By the time Napoleon decided to abandon his ambition to conquer all of Europe, Talleyrand, a politically skilled first-class politician, had returned to Napoleon's camp. He remained a pillar on whom Napoleon relied and a key minister of the country.

When Britain and France converged, Britain and France were at the centre of the whole talks, but the interests of Prussia, Austria and Russia could not be ignored. This was not the previous agreement of the Sixth Anti-French Alliance, it was only a brief armistice, and now it was an order to terminate the war.

Napoleon's work pleased Napoleon, and he gathered a central directive from a myriad of head-scratching intelligence, the core of which was only two points: to prevent the complete annexation of Poland by Russia and the destruction of Prussia's plan to swallow Saxony.

In the interests of northern Italy, France could make some concessions to Austria; On the Iberian Peninsula, France has already met all the requirements of London. The British had no land claims to the continent, and their traditional policy in Europe was to make the continental powers evenly matched and pitted against each other, so that it could act as arbiters and profit from them; At the same time, it was particularly opposed to the excessive expansion of Russia in northern Europe and Prussia in central Europe.

Therefore, Talleyrand approached the British before the arrival of the Russian envoys. The British Foreign Secretary rushed to Paris to meet with Talleyrand and agreed to the French plan. The Anglo-French talks also became an important factor in Talleyrand's diplomatic success.

After Talleyrand had formed his mission, he set about selecting a housewife who could preside over his salon in Vienna, where the meeting took place. According to European custom, many important events were decided at banquets, balls. So this housewife must be of noble birth, capable, beautiful, and able to assist him in his smooth work. It stands to reason that she should certainly be his wife. But Talleyrand's genuine lady was clearly not up to the task, and she was scolded by Talleyrand for being old and stupid and incompetent. So, regardless of public opinion, Talleyrand chose his nephew, Mrs. Dorosie Belligor Dino. Dorothe, who was only thirty years old, was in a privileged position, and was dissatisfied with her marriage because of her husband's gambling and incompetence. She agreed to her uncle's request. From then on, the Talelang couple began to separate, and Dorothy became the housewife of the Talleyrand family until his death.

Doesn't that seem ridiculous? But this is Talleyrand. He has no affection for his family, and he does not cherish his family's ancient honor at all.

Talleyrand was born into an old aristocratic family in Paris. His ancestors had been court nobles since the founding of the Capetian dynasty in France in the 10th century. By blood, his father was a cousin of King Louis XVI!

But Talleyrand, who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, had a very unfortunate same year, not because his parents were under the fence, nor because his mother was vicious after the death of his biological mother, but when he met a pair of strange fathers and mothers who had not met in a century.

His parents were busy with social activities and only for their own pleasures, following the lifestyle of the French aristocracy at the time. The only little bit of love was poured out on Talleyrand's brother. Soon after his birth, Talleyrand was placed in foster care with a wet nurse on the outskirts of Paris. When he was two years old, he fell off a tall cabinet and injured his right foot. It was months before his strange parents found out about it, but by then the disability had taken its toll and he had become a cripple who could only walk with the help of crutches for the rest of his life. From then on, his parents disliked him even more.

At the age of four, he was placed in foster care with a relative in the provinces, Mrs. Sarai, whose parents rarely took him home. After another two years, the servant sent him directly from Madame de Salé's house to a boarding school in Paris – the odd parents had no idea that they should let their children come home to meet them first! The six-year-old Talleyrand rode seventeen days and nights in a stagecoach to a strange new world, lonely and unaccompanied, and could only think of the only loving Lady of Shalai. The desolation and horror of the time made him unforgettable for the rest of his life.

Six-year-old Talleyrand lives in school, visiting his parents only once a week and rarely staying overnight at home. Six years later, he contracted smallpox again, and his parents neither visited him nor took him home to recuperate, but had servants send him to his wet nurse's house, where he was sent back to school. This life experience gave Talleyrand a grudge against his parents and family.

It should be said that this period of childhood and adolescence had an important impact on the formation of Talelan's ruthless, arrogant and confident character in the future.

