When I woke up in the morning, there was a lot of crackling outside, and the firecrackers kept ringing. Fortunately, the location www.biquge.info of the Tongguang Pavilion is relatively secluded, there are no homes around, and the neighbors will not be disturbed by the sound of firecrackers. It's a pity that Bai Nan has four children at home, the eldest girl is already a fifteen-year-old young girl, the eldest son and the second son are also in their early tens, and the youngest daughter is the most happy. As the youngest child, Bai Tong is the most favored by the family, the eldest sister hurts the second brother, well, the third brother with a strange temperament generally doesn't bird her, and in turn, Bai Tong will keep looking for Bai You to play.

The older children took their younger sister to set whips outside, and Bai Nan and Xu Xin couldn't control it, so a few children hung a hundred firecrackers on the poor tree, and then lit the fire and watched it crackle.

Bai Nan sat in the restaurant, there was not too much breakfast on the table, just a bowl of rice balls, and two small pickles next to it. Since he was a child, if Bai Nan ate glutinous rice that was too sweet, he felt that it was not a good joke, so he had to eat a little salty to neutralize it. The president's life is no different from that of ordinary people, and the first lady even spends a lot of time cooking by herself. Tongguang Pavilion also invites helpers, mostly in the nature of part-time workers, cooking aunts come to the house to cook a meal, or clean up and leave, after all, Tongguang Pavilion is also very big. From this point of view, Bai Nan's standard of living is even worse than that of many rich people. As for the other series of service personnel in the White House, it is even more impossible.

Bai Nan held a copy of the Datang Daily, with the front page headline that Napoleon defeated the coalition forces at Toulon and recovered the naval power of France in the Mediterranean.

"I'm eating and reading the newspaper." The wife glanced at Bai Nan in disgust.

Bai Nan smiled and put down the newspaper in his hand. Said: "Just take a look." ”

Xu Xin saw the news in the newspaper. She doesn't usually pay much attention to these things. But Napoleon's name still attracted her, after all, he was a famous figure in history. She asked, "Is it Napoleon?" ”

Bai Nan nodded and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the commander of this battle is not Napoleon, but the person who wrote the report still directly named Napoleon, and now many Tang people will know about this rising star in the French military circles." ”

Xu Xin said: "We didn't make any moves in this, right, so this is the inertia of history?" Napoleon still made his mark in Toulon. ”

"Yes, although the date is wrong, many details have changed. But the erroneous Napoleon still shined in Toulon. After that, I am afraid that he will be reused by the French government. Now the situation in France cannot be said to be very bad, the defeat of the coalition army in Toulon, the French army will soon be able to eliminate the enemy in the south, what the Kingdom of Sardinia, Naples and other enemies are not enough, if the French army can integrate forces to defeat the royalist forces of Di Mourières and the British and Dutch forces entrenched in Belgium, then the whole situation will change greatly. ”

Xu Xin didn't know much about politics, but just chatted casually with her husband, and she asked, "Is it the same step in history, but the French defeated the enemy." In the end, he fought outside the borders, didn't Napoleon finally carry out some Italian campaigns? Since you have successfully broken the enemy. So why fight abroad? ”

Bai Nan patiently explained: "From the point of view of demand, although the country is defended, the enemy's will not die, and the anti-French alliance still exists, so the enemy must be beaten until he admits defeat, which can be regarded as an active defensive strategy, that is, to replace defense with offense." But I think there is also a very important point, the Revolution has brought out all the anger in the hearts of the French, the French are now trying to kill people, and their revolution must be sacrificed with blood. If you don't want to die the French, you can only die in other countries. Foreign military action is also an important factor in alleviating the contradictions in the country, and the internal disputes in France are still too fierce, and if it fights abroad, at least it can achieve a certain degree of unity, and if it really blindly fights internally, then France will be completely finished. ”

Xu Xin asked: "Belgium is a member of the First International, and now it is occupied by Britain and the Netherlands, do we need to act?" ”

Bai Nan nodded and said: "This is inevitable, and this is also to blame on the Belgians themselves." After Belgium's independence, China has been urging them to sign a military cooperation treaty with our country like Germany, but the power of the Belgian National Revolution is actually relatively limited, and there are voices in Belgium that our Tang Dynasty is thousands of miles away, in fact, it can't help much, and Belgium hopes to adopt pragmatic equidistance diplomacy, that is, to maintain similar friendly relations with neighboring countries such as France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. This has to be said to be very stupid, if it was our time, maybe it was possible, but now that Europe is at war all the time, and Belgium is in such an important geographical position, no one will let Belgium be neutral. This time, the British also took a fancy to Belgium's failure to complete negotiations with our military alliance, so they dared to make a move. ”

Bai Nan finished eating all the rice balls in his bowl, wiped his mouth, and said: "But Belgium is the first international country after all, so after the British occupied Belgium, we immediately made a solemn protest to the British through diplomatic channels. As for sending troops, our cabinet itself is not inclined to solve this problem on its own, but I still make it my decision to send our fleet for deterrence. Europe's problems still have to be left to Europe to solve. It is not entirely meaningless that we are supporting Germany. It was now time for Marnes to act in the interests of the First International. ”

There was no need for instructions from the Tang side, and Marnes's envoy had already arrived in Paris. The conditions put forward by the Germans were very favourable to the French, who wanted an immediate cessation of the state of war between the two countries, a temporary abolition of the question of the ownership of Alsace, and a German de facto control of Alsace and a guarantee not to invade the rest of France. The two countries launched a joint military campaign against the British and Dutch who invaded Belgium, and in essence, Germany formed a military alliance with France against the anti-French alliance.

The French were extremely dissatisfied with the German occupation of Alsace, but at this time they were absolutely isolated in Europe, except for Germany, no country in Europe supported France's republican position, and the enemy's power was extremely strong, so in order to protect the fruits of the revolution, Paris had to pinch its nose and admit it, and France and Germany instantly became allies from enemies.

(To be continued.) )