Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, this is the long name of Napoleon III, and every word in it represents a noble lineage.

Napoleon's own nephew, the god of war, whose father was once the king of the Netherlands, learned what politics and power were when he lived with his uncle as a teenager, and the subsequent days of exile taught him what perseverance is.

Louis Bonaparte was a natural careerist, taking part in the uprising of the Charcoal Party in Rome at the age of 23 and launching the Strasbourg riots against the French government at the time of 28.

He then went into exile in North and South America, settled in England for a time, and then at the age of 32 began to launch the Boulogne riots in France, which failed and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

And that's not all, six years later, at the age of 38, Louis Bonaparte managed to escape from prison under the protection of his supporters and absconded to England.

It can be seen that this person's youth and middle age were all followers who rioted one after another, either initiating riots or preparing for riots.

And not only by force, this clever guy will also write books to deceive the poor people at the bottom of France, "Napoleonic Thought" and "On the Eradication of Poverty" are his two most famous books, just like Hitler's My Struggle, which did deceive a large number of people at that time.

When Louis Bonaparte was forty years old, the goddess of fate began to smile at him, and after the February Revolution of France overthrew the July Dynasty, Charles Louis Bonaparte could finally return home with the right words.

He participated in parliamentary elections, was elected president of the Republic, launched a Roman expedition to support the Pope's suppression of the Roman Republic, and finally succeeded in restoring the Second French Empire with the support of the army and the Pope, as well as a large number of capitalists.

This is a strongman politician, his ambitions can be said to be big and unchanged, but he is also a very smart politician, at least he will not follow his uncle's attempt to challenge the order of the whole of Europe, he knows how to cooperate with the British, which is a very cunning diplomatic strategy.

It was thanks to his nimble use of the lion and the fox that during his reign as emperor, France's overseas colonies developed like never before.

Uniting Britain against Russia, won the Crimean War, and forced Tsar Nicholas I to death.

War broke out with Austria and successfully annexed Nice and Savoy.

Launched an expeditionary force to invade Mexico, Syria, and Vietnam.

Of course, there is also the expedition to China that shocked the world, when the capital of thousands of years of ancient civilization was broken by the British and French forces, the whole of Europe was silent, Russia and China are both influential geopolitical powers in people's minds, and they are not opponents of France, at that time Napoleon III's prestige was so high that even the Queen of England could not suppress it.

Throughout the first half of Napoleon III's life, we can find that this is a very proud man, his ambition is not tolerated by the whole world, except for a few awe in the face of the British Royal Navy, he does not care about the rest of the world.

In the middle of the night, the Palace of Versailles was dead silent, the court attendants on both sides of the corridor did not even dare to say a word, and the emperor's favorite Hall of Mirrors was silent, which was even more terrifying.

In the past, when things didn't go well, the emperor would smash a few bottles of wine, porcelain plates or something to vent, although that violent venting was terrible, but it was far less terrifying than such a dull and depressing atmosphere.

No one knows what His Majesty the Emperor is going to do, and if this dark cloud does not release the power of thunder and lightning that has accumulated up, I am afraid that no one will dare to put their minds at ease.

But no one knew that Napoleon III, who was sitting alone in the Hall of Mirrors, was holding his hands to his chest in pain, and he felt that he could not breathe, and he felt that he was about to suffocate.

Angry, utterly angry, Dakar's telegram was like a resounding slap in the face, no one could have imagined that such a thing would happen, where is the colony ruled by West France for hundreds of years, who would dare to declare war on France so boldly.

But he knew that the Doge and Molière could not have come to him en masse, let alone make up such a stupid lie, and no one would joke with their lives.

To be honest, the emperor doesn't care about a Dakar, after all, it's just a small African city with tens of thousands of people, and even if it is completely destroyed, a new one can be built within a year or two. He didn't care even more about the dead soldiers, more than a thousand casualties were nothing to the empire.

And those taxes, if they are lost, they will be lost, and they will not affect the finances of the empire at all, let alone those black people, and the emperor will not treat those black people as human beings at all.

Charles-Louis Bonaparte was saddened by the words of several cabinet ministers who had just left, especially Foreign Secretary Thiers, who had taken a clear stand against their military plans.

"Damn, I just want to add 1.5 billion gold francs, and these bastards actually use financial constraints as an excuse to perfunctory me!

"What's wrong? Is it that I am too weak, that Prussia dares to challenge my dignity, and Xiao Lotian of the Ryukyus dares to insult my face...... Now I can't even manage my own cabinet ministers?"

"Can't these blind men see the appearance of a pure steel battleship in Dakar, which has already blown up the entire city? If the French navy is not reformed, the advantage we have built up will disappear immediately!"

The Emperor covered his heart with his painful hand, and for the first time in all his years in power, he felt powerless and unable to control the situation.

"It can't go on like this, France needs war, only war can unite people's hearts, only victory can strengthen the foundation of my governance, and only blood and fire can let these bureaucrats know who is the master of this empire!"

"Someone!" exclaimed Charles Louis Bonaparte, "send the fastest clippers to bring back Molière and the dead fat man, and let them come to Paris with the evidence, as fast as they can!"

"All the intelligence agencies have put down all their tasks, and now there is only one goal, and that is to find the owner of the battleship, and all the information about the battleship, with a focus on Prussia, Great Britain, the United States, ......"

"And ...... And there's the damn Ryukyu, the damn Xiao Lotian!"

The Emperor's anger soon spread to the heads of the French intelligence services, and hundreds of thousands of intelligence agents around the world took action en masse to search for the damn warship.

There is no impermeable wall, and when the French took action, the European powers also got the latest news, Britain was in an uproar, the United States was in an uproar, Austria, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal were all in an uproar.

Everyone couldn't believe their ears at first, they even thought that the French were going crazy, but after the merchants of the Dakar countries brought back the information themselves, these European powers all went crazy, and all the intelligence agencies joined in the search for the mysterious warship.

Of course, the most shocking thing was Prussia, when Bismarck got the news, the old man even pulled off several of his beards, and he screamed in pain.

"Oh my God, are these Chinese boys beating my heart? Do you have to force me to have a heart attack?"

At this moment, the guards outside the door shouted, "His Royal Highness Prince Karl has arrived!"

Note: The second shift is over, and there will be another shift in the evening!