At the age of fifteen, Charles graduated from high school, and his parents sent him to St. Sherbis Seminary without consulting him.

Charles's brother died in childhood, so Charles became the eldest son, but his parents deprived him of the right to inherit the title and property as the eldest son, and insisted that he become a priest. At that time, the average aristocratic youth was looking for a glorious and prominent officer or a civil official with a lot of money to be earned, but Charles was unable to become an officer because of his crippled right foot, and his parents refused to pay for him to buy a civil official, so becoming a priest became his only way out. But no one knows the resentment in his heart, nor does he take his dissatisfaction for granted. How Talleyrand wished he had lived the hedonistic life of a secular aristocracy.

It is not surprising that such an upbringing made Talleyrand a rebellious priest and a revolutionary bishop. And it was also a childhood experience that made Talleyrand develop the habit of loving money and being greedy.

In 1774, Charles Maurice Talleyrand graduated from the seminary. This year coincided with the accession of Louis XVI to the throne, and he attended the coronation, after which he rewarded him with the abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Rémy, in the city of Talleyrand-Reims, with an annuity of 18,000 livres.

Two years later, Talleyrand studied for two more years at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris. After graduating, he continued to be his dean. However, the dean was never a devout disciple of God, but a dissolute atheist and liberal. He personally went to visit the old apostate Voltaire's house, and even asked for the blessing of the eighty-four-year-old man.

Talleyrand also spends his days drinking and living the life of a secular aristocracy, regardless of his status. Because the dean's position is a beautiful difference who only gets a salary and doesn't do anything, he has time. He bought a small comfortable house in Paris, and lived alternately between Reims and Paris, drinking and gambling, and looking for flowers. The salary was not enough to cover the expenses, so he went to the exchange to speculate and make a lot of money. He was very, very famous for his greed and meanness from then on.

But this is one of the brightest stars in French politics in the twenty years since the Revolution swept France.

The greedy and politically skilled Talleyrand, after several twists and turns in his relationship with Napoleon, once again returned to Napoleon's camp and once again became a bright star in French politics. Chancellor, this is the throne that Talleyrand, who had previously been on his honeymoon with Napoleon, could not sit on.

"The crown of the earth has fallen from the hands of whites." Dorothy said with a sigh. "The rise of the Chinese will be like the Mongols of 600 years ago, and their power will make the whole monotheistic world desperate. In my opinion, the Yellow Peril is once again sweeping the Western world. ”

"Maybe one day." Talleyrand's face flashed with exhaustion, he had always been a 'sane' person, believing that France did not have the strength to conquer all Europeans, that Napoleon's ambitions would only plunge France into an endless abyss, so he regarded Napoleon, the owner of the financier, as a saboteur who endangered the interests of France, and did not hesitate to sell state secrets and interests, but also to fight Napoleon.

Comparing Europe with today's China, the whole of Europe does not even have China's own territory, whether it is population, army, wealth, or future potential, China is far behind Europe. Therefore, Talleyrand agrees with the sudden outbreak of the East-West war, because he believes that the longer it drags on, the stronger China will be, and the gap between Europe and China will become. So it's better to play early than late.

"But as long as Europe breathes away, the United States will not fall. All of Europe will not allow the Americans to fall. Six million Americans are the most important trump card in Europe's global strategy to counterbalance China. ”

If the Chinese fully gain a foothold on the east coast of North America, their Grand Fleet will be able to put pressure directly on Europe across the Atlantic. The distance between the Atlantic Ocean and Europe is much shorter and more convenient than the distance between China and Europe.

Three hundred years ago, the Europeans were able to sail to the Americas in a small boat of 100 tons and turn the Americas into their new continent, so you can imagine how closely the connection between the two would be. Therefore, for the sake of Europe's security, the United States must stand on the east coast of North America.

