The news of Bismarck's assassination shocked the whole of Europe like a flash of lightning!

Especially when we learned that the murderer was a fanatical Europa, the public opinion was in an uproar. In the prevalence of Europa, Frank was the assassin's motive for the murder was undoubtedly acceptable. Some people even vigorously advocated that doing so was loyal to Frank. For a time, the Frank people had extensive sympathy for the murderer, and tens of thousands of people spontaneously petitioned for the court to surrender.

Someone even wrote to Bismarck, who was uninjured, asking him to plead with the court and gave him a slight retribution to the murderer.

farce!

For Zhu Guoqiang, who saw this scene with his own eyes, he could simply believe everything he saw. While witnessing this dramatic assassination, he also felt the hostility of the Franks towards the Celestial Empire and of course his desire for war.

It was at this time that the ambassador to Paris issued an announcement in the newspaper to demand that the Ming expatriates leave the Frank Empire.

Evacuate the overseas Chinese!

This is the Ming Dynasty's direct reaction to this incident.

In fact, there were not many Ming expatriates in the Frankish Empire, most of them were merchants. The merchants had a sensitive sense of smell. Before the embassy could order the evacuation of the overseas Chinese, many of them chose to leave on their own initiative. Zhu Guoqiang, as a returned overseas Chinese in the Ming Dynasty, certainly had to respond to the official appeal.

Because air tickets are tight and expensive, trains have become the best choice. Even Zhu Guoqiang chose the train. He didn't even buy sleeper tickets, but only bought two second-class carriages.

The trains leaving Paris headed eastward along the railway line and drove slowly. The Paris-Hua Shao railway line was the earliest railway built by the Frank Empire. In fact, at the beginning, these railways were all railways built by the Frank, the Holy Roman Empire, Poland and other countries. These railways connected European countries into a whole in the 18th century and also contributed to the conquest of Napoleon. The railway line to Warsaw was the best railway trunk in the whole of Europe. During the war, this railway line was rebuilt many times, but even so, the trains driving here were still steam locomotives. Although it was the latest steam locomotive, its speed... was still very slow.

Sitting on the train, Zhu Guoqiang seemed to have returned to the 1980s in another world, with a speed of at least 40 kilometers, but the carriage was still shaking.

The first-class carriage is actually a little larger in space and the seats are just soft seats. Compared with the mixed third-class carriage, the passengers in the second-class carriage also have different identities. However, today's different from the past is that most of the passengers in the carriage are Ming people. Many of them seem to be familiar with each other. They greet each other enthusiastically since they met, and then they began to complain about the Franks.

"Those Franks are simply crazy. Don't they know that they can't live without us?"

"That's right, as long as we twist the oil raft, they will be sure to be out of the way!"

"Boss Chen, you are an old almanac of more than ten years ago. Thirteen years ago, the Franks discovered oil fields in Nigeria, and the oil fields are extremely large. Now their output is at least tens of millions of tons. Although they cannot meet their needs, they can at least meet some of the needs. And they are also exploring oil in Libya and other places..."

Nigeria and Libya were both colonies of the Frank Empire. The former belonged to France and the latter belonged to Spain. The Ming Dynasty's occupation of the New World was mainly North America, forcing European countries to turn to Africa with a worse environment. Zhu Guoqiang of course knew very well about the colonial process of European countries in Africa. At that time, some court officials suggested that they should prevent their colonial expansion in Africa.

But Zhu Guoqiang did not do this, but handed over the problem to Zhu Heyu. He was in Constantinople at that time. In the end, a conference was held in Genoa to divide Africa. In addition to the Ming Dynasty, the participating countries also included various European countries, and they defined the scope of colonies at the conference. The Ming Dynasty only retained Egypt, East Africa and some parts of South Africa, and other regions were all divided by European countries. Now most of the colonies have become overseas provinces of the Frank Empire, living with more than 100 million people, which is comparable to the 150 million people in Europe. Moreover, those people are not black, all native whites.

