Su Weihua performed well in taking on New France missions. Although he did not engage in decent battles, military logistics and marching themselves are complex sciences that can prove many things. In cooperation with the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Governor's Office of North America, he also showed a fair and well-behaved behavior. If there were no outstrips, he would serve as the commander of the garrison in the Daze area and the head of the military control committee for one and a half years to two years, and he would be able to complete the promotion from brigade general to major general.

He could also enter the senior military leadership, but Su Weihua still had no chance to do it step by step. The main reason was that his seriousness and kindness made Li Junwei feel that he was not suitable for the work in the colonies.

The Iroquois killed the French and continued to harass and attacked French immigrants. Although in theory, the garrison had the responsibility to protect these immigrants who had been ruled by the empire, in North America, it was generally ignored. Whether it was the Anza or the French, the empire did not want them to live on the North American continent for a long time.

Massacre is against humanity, and there is no appropriate reason for expulsion. Relying on the revenge of the natives and theirs, some problems can be solved. The Iroquois attacked French immigrants and forced those people to move away. This was something that the North American colonies wanted. How could they be controlled?

However, such things cannot be explained clearly to old-fashioned soldiers like Su Weihua, so Li Junwei quickly dispatched Su Weihua away, and his hard-working old friend Bai Jingyu went to Yunmeng temporarily. Bai Jingyu was so good, he would do whatever he asked him to do, without asking why, and without any moral burden.

Palace of Versailles, France.

"I shouldn't have quarreled with him..." King Louis XIV, sitting on the chair, murmured, with sad face on his face. In the morning, he received the news that the Chinese prince sent troops to New France to take over the colony, which made him furious, but compared with the loss of the colony on the New World that was several times the size of France, he cared more about the loss of his younger brother.

Philip of France, the only brother of the king, son of France, Duke of Orleans, Duke of Chartre, Duke of Valoria, Duke of Neymar, Duke of Montpelcier, Duke of Chatellero, Duke of St. Falgo, Duke of Popreo, nobles of France, Prince Jonville, Earl of Durdan, Earl of Romerentine, Earl of Morten, Earl of Bar...... Lord Mondane, Knight of Holy Spirit, died of a stroke at the age of sixty.

Louis XIV was regretful because before Philip died, he had a very fierce quarrel with him. The reason was that Louis XIV felt that his brother's only son was not as rich as a nobleman, but Philip was not outdone. He said bluntly that when Louis XIV was as old as his son, he often sat in a carriage with three mistresses. His son had learned all of this from him. He also blamed Louis XIV for not giving his son a serious position and for not doing his job properly.

In France, only this younger brother dared to talk to Louis XIV like this. The two brothers had a big fight, and it lasted for more than two times and disappeared until lunch. Even after being ridiculed by his younger brother, Louis XIV still warned Philip that he would bleed and treat his illness when he went back.

As a result, by the dinner, Philip had a stroke. Louis XIV cried and almost rushed into the ward. It was his son and nephew who stopped him. Because as a king, he could not witness death with his own eyes, Louis XIV waited for one night, and what he was waiting for was the news of his brother's death.

"Phillip is a symbol of the joy of the Versailles court. There is no great prince in the palace and becomes lifeless."

Two other people were as sad as Louis XIV, one was the Knight of Lorraine and Philip's lover, and the other was the Prince, who was the best friend of the uncle.

Even though Philip had been dead for two months and all his funerals had been dealt with, he would still think of his younger brother who grew up with him and blame himself deeply when he was late at night or when Louis XIV was extremely nervous.

"Dear, don't be sad for Philippe. The Earl of Pontchartland and the Earl of Tourville have been waiting for an hour and a half." Lady Mantenon walked to Louis XIV and patted the back of his hand. Louis XIV did not speak, but just shook his head and waved his hand, indicating that he would not want to see him. Mantenon smiled softly: "Dear, I think they have brought good news."

