Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

In everyone's eyes, Ao Liwei was unlucky, but when Xiao Letian heard the news, he thought that the old man was very lucky.

Wasn't it the greatest fortune to be able to land before the wrecked ship sank completely into the water?

He had even been forced by the empress to resign after being forced to do so. This only added to the pity of the commoners. This was good for his future life, especially after his comeback.

However, Ao Liwei did not enter politics after he left Paris. He left for Italy to write books and peacefully survived the war in France.

When the Third Republic was completely on the right track, he returned home as a scholar, rejected the political invitation of his old friends, and devoted his life to learning.

In his memoirs of his later years, he admitted that his political philosophy had been a complete failure!

At the end of the Second Empire, Ao Liwei had been looking for peaceful and gentle measures to reform the Empire. He led the officials and nobles supporting him and used the strong voices of the citizens to force Napoleon to release his power.

The Second Empire was a country with a dictatorial system. When the French Emperor took office, he dissolved the Parliament and left the authority of the country to be controlled by him alone.

Although the Parliament was reinstated, it was still part of the Vase Council. It could not affect the political situation at all!

Ao Liwei was very opposed to the Big Blood Operation, which was just like the Great Revolution. He believed that the process of directly overthrowing a regime and establishing a new regime was too violent, and would cause too much harm to the country.

That was why he had always supported moderate reform. Through his efforts, the power of Parliament had been elevated, and a number of people in the administration had begun to support him, the prime minister.

One by one the laws were changed, one by one the rights were sought, with the ultimate aim of wanting France to become a constitutional monarchy like Britain, and the prime minister was the equivalent of the prime minister.

In fact, he had already made some achievements. Between the French Emperor and the people, he actually did a pretty good job as a cabinet!

It was precisely because of Ao Liwei's small reforms that the new laws, one by one, added a lot of lubricants to this contradictory society!

It was he who had striven hard to gain power from the French Emperor, so that the people would not feel despair. In the dark at the end of the empire, in the darkness, the people could see a little hope, a little light!

It was this glimmer of hope and light that had coaxed the citizens from their path of mass rebellion!

If he was given time, the France might really become a constitutional monarchy like the British, but unfortunately, the Franco-Prussian War had cut off all his efforts!

A war had torn apart all the paint on French Emperor's body. It had stoked all the conflicts in the country and set them on fire, making it impossible for the Prime Minister to save him!

In the end, he became the scapegoat. Under the attack of a bunch of rotten eggs, he left Paris dejectedly. He couldn't even stay in the countryside any longer and directly emigrated to Italy.

In the years since the beginning of the war, his heart was filled with hatred towards Prussia. He had pushed all the blame for his failure to Prussia, believing that his political ideals were destroyed by Bismark and Xiao Letian.

If not for the two of them, he would have long since completed his own political reform, turning the Empire into an enlightened nation with a constitutional monarchy!

But as time went on, as his research progressed, when he was in his later years, the way he treated the war had completely changed his mind.

In his memoirs, he said with incomparable regret that the defeat of the Second Empire was in fact lost within him. All my political ideals were empty and there was no possibility of success at all.

Class conflict is irreconcilable. Since there are vested interests in a class, the class cannot put down the benefits in their hands. At the beginning, I could snatch some benefits from those people to distribute to the people, but that was just a stopgap measure!

When the rights and interests I compete for are great enough to shake the foundations of those people, the vested interests would probably maintain everything in their hands even if they had to kill!

Human nature was just that greedy. No one would give their possessions to others for nothing, be it nobles or commoners, once it involved their own interests, they would desperately defend it.

Without the annihilation of foreign wars, there would definitely be civil war. The European countries' revolution after revolution had caused Ao Liwei to wake up abruptly, he could not help but feel ashamed of his childish politics back then.

"The me of the past! "The mature politics are not even as good as the leader of the east, he already knows about the changes in the world when he was just over 30 years old, and his age is really nothing compared to a dog's!"

Ao Liwei who had awoken in his later years had a few letters with Xiao Letian, and what was written in these letters, was just a secret sealed in history.

Empress Ou Renni's actions were indeed vicious, pushing down a Cabinet was such a big achievement that it caused the eyes of all the opposition in the country to light up. Just by looking at the Tuileries' garden's demonstration, the number of people stationed there for a long time had decreased from over ten thousand to over four thousand.

From this, it could be seen that this battle was indeed very meaningful!

However, the crisis had not been resolved. The news of their victory would never travel back to the frontlines, and the crisis in Paris would only be resolved one day. The eyes of the entire France were fixated on the Mace, on the frontlines.

Not only Paris, but all the big cities in Europe were shocked as well. When the London Thames was the first to disclose the details of the Battle of Walter and the Battle of Spicer, the political and economic centers of Europe suddenly felt as if their hearts had stopped beating.

Tavern, coffee shop, restaurant... All the places where people were gathering had lost their liveliness. People were reading the newspapers one letter at a time, afraid that they would miss out on every detail.

Some of the owners even knew that their shops had a huge map of the France hanging on them, and people had even drawn their lines of advance for both France and Prussia.

People looked at the reports and the maps. There were senior intellectuals and retired military officers in the crowd, giving basic explanations to the citizens.

The more people learned the details of the two battles, the more terrible they felt about Prussia!

"My God! We guessed wrongly, and we were foolish enough to guess that the France's attack line would continue all the way until it reaches the city in Germany … "

"In the end, this bunch of useless Frenchmen failed to even protect their own borders, and were forced to suffer twice in succession before they were able to lose their lands in two provinces!"

"How can Prussia fight!"

"And the head of the Chinese army, who was as gentle and refined as a scholar in our London just a few months ago, actually became a member of the French Second Army after a few months?"

"Too shocking, this person is truly too terrifying!"

After the initial calm, the crowd shook their heads and sighed, but at that moment, someone from the crowd suddenly shouted.

"This is bad!" "I forgot one big thing, aiya …"