Emperor Hua looked at some rough summary of European countries left to him by Zeng Jize, and was not very satisfied. He stood up and saw if Princess Katrina Kaif was back.

Princess Katrina Kaif came back shortly after she went there. The President's Secretariat is worthy of being the most efficient institution in China, and even the world. Its work efficiency is really high. Even on the way out of the Emperor of China, it is the same as in Beijing.

The historical relationship between northern Italy and the French region from the end of the Middle Ages to the unification of the Italian Kingdom was the focus of what Emperor Hua understood on the way to the Italian Kingdom.

All of these will benefit from the statistical bureau information brought by Princess Katrina Kaif.

"Your Majesty, when will you set off?" asked Princess Katrina Kaif.

"The faster the better." Emperor Hua was quite anxious. Once he found out that the Austro-Hungarian Empire had no hope, he was anxious to open the next golden egg.

Emperor Hua did not believe that none of European countries had a strategic sense. As long as one country could realize that China would rise in the East, things would be easier.

At first, Emperor Hua had fantasies, believing that Europe was developed and enlightened earlier than other places, and had a wide range of knowledge. The upper class should have visionary people. However, as one country came over and one country and half of the itinerary was removed, he became more and more disappointed. Although the great powers in this era were much stronger than the Qing Dynasty, what is the difference between the political vision and insight of the upper class and the rulers of the Qing court?

The late Qing government was relatively corrupt and incompetent, but the corrupt and incompetent government of the late Qing government was not formed overnight. Many institutional problems actually existed in the early Qing Dynasty, but it was finally difficult to recover in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was completely highlighted.

The emperors including Jiaqing and later lacked abilities and courage, and did not have the courage to reform the ills and create new things.

If Zeng Guofan and other Han officials had not had any capable Han officials, the Qing Dynasty would have been destroyed at least 50 years in advance, and there would have been no such thing as Empress Dowager Cixi.

The direction of the historical tide is irreversible, but the impact of manpower in its development is often extremely far-reaching.

It cannot be simply said that a certain ruler is powerful, but a competition of institutions. The feudal system will definitely not be able to overcome capitalism.

Objectively speaking, Cixi is much greater than the Queen of the British Empire. She is in a patriarchal society where the baby girl is irresponsible to fall to death. It is not easy for a woman to be the leader of the family.

She also needed to play with means to balance the bureaucratic forces of various ethnic groups for her own use. During her term, many extremely large-scale cult rebellions occurred. The corrupt and smoked Eight Banners army was weaker than the brave and warlike Indian Sikh mercenaries, and India was also successfully "integrated" by the British Empire.

There is also the virtue of the Tsarist Russian Empire that wants land and people. It is Cixi's contribution to your grandfathers' existence.

The difficulty of the Game of Thrones of Cixi can be said to be far above Wu Zetian, and even surpassed any foreign monarch in the 19th century.

Although Emperor Hua overthrew Cixi's rule, he always admired Cixi.

"The time for the unification of the Kingdom of Italy is not long before us, but it develops very quickly." Princess Katrina Kaif told the Emperor.

"Yes." Hua Huang said angrily while looking at the information: "Europe has geographical advantages. In a little bit of big places, as long as one country completes the industrial revolution, other countries, even if there is no unified country, will still be affected and can absorb a lot of excellent social experience and industrial technology."

"But our speed is also very fast." Princess Katrina Kaif smiled and cheered Emperor Hua.

The cute CEO smiled slightly and then read the information about the Kingdom of Italy.

Turin was almost occupied by France before Napoleon swept across Europe; Nice and Cannes did not belong to France before the 19th century, but to the Savoy dynasty, which once extended the border line to the gate of Lyon.

Como, north of Milan, belonged to the Austrian Empire in the early 19th century.

Northern Italy and Germany have a close relationship with France, and France is more like a role in getting a piece of the Holy Roman Empire.

First of all, although the princes of Northern Italy and the princes of Germany have been members of the Holy Roman Empire since the Middle Ages, their status in the Holy Roman Empire is completely different.

