Chapter 2350 "Sky Fire" (middle)

Machiavelli wrote in the sixth volume of the history of Florence, "From the Venetian League to the Fall of the Turkish Army": When the ancient republics were victorious, they often took more gold and silver treasures from the enemy to enrich the treasury, and praised the people. Give out bounties, reduce taxes, hold a grand celebration of the athletic conference, and make the whole people happy. But the result of winning battles in the age we are describing is, firstly, the emptiness of the treasury, and secondly the impoverishment of the people, while the victor is not guaranteed protection from the attack of the enemy. This is entirely the result of the chaos inherent in the way of warfare itself. Because the troops that were beaten simply lost their equipment, and the men were neither harmed nor held as prisoners, they merely delayed their counter-offensive against the victors until their commanders provided them with After the new weapons and horses, immediately counterattack. In addition, the ransom and spoils of war had already been devoured by the army, and the victorious king, of course, could not use the money to recruit a new army, but had to raise the necessary war expenses from the pockets of his subjects: and this was the only consequence of victory that the people experienced.

The American war brought no real benefit to France, and even though the government at the time was not a republic, the result was the same: the ransom and spoils of war had been plundered by the army, and of course the victorious king could not use the money to recruit new troops, nor could he Not raising the necessary war expenses from the pockets of the subjects, and this is the only consequence of victory that the people experience.

   The point is that even the army did not get the ransom and loot, except that the British lost a colony.

   This was a victory that outweighed the losses, and Napoleon almost had to move something to France when he won the war, so the French benefited to some extent. But his first expedition to reclaim the colonies under the Treaty of Amiens failed, not only losing important coffee and sugar production areas, but also 25,000 people, almost one-third of the Italian legion, The key is that the vast majority of these people are still veterans, and everything he does now is to salvage the negative impact of this failure.

Many people in China believe that Napoleon's current foreign policy towards the Holy Roman Empire is a continuation of Louis XIV. The marriage of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI was precisely to make the Holy Roman Empire and France an alliance, and it was a diplomatic challenge to the Holy Roman Empire. Peaceful efforts have ended in failure.

Madame de Stahl's "On Germany" was written in 1800, when the French Revolution had ended and the natural border of the Rhine had been formed. She wrote that Germany and France were unrelated countries. This was written before the Revolution...

Queen Maria Theresa, who had lost Silesia, wanted to unite with France to retake it from Prussia, and the Prussian ambassador quoted Frederick the Great as saying that Prussia could "defend" anything as long as the whole of Europe did not unite against its sovereignty. In response to the hostilities in Silesia, Silesia had become the heart of Prussia.

   In order to solve the financial problem, Jacques Necker used state loans and usury to raise taxes. At present, the entire Alsace region has been thrown into chaos because of usury.

  The national debt of an emerging country is often very high. The interest rate of French government bonds is so much higher than that of the United Kingdom, and no one buys it.

In the case of farmers who are unable to provide urgent loans to alleviate the losses caused by natural disasters, they can only use their properties as collateral to borrow loan sharks. The robbers attack the loan sharks. Outdated.

When Samuel Sturt arrived in the United States, Europe was in total chaos because of the French Revolution, and the United States, which was isolated overseas, could develop rapidly with the availability of raw materials and machinery, surpassing France and the Indian textile industry, which was deliberately suppressed by the United Kingdom. Become an emerging textile industry power.

Samuel Stray began to learn weaving at the age of 14, but his father was a relatively wealthy farmer, not a worker who lost his land because of the "enclosure movement", he left England at the end of his apprenticeship, He was only 21 years old at the time. The United Kingdom is the most industrialized country, and it is also caught in a vicious competition. In order to reduce costs, factory owners have used child labor in large quantities. The situation is worrying.

The key is that they will be eliminated due to the increase in wages when they become adults, and the wages they get in their hands cannot be the factors that change their fate. For example, to open a tavern to be the owner or something, to find a bank loan requires collateral, and Slater continues to work on it. He didn't see any advantages in setting up a factory in the UK. Instead, it was better to go to a blank new world in this field. He could achieve amazing achievements, from an ordinary textile worker to the "father of American industry".

DuPont also took the family wealth by boat to the United States because of the turbulent situation of the French Revolution. They not only persuaded France to give them the technology and equipment of making gunpowder through Madame Lavoisier, but also tried to pass Josephine. , persuaded Napoleon to facilitate the acquisition of Louisiana.

