Modify Date: 2014-05-0608:36:47121.Chapter 121 Man and Nature

Napoleon III was not killed by the Charcoal Burners, but a brush with death awakened his youthful promises, when he joined the Charcoal Burners and pledged to support the unification of Italy, and after repairing relations with the British, he decided to do something for the Italians, making a secret pact with Count Cavour, the prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, who was interested in unifying Italy, and the first step was to remain "neutral" from both ends of the Crimean War Diplomatically isolated, Austria received Lombardy (the region with Milan as its capital) and Venetia (the region with Venice as its capital), and at this time the two regions were divided into two ** governments, united in the name of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venezia, with the younger brother of the Austrian emperor as governor.

Like Bismarck of Prussia, Cavour was a prominent politician, who became prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1852, promoted the industrial revolution of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and carried out the construction of roads and railways in an all-round way, with the result that in just eight years, Italy's trade volume had tripled in 1859, and Cavour succeeded in making Piedmon-Sardinia the most important industrial benchmark in the Apennine Peninsula. Like the Customs Union of the German Confederation, Piedmont was able to take advantage of its economic position: it indirectly became the leader of Italy's industrialization in recent years, and its practical economic interests further advanced the Italian conviction of unity.

Cavour led the Kingdom of Sardinia to join the Anglo-French side in the Crimean War, in order to get the diplomatic support of Britain and France today, and in order to prevent French intervention from being regarded as an act of aggression, Cavour would incite revolutionary activity in Lombardy, thus luring Austria to invade. However, things didn't go as smoothly as planned. The Austrians were surprisingly patient in dealing with the rebellion caused by the Piedmontese.

Because France learned the great power of the Windsor Military Hospital in the Crimea, Napoleon asked the Empress to quietly telegraph with Downing, hoping that the Windsor Military Hospital could provide medical support "in future wars", and it was best to sell the medicine to France at a negotiable price.

The armies of various countries have long coveted the powerful medical skills of the Windsor Military Hospital for a long time, but no country has succeeded in obtaining Downing's technology, Napoleon III in order to get the support of the Windsor Hospital, he actually gave up his face to let the queen come forward, combined with Cavour's small actions, so that Downing realized that the conflict between Sardinia and Austria was imminent.

Through the military intelligence collected by Reuters, Downing came to a conclusion: the average strength of the weapons and equipment, logistics, and troops of the two sides is very close, that is, the strong "treatment output" of the Windsor Military Hospital can play a decisive role! Interesting, this is interesting, the two countries are at war, and he, an unrelated third party, can actually play such a role, which can be taken care of.

These three ** teams are all controlled by the emperor with real power, and Tang Ning has no good impression of the three parties, so let's fight, it's best to lose both. The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venesia is a good place, if this place is in the hands of Downing, he can connect Switzerland directly to the Adriatic Sea, the Mediterranean, and in the future, as soon as the Suez Canal is opened, this port and route will be of strategic importance, if only he could get this place, but it's a pity...... This "project" is too difficult.

Since it is impossible, then forget it, Downing's real intention became to let the French lose this war, and then Napoleon stepped down, and when the time came, let the republicans led by Hugo hype the incompetence of Napoleon III, and the emperor would come to an end, so that one of the most important countries in Europe would become a democracy, and he would be interested in going to Paris, but it would be bitter for Eugenie......

Thinking of Eugenie, Downing couldn't make up his mind and didn't respond to France's request.

Empress Eugenie didn't know what kind of ghost fetus Tang Ning was pregnant, and continued to urge the Grand Duke to give her a letter of approval.

Downing felt impatient, and thought for a moment: I have never had anything with Eugenie, right? Have it? Didn't you? Well, you shouldn't feel pressured, and finally, the Archduke with a bad heart gave the queen this reply: "The Windsor military hospital can support France, if it can make the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venesia **." ”

France never contacted the Grand Duke again. Napoleon was horrified that Downing saw through the conspiracy of France and Sardinia, and took a position against it. That is, Downing opposes a dictatorship, including himself, for Luxembourg and India, after about ten years of dictatorship, he will really let them move into a democratic society, and a society like Switzerland, which is called success and not pretentiousness.

Eugenie was quite politically wise, and fearing that Downing would turn to Austria, she came up with an idea to block Downing's intention to develop in this direction, and secretly spread rumors that Luxembourg wanted Lombardy-Venezia**, which would make Austria angry, and the possibility of cooperation with Luxembourg would be small.

Although he did not know that this rumor was the work of Eugenie, his support for Lombardy-Venezia** was known only to the French, and even if it was not Eugenie, it had a lot to do with her, but Downing was greatly annoyed, and his original pity for Eugenie disappeared, and he strengthened his anti-French position. However, he did not respond to the rumor, and the public opinion community was very interested in this rumor and hyped it up a lot.

In order to ease relations with Austria, he had his own trick of getting Princess Sissi's sister, Princess Helen, now Queen of Austria, to hold a vinyl music festival in Vienna, the capital of Austria, which was the first vinyl music festival held in a city outside Brussels since the establishment of the Red and Black Gramophone, which is equivalent to a Grammy Award for the recording industry. The Grand Duke of Luxembourg thus used this to show goodwill to the Austrians, because it happened to be Johann of Vienna? Strauss won the sales championship of the year. And because of the appearance of the Empress of Austria, everyone remembered that the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the Emperor of Austria were brothers-in-law!