Louis XIV's eyes lit up slightly, then nodded and said, "Okay, let them come in."

Soon, two people appeared before Louis XIV. Tourville was the pride of the French Navy and the hero of the Great Alliance War, while Pontchartland, who was only the king's secretary last year, is now the minister of the navy.

"I have prepared coffee for you." Mrs. Mantenon personally took the plate and placed it on the table in front of the three of them, and prepared a cup and handed it to Louis XIV.

"Two, Philip went, and he took part of my soul, and the rest belonged to our great France. Don't let me down, really don't let me down again. France needs miracles, France needs victory." Louis XIV said sincerely.

The Versailles court is now dead, and Philip's death is only one aspect, and the most important thing is the defeat on the battlefield. I originally thought that Philip's becoming the king of Spain could bring a lot of help to France, but now it seems that it is far less than expected. The country's military has been abandoned to an unacceptable level, and it cannot even come up with an army that can go to the battlefield. As for the navy, it is even more ragged.

All finances have been invested in reorganization and will not be able to help France for the time being.

The French army lost in three battlefields and attacked the Netherlands northward, blocked by the Dutch and British coalition forces. It was another tragic fortress offensive and defensive battle like last time. In the Italian battlefield, Prince Eugen's army was more and more fighting, and the Prussian army was extremely difficult. On the Rhine battlefield, although it penetrated deep into the enemy's territory, it was full of walls and clearing the fields everywhere, and it was constantly plaguing.

Except for failure, there is no place to achieve exciting achievements. Louis XIV can only rely on the Navy. It was precisely because of this that Turville did not care about his physical discomfort and organized all forces to prepare. He knew that if he could not provide a suitable solution, the king would order his fleet to attack Amsterdam.

"Your Majesty, we have found the weakness of the enemy."

“What is it?”

"Cotton, your Majesty, is cotton." Earl of Ponchartland said in a deep voice.

"It seems to be an inconspicuous thing..." Louis XIV whispered, but thinking about the glory of the French textile industry in Lyon and the painful financial losses caused to France by the decline of the textile industry over the years, Louis XIV refuted himself: "No, cotton is important, the textile industry is very important."

In order to make Louis XIV believe in himself, Pontchartland informed all the information he had investigated, and to avoid the king making wrong judgments when he was extremely eager for victory.

Today, the largest textile country in the empire was the empire. The empire provided the most textiles in the world, especially cotton textiles, and also consumed the most cotton in the world. All Europeans who have been to the East were amazed at the prosperity of the empire's textile industry, and they also found that all the technological progress of the Chinese over the years seemed to be related to the textile industry.

European countries originally had textile industries, such as France. Forty years ago, when Louis XIV and his Chancellor of the Chancellor implemented mercantilism, France was the largest textile country in Europe.

Cotton textiles are the most competitive products of the empire at present, no matter whether in Europe, colonies or even in any corner of the world.

"There is no way to protect our textile industry from being destroyed by Chinese textiles," this is a sentence said by Dutch President Heinsius in parliament.

The Netherlands was the first country to introduce oriental technology and establish its own textile industry. Although they could not introduce steam engines, they could introduce textile machines, cotton gins and other machinery. Some were handmade and some were hydraulic. This made the Netherlands the center of the local textile industry in Europe, and Prussia and Russia were closely followed.

These countries use tariffs to protect their textile industry, increase import tariffs, and ensure that their textiles are competitive with Chinese textiles. The development of European textile industry has promoted the export of imperial machinery, chemical dyes and other products, but even so, the imperial side has tried every means to defeat the textile industry of these countries.

War is a great opportunity.

Although the textile industry in European countries is also known as developed, the raw materials are seriously insufficient. There is not much land suitable for growing cotton in the whole of Europe, so local raw materials can only be used for wool textiles, but wool materials cannot compete with cotton cloth at all. Therefore, in order to maintain their textile industry, countries such as the Netherlands and Prussia must maintain the start of cotton textile mills, while the crucial cotton comes from overseas without exception.

