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The candlelight flickered in the Hall of Mirrors, and the shadow of Napoleon III was stretched out. The words of the Police Commissioner touched the most frightening weakness in his soul. ;乐;文; 【Updated quickly&nbp;&nbp;Please search //ia/u///】
There were no attendants in the Hall of Mirrors. Only the desk in the huge palace had light, and the rest of the place was plunged into dim darkness. Napoleon III quietly walked to the wine cabinet like a ghost and took out a bottle of green wine from a corner. of spirits.
Pulling out the bottle cap, the green wine syrup was poured into the crystal cup. A silver carved silver spoon was placed across the mouth of the cup, and a delicate sugar cube was placed on it.
Napoleon III seemed to be performing some kind of ritual. He drank wine but watched carefully, and muttered something to himself.
Then he picked up a bottle of ice water soaked in ice cubes, and gently dropped it on the sugar cube drop by drop, very slowly, the sugar cube was soaked in the ice water, and the spoon turned out to be a delicate one. With a colander, the water dripping with sugar cube syrup dropped into the green wine syrup, and soon a layer of white suspended liquid emerged.
At that moment, Napoleon III's facial expression suddenly became relaxed, and a strange aroma of parsley began to fill the air.
The water was not too much, and the sugar cube did not melt. After a while, Napoleon III lit a match and brought it next to the sugar cube. The pure sugar cube began to burn slowly, and the light blue flame quickly melted the sugar cube. The syrup dripped into the wine, and the aroma became stronger and stronger.
At the end of the burning, Napoleon III skillfully poured the sugar cubes in the spoon into the wine, and then quickly placed another cup on the wine glass. After cutting off the oxygen, the flame quickly extinguished.
"Absinthe...the devil's drink, please relax my consciousness and let me find the answer to the question..."
What was in the hands of Napoleon III was absinthe, a very famous spirit in the European Middle Ages. This kind of spirit, with a minimum alcohol content of more than 70 degrees, was not something that ordinary people could enjoy.
Because it is soaked with a large amount of mugwort, and a certain substance released by mugwort is second only to drugs in hallucinogenic properties, this kind of spirit was banned by many countries in the early 20th century. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, This hallucinogenic liquor is also criticized by traditional religious believers, who call it the devil's drink.
Napoleon III was not addicted to drugs, but he also needed some way to relieve mental stress. I am afraid that ordinary French red wine could no longer relieve his sadness. Trying Devil's Absinthe with an alcohol content of 75% is also a good choice.
At this moment, the green absinthe had some white turbidity, and the strong and stimulating aroma in the mouth made Napoleon III's eyes blurred.
Thanks to the sweetness of ice cubes and sugar cubes to relieve the pain in the throat, otherwise it would be difficult to swallow. Even the Emperor could feel waves of acupuncture in his throat. The absinthe was really cracking.
But the effect of the medicine was really extraordinary. After only one third of a large glass of wine, his eyes were already completely blurred.
"Those leftists? Hahaha...it's those Republicans again! They still don't give up..."
"Damn Xiao Letian! What kind of demonic transformation are you, and why do you always hit my weak spots...Do you know France better than me?"
"No, no, no, that's impossible. How could he, an Easterner, understand the West so well? Isn't that country run by a bunch of idiots..."
"But...but maybe Xiao Letian is the whip of God. He is a rare genius who can explore all the truth about the human world. Wuwuwu..."
Crazy, Napoleon was really crazy. He was actually talking to something that didn't exist in the void. His eyes were scattered and blurred, as if Xiao Letian was floating in the sky.
Xiao Letian's face flying in the sky was like mist and he couldn't see clearly, but the Emperor knew that it must be Xiao Letian who was spinning around above his head.
"Dear French Emperor, have you forgotten the Revolution? Those thugs who occupied the left side of the Parliament killed the King and Queen!"
"You won't forget it, because from that day on, the left or left-wing forces began to show their prominence in the world... These extremists have always liked to use destruction of order to achieve social progress!"
"It's better to be on the right, how moderate and conservative..."
The head of state in the East and the French Emperor in Europe, two men who stood at the pinnacle of the human world, actually had some kind of spiritual connection through a glass of devilish absinthe.
Perhaps Xiao Lezhen could really feel this out-of-body feeling at this moment, as two men at the top of their game actually began to discuss the French Revolution.
Modern people are familiar with the terms left and right in political circles. Sometimes people even call leftists eagles and rightists doves. They even say that leftists are war madmen and rightists are cowards.
In fact, these statements are not correct. The terms left and right, or left and right, actually come from the French Revolution.
In the parliament at that time, the members who supported strong reforms to break all aristocratic and imperial power systems gathered together and sat on the left side of the hall, while the members occupying the right side all supported the aristocratic system and imperial power.
At that time, it could be said that the abolition of imperial power and the aristocracy led to a republic. This group was called the left. Anyway, those who supported the tradition of retaining the imperial system and refused to reform were called the right.
As time goes by, the definitions of left and right have become much different. In later republics where the imperial system has been abolished, there are actually left and right groups.
Generally speaking, leftists tend to be revolutionaries. They like to break the rules of the past and create new order and industrial wealth from destruction.
The rightists are relatively conservative. They are unwilling to make major changes to the existing order. They are unwilling to accept the analgesia of change. They only like to govern a big country like cooking small dishes.
There is no right or wrong, these are just two philosophies of life, radical and moderate.
But when Napoleon III was in power, the power of the left was extremely dangerous to him, because the leftists at that time were Republicans, and they wanted to overthrow the throne of Napoleon III and restore the republic.
Why did France lose the Franco-Prussian War? Why did the Paris Commune, a socialist organization, appear when Prussia besieged Paris? How was the Internationale born?
The root of all this is closely related to the contradiction between the left and the right in France.
In the war, why was the French emperor's military mobilization ability inferior to that of Prussia? That's because the public sentiment in France at that time was not monolithic at all.
Xiao Letian has already seen through everything. He has already analyzed clearly the superficial and underlying reasons for France's defeat.
Although the country's national power was several times stronger than that of Prussia, it was completely defeated on the battlefield. Even in the previous war preparation stage, it was not as efficient as Prussia.
why is that? That's because at that time, leftist ideas had begun to spread widely among the people.
