469th Charian-European Conflict (II)

When the Chinese people in the real world see Lu Fan's good news, they may be shocked by the miracle of Lu Fan's single-handedly taking on France, the Netherlands, Prussia, Austria and other traditional European powers. But in the eyes of the people of the Wei Xia Empire, it was natural for Lu Fan to win this battle, and it was strange to lose.

Since the great navigation opportunities of the Iberian Peninsula were cut off by the east and west of the Yue and Wei domains, the only precious metals of the European countries continued to flow to the old Kyushu of China, and the economic base was even poorer than before the Renaissance. With a sluggish economy and a lack of finances, even if the European countries were willing to open their eyes to the world and introduce the latest military technology in a timely manner, expensive new troops would not be able to form an effect of scale. Even France at the same time in the real world has the ability to beat the alliance of four countries, not to mention the Lu Fan, who has stepped into the era of the industrial revolution?

Except for Wei Dongsheng, all the people of the Lu clan regarded the feat of the Lu Domain's partial division single-handedly challenging the French Quadruple Alliance as a trivial matter.

In the annals of the Lu Domain, this war was simply recorded as the Battle of Fen (Fulang).

Wei Dongsheng was very curious about the impact of the Battle of Varolangcha on France and even European countries, and felt the need to travel to Europe.

After graduating from Weihe College, it took a year to earn enough pocket money, and Wei Dongsheng took the merchant ship westward as soon as possible.

In the spring of 1792, Wei Dongsheng arrived safely at Xinquan Port.

Wei Dongsheng's first impression of Xinquangang was not that there were many indigenous people, but that there were one civil engineering project after another, and there were pictures of all kinds of waste waiting to be rebuilt. Although the Governor had won a large number of colonies in the province of Finistere in Brittany, the Governorate decided to make the port of New Springs the seat of the Governor's Mansion and actively expand the suburbs of the port of New Springs.

In fact, Xinquan Port was also the original goal of Lu Fan.

The Lu Domain's experienced colonies were well aware of the most difficult place to settle down, and their initial territorial ambitions were very small, and they only hoped that Fu Lang Cha would give Wu a small area of colonies close to Xinquan Port. Unexpectedly, the Lu troops encountered several well-meaning traitors, and fortunately expanded their achievements in time, taking half of Finistere Province into their pockets. But despite these accidents, Xinquan Port is Lu Fan's first target after all.

Of course, Wei Fan was not happy that Lu Fan would come to Xinquan Port to compete.

However, how could Lu Fan care about Wei Fan's opposition?

It is said that before the Fulangcha War, the Lu Maritime Merchants had established a chamber of commerce in Xinquan Port to compete with the Wei Maritime Merchants. As the Industrial Revolution gradually showed the power of swallowing the world, the trade share of the Lu Maritime Merchants increased, and the Great Alliance of the Emperor and the Rebellion was not yet dissolved, the Wei Domain's Xinquangang colony was jealous of the competition of the Lu Maritime Merchants, and tried to use political privileges to limit the trade share of the Lu Maritime Merchants. If it weren't for the need for the need for the Lu clan to build an encirclement with the Wei clan to curb the expansion of the imperial family, the Lu West Kunlun Colony and the Lu Penglai Colony would even want to take away the Wei Domain's Xinquangang Colony by war.

After the end of the Fulangcha War, the Lu and Wei clans began a series of negotiations on the prospect of Xinquan Port. It is said that the Wei Domain had compromised and was willing to transfer the nominal ownership of Xinquan Port to the Lu Domain, and the former Wei Domain's Xinquangang Colony was attached to the Governor's Office of the Lu Domain's Xinquan Port in the form of the Weiquan Special Autonomous Region.

Let's talk about the geography for now.

The human environment is relatively complex.

The indirect impact of Wei Domain's interception of the course of Portuguese navigation was very far-reaching, and the colony of New Springs also caused many hidden worries that could be ignored in the real world.

For example, the faint Breton separation movement in the real world is several times more intense in this time and space.

Brittany, once the land of Anglo-French rivalry, was for a long time completely independent, with a language and culture very different from the French mainstream. After the Hundred Years' War, England gradually extinguished the idea of advancing to the mainland, and France's influence on Brittany grew.

In 1499, Anna, Duchess of Brittany, married King Louis XII of France.

In 1532, Brittany was annexed to France by a dowry.

In the real world history, the Brittany separatists have not been in the climate, and have coexisted with France since then into the 21st century. In this time and space, with the arrival of the Wei clan and other Xia forces, the Brittany separatists suddenly had something to rely on, and they gathered one after another at the port of New Springs. The traitors who were willing to help Lu Fan fight against Flangcha mentioned above were actually Brittany separatists, who were hostile to France and hoped that Lu Fan would defeat France, and Brittany would take the opportunity to gain the freedom that had been lost for a long time.

The attitude of the Governor's Office towards the Brittany separatists was one of cooperation and exploitation.

Both before and after the War, the Governorate of Port New Springs actively cooperated with the Brittany separatists, and even approved the establishment of an independent army of 500 men by the Brittany separatists. At the same time, he was very wary of the threat of Brittany, and did not hesitate to sell one of the most fierce Breton separatists to Louis XVI, King of França, at the end of the War.

