Chapter 362 Trouble is coming

On the quiet banks of the Nasai River, the gas lamps on the guardrail have been replaced by updated electric lights. The straight sycamore trees arranged in lines next to them are stretched out like giant umbrellas, and the branches and leaves are lush and green. Whenever the breeze blows, the sound of salsa leaves gives people an indescribable sense of tranquility.

In the shade, the charming Louvre is looming. It is scattered on both sides along this famous palace. There are a large number of buildings full of medieval Renaissance styles. A huge carved stone gate stands in the middle of the avenue. It is the symbol of France, the Arc de Triomphe.

In these buildings, a towering towering into the clouds is extremely lonely, full of cold steel in the style of the industrial revolution, and so incongruous with the surroundings. This tower, which was specially built for the World Expo, was protested by countless celebrities and citizens at the beginning of its construction, because it is the center of France, and people I'm worried that it will destroy the beauty here.

But when looking back today, many people's minds have undergone a 180-degree turn. In their opinion, although the towering Eiffel Tower cannot be integrated with the surrounding scenery, its 300-meter-high body symbolizes the national spirit of France's freedom and arrogance.

This is France. Like this famous Elysee avenue in Europe, it is full of luxury and at the same time, it is incompatible with other parts of the European style.

Maybe there are many people who are not familiar with the Elysee Garden Avenue, but if you change the name, I believe everyone has heard of it. This is the Champs-Elysees Avenue, but in the early 20th century, it was indeed called the Elysee Garden Avenue.

This avenue, which was crazily expanded by Napoleon III, has become a model of world city construction. Recently, because of the convening of the Paris World Expo, it has become the center of the world's attention and a window for France to show its proud strength and national charm in various fields to the outside world.

In this luxury full of French charm, a huge floor-to-ceiling glass window is particularly dazzling, not that the things in it are not exquisite, nor that its decoration is not luxurious. On the contrary, it is not only gorgeously decorated, but also extremely attractive in style, but the problem is that it is displayed on the window here. There is a national flag that makes people a little uncomfortable.

With a scarlet blood-like background, a golden dragon sitting in the center, his teeth and claws are ferocious, and there are clusters of silver stars on the four claws, giving people a feeling of extreme shock.

The flag is hung quietly above the window. No matter who passes by, they will be attracted to it. While they admire the beautiful and domineering design of the flag, they can't help frowning.

Because the owner of this flag is not loved by the French, and it is even a little annoying. It is he who has challenged France's Far East interests, and it is also his rude interference that has made France lose the opportunity to enter Taiwan. What's more, because he doesn't know how to get a ferocious warship recently, which has made all European countries fall into Uneasy and restless.

The famous French newspaper Zhendan even hung a headline on the front page of today.

"The trouble is coming"!

Is the trouble really coming? The people in Paris are not clear. They only know that behind this huge window is exquisite porcelain and all kinds of art from the Far East. Although they are not antiques, they are worthy of its reputation. In another store adjacent to it, it is full of a large number of industrial goods, both exquisite table lamps and iron. There are pimple-like pumps, various types of cars, and even some mini and small ship models can be seen.

Among them, there is a new battleship that has appeared in every newspaper for several days in a row!

This is the Elysee Garden Street, the central venue of the Paris World Expo, and the owners of these two huge shops are the counters specially used by the Xinhua Empire to display and sell Far East goods to representatives of tourists from all over the world.

Although the national flag is a little dazzling, the flow of people in and out is undoubtedly telling everyone that in addition to the towering tower, there are other eye-catching things in this World Expo.

On the balcony on the second floor opposite the street, two people looked at the people stopping and linger in front of the window, and the eyebrows also looked more gloomy.

Here comes the trouble.

Maybe ordinary Parisians only think that the title is full of gimmicks, but for both of them, the trouble has actually begun.

"Mr. Hanard, are you telling the truth? Hamid II, does he have money to pay for building a ship? French Navy Minister Bernat looked at the golden dragon in the window that seemed to be swimming in the sea of blood. He always felt that there was something wrong. Although the news has been confirmed many times that the Ottoman Empire had indeed reached an agreement with Xinhua to purchase a new battleship, but the question is, where did the money come from?

The battleship that has become a sleepless battleship in European countries is not a small number. Although the specific cost is not known, according to the calculations of the experts of the Admiralty, the price is at least 1.5 million pounds, and it costs 3,7 million francs or more to convert it into francs!

The economy has long been rotten, and its national strength is not even as good as that of the original Ottoman Empire. With such a huge amount of funds, they need to tighten their belt for several years!

But the problem is that although the details of the contract are still under negotiation, there is almost no news about where the Ottoman Empire will raise the funds.

