is impossible to make up for them all, but at least it has to be about the same, basically the 400 million has to be removed most of it, and he also has to pay his soldiers higher salaries, otherwise the latter is easy to mutiny, before the French army was loyal to him because of the killing of Marshal Villars and habitual obedience, but with the stalemate of the war, the French Republic was established, Now grass began to grow in the hearts of the French soldiers, after all, these soldiers were also recruited from the civilian population, and free ideas were also very marketable among them.

This is also the reason why Philip V had to rely on the Spanish army, at least the Spanish army was somewhat insured.

In short, his life is still difficult.

Of course, no matter how difficult it is, it is no longer just a question of the French throne, it is a class war, a battle to defend the power of the nobles for a thousand years, whether the aristocracy will continue to maintain their high dominance, or whether the name will completely disappear and play with those mud legs on an equal footing, it will depend on the final outcome of this war.

And the republic's approach left the nobles with no choice.

Because of the financial constraints, coupled with the complete release of thousands of years of accumulated hatred, the republic is sliding more and more to the extreme, with Paris as the core, all the lands controlled by the republic, is carrying out a bloody liquidation of the aristocracy, the original sheep turned into hungry wolves, the meekness of thousands of years has become fierce minions, the violent people have broken through the noble manors, dragged out the old men who have been riding on their necks for thousands of years, and the guillotines have been erected in one city after another, and the sharp guillotines are constantly rising and falling, Heads of the once noble were removed, and the whole of France was in a kind of bloody carnival.

Even the government of the republic is no longer in control.

"Ladder fighting, one grasp is spiritual!"

Emperor Yang sighed.

This is the inevitable consequence, when the old order is shattered, it is not so easy to rebuild a new order, it takes time, it takes a long time, it takes blood, it takes a lot of blood, and the French conscience naively thinks that they have a parliament, they have a constitution, they have a republic, and then everything will be in order.

How can there be such a good thing.

"According to the intelligence, the republic is also a mess, according to the state system they have studied, the speaker of the parliament is the head of state, but only a fictitious title, the prime minister and his cabinet elected by the parliament are in charge of the affairs of the country, Aroue was elected prime minister, but he is not capable of running the country at all, in fact, including the parliament, they cannot even control it effectively in Paris. All the cities in France that raised the tricolor of the republic were in a state of self-government, including the various neighborhoods of Paris were also on their own, and the bloody liquidation of the aristocracy was carried out by the popular self-defense forces in these places, and the conservatives of Aruet and the parliament were opposed to this method, but they were not able to restrain those self-defense forces at all, and even a large number of radicals appeared within the parliament, and these even began to be hostile to Arouet and others. ”

Liang Cheng said.

"They unleashed a beast, but they couldn't harness it."

Yang Feng said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, it can be described as such."

Liang Cheng said.

Then let it continue to wreak havoc!

Yang Feng said.

"But if this chaos continues, they won't be able to make much of a climate, and now all European countries have become vigilant, and their treatment of the aristocracy has made the European monarchs begin to be afraid, afraid that the French plague they say will spread to their own country, it is said that Charles VI has proposed to Philip V that he can send troops to help, and the Swedes also have this meaning, and now Charles XII regards himself as a European policeman, and he will not watch the *** of France spread outward."

Liang Cheng said.

"In that case, they need a hero."

Yang Feng said sinisterly.

Indeed, the French need a hero the most at this time, those French consciences are useless, neither Montesquieu nor Voltaire have this ability, what they need is a Robespierre or even Little Nana, but the problem is that these two are impossible, it is estimated that it would be good for Little Nathan and his grandmother to be born at this time, and waiting for a hero in troubled times to stand out, this is a bit unsafe, the best way is to be able to train one for them.

"Call Yang Cheng to come."

Yang Feng turned his head and said to the attendant.

Yang Cheng is the commander of his Jinyi Wei Secret Service Division, and he is also a eunuch, and the Kang Mazi inheritance he received in the Beijing Imperial Palace, even the name was given by Yang Feng, and he was in charge of the most mysterious special armed forces of the Ming Dynasty, specializing in the same most mysterious work, such as spreading a small plague, such as assassinating an important person, and then subverting a Zheng power or something.

And this time, his mission is to......

"Select a group of elite forces, go to France as volunteers, help the French deal with the royal army, and then find a figure from the French who can provoke the beam, and support him into a military strongman."

Yang Feng said.

"Understood?"

Then he added.

"The minister understands!"

Yang Cheng replied in his thin voice.

"Go ahead!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

That's it, let the fire of freedom in France burn brightly, it's better to burn France and burn all over Europe, not to mention anything else, Spain can still work hard, at this time all European countries are actually the same, the people are poor, the idea of freedom and equality is rampant, the hatred for the king and the nobility is growing day by day, basically there is a fire that can be ignited, the fire of France has been burned, and it is inevitable that it will spread outward.

However, Yang Feng did not know that at this moment, the fire of freedom had burned out of France and even Europe.

New England, Massachusetts Colony, Concourt.

"Hurry, hurry!"

Hancock said impatiently.

In the dim moonlight of the night, the Concourt River flowed slowly beside him, a dozen small boats were docked on the shore, a large number of coolies were loading heavy sacks on a simple wharf, the peculiar smell of oriental spices permeated the wooden houses surrounded by forests behind them, this was one of his freight yards, where mountains were piled up with smuggled goods, and then these should theoretically be the franchise of the East India Company, and pay various taxes to the British government in the port, but in fact he except for bribing some local officials, The rest of the unpaid goods will flow along the Merrimack River into all the villages and cities of Massachusetts.

