Why is Napoleon Bonaparte so awesome? Is he really just a military genius?
In fact, the world has misunderstood him. Napoleon Bonaparte was first a successful reformer and then an excellent military commander!
He keenly discovered the surging power nurtured by the people during the Great Revolution, which was the expectation of the people at the bottom who had been suppressed for thousands of years to change the status quo.
Whether you like it or not, this suppressed power exists forever!
What triggered these powers to awaken them? If you think about it carefully, there are only the following points.
The first is that the birth of Martin Luther's Protestantism broke the dominance of the Catholic Church and gave the people a choice. It allowed the people to see through the corruption and decline of the Holy See, and the power of theology to control people's hearts was weakened.
The second was the great development of natural science and the Renaissance. People finally had another way to explain everything in the world and even the universe. Many ancient scams were exposed one by one. People began to reflect on whether the rights of feudal aristocrats were really given by God. Of? Is it really irreversible?
The third is the great flow of people brought about by the great geographical discovery, which is an important condition for the integration of multiple cultures and the emergence of new ideas.
The French Sun King Louis XIV was a French monarch of the same era as Kangxi. He was very obsessed with Chinese culture.
It was also during that period that Confucianism entered France, and the imperial examination system was slowly understood by the French intellectual community!
This was a major breakthrough. In the context of that era, French intellectuals were the first to understand that in distant China, everyone had hope and anyone could change his or her class.
Even if you are the poorest and humblest person, as long as you work hard, there is even a one-in-a-million chance that you will become a master and change your class!
In fact, the probability of class change is not that low. Although not every scholar in China can become a first- or second-rank official, the door to class change is not as narrow as imagined.
Many poor and humble children can become a minor official in the local government through study and imperial examination. Although the official position is small, it is already a big change compared with his previous social status!
This unique model fascinated French intellectuals, and at the same time, the idea that "class is transferable" began to spread in France.
Of course, there was a fourth point that triggered the Great Revolution, which was the rise of the bourgeoisie. The power of money became more and more powerful, and the emerging bourgeoisie also hoped to compete for benefits from the feudal aristocracy.
Multiple social backgrounds came together, and there was a loud bang! The French Revolution broke out, and when the cry that everyone is created equal echoed across the land of Europe, you can imagine how frightened all the feudal emperors in Europe were at that time.
All the European emperors united to strangle the First French Republic, but they really underestimated the revolutionary enthusiasm of the untouchables that had been suppressed for thousands of years.
Once the door of dreams is opened, when people outside see how beautiful the other side of the dream is, it will not be that simple to close the door.
This kind of power is the trend of the times. Those who follow it will prosper and those who go against it will perish!
Obviously, Napoleon Bonaparte was very sensitive to this trend. He was a reformist at heart, and he was the same type of person as Xiao Letian.
This kind of person belongs to a rare breed among politicians. They are generally only born in times of great social turmoil and changes. This kind of person is the darling of the times!
Napoleon Bonaparte helped the Republic defeat enemy sieges through military means and established his reputation in the war.
The battle to suppress the royalists made him promoted to brigadier general and commander of the Paris garrison!
Travel to Northern Italy and defeat the Austrian invading army multiple times!
During his expedition to Egypt, he made France famous under the pyramids!
Continuous victories made him the savior of the First Republic. He quickly reached an agreement with the French bourgeoisie at the time and launched the Brumaire Coup in Paris.
Later, Napoleon reciprocated and announced the formulation of the "Napoleonic Code". This civil law code was very conducive to the development of the bourgeoisie.
The code clearly states that private property is sacred and inviolable, and legally recognizes the concept that all people are created equal in the Declaration of Human Rights!
At the same time, the code also abolished most of the privileges of the feudal nobility and the church, and legally respected the spirit of the contract!
All of this was urgently needed for the development of capitalism, and the birth of this code basically cleared all obstacles for Napoleon to become emperor.
All the secrets are actually in this great change in human history, including the noble regiments of the Guards that Xiao Letian encounters now. In the final analysis, they are just the shadow of Napoleon the Great.
Since all people are created equal, how can the army that Napoleon the Great valued most be an exception?
During Napoleon's reign, he promoted countless civilian officers, and the entire army took on a completely new look!
Even among the 26 marshals around Napoleon, only two came from traditional feudal aristocratic families, and the rest were all from the civilian class.
What kind of concept is this? At that time, 100% of military control in Europe was in the hands of feudal nobles. Do you want to be a high official in the army? Don’t even think about not having traditional bloodline aristocratic status!
Even in Prussia at that time, a country under the rule of Frederick William III, the entire army was bleak. The generals and staff officers were all old men over sixty or seventy years old, and they were all nobles.
No comparison means no harm!
At that time, the entire French Legion was full of vitality from top to bottom. Not to mention that the officers were all civilians, and even the ordinary soldiers were free farmers who had just shaken off the yoke of feudalism.
The fate of these people was changed because of Napoleon Bonaparte. How could they not fight to the death loyal to him?
The French legions of that era were really energetic. With such a burst of energy, they caught the traditional garrison troops commanded by blood nobles by surprise.
The anti-French alliance was defeated once by Napoleon. God of War fought 52 battles in his life, winning 48 of them. He is well-deserved for the name of God of War!
No one wins by fighting alone. It was the millions of legions who were loyal to him and dared to sacrifice and sacrifice, as well as the joint support of countless capitalists in the country, that made Napoleon achieve the glory in history!
Although Napoleon failed, his legacy is still there. No one dares to abolish his laws, and no one dares to use the batches of talents he trained.
And when it comes to this man, the entire French nation basically praises him. Although he became emperor and abolished the Republic, this country really received countless benefits from his reforms!
Even his nephew Napoleon III was restored to power by relying on his uncle's inheritance. It was precisely because of his status as the patriarch of the Bonaparte family that he could call on countless military aristocratic groups to support him!
The senior military officials under Napoleon III are basically all descendants of the military nobles canonized by his uncle. The older ones are from the son generation, and those like Alfred belong to the third generation!
