Chapter 1156(1/2)
"Try this, it's delicious!" Murat placed a can of beef on Napoleon's table.
Napoleon picked up the can of beef with a green skin!
"From the Ming Dynasty?"
"Yeah! I tasted it and it tasted good.
They seized a warehouse in Frion. The Ming Dynasty is really rich. Such good canned beef was transported thousands of miles to the front line, which made it cheaper for us."
Murat pulled the tab on the can and easily opened the can, revealing the pink beef inside.
Napoleon picked up the spoon, cut out a piece and put it in his mouth.
It's indeed a big piece of beef, not the kind that's mixed with noodles.
A warehouse of canned beef is nothing. To the north of the Ming Dynasty is Mongolia, and a large number of cattle and sheep are sold to the Ming Dynasty every year.
But France is not so easy. If they want beef, they have to buy it from Nordic countries.
Now I also buy from North American territories, and their beef is frozen. There can even be refrigeration equipment on the ship, but I don’t know how it is made, anyway, France doesn’t know how to make it.
He is an emperor, so of course he will not lack meat.
But ordinary French people have a hard time eating a bite of steak.
After all, a French steak dinner would consume an average family's income for ten days.
But if France alone fought against the Ming Dynasty, Napoleon would definitely not do it.
But now that the entire Christian world is fighting against the Ming Dynasty, the chances of winning are much greater.
Not only the Christian world, but also the Catholic countries in Eastern and Southern Europe have now joined the fray.
This size can almost compete with the Ming Dynasty.
"Why don't you say anything? Try Daming's wine. It's a little soft in the mouth, but it will rebel in your stomach.
I don’t know how they brewed it!” Murat took out another bottle of Wuliangye, poured it for Napoleon himself, and then filled a glass himself.
"Oh! It tastes good." Napoleon took it and took a sip.
"Haha! Don't you know, this kind of thing was destroyed a lot when the Ming Dynasty withdrew.
But because I was in such a hurry, I left a lot behind.
It now seems that Your Majesty the Emperor's strategy is very successful. We have occupied the Great Meander of the Don River, and both Kharkov and Omur have been occupied by our troops.
While we are chatting here, the army is attacking and advancing towards Tsaritsyn on the Volga River.
Everything went smoother than we expected!”
Napoleon drank wine and listened to Murat.
Seeing that Murat stopped talking, he didn't say anything, and just sat on the terrace of Fontainebleau, watching the gardener below mowing the lawn and garden.
"This wine is good, have you ever thought about it?
The Ming Dynasty actually had the transportation capacity to transport this kind of thing from a place tens of thousands of kilometers away to the Don River."
Napoleon picked up the wine bottle and looked at it. He didn't recognize the writing on it, but the glass bottle was crystal clear.
In Paris, this bottle alone can be sold for dozens of francs.
"This is nothing. The transportation capacity of railways cannot be compared with that of sea transportation.
There was a kind of ship in the Ming Dynasty called a ten thousand-ton ship, which had a draft of ten thousand tons. I don’t know how they calculated it!
But after those giant battleships appeared, ten thousand-ton ships were nothing.
Our intelligence says that the Ming Dynasty built three giant ships of 100,000 tons.
A mountain of supplies can be transported from Daming to Crete in one go.
Last time, two ships like that carried the Ming Dynasty's army and crossed the English Channel on our French coast.
At that time, Your Majesty the Emperor was still nervous for a while." Murat took a sip of wine and cut out another piece of beef.
He thought the canned beef tasted very good, so he had to ask the chef if he could make beef with this taste.
"yes!
Driving on the sea, it looks as high as a mountain, which is scary to look at.
Murat, have you ever thought about it?
Since the Ming Dynasty had such a huge naval power, after Sicily, the entire Eastern Mediterranean was their territory.
Is it possible that they came to the Western Mediterranean?
For example: attack Corsica, or Marseille, Toulouse."
Napoleon shook the glass in his hand, and he saw that the wine syrup was actually hanging on the crystal glass, and it took a long time before it slowly fell.
Murat's eyes immediately widened, and he no longer felt as leisurely as before.
"I didn't send you to the front line because I always felt that the southern coast could not be so peaceful.
The strength of the Ming Dynasty's navy is there. Simply saying that they suppress the Israeli navy does not make sense.
Israel failed to capture Constantinople last time. Now that Constantinople has been re-armed into a fortress, Israel is even less capable of capturing it.
How could their warships sail through the Bosporus and Dardanelles if they couldn't capture Constantinople?
Fly over?
Theirs is a warship, not an aircraft like the Ming Dynasty.
If I were Li Xiao, in such a battle, I would never let such a huge fleet idle!
War has broken out, which means that Christendom, led by us and Prussia, and Ming Dynasty are already at war!
Forget all hypocrisy and so-called diplomatic etiquette.
Then, Ming Dynasty will definitely want to bring the flames of war to France.
Where can it be burned?
I think the most likely ones are Marseille and Toulouse in the south.
Of course, it could also be Italy.
But the Italians and Daming were always hooking up secretly.
I bet you that the Ming Dynasty will not attack Italy. At least, they will not attack Italy on a large scale.
The Prussians were far away and had a limited coastline.
Who can they target? Only us!"
Napoleon stood up and looked into the distance. It seemed that his eyes could travel thousands of miles and directly see the coast of Marseille.
"So that means, from Marseille to Toulouse...!" Murat was so surprised that he could hardly close his mouth.
He didn't expect that Daming could actually do this.
No matter what, France is a big country.
It is definitely not possible to conquer such a big country with tens of thousands of people. At least it will start at hundreds of thousands, and there is no discount.
Logistics supplies for hundreds of thousands of people, plus ammunition consumption for combat. This is a huge burden for any country.
But only the Ming Dynasty had no problem. They had such huge ships, and no matter how much supplies they needed, they could travel thousands of miles from the country to the coast of southern France.
Not to mention, they still have a stronghold like Crete.
What Napoleon said may very well come true.
"There is also Monaco. Although Montreal is small, it still exists. Besides, the port conditions there are also good."
Napoleon sat back on the chair, picked up a fork and forked a piece of canned beef, and tasted it carefully.
Not to mention, it tastes really good.
"Then we need to immediately strengthen the defense of the southern coast. As soon as the Ming people land, we will drive them back to the sea."
Murat said fiercely.
But even the fiery-tempered Murat knew that this was a bit difficult.
After all, compared with the Ming Dynasty navy, the French navy is not even worthy of carrying shoes.
Not to mention anything else, the 480mm naval gun of the Ming Dynasty. Needless to say, just thinking about Murat gives me a headache.
"No!
If we fight the Ming on the coast, we will be blasted to pieces by the Ming's cannons.
Moreover, even if our defense fails.
What about Spain? What about Italy?
The Alps are not a natural chasm. Hannibal could climb over them. Do you think the Ming army couldn’t?
Break into our country from Italy and directly threaten Lance.
To be continued...