"The Marquis of Loufois, the Marquis of Baptiste, the Marquis of Croissy. Do you think I can be the emperor of this Western Empire? ”

Although he already had the answer in his heart, Louis XIV felt that he should be humble. After all, "being the emperor" is still a very serious matter in the Christian civilization circle, and there must be a plausible inheritance or legal system. For example, Queen Victoria wanted to be the emperor in history, but there was really no inheritance and legal system in Europe. She can't claim to be the successor of Western Rome or the Holy Roman Empire, right? So he simply snatched the throne of the Timurid dynasty of Hindustan for himself.

And this Timurid dynasty is also known as the Second Mongol Empire, and its legal system comes from the Chagatai Khanate, which until Babur Nanzhan India, still maintained a special relationship with the descendants of the Chagatai Khanate.

Therefore, theoretically, the "throne" of Victoria can be traced back to the Mongol Khan Genghis Khan. Of course, Victoria is not a descendant of the Great Khan, she belongs to the bird throne that took the Great Khan!

But where did Louis XIV's throne come from? There has to be a plausible reason!

Louis XIV's foreign minister, the Marquis de Cruissy, was an expert in the inheritance of the imperial throne, and it was his handiwork to package Louis XIV in the direction of the Roman emperor, and the Roman emperor could involve Louis as a blonde barbarian, and it was not a piece of cake to give the entire New World throne?

I saw him salute Louis XIV, and then said eloquently: "Your Majesty, this New World has had two emperors since ancient times, one is the Eastern Emperor of Mexico, and the Emperor of the Aztec Empire. One was the Western Emperor of the Inca Empire. And after the Spaniards defeated these two empires that had existed on the American continent since ancient times, they did not inherit the crown of the New World, but turned the land of the New World into a hell on earth for the Spaniards to ravage, so that no independent state existed in the New World for more than a hundred years after being conquered by Spain and Portugal.

And if Your Majesty wants to be the savior of the continent that is being ravaged by the Spaniards, you should wear the crown of the fallen New World on your head, and I think this is also the common will of countless people in the New World! ”

Talent!

This Marquis de croissy is really a rare talent!

actually found a quite convincing reason for Louis XIV to be called emperor - the New World has had emperors since ancient times! Well, regardless of whether the Aztec emperors and Inca emperors were good enough, in short, the leaders of the European Sun France and the Ming Dynasty of Shenzhou said that they were, then they were not.

Since there are two ownerless crowns, what is there not to do with Louis XIV picking one up and wearing one? The Spaniards don't want it, and the French aren't allowed to pick it up? also picked up an emperor, that can be regarded as a inheritance and a legal system, and the name is justified!

"Okay, good," Jia Guozhu and Jia Liuye also applauded, "Your Majesty, your Foreign Minister is really a genius!" Since there are two lost crowns in the New World, then you pick one up, and our Ming Emperor also picks up one. In this way, the Eastern Emperor and the Western Emperor of the American Empire have a reasonable and legal inheritance, and no one can disagree. If you want to be more practical about this, you can also find some indigenous chiefs in the New World, just say that they are the descendants of the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire, and ask you and the Ming Emperor to be the Eastern and Western Emperors of the American Empire! ”

All the tricks of persuasion have been used!

Now Louis is the emperor of the United States, and the legal system and inheritance are even more sufficient!

Louis was quite satisfied with this arrangement, but he still did not nod immediately, but asked a new question: "So. How should the Eastern Empire and the Western Empire of the American Empire be divided? What kind of government should the country adopt? ”

Jia Guozhu had known for a long time that Louis XIV would have these two problems.

Jia Guozhu replied: "Your Majesty, my opinion is that the mountainous areas in the western part of the North American continent and the coastal plains, including the Loki Mountains, belong to the Western Empire, while the rest belong to the Eastern Empire. As for the form of government of the American Empire, it must be feudal! ”

The division plan he proposed was not his personal opinion, but was determined by Li Yat-sen and Zheng Jing after repeated research.

Although the Rocky Mountains and the mountains of the west coast of North America are not as rich as the Great Plains in central and eastern North America, they are relatively close to the Ming Dynasty, easy to occupy by the Ming Dynasty, and easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At the same time, since the western part of North America seems to be relatively barren and far from Europe, it is likely that the European powers capable of touching the New World will not send troops to the Rocky Mountains and the west coast of North America. In this way, the colonists sent by the Ming Dynasty will have a chance to gain a foothold in Rocky Mountain and the west coast of North America, and there is gold in the west of North America!

Grain and cotton from North America cannot be transported to East Asia at the moment - there is no Panama Canal now, and the transportation cost is too high. And it's much easier to ship gold! At the same time, gold is the demand, it is the market!

