In today's France, Napoleon's grandson is the emperor, but he is still young, and he grew up in Quebec, controlled by his grandfather Aosta since childhood, and has a cowardly personality; But his uncle, Napoleon's nephew, Napoleon III Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, was a powerful figure who helped him become Emperor of France in exchange for a promise to form a cabinet by him, and has been the Prime Minister of France ever since.

There was also Aosta, the old fox to balance Louis Napoleon, but unfortunately Aosta died three years ago, leaving an inheritance worth up to 20 million US dollars, when he used 3 million US dollars in funding, in exchange for a marriage with the Napoleonic family, and with his grandson became the emperor of France, in exchange for a duke title for himself, but he was stingy, leaving his grandson with an inheritance of only 300,000 US dollars A batch of art.

After Aosta's death, Louis Napoleon took sole power.

On the one hand, he used Napoleon's prestige to gain the support of the peasants, and on the other hand, he won over the bourgeois conservatives, and Napoleon's position as prime minister was very stable, almost equivalent to the power of a constitutional monarchy prime minister.

Coincidentally, the relationship between France and China has always been a bit strange in recent years, when Aosta was in power in Quebec, this guy was a China expert, he was a huge fortune accumulated by trading with China, he was the largest fur merchant in the United States, he invested his profits in New York real estate, and became the largest real estate developer in New York.

France has mainly expanded in North Africa in recent years, after the death of Ali in Egypt, the Ali dynasty ended the expansion period, France successfully seized control of Tunisia from Egypt, but then expanded south, that is, Tripoli and Cyrenaica, which Egypt has firmly controlled, are also far away from France. France began to expand westward, trying to integrate with its own West African possessions.

In recent years, the battle with the Berbers and Alabas in Africa has not stopped, France formed a strong African Korps, successfully subdued the Berber tribes in the interior of Algaria, and followed the route of the Kingdom of Morocco to conquer Mali in the desert, successfully conquered the nomadic tribes in the entire Sahara Desert, and connected North Africa and West African territories. Sandwiched between French territories was the Spanish-occupied Morocco.

South of the Congo River in Africa is the territory of the mighty South African Empire, an empire founded by the Manchu military chieftain Delentai, which is very magical, with a large population and loose organization, but it is scattered but not chaotic. Africa south of the Congo River and south of the Ethiopian plateau has been conquered by him.

The land between the north of the Congo River and the Niger River is the territory directly under the Chinese African Company, and the coastal position between the two river mouths was originally occupied by the Spanish, and the Spaniards also claimed that the land between the two rivers was owned by the Spaniards, although the Spaniards did not even know what was between the two rivers, they never went deep inland, and they all transferred black slaves through the black tribes and the Alabes.

During the war between China and Britain, the United States and Spain, the African company captured the area, and then divided the land between the two rivers as its own direct territory, and opened a large number of bases along the river. The Azeobia Plateau and the Somali Peninsula are the domain of another Chinese company, and European companies occupy this Red Sea outlet position as a large rear to control the Suez Canal and the Red Sea.

To the north of the Ethiopian plateau is Egyptian-controlled Sudan.

This is the current state of affairs in Africa, largely controlled by the French, British, Spanish, Chinese, and South African empires.

Between French North Africa and West Africa, with the exception of the Sahara Desert, is Spanish-controlled Morocco. Therefore, France also wanted to seize Morocco, a colony more valuable than the desert, and connect French Africa as one.

The British controlled Senegal south of French West Africa and the Niger River under Chinese control, and they eliminated the local black kingdoms such as Dahomey and established British West Africa, although the British were limited to coastal occupation, but their claimed sovereignty included inland areas.

Therefore, France's enemies in the battle for Africa are Spain and Britain, which are highly consistent with China's interests, and the two countries cannot cooperate if they want to.

In today's world, there are not many colonies that can be occupied, and France still has two lands in the Americas. One is the Kingdom of Quebec, located in North America, which is vast in size, but too high in latitude for development. Guyana also has a territory in South America, bordered by Dutch and British Guiana, and France is eager to annex the entire territory of Guyana, which will inevitably pass the Anglo-Dutch barrier. It's easy to say here in the Netherlands, mainly in the UK.

The Chinese promised many benefits from France's alliance with China. China and France united against Anglo-American Spain, and once they won, France could seize Spain's Morocco and carve up British West Africa, China only needed the Gulf of Guinea region, and the rest of British Africa would go to France.

In South America, France was allowed to get British Guiana and get Venezuela. In North America, the two sides carved up British America with the James Bay centerline.

France thought it was very unfair, and in Africa, Louis Napoleon believed that the most valuable thing in the British colonies was the Gulf of Guinea, and the rest of the land was desolate, so France should get half of the Gulf of Guinea, and the two sides should divide the Gulf of Guinea with the zero meridian as the boundary.