The cotton in the Netherlands and Prussia mainly comes from Asia Minor and Egypt. Although the West Indies also have a share, they cannot compete with the empire's American and South African provinces.

After the Spanish Succession War began, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs formulated a plan to destroy the European textile industry. The method was very simple, and the empire's shipping companies refused to transport cotton for the Netherlands and Prussia for various reasons. Because textiles are very competitive, shipping companies cooperated a lot with textile companies and had official policies, so the shipping companies could only agree.

In the end, the Netherlands cooperated with Prussia to hand over the cotton purchased in the Mediterranean to other neutral countries for transportation, mainly by Genoa and Venetian merchant ships. Prussian Oriental Company had several fast steam-powered sailboats also participated in the transportation. After arriving in Amsterdam, the two sides divided the total amount, with Prussia accounting for 40%.

But the problem is that neutral merchant ships dare not participate in the route to Amsterdam. The reason is that although Louis XIV was under pressure, he finally recognized the Armed Neutral Alliance Treaty and recognized that neutral ships could trade with belligerent countries, but did not recognize the principle of freedom of cargo and expressed that they would send warships to cruise in the theater and conduct random inspections on neutral ships, and the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic are the theaters designated by France.

Although France has made a tough statement, it is a bullying the weak and afraid of the strong when it comes to implementation. At least it has not really inspected Chinese ships so far, so it is not so polite to other neutral countries.

In this era, there were several cannons and dozens of guns on merchant ships. Often these were considered transport weapons and arrested. Many of the merchant ships in Genoa and Venetian were attacked by the French.

This directly led to the fact that the neutral country only dared to transport freight to Ceuta.

"We bought accurate information from Venetian merchants. At least 50,000 bags of cotton are present in Ceuta's warehouses, which directly concerns whether textile factories in the Netherlands and Prussia will start next year. Recently, Dutch merchant ships frequently entered Ceuta, and there were four ships transporting cotton, and we caught two of them.

As a result, escort became the current common opinion of the Dutch Navy,” said Toulville.

"You mean, the Dutch would send warships to the Strait of Gibraltar?" Louis XIV asked in surprise. After the war started, the Dutch Navy had only maintained the sea control of the Baltic and North Seas. The two sides fought several times in the English Channel, but it could only be regarded as a small-scale conflict.

"It's certainly, your majesty. And I think it will be all the elite, that's the Netherlands, and their businessmen are very loud in the government."

"Dear Marshal, are you going to intercept them in the Strait?"

"No, your Majesty, if you intercept it in the English Channel, you can only intercept it when the Dutch Navy goes south, because they will definitely take the North Sea route on the return trip. But if you intercept it when the Dutch Navy sets out, even if we win, there will be many warships in the Dutch Navy fleeing back to Amsterdam.

So, I discuss with your generals that we will intercept them in Port Ceuta.”

As he said, Tourville unfolded a map and pointed at Ceuta and said, "Look, your majesty, Ceuta is on the Mediterranean side of the Strait of Gibraltar, and we can arrange our fleet in the port of Spain on the west side of Gibraltar.

In the south of Spain, you can use a telescope to see the entire Port of Ceuta. When the Dutch Navy appears, we can attack from the port. Or, wait for their navy to meet with the merchant ship before attacking."

"Then they will be destroyed." Louis XIV said happily.

Pontchartland added: "Not only will they be destroyed, but they will also take over the merchant ships. France's textile industry also needs those beautiful Egyptian cotton. What do you think, my noble majesty."

"It's right, dear Count. The merchants have been chattering recently, sending leaflets everywhere, mocking me for limiting them and hurting them. This time, I want to prove to the idiots who were blindfolded by gold coins that they are nothing without my protection, and that my alms are the source of their wealth.
Chapter completed!