The news of the arrival of the North Navy fleet caused a sensation in the city of local governance. The twenty-one 24-pound cannons located on St. Louis Castle made a deafening roar, welcoming guests from afar.

Due to the depth of the port and the size of the berth, Thor could not dock and dock, so he could only anchor one mile away from the port. Beihai No. 1 and No. 2 slowly approached the pier under the guidance of a frigate sent by France.

Since Peter had already arrived on a boat to contact him beforehand, there were no other civilians in the port except for live ammunition soldiers and a welcome band of more than thirty people.

When Deng Fei and his guards boarded the speedboat and rushed towards the port, French Indian Governor Leclerc led his civilians and military generals to the dock. In addition, many French merchants and local Tamil upper class figures were also called to boost their momentum.

Deng Fei, who was sitting in the speedboat, raised his telescope and looked at the strange and familiar city in front of him for a moment. What attracted him the most was the St. Louis Castle, which was like a five-pointed starfish, which was the core of local governance.

At this moment, the movie called "The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi" occasionally flashed through his mind, and the beautiful zoo in Pi their family is here; but in this time and space, this is the base camp of the French East India Company.

In most of the history textbooks, the French East India Company was stopped in 1769. Due to the great defeat and losses of the British in the Seven Years War, the company went bankrupt and liquidated. Later, the French East India Company was accepted by the French government and announced its dissolution, and all its land was merged into the royal land; in exchange, Louis XVI also took over all the company's debts on behalf of the royal family.

However, according to the calculation method of later generations of French people, the East India Company is currently in the 3.0 era.

Let me put it this way, before the "Mississippi Bubble" triggered by the "South China Sea Bubble", it was the 1.0 era of the French East India Company; the decades after gaining independence from the "French East India Permanent Company" belonged to the 2.0 era; and the 3.0 era began in 1785, but the company's name has been changed to "French Oriental and Indian Chinese Company".

In 1778, the French, who had been breathing after the Seven Years War, finally caught the opportunity to disgust the British. They officially came to the stage and fully supported the thirteen states to defeat the British. By September 1783, the Treaty of Paris signed by Britain, France and the United States was settled, and the victorious French poached five cities in East India from the British, and French India rose again.

The registered capital of the French East India company in the 3.0 era was 20 million pounds, and it exclusively monopolized all trade east of the Cape of Good Hope. The fleet traveling between India and France each year expanded to 20 ships, and even exceeded the heyday of the 2.0 era. By 1789, the new company, which had only been established for four years, even planned to pay a dividend of 16% to its shareholders, which was a high return and a bright future.

However, sadly, the French Revolution broke out.

In 1790, a bolt from the blue came, and the National Assembly ordered that all trade east of the Cape of Good Hope be opened to all French people, that is, anyone who wants to do it. Damn! Version 3.0 fell from the sky to the ground, and this move almost deprived the East India Company of trade monopoly privileges.

However, this is not all the bad news. If nothing unexpected happens, next year, the first counter-revolutionary crime in human history will be born in France.

That's right, because of supporting the royal family and the vast majority of shareholders are nobles, the French East India Company will be accused by Robert Spear's "Public Security Committee" as a counter-revolutionary group. Nearly 30 million Liver's assets, warehouses, and fleets were confiscated, almost equal to 400,000 ounces of gold. The company's directors either went to the guillotine or entered a mental hospital. Then the 3.0 version entered the liquidation stage again and eventually closed down completely.

So I understand why Leclerc was anxious to contact Beihai Town? As a nobleman, he hated the "free trade" carried out by the National Assembly; and as the governor of French East India, he was worried about the pace of the British's continuous expansion.

Anyway, for him, if the king is not in charge of his family, everything is in chaos!

When the black speedboat landed, Deng Fei had just raised his foot to climb the trestle. With the order of a French officer, the band immediately began to play the cheerful and Baroque style "The Royal Double Bridge March". Of course, the "Marseille", which had just been born a few days ago, could not be passed to the East; and even if it was passed, the Governor would never be allowed to play it.

After Deng Fei landed on the shore, he had already waited for Beihai No. 1, and the members of the escort regiment on No. 2 also took the step down. These people included Li Rui and his escorts of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the North Navy, two officers of the Intelligence Bureau, two battalion commanders of the Special Forces Battalion, several officials of the Trade Department of Beihai Town, Jiao Xun and Huang Chengji, representatives of the Education Office, and several escorts who followed Peter to return.

Because the sea conditions in the Indian Ocean are so poor and long-term sea navigation is not good for health, Deng Fei did not take his "princess" with him, but left him in Beihai Town and asked Shen Xuan and Director Liu to help take care of him.

Wang Yuanfang did not follow him. He was going to marry Miss Wu, and then he would take the other party and his father-in-law to Bacheng for a year. As for Zhao Xin, he left a batch of oil and supplies at the Ganyu base in early March and went back. The meeting between the two agreed to be in the Reunion Islands, and the time was set at the end of August.

At this time, Peter hurried forward and introduced Leclerc and Deng Fei to each other.

"Governor General, this is Lord Deng Fei, the lieutenant general of the Northern Navy."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "General Deng, please let me introduce to you, this is the head of the French Oriental and Indian Chinese Company in India, the Governor of French India, Camille Charles Leclerc de Fresner, and this is his wife, Ms. Emily Thomas de Solminiac."

When Deng Fei heard this, he found that the governor was just the lowest "chevaliers" among the nobles. It was probably his title that was granted by him because he served as the governor and was unheritable. However, his wife was a true old nobleman, and the Solminiac Castle was very famous. You should know that before the French Revolution, any Frenchman's name had the preposition "De", then his family or ancestors would definitely have a nobleman.