"It seems that Africa has really become a treasure house of resources for Europe!"

Zhu Guoqiang said to himself.

"Little brother is right. Africa is indeed a treasure house of resources for Europe!"

Hearing someone talking to him, Zhu Guoqiang took his eyes away from outside, and a middle-aged man sitting across the aisle was looking at him with a smile.

"Just like we cannot live without the oil in the Persian Gulf, the Frank Empire also cannot live without Africa. They need African iron ore, coal mines, and other various minerals. As for wood and grain, the same is true for the same. You have never been to Africa. The largest plantation there is tens of thousands of square kilometers. Nanyang is the granary of our Ming Dynasty. Africa is the granary of Europe. Every year, the Franks need to transport more than 100 million tons of wheat, rice, corn and other crops from Africa to the local area, as well as millions of tons of meat. It can be said that without Africa, the Frank Empire would fall into famine, with a population of 150 million..."

Li Cunzhi smiled.

"It's just 150 million mouths! The food, clothing, housing and transportation of these people are inseparable from Africa and the so-called "New Frank"."

"really,"

Zhu Guoqiang nodded and said.

"Africa is extremely important to Frank. Without Africa, their factories cannot be started and people will go hungry."

Although he didn't know how important Africa is to Europe now, Zhu Guoqiang knew very well that in another world, the importance of North and South America's materials to Europe was inseparable from the food, meat and mineral resources of North and South America. Just like Germany in World War I, after losing its overseas trade route, the local area immediately fell into famine, which even directly led to Germany's defeat. The same is true in Europe today, relying entirely on African resources to maintain their survival.

"Africa is the lifeline of Europe! I traveled to Africa a few years ago... Have you been to Africa?"

Zhu Guoqiang shook his head.

"I've always wanted to go, but I haven't had the chance to go."

Is Africa or Africa living with a bunch of white people?

When Zhu Guoqiang sighed in his heart, he glanced at the middle-aged man. This man was on a train in Paris like him. Judging from his behavior, he should be a soldier, a soldier, in Paris?

"In the future, maybe you will have a chance?"

Li Cunzhi smiled slightly:

"Africa is a good place, with 80 million Europeans and 60 million Ming people living there. By the way, you should have read it in books, and there are more than one million Jurchens living there."

Jurchens?

Zhu Guoqiang was stunned for a moment, and then he said.

"Are they those Jurchens who fled from Japan to Africa?"

A hundred years ago, the Jurchens who had escaped from the sea and were finally found and fled to Africa. However, even explorers could not tell the difference between them and Africans. The long-term mixed blood stained their skin. If it weren't for their Chinese speaking, those explorers would definitely regard them as Africans.

Although slightly lighter than ordinary natives, those people are still called the Last African in Africa.

This is simply...

"Yes, it's them. In fact, it's not easy for them to think about it. The Emperor of the Saint Zu drove them to Japan and from Japan to Africa. In order to hide his identity, he not only fled from the seaside to the inland, but also deliberately dyed his skin dark through mixed blood, and finally completely hid in the hinterland of Africa. To be honest, this perseverance is really admirable!"

The words of the middle-aged man made Zhu Guoqiang smile. The Jiannu who fled to Africa were indeed more persevering. They had the perseverance to hide themselves. In the end, they really integrated into Africa and became the so-called "last Africans". Even the reason why they survived was because they spoke Chinese, and many of them were descendants of the Eight Banners of the Han army. It was their identity that allowed them to survive the colonial tide in Africa and not be massacred by Europeans.

"Indeed, in this regard, they are indeed quite tolerant."

Zhu Guoqiang nodded and said.

"That's natural. If you don't know how to endure, they will have been completely wiped out like Mongolia. And now, if you travel to Africa, you can consider going there. As for other places, they are either like the Ming Dynasty or like Europe, which is meaningless."

