Chapter 348: Prophet, Devil, Prophecy, Victory and Napoleon III (Please vote, please order)
Hearing that Li Hongzhang was taking over the business of organizing the war army, Sushun already understood that Li Hongzhang already had connections with foreign countries. Moreover, the French Emperor Napoleon III had probably decided to support Li Hongzhang, and that the war army was very likely to be organized.
89 was established to support Li Hongzhang!
And this Li Hongzhang...\n.·... must have read the "Anti-Jing" thoroughly before going abroad, and now he is sleeping with France's princess, and he will soon become a relative of the French emperor. If there is any disobedience in this
, that’s a big rebel with connections to foreign countries!
But the problem is, what the Qing Dynasty seems to lack most now is rebels!
Those Han officials who raised their arms and won thousands of followers followed the ancestral system established by Emperor Kangxi after he defeated the three vassals. They were all rebels.
But the imperial court did not rely on them, and Hong Xiuquan had already entered Beijing.
The current Qing Dynasty looks even worse than the chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
After all, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, France and England were not worth mentioning, and Russia had not yet been born!
"Shaoquan, do you want to join the army? Can the French agree?" Sushun asked, looking at Li Hongzhang who did not look like a loyal minister.
"Yes!" Li Hongzhang said with a smile, "I am the only one who can take on this job, I can't replace it with anyone else!"
Sushun looked at Li Hongzhang thoughtfully: "As promised in advance, the court has no money!"
"Don't worry, I can raise the food and salary for joining the war myself!" Li Hongzhang continued to take care of everything, "But...\n...\n...I am not that capable as a Hanlin official, I have to be a bigger official!
"
"What kind of official do you want to be?" Sushun asked with a frown.
"Tianjin Customs Road also knows Tianjin Prefecture!" Li Hongzhang offered his price, "Luo Xueyan is training the Nanyang Army in Shanghai, and I will be training the Beiyang Army in Tianjin. From now on, I will have Luo Xueyan in the south of the Qing Dynasty, and I, Li Hongzhang, in the north, will I still be afraid of the world?"
disturbed?"
Of course what Li Hongzhang wanted in his mind was to train the Beiyang Army first and then become the Beiyang Minister. With the title of Beiyang Minister and the Tianjin Prefecture, which is located on the edge of Beijing...\n.\n.\n.\n.
The great cause of countering the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Tang Dynasty may be accomplished.
Su Shun thought: "Luo Xueyan is not a good bird! You, Li Hongzhang, might be even worse...\n...One of you is Luo Luo Timur, and the other is Li Baobao! But for now, I can only let you have such evil intentions."
The rebellious ministers and traitors in the backtest will hold on for a while...\n::.\n. When the new army directly under the imperial court is trained, everything will be fine."
"Okay!" Su Shun said, "But at the moment, re-inforcement is like putting out fires in the country...\n::..\nWe can't wait for the step-by-step negotiations to sign the contract!
Can your man help you get a sum of military pay and foreign guns and artillery right away, and the foreign general will return home with you first?"
"Yes!" Li Hongzhang said with a smile, "Tomorrow I will go to the Louvre to meet the Emperor of France, Napoleon III!"
"Okay!" Sushun nodded, "As long as you can negotiate with the French emperor, after you return home, I will recommend you to the emperor to be the Tianjin Customs Department and know the Tianjin Prefecture!"
"Then just take a look!"
Louvre.
At nine-thirty in the morning, Napoleon III, who had just finished breakfast, was meeting guests in a not-too-large living room with many Chinese porcelains outside his office.
There were two visiting guests. One was a cardinal who was about the same age as the French Emperor, with sunken blue-grey eyes and blond hair. His name was Paul De Doria, the minister of the Department of Heretics of the Holy See.
And the other person was wearing a white silk dress and a hot blonde beauty - she was Maria de Clementina Doria.
Napoleon III had an ordinary appearance, with an ugly beard. He looked quite gloomy and a little haggard. His sunken eyes were full of bloodshot eyes. He smoked a dark and thick cigar. There was a small picture beside him.
There is also a glass of light-colored aged cognac on the table, and two books are placed next to the glass, which are the first and second volumes of the "Great Book of Prophecy".
