The fragrance is blowing and refreshing. Before Napoleon could open his eyes, the warm touch of his arm, which was as soft as slippery fat, told him how he had come to be so refreshed this morning.

Last night was a lovely night. After celebrating the ninth birthday of their son Waleschi the Younger with Marie Valewska, Napoleon engaged in hand-to-hand combat with his favorite Polish lady.

The Polish lady was still asleep, but Napoleon had already gotten up.

Napoleon had the habit of exercising in the morning after the fiasco last year, and he got up early in the morning, and exercised in the morning when the sky was still gray outside, which was already his habit of life. He is also paying tribute to his ultimate opponent and life goal, Emperor Chen!

Chen Ming has always insisted on early morning exercises, a habit that spread outside many years ago. When Napoleon went to study in China, he admired Chen Ming's achievements, and when he also reached the peak of his life, the status gap between him and Chen Ming seemed to have decreased a lot, but in fact it was still out of reach.

Especially after the defeat of the war against Russia, the European continent revived, although Russia was pulled away by the Ottomans and the Chinese, and Austria, after repeated measurements - Napoleon promised to return Galicia, New Galicia, Zamošić and Krakow, the Polish territories formerly occupied by Austria, to Austria. Together with the small states of the Confederation of the Rhine, it can be said that Napoleon used the interests of Poland and Germany to make Austria choose to maintain friendship with France. In order to get Austria into the war as soon as possible, Russia may promise to cede a large part of Polish territory to Vienna.

Of course, Russia's crisis is also an important factor - the Ottomans are advancing rapidly on the western shore of the Black Sea, and if they do gain a foothold in Ukraine, then Austria will have to fight on two sides if Austria goes to war with the Ottomans again. This absolute strategic disadvantage, the Austrians will turn a blind eye when they are lame.

In the absence of Russia and Austria, although the Sixth Anti-French Coalition was once on the European continent, Napoleon won the decisive battle in Leipzig. Of course, it was a pyrrhic victory!

After the victory, Napoleon did not even have the strength to counterattack Prussia, nor did he have the strength to thwart the lands that Prussia would lose on its own, except for the Polish part of the territory, the rest of the territories lost in the Peace of Tilsit were returned. The Germans in those lands were still more inclined to Prussia.

At the same time, Prussia was also intensively engaged in the reconstruction of the army. In the decisive battle of Leipzig, Prussia lost 50,000 troops, which was higher than the number of Prussia troops before the opening of the Sixth Anti-French Alliance.

In Rotterdam, negotiations between the British, Spaniards, Prussians, the Portuguese and the French were underway, with Russians and Austrians in attendance.

Napoleon knew in his heart that his desire to unify Europe could no longer be realized, and the bouncing guys in the previous crisis made it clear to him the weakness and many hidden dangers of his rule.

Above all, he sensed the weariness of the French people with the war. Yes, after the war against Russia, Napoleon, who returned to Paris in disarray, although he suppressed the chaos and internal rebellion of the royalists with an iron fist, his new conscription order, the call for 500,000 conscriptions, provided him with less than 50,000 troops. A significant number of them are veterans! They were even as old as Napoleon's Old Guard.

But Napoleon was unwilling to admit defeat, and he would not bow his head willingly. There is no way to integrate the whole of Europe by force, and there are other paths to take. He was reminding himself with his persistence that he must not forget the great enemy in the East!

There were a few lights in the room, but the light was not bright, they were shrouded in a ceramic lampshade made of Chinese specialties, and the light was hazy. Napoleon could see the sleeping beauty in the bed. Although she is 30 years old, she is still so intoxicating.

Half an hour later, the sun rose above the horizon, and Napoleon had run four or five miles in the morning light, and a feeling of exhaustion came up, and he was out of breath.

He really felt his aging.

When I was studying in China, my daily morning exercise was also a piece of cake. Can ...... now

Napoleon was forty-six years old and almost fifty years old.

But Napoleon did not consider himself to be very old. This age is the golden age of a person in power, a time when a politician matures politically, mentally and methodically. He, Napoleon, was not only able to lead troops to war, but also played politics and was not a fool idiot.

After an early workout, Napoleon enjoyed a simple breakfast and then picked up the papers and information that his attendants had prepared.

The first is Austria with the Ottomans.

After the war in Transylvania [the western part of Romania, which belongs to Austria], the armies of the two countries in Serbia also started a war.

The situation here is similar to that of Romania, with Austrian control in the north and Ottoman control in the south-central region.

The Austrians did not fail to penetrate the central part of Serbia, Belgrade they occupied three times, but each time they were quickly recaptured by the Austrians.

