Now Napoleon can turn his gaze to the last obstacle! With the armistice between Austria and France, the main force of the anti-French alliance, the last two stumbling blocks that prevented Napoleon from pacifying Italy were the Papal States and (rè) Naia! To Venice? It's just a fish (ròu) on a chopping board!

"General Bonaparte, Your Excellency the Great Doge of the Most Honorable Republic of Venice is very dissatisfied with your private peace with Austria!" The Venetian ambassador blew his beard and glared at Napoleon.

"Really?" Napoleon simply glanced up contemptuously at the Venetian ambassador standing (shēn), who was lying on his back on the soft red down and stretched.

"Your Excellency, I must inform you that the generous offer made by Venice is no longer in force! If you don't have anything to do, please (yǔn) allow me to retire! With that, the Venetian ambassador flicked his sleeves and made a gesture (shēn) to leave.

"Wait! May I see this as a diplomatic insult to Venice against the French Republic? You were the one who proposed the alliance, and just as I was about to agree, you changed your mind! This is contempt for the French Republic! This is what I (shēn) cannot tolerate as a citizen of France! Napoleon suddenly jumped up from the soft collapse and approached the Venetian ambassador like a leopard.

"It was France that violated the alliance first!" The Venetian ambassador was forced back by Napoleon (bī), and his face was pale and unable to plead.

"Violation of the Alliance? Did I hear me right? When did we become allies? Do I have any terms that I promised you? Napoleon said with a sneer.

"It seems to me that Venice has made a request for an alliance, but it has changed its mind on the fly! I would see this as a diplomatic insult to Willy Lancey! How dare you look down on the great French Republic? It means war! Napoleon's voice was sonorous and powerful.

Looking at the Venice ambassador who was retreating step by step, Han Xing had to sigh with emotion "A weak country has no diplomacy"! It is said that you can't be superstitious about force, but if there is no force as a foundation, how can you get fair treatment? Will a two-meter strong man reason with a little kid in open crotch pants? Negotiations must also be based on the basic equality of strength between the two sides!

Today's Venice is just a candle in the wind, the glory is long gone, and the French army under the leadership of Napoleon has been a serious "invincible opponent in Italy" after solving the big trouble in Austria! According to Napoleon's plan, with a little trickery, the Venetian ambassador (bī) could be put in a desperate situation, and finally obediently sent money and food, took what he wanted, and volunteered to be the younger brother.

The Venetian ambassador pointed angrily at Napoleon and was speechless, "You... You·· You, vile and shameless, you scoundrel, robber! Greedy vampires! You are simply coveting the riches of Venice and picking quarrels and provoking trouble! I won't give in, and neither will Venice! Venice is not afraid of your threat, so come ahead! However, the Venetian ambassador did not succumb to his authority as Napoleon had imagined, but rather scolded him directly.

A hint of surprise flashed in Napoleon's eyes, but it was replaced by confidence, and he smiled: "Well, I wish the walls of Venice were as hard as your Excellency's mouth!" ”

Founded on the Venetian atoll, Venice, a great Renaissance city, has long been known as the "City of Water", where the narrowest river channel is no more than a meter wide, so much so that people can open their windows in the morning to shake hands with their neighbors on the opposite side.

The most popular means of transport in the city is called the phoenix boat, which is named for its pointed ends and carved feathers as a decoration.

In Venice, the best experience is nothing more than sitting on a phoenix boat at night, walking through the winding river, admiring the lights around you, looking at the magnificent Renaissance classical buildings, listening to the sound of the oars paddling through the water, and feeling the slight tremor brought by the waves and ripples at the bottom of the boat.

The splashing of the sparkling water with the oars, the brilliant reflection of the lights of thousands of homes on the water, and the colorful lanterns wrapped around the trees and railings together form a romantic night scene under the moon before the flowers. Listen to the boatman sing a romantic Venetian folk song in Italian to the accompaniment of the acoustic guitar (Renaissance guitar was popular in Italy), and even the most indifferent person can smell the romantic smell in the air, feel the heartbeat, and have the illusion of love (ài)!

Venice's unique location has allowed it to dominate Italy for hundreds of years, with the Venetian atolls and the sea making this new republic, but with the advent of the cannons, the days of Venice being proud of the world are gone!

Venice is not England after all, they are far from the mainland and far from the English Channel, cannons can hit Venice across the ocean, and the calm Mediterranean Sea is not enough to rely on as a barrier! With the advent of the Age of Discovery, the economic center of the European continent gradually shifted westward, and Venice, which started with Mediterranean trade, inevitably went downhill.

Napoleon's artillery has already exceeded five hundred! And Austria contributed at least one hundred and fifty of them, and this is absolutely a devastating force! Needless to say, Venice was bombarded by 500 cannons in turn, and their fleet suffered heavy casualties, and their warships were not called warships, but some armed merchant ships!

It's the Mediterranean Sea after all! Venice started with trade, so the fleet is dominated by cargo ships and galleys, coupled with the fact that Venice's trade income has shrunk significantly in recent years, they simply do not have enough funds to upgrade their fleet, many warships are antiques from more than ten or decades ago, and the artillery is also old goods that should have been swept into the garbage heap a long time ago! Not to mention the expansion of the fleet!