Despite the fact that the Breton separatists were repeatedly pitted by the Breton separatists, the Breton separatists were still willing to cooperate with the Breton Sect. The reason is simple: the Governor of Ports of Springs made it clear that it supported the independence of Brittany, and acquiesced in the fact that the Breton separatists were willing to humiliate the outsiders in the Governorate of Ports of Springs, while Louis XVI, King of França, would never allow Brittany to break away from his control.

Speaking of Louis XVI, Wei Dongsheng couldn't help but think of the French Revolution in the real world.

The French Revolution broke out in 1789.

It was already 1792 when Wei Dongsheng arrived at the port of New Springs, and if history had not changed, the French Citizens' Revolution would have been in full swing, and the First French Republic was poised to take off.

Unfortunately, the Weixia Empire had interrupted the process of the bourgeois revolution in Europe. The bourgeois revolution is a radical change in the relations of production, and even if it is not a function of the productive forces, the level of the productive forces is one of the necessary conditions. Without the basic productive forces, the bourgeois revolution in England would not have been able to be talked about, and the bourgeois revolution in France would have been unable to rise in the light of the bourgeois revolution. Since England in this time and space did not give birth to Cromwell, the protector, it may be difficult for France to give Napoleon a stage to display his talents.

Following Napoleon's recent situation, the answer was as Wei Dongsheng expected.

Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, is not even the territory of France at this moment. Perhaps some factor slowed down the course of Corsica's history, and it was only eight years earlier, in 1784, on the eve of the outbreak of the Battle of Francza, that Corsica broke away from Genoa and hastily established its independence. Not long after Corsica became independent, and before the war of Frannza was over, the Corsican factions began to fight fiercely over the ownership of power. Unfortunately, Napoleon's military-political talent was not present in the tiny island of Corsica, which until 1792 was in a state of chaos.

The geographical and cultural environment has been introduced so far.

What can Wei Dongsheng do?

When it comes to the future of travel to Europe, either do business or cooperate with the Governor's Office of Xinquan Port of the Lu Domain.

Wei Dongsheng first investigated the route of doing business, and found that the bulk trade of tea and porcelain had basically been monopolized by the officials and merchants of the Wei and Lu domains.

Wei Fan has been operating in Xinquangang for a long time, and the taste and taste of the common people of Fulangcha have gradually become Fujian. When it comes to tea, the upper class of Fulangcha has an iron heart to recognize brands such as Anxi Tieguanyin, Wuyi Dahongpao, and Fuzhou Jasmine Tea, while the Laoshan green tea, Xinyang Maojian, green peony and other products monopolized by Lu Fan are difficult to gain a foothold in Fulangcha; When it comes to porcelain, the nobles of Fulangcha and even the European countries only recognize the Jingdezhen-style porcelain of the royal Jiangxi Province. The Lu clan had a bad relationship with the imperial family, and it had no advantage in competing with the Wei clan for local specialties, so it could only use the advantages of the industrial revolution to open up new markets. Traditional commodities such as tea and porcelain were monopolized by officials and merchants of the Wei Domain; Bulk commodities such as cloth and ironware were monopolized by officials and merchants of the Lu Domain, who had a deep background.

Small businessmen or retail businessmen with no background either work hard to make money, or crooked ways to make quick money. Tianzhu's specialty hibiscus paste, Dashi's specialty Qiaocha, industrial products hemp fruit and other addictive products continue to be smuggled to Xinquan Port.

Wei Dongsheng is unwilling to make huge profits by selling hibiscus cream, nor is he willing to witness history as a pure businessman.

After thinking about it, Wei Dongsheng simply joined the Xinquangang Governor's Mansion to witness the changes of European countries.

Let's talk about Fulangcha and other countries.

In contrast to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which did nothing after the Yi Crow, the European countries had just ended the War, and the European countries were consciously and actively activating the European version of the Westernization Movement.

Among them, Fulangcha and Elia were among the leaders, who translated the technical achievements of Zhuxia in batches and attracted investment to establish various manufacturing bureaus. Fulangcha was the bitter master of the Fulangcha War, not only the coastal towns were bombarded by the Lu fleet, but also had to fulfill the eight-year war reparations of 16 million Lu Yuan. Fulangcha's financial revenue was limited, and the bankers of the Lu clan were not willing to recklessly provide loans, so it was naturally difficult to implement the plan to attract investment from the Westernization Movement in his country. Elijah was different, it was not dragged down by war reparations, and the Westernization movement was soon carried out in full swing.

It's a pity that fast is not good as fast.

When Elijah tried to carry out land reform to be more adapted to capitalism, the contradictions in all aspects suddenly began to intensify, and Irish separatism, Scottish separatism, Welsh separatism, and Cornish separatism scrambled to challenge the psychological bottom line of the Elian royal family.

Lu Fan's Governor's Mansion is not a good gentleman. Taking advantage of his illness to threaten Elijah, the Governor of New Springs set sail off the coast of London at a time of internal and external embarrassment, and finally forced Elijah to cede Gibraltar and sign a treaty of commerce.

In 1795, Elia handed over the Strait of Gibraltar from Ewest to the Domain, and the Strait of Gibraltar became the possession of the Domain.

In 1797, the Lu clan took the Strait of Gibraltar as a starting point and sailed north, actively intervening in the civil strife in Corsica, and eventually became a Corsica protectorate.

In Corsica, Wei Dongsheng met Napoleon, who was accustomed to Italian phonics. Without the French stage and the opportunity of the French Revolution, this famous steppe lion in the real world still achieved nothing until 1797.