The sea breeze blows the French tricolor flag fluttering on merchant ships, the turquoise sea churns with thin waves, and a sizable harbor looms ahead.

Twenty officers and cadets from France gathered at the side of the ship at this moment, looking at the harbor in the distance, imagining their vast future.

The white seabirds rowed past the bow of the ship, and the crisp call was so pleasant, and after tens of thousands of miles of sailing from France, they finally came to the East.

The Chinese's Jinghai harbor is just ahead, and the golden sunlight shines on the sea, turning the distant waves into a shimmering gold.

The sea is like a turquoise mirror, reflecting everything on the mirror very clearly, and the arrival of two French merchant ships, the white sails are so conspicuous on the blue sea.

When the warships were still only five or six miles away from Jinghai Harbor, four Chen Han warships that had converged from the vicinity of Jinghai approached the French.

China and France had already dissolved the war relations, the two sides exchanged salutes, and the Chinese sailors who had made preliminary communication with the French merchant ship on a sampan quickly contacted their own fleet, and then everything was naturally fine.

Sixteen-year-old Napoleon Bwannaba held a telescope and looked at the Jinghai port area, really like the news circulating in France, the Chinese love cleanliness, and all parts of the port area are clean. That's really refreshing!

Look, the large areas of gray-white flat ground are concrete.

Cranes, trolleys, rails, steam engines, a different kind of style is common. Aside from the lighthouses and batteries in the port, there are many things that cannot be seen in the port of France.

As a left-handed dwarf from Corsica, Buwannaba initially did not consider himself a Frenchman, but was bent on one day making Corsica independent from France.

Seven years ago, he left his homeland for mainland France, and before he was ten years old, he first entered the Lycée de Auton, and soon transferred to the École de la Beaton in France, under the arrangement of his father, Carlo Bonaparte.

Brienne Military Academy is a junior military academy that trains reserve talents for the military and senior military schools, and has very low requirements for cadets. As long as you are in good health, you can go to school, and many people can also get special scholarships in France, almost no tuition, cheap room and board, and even a little pocket money every month, the financial pressure of going to school here is almost none, and it is undoubtedly the best way out for many children from poor families.

Buwannaba was a studious man, but as an "outsider" from remote and colonial Corsica, he was often bullied by other native cadets due to his diminutive stature, but he was very resilient and tenacious, and through his tireless efforts, often leading fights, he eventually earned the respect of many native students. During this time, he showed a great talent in mathematics, especially geometry.

His excellent results also made him finally selected as a 'Chinese student', becoming one of the twenty people, and he was still the youngest one.

Buwannaba had not yet reached his sixteenth birthday when he set out from France, and his father was not in good health at the time, but he was very supportive of his son's journey to the East. Because this is a well-known path of light.

Although France has not really fought with the Chinese, the first army of the Duke in this era of European military circles is still the crown of the Gallic rooster, even if many people think that the combat effectiveness of the British lobster soldiers and the Prussian army is not weak, but France is the first in the European land war of the Duke.

The Chinese have not fought with France, nor with Britain or Prussia, the Spaniards and the Dutch are all second-rate countries in Europe, and the combat effectiveness of the army is not even in the forefront of the second-rate. But the Russians also fell under the Chinese sword and gun.

The Russians were still very good in combat, and the Prussian army also suffered defeat at their guns in the Seven Years' War.

By the definition of continental Europe, Russia, located in the northern icy zone, is a 'barbarian'. But looking through the history of the East and the West, the combat effectiveness of the 'barbarians' has always been not weak.

And the main point is that China has fought the Europeans several times, except for the war in the South Seas, it has a military and logistical advantage. In the earliest war against Russia and the recently concluded war in the Northwest, the Chinese were all in a weak position. They are winning more with less, and this has greatly improved the gold content of China and the army.

The proud Gallic rooster, of course, would not have thought that the Chinese army was stronger than the French army. The reason why people were sent to study at China's military academy this time was under the banner of exchange and communication, and it was more to show the closeness of relations with China and to mend the rifts in the past.

The other 20 international students also took the opportunity to really assess the current military situation of the Chinese.

More than a million regular troops, just thinking about it makes people have the urge to pee their pants.

How many people are there in France now?

