Baptiste was stunned for a moment, he didn't understand what Louis meant.

Since last year, New France has taken action against the Ming Empire. At first, it was just targeting and restricting trade, but now it has almost developed into a military conflict. As a general, Baptiste is the military executor. In the past two months, France has been mobilizing troops to the Ming and France border. From this point of view, France intends to go to war with the Ming Dynasty again, but now Louis' tone is clearly not like he is going to start a war, which makes Baptiste, who has developed limbs and a slightly simple mind, confused.

Looking at Baptiste's puzzled expression, Louis suddenly burst into laughter. He stood up and clattered his high heels on his feet. These shoes were invented by Louis XIV. Wearing these shoes not only makes one's taller, but also shows the noble demeanor when walking. Now it is one of the fashionable equipment of the top French nobles. As the illegitimate son of the Sun King, Louis is naturally no exception.

After walking gracefully, Louis came to the side near the garden, where flowers were blooming and butterflies danced among the flowers.

"Batty, look at these butterflies." Louis raised his hand and pointed out.

"These butterflies are indeed beautiful." Baptiste didn't understand Louis' intention, but it did not prevent him from flattering Louis at this time.

Louis shook his head: "I mean butterflies surround flowers, why is that?"

"This..." Although Baptiste was a nobleman, he knew a little about war, but he didn't know much about this kind of knowledge about biological species, and he didn't understand what Louis said. He scratched his head, and Baptiste hesitated: "Is it because of the nectar of flowers? It is said that butterflies grew up eating nectar?"

"It's almost the same." Louis nodded. He knew that Baptist explained this a little embarrassedly, and immediately smiled and said, "There is a proverb in the East that people die for money and birds die for food. In other words, in order to pursue wealth, people often ignore their lives, and birds will fall into the trap of hunters for a bite of food."

Louis pointed forward, and the lace on his wrist moved with the wind and drew a circle: "Just like these butterflies, flying among the flowers for nectar, but they didn't know that there was danger around them. If there were birds flying at this time, or if we used the butterflies to be attracted by nectar and they wouldn't escape."

"The same is true for politics. When the French Empire and the Ming Empire went to war, both sides were for their own interests. Although we took the initiative at that time, the war finally ended with their own concessions, which also created the current division of spheres of influence."

"Originally, I thought it was over. If there was another conflict, it would probably take a long time, but all this came too quickly, and the situation forced us to make our current choice."

Speaking of this, Louis glanced at Baptiste, who was confused and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. For Baptiste, perhaps the things he said were too difficult to understand, and after the Sun King returned to the embrace of the Lord, the entire French Empire was no longer France of the time.

"Batty, it was for the benefit of France when we targeted the Ming Empire, but you must understand that France did not actually want to have a conflict with the Ming Empire. War is just a means rather than a necessity. Now everything we do cannot look at the surface, but the essence."

"Your Excellency, your words made me dizzy." Baptist replied with a smile.

Louis patted his shoulder and asked in a simpler way: "Do you know why I did this?"

"You mean the current actions against the Ming Empire?"

Louis nodded, Baptist said hesitantly, "Isn't it because the Ming Empire is a threat from France?"

"Threat? Of course!" Louis agreed: "The Ming Empire was indeed a threat from France, and it was also a danger to the Western world. This Eastern Empire was too powerful, and what was even more unimaginable was that they also had a huge population base, which we could not compare to."

Louis sighed: "How long has the Ming Dynasty been in the New World? It has only been more than ten years, but the Ming Dynasty's development in the New World is almost the same as our development for more than a hundred years... No! It should be more rapid!"

"This land was the first thing we came to, but for more than a hundred years, we have not controlled such a vast land as the Ming Dynasty. Do you know why?"

Baptiste shook his head and Louis continued: "This is the difference between the East and the West. The Ming Dynasty not only invested huge manpower and material resources here, but the most important thing about the Ming Dynasty was to recover the local Indians. They did not have the difficulties encountered by the West, and coupled with the full support of the entire empire, this result was such a result."

"Indians..." Yes, it was the Indians. As a soldier, Baptister understood Louis' reminder that after arriving in the New World, the Western world adopted war and massacre to control these natives. This is a means of the Western countries claiming as civilization, but in fact it is also necessary to do because of the differences in races.

There are too few Westerners and too many Indians. If Western countries want to become owners here, they must become the majority of ethnic groups here. However, it is not easy to immigrate from Europe. How many have come from Europe to the New World in more than a hundred years?

When the French gained colonies in the New World, the number of immigrants at the beginning was only 20,000 to 30,000 per year. This was the limit of France. As time went by, the number of people began to gradually increase.

But what about the Ming Dynasty? The Ming Dynasty immigrants were tens of thousands. What’s more important is that the Ming Dynasty and the Indians were very similar in appearance. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty adopted different means of extinction from Western countries, but used assimilation methods. Through military basis, coupled with flexible and changeable propaganda and temptation of interests, the Ming Dynasty was easily recognized by the Indians, which is also one of the reasons why the Ming Dynasty developed so rapidly in the New World.

"The Ming Empire is not our real enemy. The restriction of the development of the other party is to take into account the interests of New France, but the war between the two sides will also damage the interests of France." Louis said firmly, and he pointed to the northeast: "Who is our real enemy? Not in the West, but in the East! Those idiots in Paris! They were confused for some small interests in front of them. They thought that cooperation with the British could drive the Ming Dynasty out of the new continent. This was simply a daydream!"
Chapter completed!