When the carriage that Otani and Napoleon were riding slowly towards the Otani Medical College outside Macau.≮≈.┿. Otani Hiroshi unfolded the newspaper and handed the International Political Edition to Napoleon. He was excited to read the literary version, which was full of gossip news and some serial novels. He read it very quickly, and the few pages of the newspaper were quickly finished. He looked up and saw that Napoleon, who was sitting opposite him, had his eyebrows tightly frowned, and his mind was on the international current political edition in front of him.

The people here in Macau generally do not care much about international current affairs, so there is very little related content in newspapers. Those that can be published are basically major international events. I don’t know what news was published in the newspaper today, which actually made his student so concerned?

Otani Mitsuo looked at Napoleon curiously, but he was not surprised. Because these international students from the Qing Dynasty generally care about politics and have established many diverse political groups. What is the Revival Society, the Restoration Society, the Young France, and the Free Germany...

Otani Mitsukoshi University (which mainly recruits white students from the Qing Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty bannermen usually go to more regular schools) and has been a professor with these Qing Dynasty students who have been full of strange ideas. These people are like ancient Chinese people in China, regardless of their thinking, language, and clothing (Hanfu in this time and space has evolved, just like Europeans in the 21st century would not wear 13th century clothes all day), and they all seemed to be Han people in the Song Dynasty. They know very little about the ever-changing scientific progress.

Moreover, most of these "white-skinned" ancient Chinese people had a sense of the Supreme Kingdom that seemed strange to Otani Mitsuka. They thought that the Qing Dynasty was a "strong and grand country" like the Ming Empire, the Qing Dynasty was the Supreme Kingdom in the West, and the Ming Dynasty was the Supreme Kingdom in the East.

For the countries around the Qing Dynasty, which were truly ruled by the Europeans, these Qing Dynasty Europeans looked down upon from the bottom of their hearts and regarded them as small states. They could only look up to the existence of the Qing Dynasty.≧?≮≥?≮.╊.

Therefore, decades ago, the Qing Dynasty was bullied by several European "small states" such as Italy, Greece, Serbia, and many other Europeans, which greatly stimulated the Qing Dynasty's reform. It also prompted the Qing Dynasty to improve, and began to form a new army (the main force was the European flag), started industry, and sent some overseas students to foreign countries. A few years ago, the restrictions on private study abroad were relaxed, so in Macau, there were more ordinary European youth studying in Hong Kong to study in Hong Kong. In fact, because of the emergence of the concession in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's ability to control the border has declined very significantly in the past few decades, and the number of people who went abroad in private has increased significantly.

These self-paid international students are not much the same as those of the previous official students. They study harder, and they are more radical in their thinking, and have a higher interest in politics. This may be related to the fact that these self-paid students are not recognized by the Qing court and have no guarantee of their career after returning to China. It may also be that these international students are influenced by the rising nationalist thoughts in various countries in Europe...

Napoleon, who was very talented in learning, was also a very radical nationalist!

Unlike most European students, his hometown was not on Europa 6, but on Corsica on the Mediterranean. This island fell in the Qing Dynasty lately and was only ruled by the Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty ruled on Corsica and Sardinia was relatively gentle, and did not eliminate the European nobles and priests. Christianity was also allowed to continue to exist. It also did not forbid the European writing and cultural history.

Therefore, the history and culture of the Europeans that Napoleon Bonaparte (Europeans on Corsica and Sardinia still put their names before their surnames) knew far more than ordinary European students in the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, Napoleon Bonaparte also knew some Italian and Latin, and could understand the original Italian books.?≠≧∈.╬. This knowledge, coupled with some innate leadership ability, made Napoleon Bonaparte a leader among the Qing Dynasty students in Macau. With the support of several European wealthy businessmen from the Qing Dynasty, a small association organization was established.

Moreover, Napoleon Bonaparte also attracted the attention of the Macau Governor's Office. Mitsuka Otani became friends with him, which was actually a request made by the important members of the Macau Governor's Office.

I don’t know how long it took, Napoleon Bonaparte to slowly put down the newspaper in his hand. At this time, he saw Otani Mitsuka, who was sitting opposite him, was looking at him curiously. So he pointed to the headlines in the newspaper and smiled forcefully: "It seems that the English are going to start a war with the Qing Dynasty!"