As long as the gold on the west coast of North America is developed, the handicrafts of the Ming Dynasty will continue to be exported there. Relying on gold, silver, and brass from North America, it is possible to "send" the Ming Dynasty to the industrial era.

As for the feudalism of the American Empire, of course, it was also well thought out. After all, the establishment of a feudal state is a good way to expand the civilization circle at a low cost - the main development costs are borne by the vassals at the bottom, and the burden on the country is lighter?

Moreover, for the Ming Dynasty, a republican empire in which the upper-class families, middle-class scholars, and grass-roots countrymen were republican, curbing the excessive expansion of the upper-class families was the key to maintaining the stable development of the country.

And it is a good way to kill multiple birds with one stone and continue to divide the concubines of the upper class families to the New World to become the emperor of the soil. It not only does not hurt the peace, but also releases the expansion momentum of the family, and can slowly occupy the territory of the New World, and at the same time, it can also take away the surplus population of the local land in the future.

What? Won't go?

It's not a problem, as soon as the gold mines on the west coast of the New World are discovered, it's time to rush to it!

"Feudal." Louis XIV seemed hesitant - he was actually "anti-feudal"!

Yes, as the king, Louis was actually the anti-feudal standard-bearer of France.

Because Louis advocated "I am the state", and "I am the state" actually means the implementation of an absolute monarchy, that is, centralized power! This is, of course, anti-feudal. Therefore, in France under Louis, the nobles who were originally dominant in the local area were transferred to Paris and Versailles, and became court nobles who could only invite the king to favor, and lost the energy to directly control the grassroots. Of course, it lost the ability to resist the royal power, suppress the populace, and divide France.

Therefore, the royal power of Louis XIV and Louis XV gradually lost its checks and balances, and when Louis XVI faced the revolutionary frenzy, the royalist nobles could not help much.

It can be said that the collapse of the Bourbon dynasty began with Louis XIV's I, that is, the state!

But there are always two sides to everything, and after Louis XIV implemented the policy of the state, the separatist forces in France were greatly weakened, so that the later France was able to maintain its own unity despite the ups and downs.

On the other hand, Britain, known for its conservatism and moderation, embarked on a path of slow disintegration after losing its world empire. Because Britain has never had a monarch who can integrate England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales into one. Fortunately, Britain still has a beautiful father who was promoted from a rebel son, otherwise it would be a luxury to want a decent disintegration!

"Your Majesty," said the Marquis de Louis of Louis, the Minister of War of France, who had already seen Louis's thoughts, "I think that feudalism in the American and Western Empire is perfectly feasible and the only way. In fact, we have invested quite a few resources in the New World over the past few decades, but with little success, and now it's time for a change. The establishment of the American Empire to protect the Franco-Ming trade route was an opportunity, and in the future, many prosperous commercial towns would appear along the Mississippi River, and those commercial towns would not only have prosperous commerce, but also be surrounded by rich plains, and would have a high degree of autonomy, which would be very attractive to the Huguenots in the country! ”

"Huguenots." Louie's eyes lit up.

The Huguenots were a Protestant sect in France, influenced by Calvinism and opposed Catholicism and the king, and fought the Huguenot War with the Catholics from 1562 to 1598, which caused great losses to France. In 1598, Henry IV, who later founded the Bourbon dynasty in France, signed the Edict of Nantes, which guaranteed freedom of belief for the Huguenots, pledged not to hold the Huguenots accountable for war, and allowed the Huguenots to keep more than a hundred castles and allow them to have troops and weapons.

However, Louis XIV was quite dissatisfied with the Edict of Nantes - the freedom granted to the Huguenots by the Edict of Nantes was incompatible with the authority of the state! If the Huguenots are allowed to grow, there may be a day when France will be divided.

So after Louis came to power, the situation of the Huguenots became worse and worse, and it seemed only a matter of time before the Edict of Nantes was reversed.

However, it was also a good idea to canonize a group of disobedient Huguenot nobles to become city lords in the New World, and let these nobles lead the most determined believers to the New World to build cities for France and protect trade routes.

"Very well, that's it!" Louis nodded and said to Jia Guozhu, "Mr. Ambassador, I have agreed in principle to establish a dualistic confederation of American empires. You can discuss the details with my Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Military Affairs and Minister of Finance. ”

He said to the Marquis de croiss, the Marquis de Loufois, and the Colbert: "You three are now members of the New World Development Committee. I hope that you will work with Ambassador Jia to come up with a feasible plan as soon as possible. It would be better to establish a working trade route before the porcelain, sugar, silk, and spices that were shipped to Europe were sold out. As long as there are trade routes, everything will be fine! ”

"Distinguished gentlemen, councillors of the province of Holland and the city of Amsterdam, as long as we curb Louis XIV's ambitions and force the Ming Empire in the East to abide by the existing principles of international trade, everything will be fine!"

