Chapter 1831: Reinforcements

The Portuguese naval general organized a maritime force of only two thousand men to rush to the aid of the Dragon Flame Nation.

Portugal lacks the capital to build steam battleships and still uses old wooden sailing ships today.

However, as for the equipment on the soldiers, Renero has outfitted them with the best standard his country has to offer.

Although they still use flintlock muskets, this extremely ancient weapon.

It is also the best equipment that Portugal can produce at present.

Ever since being controlled by the Spanish dynasty and experiencing the rise of Britain and France, Portugal's imperial position is no longer secure.

Being able to scrape together such a force was also a tremendous cost for them.

Although Renero believes that their act of sending troops across the ocean to support the Dragon Flame Nation is suicide.

However, he does not believe that the Dragon Flame Nation will be thoroughly defeated by the French forces.

They might lose, but it is not certain they will be defeated.

The Dragon Flame Nation's influence in America is not powerful and cannot be mentioned in the same breath as France.

But the overall strength of the Dragon Flame Nation is not weak at all; even if the Dragon Flame Nation loses the war in America, France cannot crush the Dragon Flame Nation.

The Longyan people will return sooner or later.

Furthermore, the Dragon Flame navy is very powerful, and the French navy cannot defeat it.

Renero signed the agreement with the entire Dragon Flame Nation, not with Longyan City.

For Renero, he only needs to do what he is obligated to fulfill in the agreement, and that is enough.

Now, the first wave of aid from the Dragon Flame Nation to them is already on the way; this is an opportunity that their Portuguese Colonial Area must grasp well.

These countries in America each have their own ideas.

France wants to invade the Mississippi River basin and even more so wants to occupy the Dragon Flame Nation's canal.

Britain and France are competing for Colonial Areas.

The most fundamental reason for the colonial expansion of the two countries is resource plundering; that place, the Mississippi River, possesses a great deal of arable land, and this stretch of farmland is an important region for developing plantations.

The water resources here are very abundant, making it very suitable for human migration.

Spain's target is the Panama Canal excavated by the Dragon Flame Nation.

They knew long ago that the Dragon Flame Nation was excavating a waterway in Panama, and it was only now, as it was about to be successfully built, that they revealed this news to Richard.

It is for this reason.

That is why they revealed this news to the British.

Upon learning that the Dragon Flame Nation was going to build a Golden Waterway on the Panama Isthmus, the French and the British would absolutely not watch the Dragon Flame Nation's influence grow step by step in America.

The Dragon Flame Nation already possesses a shipping lane that can control the lifeblood of most European countries; if they were to possess another canal capable of connecting two oceans.

The position of France and Britain as maritime hegemons would be thoroughly shaken; not only would their interests in America be impacted, but even their interests in Africa would suffer a great shock.

The Spanish leader reckoned that the French would not sit idly by, and the result was just as he had thought; everything was developing in the direction he had anticipated.

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At this time, Europe.

France.

Although the war on the European continent has stopped, on the battlefields outside the European continent, France has not been idle at all.

At sea, their forces are fighting Xie Fang in Australia.

Attempting to annex the entirety of Australia to obtain the technology Laboratory established by the Dragon Flame Nation in Australia.

For this, France needs to continuously transport warships.

In the plan, France has already occupied Tasmania, which has become an Outpost for France to attack Australia.

But such long-range warfare comes at a great price for France.

It is also extremely money-burning.

And in Africa, France has broken out into a great war in the Egypt Colonial Area, but the situation on this

battlefield is not optimistic.

The alliance of Arab tribes and the offensive of the Dragon Flame army have left France struggling miserably to cope.

Originally, Africa should have been France's most stable region.

There are conflicts between the tribes in Africa, and under the instigation of France, these contradictions and conflicts are growing daily.

They are also supporting pro-French tribes in Europe, wanting to achieve the effect of Africans managing Africans themselves.

While they sit in Africa and reap the rewards.

This is a very brilliant strategy, the only drawback being that France underestimated the influence of the Longyan people in Africa.

The hero shaped by the Dragon Flame Nation in Africa, Nashadier, has now led the Arab tribes of Africa to collectively target the French.

This has caused France to temporarily lose a stable output of resources.

And in America, the French Colonial Area is directly at war with the Dragon Flame Nation and Britain, with no spare capacity to look after the European mainland.

Wars are breaking out on three continents, and the cause of all this is France.

Now, France's military expenditure has reached an unprecedented level, and the debt is so high it is terrifying.

But France is a Monarchy.

Even with debt as high as this, the rule of Louis XV has not collapsed.

But the people under his rule are already living in dire straits.

Under the joint suppression of the Noble and religious classes, these high debts can only eventually fall upon the classes other than them.

That is to say, the commoners and merchants.

Being at the Army Academy, although he has not traveled much through France, every day he can see many, many homeless people appearing in the city.

There are more and more wanderers; this is not a good phenomenon.

Winter has passed, and it is now spring; the weather is gradually warming up, and temperatures are rising.

On the European continent, it stands to reason that during this brief period of peace, nations should focus on stabilizing the lives of the common people.

However, Bonaparte recently heard an interesting piece of information.

Recently, the King of France, Louis XV, even had a Bitter Remonstrance with his ministers in order to build a palace for his Mistress, Madame Pompadour.

In the end, the ministers yielded under the overbearing attitude of Louis XV.

They agreed to build this palace, which would likely cost tens of millions of Silver Coins.

Such a sum of money would be enough for France to launch a large-scale war against Longyan, or to build dozens of warships.

Yet Louis XV chose to turn this money into bricks to please his Mistress.

Such a high cost would certainly not be borne by the royal family; it would inevitably fall upon the common people.

This would undoubtedly trigger opposition from countless French commoners.

Whenever he thought of this, Bonaparte would shake his head with a bitter smile.

He had a premonition that the time for the collapse of the French Empire was drawing near, and the actions of this king, Louis XV, were undoubtedly like whipping a Horse Carriage that was already speeding down a slope.

However, Bonaparte felt no emotional fluctuation regarding all of this; he was a man from Corsica.

From beginning to end, he never considered himself to belong to France.

On the contrary, he saw the accelerated demise of the French Empire as a good thing; the construction of another power must be built upon the corpse of a previous one.

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