After Dublin fell, the British in the remaining coastal strongholds in Ireland quickly retreated. Now the entire territory of Ireland has been liberated. After roughly arranging affairs in Ireland, President Russell is about to prepare to formally establish the Irish government.

Regarding what form the Irish government should adopt, most members of the Federation agree to copy France's homework directly. That is to say, by copying the rules, we will get a government out, and then set up five parliaments. Anyway, France is so advanced, so developed, and the people's lives are so good, which means that the French system is good.

But Russell had a little objection. He felt that in this French system, the power of the first rule was still too great, and it was actually far superior to the previous kings. It was reasonable for the French to do this because it was very efficient. The revolutionary France was almost a thorn in the eyes of the reactionary forces in the entire Europe. In order to defeat the great union of reactionary forces in Europe, the most efficient system must be adopted.

But the situation in Ireland is not like this now. Ireland is not the center of the world, nor is it facing the dangers of France at the time. Now it does not need to adopt a French-style system for efficiency.

However, the Federation was democratic, but everyone opposed his opinions. So President Russell naturally respected the organization's decision after retaining his opinions.

Then there are various details and some diplomatic matters. The first thing is to inform friendly countries of the founding of the country. Well, there are quite a few friendly countries in Ireland now. Basically, the countries that have declared war on Britain with France are all de facto alliances in Ireland. Even those countries that remain neutral are still considered friendly countries.

The Federation sent special envoys to these friendly countries to discuss the establishment of diplomatic relations.

In France, Napoleon's family has discussed how to deal with matters related to Ireland.

"Generally speaking, there are four types of allies," said Joseph.

Generally speaking, Joseph only provides principled guidance on political matters and specific operations. In fact, except for scientific matters, especially mathematical matters, Joseph really does not care about details.

"Otherwise, how could he have the name of "Joseph who never makes mistakes"?" It is said that Napoleon once complained about his elder brother like this. However, no matter how he complained, Napoleon actually liked Joseph's style. On the contrary, if Joseph interfered in everything, and had to ask about any small matter or any specific operation, it would be really unbearable.

"What four?" asked Napoleon.

"Let's use four animals as metaphors," said Joseph.

"The first animal is a pig. People live in this animal. What is it for people to raise it and protect it? Of course, it is for killing and eating meat during the holidays. There is a type of 'alliance' that is useless except for having money and resources. This type of allies is pigs. The meaning for us is that when necessary, killing and eating meat."

"Well, I know you are talking about Turkey, Northern Italy, Austria, Prussia and Spain." Napoleon smiled brightly. These big fat pigs have made France eat quite well over the years. The free labor, resources and market of Austria and Prussia have benefited France a lot. Of course, the big fat pigs are more unlucky, with labor loss and resource loss, and the market is still French. These once European powers are not good now.

However, life is not good, but the position of kings or emperors in these countries is still quite stable. Austria has reconciled with the Holy See. The Holy See admitted that His Majesty Fritz was wronged, but the Roman emperor's hat could not be returned to him, so he became the emperor of Austria. Although they stolen the country and exploited them, they were almost compradors with the crown, but fortunately France absorbed a large amount of labor, and the Americas was large and there were many immigrants. Therefore, although the people's lives were not good, because there were few young people in the country, it was not easy to cause too much chaos.

"The second animal is the cattle," Joseph continued, "for us, these countries are our core allies. We protect them, and they work hard to support our cause. They are a beneficial and indispensable part of our industrial chain and play a very important role in our economy. Their economy is completely integrated with us, and is almost part of the empire."

"I know, you're talking about the Rhine League, the Netherlands and Northern Italy," said Napoleon.

"This type of country is now prosperous and loses with us. We must love them and protect their interests, that is, protect our interests, because..."

"Because in fact, the big capital of these countries is our periphery." Lucien interrupted.

"The ox is different from pigs. It can be combined with raising and working, killing and eating meat. Of course, when it is absolutely necessary, it is like encountering a great famine. If you don't have food, you can't live tomorrow, let alone the New Year, so you don't care about that. I hope we will never encounter such a time in our lives." Joseph continued.

"You mean, our younger generations may encounter such a time in the future?" Lucien asked.

"Ah, there is no permanent empire in the world." Napoleon replied, "Just like the stock market, no stock can rise forever. It will always collapse, and maybe it will collapse several times within a week."

"The third type of allies are dogs. These countries have limited economic help to us, and they don't have much meat if they kill them. But they have a great advantage, that is, they can bite people. As long as we support them later, they can bleed on our behalf and drag the enemy's strength. They are like hunting dogs during hunting, which plays a key role in destroying our prey. But the question now is, if the prey dies, how should we treat the hunting dogs?"

"I know who you are talking about, Irish. But now the prey is not dead yet. As for England's death, it is always a threat. It can be used to suppress England at all times. Besides, what else can I do except grow potatoes in Ireland? There is no meat at all, and I can't eat meat on his head."

"The last type of allies is wolf. They are just temporarily on the same path with us. More importantly, they have their own ambitions and may compete with us for interests in the future. For example..."