Is it possible that Li Mo is determined to be a good man and prepare to help the Ottoman Empire for free?

Joke, if Li Mo was really so kind, I'm afraid he wouldn't have today's Xinhua. In fact, he is not only cunning, but also a shameless businessman. Just like that global power service company, in order to monitor the AC power generated by each power plant and prevent others from doing anything, he quickly took that kind of power. The meter is designed as a self-explosive bomb!

Although the Ottoman Empire and the New China Empire are doomed to cooperate and join hands because they have the same enemy Russia, which can be seen from where Li Mo set the first stop of the visit, the inside story may not be so simple.

In particular, although Li Mo is young, he has a unique maturity. The decisive killing is numbing. At the beginning, in order to reduce entanglement, he even ordered to solve all the royal families in Yanjing City in one go, in order to completely kill the possible trouble and not to give other countries the use and excuses.

How can such a person send a new battleship that is enough to change the navy in order to show the imperial friendship between the so-called Xinhua Empire and the Ottoman Empire!

He must have got something from the Ottoman Empire, but the problem is that both sides seem to have covered this thing tightly, and there has been no news so far, which surprised everyone, especially the [***] bureaucratic Ottoman Empire, and the happy Hamid II, the sultan and caliph, this It turned out to help Li Mo cover it up like this, which made people smell the unusualness of it.

Although France also wants the technology of the warship, especially the technology to reduce recoil, few people know that France has actually achieved some results since the discovery of the Jinghai class. The presidential palace and the Admiralty even listed it as a top secret, so Compared with the urgency of Britain, Germany and other countries, France does not seem to be impatient, because at most one more year, that technology can make a breakthrough, so the French political axe will continue to build Dandong-class battleships, because France knows that as long as it waits patiently for a period of time, new battleships will begin to be equipped.

So France is more concerned about the purpose of Li Mo's visit. He drove the battleship with great fanfare. What on earth did he want to do? Are you going to take advantage of the exhibition opportunity to make a lot of money from the two windows opposite, or to provoke the chaos in Europe with ulterior motives to create conditions for him to fish in troubled waters in the Far East?

Although Harnaught is the French Foreign Minister, he can't answer so many questions from his friend Patnet. Li Mo and Xinhua are not ordinary forces. They have already become a climate. Their strength is no longer weaker than that of Osman or even Italy. They are only one line worse than several powerful countries. The interpretation of such an opponent is needed. What we need is not only wisdom, but also enough confidence to face each other!

However, France lacks such confidence. The aura of the Eiffel Tower hides a lot of things. Few people know that although France still maintains the world's first army, the gap between the navy and Britain has become wider and wider. Even in dealing with William II's naval bill, the most important thing is the French economy. In recent years, it has also begun to decline. The invasion of cheap goods from the United States across the Atlantic has made France more difficult. Coupled with colonial disputes with Britain and Germany, France is going through the most painful stage. This is why France finally did not enter Taiwan and chose Reasons for avoidance.

Bernet has reason to complain, because it is the threat of Germany that makes France miss the opportunity to strengthen its navy and Britain to compete for the world's first throne, because there is no one who can maintain a huge army while maintaining a strong navy. Even Li Mo, a madman who seems to have spent endless money, is facing Russia. Under the threat of the army, the army did not continue to expand.

At this moment, France can no longer choose to continue to provoke a war far away from the European continent. Even if it is unavoidable, it needs to work hard to control the scale. Therefore, in the face of the aggressive Li Mo in the Far East, France has begun to consider evasion. Of course, this is not a retreat, but a must to maintain the interests of the French Far East, especially It is a temporary refuge where Vietnam's interests are not infringed.

So what they are most worried about at this moment is not the spread of the new battleship in Europe, but about Germany getting the technology. They know better than anyone that once William II finally gets the new battleship technology, Europe will definitely be stirred up by that madman!

But the problem is that France can't stop it at all. They even thought about sinking the battleship, but the problem is that the damn Li Mo actually let the fleet from entering the door and chose to enter France by land. Isn't it deliberately guarding himself? And the active Germans actually began to protect them after Li Mo arrived in the Ottoman Empire. They obviously had reached a certain tacit understanding! Why else did William II suddenly order the expansion of the dock?!

"Let's go, dear Minister Patnatra." Hanold looked at his watch and finally glanced at the dazzling golden dragon. He couldn't figure out how there could be such a terrible legendary creature in the East, so he had to turn his eyes to the Eiffel Tower not far away: "Let's go, our big trouble is coming."

The towering Eiffel Tower pierced the sky like a sharp sword. The afternoon tower was surrounded by crowds from Paris and even other countries. The reporters kept swinging their cameras in one direction, and the guards stood solemnly for fear of a slight deviation.

