Because of these factors, when Turville met Lee Junwei, he showed good demeanor. The two talked happily. The French confidence and humor were fully demonstrated in Turville. Obviously, when he reached this point, his skillful social skills were also necessary. However, when the two sides talked about the details of their cooperation, they quickly had differences.

The Empire required France to be guaranteed by the sovereignty of the North American colonies, but Toulville proposed that the income or operating rights of New France should be guaranteed. The Empire proposed a short-term loan of eight to ten years, while Toulville asked for a long-term loan of more than thirty years. At the same time, Toulville also hoped to borrow more money. Obviously, the responsibility he shouldered was not only to expand the navy, but also to seek more funds for Louis XIV.

But the problem is that the Empire is difficult to agree to this series of requirements, because long-term and huge loans mean that the Empire and France are bound to the relationship between them, and at least they cannot be in a bad relationship in the future. Otherwise, with Louis XIV's virtue, they will definitely be liable for the future. But it is precisely because the Empire cannot guarantee the relationship between the two countries. The reason is that the Great Alliance War will definitely end, but the next war will still break out. Some historical processes are interrupted and changed by Li Junwei and his son, but some will not. For example, the Continental War that was detonated due to the Spanish throne in the future.

No matter how the world changes, as long as it is the Spanish king, Carlos II, the demonic demon, will immediately have conflicts. This war is difficult to avoid unless France is destroyed in the immediate war.

In the original history, Carlos II had nine years of life, but who knows if he would die early? Li Junwei did not want to limit the empire's "glorious neutrality" strategy for the continental region because of the current cooperation.

Although there are many conflicts between the two sides, Tourville is obviously not a match for Li Junwei. This is not a problem of ability, but because of the ambition of the relationship between the two sides. As the saying goes, if you have money, you are the old man. Now France wants to borrow money from the empire, and your attitude is to put it low and you have to make more concessions. What Li Junwei wants to change is the situation of "owing money is the old man" in the future.

Li Junwei did not give Tullville any more opportunities to discuss long-term strategies. After figuring out Tullville's attitude and the French king's idea, Li Junwei only agreed to discuss the first loan plan. Li Junwei's request was that France borrowed 6 million taels of imperial silver dollars from mortgaged with New France to use the French Navy's ironclad fleet expansion, arming and training. After the first loan was implemented, the subsequent loan plan would be discussed. The first loan was paid off in eight years, with a total principal and interest of 7.5 million taels.

And this plan is exactly what Tourville would not refuse, because he was the commander of the French Navy. This plan was entirely to arm the French Navy, which was more beneficial to him than to give six million taels to Louis XIV.

Louis XIV could hand over the military expenditure and materials that originally belonged to the navy to the army for use, but he could not send the ironclad ship to the shore. The only thing that could not be reached was a guarantee, but Tourville had sufficient motivation to convince Louis XIV to agree to this plan that was completely considered for him and for the French Navy.

But Tourville was not a fictional reputation. Although he was the French representative whom Li Junwei took the initiative to request, he had his own ideas. He took the initiative to persuade the French king to accept the New French colony as a guarantee as a bargaining chip, and asked the empire to provide more advanced equipment for the French Navy.

At the beginning, Li Junwei was willing to provide the French Navy with mainly old-fashioned equipment or improved versions of old-fashioned equipment. One is the already lagging Zhiyuan-class and American-class sail cruisers in the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet system. This kind of warship originally had the potential to be converted into two- or even three-layer deck battleships. Li Junwei planned to complete the modification, equipped with short-heavy artillery that the Imperial Navy had begun to eliminate, and at most it was the ability to use flowering bullets. One was the battleships sealed ashore in China, which could be slightly renovated, so that more than twenty battleships with at least eighty heavy artillery could be taken out in a short period of time. This was a force enough to change the situation in the European battlefield.

The second type is to transform warships, transform a group of sail battleships that are under construction or under overhaul or under reconstruction during the period of reconstruction. Only one layer of artillery deck is retained, and they are coated with wrought iron armor, strengthen sail equipment, and become armored cruisers that are sail-powered. Of course, a series of backward technologies such as short heavy artillery, casting of wine bottle cannons, flowering bullets and fuse production can also be added to cooperation.

But the problem is that Tourville directly requires that all warships must be equipped with steam power.

After the Battle of Ireland, Tourville carefully studied the Imperial Navy's ironclad ships through various information and channels. He believed that the biggest advantage of ironclad ships to sail battleships is not sharp artillery and absolute defense, but steam power, steam power, armor and artillery. The most important thing about these three is steam power.

After the Battle of Ireland, Turville also set up a special department to study the tactics of ironclad ships. At first, he used paddle boats that were convenient for steering and acceleration than sailing warships to act as ironclad ships, allowing the frigate to be a battleship and conduct exercises. Later, the French Navy obtained two paddle-powered tugs through Portuguese merchants and imitated the ironclad ships, thus verifying the advanced nature of steam power to sail power.

Obviously, this violated the Empire's ban on steam power. Li Junwei did not agree rashly or directly reject it. After comprehensively considering all aspects, he believed that installing old steam engines on French warships would not destroy the Empire's leading in steam power, or that the spread of technology of similar levels would not stop because of the cessation of this naval cooperation.

For example, the two old-fashioned tugs that Tourville had high prices were obtained from the Brazilian colonies in Portugal. You should know that the Brazilian colonies serve the two provinces of the Empire, South Africa and Cape Town. Brazil provides cotton, wood, tobacco and other raw materials for the industries in the Empire's South Africa region. In recent years, Brazil's coal and iron ore mining industries have also begun to develop explosively, and the trade routes from Brazil to Cape Town have become increasingly prosperous. But the problem is that the two places communicate by shipping.