Now more than 90 percent of the common people in New England are buying these things, although the East India Company desperately uses various methods to intercept smuggling, but in the case of almost universal smuggling in the entire North American colonies, their efforts are meaningless, you must know that basically every household here has guns, and those ordinary people really dare to form a militia team and play directly with the anti-smuggling team.

Of course, if Hancock were to be caught, even if he was a well-dressed gentleman in Boston, he would have been hung on the gallows.

At that moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves, and Hancock glanced at the man next to him, who beckoned several heavily armed employees to come forward at once, and soon they came with a panting man.

"Will, what's wrong?"

Hancock said, looking at the man.

"The British, a large number of British troops are coming, from Boston, and it is said that someone has told the Governor that we have a large stockpile of arms here, and, Thomas, your home has also been searched, and it is said that some things have been found, and you better hide."

Will gasped.

The people around immediately looked at Hancock.

"Distribute weapons!"

Hancock said calmly.

"There's no need, right? We can move all the goods away, and it's a big deal to change the yard. ”

A man beside him said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the French have already raised their cry for freedom, so what are we all waiting for? Are you willing to endure the king's oppression? Are you still willing to continue to live like this rat? Don't you long for freedom? Not eager to enjoy your life in the sun? If you will, today is the beginning, and today we are equally vocal of freedom. ”

Hancock said.

The people around him were stunned for a moment, and then one of them shouted, "Pick up your arms and them!" ”

And then there was a flurry of the same roars.

All the smugglers here immediately took out their weapons, and it was not a good baby to do this kind of work on the waist of their heads, in fact, it was not the first time that they had exchanged fire with the British army, and it was not wrong to say that Hancock had smuggled arms, in fact, smuggling arms was originally his main business, and this yard hid thousands of rifled guns and a large number of bullets.

While the smugglers were arming themselves to join the British, Hancock called to Will, saying, "Go, gather our men, and go to all the towns and tell those who are willing to fight for freedom, that we are going to attack Boston, and if they will, take up arms, and fight for freedom and for our republic like the French!" ”

Naville left immediately.

Looking at his back as he left, Hancock took a rifle and turned on his horse, then pointed forward with one gun in one hand, and shouted to his smugglers: "Go, go to Lexington and wait for them!" ”

An hour later.

"Quick, speed up!"

By the light of the torches, British Major Smith looked at the expensive pocket watch in his hand and said.

Beside him were hundreds of heavily armed British soldiers, carrying rifled guns from the Ming Dynasty, lined up in two columns in the light of torches through a dense forest path, they were to capture Hancock, this cunning guy is the biggest smuggler in New England, this point can almost be said to be well known, but because he has never been able to catch his favorable evidence has been helpless, this time because there is a whistleblower, so a lot of evidence was found in his house, and the next thing is to send him to the gallows.

"Quick, must arrive in an hour."

Major Smith said, putting down his pocket watch.

However, at this moment, in the dense forest on his right, countless fires suddenly flashed, and then a dense number of gunshots rang out, and the unsuspecting British troops on the march immediately fell to the ground, and in a scream, all the British soldiers threw down their torches as fast as they could, and then hid into the dense forest on the other side, and at the same time raised their rifles and fired chaotically at the opposite side. But in this case they could not see the enemy hiding there, and of course, their enemy could not see them either, and both sides were actually wasting bullets, but the British did not dare to go out, and as soon as they left the shadows of the woods and walked out of the moonlight, they immediately became targets.

The two sides were shooting at each other sporadically and waiting for dawn, which was still two hours away.

Major Smith is not in a hurry, he can already judge from the gunfire on the opposite side that the enemy is no more than a hundred, as long as it drags on until dawn, his eight hundred British troops can easily solve the battle, but he doesn't know that Hancock opposite him is also not in a hurry, Hancock certainly didn't expect this person to defeat the British army, he was just advertising, telling the people around him who were already eager to try, I have opened this place, what are you waiting for? The constant gunfire on both sides, that is, the voice of freedom beckoning.

Both sides have their own calculations, so they occupy a dense forest in the dark and shoot bullets at the enemy they can't see.

At this moment, all the residents of Lexington, who was closest to Lexington, were awakened by the sound of gunfire, and they rushed out of their houses one by one to look in the direction of the gunshots, but they did not know what was happening at this time.

Just when they were confused, suddenly a man with a gun came running from the direction of the gunshots, and in the surprised eyes of the residents, he waved his hand and shouted: "Quick, we are at war with the British, we are going to attack Boston, long live freedom, we are going to establish a republic like the French, we are no longer slaves of the king!" ”

The residents were stunned.

But then one of the men turned around and went home without hesitation, and soon rushed out with his rifle and ran with the man towards the battlefield.

At the same time, the Will was riding into a small town, and he went straight into the church of the town, and in the surprised eyes of the priest, who was awakened by his knock on the door, he rushed directly to the bell tower and rang the bell, and soon the townspeople were awakened by the bell, and then rushed out one by one, looking at him with stunned eyes.

"Uprising, take up arms, attack Boston!"

Then he stopped, and roared hoarsely in the aftermath of the bell.