Immanuel Kant, the founder of classical rationalist philosophy, is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the entire West after Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
This position is placed in China.
Not to mention comparable to Laozi and Confucius.
At least he was an awesome person of Zhu Xi's level.
Zhu Daohua often heard the name of this great man when he was studying in Germany.
It can be said that even the thoughts of the two forefathers of scientific socialism, Max and Engels, were deeply influenced by this man.
Therefore, after arriving in Europe, Zhu Daohua took the initiative to write letters and contact him.
Zhu Daohua is very famous in Europe - Europeans of this era, whether they understand it or not, at least clearly state that they advocate science.
This is true from the feudal aristocracy to the new bourgeois aristocracy.
After Kant exchanged letters with Zhu Daohua, he was also astonished by some of Zhu Daohua's thoughts - how can he not be astonished? After all, this man came from later generations, and what he said made the philosophers of this era shine. The point of view is not difficult at all.
Between letters.
Kant, on the other hand, introduced Zhu Daohua as his confidant - I wonder if future generations of students will read texts like "The Great Philosopher Kant and His Friend Zhu Daohua"...
And another Major Bonaparte.
Shortly after graduating from artillery at the Military Academy in Paris, France, he was attracted by the ideas of the French constitutionalists and joined the constitutionalists. Later, he was expelled from the army by the French Bourbon authorities and returned to his hometown in anger to engage in the Corsican independence movement. Bonaparte.
in the hereafter.
Napoleon Bonaparte stared at many shocking names.
The founder of the First French Empire, the Consul of the First French Republic, and the Emperor of the First French Empire.
The great 19th century military strategist and statesman....
But now Napoleon Bonaparte is just an officer who has just graduated from the military academy, and he is also wanted by the Bourbon authorities...
Zhu Daohua seized this opportunity.
The one who deceived little Bonaparte to the East.
"Mr. Kant, you look much better."
Zhu Daohua opened his arms, hugged Immanuel Kant and smiled.
"I finally got over it... To be honest, if it weren't for your invitation, I really wouldn't have the courage to travel thousands of miles by boat to this far away east."
Immanuel Kant said with a slightly pale face, and forced a smile on his face.
"You will not regret this journey. Eastern society and Western society are very different in structure. If you deeply examine the social structure of China, North Korea, and Japan, I believe it will have a very significant impact on your theory."
Zhu Daohua finished speaking.
He looked at Napoleon.
"My most trusted Army General Counsel, how are you thinking?"
Zhu Daohua blinked at Napoleon Bonaparte.
Because if you want to go back to rebel, you will definitely need military talents, especially military talents from the army.
In Zhu Daohua's view.
In this era, was there a greater general than Napoleon?
"Your Highness, to be honest, the weapons you gave me are completely capable of subverting the rules of the battlefield in this era!"
Napoleon said quite excitedly.
His words made the other two people not far away look at him sideways.
"Subverting the rules of the battlefield? Are you a new recruit who has never been on the battlefield?"
The voice of a middle-aged man with a deep voice sounded.
"The rules of the battlefield are played out, not written down in books."
Another person said.
As they spoke, they took off their hats and saluted Zhu Daohua.
Zhu Daohua responded with a hand gesture.
"Two gentlemen, ministers."
Zhu Daohua nodded.
They were the envoys of the King of England and the King of France respectively.
George Macartney and Raghu Bourblon.
Macartney was the British envoy to the Qing Dynasty in history.
But he did not get any benefits from Qianlong at that time.
The British Empire really relied on military power to open the door to this ancient country...
But now Britain does not have the courage to go to war with the Qing Empire.
This is mainly due to a war that took place a few years ago.
The Qing army defeated Gorkha very quickly, which shocked the British entrenched in India.
Gurkha is the modern Nirmal.
However, Nimal in this era was not a small country, but a country with considerable military strength in South Asia.
The British East India Company launched several wars against Gorkha, but all failed.
Therefore, the Qing army was able to quickly defeat Gorkha and force Gurkha to surrender and pay tribute, which shocked the British greatly.
It was also because of the Battle of Gurkha that Britain temporarily gave up its plan to use force to knock on the Qing Empire's door and instead sought diplomatic mediation.
It is against this background.
Britain sent George Macartney to the East with Zhu Daohua's fleet.
Macartney will serve as the British King's special envoy. After crossing the Strait of Malacca, he will go all the way north to Guangzhou to hand over the credentials of the British Empire.
I believe that when there is news about Zhu Daohua.
This time Macartney will meet Qianlong more smoothly.
With the same purpose as Macartney.
There is also Ragou Bourblon, the special envoy of King Louis XVI of the French Bourbon dynasty.
Unlike the UK.
France and the Qing Empire have maintained contacts since the Kangxi era.
Qianlong himself even had many years of correspondence with Louis XVI, and there were several missionaries from France in Qianlong's palace.
In fact, many of the Western gadgets in the Old Summer Palace were built out of Qianlong's interest after seeing the portraits in the Louvre.
so.
Later, Louis XVI was sent to the guillotine, which shocked Qianlong greatly.
It also made Qianlong more determined to implement the policy of isolation from the country to prevent the ideas from European rebels from "contaminating" the docile people of the Qing Empire.
The British and French ministers looked at the young Bonaparte.
They didn't understand why this young man was so valued by Zhu Daohua, and even directly appointed him as his army general adviser. Although Zhu Daohua did not have many troops under his command, they all knew that Zhu Daohua, who had more than 300 officers, wanted to expand the army. It is very easy.
Don’t say anything else.
The arms carried by this fleet are enough to equip tens of thousands of people.
As long as there are weapons, officers and money.
An army is easy to organize.
therefore...
The young artillery graduate of the Paris Military Academy.
Soon he will become the actual commander of an army of tens of thousands of people! !
This made Raghu Bulbulon's face look a little ugly.
Zhu Daohua re-employed an opponent of the Bourbon dynasty.
This made Bulbulon very unhappy.
But he had no other choice.
He couldn't offend Zhu Daohua because of this small artillery graduate - this was not in France's interests.