"Then there will be blood to be shed in Europe." Dorothe, who was chosen by Talleyrand and worked part-time as Talleyrand's secretary, knew a lot about the situation in Europe and the world. She knows very well what kind of strength China is and what kind of situation it is in the lighthouse country. There is really little confidence that the United States will be able to survive Chen Han's attack.

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Temperatures in Antarctica have shifted from cool to icy. For a month at most, the temperature will drop to minus 10 degrees Celsius, and then for another half month, the temperature will no longer be minus 20 degrees Celsius.

So, the advance fleet, which had been speeding on the sea for a day, ran into a heavy fog. Fog can also occur above the ocean.

Of course, it was not unfortunate that the fog appeared, but unfortunately, as soon as the fog cleared, Chen Huacheng's Silver Shark saw a huge fleet sailing on the sea not far away.

The latter and the Silver Shark were not facing each other, and the two sides were staggered less than a nautical mile.

"Damn. Back off, back off. Turn around ......"

The five sailing ships did not need Chen Huacheng to give a command signal at all, and after seeing the main fleet of the Europeans, the sailors on the ships no longer needed the alarm of the lookout, and they had already begun to turn the rudder and turn the sails and turn around and run south.

If the two sides were five kilometers apart, the sailboats could easily turn around, and the sailboats behind them would not be able to catch up with them, but they would be less than a nautical mile, or about three miles.

At the same time that they sensed the danger, the Europeans also saw the fighters that took advantage. At a distance of less than a nautical mile, they definitely had enough time to smash shells onto their ships before the Chinese turned around and distanced the two warships far enough. Because the Europeans only need to deflect the sail warship one way, they don't need to turn their heads.

Why did the title battleship appear?

One of the main reasons is that it is inconvenient for them to turn around, and they can only rush in a direction even if there is a rain of bullets in front of them. The Sail Battleship can only be 60 degrees left and right while in the voyage, and this already allows them to rush directly without slowing down.

Michael Hughes must not know much about Chinese culture, otherwise he would not have just stood on the Surut and looked at the Silver Shark with hatred, but should have said in a very relieved tone: It's not that you don't report it, the time has not come. Or, good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and heaven is good for reincarnation. If you don't believe it, look up, the sky has spared anyone.

That's more relieving, isn't it?

His previous car, the South Lanark, was not part of the Grand Fleet, but turned back to the Falklands. The latter's mast was broken, and the ship's side was scarred, with large and small holes, dozens of them. The South Lanark had to turn back to the Falklands and make repairs.

But Michael Hughes himself did not return to the Falklands, and as a staff officer of the Forward Fleet, he took the Surut.

Now that the Surut is heading straight for the Silver Shark, Michael Hughes will never forget the Silver Shark for the rest of his life. After the Southern Lanark escaped the shadow of death yesterday evening, he had been thinking about revenge for a moment.

Seeing that the sky is pitiful, the Chinese themselves sent it to the door. Michael Hughes felt that this was simply a gift from God.

Without the quick action of the Grand Fleet, he could not have met the main force of the Grand Fleet last night, and now he would not have touched the Chinese; And if it weren't for this fog, the Chinese would have been able to spot them from afar, and then they would calmly turn around, and it would be difficult to catch up with them at the speed of the sail battleship.

But now the Chinese have appeared in their mouths like this, and they only need to open their big mouths to bite them, if it were not a gift from God, what would it be?

The Europeans don't hide their intentions for a while, at this time they don't care about any T-word, as long as they pounce and catch each other, they can easily lose their lives.

The watchtower saw smoke and flames erupting from the gun's gun on the side of the warship, which was the closest of the Europeans.

When the Surut turned, it perfectly crossed a curved arc on the sea, during which the right side of the Surut was exactly aimed at the direction of the Silver Shark, and at this time, the Silver Shark also turned around, and part of the ship's side fire was also aimed at the enemy ship.

"General, the red hair has fired!" A sailor hurriedly reported to Chen Huacheng. At this time, Zhang Bao was no longer on the command platform. This sharpshooter of the Chen Han Naval Division has taken over all the firepower, and who injured the spear chief on the Silver Shark before.