"For example, America," said Napoleon. "But now, Americans don't have much room for development. We are Louisiana to the west, and our Quebec to the north will soon be. But it's better to find an opportunity to dismember it so that we can guarantee our interests."

"What about Russia?" Lucien asked.

"Russia, Russia is different from all these countries," said Joseph. "Russia is not our ally, nor is it our enemy at present. Well... they are now considered barbarians. In the long run, Russia has a vast territory, rich resources and a large population, and is naturally a powerful country. However, they have many ethnic groups within it, which is a weakness that can be exploited."

After doing such a strategic research, the next research direction was on how to deal with the issue of the founding of Ireland. The Irish envoy had arrived in Paris and visited Napoleon and Joseph on the founding of the country.

Joseph and Napoleon naturally expressed support for the founding of Ireland. The question now is what kind of etiquette France should use to attend the founding ceremony of Ireland. According to Ireland's ideas, they hope to invite Joseph to attend their founding ceremony and deliver a speech on behalf of advanced European countries at the founding ceremony of Ireland.

Joseph refused: "What do you say I am a retired general and a scientist, what speech should I say to a political occasion?"

Joseph is not a member of the Federation, so the envoy could not say to him that "this is an organizational decision". So the envoy found his student Carol Carol is a member of the organization, and even a nominal member of the Central Committee.

The envoy found Carol and said, "Carol, the organization has a glorious and arduous task to you."

Carol smiled as soon as he heard this: "Jimney, do you want me to persuade my teacher to attend the founding ceremony? Well, this matter is not easy to deal with. You don't understand my teacher's personality. He doesn't like to show his face in public. Well, it's strange, right? After all, the teacher has been a general. He has given lectures to the soldiers more than once. He has taught many people in various classes. He has never blushed or speechless. However, he does not like standing in front of the public. Just like his defensive position, he can't see people under normal circumstances. However, I can try it." The fastest update is computer::/

With Carol's persuasion, Napoleon also said that since Ireland is still a very useful dog now, it's okay for you to travel for a trip. So Joseph had to say that although I don't like to do these things, as long as it is beneficial to the country, it's okay for individuals to make some sacrifices. How can I stop going because I'm afraid of seasickness? However, when I'm not around, don't take the opportunity to mess around in the Academy of Sciences!

Napoleon said unhappily: "You guy is a tyrant in the Academy of Sciences. The academicians have been suffering from Joseph for a long time. But those academicians are all cowards. Even if you are gone, few guys dare to follow me to do whatever they want."

Considering that the British Navy still maintained its existence at sea and often took action, Napoleon sent the battleship "Caesar" and the super cruisers "Free Trade" and "Common Market" rushing back from North America, as well as two armored cruisers named "Shipman" named for participating in the Irish Founding Ceremony, and more importantly, he was responsible for ensuring Joseph's safety along the way.

Speaking of which, the British Navy is indeed full of fearless spirit. Even in such an unfavorable situation, they are already working hard. At this time, the British Navy could no longer guarantee its own sea control, so their combat goal became to destroy other people's sea control.

For this reason, the British made bold improvements to their cruisers. They realized that for a long time in the future, their success or failure depends entirely on the high speed of the ships. So they removed the armor of the armored cruisers and only retained part of the armor in the boiler and ammunition depot. In other words, the British took the method of running naked to increase their speed and attacked various maritime targets in European countries except for modern warships.

After the armor was removed, the ships became much lighter, which made the British cruisers faster than similar ships in France for the first time, including the sailing era. Their practice of not running naked in armor actually achieved another unexpected effect.

One evening a few days ago, a British cruiser encountered an old armored cruiser of the Rhine Alliance when attacking a Dutch merchant ship. At that time, the British were controlling the captured merchant ship, but there was heavy fog on the sea. Then the two warships suddenly encountered a very close distance of only about 300 meters. Then everyone had a brief and fierce exchange of fire. In the end, the armored cruiser of the Rhine Alliance was seriously injured. If it weren't for the cover of the sea fog, they might have been sunk by the British warship.

As for this British cruiser, he also suffered more than ten shells. However, these shells had a serious problem. Because there was basically no armor on the British cruiser, the shells targeting the armor basically penetrated directly from the port to the starboard side, and shot the cruiser three times and six times. But no one successfully exploded.

Because of the huge sea fog, the naval soldiers of the Rhine Alliance could not see clearly what had passed by their shells. As a result, their statement became: at such a close distance, they should have hit many guns on the other side, but these shells were all blocked by the armor of the British cruisers.

This news even blocked the French. For a time, the French really thought that the British had made some breakthroughs in technology, so that their warships not only surpassed the French in speed, but even had better defense than French warships. For this reason, Admiral Treville also specially ordered that French warships avoid firefighting with British warships without numerical advantages.

As for the British, they naturally knew that their warships were running naked. As long as they noticed and replaced them with ammunition, they could make their cruisers full of fire and look for teeth. So, they also issued the same order, and the result was that until now, the French thought that the British had new armor technology.
Chapter completed!