Vienna, Ming Dynasty Embassy in the Austrian Empire.
There was a long conference table in the hall of the embassy. Negotiators from the Ming Empire and the British Empire were sitting on both sides of the conference table. Austrian Prime Minister Metternich, as the intermediary, sat at the head of the conference table and spoke very enthusiastically. Make mud for both sides.
"Your Highness the Prince, Your Excellency the Duke, I don't understand why you two are arguing over this barren land of Australia? Isn't India the crown jewel of the British Empire? You have already reached a consensus on the Indian issue, and the British Empire's The future queen will also become the wife of King Lu of Ming Dynasty. This means that the crown of the British Empire will be transferred to the Zhu Ming Dynasty after the Hanoverian Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty and Great Britain will become a true brotherly country! This will mean an eternal world Peace and eternal international order..."
Prime Minister Metternich seemed excited and anxious when he spoke. The excitement is probably because the two giants of the world, Great Britain and Ming Dynasty, are finally shaking hands and making peace, and even turning their conflicts into relatives. For the rulers of the Austrian Empire, who were looking forward to the eternal world order, it was undoubtedly the most ideal for Britain and Ming Dynasty to unite (of course, a union with Ming Dynasty as the main body) to rule the world.
And the anxiety...maybe it's because Prime Minister Metternich is impatient, right? Otherwise, why is he anxious? Although the Ming Dynasty and Great Britain were still struggling over the ownership of Australia. But in fact, the differences between the two sides are not big. For Britain, they have generally retained "India, the jewel in the Queen's crown", while Australia is just a place where criminals are exiled, and it would be no pity to lose it. As for the Zhu Ming Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, they have already obtained the queen herself! Is there anything else you’re not satisfied with?
Therefore, the peace agreement between Great Britain and Ming Dynasty should be finally reached...perhaps it will be discussed for a few more years. After all, Princess Victoria is only 13 years old and not yet ready to get married, and the current King of England is still William IV. After a few years, Princess Victoria grew up and became the Queen of England and the Queen of India. It would not be too late for the two parties to complete the peace negotiation!
The Duke of Wellington just shook his head and said: "No, no, we cannot lose Australia. It is a large continent. Although it is a barren land, there must be many rich resources there, which are the wealth of the United Kingdom. .And in our UK, the king and queen are not actually the masters of the country. The real masters of the country are the British people..."
While the Duke of Wellington was talking endlessly about the reasons why the British Empire could not abandon Australia, the door of the conference room was suddenly knocked open with a bang. The Duke was stunned for a moment and stopped speaking. He turned around and saw a white man in a tuxedo, who seemed to be the secretary of Prime Minister Metternich, running in from outside. He reached Metternich and handed him a card. note.
Metternich frowned, as if he was very dissatisfied with his subordinate's impoliteness. Just when he was about to scold him, the man said hurriedly: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, something big has happened..."
Metternich's brows furrowed even more tightly now. He took the piece of paper and took a look at it. His eyes suddenly looked like they were about to pop out. He stood up from the chair abruptly: "What? What's going on? possible?"
At this time, the high-level officials of Ming Dynasty and Great Britain were stunned and had no intention of continuing to bargain. They all looked at Metternich with curious eyes.
"What happened?" Zhuge Weijiu, a veteran, asked, shaking his goose feather fan.
"That man..." Metternich's voice was trembling as he spoke, "That man's son escaped from Schonbrunn Palace!"
"That man's son...the King of Rome?" Zhuge Weijiu was also shocked when he heard this, "Mei Zhongtang, are you saying that Emperor Napoleon's son escaped from Schonbrunn Palace?"
The Duke of Wellington also jumped up from his chair, looking as if he was about to jump onto the table in surprise: "This, this, how is this possible? Isn't he seriously ill, suffering from tuberculosis, and about to die? How can he still do this? Can you escape?"
Metternich also looked like he was about to drop his jaw in shock: "Yes, the doctor said that he had tuberculosis and was about to die, and the tuberculosis was also passed from person to person, so he arranged a separate and secluded small house for him to rest. A few days ago, the doctor said that he was about to die, so His Majesty the Emperor called his mother over from Italy and wanted them to see her for the last time. But... she ran away!"
"Fooled!" Zhuge Weijiu stamped his feet, "Little Napoleon must be pretending to be ill. Maybe the doctors who treated him are Bonapartists. In recent years, Bonapartists and republicans in Europe are really There are more and more, and you are too careless!”
It is now January 1832.
In another timeline, the European revolution of 1830 had been suppressed by Nicholas I, the European military police! However, in this timeline, the dark clouds of world war and the "Fear of the Yellow Peril" caused by the confrontation between Great Britain and Ming Dynasty suppressed the revolutionary sentiments of European countries to a certain extent. The years 1830 and 1831 passed without incident.
But this does not mean that the revolutionary risks in European countries have been eliminated... In fact, the revolutionary risks in European countries are much more serious now than in the same period on another timeline.
On the one hand, this is because the entire industrialization process has been accelerated, which also means that the pain caused by industrialization has also been condensed. On another timeline, the decades after the second industrial revolution were the most turbulent, bloody, and certainly the most progressive period in history! Not only did two world wars break out, but revolutionary storms also swept across the world time and time again.
How could it not be now?
On the other hand, Europe is not the leader in industrialization on this timeline, but a pursuer! The biggest dividends of the two industrial revolutions went to the Ming Dynasty, leaving Europe with only the old books of the Age of Discovery to rest on. Therefore, Ming Dynasty could give some oil and water to the middle and lower classes in exchange for peace, but in Europe, except for the United Kingdom, no one else would get anything if they wanted to.
As a loser in the Napoleonic Wars, France lost all the patrimony accumulated during the Age of Discovery. In the hands of Louis XVII, it still had to engage in industrialization to catch up with Britain.
The pain of the middle and lower class people can be imagined!
And Louis XVII inherited his mother's love of luxury. After he got some money, he restored the Palace of Versailles and led a group of old French nobles to live a luxurious life again, just like the Louis XIV empire had returned. It’s like appearing in the human world......
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"Great, Napoleon is here!"
This was the headline on the front page of France’s largest-circulation newspaper, Le National, on January 10, 1832!
Although the news of Napoleon II's escape from Schönbrunn Palace had just returned to France at this time, the editors of "National" who had long been disgusted with the dark rule of the Bourbon dynasty and hoped to change and make France great again called out most of France. The voice of man.
What is even more detrimental to the Bourbons is that such a headline can actually pass the press censorship of the French government!
When the National newspaper published the news "Great, Napoleon is here!" appeared on the streets of Paris, the capital of the Kingdom of France was instantly ignited like a pile of dry wood encountering a raging fire.
That morning, thousands of veterans of the Napoleonic era put on the military uniforms they had treasured for more than ten years, held high the tricolor flag symbolizing the French Republic, took to the streets of Paris, and sang "Marseillaise" to the city of Paris. Center the Louvre and the Tuileries Palace.
The Duke Richelieu, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of France, who stayed in Paris during Louis XVII's foreign visit, knew that something was wrong and immediately ordered the army to suppress it. But when the French army saw the tricolor flag symbolizing the Republic and heard the exciting "Marseillaise", no one was willing to fight for the Bourbon dynasty.
However, they did not defect immediately. They just confronted their seniors in front of the Louvre and the Tuileries Palace... After all, the protagonist had not yet appeared, and they could not finish the play.