The people of Vienna are very fond of music, and this trick is really amazing, and now the citizens of Vienna no longer talk about the myth at all, but are excitedly looking forward to the festival.

Helen's life at the Habsburg Palace was dull and boring, and she took the opportunity to invite her sister and the Grand Duke to Vienna, but Downing could not do so for the time being, and if relations with Austria were too good, France and Sardinia would probably not dare to go to war, and his plan to kill the French army would be ruined.

Downing was still in Sweden, but he had a heart for the world, and he was concerned about European affairs and the Far East. After the Japanese envoys visited Europe, the Shogunate knew what was going on with the European powers, and Japan would not be able to conquer Japan if it did not open the country and reform, and they now changed their course and became the founders, but they hoped to emulate the British constitutional monarchy, and the shogunate officials headed by Ii Naobu wanted to still retain part of the power of the shogunate, and there were still huge contradictions between the two sides, and Downing's mediation ended in failure, and he did not know how Japan would develop now.

This year, under the planning of the Southern Ki faction such as Matsudaira Tadagu and Mizuno Tadao (deputy family elder of the Kishu domain), Naobi was inaugurated as the elder of the Edo shogunate. Six months after taking office, Naobi signed a treaty of trade with the United States without the permission of Emperor Komei, and shifted the blame to his own faction, Hotta Masamu and Matsudaira Tadagu, and expelled them from the cabinet. This move intensified the contradictions between the shogunate faction and the constitutionalist faction, and both sides had certain contacts with Tangning, and his friendship with Ii Naobi made it difficult for him to decide which faction to support, and he was unable to express his position, so the two factions had to compete on their own. However, he hoped for a peaceful settlement between the two sides and did not allow Saigo Takamori's Satsuma mercenaries to return to Japan to force the shogunate to surrender all power by force.

Downing felt that Jing Yi Naobi was a bit like Bismarck, a man with iron and blood, but for the sake of his friendship with himself, Tang Ning politely advised Jing Yi Naobi to conform to the trend, and Jing Yi Naobi asked Downing why he wanted to implement a ten-year dictatorship in Luxembourg? Isn't it also because there are strong leaders that countries are stronger? A small and weak country like Japan can only succeed in reform under the leadership of authoritarian figures.

This left Tangning speechless, and the shogunate was still unwilling to hand over power, and the emperor would still be able to return to the political center with the support of the constitutionalists.

Some wars are unavoidable, some disputes are unsolvable, and it's nice to think about things related to the beauty and tranquility of nature.

For most of the past six months, the East India Company's African expeditions have been deep into East Africa to explore uncharted territory. Burton and John? Speke discovered the huge Lake Tanganyika, and later Speke took Richard? While recuperating at Lake Tanganyika, Bolton claimed that he had discovered another, larger lake, which later turned out to be the largest lake in Africa. The glory of the history dynasty prevailed over their friendship, and Bolton was furious at Speke's unauthorized announcement of the mission to find the source of the Nile, and the two broke up openly and sent telegrams to the media every day to quarrel.

Now Downing is already the great dictator of the East India Company, in order to curry favor with the great dictator, Speke is ready to name the largest lake in Africa Lake Windsor, and when he asked the Grand Duke for advice, this mention was vetoed, because now the Grand Duke wants to please the British who are angry because the sexy black silk brand is named Victoria's Secret, and finally this big lake is named Lake Victoria.

As for the two broken friends, Tangning did not do much persuasion, but gave them the same generous bonus, listing them as co-discoverers in the official document of the East India Company.

The fishing industry around Lake Victoria fed a large African population, and the discoveries of the two East India Company explorers reminded Downing that colonial protection should be on his agenda. The deep penetration into Africa brought malaria to mankind, the development of India brought cholera to mankind, and the Americas brought syphilis to mankind. World convergence sometimes spirals out of control, and that's an ecological catastrophe. In addition to humans, other ecological disasters can also have serious consequences.

Take aquatic plants as an example, in order to save costs, Downing's London sewage treatment plant did not treat nitrogen, phosphorus, heavy metals, etc. after the initial treatment, but later introduced the phoenix eye blue (water hyacinth) native to the Amazon Basin, this floating aquatic plant grows very fast because of asexual reproduction (it can be doubled in 12 days), it absorbs a large amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and heavy metals in the water, which is quite a cost-effective sewage treatment program, but because of its strong survivability, it is a terrible invasive species, If left unchecked in open water, it can even block the river, and even the water of Lake Victoria can be ravaged by phoenix eye blue. (http：/／）。

There is also a species called Fir leaf fern algae, which is widely used as a decorative plant in fish ponds. It is highly tolerant of cold, and because of this ability, it is able to form dense monopolies, prevent native seagrasses from establishing populations when invaded, and crowd out almost all marine life, affecting the livelihoods of local fishermen.

Therefore, after the paper published in the journal Nature and the publicity, taking the opportunity of discovering Lake Victoria, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg invited and sponsored the British Union, the United States, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and other colonial powers to Luxembourg to hold a global ecological conservation conference, so that the world can understand the disastrous ecological consequences that species exchange may bring. Later, a second international organization was established in Luxembourg after the International Organization for Natural Disaster Relief, which was the "International Organization for Ecological Conservation".

Russia, which considered itself a colonial power, did not receive an invitation, and it is not known whether it was intentional or unintentional for the Grand Duke, but in short, relations between St. Petersburg and Luxembourg continued to deteriorate.