The French army has been active in Texas recently for two reasons, first, daily training, and second, there is a rebellion in the territory.

France's first governor of Texas had been in office for five years, and Gabriel de Villepin wanted to be re-elected, and he had strong support from the locals.

It's just that when Guizot arrived in Texas, he found that the tax here was much lower than that of mainland France, and this behavior was simply a betrayal of France.

You must know that at this time, the French economy can be said to be stretched, and Texas, a rich and fertile land, has not yet been full of taxes.

This could not bear it, so he wrote a letter to Paris.

At this time, Louis Philippe was distressed by the high deficit of the French government, and when he saw Guizot's letter, he was angry.

This, coupled with the fact that the Verpin family had just bought a luxury estate near Paris a few years earlier, made Louis Philippe even more convinced that it was the governor who was guarding and stealing himself.

"Damn, it's all my money. He actually used my money to buy a house! Let Gabriel return home immediately and appoint François Guizot as the new governor of Texas. Tell him! He has only one task, and that is to collect all the taxes that should be levied from me! ”

In fact, Paris does not know much about the situation in Texas, but it does not have a bad impression of it, after all, it pays a lot of taxes every year, and it is always paid on time.

At this time, the top brass in Paris realized that Gabriel de Villepin had privately lowered the local tax rate, which was treason.

Paris immediately sent men urging Gabriel to return home, and sent new troops and officers to Texas to replace Gabriel's men.

Gabriel did not react to the attitude of the Parisian side, and he thought that what awaited him back home was a reward and flowers.

After all, Texas was a model colony of France at this time, providing not only a large amount of taxes, but also soldiers and equipment.

Over the years, Gabriel had infiltrated French influence into the territory of Mexico and the United States, and he had many, many things to say to His Majesty

"The glory of the French Empire is just around the corner"

It's just that Gabriel was sent to prison as soon as he returned home, and what awaited him was thirty years of prison life.

Arkham Prison, January 1, 1844.

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte ushered in a new cellmate, inexplicably returned to China, inexplicably convicted of treason, although it was only ten days, Gabriel's hair was mostly white, and he couldn't see his previous high-spirited appearance at all, and he still muttered from time to time.

"France is finished, and New France is finished."

The so-called New France refers to French North America, and General Gabriel de Villepin had in mind the map of the whole of North America, including Canada.

When the inmates saw Gabriel's performance, they laughed one after another.

"It's over, another crazy one. Ha ha! ”

"What do you all know!? I'm different from you filthy scum! I had a chance to get France back to the top! Don't! It has to be you! It was your majesty who put me in prison! You French sinners! Your Majesty! I was wronged! ”

Gabriel gripped the railing with both hands and roared hysterically.

"You're still saying you're not crazy?"

"How can a madman admit that he is crazy? Ha ha! ”

"Haha!"

The prisoners in the opposing cell burst into laughter.

Gabriel was so angry that he even wanted to spit on the other side, but he had hardly drunk water in the past few days, and where was the saliva.

"Are you a pillar of the nation?" The prisoners continued to taunt.

"Yes!" Gabriel replied firmly.

"Are you going to save France?"

"Yes! So what? Gabriel asked rhetorically.

"What a coincidence! So is your next door! The prisoners on the other side couldn't stop laughing.

Gabriel subconsciously looked next door, the other party was a young man who was not very old, and the clothes on his body were already a little old, but the original appearance was vaguely visible, it should be the standard of the Napoleonic era, and the other party reached out in a friendly manner.

"Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte."

Kalimantan, Mala Harbor.

The battle is over, and the corpses and ruins of the city tell the story of the battle.

During the campaign, the Southern Ming army captured three British warships, more than 10 merchant ships, annihilated more than 800 enemies, captured the British commander Colonel Hadek Criss, and the rest of the 53 people, in addition to Baron Langer, the head of trade in the port of Mara, and 110 British expatriates.

and Sultan of Brunei, Omar Ali Saiftin II, and a group of Brunei civil and military officials.

The losses of the Southern Ming army were as high as 1,700 people, of which 600 were killed, 300 were seriously wounded, and more than 800 were slightly wounded.

This is the most tragic battle since the founding of the Southern Ming Dynasty, before the gangs, companies, and princely states, the phenomenon of frequent good news has disappeared.

In the Mala Port Fortress, the civil and military officials of Nanming were all solemn, according to their estimates, 10,000 to 1,000, ten times the troops, the enemy is clear and I am secret, or a sneak attack, no matter how you say it, you should fight a beautiful battle.

But the current result really makes these people unhappy, because they live in Nanyang and know very well how much strength the British have.

Brunei's British army is just a drop in the bucket, you must know that they still have 6,000 men in the Lion City, and there are more than a dozen cruisers like the one captured today.

Everyone's faces were full of worry, and the son of Zhiyun, who was known as the "reincarnation of Zhuge Reincarnation" beside Zhu Qiongying, was also worried.

Zhu Qiongying herself had a sense of relief, Franz once warned her that Nanming at this time did not have the strength to expel the British.

But Zhu Qiongying didn't believe it, after all, just a few decades ago, there was a big pirate in the South China Sea who beat the British and Portuguese and had to pay protection money.

The former hero Zheng Chenggong can also make foreigners frightened, and that sister-in-law Zheng is even more of a woman, why can't she Zhu Qiongying?

What she didn't know was that the reason why Zheng Yi's sister-in-law was able to defeat the Anglo-Portuguese combined fleet and abandon her armor and obediently pay protection money was actually because the British were trapped in the European battlefield and couldn't spare their hands, and they only sank a few armed merchant ships and cruisers.

Even if Zhu Qiongying had recovered all the pirates in the South Seas at this time, she would not be able to compete with the British battleships.

If the British really sent a fleet of more than a dozen battleships, they would be able to smooth the entire South Sea.

And one of the most important reasons why there were so many casualties was that Zhu Qiongying's original order was not to leave prisoners.

However, at this time, the Nanming army lacked experience in fighting a strong enemy, and even if it had an advantage in equipment, it could not give full play, and both tactics and tactics were already behind the times.

As for the Zhiyun Gongzi who has been following her, she is actually a strange woman, who has read military books and is used to intrigues, but she is still helpless in the face of this great change unseen in a thousand years.

(End of chapter)