"Oh? Is that right?" Otani Mitsuka did not show much surprise. He often traveled between Hong Kong and Macau, and had already smelled the smell of H medicine.

Although England was also a traditional friendly country of the Qing Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty. England was a friendly country of the Yuan Dynasty, and the trade between Hong Kong and Rouen brought extremely rich benefits to England.

Moreover, England has always been under the control of the Ming Empire and cannot attack the Qing Dynasty at will. Even during the Balkan War decades ago, England did not take advantage of the situation.

However, with the Great Revolution in England thirty years ago, the Ming Empire's control over England gradually became loose.

The Plantains Dynasty, which ruled England for hundreds of years, lost its throne for a time, and finally under the threat of armed intervention of the Ming Empire, the leaders of the Christian Datong Party in England agreed to implement a constitutional monarchy, which was just to give the Ming Empire a face. The kings and nobles of England almost lost all feudal privileges and property during the Great Revolution.≤u?∥∈∥∧≤≥v8∈≧ novel≤∈∈≤≈∈≧.╇. The factors that restrict the complete transformation of the Kingdom of England into a citizen nation-state also disappeared.

In this era where citizens and nation-states do not have high-tech weapons or information wars, but they have cannons, rifles, machine guns, and wars do not rely on martial arts, they are undoubtedly the best. Because this system can mobilize cannon fodder to the maximum extent, and cannon fodders can become qualified cannon fodder as long as they have a short period of training.

The nation-state where citizens are masters of their own country or think they are masters of their own country is now the Chinese Empire, the United Kingdom of China, and the Kingdom of England... The population of these three countries is only tens of millions, but they have established a national mobilization system and can quickly form a cannon fodder force of millions of people!

Moreover, the industries of these three countries are capable of providing weapons and ammunition to such a huge army.

In contrast, the Ming Empire, which dominated the world, was still a country ruled by aristocrats and gentry elites. The number of people with voting rights was only a few million, accounting for less than one percent of the total population. Moreover, because the Ming Empire dominated the world for a long time, the domestic sense of national crisis was almost zero.

Almost all adult citizens of the Ming Dynasty received nine years of compulsory education, so they had the ability to think. They knew very well that the masters of this country were a few nobles and elites... So the Ming Empire's silhouette would not stand up for the hegemony of the country on the other side of the earth.

Therefore, the Ming Empire was an old imperialist that had no support for many nationalism and no citizen country. It had only a population of 1.1 billion, but could not be fully mobilized. It could only use the recruitment system of spending money to hire soldiers, so the scale of the 6th Army of the Ming Dynasty was only a few hundred thousand. This is probably the reason why the Ming Empire could not completely defeat the Holy Heavenly Dao Kingdom for hundreds of years. Net≤.┿.

For the same reason, the Ming Empire now does not have enough power to attack the emerging citizenship country of England, tens of thousands of miles away... and start a war with a country that can often pull out millions of new 6 armies. The Ming Empire must at least provide hundreds of thousands of mercenaries to hire! Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also needs to maintain heavy troops in the western part of the land to fight against the sacred heavenly kingdom. It also needs to maintain a strong military presence in Mingzhou to balance the advantages of the Chinese Empire over the United Kingdom of China. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also has to maintain necessary garrisons in the eastern part of the local land and overseas territories spread all over the world. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty cannot draw as many troops as possible from the existing more than one million 6 armies. It can only spend money to hire again, which will be a very heavy pressure for the Ming Dynasty's finances.

In addition, spending money to hire soldiers without giving a single order to mobilize conscripts to come! Spending money to hire soldiers is a transaction, and people cannot tie them with ropes if they refuse to join the army! Conscripts are citizens' obligations to the country, and they cannot do so.

"England announced its general mobilization!" Napoleon Bonaparte handed the newspaper to Otani Mitsuki, "The newspaper estimated that the Kingdom of England could expand the 6th army to 10,000 in three months. The 10,000 new 6th army was irresistible to the Qing Dynasty..."

The military system of the Qing Dynasty was semi-employed and half-hered. The bannermen and men in the European region were all hereditary soldiers, and were supported by the court for generations, so they naturally had the obligation to join the army. Now they are the new army of more than 100,000 bannermen. The 40 million people in the bannermen have been under the actual control of the Holy Heavenly Dao Kingdom for decades, and the bannermen population there has long been no longer something the Qing Dynasty can mobilize.