Let me say something interesting, for example, the name Charles de Gaulle is in French "De Gaulle", which means the knight family whose family fief is in Gaolu, France, so the real name of Charles de Gaulle is actually "Charles of the Charles de Gaulle family".

Deng Fei smiled and stretched out his hand, and said at the same time: "Governor General, I am Deng Fei, the current Lieutenant General of the Northern Navy and the captain of the Thor. Thank you very much for your invitation. I believe that my colleagues and I will spend a wonderful life here."

Well, in order to give Deng Fei a sufficient status on this visit, the "Northern Navy Command" - of course Zhao Xin himself, decided to promote Deng Fei to the rank of lieutenant general. In addition, due to last year's Nanyang Battle and Outer Mongolia Battle, Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang were also promoted to lieutenant general, and Fan Tong was promoted from colonel to major general.

Although I had heard that the Seris lieutenant general could speak fluent French before, the Frenchman present was still shocked by Deng Fei's standard pronunciation.

Governor Leclerc was stunned for a moment, then reached out and shook Deng Fei, complimenting: "The Thor that Lieutenant General is the big white ship, right? God, it is so beautiful! I heard from Father Peter that it was completely made of steel. It is hard for me to imagine that iron can float in the water. This is a miracle. I hope I will be lucky to be on the boat and visit it someday."

Deng Fei smiled and said, "This is not a problem. My crew and I are very welcome."

"I heard from Father Peter that you have a bigger iron ship, which looks blue, why didn't that ship come?"

The speaker was the wife of the governor, who was only 22 years old this year, wearing a tall silver wig, a gorgeous puffy skirt with a huge skirt, a thick rouge and dough on her face, and a strong and pungent perfume smell. Behind her, a local Tamil maid was holding a wide parasol to shade her.

Looking at the gorgeous and beautiful woman in front of him, it was hard for Deng Fei to imagine that the other party was actually a second-married widow, as Peter said. But it is no wonder that women got married early in this year, whether in Europe or East Asia. Caterina II became the crown princess at the age of 16, and Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI at the age of 14.

Deng Fei finished whispering in his heart and said with a smile: "Madam, that boat is called Jinglei. We are currently fighting with the Qing Empire in East Asia. Jinglei has a mission and cannot leave."

"You speak French very well!" The Governor's wife didn't care about Deng Fei's explanation. She just wanted to interrupt to highlight her presence. "I'm very happy to see you, Lieutenant General." After that, she smiled and raised her right hand to Deng Fei.

After spending these days with Peter in Beihai Town and on the boat, Deng Fei's French proficiency has become more and more skilled. Now he has no choice but to count from one to one hundred in French.

Deng Fei carefully reached out and held the other person's finger, and with the strong smell of perfume, he bowed and kissed the other person's back.

Afterwards, Deng Fei shook hands with local garrison lieutenant colonels, tax bureaus, customs members, parliament members, and merchants in turn. These people, including officers, all wigs and faces were covered with rouge and powder, just like a large group of zombies.

When Peter introduced several upper-class figures from local countries, the people turned a blind eye to Deng Fei's outstretched right hand, all of them clasped their hands and looked at the big figure with interest.

Behind him, the other officers of the North Navy either shook hands or saluted, and the people from the Trade Department bowed. However, for Jiao Xun and Huang Chengji, who are scholars, when they saw the plump and half-naked breasts of the governor's wife and other women, their faces turned red. They were so embarrassed. They thought that these ghost women were really shameless, and they were so decent in broad daylight!

The group delayed for a long time on the dock before boarding the carriage and heading to the Governor's Mansion west of St. Louisburg.

After entering the castle gate, the buildings that passed by the car windows were French in style. The streets were covered with green trees and not many pedestrians. Except for the strange smell in the air that made Deng Fei feel a little uncomfortable, the others looked pretty good.

Peter, who was in the same car, told him that the city of Pondicherry is currently divided into four districts. The north and south ends of the Fort St. Louis are French residential areas, separated by city walls, which are considered to be the inner city; while the outer city to the west is local residential areas, namely the Tamils. There were originally walls on the outer side, but after being destroyed by the British, they had no energy to repair them. At present, only a soil trough was built with simple fortifications.

When Deng Fei went back to repair the ship after the Spring Festival, he took the time to check the relevant information about this place. Before the British completely destroyed this place in 1761, local governance was always the best colonial city built by India. In fact, in another time and space until modern times, local governance was cleaner than Mumbai, so let alone Delhi...

At this time in another carriage, the young Governor General asked Governor Leclerc: "Are these Cyris great? I think their clothes styles, hair and manners are really...what to say? Weird. Yes, this is what I want to say!"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Governor Leclerc looked out the window and said with a serious look: "Madam, don't evaluate the Seris with our eyes. Although they do not believe in God, you must know that they even defeated the army of the Tsarist Russian Empire twice!"

"Are Russians? Humph, that's a bunch of barbarians!"

"Even the barbarians, it is a force that cannot be underestimated on the European continent. We currently need them to help us deal with the British and return to our hometown to rescue the king! Do you know? The big white ship is amazingly fast! Peter told me before that they set out at the end of March, and it took less than a month to sail more than 9,000 nautical miles. Have you ever heard of such a ship?"

"My God!" After hearing this, the governor's wife widened her eyes and showed an incredible expression on her face. If she had the chance, she would wish she could go back to France with the ship to take a look.

Deng Fei and his group were placed in a large mansion very close to the Governor's Mansion. This place was originally built for a major shareholder of the French East India Company, but since its completion, the shareholder had not come, so he just packed it up and arranged twenty Indian servants to serve them.

As for the 1,500 Northern Navy who came with the ship, the French were frightened and arranged them to camp on the beach on the south side of St. Louis Castle.
Chapter completed!