"If you have the chance, you must go and take a look. Sir should be a soldier... Are you traveling to Africa a staff officer?"

Looking at the age of the middle-aged man, Zhu Guoqiang guessed.

"It's almost the same!"

Li Cunyuan sighed sadly, and said in his voice, stroking his beard:

"Staff travel, unfortunately we all attach too much importance to Europe and rarely organize large-scale staff travel to Africa." After scanning the window, Li Cunzhi said:

"In recent years, we and the Franks have built a large number of fortresses on the border. As soon as the war was in truce fifteen years ago, Bismarck ordered the construction of fortresses. There are so many fortresses that they can't get around even if they want to. If they attack for a strong force, the sacrifice would be great..."

Looking at the middle-aged man who closed his eyes and stopped talking, Zhu Guoqiang seemed to understand what he meant.

He wanted to open up a second battlefield!

He wanted to conquer Africa, but what was left of the Frank Empire that lost overseas provinces?

One hundred and fifty million hungry people!

What will be waiting for Napoleon III by then?

Is it the people who share the same hatred of the enemy? Or the fierce public riots.

"Yes, the sacrifice is very great. Now the Frank Empire seems to be united, but as long as they are hungry for three days, there will be only one voice left."

The middle-aged man looked at him and Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"oh……"

Li Cunzhi looked at this young man. He didn't know why he said his inner thoughts in front of this young man. In fact, his thoughts were not a secret. They even fought in Africa as early as the last war, but... Africa is too big.

"But Africa is too big, tens of millions of square miles."

Li Cunzhi said casually.

"It is not easy to conquer such a big place. In the end, as the second battlefield becomes the main battlefield."

A helpless sigh, Li Cunzhi felt a depressed land of more than 20 million square kilometers. He sprinkled millions of troops over, just like sesame seeds sprinkled on the ground, and there was no reaction at all.

"In the last war, we wanted to break through the predicament of Poland and open up the southern battlefield, but the southern battlefield was even more difficult."

"When we wanted to disperse the enemy, we were also dispersed. Dividing troops itself is a taboo in military strategists. At that time, we should concentrate our troops and break through the defense line in Poland."

"Or take England as the rear and land in Frank."

Li Cunzhi no longer smiled like before, and his expression became a little serious:

"However, we didn't have many choices at that time. It might be that traditional military thinking restricted our thoughts and made us not make a suitable choice. But if the war broke out again, just repeating the last war would have no way out. In that case, the battlefield would definitely be a sea of ​​corpses and blood..."

At this time, the person next to him interrupted him.

"Hey, I said, brother, you two, it's all about fighting. What's the good thing about fighting? So many people died in the last battle, what did we get?"

"That's right, I got nothing!"

"In war, people who die after fighting are all people, and no one benefits. Except for those rich, factory owners, and chaebols, they all benefit. We little people are just cannon fodder!"

"It's not that I'm not getting nothing. If I get it, my brother will get it, a fake leg."

"My cousin also got it at home, a national flag..."

For a moment, there was a lot of complaints around. Listening to the complaints of those people, Zhu Guoqiang's brows frowned. All this was different from what he imagined. What did he see in Frank? It was a group of Franks who were united in their hearts, wanted to break through the clamps of the Ming Dynasty and wanted to take away the world's dominance from the Ming Dynasty. They were eager for war and eager to change everything through war.

But what about here?

These people are opposed to war, they oppose the casualties caused by war. Compared with war, they are more willing to embrace peace, even if this peace is full of danger.

Why is this happening? Is it just because of the war fifteen years ago?

Even at this time, the other passengers in the car looked at Zhu Guoqiang and the middle-aged man with some hostility and even a hint of contempt. In their eyes, they seemed to have become war-seeking passengers. They tried every means to find reasons for the war, not for the interests of the country, but for commercial interests.

Just like the last war, the war has made too many rich people, but what about ordinary people?

Ordinary people are just cannon fodder!
Chapter completed!