C2701 Ao Liweis reflection! (1/2)

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.