Chapter 1212 Kiss of Fire

British conscription was very different from French conscription.

Practicing martial arts, like studying, used to be the privilege of the nobility. Even during the industrial revolution, this was also the right of the "property class".

Knights in the Middle Ages had to prepare their own armor and horses. Only Robin Hood would use cheap and easy-to-obtain bows and arrows as weapons. Due to the rise of Napoleon, military uniforms replaced armor and became a men's fashion.

To study at Hogwarts, you have to go to Mrs. Hawking's robe shop to have your school robe custom-made. Young people in the UK who join the army also have to pay for the purchase of military uniforms. It is said that a set of soldier's clothes at that time cost 50 pounds, and it cost 10 pounds per year.

It costs 10 pounds to maintain it. Relatively speaking, the yeoman's uniform is cheaper, which also costs 10 pounds, not to mention the gorgeous uniforms of the dukes.

French conscription is for single men. Regardless of their origins, if you want to avoid military service, you have to pay taxes, which doubled after the Seven Years' War. The military uniforms during the Bourbon Dynasty were not as good as those during the Napoleonic era, and the food for the soldiers was also very poor. All this money is

The money paid by the state is part of military expenditures.

The national conditions of France are completely different from those of the United Kingdom. France is a large agricultural country with more people. Their industrial revolution was based on profits obtained from a large amount of cheap labor.

The UK does not have that many people, especially with so many foreign wars and so many overseas colonies. Excluding those who serve as soldiers and farmers, the number of people who can engage in industry is very limited. Based on this situation, the British Industrial Revolution relied more on machinery.

rather than manpower.

Although many men in the Victorian era had mistresses, there was always only one wife. Children born to her had inheritance rights, and "illegitimate children" had nothing.

Restoring polygamy is tantamount to indirectly recognizing the inheritance rights of children born out of wedlock. Even if Napoleon was not the kind of prodigal son, restoring this system would still be very tempting to him when his first wife could not bear children.

Henry VIII became "Bluebeard" in order to have a son, but in the end Bloody Mary and Elizabeth were still in power, and Britain allowed the Queen to rule.

France has never heard of a queen. "Princess" is more of a tool for marriage, marrying a prince from another king. The fairy tale story of "the prince and the princess live happily ever after" does not actually exist at all. Mary

Antoinette was an Austrian princess who ended up on the guillotine with Louis XVI.

Napoleon was indeed a very smart man, but deep down he was still the kind of man who looked down on women and used them as reproductive tools.

He speaks softly to women, which is easy to confuse people. Pomona remembers that at the previous dance, he tried to embarrass her in public. This may be because she said to him in public at the military court before, "

Men are not necessarily that smart."

That kind of gentleness is fake, like a kind of personality mask, used to please people.

Napoleon needed others to fear him as a leader, so he needed others to say flattering words to fear him.

Before he had hairline, no one would compliment a down-and-out, seemingly dispensable second lieutenant. Their attitude towards him was true. The Bourbon royal court was full of sycophants, and a monarch was surrounded by sycophants.

A person's intelligence can reflect his intelligence. Judging from the current situation, Napoleon still has the ability to distinguish, but living in this kind of flattery for a long time is very detrimental to him.

"Success" is so intoxicating. Hathor once told her that Napoleon once said on the first day he moved into the Tuileries Palace: Staying in the Tuileries Palace is nothing, the key is to stay here.

However, fifteen years later, he still left the palace and became a prisoner.

He lost himself and felt uncomfortable being betrayed by others. He didn't know if he had repented properly to God.

A person cannot have no desires, but if he wants too much, he will eventually lose what he got. His crown will be dismantled, just like the crown of the Bourbon royal family.

Leos have very strong desires. Although this is used by magazine horoscope columns to deceive little girls, it has a certain basis. This conclusion does not apply to all Leos, but it works for most Leos, as long as most people think it is accurate.

, then a few people say that the calculation is inaccurate, and their opinions are ignored.

Napoleon wanted everything. Italy was plundered by him, and then he moved back to the Louvre. His relatives turned into enemies.

He is not afraid of enmity. The assassination on Christmas Day in 1800 should have sobered him up. Even if there are no civilian leaders who dare to advance under fire, there are still lone assassins. In 1801, Paul I of Russia was murdered by an assassin.

, although these murderers were found and executed, who was behind the scenes has become a mystery in history.

Some said it was his son Alexander I, some said it was the British, and some said it was the drunk assassins who did it.

Napoleon was an excellent general and a magician on the battlefield, but his personal strength was very average. A commander did not need to be good at fighting. He needed others to protect him. This would involve the loyalty of the soldiers. The French Revolution protected the palace.

The army defected.

He dances on the tip of a knife and climbs high on the cobblestones. It is not suitable for him to indulge in the singing of praises prematurely.

Even if it was a dream, it was hard for her not to be intoxicated by it. By "talking" to him, Pomona felt a sense of self-realization and also learned something. She felt pretty good about herself and thought she had mastered the problem-solving process.

The key is that now she realizes how idealistic her thoughts are and that she belongs to the "empty talker" group.

To conquer a person, you must defeat him in the area he is best at.

