Chapter 778: Travel to China, we can do it too (please give me a monthly ticket)

In the Royal Study at the Duille Palace, the firewood in the fireplace was burning vigorously. Napoleon III sat in front of the wide oak desk, holding a report he had just delivered. His brows were frowning and his eyes were staring at the contents on the paper in a drowning manner.

Duke Valevsky stood aside, holding a document in his hand, and said in a serious tone:

"Your Majesty, the situation is more serious than we think. Workers' groups in Lyon, Marseille, and Paris have been secretly circulating "The Eastward Journey", which records in detail how the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rose rapidly through land reform and industrialization. They not only confiscated lands of landlords and nobles, but also used this wealth to build factories, railways and armies. Now, European radicals are shouting - 'Go to China, we can do it too!'"

Napoleon III snorted coldly and patted the report on the table: "The theory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not suitable for Europe at all! Their "True Covenant", "Anti-Sutra" and "Paradise" are just monsters that forcibly combine Christian heresy doctrines and Eastern thoughts!"

Valevsky nodded: "But the problem is that they did succeed. According to the records of "The Eastward Journey", the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom completed equal land division in just ten years, the lives of farmers were greatly improved, the rural market expanded rapidly, and industrialization was quickly promoted, and even built a powerful power on the ruins of the civil war in just ten years. The North Korean Heavenly Kingdom followed closely, completely abolished the feudal system, embarked on the road of industrialization, and successfully promoted the unity of Asahi and Japan. Now, European revolutionaries believe that since the East can do it, they can do it too."

Napoleon III was silent for a moment, and suddenly took out a telegram translation from his pocket and handed it to Valevsky: "Look at this."

Valevsky received the telegram and found that it was a secret letter sent by Mary, the illegitimate daughter of Archbishop Doria, from Tianjing. The content of the telegram is as follows:

To the noble father:

The prophecy of the angel (Luo Yaoguo) has become clearer and clearer. Europe is about to usher in an inevitable war, and the flames of revolution will be ignited from the defeated country. The church will suffer heavy damage in this storm, the icons will be pushed down, the church will be looted, the clergy will be forced to go into exile, the red flags will be flying everywhere, and the Virgin will cry in heaven

Father, I suggest you return to Rome as soon as possible, return to the center of the Catholic Church, and seek a position that can play a role in future turmoil. His Highness the Angel believes that the Holy See needs a helmsman who can stabilize the situation in the storm, and you are the most suitable candidate.

May God bless you and the Grand Duke Church.

Your loyal daughter, Maria.

After reading the telegram, Valevsky's face became extremely ugly: "Your Majesty, if Luo Yaoguo's prophecy is true..."

Napoleon III said coldly: "That means that the war between Prussia and France is inevitable, and the defeated side will break out of revolution. The red flag will float on the land of Europa, and the red flames will burn all over the continent where we are!"

Valevsky took a deep breath: "We must be prepared in advance. The prophecy of His Highness of the Angel has been very, very accurate for the past ten years!"

Napoleon III stood up, walked to the window, looked at the French soldiers who were training on the training ground, and said in a deep voice: "The Prussian army grew stronger every day because of their workers - those Germans were very dull and could not produce excellent generals at all, even Moltke seemed to me. I know what he had done over the years, nothing more than more punctual railways, more sharp rear-loading guns, and more powerful breech guns. His military command had no art, but turned war into industry. This was not a war between French soldiers and Prussian soldiers. It was a war between French workers and Prussian workers!

Now the workers in Prussia are working hard to produce more and better steel weapons, while our workers are discussing how to divide the land... They are not even willing to have more children! They don’t even want to have more children, so why do they need land? It’s ridiculous.”

Napoleon III has had a bad life in the past two years!

He had long been predicted by Luo Yaoguo to be defeated. But he found that even if he knew who the most dangerous enemy was, he could do nothing, because this was not his war at all, but a war between French industry and Prussian industry!

And Prussian capitalists, engineers and workers are better than France!

Although France is also one of the world's industrial countries, French capitalists prefer to lend money-France is known as usury capitalism, and they like to play finance. In addition, French culture is unique in European style for hundreds of years. Beautiful clothes, precious perfumes, and valuable wines are the money cows of French industrial capital.

But in the face of the war with Prussia, Napoleon III could not use BNP Paribas bonds, French perfume, lace skirts and delicious wine to fight, right?

Before the war came, he could not let the French capitalists not make money, and quickly build arms and steel. In addition, he could not say that he could not beat the Prussian king next to the Germans, but he could not say that he could not beat Napoleon - that was very appropriate, right? If the Prussians did not work hard, they would have to be slaves to Napoleon for generations! In order not to be slaves, they should work hard at all.

But Napoleon III dared not say the same thing.

Valevsky whispered: "Your Majesty, maybe we should consider working with the Church to suppress the spread of these revolutionary ideas."

