"Napoleon, I ask you, in the revolution, the most important question is to figure out what?" Joseph asked suddenly.

"Of course, who is our friend and who is our enemy? This is also a rare, not so stupid question." Napoleon said, "The most important thing is to decide who is our friend and who is our enemy. What’s the point, doesn’t it just look at their economic interests? When I was in Italy, which Italians supported me and which Italians opposed me? Simply put, I got land and benefited from the war. They will support us. Those who have suffered losses will oppose us. To put it more clearly, those who are in line with our interests are our friends."

"But the question now is, where are our interests?" Joseph asked.

Before Napoleon and Lucien had more reactions, Joseph handed them a report: "This is the income statistics of various industries under the control of our family. You can take a look."

Two people quickly took the report and read it.

"Have you noticed? In our income, the proportion of income derived from agriculture is already quite small. Although speaking, our family now has a lot of land, but not much is used for agriculture. Why is this?" Joseph asked.

"Because farming is not profitable." Lucien replied, "Even the most profitable high-end vineyards can make more money a year? And our factory, as long as it runs, the efficiency of making money is not known to be higher than wine. Where did it go. Wine, in today's agriculture, is already profitable.

Before the revolution, if a person owned a large area of ​​arable land, he might be the richest and most powerful person in a large area. Of course, there are no such people in France, but there are still many such guys in many countries. What do we call such a guy? Soil old hat. Now still expecting to earn money from farming? Ha ha. These old hats will definitely hate us very much. "

"Lucien, the farmers are doing better than before." Napoleon said.

"That is, but if the farmers earn it, that counts as money? That's a little more?" Lucien shook his head disdainfully.

It is true that the small days of French farmers are good nowadays, but it is good on the basis of comparison with that before the revolution. But in fact it is just barely able to maintain life. Of course, the sense of happiness comes out relatively. Compared with the farmers in some surrounding countries that have to pay taxes to the nobility, the French farmers are of course very happy.

"Therefore, there is no doubt that our most important interests are in industry and commerce. Knowing where our interests are, we can understand what our enemies are." Joseph continued.

"Then what do you think are our enemies today?" Napoleon asked.

"First of all, the land nobles." Lucien said. "All the land nobles in Europe must be against us."

After saying this, Lucien looked at the two elder brothers. Seeing that they were silent, he was rather anxious and said: "Why, did I say something wrong?"

"A few years ago, you were right." Napoleon said.

Lucien turned his gaze to Joseph.

"Napoleon was right." Joseph said.

"Don't play dumb riddles? Why is it wrong now?" Lucien said.

"There was a fool who was sailing on the Seine in a boat, and the revolver he was carrying with him accidentally fell from the side of the ship. This revolver was a high-end product with ivory handle and was very valuable, so someone shouted at him: "Go down and fish, the water is not deep here!" However, the fool took out a knife from his pocket without hurries, carved a mark on the ship's side, and said: "What anxious, my gun is from this If the position falls off, it’s too late to get the boat up until the boat arrives. "Well, Lucien, you are such a fool."

Lucien was taken aback, before he could remember, he heard Napoleon slap and laugh: "Joseph, this story is too appropriate, too fun, no, I want to record it in my diary. I will tell it later. Lucien’s son listened. Hahahaha."

Lucien gradually understood at this time, and immediately retorted, "Napoleon, don't forget, you also have a story, and I will tell your son in the future!"

"You have many more stories." Napoleon yelled without showing any weakness, as if "Come, come and hurt each other."

"But your reputation is more precious than mine. Except for Polina, no one in the family needs to pay attention to my reputation more than me! We who don't have trousers are never afraid to wear trousers!" Lucien also put on a pair of " I am a rascal who I am afraid of".

"Well, don't get out of the main problem." Joseph said.

So the two brothers became quiet, but they kept teasing each other with their eyes.

"Lucien, I taught you before that you should look at problems with a developmental perspective. The world is not static, but is constantly changing.'Man cannot cross the same river twice.' In the past, those land nobles were indeed Our number one enemy, but the world will change, not only the world will change, we will also change!" Joseph seemed to be back when he was a teacher for the brothers.

"Um..." Lucien listened to the class honestly.

"Look, whether it is Austria, or Prussia, or even Italy, what is the main source of wealth for their richest land nobles today, or do they rely on the rent?" Joseph asked again .

"Ah, Joseph, I understand! They have changed, they have become us!" Lucien suddenly realized, "Indeed, if you still rely on the little wheat in the ground, you will die of poverty. They are now the main source of money. They have become other things, such as mines, trade, etc. They have become like us, they have become us. However, this does not affect the conclusion, because'the peers are the ones who hate the same.'"

"Wrong." Joseph shook his head, "They are not our peers. What is the core of our industry? Manufacturing. It is our steel plant, our shipyard, our cement plant, our electrical and other production Factories for all kinds of things. They are just part of our production chain. For example, copper mines and coal mines in Austria and Prussia are basically sold to us, and these mine nobles sell the ore to us, and then Selling industrial products back from us, they are already a link in our chain. If they are satisfied with this, then they are our allies, or more clearly, that is, they are our servants. Only those guys who try to produce steel, electricity, ships, cement, etc. are our colleagues. Do you know who I am talking about?"

"Understood, Britain is our enemy." Lucien said.

"It is not enough to understand this. To be precise, it is the British industrial capital that is our enemy." Joseph added.

"You are right, Joseph." Lucien nodded.

"But this is not the most dangerous enemy." Joseph shook his head again. "Napoleon, you are more politically sensitive than Lucien. Come and tell me, who do you think is the most dangerous enemy?"

Napoleon looked at Joseph, put his hands on his chest, leaned back on the back of his chair, and smiled: "You are talking about the workers in our factory, right?"

"What?" Lucien was taken aback. "Our workers are very supportive of us and they love us very much. They all cheer at you."

"The French people cheered to the king more than once, sincerely, and even I have seen them with my own eyes, they shouted at Louis:'Long live the king!' But in a blink of an eye, their shouts turned into'cut off the tyrant. "The heads of people'." Napoleon said disdainfully, "They are cheering to us now because they see what the British workers, Austria and Prussia, and the peasants of the Rhine Union are living like. The main thing is that people set off well. And They still have another North America to go to. They still have a way to go. They are not like the trousers before the revolution, so they will not rebel and will cheer us. But look at Britain, those workers have already begun to rebel. There are even Prussia and Austria. It is common for their miners to rebel. French workers have not done so yet~lightnovelpub.net~ But if we don’t handle it well, one day, they will wave at us. Fisted."

"Well, by the way, Lucien, do you know why I say these workers are the most dangerous enemy?" Napoleon asked again.

"I don't know." Lucien shook his head.

"Because we can eliminate the land nobles easily, and we can guarantee that there will be no more of them in the future. We can also eliminate those British colleagues through hard work, but we can never really eliminate the workers. Because without them, ours Interests no longer exist. This is just like before the revolution, when the king and the land nobles faced the third level almost exactly. No matter how the king suppressed, the third level itself would not die out. Just let the third Once the level is successful, the king and the land nobles are completely finished. Now there are lovely British people helping us to block guns, but we must not waste the time the British have bought for us. We must be fully prepared before it rains. .Understand?"

"So, how can we prepare?"

"Lucien, since ancient times, a successful reactionary ruler has always relied on two things most: suppression by force and deception by public opinion. We are no exception. Do you understand?" Joseph finally said.