Napoleon was indeed a conqueror. In order to resist him, Europe formed an anti-French alliance, and Russia used scorched-earth tactics. She could not burn her own brains out.

"Damn Georgiana!" She was so angry that she kicked the gryphon at the foot of the desk. The desk made of heavy wood did not move at all, but it actually hurt her own foot.

Although it wasn't as painful as in the real world, it still shocked her.

She clearly knows that her body is now in the Louvre. Can a consciousness without a body still feel it?

She squatted down and touched the table leg with her hands, trying to figure out what was causing her pain. At this moment, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a hidden compartment under the table.

"Lyle Meyer" ran to Napoleon's study to look for something. Maybe this was what he was looking for.

Pomona reached out and took out the things in the secret compartment, and found that they were filled with letters.

It is unethical to open other people's letters.

But she only confessed for two seconds before opening one of the letters:

Noble lady, what do you do all day long? What is so important that you are so busy that you have no time to write to your faithful lover? What emotion suffocates and crowds out the love you promised him.

Where is your tender and loyal love? What kind of person is Na Wei's wonderful person, your new lover, who can occupy every minute of your life, occupy your time every day, and not allow you to pay any attention to it?

Where is your husband?

Josephine, be careful, maybe one beautiful night I will break in.

At this moment, the door of the study room of the Tuileries Palace opened, and the First Consul walked in wearing a Chasseur uniform, followed by several aides.

Everyone looked at Pomona who was squatting on the ground reading the letter in surprise. No one spoke for a while.

After a while, he whispered something to the people behind him, and everyone else bowed and retreated. Napoleon walked in with a terrifying murderous look, and the white double doors behind him were closed by a young man.

Pomona stood up, and at this time Napoleon also approached. He took the letter from Pomona's hand, glanced at the content of the letter, and then walked behind the desk without saying a word, clenched his hands and put it

On the tabletop, my whole body was tense, as if I was fighting.

"how did you do it?"

"How did you do that?"

"Our defenses have no effect on you. You can come when you want and leave when you want." Napoleon gasped.

"I told you, I'm a wizard." Pomona said calmly, "We also have our own laws. Don't worry, I won't do anything to you."

"What do you want to do here this time?"

"I want to know the progress of the negotiations." She made an excuse dryly.

"Your government didn't tell you?" Napoleon sneered.

"I want to know the details." Pomona stared at his eyes. Although blue eyes are beautiful, his eyes are brown like most French people. They look like amber or lion's eyes.

"Russia has withdrawn, Austria has also withdrawn, and now only Britain is left in the anti-French alliance." He said in a drunken tone, "You have a national debt of 537 million and a population of only 18 million. What do you think of these debts?"

How many years will it take you all in the UK to pay it off?"

"Don't tell me that France doesn't owe its national debt." Pomona smiled coldly. "How many francs does one gold Louis cost now?"

He seemed to be bringing up a topic he didn't want to mention, and looked down at the letter in his hand.

During the period when the Directory was in power, in addition to continuously losing wars and losing Italy, another problem was the domestic economy. I don’t know how they caused a huge deficit. In order to offset the deficit, the Directory produced a large number of francs, which caused inflation. Within a year,

The price of one gold louis rose from 21 francs to 8,000 francs within a short period of time.

Cheap labor, rising prices, and continuous defeats, everything is similar to the Bourbon royal family before the outbreak of the Revolution. In order to offset the deficit, the Bourbon royal family also issued a large number of index bonds, but this issuance was controlled.

Besides, there were still church assets that could be confiscated at that time, and the Jesuits were expelled not just because of the political struggle between factions within the Supreme Court.

During the Seven Years' War, there was a priest who went bankrupt due to the war, and his creditors sued him in the secular court of Marseille. The Paris High Court finally caught the clue and set up a committee to verify the Jesuit regulations and believed that the Jesuits and the

French laws were incompatible with each other, and he was eventually driven out of France with the acquiescence of the powerful Duke of Choiseul.

The first and second levels of the three levels of parliament have privileges. The Jesuits protested that judges had no right to interfere with religious affairs and to deprive a religious order of its power that had lasted for 200 years in France. Louis XV selectively ignored these.

Why are clergy so rich? And they are also engaged in business activities?

Public opinion was like this, and the king happened to be short of money, so the wealthy Jesuits became the golden lamb.

"Where did you see this letter?" Napoleon suddenly asked.

"Well, you're going to break in." She said stupidly.

"I wish I could hold you in my arms and kiss you deeply, deeply, millions of times, as hot as the equatorial sun." He looked down at the letter and muttered softly, then he closed the letter and raised his head.

Looking at her, "That's the whole content of this letter. No one told you that it is immoral to read other people's letters?"

She had the feeling of a thief shouting to catch a thief.

At the same time, I also felt like I was struck by lightning.

She subconsciously pinched the black swan pendant around her neck as if it was her amulet.

"You have been wearing it. Was it given to you by your husband?" Napoleon put his hand on the armchair, and she noticed that the armrest was in the shape of a swan, but it was not a white swan, but a gilded swan.

"They are a pair, and his is a white swan."

"How about changing to a necklace? The police recently recovered the stolen Prince Regent gem. In addition, there is a pink diamond. I will let the best jewelry designer in Paris..."
To be continued...