At the same time, at the same place, they came here, not because of the World Expo in full swing, but because today's Paris will usher in a man from the Far East, stepping on the blood of Japan and Russia, coming from the war, and even regarded as a big trouble by European countries, building a huge emperor with his bare hands. The emperor of the country.

Everyone who knows something will be forced to look up at his dazzling achievements and achievements, and the most unimaginable thing is that the new emperor is still for the mysterious super-rich, splicing together to create a fleet that shocked the world!

Most importantly, he is just 21 years old today!

A 21-year-old big trouble!

"Woo-woo."

A long horn cut through the noisy city, and almost everyone held their breath. Everyone saw a long convoy entering.

Looking at the fleet coming slowly, everyone remembers the fact that most of the cars that have been appearing around over the years are actually imported from the Far East. It was made by the factory of His Majesty Emperor Li Mo!

People stood quietly, looking at the convoy getting closer and closer. Every time the wheels rolled slowly, it seemed to crush the last pride in their hearts. At this moment, many people found that compared with the mysterious Far East, there seemed to be fewer and fewer things that Europe could lead.

When the convoy gradually approached the Eiffel Tower, everyone was waiting for a new emperor to pass under the huge steel arch and was shocked by the towering tower, the convoy suddenly stopped slowly. Just as everyone was wondering why they stopped, the team was dressed in an improved suit with a large black. The man with sunglasses suddenly got out of the car.

Then, everyone saw one of the cars open the door. A young man who stood with a small collar that they had never seen before, but looked energetic got out of the car. He didn't seem to see the people around him from afar. He quietly walked under the tower and stroked the cold steel pillar. The horn evoked a strange smile.

"It's him, that's him, he's Li Mo! That big trouble!"

A reporter suddenly recognized Li Mo and shouted excitedly. With his voice, more and more people began to exclaim. They couldn't believe their eyes. The mysterious, cruel and ambitious young emperor described by the newspaper actually had such a tall figure, full of sunshine and self-confidence. A slightly thin big boy!

"I love France, this is a country full of freedom!"

Before everyone's surprise was over, they heard a loud French coming from the young emperor. Everyone held their breath again, and the women covered their mouths. They couldn't believe that Li Mo could speak in such a proficient French.

"This is also the most beautiful country and the most charming city I have ever seen."

"But I stand here, but my heart is full of regret, because in the Far East, my beloved motherland has some minor contradictions with France, so I am here today. I hope that we can solve it with great wisdom, instead of creating conflicts and antagonism for the two peoples."

Li Mo waved his arms around, his hoarse as much as possible to make the sound spread farther, so that more people could hear his voice: "I came here to tell everyone that in the land of the East, the era of colonies has ended, and earth-shaking changes have taken place there. We are not dirty. Synonymous with, we are not slaves of opium, let alone third-class citizens of the world. We are free French citizens, just like you!"

"It's the master of this world!"

"Shh."

Li Mo shouted and raised his right arm to pay tribute to the surroundings, but what everyone didn't expect was that after a moment of silence, he didn't know who took the lead, and there were boos all around!

Every Frenchman was aroused by the last sentence. This damn guy, he made France lose a big island and made the French Far East Fleet return. He made so much trouble in the Far East, and now he still wants to be on an equal footing with the proud and free France!

Who does he think he is?

Shh him to death! Let him know that this is a white world!

The boos in the air did not seem to surprise Li Mo and his entourage. Even the two amazingly beautiful women in the halfway carriage were not different.

"I like this way of welcome and voice, because it makes me feel the importance of freedom!" Li Mo smiled and turned a deaf ear to the boos around him. In fact, he knew very well that this was a real Europe, a real white world. Although they had changed some views, they would never regard themselves as the masters of the world on an equal footing with them.

Especially at this moment, absolutely not!

When the boos gradually faded until they disappeared, Li Mo also returned to the car. This time, the big men in black did not enter the car, but waved their arms and trotted all the way around the car. Their footsteps were light and firm, and each of them had a smile on the corners of their mouths.

The most important thing is that the people of Paris suddenly found that they didn't have braids!

On the side of the street, looking at the motorcade finally slowly driving into the Elysee Palace, Bernat and Harnold looked at each other with a wry smile. Although the French political axe and the president promised him to get out of the car and make a speech, they didn't expect that the bastard would bring trouble as soon as he opened his mouth!

He said that he loved France and freedom, but in just a few words, he proposed to be on an equal footing with France! And the most surprising thing is that he can still keep smiling in the face of boos!

"He is in big trouble!"

Harhard spat fiercely!

(to be continued)