Napoleon III shook his head: "The problem now is not revolutionary ideas, but more and more German steel, German cannons, German rear guns, more and more, getting better and better. Duke, do you know? We France is actually behind! But I have no choice. I don't even dare to tell the truth about the French people who feel good about themselves."

The two fell silent, leaving only the crackling sound of firewood burning in the fireplace in the room.

At the same time, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Embassy in Paris, Weng Tongjue, Ma Baocai, Hu Wansheng and Feng Xiuying had just arrived. The attendants of the embassy were busy setting their luggage, while Weng Tongjue personally made a pot of Longjing tea for everyone.

"Everyone, take a break first." Weng Tongjue smiled, "The winter in Paris is much colder than in Tianjing, so drink some hot tea to warm your body."

Ma Bao took the teacup and nodded slightly to thank him. Hu Wansheng looked around and looked at the Chinese decoration inside the European building - mahogany furniture, landscape screens, blue and white porcelain vases, which showed the style of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom everywhere.

Feng Xiuying stood by the window, looking at the Parisian citizens hurriedly passing by the street, thinking about something.

At this moment, the embassy guards walked in quickly and whispered: "Master Weng, Archbishop Doria and Prince Napoleon came to visit, saying that they wanted to meet Lord Ma and Lord Hu."

Weng Tongjue raised his eyebrows: "Why did they come so quickly?"

Ma Bao put down the teacup and said lightly: "It seems that they also know that the world of Europe is going to be in chaos!"

Hu Wansheng stood up and said, "Let them come in."

A moment later, Archbishop Doria and Prince Napoleon walked into the hall. Both were wearing casual clothes, obviously not wanting to attract attention. Archbishop Doria looked much older than when he was the archbishop in China, but his eyes were still sharp, while Prince Napoleon was a little fat and looked worried. His status in France was equivalent to that of the Moltke of Prussia, and of course he knew that Prussia was getting stronger day by day. Although France had fought everywhere in recent years and looked extremely powerful, Prussia's heavy industry had surpassed France. Steel and coal were 30%-50% more than France! Moreover, the level of Prussian military industry was higher. They had completed the rear-loading guns 20 years ago and could produce tens of millions of copper-shelled bullets, and the breech gun was second only to Britain.

France has not made any rear-loading guns so far, and the breech guns are not very good, much worse than Prussia.

What's even more terrifying is that France feels that it's good.

Weng Tongjue stepped forward and introduced with a smile: "His archbishop, Your Highness, this is Ma Baocai, the ambassador of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the United Kingdom, this is Hu Wansheng, the king of Henan, and will replace me as ambassador to France. This is Feng Xiuying, the adopted daughter of Feng Yunshan Nanwang, and the sister of the Baron of Temple Mount."

Archbishop Doria's eyes swept over the three of them, and finally stopped on Ma Baocai. He knew him when he was an archbishop in China, and also knew that he was "one of the twelve disciples" and the core disciple of Luo Yaoguo. So he said in a deep voice: "Master Ma, we are here today to ask for something."

Prince Napoleon also spoke immediately: "What is the prophecy about the 'Telection of Mary' and Luo Yaoguo?"

Ma Baocai looked calm and slowly lowered the teacup: "His archbishop, Your Highness, this matter involves the secret of heaven and should not be easily revealed. But since you come in person, I can tell you--my teacher did predict that Europe is about to usher in a great war, and the defeated side will have a revolution."

Archbishop Doria's face changed: "Will the revolution affect the church?"

Ma Baocai nodded: "Yes. Moreover, the church will suffer an unprecedented impact. Even before this war breaks out, the church will encounter a major crisis! Because the Italian nation-state is about to be born!"

Archbishop Doria's eyebrows were locked in a ball: "Absurd. How could we be the same people as the people of color in southern Italy?"

Doria has blonde hair and blue eyes, and her skin is as white as snow. At a glance, she knows that she is a descendant of the Germanic conqueror. He is not the same nation as those in southern Italy!

Prince Napoleon asked anxiously: "When will the war break out?"

Hu Wansheng took over the conversation: "The specific time cannot be determined, but it won't be too long."

Archbishop Doria took a deep breath and looked at Feng Xiuying: "Prince Feng, what do you think of the Southern King?"

Feng Xiuying said lightly: "My father said that since Vienna's balance of power no longer exists, it is inevitable that a war broke out in Europe. And the church. My father said: If there is no Roman kingdom, then God's return to God and Caesar's return to Caesar."

Archbishop Doria was silent for a moment and finally nodded slowly: "I understand... It seems that I must return to Rome as soon as possible."

Prince Napoleon looked at Hu Wansheng: "Mr. Hu, if the war really breaks out, which side should the Taiping Heavenly Congress stand?"

Hu Wansheng smiled slightly: "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not interfere in the internal affairs of Europe. But one thing is certain - no matter who wins or loses, the fire of the revolution will not be extinguished. If you want the fire of the revolution to not burn, you must avoid war. But can your Bonaparte dynasty be afraid of war?"

The room fell silent again, leaving only the flames in the fireplace burning quietly.
Chapter completed!