At this time, Europe.
France.
In the Trianon, a long time had passed since the assassination of Louis XV.
At this moment, in Louis XV's room, a stove bought from Long Yan at a huge price was rising.
This kind of thing is something that every household in Longyan has.
But in France, such an ordinary stove sold for a sky-high price.
Many businessmen in Long Yan have made a lot of money relying on this kind of stove.
Although France is still a backward autocratic monarchy, due to the influence of the Industrial Revolution, many factories have been built, and a large number of scientific and technological talents have still emerged.
Otherwise, France would not be so powerful.
However, the backward autocratic monarchy system is destined to put the French Empire on the path of decline.
This is inevitable decline.
However, even so, France's industry is still very developed.
It is not too difficult for them to make a similar dragon flame stove.
However, the stoves they made were never comparable to Long Yan's.
I don’t know why, but the stoves they made either didn’t keep warm or leaked smoke everywhere, making them completely unusable.
And not only that, the carbon they use to burn in the furnace needs to be purchased from Long Yan.
Because of the special nature of the stove, and the fact that Long Yan's charcoal burns out white smoke, it doesn't have the choking smell of their charcoal, so it endured Louis XV's love.
Even though the price of Longyan's carbon was exaggeratedly high, Louis XV still spent a lot of money to purchase charcoal and stoves from Longyan every year.
The maid serving Louis XV felt that the temperature in the room had dropped a bit, so she added a few pieces of expensive coal into the stove.
Let the flames burn brighter.
Feeling the slowly rising temperature, she felt the heat even if she was wearing a thin layer of gauze clothing.
Louis XV stretched out comfortably and sighed: "Although Long Yan is hateful, the things they made are really good."
At that time, Louis XV did not notice the slums at all.
Those poor people were desperately trying to make their clothes thicker.
Or so it seems.
It's just that under layers of coarse cloth, they live on either broken cotton wool, dead grass, or even some unknown things.
But no matter how thick they were wrapped in such clothes, they didn't feel the slightest bit of warmth.
It's been extremely cold in Europe this year.
These poor people numbly entered the factory.
Fortunately, I was able to enter a textile machine factory. The operation of textile machines relied on steam engines.
The water vapor there is thick, and even though it is a cold winter, the textile machine factory is exceptionally warm.
Of course, this kind of job is not available to everyone.
As for other poor people, there are always very few factories that they can enter.
France is an absolute monarchy, and the construction of any factory requires the approval of Louis XV.
However, Louis XV had ignored the government for a long time, and many factory buildings were only half-completed. They were forced to stop because they did not have Louis XV's approval.
There are many more refugees on the streets of France in winter.
Many people also froze to death.
But no one cared about all this, and they were even so cold as to think it was commonplace.
A boy from a noble family once asked: "Aren't they cold outside? Why don't they go home and light the stove?"
Regarding this problem, the refugees had no way to explain it to him, and his parents also had no way to explain it to him.
This is already the norm in France.
The King of France, Louis XV, was still immersed in luxurious enjoyment after saying: "After I die, I don't care about the floods."
Louis XV was still affectionately called the most popular person by the French people.
However, because of his appeasement policy towards Europe and his own indecisiveness and neglect of government affairs, the French people completely lost confidence in him.
The so-called appeasement policy is essentially a way of handing over materials and interests through concessions to avoid the outbreak of war.
Under this cowardly policy, France was at war with Britain, especially on the mainland of Europe.
After retreating again and again, no achievements were achieved at all.
All of this was blamed on the indecisive emperor, Louis XV.
Louis XV was not unaware, otherwise he would not have predicted his future after the assassination.
But even so, Louis XV did not make any changes.
Such policies still exist.
In fact, what's more, he has deeply realized that France cannot escape the fate of decline.
He is now just the emperor of the French Empire and a great king on the surface, just on the surface.
Now the three classes in France have long become the dominant theocracy.
Those nobles are just in name only. They have huge wealth but no power at all.
His power as the King of France has long been eclipsed by the current Pope.
The Holy Crusaders who marched eastward are a good example.
Without his consent, Douglas and Prince Subitz could lead the attack.
This time, he was assassinated.
It is said that the person who assassinated him was a handyman working for a noble family.
He was born poor, not because he was an enemy of Louis XV, but because Louis XV, the king, made the French people miserable.
Louis XV did not refute the assassin's contempt.
Yes, he introduced a policy of appeasement.
But for Louis XV, that was something he had no choice about.
The Industrial Revolution swept across Europe, but it started in Britain.
That's right, France has faced its most powerful opponent and sworn enemy in more than two hundred years, Britain!
After the Industrial Revolution, Britain's strength grew by leaps and bounds.
Although France had cooperated with Britain, Spain, the former empire on which the sun never set, was crippled.
But it was at that time that France realized how terrifying this former opponent had become.
It was at that time that Louis XV decided to adopt a policy of appeasement and develop French industry privately.
Avoid launching a head-on conflict with Britain when he is strong.
Use this to stabilize the situation.
However, this policy had a negative effect, that is, France was already thinking about how much war reparations it should pay before the war started against Britain, so as to make Britain give up the idea of attacking France.
These benefits will naturally be repaid equally to the French civilians in the end.
It will definitely arouse public dissatisfaction.
But for Louis XV, there was no choice.