In South America, France believes that it is too little to get Venezuela in return for France, and he demands the whole of New Granada. For North America, it should not be bounded by James Bay, but by the Nelson River, which flows into Hudson Bay, to France in the east and China in the west.

China has not insisted too much on the territorial issue, this is just a principle of division, and if you want to divide the enemy's territory, you must at least win the war.

So China made a concession and promised France to divide British Africa with a zero meridian. It was also agreed that British North America should be divided along the Nelson River. South America promised to give France most of New Granada, east of the Magdalena River, so that China could get a small coastal area in the Atlantic.

The division of the territory is completed, and the stage of sharing of responsibilities begins. Britain and the United States have set an example, that is, once a war starts, both sides must fight with all their own manpower and material resources. But France wants China to provide some economic aid, and France's finances have always been inferior to Britain's, and France fears that the war will last too long and will collapse France.

France's finances have been under great pressure, and the mess left by the Napoleonic Wars took the Orleans dynasty twenty years to pay off. Napoleon overdrew France's finances so much that he raised French taxes from more than 500 million francs in 1804 to more than 800 million francs in 1812. Thirty years later, France's finances are now only 1 billion francs. The British fiscal revenue has reached 80 million pounds, equivalent to 2 billion francs, which is twice the revenue of France.

France hopes that China will provide 1 billion francs a year in aid during the war to allow France to bridge the gap with Britain.

This is really a lion's mouth, 10 francs is enough for China to recruit a million mercenaries.

But after thinking about it, I agreed to France's request, because the mercenaries did not have such a geographical position as France.

China's purpose, once a war with Britain starts, will not easily end the war without completely defeating Britain, and once and for all to solve Britain's troubles, what is faster than landing directly in Britain?

And the geographical location of France, destined to land in the UK from France, is the best choice!

Bismarck silently waited for the news of the Sino-French alliance, and when it was determined that China and France had basically reached a good agreement, Bismarck continued to stand still, lingering all day long at various social banquets in France, as if his visit was a routine affair and had no special purpose.

He was waiting for the reaction of the British.

Bismarck saw that France's geographical location was too critical, as long as France declared war on Britain, regardless of whether France took actual military action or not, Britain could not put all its forces overseas, and he had to divide some, or even most of it, to defend its homeland.

In a war with a superpower like China, Britain will surely lose if it does not go all out. Therefore, Britain will definitely take action, and Britain will never put itself in an unfavorable situation, let alone go to war in an unfavorable situation.

But just as it was difficult for Prussia to directly win over France, it was impossible for Britain to directly win over France, unless Britain was willing to give up a lot of benefits to France, but that level of abandonment was no different from defeat. Bismarck thought that Britain must be looking for allies in Europe who could counterbalance France, and that there were allies better geographically than Prussia?

Now that Britain's need for Prussia has become more important than ever, then Prussia can have British support.

Sure enough, Britain could not succeed in winning over France, and China and France announced a military alliance, the content of which was the same as that of the Anglo-American alliance, but on a larger scale.

The Anglo-American alliance is confined to the Americas and is only aimed at China, while the Sino-French alliance includes Africa and the Americas.

But neither side included Europe, and apparently did not want to be involved in Europe's chaotic civil war.

In other words, if France goes to war with Prussia, China will not intervene. But Britain and France are both world powers, and their wars are bound to break out in the Americas and Africa at the same time, so it can be said that China is against Britain, and France is also against Britain.

Bismarck knew that Britain was now asking for Prussia, but he did not approach Britain, but approached Louis Napoleon in a high-profile manner, and openly went out in some social occasions with the other party, as if to convey Franco-Prussian friendship to the outside world, in order to put pressure on Britain and make the British show more benefits.

Of course, Bismarck did not forget what he came to France for at this time.

During his talks with Louis Napoleon, he posed a question to the other side:

"What will be the attitude of France if war breaks out between Prussia and Austria?"

Louis Napoleon said: "France does not take a stand for what did not happen!" ”

Bismarck asked: "The war that broke out in Austria must be a long war, but Prussia's finances cannot support it." Britain will not support a big war in Central Europe, will Prussia be able to finance the French financial markets? ”

Louis Napoleon thought for a moment and said: "The French government will not interfere in the commercial business of the French financial industry. ”

Bismarck got what he wanted, he knew that Louis Napoleon wanted Austro-Prussia to go to war, the purpose was nothing more than to hope that the two powerful neighbors would weaken each other, and that France was neutral, at least in the early stages of the war.

After Bismarck finished the talks, he quickly returned home, and he had to wait for the next diplomatic pull from Britain.