Louis Bonaparte was Napoleon's third brother and an important figure in the entire Napoleonic family. In his early years, he lived in poverty, and he had a very close relationship with his second brother, Napoleon.

Louis Bonaparte was only twenty-eight years old, he was born in 1778, and when his father Charles Bonaparte died of illness when he was seven years old, the Bonaparte family suddenly became poor. At that time, Napoleon had already gone to China to study, Louis Bonaparte dropped out of school at home, knowing that after his second brother Napoleon returned to France and returned to Corsica, Napoleon took Louis away from his hometown in order to relieve the burden of his mother at home, and used his own salary to provide for him to go to school.

In 1795, at the age of 17, Louis Napoleon followed Napoleon and crushed the royalist rebellion in Paris. In 1796 he accompanied Napoleon on an expedition to Italy, and in 1798 he followed Napoleon on an expedition to Egypt, with which he returned the following year to launch a coup d'état. In 1804, after Napoleon established the First French Empire, at the age of twenty-six, he was appointed Minister of Police of the Empire.

Louis Bonaparte could not tell when he was going further and further away from his dear second brother.

He was given the crown of King of the Netherlands by Napoleon, but Louis Bonaparte was not at all happy. Napoleon included the Netherlands in his continental blockade system, but Louis knew that the Netherlands was a mercantile people, and if commercial ties with Britain were completely severed, the Dutch economy would be completely bankrupt. Moreover, this economic catastrophe occurred much earlier and more violently in the Netherlands than elsewhere, because since Britain had taken away most of the Dutch colonies, Dutch trade depended largely on the sale of goods to Britain and the receipt of colonial raw materials from Britain, and the Netherlands could not do without Britain. As a result, Louis Bonaparte took a tacit approach to the smuggling trade with the English along the coast of the Netherlands.

When Napoleon learned of this, he was furious. Napoleon summoned his third brother, Louis, and his eldest brother, Joseph, to Paris, and demanded that the Netherlands and Italy must sacrifice their interests in order to 'suffocate' Britain. Joseph bowed to his orders, but Louis disagreed with Napoleon's economic philosophy, arguing that "Holland is tired of being used as a plaything by France." "It was thought that this would turn the Dutch completely to the British. Napoleon was furious about this, and he warned Louis: if the Netherlands did not obey, annex it to France.

The conflict between the brothers intensified, and it was less than two months after Napoleon canonized Louis Bonaparte as king of the Netherlands.

In February 1806, less than a month after the conflict between the brothers, Louis's short path to king came to an end, and Napoleon took the crown off his head and completely annexed the Netherlands to France.

Napoleon, of course, would not imprison his brother, and after Louis was deposed from the throne, he went to live in Florence, Italy, with his wife, who was Napoleon's stepdaughter, Beauarne, what a mess. He was soon invited by Chen Zhan, who was returning to China, and Louis was invited to visit China. Napoleon agreed to the journey.

In just three months, they had traveled from Gibraltar at the western end of the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea at the eastern end of the Mediterranean.

They had bypassed most of Africa, and if it weren't for the strangeness of the Suez Canal project, they wouldn't have entered the Red Sea at all. Rather, it went directly to India via the port of Aden.

Considering the reaction of the British, Chen Zhan did not take the Mediterranean route.

Crossing the entire Mediterranean, landing in Alexandria, entering Cairo and then to the port of Suez is the easiest, most convenient and safest route through Africa. But he was on the same ship with Louis, passing through Egypt at this time, passing through the Suez Canal, which was under construction—the Ottomans also had a relatively close connection with the French, which was too irritating to the British.

So after they came from the west end of the Mediterranean Sea to the east end of the Mediterranean, they really had the opportunity to see the excavation of the Suez Canal. And Louis didn't expect that not long after he entered the Red Sea, he saw a 'miracle'!

The Sudanese port in front of him was completely different from the port he had seen before, it was a Chinese-style seaport. Louis had seen it in the picture scroll before, and the Chinese-style harbor area was clean, tidy and beautiful unlike Europe.

It's like a small garden, the whole port, the whole city is a beautiful garden.

There are many tall buildings in the whole city, small buildings of two or three floors can be seen everywhere, Chinese-style classical houses and European-style houses are also everywhere, green date palms stand in front of and behind the houses, and there are patches of grass and flower belts full of flowers, which make people feel clear when they look at it.

Paved roads and white street lamps, garbage cans and stone tables and chairs for pedestrians to rest are the hallmarks of Chinese cities. But with so many tall houses in the city, there is not a single church monastery with a spiky bell every day, and certainly no domed Tianfang Temple. At the same time, there are no strings of poor laborers doing hard labor on the docks, and beggars on the docks. The entire Port Sudan under Chinese control is a garden town with a fresh and different style and a highly unified plan. Pretty and at the same time more fertile and healthy.

"Chen Luo Fangbai see His Royal Highness."