  Even if Britain has a monopoly on saltpeter in India, it can still extract the ingredients for making gunpowder from human and animal excrement. Of course, this strategic material will not be provided after the outbreak of the war. Before the outbreak of the Seven Years War, the world relied on Spain for plant alkaloids. During the Seven Years War, Britain took the lead in importing plant ash from the United States, followed by France, but the 25% alkali content in plant ash could not meet the needs of the whole of Europe, and the Seven Years War ended. After the French Academy of Sciences offered a reward of 12,000 livres for a new process of making alkali Well, Georgiana's men found him in a shelter.

After losing the factory, his patent for alkali production was also made public. His father passed away when he was 9 years old and was adopted by a friend of his father's friend. Later, the person who adopted him also died. He had no relatives and no reason. , with 4 children and an ill wife, he spent all his savings in order to treat the child's illness, and there was no news of the promised bounty.

Andrew Meeker, a Scottish worker, invented the thresher. Washington was interested in it, but the United States did not need it so urgently. First, because of the existence of slavery in the United States, the cost of buying slaves may be lower than the cost of buying a machine and maintaining it. The second is that it is very difficult for the United States to break out of the special situation in France. All the men have left because of conscription, leaving the old and weak, women and children. Even if the wheat is harvested, they cannot complete the heavy threshing work.

When Georgiana sent people to find him, he was very poor, the factory was on the verge of bankruptcy, his skills were not as important as the textile industry, he easily came to France, exchanged patents for annuity, and is still the factory of agricultural machinery factory long.

His thresher can thresh 64 bushels in one hour, which is equivalent to 8 quarter tons, and only requires four horses and four people. Later, he invented the hydraulic thresher, and many agricultural areas have irrigation, as long as the water flow rate Enough, the cost will be lower, and he doesn't care what happens to the temporary workers who are engaged in manual wheat harvesting when they lose their jobs because of the thresher.

  The water of the Seine is very gentle, and it cannot even reach the standard of water power to drive the water supply in Paris. In order to overcome this problem, engineers have thought of many ways, and finally the steam engine works.

   To Soho's engineer, steam engine assembly is his main job, gas lamp is just an invention, and with Soho's status in the UK, he does not dare to leave his job and start his own business.

   Mr. Windsor from Germany didn't know if he didn't like the low salaries in France, so he went to England to develop a patent franchise for lighting. After all, he did not live that kind of hard-pressed life.

  Lubran originally opened a clinic. He chose a state loan for the research and development of alkali-making technology. He used the clinic as collateral or owed usury. This was Necker's "fiscal policy" at that time.

   Anyway, when those people found him, he was living in an asylum to treat people, and his four children were also living there.

  Napoleon said it was unhappy for children to grow up in convents, but what about those who live in shelters?

Eli Whitney, who was born in Massachusetts, invented the cotton gin. He wanted to apply for a patent, but was ruthlessly despised. Despite the existence of slaves, the speed of human hands was still inferior to that of machines. Cotton plantations in the United States are becoming more and more more, which in turn fueled the greed of the plantation owners for the land.

According to the data of the US census and the statistics of the slave trade, one in three southerners in the United States is a slave on average. When the number of slaves exceeds the number of slave owners, for example, the population of ancient Rome was about 1.5 million, of which 900,000 were It was slaves brought from conquered places, and eventually Rome was also destroyed by slave riots and foreign invasions.

   Therefore, the United States has to control the slave trade, but it is impossible to directly announce the prohibition of the slave trade. Jefferson's key vote is Georgia.

The greatest achievement of William Pitt Jr. was to make all the British drink tea. The tea came from the East India Company. Because of the tea franchise problem, the Boston Tea Party incident occurred. Large deficits during the American war led to social problems, many people believed that weavers should not spend their money on tea, and others said that drinking tea led to gloomy personalities.

  Monroe is still active in Paris and continues to work hard for the acquisition. Jefferson initially supported France in the hope that Leclerc could check and balance British power in the West Indies. Later, when the fleet was so large, Secretary of State Madison began to worry that Napoleon had other plans.

  At first, the Americans also provided logistics to the French, and then stopped, and at the same time provided everything for the people of Santo Domingo, otherwise there would be weapons and ammunition in a place where the agricultural country of Santo Domingo is not even considered.

The United States itself is already mobilizing troops for defense, and now the Louisiana acquisition case has been delayed. The militiamen from the Mississippi Delta to catch fugitive slaves and the soldiers sent by the Spanish governor to prevent private crossings from crossing the border are gathering more and more, which may become a conflict at any time. hotspots.

