Recently, France is being ruled by a funeral and a revelry.

These two events are actually the same thing: the victorious army on the Crimean peninsula began to gradually return to the French mainland, receiving a warm welcome from the enthusiastic citizens, and at the same time, they welcomed back the coffin of the French commander-in-chief, Marshal Victor de Treville, the Bonaparte Empire lost one of its prestige pillars, and the conspirators in the Tuileries Palace sighed helplessly.

It was a blessing for Marshal Tréville to die at the height of his victory, and he will go down in history as a synonym for victory that will always be remembered by the French.

However, for the living Bonapartes, what they faced would not be merely glorious victories and glories, they would face something much more tricky.

France was already heavily indebted to fight the war, and its already precarious budget was heavily burdened, and the French people would have to bear even heavier taxes in the coming decades in order to maintain such expenditures.

In these turbulent years, so many people in France had no food, clothing, so many people without shelter, and yet their government spent astronomical sums of money to fight in a faraway place that even most of them had never heard of in their lifetime, and had never threatened France, and this was the glory that this group of Bonaparte bandits brought to France!

Of course, it would be a mistake of mechanism to think of Louis Bonaparte and the empire as the same model of rule as Louis XIV. In fact, if we take a magnifying glass and take a closer look at this empire, we will see that it is a new monster catalyzed by capitalism, much more powerful and sinister than the empire of Louis XIV.

In the distant era of Louis XIV, France has been the enemy of Europe several times, engaged in perennial wars, without going into the terrible consequences of the War of the Grand Alliance and the War of the Spanish Succession, we only need to know that in the last years of Louis XIV's reign, France was already a country full of holes, financial bankruptcy, and a dynasty in jeopardy, a dynasty that had lost countless people in the Great Famine, so much so that Louis XIV himself advised his great-grandson Louis XV, who inherited his throne, not to go to war again!

And what about today?

Although France spent a great deal of money on military and material on its expeditions, the economy was so prosperous, the markets were booming, and credit was constantly expanding, so much so that the great consumption seemed to give the country a dose of medicine, and even the most opposed to the dynasty benefited from the economic prosperity, or at least tacitly acknowledged the rule of the bandits.

Why is there such a difference between the two eras when the same large-scale wars were being waged? Why is there such a counterintuitive, juggling boom?

This is the consequence of the magic wand of capitalism.

The developed financial industry, which underpins the economy of France today, has a monopoly on the supply of currency in France by the dominant Banque de France, and according to its dominant position, the financial community is harmonized, allowing the country to make full use of the wealth it has accumulated over the centuries, while increasing the government's ability to raise funds.

Sophisticated financiers provide the government with huge debts – huge debts that provide the government with unprecedented resources and the ability to act – government resources are channelled into the corporate system through government orders – and corporate prosperity is eventually translated into market prosperity.

Yes, Louis XIV's war ended up on the brink of extinction for his government and his people, but Louis Bonaparte's war made him and his oligarchs, the financiers and industrialists, a fortune, and a debt was thrown into the future for the future to be borne by the future French, and the people saw the prosperity they had now, so it was difficult to raise the fear of the future, which is the magic of capitalism in France.

In a sense, it is not surprising that the war between Russia, which was immersed in the old feudal era, and France, which had been transformed beyond recognition by financiers, was a war of two eras, and in the end the advanced triumphed over the backward.

Although I have said countless ill things about the absurdity of Louis Bonaparte and the wickedness and fragility of his empire, I will still be proud of Bonaparte's gangsters, whose oligarchs and warlords, no matter how ridiculous, represented by Bonaparte, will still be superior to the Tsar and his serf owners, no matter how ridiculous they may be.

This is the monster that capitalism has cultivated in the development of a hundred years, Louis Bonaparte saw the power of these monsters, he was very attentive to the monsters, and promised that as long as he took France in his hands, he would definitely give the country to these monsters again, and these monsters willingly put him on the throne and made him their leader, such a combination of industrialists, financiers and careerists finally gave birth to a group of oligarchs who controlled France. It also put this military empire on the path of war and adventure.

However, as we know, there will always be a day when magic tricks will be seen through, and there will be times when this kind of game will not be played.

Inadvertently, the people of France, who hailed the victory and the glory, those who worked industriously and tirelessly, those who endured the harsh laws and excesses imposed on them by the Tuileries, and their descendants, became slaves to this huge debt—the people who reveled in the glory of the "national victory", who thought they had the glory of the Empire, but who were only given an astronomical yoke that would trap them for decades!