I really didn't expect that King Jieyang's car would arrive in Port Sudan with these five migrant ships, Luo Fangbai and they were all stunned when they heard the news of King Jieyang's arrival, and then hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

"Dear Monsieur Bonaparte, welcome to the city of Port Sudan, China's overseas territory." Towards Louis and Chen Zhan, Luo Fangbai has completely different attitudes, without the previous respect, but also said sincerely, "You need a pleasant and sumptuous dinner to eliminate your fatigue along the way." ”

Louis Bonaparte drew a cross on his chest, thanked Luo Fangbai on the one hand, and said on the other: "O God." I really can't believe the age of the city is less than ten years old. Louis Bonaparte's mouth closed when he spoke.

"Well, the allure of money is so incredible. As long as you have money, you have everything! Luo Fangbai told the truth.

Louis also admired the beautiful prosperity of Port Sudan, but his eyes saw the two gray-and-white sailing ships moored by the harbor in exactly the same shape, which reminded him of a certain information - the Chinese had built two steam yards in Tianfang, one large and one small. the big one is on the Golden Horn in Istanbul, where the Ottoman naval base was located; The small one is on the Red Coast on the Tianfang Peninsula, under the control of the Chinese.

Today, the sailing ships that sail between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea are all made in China.

The relative wealth of knowledge allowed Louis to judge the tonnage in almost a few seconds, although these two were not large ships of thousands of tons, but they were also around seven or eight hundred tons. It is much larger than the sailing boats of the shipyard in Le Havre, France.

Look at the turrets in the bow and stern of these two sailing ships, yes, that's what the Chinese call their new designs on the bow and stern guns.

It was indeed like a tower, like a small fortress.

The round rails around the bottom of the cannon - the wheel grooves of the gun mount snap into the rails, an invention on Western warships, which can eliminate the recoil after firing the cannon, and at the same time facilitate the movement of the gun port, but it occupies a large area and is only suitable for the bow and stern of the ship - the composite armor built is also a protective layer, made of silk and steam-compacted cotton layer, wood and iron plates, the appearance is round, with a certain arc, the round solid shell is difficult to damage in the mission, and the small-caliber hexagonal cannon is also difficult to penetrate at a long distance.

It's like a small fortress that has to be hit multiple times before it can be incapacitated or completely destroyed.

Although Louis Napoleon was gradually estranged from his brother, he was a core member of the Bonaparte family before that, and he had also seen the detailed information provided to Napoleon by the European Office on the destroyer destroyer.

Although the tonnage is only about 500 metric tons, this tonnage can maximize the steam power and optimize the hull structure.

No matter how large it is, it is necessary to add a steam engine to ensure the speed of the ship. The addition of a steam engine would require changes to the internal structure of the hull, which would have a significant impact on the storage space of the hull – food, water, ammunition and, most importantly, coal, which is directly related to the length of the ship – and would also affect the cost of the ship, which would be the most cost-effective for a 500-ton sailing ship.

The French-built sailing ship also had turrets in the bow and stern, but the turret was semi-enclosed, while the turrets of the two sailing ships in front of him were fully enclosed.

There is now a 'rumor' in Europe that is spreading widely - the Chinese will not be satisfied with their current gains, and China is taking advantage of the Europeans' infighting to steal the fruits of more than 300 years of hard work since the European voyage - the Americas.

Louis Bonaparte himself agreed with this 'rumor'. But it is clear that this is of no use, and the British, Austrians, Prussians, and now the French, are not willing to cede their vested interests in Europe, so war is necessary.

In European military and political circles, Europeans have generally recognized China's land combat strength, and its huge population and material wealth have made China itself sacred and inviolable. However, the military and political circles in Europe still maintain a high sense of superiority over the Chinese navy.

Although the Chinese navy has been under construction for thirty or forty years, it is indeed not comparable with Europe in terms of scale and quality. Compared to their unimaginably large army, their naval power is quite pitiful. Especially in recent years, the Chinese have stopped building their own warships.

However, as an 'outsider', Louis Bonaparte seemed to see the future path of China's naval development from the information handed to his second brother Napoleon by the European Office.

The Chinese have already abandoned the sail battleship, right?

Did they put more of their wisdom and wealth into steamships?

It is a fact that China has armed forces that the whole of Europe is very afraid of. But because of the navy, this threat is not enough to kill the European countries. Sail warships have unavoidable shortcomings in their voyages, which cannot be made up for by even the strongest national strength.

But what about when the sail battleship was replaced by a steam battleship?

As long as there is coal, they can reach the horizon.

Intuition told Louis Bonaparte that the future of steamships was bright. Today's sail hybrid boats may only be like canoes thousands of years ago, but with the development of technology, the sailboats will become stronger little by little. It's like the difference between a canoe and a 1st class sail battleship!

The only thing that Louis Bonaparte felt fortunate about was that his second brother maintained a good friendship with China, allowing France to keep up with the pace of the new era in the first place, and more importantly, he really did not see the threat of sailing ships to Europe in a short period of time. Maybe it's decades, maybe a hundred years from now.

As for the belonging of the Americas, the Americas do not belong to France anyway. Then let him go!

Although Louis Bonaparte was drifting away from Napoleon, he did not want Napoleon's interests for the sake of the so-called 'European interests'.

The Americas can be said to belong to Britain, Spain, Portugal, Chinese, and Americans, but they do not belong to France.

It was, it is, and so does the future!

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