Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

The Franco-Prussian War had to be joined, because Xiao Letian knew that France would definitely lose this war.

Moreover, the compensation after the Franco-Prussian War was also a windfall. Later on, when the internal fortress plan was launched, the initial funds all depended on this compensation!

Furthermore, through this war, they could establish good diplomatic relations with the Germany, the future powerful nation of Europe. The Chinese people really need an ally to lead the way in chasing down the world.

Also, they had to train their own army to see what the new era's war looked like, so that this rare cross-era war could become a sharpening tool for the Chinese army.

The Franco-Prussian War was a springboard to increase the Chinese international influence. This was something most of the Chinese had agreed to.

At present, the opposition to this war within the Chinese side had already subsided, but with the end of the war, a new issue had arisen. So, it was not necessary for the Chinese side to get involved in this siege.

Especially the leader, who seemed to have paid too much attention to the Paris Commune who was unrelated to him!

It was just an internal French rebel group. Why was the Führer so worried when he mentioned it? And a little too concerned.

These people did not understand Xiao Letian's efforts at all, because they had never realized what Paris Commune and those people represented!

That was the biggest volcano of humanity's future society, and also the biggest conflict point of all countries!

The Paris Commune was the first attempt of the human proletarian movement, the first cry of the Workers' Movement. He opened up a brand-new era, letting the entire world understand that the fundamental contradiction of human society had changed!

Before the Paris Commune, it was the Enlightenment era of capitalism. At that time, the main contradiction within European countries was between feudal system and capital system.

King and capitalists fought back and forth. The feudal lords represented by the king joined forces with religious forces to strangle the capitalist powers. Their goal was to fight for power and wealth!

Capitalism was the ultimate victor of centuries of conflict. The monarchies and religions of nations had been defeated, capitalism had grown to the point where the kings and popes did not dare to do as they pleased.

From the beginning, the capitalist power was bullied and oppressed, but after that, the capitalist power was not a kind man or woman, and soon after, the social conflict took a turn for the better.

The bearded man in London had long noticed these minute changes in society. At the moment, the contradictions in Europe were shifting, the conflicts between the capitalists and the working class were gradually replacing the previous social contradictions and becoming more and more intense!

Someone will ask, where is the king? Where are the feudal lords and religious forces?

The answer was simple. They had already started working with the capitalists. They were starting to merge!

Since I can't beat him, I'll become you! Isn't it just capital investment and making a fortune together? The king can do it, the nobles can do it too, and even the church has countless properties to invest in!

Therefore, in this era, the Queen's industry could conduct business investments, and the Duke of Newcastle could even join forces with the funds of other aristocrats to do high-end food business with Xiao Letian.

Is fresh source a good way to earn money? Come come come, invest with us nobles, we will drag a few more Bankers!

In other words, at the end of nineteenth century, it was already hard to tell who was the noble and who was the capitalist.

Capitalism finally had complete control of the entire Western society, so this absolute power group would also eat people. And the main body they squeezed out would be the proletariat, and the representative would be the working class!

The capitalists were profiteers, they did not do business here to do good deeds, the suppression of the workers during the Industrial Revolution was extremely cruel.

Minimum salary, most dangerous working environment, extra long working hours, no work injury insurance!

In the eyes of the capitalists, all the workers in the factory were nothing more than coal in a boiler, burned to slag and then discarded!

Contradictions were not built up over a day or two, but over dozens or even hundreds of years. But why didn't there be a large scale Workers' Movement before the Paris Commune?

In the end, it was all because of the development of science and technology, and also because of the increase in productivity!

Before the Paris Commune, the industrialization level in Europe wasn't high, and the strength of the earliest working class was also very weak, because there weren't many people!

At that time, the workers were also oppressed, but because there were too few of them, they didn't have the strength to protest!

Hundreds or thousands of people wanting to demonstrate in the streets? You want to arm a riot? The police in the city could suppress them all!

They could only wait until the development of the Industrial Revolution, wait until the technological development could produce large factories, large industrial areas, and then gather tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of workers!

At this point, a qualitative change would occur!

The more people there were, the more power there would be!

The loose masses of workers had finally become working class. At this point, their ability to resist oppression would increase, and they would be able to organize at least tens of thousands of people on the streets!

Since the police could no longer suppress them, they had to go against the army, and the more they did so, the more they resisted!

More importantly, these workers still had votes, so naturally, there would be political figures who would come close to them and provide them with some theoretical guidance!

Why did the French Emperor deprive Blanqui and the others of their right to vote? Why did they qualify as criminals from the beginning?

This was because French Emperor was very clear that Blanqui and the others were controlling hundreds of thousands, or even millions of votes!

This was an unsolvable problem!

Human society had finally entered a new stage of contradiction and conflict, which was the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, which was the bloody struggle between the capitalists and the working class!

In Xiao Letian's eyes, this contradiction was temporarily unsolvable. No one could reconcile this contradiction, not even God!

Xiao Letian knew very well that this conflict would quickly spread to the Chinese because if you wanted to industrialize it, you would definitely have to give birth to a working class.

This was a paradox that accompanied Industrial Revolution, it was something that no one could avoid!

Xiao Letian hoped that the direct disciples who came with him to Europe would see this cruel revolution with their own eyes and ponder over the cause and effect.

Let them know that the current Paris, that is to say, the future Paris, Shanghai, Beijing!

Face this contradiction and use the blood and sweat of generations to solve this contradiction!

"Don't let your guard down. Everything that has happened in Paris will happen to us tomorrow! "How should we solve this?"

"You must not treat those people in the commune like ordinary thugs. If you do that, you will be superficial!"

"Remember... You must treat them as a kind of natural law, a kind of fate that we will never be able to avoid! "