In 1848, the 1848 revolution that broke out in Europe was about to begin, and this revolution would be more ferocious than in history under the impetus of Lin Hong.

The European Revolution of 1848 was a struggle between the plebeians and the aristocracy, mainly the armed revolution of the European plebeians and liberal scholars against the monarchy and dictatorship. The first place of initiation was Sicily, Italy. The affected countries cover almost all of Europe, with only Russia, Spain and a few Nordic countries not affected. Generally speaking, although the revolution caused turmoil in the monarchy and aristocracy of various countries, all revolutionary actions ended in failure. However, this revolution indirectly led to the unification of Germany and Italy.

In 1848~1849, bourgeois democracy and national revolutions mainly took place in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary and other European countries. This revolution was the inevitable result of the economic, political, and ideological development of Europe in the first half of the 19th century, and the inevitable result of the sharpening of the contradiction between feudalism and capitalism, and between the oppressor nation and the oppressed nation. Its task was to overthrow feudalism, eliminate alien oppression, establish a unified nation-state, and clear the way for the further development of capitalism.

However, this revolution was even more ferocious than in history, because the countries of the European continent at this time fell into a fierce arms race after the Sino-British War, and the rise in military spending and other cuts in social welfare and industrial investment greatly intensified the internal contradictions in each country.

Before the revolution of 1848, Italy was in a state of feudal division, and all small feudal countries were directly or indirectly subject to Austria, which seriously hindered the development of Italian capitalism and social progress. The wheel of history rolls to its original position as scheduled.

In January 1848, the people of Palermo, the capital of Sicily, raised the banner of righteousness, inaugurating the bourgeois revolution in Italy in 1848. With the support of the peasants, the insurgents defeated the king's army and established a bourgeois liberal provisional government. Driven by the Palermo Uprising and the March Uprising in Vienna, uprisings broke out in Milan, Venice and other places.

Under the strong pressure of the popular movement, the feudal rulers of Sardinia, Naples, Tuscany were forced to declare war on Austria. But the war against Austria suffered a setback due to the compromise of the monarchs and the bourgeois liberals. When the bourgeois liberals broke away from the revolution and the democrats became the leaders of the revolution, a new revolutionary * centered on Rome emerged. But doomed defeat was still doomed, especially in countries such as Sardinia, France, and Austria, which were equipped with firing pistols and breech-loading guns.

On February 9, 1849, the Italian Republic was proclaimed, headed by G. Mazzini. On 3 July, the reactionary coalition forces of France, Austria and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies prepared to overthrow the Italian Republic. On 22 August, Venice fell, and Mazzini and Garibaldi retreated south to wage guerrilla warfare.

However, Lin Hong not only made a name for himself in this revolution (the Chinese Empire diplomatically professed its support for the unification of the Italian peninsula and actively supported the bourgeois liberals from weapons to money. He also made enough money to acquire a large number of important Italian industrial enterprises in the name of the Royal Group, and abducted some famous scientists, philosophers, and chemists to China. Things are going well in Italy, but in France there are troubles.

From 1840 to 1848, Guizot, the leader of the pro-government Conservative Party, became prime minister. In order to win great support, he rewarded him with his official position and abused his power to arbitrarily approve commercial contracts in order to curry favor with the capitalists. Government officials invest in state-funded programs, and the government promises to pay bankers at high interest rates for money lent to the government to cover huge deficits. Scandals have sprung up one after another, damaging the credibility of the government. Guizot was dissatisfied with the various classes in France, and the Catholic Church in France was dissatisfied with Guizot's bourgeois rule, and expressed suspicion and apprehension about the government's liberal religious policies. The middle class is demanding moderate reforms, hoping to strengthen democracy by expanding suffrage and purge corruption from government. But Guizot and Louis Philippe refused to respond to these demands and continued their policy of "no action"; Louis Philippe gradually tightened the system of police censorship and publication and restrictions on mass gatherings. This shows that he is not a democratic leader through and through, disappointing the liberals in France. Napoleon's supporters and nationalists were disappointed by the simplicity of Louis' Philippian life, his conservative and cautious governance, and the lack of the military glory that Napoleon's supporters emphasized. Add to that the rise of the working class. France was already predictably defeated in this revolution.

But when Lin Hong sent people to find one of them, they all rejected China's support, and only the French working class responded positively to China's support, but Lin Hong knew that the working class was immature at this time, even if Lin Hong gave them a lot of arms and funds, the proletariat could not help Lin Hong achieve his goals at all.

In fact, in 1847, before the European Revolution, French liberals began to hold many "banquets" (ba), where they discussed many issues of reform, and these banquets were later banned. In February 1848, around the time of the Empire's Spring Festival, workers and students gathered in Paris, France, to call for reforms. They sang the "La Marseillaise" and burned debris in the streets. On 23 February, the National Guard was ordered to restore order, but instead of carrying out the order, they threw themselves on the revolutionary masses.

Louis Philippi had to curry favor with the revolutionaries by taking certain useless salvage measures, such as removing Guizot from office, but in the end he still had to abdicate the throne. Lamartine formed a provisional government to establish the Second French Republic.

However, on the whole, the newly established French Second Republic was relatively friendly to China, and after the establishment of the Second Republic, the French government actively courted China, and China and France also signed a series of friendly trade agreements.

Compared with France, Lin Hong gained a large number of scientists in Germany, including Theodore Monson, who were attracted by the scientific research environment and magnificent scenery of China described by the people sent by Lin Hong, and expressed their willingness to go to China, the golden country of the East.

The European revolution of 1848 struck a blow at the feudal system of European countries, destroyed the reactionary Holy League and the system of the Congress of Vienna, cleared the way for the development of capitalism, tempered the proletariat and the revolutionary masses in France, Germany and other countries, enriched the theory of scientific socialism, and had a profound impact on Marxism and the subsequent development of the European workers' movement and the socialist movement.

Of course, the impact on the Chinese Empire was that Lin Hong acquired a large number of industrial factories and obtained advanced European technology and scientific and technological talents during this period.

What Lin Hong valued most was a treaty of assistance signed with the Prussian government, China helped Prussia establish a sound industrial system in Europe, China helped Prussia train new military talents, and even Lin Hong decided to continue to sell Prussia's Shanghai-class ironclad ships and wooden-hulled steam cruisers in the navy to Prussia, and once again gave Prussia 100,000 Type 1840 rifles in the form of half-sale and half-gift to replace the Prussian army's active smoothbore guns and rifles. and gave Prussia a low-interest loan of 80 million Chinese dollars.

What Prussia wants to do is to help China increase its influence in Europe, and if China and Russia go to war, Prussia will put enough pressure on Russia's western front, and Bismarck, who Lin Hong is optimistic about, is still only a member of the Prussian parliament and has not yet risen.

In Lin Hong's view, to help Prussia establish a perfect industrial system, it is necessary to adopt China's industrial standards, then the German market in Prussia and even in the future will be branded with China's imprint, and Chinese goods will be unimpeded in Germany. In the short term, China is a big loss, in the long run, China is a steady profit, in fact, Prussia also knows such harm, but once it has a complete industrial system, Prussia's national strength will be greatly enhanced in the short term, and the gap with France will be smaller and smaller, and Prussia's voice in Europe will become more and more powerful