C3269 Who cut off their road to riches? (1/2)

Who cut off whose road to wealth?

The Franco-Prussian War, which was the most real war in the France, was finally complete. France was defeated on the inside.

France lost too miserably in this war. Around six provinces in the north were completely lost, the capital Paris was captured, and the 300 thousand elite troops became prisoners of war. The navy that thought they were proud of was even defeated by a Chinese lone ship!

In the end, the France was so weak that they could not even suppress a small organization of their own country!

Is this still the second most powerful country in the world? Is this still the France of the world's number one army?

There were too many people who didn't understand the gist of it. In fact, only those who had experienced it would be able to understand the meaning behind it!

France's failure, apparently a political upheaval caused by military failure, finally exacerbated the losses of the war, and that was all a facade!

France's failure also has an important internal problem, that is, the domestic ideological community has been divided into two different camps!

The first was the idea of colonization and expansion that the royalist party and the traditional aristocrats believed in as the iron law!

This thought was indeed mainstream in the world at that time, for England was made strong by the colonies, and France itself plundered too much from them.

Needless to say, that canal in Egypt, without the bones of the colonists, could you have built it? Just based on that productivity at that time, how could a person not depend on death to cultivate it?

Whose people died? Of course we can't kill the people of our own race, we still have to drive the slaves from the colony to their deaths!

The land, mineral resources, and natural resources of the weak, including the lives of the weak, could actually be extracted from them and fed back to the France!

This is such a big piece of cake, which powerful country in the world doesn't desire it?

However, although the reasoning seemed right, there was a problem with the distribution of the cake. During the process of the influx of new wealth, the problem with the distribution of the cake was too serious!

The gap between rich and poor, the devil had always been wandering around in Europe, moving people's hearts like a ghost!

In order to maintain the national strategy of colonial expansion, the emperor had to maintain a huge military expenditure.

At the same time, those emperors and generals, as well as the nobles and capitalists, took away the second piece of fat cake, because they were the Leader, the Organizer, and an absolute food class!

The influx of a huge amount of wealth into the France did not bring about the well-being of the people, but rather, it brought about a disaster, a disaster with a disparity between the rich and the poor!

It was because of this huge disparity that caused the discontent of countless citizens. This led to the proliferation of a second thought!

This second kind of thought, should be called conservatism, or called isolationism, is the thought that the United States is actively advancing at this moment!

There were many branches to this idea, such as the socialist parties in the Paris Commune, the progressive intellectuals who advocated republican rule, and even a small number of Nihilists.

They had different ideas, but the general idea was the same. They wanted to stop the militarism, stop giving the super dividends to the aristocrats, and increase the income level of the people!

To put it bluntly, you all ate too much, so you have to share some of it with us. Especially this Gold Swallowing Beast, the army.