The imperial shipping company proposed that in Cape Town, the ports in and out are handled by steam-powered tugs, while in Brazil's ports, manpower is required. These are two completely different working modes. There are not so many sailors in merchant ships traveling between the two ports. The result is that in the ports in Brazil's colonies, the ports in the ports are very low, and they are very unsafe. Therefore, the empire was asked to lift the ban on steam-powered tugs to Brazil. With the same theoretical support, Brazil's port facilities have also begun to focus on steam-powered. After all, coal and iron ore are not light commodities.

Even after Li Junwei returned to Lisbon this time, merchants from Portugal, Brazilian colonies and South Africa formed a lobbying team, hoping that Li Junwei would come forward and declare the railway ban to the Empire, so that the Brazilian colonies would be qualified to build railways to facilitate the transportation of iron ore and coal. After Brazil could use steam-powered port facilities, Portugal also made similar requirements, and the same was true for a series of ports in the Mediterranean region that were closely traded with the Empire. Obviously, the high efficiency brought by steam-powered tools is coveted by any country, and the high profit brought by steam-powered tools is also something that the Empire's merchants could not refuse.

The technical representatives sent by the Navy believed that adding steam power to the battleships ordered by France was not a big deal, because the shipyard had many power options. The technical representatives also proposed a modification method for the local fleet, which was to install steam power for the sail battleships in the Navy. The 4,000-ton battleships increased the steam engine of 600 horsepower, and was only used when entering and leaving the port. This was the early understanding of steam power by the old naval bureaucrats at that time. Such old power could enable battleships to reach a speed of seven knots, but in fact, this could meet the combat speed requirements between sail battleships.

After Li Junwei agreed to Tourville's request, Tourville returned to France and finally convinced Louis XIV. Obviously, in Louis XIV's eyes, the New France colony on the New World, which was several times larger than France, was not worth a hit compared to his continental hegemony. The French, less than 50,000 yuan and the fur trade of less than 300,000 taels of silver each year was also lacking. But Louis XIV put forward a new requirement, that is, the Empire could only recognize James II as the only legal government of Britain, and only after James II was restored, the Empire could complete the final negotiations with the British government at that time.

Obviously, as Li Junwei expected, Louis XIV was unwilling to share the future of Britain with the empire. If it were a few months ago, Li Junwei would definitely refuse, but after his father Li Mingxun reminded him, Li Junwei had some pessimism about conquering Britain. In fact, Li Junwei believed that conquering Britain or long-term suppression was not impossible, but the key was not himself or Louis XIV, but in James II, a conservative and ignorant guy.

It is not difficult to defeat Britain in the military, but the key is what kind of policies should be implemented in Britain in the later period. Li Junwei believes that the policy can only go to two extremes, either tolerant or iron-blooded.

Tolerance means that James II becomes his brother Charles II, becomes a Protestant, or at least tolerate other sects, and then constantly enhances his imperial power, at least like the Empire, becoming a dual constitutional monarchy. Such a conservative and feudal monarch took over Britain, and outside, the Empire occupied Britain's colonies and instigated Britain to form an alliance with the Empire to fight against France, thus turning Britain into a local power.

The iron-blooded route is to follow Li Mingxun's approach, but after the restoration of the country, it was not a liquidation of feudal landlords, but a liquidation of all capitalists and new aristocrats, killing all these people, taking over their land to the royal family or distributing them to peasants without land and with little land. In this way, while gaining support from the people, a country with an absolute monarchy similar to France was established. Even if Britain became enemies of the empire after the war, it would fundamentally eliminate the possibility of Britain's rise and threatening the empire's global status.

But the problem is that James II is not controlled by Li Junwei, and he will not give domestic religious tolerance.

After careful measurement, Li Junwei finally cooperated with France despite meeting the conditions of Louis XIV. Although the Empire in the future did not have the same status as France, all the costs of conquering, occupying and ruling Britain would be borne by France. Of course, it is not that the future Britain has nothing to do with the Empire. Li Junwei is still preparing to cut this cake, and he has already arranged the chess piece, that is, Fitz James, who was still conquered in the New World colony.

As for strategy, Li Junwei also has a backup plan. Assuming that the plan to interrupt the British bourgeois revolution in the form of James' reset ultimately fails, then the backup plan is to split Britain. After all, England is England, Scotland is just a communist country, Ireland is a colony of England, and even Wales is not the same nation as the Ans of England, while Ireland and Scotland are dominated by Catholicism, and England and Wales are dominated by Protestantism. Religion, nation and even the old order will give Li Junwei space to split Britain.

Li Junwei planned his strategy and imagined the future of Britain. However, Pan Mingqi completed the location of the Atlantic Fleet and the Atlantic Shipyard, but later came to Li Junwei and formally discussed the specific issue of selling ironclad ships to France with Tourville. He participated in this work as a naval consultant and chief engineer of the Black Sea Shipyard, and Pan Mingqi also enjoyed it.

When he was in Penang and Shin Kyung in his early years, he wandered in the setting drawings, and was very vague about everything outside. He was not good at dealing with bureaucrats and the army, nor did he know any political wisdom. He was obsessed with technology and design, but he forgot that the essence of these tasks was to serve the navy. Pan Mingqi's inability to survive in China was not just an opposition in design concepts, but more importantly, he only understood ship design. For example, the warships he once participated in the design were relatively large, leaving enough living space for the crew. On average, each person reached 2.5 cubic meters. In fact, 1.5 was enough, and the maximum could not reach 2.

Obviously, this is a bad problem left by his long-term design of cruise ships, but during this period, Pan Mingqi has gained a deeper understanding of the Navy's needs.

Li Junwei also valued him very much. In order to allow Pan Mingqi to establish a good relationship with the Black Sea Fleet, two gifts specially prepared for him.
Chapter completed!