The Austrians launched an attack on Belgrade, and the local Serbs organized a force of more than 20,000 men to echo the Austrians' 'war of liberation'. As a result, the Austrian army's southward attack was slower than everyone expected, and more than 20,000 Serbian troops held out near Belgrade for only two days before being completely defeated by the Ottoman army of 10,000 people with absolutely superior artillery fire and sharp infantry assault.

Although on the battlefield the Ottomans failed to capture the leader of the Serbs, Miloš Obrenovic, they captured Karačorje Petrović, the leader of the last great Serbian uprising. This guy led a great uprising of the Serbs ten years ago, and then fled to Austria after the failure of the uprising. Unexpectedly, this battle became the biggest gain of the Ottoman army.

Then there was the war between the Austrian army and the Ottoman army, with the former having the advantage of numbers, and the latter having the fortified Belgrade.

Napoleon was very concerned about Austria's war with the Ottomans. He hoped that the Ottomans would be able to fight for a breath and hold off the Austrians for three or two years, and France would be able to truly ease their breath. But today, at the end of the day, he saw the bad news about Os, the rumors of a military coup in Istanbul had been confirmed, and Selim III had died in the chaos.

It's just terrible! "Damn it." Napoleon couldn't help but curse, and all his good mood was burned.

After reading the news of the Ottomans and Austria, Napoleon picked up the relevant war reports between the Ottomans and Russia, and there was no new news. But the subsequent Sino-Russian war brought him a heartfelt surprise - Bagration failed to attack Astrakhan, and now the whole army is tightly surrounded by Chinese on the banks of the Volga.

"I need more detailed information about this war!"

The expression on Napoleon's face was brilliant at this moment. The good news couldn't have come at a better time.

If the 100,000+ Russian army is wiped out, ......, hehe, the impact of the Ottoman coup can be completely overshadowed, and the whole of Europe will lose its voice, right? At that time, if you propose complete peace, and European countries work together to deal with the Chinese, it will be easier to get the approval of more people?!

In Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, the determinism of race and race and the policy of race, race, lordship and righteousness were very prevalent in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the past, the British were doing a lot of business with China on the one hand, and tirelessly spreading remarks that ruined China's image on the other, which in itself is a good example.

Moreover, the scale of this Sino-Russian war is different from the past, and China's two previous victories in the Russian war can be said to be very small compared to this battle. And Russia's influence in Europe is greater than that of Spain and Portugal combined, and the deterrent power of gray cattle is not at all comparable to that of Big Duck and Portugal.

If the previous skirmishes could still give the Europeans a tongue, so that China's strength was only partially recognized by the Europeans, rather than completely convinced, then after this war, the last fig leaf of the Europeans was also torn off.

Napoleon was keen to see this phenomenon, because such a victory of the Chinese could be the best footnote to the 'Yellow Peril Theory' that had been widely circulated in Europe in recent years, and this rumor spread and spread on the basis of China's huge population and industrial power could become true. Especially when the Chinese's armed forces are not ordinarily strong.

The Yellow Peril Theory or the Chinese Threat Theory, the battle of the yellow and white races, the war of civilizations......

The victory of the Chinese in the Russian war is simply the best basis and evidence to prove and confirm this inference. How could Napoleon not be happy? This gave him a huge boost. Napoleon, he had already converted the 'mind'.

Although his position has fallen from the pinnacle of Europe to the level of being in the same position as Alexander I, Franz I, and others, Napoleon has after all experienced the beauty of the peak, and when his vision has been detached from the interests of France and has his eyes on the whole world chessboard, it is easy to deduce what Napoleon should go after his expectations of unifying Europe by force have been dashed.

But whether he can go through this step depends on whether Britain, Prussia, Russia, Spain and other countries are willing.

Napoleon stood up a little irritably, and the feeling that the initiative was not in his own hands really made him very uncomfortable. The defeat in the war against Russia has made him lose too much, too much!

It is too inconsistent with the character of a man like Napoleon to leave his fate in the hands of someone else.

It is a pity that today's France is no longer the France of 20 years ago, and more than 20 years of war and death have completely unleashed the passion that the French have accumulated for a hundred or hundreds of years, and without this revolutionary passion, the combat effectiveness of the French soldiers is the same thing, and the enthusiasm of the French to join the army is also the same thing.

This caused great trouble for Napoleon.

Napoleon, who clearly recognized this, also clearly understood that he could no longer lead a passionate and combative army to conquer the European continent.

The desire to unify Europe by force can no longer be realized.

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