And that's not the scariest part.

There will be no end to this game, the oligarchs will have to maintain the profits they have made, the prosperity they have created, so they will have to create adventures and crises again and again, they will have to create more debts, and in turn, they will have to wage more wars. Such a dangerous move would destabilize the whole of Europe and eventually swallow itself.

The departure of Marshal Tréville represents the end of the old era of Emperor Napoleon, the end of the half-century entanglement between the French Empire and the Russian Empire, but it does not in any way represent the end of Bonaparte's military adventurism, and we can even say with great confidence that in the future, the new Bonaparte Emperor will carry out more and larger-scale military adventures, bringing more fear and chaos to Europe.

This prophecy, of course, does not come from the alarmism of astrologers, but from the objective laws revealed by iron-clad reality, which we will surely see in the coming years.

This is the reality we should see.

It is conceivable that in the next few years, a dozen years, Louis Bonaparte and his oligarchic supporters will wage war after war, and they will continue to fight against Austria, Prussia, and perhaps England, and even with them all, until all these wars are beyond the load of the empire, and this ridiculous empire is destined to collapse.

This is the inevitable direction, and even if Louis Bonaparte knew that the adventure he launched would one day devour him, he had to go on like this, because the end of this capitalist behemoth was there, either consumed by debt or crushed by war.

And in the process, the fierce infighting will entangle the empire, so that it cannot be escaped - the oligarchs have both overlapping and conflicting interests, so their political views will appear different according to their interests, it is self-evident, we can imagine that the fierce conflict of interests will eventually turn into endless infighting, and the countries controlled by the warlords will be many times more intense than ordinary people think.

Perhaps from this point of view, Louis Bonaparte, who shed tears and grief at the funeral of Marshal Treville, may not have been so sad in his heart, but may have been filled with a certain joy that a warlord with great power had been taken away by God and would never again threaten his position.

And will Charles de Treville, the young man we have mentioned several times before, the oligarch and favorite of Louis Bonaparte, after losing the influence and protection of his grandfather, be able to maintain his position, and will he be crushed by his fellow robbers who are full of jealousy and desperately want to take his place?

Everything is still in chaos, but it is also an objective fact that we can expect that the Tuileries Palace will waver in the heat of internal strife and external military adventures in the years to come.

Is it only the fate of the French Empire to go on a military adventure in the midst of fierce infighting, and to inevitably perish in the midst of military adventure?

No, capital and its spokesmen, the thirst for profit, the pursuit of adventure, the love of blood, have no borders, and in a sense, these countries ruled or about to be ruled by financiers will also go down this path, and their class nature and demand for profit will lead to the union of warlords and financiers in each country, and this will doom these European powers on the road of expansion, competition and final duel, and destruction.

We can conclude that, even with the fall of the Bonaparte dynasty and the oligarchy that took their place, military conquests, the consumption of astronomical sums of money, and the imposition of debt shackles on their own people even if the Bonaparte were to fall, the degeneration of capitalism would only allow them to follow this path – England, Prussia, Austria, and the future oligarchic powers.

Capitalism and the oligarchs it spawned may be more evil than the gentle, decadent and depraved aristocratic landlords, but they are certainly more aggressive, dedicating all their talents to the total expansion of the empire they control, until everything is divided, and they will finally fight each other and bring unprecedented terror and disaster to the world.

After understanding all these people who enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of mankind, these people who are obliged to give all their efforts to the people, these people who have been pushed to the highest peak of power by money, it is in this way that they repay the general public who have contributed super-profits to them, this is the inherent evil of capitalism, and after understanding all this, can we not understand how natural and urgent it is to eliminate them?

Yes, time is too short, before the young people of Europe are forced to arm themselves and fight each other, before the world is forced to bleed and trampled on by countless armies, before one nation after another is killed and destroyed, all peace-loving people should see the truth, seize the last time to unite, dispel all the shameless lies that have been imposed on people, discard those "brilliance" and "glory" that do not exist at all, break the fog created by these oligarchs, and unite to overthrow these oligarchs.

Only in this way can this world, which has been transformed beyond recognition and is about to be stained red with blood, come out of the quagmire; Only these enslaved toiling masses have the opportunity to usher in their own tomorrow.

We don't have a lot of time, but I'm convinced that we can do it all.