C2701 Ao Liweis reflection! (2/2)
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 …”