How much more can it be to pull all the French men of the right age into the battlefield? France's standing army was less than 200,000, and the previous war brought the number of French troops alone to 200,000, but the war was over, and the reduction of the army was inevitable. Moreover, the government has such a huge financial burden, and the number of troops is likely to be even lower than before the war.

For a country with more standing armies than the five frances combined, it is necessary for Paris to know about it, even if it is far apart. Don't forget North America, the Chinese are not a few steps away from Louisiana.

I don't know that Napoleon Buwannabas is Napoleon Bonaparte's Chen Ming, and he fully leaks his attributes as a historical novice, he is a master who is less than half a bottle of swaying, and he doesn't know what transliteration is, and he doesn't know the allusion to Napoleon's name.

Therefore, Emperor Chen did not know the future god at all, the son of the plane in the true sense of the word in the next thirty years, the son of luck, the dwarf emperor who played with a broken wheel, and would soon go to study at the Central Military Academy he established.

Moreover, Emperor Chen had no idea that the three years that the future god spent in China were not only three years of study, but also three years of part-time work.

Military cadets have food subsidies, and they don't need money at all to eat and sleep at school, but they always need money in daily life, right? When Napoleon set out from France, he carried with him not enough coins to spend three years.

So he first took advantage of his rest days to work and study at school, and then extended his part-time work life to the surrounding areas when he became familiar with the surrounding areas and spoke Chinese more fluently. In the process, Napoleon also had a deeper understanding of Chinese society, Chinese culture, and Chinese traditions, rather than purely understanding China militarily.

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Time came to the twelfth year of Chengtian in a blink of an eye, that is, in 1786 of the Western calendar.

This was the year when something happened in both the East and the West. First of all, in the West, the Kingdom of Prussia ushered in irrepressible grief, in January, two highly decorated Prussian marshals came to the end of their lives, Hans von Lewald, Prussian Field Marshal, who had the feat of blocking the attack on East Prussia with 80,000 troops in the Seven Years' War, and also the tragedy of the Russian army under the command of Aprashkin at the Battle of Bolshay Jagersdorf. But in any case, this is a Prussian veteran.

Just four days after Marshal Levald's death, another Prussian field marshal, the famous cavalry general Count Hans Ernst Karl von Zeiten, completed the final step of his 87-year life.

In the War of the Austrian Succession, Count Zitten, as a major general, and Lieutenant General Nassau led 6,000 Prussian cavalry in the southern sector to defeat Austria with 7,000 cavalry. Ziten personally led the elite of the Prussian cavalry, 10 squadrons of the Bayreuth regiment charged, and within 20 minutes, he took 9 cannons, 67 flags, captured 2,500 Austrians, and only 94 of his own killed.

He participated in the Seven Years' War, including the Battle of Prague, the Battle of Kolin, the Battle of Leuten, the Battle of Lignitz, and the Battle of Torgau. He took part in most of the wars during the forty years when the Kingdom of Prussia established itself as a great power on the European continent. His impressive achievements were recorded in the annals of European history as Frederick's number one right-hand man.

When the news of the earthquake in Kangdingnan, China, reached Nanjing in early five lunar months, Frederick the Great, who led the Prussian kingdom to quickly become one of the European powers in just twenty or thirty years, closed his eyes forever after forty-six years on the throne.

That's a big deal.

Frederick II was a famous military strategist, statesman, writer and composer in European history. He ascended the throne in 1740 AD. The Silesian War was waged twice. In 1756, the Seven Years' War against the Kingdom of France, the Russian Empire, and the Austrian Empire was launched, and the fortunate victory gave the Kingdom of Prussia a qualitative increase in its international standing on the European continent. In 1772, the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire took advantage of the crisis in Poland's internal affairs to divide the territory of Poland for the first time and obtain the territory of West Prussia. In 1785, a federation of 15 princes of the German Confederation was formed. He died in Potsdam in 1786.

He was a representative of the "enlightened autocracy" in Europe, and was an important figure in the Enlightenment in many aspects such as politics, economics, philosophy, law, and even music. Under its iron-fisted rule, Prussia rose rapidly in power and within a short time became one of the great powers of Europe.

It can be said that Frederick II is one of the templates for the 'Ming Emperor and Hero' in the European monotheistic world, and if Napoleon did not end in failure, he was a grassroots struggle version of Frederick II.