"We must defeat the ambitious Louis XIV and General Lee, or our colonies in the East Indies will never be at peace, you think, our people are blowing the sea breeze on the spice islands, eating seafood, and supervising the natives there to produce spices for the prosperity of the Netherlands, and Louis XIV's fleet comes! The robbers stole everything, killed our men, and plunged the Spice Islands into anarchy."

Addressing two groups of parliamentarians from the province of Holland and the city of Amsterdam in the parliament building in Amsterdam were two of William III's partners, Gaspar Gaspar. Fig and Anthony. Hines too.

When the two of them talked about the looting of the Spice Islands, they were really in tears!

Because the French (Chinese) were so unruly that they not only ransacked the Spice Islands, but also killed most of the Dutch administrators or mercenaries on the islands, and also captured the sultans of the two sultanates, Ternarte and Tidore.

These two sultans were the tools of the Dutch to control the islands of Ternarte and Tidore, and as soon as they were caught, the two spice-rich islands and the corresponding sultanate were thrown into chaos - many of them were going to take the throne of the sultan!

There are also many secession lords who know that the throne may not be grabbed, so they want to get some nutmeg and lilac saplings. It's money to grow it yourself or sell it!

For a time, the situation in the Spice Islands was grim and on the verge of getting out of control.

Perhaps the Dutch have now lost their monopoly on the lucrative nutmeg and cloves!

Not allowing honest and honest Dutch businessmen to engage in monopoly is simply digging up their lifeline!

And they have to behave very patriotic now!

Because Wilhelm III had already marched into Amsterdam with a full 10,000 Dutch patriots, and if anyone was not patriotic, the Witte brothers were waiting for them below!

"That's right! We must defeat Louis XIV and the Ming Empire! ”

"These two despicable and shameless countries must be made aware of the fate of going against the Netherlands!"

"Louis XIV and Daming must compensate us for our losses and hand over the culprits!"

"And deprive Louis XIV of all the territories he acquired after 1659!"

"We must let Daming completely open the country to our Netherlands!"

"We should send more warships and the Spanish Armada to sack the rich shores of the Ming Dynasty."

"A privateer license should be issued against the Ming Dynasty!"

The patriotic Dutch parliamentarians were boiling at once, and the tone was higher than the other.

They not only wanted reparations from Louis XIV and the Ming Dynasty, but also wanted to deprive France of all the territories it had acquired since 1659, which meant that Louis would have to spit out not only the proceeds of the Franco-Dutch War, but also the proceeds of the Inheritance War, and even Artois and Roussillon, which France had acquired in the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659.

Seeing the righteous indignation of the parliamentarians, Gaspar. Fig and Anthony. Hines felt that the time was almost up, so he proposed the plan they had already discussed to circle money. Foreshadowing scheme.

As long as this foreshadowing plan is passed, the 200 million guilder national debt will not be distributed.

"Gentlemen, I propose that the Dutch Provincial Council and the Amsterdam City Council each pass a resolution: we will establish a special criminal tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to try the main culprits of the islands of Ternarte and Tidore, as well as the Banda Islands, King Louis XIV of France and the Great General of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yat-sen!"

"Gentlemen, I propose that the Dutch Provincial Council and the Amsterdam City Council each pass one more resolution: to claim 100,000,000,000 guilders from Louis XIV and Li Yat-sen to compensate for the losses of the Dutch East India Company!"

Yes?

It's crazy!

The parliamentarians are dumbfounded, you two just talk about it, why do you still have to judge and claim compensation? This is clearly to provoke the Sun King! Philip IV, who was terrible when the King of France was angry, burned many knights of the Templar Order, and if Louis wanted to enter Amsterdam, he would not have to barbecue all the councillors who voted to try him?

"Judge Louie!"

"Judge Louie!"

"We're going to make Louie pay!"

Outside the Amsterdam City Council, tens of thousands of Dutch patriots are roaring: they are all fully armed, well-organized, and true patriots who are only willing to express their opinions peacefully!

"I agree!"

"I agree!"

"Louis must not be forgiven!"

"Robbers must pay."

A group of lawmakers who finally William III have begun to make noise, and there is a lot of anger inside and outside the parliament.

All the members of the Dutch Provincial Council and the Amsterdam City Council have understood that it seems that the decision to try Louis must be passed today.

(End of chapter)