C2496 bipartisan union (1/2)
See you here! Only now did Gan Bida understand what these two so called old friends were up to. They had all planned out a meeting beforehand.
The alliance that Du Waer had mentioned was actually the alliance of the two important anti-imperialist factions that belonged to the French people.
When Xiao Letian was in the Ryukyu, he had said that perhaps in the eyes of the officials of the Great Qing, France was an undefeatable capitalist power. But in my eyes, France is just a broken house in a storm.
Napoleon's governance foundation was not that strong. After so many years of fighting and fighting against each other, his public support for the throne was getting lower and lower.
This coupled with the fact that the people of the France were born with that kind of romantic revolutionary complex, caused a large number of natural revolutionaries to emerge from within this nation.
Those who opposed Napoleon III's rule were mostly the two groups of people whose first group of people were the republicans represented by Gan Bida.
It could be traced back to the period of the Great Revolution. He had cut off Louis XVI's head, captured the Bastille, and established the new First Republic of France! All the kings of Europe, played by romantic Frenchmen, were terrified.
Na Polunbonaba had ended the short life of the First Republic of France! Then came the First Empire, which made the whole of France love and hate.
The whole of Europe had organized six anti-French alliances, and it was basically with all their might that they managed to pull Na Polunbonaba off the throne. France entered the period of the Second Republic.
However, this regime did not last long. Na Polunbonaba's nephew successfully revived and became the current second empire.
It was a pity that Napoleon's nephew was far away, and was not as good as his uncle. Although news of victory continued to spread outside, it was a pity that those victories compared to his uncle's glorious victory, were simply the same as comparing the bright moon and the light of fire!
Add to that the fact that these victories did not bring tangible benefits to the population, nor did they bring about a series of reforms to improve the welfare of the population of the country, and this brought more Frenchmen into the opposition, and the power of the republicans flourished.
The Republicans had never given up. They had always had a huge mass base in the people, and many enlightened gentlemen, Bankers, capitalists, and many new intellectuals and scholars were working in secret to restore the Republic.
It wasn't that Napoleon didn't think of suppressing the power, it was just that his cruel rule had killed a lot of people, but he, who had killed his way to the very end, was helpless against it all because the power of resistance was just too strong. It was impossible for him to cut off all of the intelligence and brains of the entire France.
Until 1869, when Napoleon III even decided to amend the constitution and release a lot of power to the people in exchange for the support of the Republicans for his rule.
The Emperor had tried to replace the modern monarchy with the English monarchy, but unfortunately his little mind had been seen through by these clever men.
How could the emperor, who didn't even want to give up his military authority, dare to say that he wanted to be a constitutional monarch? Is the Constitution superior to the Emperor or is the Emperor superior to the Constitution? If Napoleon had not even figured out this most basic of principles, then there was naturally no need to reform.
Gan Bida, a criminal who had been in prison before, had obtained a large amount of support votes in both parliamentary elections. This was the reason why the people of that era had grudges against the emperor for a long time, then the strength of the republics would naturally become stronger.
Resisting Napoleon's imperial rule meant that not only were there republicans, there was also a very famous force in history, and that was the famous Paris Commune from later generations.