The two eras were so close apart, but even so, Napoleon's brilliant light that people couldn't look at it could not completely obscure Frederick II's figure.

This is a figure engraved in the history of the whole of Europe, and his death can be said to be the end of an era.

In the history of the world in later generations, in the entire Western calendar in 1786 and the twelfth year of the Han calendar, the biggest and most important event that occurred in the East and the West, was the death of Frederick II in the West, and Chen Ming's attack on Annan in the East.

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Since the 11th year of Chengtian, the situation in Annan has been somewhat unstable.

Whether it is Northern Zheng, Southern Ruan, or the remnant Qing, all kinds of problems have arisen on the road of political reform.

Nam Nguyen is a standard political innovation, taking the road of capital, and constitutional monarchy is a major premise, and Russia, Germany, Japan, and even the Manchu Qing and Siam in the history of the original time and space are its teachers.

However, although the Nam Ruan royal family succumbed to Nanjing and played a constitutional monarchy, it made the monarch of a country deeply influenced by traditional Chinese culture take the initiative to give up the rights in his hands, if not completely, at the beginning only gave up a small part, which is no different from cutting his flesh.

However, the Nanruan official group, which has a profound influence on Confucianism, is like a chicken blood, and this constitutional monarchy is not the same as 'the Holy Son of Heaven ruling by the arch'?

So Nam Nguyen messed up. It is also a loss that the Xishan Army does not dare to attack Nanruan again, otherwise Nanruan will really have to soften.

And if Nam Nguyen is an internal power struggle, and because there is a big mountain overhead, both sides can't be ruthless, but they are forced to form a situation of 'fighting but not breaking'.

Then Beizheng, who takes the national capital route, is the real 'capital' line, and there is a problem with the line, they are too capitalist, and they are too monopoly.

After the reform, Beizheng's economy developed to a certain extent at the beginning, but many private enterprises had backers behind them, and they could be related to the military and political groups in a distant or near way, while the old-fashioned businessmen were eliminated one after another.

When the emerging monopoly economy reached a certain scale, they began to expand to other industries, they began to eat big fish and small fish, and kept merging, from the beginning they were involved in relatively profitable industries, such as salt industry and grain export, and then quickly expanded to all aspects of life, just as Lao Ma described 'capital' in Capital: capitalism came to the world, dripping with dirty blood and dirty things from head to toe!

Annam is a place where there are many minerals, but most of them are in the north, especially the area north of the Red River, which is now occupied by remnants. The minerals in the jurisdiction of Beizheng are also dominated by coal and iron, so all of them are taken by the government as their own, and they are compulsory to be taken as their own. Does the Beizheng court have the loan given by China in their hands, and they also know that in order to be strong, they must develop the iron and steel military industry. In addition to these, the most impressive thing about Beizheng's economy is that salt, sugar, grain, iron, cloth and other daily necessities have been 'monopolized' by the government.

It is difficult to say who influenced whom in this regard, and anyway, both sides started this kind of 'state monopoly' economy. And it's all a large-scale government monopoly.

Relatively speaking, Bei Zheng has not played as thoroughly as the remnants of the Qing Dynasty. The latter even incorporated paper and medicinal materials into the monopoly model.

There is no way, people are greedy, not to mention the crooked Beizheng national capital route. In the past two years, I have not seen Beizheng concentrate on doing big things, but has entered the economic field on a large scale, and the government and business have been completely combined.

How did the line of state capital, and even the state monopoly capital, come into being in history?

It was when the Western world was facing the threat of war - World War I, when national governments began to intervene in economic activities, and capital had an initial development, and there were some state-owned enterprises and semi-state-owned enterprises in the Western world. In order to prepare for war, some countries have expanded their budgets, increased military procurement, and built or expanded steel mills, shipyards, and other military factories with state investment or through nationalization. These are the embryonic forms of state monopoly capitalism, and their emergence is based on the development and accumulation of capitalist European society.

It's not the same thing at all with Beizheng.

The political reform of Beizheng was completely forcibly catalyzed by Chen Ming, and it was a distorted and deformed political system developed on the basis of an agrarian society.

In the end, Beizheng's line deviated to the 'monopoly business' that made profits.

And the final consequence of this result is that the economy within Beizheng is gradually declining.