   Supporting all this are the western port and royalist nobles, and many of the "old friends" around Josephine are colonial businessmen.

Lucien hoped that Napoleon would marry a Spanish princess, but because of Josephine's "matching", the Spanish princess married the king of Etruscans, and the family had a child within a year of marriage. The king came to be appointed, but the princess did not come. Lucien, who had won the battle, scolded Josephine at the family gathering. If she could not give birth to herself, don't stop Napoleon from finding another woman to give birth.

Carolan Lestrange had given Georgiana a similar idea, and it wasn't her husband anyway, and she could be "generous," and Josephine "later" learned that Georgiana had come up with the idea, so she put her The castle where I live has been redecorated.

   In the Louisiana acquisition case, Lucien was also with her. Napoleon quarreled with her many times before he adjusted it, and even brought her back when she was "exiled" in the Alps.

  There used to be a post road leading to Geneva from Lyon, but now it’s deserted. It doesn’t matter if it needs to be rebuilt, after all, Georgiana stayed in Annecy.

  Because Necker made many enemies in the court, the biggest enemy was Marie Antoinette. The queen did not see those who went to Madame Necker's salon, and Madame Necker, who loved the Paris salon, died in depression. In 1781, Necker published a breakdown of the queen's spending, and she was dubbed the "deficit queen".

   Farron and Bertin have no sympathy for Mrs. Starr's expulsion. This has nothing to do with Mrs. Starr's political views and articles.

To the Bonaparte family, Josephine was an outsider, and the child born by Louis and Ottens did not belong to the Bonaparte family. In the past, Napoleon wrote to her, but she was too lazy to reply. Back, she didn't know that there were people of Georgiana in the French postal system now.

  Let's put it this way, sometimes customers who come to the restaurant call the chef out of the back kitchen not to praise him, but to ask him how he made the dishes like this, like she can cook.

   And Josephine did so, but she did not go there herself, but asked Madame de Vaudet to do it for her.

Josephine did not see Napoleon immediately after he returned to Paris. In Farron's opinion, it had nothing to do with love and guilty conscience. When deserters were shot according to the law of eleven shots, Napoleon did not receive an order to return to the country without authorization and gave the governor. The government's excuse was that if Josephine made a wrong bet, she would lose everything she had. If she didn't bet, at least she could keep Malmaison Castle.

   But she still planned to gamble, standing by Bonaparte's side, she bet right, just like the seventh Duke of Arenberg. The sixth duke chose to leave France and go to Vienna when things got too bad. He forgot that he did not get this title by legal means, but depended on the court and Queen Marie Antoinette. Once she fell, everything would be lost. disappear.

  Farron "chattered" here and looked at the church not far away.

   "Did you know that there is also a Saint Lumodi in England. He is very precocious and knows he is a Christian since he was a child."

   "How old did he know so much?" Georgiana teased.

   "3 days after birth."

  Georgianna looked at him and saw that he didn't seem to be joking.

"There were very few people in seventh-century England who were Christians, and it was not easy to find him a baptismal pool, St. Lumodi, a baby told them where there was a stone bowl, and they took him there, and the baptism was done, and then he was Said he was going to die and asked people to bury him in the place where he was born for one year, Blakelyan for two years, and when he became a bone, he was buried in one place forever, many people went to the place where he was worshiped to fetch water, pilgrims Local trade flourished and a temple was built there, but after the Counter-Reformation in 1776, that place was demolished and people stopped pilgrimage."

   "The baby's bones were properly placed?" asked Georgiana.

   "I think you're paying attention to the wrong place, do you know the name of that place?"

  Georgianna shook her head.

   "I think you've heard of it." Farron smiled mysteriously, "All the people of Britain have heard of it."

   "I don't think St. Lumodi is that famous." Georgiana smiled.

"Oh, no, you must have heard of it." Farron said confidently, "The place is called Buckingham, not Buckingham Palace, but Buckinghamshire. When I first heard about it, I thought it was the Queen's. Palace."

  Georgianna stopped smiling.

   "Since you have given birth, why don't you try again?"

   "Because I was hurt by black magic, it is impossible for me to have children in this life." She said with a blank face, turning around and leaving as she spoke.

   She felt more and more that neither Lucien's nor Caroline's idea was a terrible idea, and she couldn't believe she agreed.

   (end of this chapter)