Just ask Napoleon that year, he beat the detachment of the Royal Navy to the head with only 50 guns, and now he has 500 cannons, are you afraid that he will not be able to control the second-rate fleet of the Venetians?

After a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, the Venetians chose to raise the white flag and surrender, and the French army successfully entered Venice.

Now Napoleon can look at the last two stumbling blocks in all of Italy, and the Pope is clearly the last feast, before which Napoleon intends to clean up (rè) Naia.

This trading city-state in western Italy, next to Nice in France, faces the same dilemma as Venice. Napoleon also visited them as a "people's commissioner" (shēn), but was later arrested after the fall of Robespierre.

With the joint blockade of the French Mediterranean Fleet and the Venetian fleet, coupled with Napoleon's "strong persuasion" of more than 500 guns, the hopeless (rè) Naya chose to raise the white flag and surrender, they accepted the conditions of becoming a vassal of France, and ceded the Albenga region to the Kingdom of Sardinia. Now the Kingdom of Sardinia has succeeded in gaining the coveted access to the sea, connecting Sardinia with maritime routes.

Now Napoleon had only one last enemy before his eyes, the Papal States, with whom he would negotiate directly with the earthly father, the owner of the throne of St. Peter. This is something that has never happened in the history of Christianity, and how many kings dare to negotiate openly with the Pope? He was the supreme leader of Christianity and God's spokesman on earth.

"The Pope is really just a symbol! Religion is just a tool of the rulers! Napoleon said to Han Xing on his way to Rome.

"In the Celestial Empire in the East, their monarchy is above the power of the church, and this is what a country should be! Religion is above the state, and this is the root cause of the centuries-old chaos of the Middle Ages! Napoleon spoke of the Celestial Empire with envy and longing on his face.

"What would it be like to have a huge country of 60,000 people! If I could rule a country like this, I would take the whole world into my pocket, right? How come I wasn't born in such a country! Look at the place where I was born, a barren island in the Mediterranean, and if you don't pay attention, you think it's a stain on the map! Napoleon sighed. Speaking of Corsica, he was full of disdain at this time, that little broken island could no longer accommodate his ambitions!

"I know that the main reason why you like the Celestial Empire is because of the great war potential and the ability to support your endless ambitions to expand, if you were really born in the Celestial Empire in this era, you would cry! The Manchu rule was the most backward and darkest of all dynasties! Han Xing looked at the longing on Napoleon's face and said in his heart.

"By the way, which dynasty of the Celestial Empire do you like?" Han Xing asked tentatively.

"Of course it's the Yuan Dynasty, because the Yuan Dynasty has the largest territory!" Napoleon almost blurted out.

Han Xing thought with a black line on his face, "I am a dignified descendant of China, who has been immortal for thousands of years of civilization, and is still shining today; Build the Great Wall and open the canal, which will benefit the future; Fight the Huns, chase Mengyuan, and cover all generations. The defeat of a nomadic civilization by an agrarian civilization is unique in the history of the world! But it can't compete with the brainless enclosure of the Mongols for a hundred years, so what can I do! Is coloring the map the best way to make a name for yourself? Please (yǔn) sadness~" But on second thought, with Napoleon's war maniac (xìng), it is indeed Meng Yuan, who likes to expand the most, that suits his appetite the most!

Napoleon, who had crossed the Rubicon with his army, halted his advance, and all he needed was a strong posture, and he chose to negotiate with the Papal States in the upper hand, which would give him an advantage at the negotiating table.

The city of Rome was a huge puzzle for Napoleon, who idolized ancient Roman heroes like Julius Caesar! What conqueror of later generations would not want to be like Julius Caesar who personally plucked the laurel crown of the victor from the god Jupiter (diàn) and carried it on his head? The laurel crown was no less significant to the conquerors of Europe than the "heirloom jade seal".

But Napoleon resisted the impulse, he knew that now was not the time, he was only a French general, not a French king, and that these honors and fame were far less important than real artillery and soldiers!

The emissary of the pope is a cardinal, in Catholicism, the cardinal is the second only to the pope, whose number is uncertain, changing from time to time, they are equivalent to the candidate of the pope, and after the death of the current pope, the next pope will be elected among them.

"Your Excellency, I bring the respect of His Majesty the Pope!" The cardinal wore a Catholic cross made of solid gold around his neck, with a quail's egg-sized ruby in the center. The bishop had to hold the heavy golden cross with his left hand, and Han Xing even suspected that as soon as he let go, the weight of the cross (shēn) could break his neck!

The fat white cardinal clapped his hands, and one after another porters came in with boxes of things, needless to say, apparently the "protection money" they had given to Napoleon.

Please (yǔn) Xu I say that Napoleon showed an astonishing sense of territory during his time at the Brienne Military Academy, and in order to arouse the students' sense of sovereignty, the school divided the plots of land on the (cāo) field to each student. Napoleon, on the other hand, fenced off the land of his two classmates on the left and right, and he was not allowed to enter except the two classmates.

Once, an unlucky guy accidentally set himself on fire while playing with a musket and went to Napoleon's "turf" in a panic, only to drive him away with a pitchfork in no uncertain terms.

Therefore, Nahuang is actually very social! He was a serious "criminal with a criminal record" (accused of treason by Corsica) plus a "post-convict" who had been imprisoned··········

However, it is not surprising that the aristocracy of the Middle Ages was considered no different from the "mafia"!