Domineering? It's also because of money.

　　 From the sergeant's mouth, Lorraine quickly asked most of the missing information.

　　 The arms smuggling system in New Orleans has not always been controlled so tightly. It has operated very loosely for most of the previous period. After all, the Americans need guns and the French also need money.

　　 Harshness is a recent change. Lorraine accidentally encountered a special period. Specifically, just over a month ago, the British and Indian allies formally launched an offensive against New Orleans.

　　 The nondescript defense of New Orleans has begun.

　　 Soldiers are not soldiers, generals are generals. From the very beginning, this battle was full of the strange style of New Orleans.

　　 The first demon was the Governor of New Orleans in Spain.

　　 It is reasonable to say that this port is an important base for Spain to control the Gulf of Mexico. As it is reasonable, he is obliged to stop the British attack for his homeland.

　　 But he doesn't think so.

　　 In his opinion, this war is not the Spaniard’s fault.

Had it not been for the French borrowing from New Orleans to carry out crazy arms smuggling for political purposes, the British would not have invested their limited forces in this delta-guarded port without naval support. This was the main cause of the war. .

　　As the most important beneficiary of smuggling, the French should take greater responsibilities in this war. The Spaniards have done their best and can no longer pay their lives for the money bags of their allies.

　　 So he passed the King of Spain and directly submitted a note to the Louisiana authorities in New France.

The content of the note is roughly: If the French cannot stop the British attack on New Orleans outside the city, he reserves the right to surrender and will do his best to hand over this beautiful and important transit port as completely as possible. In the hands of the British, to protect the lives and property of the Spanish pioneers.

　　 Translated into adult words, the meaning of this note is [I have a pick, you can figure it out].

　　 The poor governor of Louisiana is Count Alves. In this matter, the Spanish governor did not give him the right to choose.

　　Where is New Orleans?

　　 On the one hand, she is one of Spain's important ports controlling the Gulf of Mexico, and Spain's most important fiscal and taxation place on the Caribbean coast.

　　 Charleville smuggling is official smuggling. Although it enjoys tax exemption rights at American ports, it has always been treated as a regular transaction in New Orleans and is subject to tax.

　　 On the other hand, she is the only mouth of the Mississippi River.

　　The French occupies the fertile central part of North America. From the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, New France almost encompasses the Mississippi River basin.

　　The Mississippi River, with its deep and wide waterbeds, is a godsend for inland navigation, so New France has built almost all its important cities on both sides of the river, including the Governor's House of Louisiana, Baton Rouge.

　　 If the British occupied New Orleans "as completely as possible," the fifth and sixth tiers of the New World Fleet would continue to drive energy from the delta into the wide Mississippi River, and then upstream, into the Great Lakes.

　　 There is no fleet on the Mississippi River that can fight against this powerful force, and the French and Americans in the Great Lakes do not have enough fleets to fight against the British. This means that once New Orleans is lost, the British can strike the entire French colony in opposition at any time.

　　 In the worst case, the French will be completely driven out of the New World, and they will become the laughing stock of Europe. And without the support of France, the immature American independence revolution will be quickly extinguished under the attack of three sides. Wanting to have another Boston tea incident is tantamount to a fantasy.

　　New Orleans is France's fate in the New World. Count Galvez has no choice but to fight for the survival of France in this Spanish territory!

　　 He told this righteousness to his most direct line, but also the most elite Baton Rouge Legion in Louisiana.

　　 But who would have thought that the Baton Rouge Legion would also start to be a demon...

Most of the French soldiers in Louisiana came from the French pioneers and descendants of the pioneers of the New World, especially the Baton Rouge Legion. Because of their close relationship with New Orleans, most of them have relatives in New Orleans. , Or simply was born in New Orleans.

　　 More than ten years ago, since the French were **** on the parade in that mean night banquet, the Spanish colonial governor has not changed the French policy of the past.

　　 Emancipate slaves, adjust the parliament, abolish the privileges of the French in the port, demolish the beautiful French architecture, encourage the ugly Spanish arc...

　　 The situation of the French in New Orleans has gone from bad to worse.

　　 Especially three years ago, there was a confusing fire in the French Quarter, which killed nearly a thousand people. The Spanish framed the French for arson after drinking, but the French could not forget the hundreds of French pioneers who were buried in the fire.

　　 Most people think this is a conspiracy.

　　Because in that fire, nearly one-third of the old French buildings were burned, and they were unified and adjusted to the Spanish architectural style in the subsequent reconstruction, which greatly weakened the influence of France on New Orleans.

　　 In the hearts of the French in Louisiana, the Spaniards are equal to bad guys, despicable, shameless, insidious, and cunning. Even if the two sides are now allies, they are also a pair of plastic allies.

　　 The Baton Rouge Legion did not want to die for such plastic allies, so they refused to fight.

　　 Lorraine didn't know what the Earl Galves was like at that time, he only knew the result.

　　 In this crazy environment of being a demon, the earl finally became the third person to be a demon.

　　 He stared at the right to smuggle the Charleville rifle.

It is not difficult for him to monopolize gun smuggling. As Lorraine understands, as a new type of gun, New World does not have the ability to produce Chaleville rifles. All smuggled guns must be manufactured in France and then transported by the ocean-going fleet. Go ashore in Pensacola ~lightnovelpub.net~ and then transfer to New Orleans by inland waterway, and deliver them to every official smuggler.

Pensacola is the jurisdiction of the Earl and the Baton Rouge Legion. What the Earl needs to do is to temporarily turn the benefits shared by a dozen nobles into the exclusive wealth of himself and the Baton Rouge Legion. .

he made it.

He used money to drive the unruly Baton Rouge Legion to intercept firearms, and then used these firearms to coerce smugglers into mercenaries. He was also prepared to win the trust of Louis XVI with his final victory, and use his feats to resist those who suffered economic losses. The nobility's counterattack.

　　 From making this decision, the earl cut off his retreat.

　　 The purpose of defending New Orleans has completely changed. If this patriot fails, he and his family will die miserably, very miserably.

　　 In this case, would anyone not want the earl to win?

　　 Lorraine thought of this question suddenly, and the more he thought about it, the brighter his eyes.

　　 "Sergeant, how many days has this war started?"

　　 "Forty-two days."

　　 "Which side has the advantage now?"

"Since the beginning of the war, the earl has never failed once. His command is determined. The smugglers who are recruited are brave and fearless. The battlefield is far away from New Orleans. We have an absolute advantage. The earl said that in another month at most, those British guys should be caught. The tail escaped."

　　 "Really..." Lorraine smiled inexplicably, "If you are lucky enough to meet the earl, please send me the most sincere blessings."

Sergeant 　　 was stunned there: "You... don't plan to line up?"

　　 "No way. The earl's smuggling rights need to be exchanged with victory. But my sailors are not of the same level. Even if I step on the battlefield, I will only pull the earl's hind legs. I am a little self-aware about this."