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Napoleon IV frowned unhappily. "We should do something," he told Mathilde, "and this is a golden opportunity, their fleet will soon go to the Far East!" ”

"If your father were still alive, he wouldn't do that."

"If my uncle and grandfather were still around, he would have crossed the English Channel, and as long as 200,000 troops passed, France would be the hegemon of the world!"

"But Britain will not transfer their home fleet to the Far East, and it is impossible to conquer a country of more than 30 million people with 200,000 troops." Mathilde sighed in his heart, the kings who bear the name of Napoleon are ambitious, and Napoleon IV is no exception. "Albert wouldn't be that stupid, and the British cabinet wouldn't be so stupid, and even if Victoria wanted to do something stupid, they would stop it."

Napoleon IV's face flushed, "We should still be prepared!" A world war is just around the corner, and this is France's best chance to dominate the world! ”

"France has expanded to the limit." Mathilde lived through the gloomy and gloomy era after the defeat of Napoleon I, and she was very afraid that France would once again fall from the clouds of great glory. "Now that we have too much land and wealth, if there is anything that France lacks, it is the population, and I would rather let the men of France stay at home and have children with their mothers-in-law than send them to war."

Mathilde is not just talking, what France lacks now is really population. In recent decades. France's population growth has been very slow, probably the lowest in all of Europe! The population of France (excluding Italy) has increased by less than 40% compared to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia all have more than 100% of the population. If the Italians were not included, France now had a population of just over 30 million, millions less than the German Empire. And the Italians refused to really become French...... In the same way, the French refused to turn themselves into Romans.

Now, the French world empire is actually maintained by more than 30 million French-speaking people. The British Empire on the other side of the English Channel has a population of more than 30 million on its own soil, and if you count the white English-speaking population of the American Empire, Canada, Australia, etc., there are nearly 70 million English-speaking whites in the entire British Empire alone! Almost twice as many French speaking whites! Britain's two main allies, the Holy Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman-Russian Empire, both had populations of more than 70 million. Other words. On the side of the British, there were 210 million whites who were quite strong in combat. Plus, there are more than 300 million tame Indian slaves to drive! Compared with. The Indians and Indo-European people of the Mexican Empire were not very tame.

As for China, the great empire of the East, the census conducted in 1874 showed that the total population of the entire empire (including all the vassal states) was as high as 720 million! This figure does not include the nearly 28 million Chinese-speaking East Asian yellow people in East China, the Confederate States of America, and the lands of New Japan. Almost 750 million people speak the same language and share the same culture. Also obey the only leader!

In other words, once a world war breaks out. The Chinese can easily come up with tens of millions of bayonets, and their position in the Greater East Asian region is simply not shaken. Even the sea of people can submerge the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Peninsula...... The question now is whether we can take over those territories that are not connected to China by land, such as the Nanyang Islands, Australia, and so on.

And the British Empire and its Entente powers (Britain, Russia and Austria signed a joint treaty in 1870, although not an alliance, but only the last step), could easily come up with 10 million bayonets. Although it cannot be compared with the "Pan-China Region", which has a population of at least 750 million. But it was by no means weaker than the "Western Roman League" controlled by France, an alliance promoted by Napoleon III in his later years against the "Common Entente" and the Great Chinese Empire, which included the French and Roman Empires, the German Empire, the Confederate States of America, the Mexican Empire, the Brazilian Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Argentina, the Kingdom of Serbia, and the Kingdom of Greece.

Although this alliance seems to have a whole bunch of countries. It occupies a lot of area on the map. But this alliance has a very big weakness, which is that there are too few whites! If you don't count the Indo-European mix, it's only 170 million. And among them were many Spaniards and Italians who were not very good at fighting, as well as more than 10 million English-speaking Americans (Confederate States...... A real backbone. The French and Germans combined were no more than 80 million. Mathilde, on the other hand, did not believe in the Germans very much, although she herself was half German.

"There are too few Frenchmen! There are only more than 30 million, which cannot withstand heavy losses. Mathilde told Napoleon IV, "It would be an unimaginable catastrophe if millions died in a war." She sighed softly, "And the Chinese can pay tens of millions of lives for this world war!" That's 50 million dead. They still have 700 million people! Much more than the total number of white people in the world! Eugène, do you know what that means? ”

"The Chinese are the real enemies?" Napoleon IV said in his heart. Did Mathilde think the same thing when he slept with Zhu Jishi?

"To be precise, China is also an enemy! Why don't we let 210 million British, Austrians and Slavs fight with 750 million Chinese? We only have more than 30 million French, too precious to be easily sacrificed! ”

"After they are both defeated, will France come out and seize hegemony?" Napoleon IV asked. The little Napoleon was full of hegemony.

"It depends on how many children the French can have! Eugène, you are the emperor, and you must lead by example. "Mathilde looked at Napoleon IV seriously, the little Napoleon was married, married to Isabel from the House of Savoy (the royal family of Sardinia), and was a very beautiful girl." Victoria and Albert had nine children, and your parents only gave birth to you, and that's the only place where your father can't compare to Victoria. So you have to fight for at least ten children with Isabel! ”

Napoleon IV felt like he was a breeding pig when he was born to ten ......, but he also felt that Mathilde had some truth in what he said. The French seem to be a little less, just over 30 million. Even the rich French mainland could not be filled, let alone filled, to fill the French world empire. In comparison, the Ming Empire is like its borders, vassal states, and the American continent exporting five or six million people every year, which is really incredible.

After sending Napoleon IV back to the palace to work with Empress Isabel to create a man, Mathilde continued to deal with the affairs of the court, discussing currency exchange rates and trade protections with several elderly ministers. Since the gold franc is also a currency pegged to gold and silver, it has risen as much as the pound sterling in the past two or three months. So much so that it affected the competitiveness of French goods. So the cabinet made a proposal to increase the value of the mark and peso and to the gold franc, and to raise the import tariffs on the entire unified market of the Western Roman League, so as to keep out the products of Britain and the American Empire. Without much thought, Mathilde approved the cabinet's proposal - although the French people were small in number, they were all uncles who could not afford to offend, and Mathilde did not want the grandfathers to lose their jobs because of the appreciation of the exchange rate.

He was then met by the British Foreign Secretary, the Marquess of Salisbury. Gascoigne. Cecil, a middle-aged man with a half-foot long beard, a bald head, and a fierce eye, did not have the gentleness of a diplomat, but looked like a martial artist. He had arrived in Paris from London overnight, and the last night had been a sleepless night for the big men of all London, either attending various emergency meetings or waiting to be summoned at Buckingham Palace. The Marquis of Salisbury, on the other hand, is on the road, and his task is to reach a consensus with the rulers of France on the "Hawaiian crisis", but this is obviously a very difficult task! (To be continued)

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