The new European army of the Qing Dynasty was mercenary, but unlike the mercenaries of the Ming Dynasty, the recruitment of soldiers was open, and everyone could apply for recruitment, and the salary was relatively high, so the quality of the soldiers was very high, and the officers were trained by regular military academies. Therefore, the overall quality of the 6th Army of the Ming Dynasty was very high, and the Knights of the Heavenly Dao (religious maniacs who received regular military education) could be compared with it.

The mercenaries of the Qing Dynasty had their own ways, and many of them were descendants of European soldiers who surrendered to Zhu Chongba more than 300 years ago... After all, these people are reliable! The Qing Dynasty was a small number of people in the European region, and reliability was always the first priority. After more than 300 years of inbreeding, it is easy to imagine what the combat effectiveness of the Qing Dynasty's fresh army is.

After all, the Ming Empire was a nation-state. There were also powerful nobles, and the gentry class could rely on officers. They basically came out of them. Therefore, they were not worried that the army would not be reliable, so they put the quality in place. The same mercenaries, the two were completely different.

In addition, the military pay of the Qingqing Army has not increased for three hundred years! The silver three hundred years ago is not the same as the silver today. Moreover, the one or two taels of silver that has depreciated inappropriate value will have to be deducted by officers at all levels. If it can really be in the hands of soldiers, there will be few big money. Therefore, no new military soldier can make a living by relying on military pay, and most of them have other responsibilities. Being a soldier is just amateur. You can't count on combat effectiveness, and it's good to maintain local order.

So what the Qing Dynasty can fight now is the New Army of Ten Thousand Banners and the Beiyang Navy. The main function of the New Army of Ten Thousand Banners is to defend the house... That is the basis of the Banners! If it loses all, how can you use to intimidate more than 300 million Europeans?

Napoleon Bonaparte snorted coldly, "Now it depends on the Beiyang Navy! If the Navy can win, the Qing Dynasty can remain unbeaten. Otherwise..."

Photographed by Otani Mitsuki looked at the headlines of newspapers marked with black and thick Chinese characters. The Kingdom of England announced a general mobilization, and the British-Qing war was about to reach a close!

"Maybe the Atlantic Governor will find a way to mediate?" Otani Mitsuka frowned. He really didn't understand why the Ming Empire allowed England to challenge the stability of the Qing Empire?

Although England's Million Six Army was not defeated by the Ming Empire, the Atlantic Fleet could have six 15,000-ton battleships and twelve 5,000-ton fast cruisers.

That is the force that the entire European navy cannot defeat together!

Moreover, the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Empire also has two powerful battleships with an empty load displacement of over 20,000 tons! They are the most powerful battleship in the world. As long as one of them comes to Europe, it will be enough to sink the entire English Navy.

If England were a country bordering the Qing 6 like the Holy Heavenly Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty might have no choice but to do anything. But England was an island country...

Why didn't the Ming Dynasty stop England?

"Governor Cao will not come forward to mediate, at least not now!" Napoleon Bonaparte's brows were twisted. "Although he had a good personal relationship with the Haizhongtang and Empress Ye. However, national affairs should still be carried out by the instructions of the Ming cabinet."

"Ming Dynasty Cabinet?" Otani Mitsuka was stunned. He knew that his student's judgment of current affairs was very accurate. Now it must be reasonable to say this. "Did the Ming Dynasty court have given up on the Qing Dynasty?"

Napoleon nodded, "It must be so! The Ming Dynasty will definitely give up on the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty will be over this time."

He frowned and analyzed, "This matter must be related to the Holy Heavenly Kingdom's preparation for annexation of Bulgaria, Asia Minor and Constantinople... A while ago, there was a rumor that the court was preparing to ced the territory of Bulgaria, Asia Minor and Constantinople to the Holy Heavenly Kingdom. As long as the Holy Heavenly Kingdom is willing to withdraw from Romania and restore alliances with the Qing Dynasty? The Ming Empire must not tolerate such a thing, so England was allowed to unite with the United Kingdom of Nordics, and under the pretext of the Island of Zeland (which belongs to later Denmark, this island is a disputed island between the Qing Dynasty and the United Kingdom of Nordics, but it has always been controlled by the Qing Dynasty) and war was initiated against the Qing Dynasty."
Chapter completed!