"Mary, thank you for sending me the second volume of the Great Book of Prophecy," the French Emperor exhaled a puff of smoke, and his voice was quite loud and full of energy.
Maria showed a charming smile and bowed slightly to Napoleon III: "It is my greatest honor to serve you."
Bishop Doria on the side said: "Your Majesty, I think the Russian Tsar will soon see the second volume of the "Great Book of Prophecy"...\n.\n.
Napoleon III gave him a warning look: "Do you think he will back down?
Bishop Doria lightly shrugged his shoulders: "Prince Metternich is willing to come forward to convene a Congress of Vienna.
"His era is over," Napoleon III said with a disgusted expression upon hearing the name, "and the Second French Empire needs to fight!"
Bishop Doria obviously came to persuade peace, he frowned: "But the war with the Russians is meaningless!"
Napoleon III suddenly laughed: "Victory itself is the greatest meaning! Both the French Empire and I need a victory over the Russian Empire...\n.\nOnly victory can lift the spirit of this country.
Only then can I have the authority to eliminate accumulated abuses!"
His tone suddenly dropped: "Similarly, Nicholas I also needed a victory that would allow him to become the great emperor. His empire seemed powerful, but it was internally corrupt and in urgent need of a drastic reform.
But for a huge and decadent empire, reform and progress often mean turmoil and disaster! He can only become the great emperor.
Only by suppressing all unstable factors can we ensure the smooth progress of reform."
The situation of Napoleon III and Nicholas I was very similar. Napoleon III won the "too easy" position in France. In fact, he came to the throne with the intention of usurping the throne. Many people under him were dissatisfied. If he could not win the war with Russia, he would not be able to prove himself.
If he is awesome, there is no way to concentrate power to promote the industrialization of France - as "Napoleon", he can't even win a war, why should others listen to him?
In fact, this "Crimean War" was the founding battle of the Second French Empire!
Although Nicholas I fought many victorious battles before, the Russian Empire had too many accumulated shortcomings. Although it still held the title of the world's largest army power, Russia's industrialization process clearly lagged behind Britain, France, and Prussia, and was even worse than Austria.
.
To accelerate Russia's industrialization, serfdom must be abolished!
If Nicholas I was not a great emperor, it would be very difficult to successfully abolish serfdom.
According to Russian practice, once Nicholas I came to Constantinople, everything he said was right!
Moreover, Nicholas I was already on the chariot and could not get off.
Can the emperor of Russia, the world's largest army power, withdraw his troops and go home in despair because of the intimidation of Napoleon III and Queen Victoria, and return all the territory he has taken to his mouth to the Turks?
If this was the case, he might as well lose the battle!
Napoleon III picked up two "Great Prophecies": "Now, I must win a victory over the Russian Empire...:..\nOnly this victory can win me the greatest support at home and internationally.
Dismantle the Viennese system that restricted France!
And Nicholas I has no way out. The consequences of defeat without a fight are more terrible than defeat! Defeat will make Russia's knowledgeable people see that their empire only looks powerful, and there may be many people who support reform. And
Defeat without a fight, people will only think that the Romanov dynasty is incompetent and cowardly!"
Napoleon III had already spoken to this extent, and Archbishop Doria no longer acted as a lobbyist for the Pope in Rome - of course the Pope was against Turkey and supported the liberation of Constantinople.
Otherwise he would be Riton Allah!
Seeing that Archbishop Doria had nothing to say, Napoleon III put down the two "Great Prophecies" and took another sip of brandy: "Although the "Great Prophecies" cannot change the decision of Nicholas I and I. But it can
It is still possible to change many things! In fact, its appearance has already changed many things...:...I need to figure out now, what exactly is it and him?"
Archbishop Doria glanced at his distant niece, and then said to the French Emperor: "Your Majesty, this is also my and Mary's mission. His Majesty the Pope also hopes that we find the devil or prophet."
After hearing this, Napoleon III smiled and nodded: "Actually, I am the same... Maybe, he is really sent by God!
Whether it is the devil or a prophet, they are very important to Catholics in this era.
And Mathilde is also very interested in these things. She will go to China in person. Maybe you can go on the road together. By the way, in a while, she will have an affair with a very capable Chinese man with royal blood.
Chapter completed!