The princes of Northern Italy were nominally part of the Holy Roman Empire, but in fact they had a very awkward position. The most typical one was that the princes of Northern Italy had no right to participate in the Imperial Parliament, the decision-making body of the Holy Roman Empire. What was even more embarrassing was that at the 1500 Augsburg Conference, the six imperial administrative regions of the Holy Roman Empire were designated.

However, Switzerland, Bohemia and Northern Italy were excluded.

So Northern Italy’s attitude towards Shinra is that if you don’t take me to play, I won’t play with you anymore.

The meeting in 1500 that expelled Northern Italy from the Center for Imperial Decision-making and Administration actually marked the independence of Northern Italy from Shinra.

But in name, northern Italy is still an integral part of Shinra.

The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire often relied on his own emperor's identity to point fingers at Northern Italy, and this kind of fingers was considered to be in line with the law and was considered to be the privilege of Emperor Shenluo.

In 1519, King François I of France set off a bribery battle and tried to compete with Charles V of Spain for the throne of the Shrine. It was because he wanted to make himself the Duke of Milan. After the extinction of the Visconte family in Milan, the French King was the legal heir to the Duke of Milan.

However, the Holy Roman Empire refused to admit this request as the leader of Milan, and instead enfeoffed a warlord who had no kinship with the Visconte family as the duke.

Then the Dharma King would grab the title of emperor and give himself the title of Duke of Milan.

The Spanish throne succession war from 1701 to 1714, the declaration of war was a resolution collectively passed by the Imperial Parliament.

However, the Duke of Mantua in Northern Italy joined Shinra's opponent France, so Emperor Joseph I declared his treason, deprived the duke of his title, and annexed the Duke of Mantua.

After the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire, the eastern half of northern Italy was annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and some areas to the west were controlled by France.

The rest of the places and the south unified the current Italy. After the defeat in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it again cut the eastern half of northern Italy to Italy, and Austria became a pure landlocked country.

The relationship between Northern Italy and France was too difficult, which made Emperor Hua a little confused, but was particularly interested.

Because the political reality and complex diplomatic situation of northern Italy have been traced back to various messy palace relations in the Middle Ages, and the rising star Sardin Piedmont was the rising star.

The decisive event of Italian unification was the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859. The Kingdom of Sardinia defeated Austria with the help of France. The domino effect promoted by this ultimately exceeded the pre-plans of France and Sardinia, allowing the fragmented Italian state to unify in the hands of Sardinia Piedmont, making unified Italy possible.

Napoleon III's help was not gratuitous—although he was indeed a supporter of national self-determination, antagonist of Austria and participated in the Italian nationalist movement—France annexed Savoy and Nice through a referendum, which was secretly agreed by Cafur and Napoleon III in Prombiere-Bains in advance.

However, Savoy and Nice had close ties with France. As early as 1792, the French Republic passed a referendum and annexed the two places. Many locals also played an important influence in France, such as Massena, the famous generals of the Republic and the Empire, were born in Nice.

The Kingdom of Italy is Piedmont Italy, just like Meiji Japan is Sasan Japan, but the Kingdom of Italy is not the Kingdom of Sardinia after all.

The most important symbol is the Italian tricolor flag: the red, green and white tricolor flag, which was designated as the national flag of the Republic of Sischalpin and France's "Sister Republic".

In 1848, the Kingdom of Sardinia Piedmont added its shield on the tricolor flag as a military flag, which was later the national flag of the Kingdom of Italy.

In addition, in 1802, the new constitution granted by the government to the Republic of Sischalk changed the name of the country to "Italy", which made the name "Italy" the name of a political entity for the first time.

Although the Italian Jacobins and the republic supporters of European countries during the French Revolution were called Jacobins, they were far less radical than the French Jacobins in 1793 and were very dissatisfied with the policy of supervising the government to divide Italian territory.

The governor once publicly declared that "the Republic of Sischalk must be strong enough to help us, but it can never be strong enough to harm our interests." After all, it was the first time that France had burned nationalism to the Apennines: unified Italy will become achievable only when the cornerstone of a sovereign state is a nation and no longer a dynasty.

Revolutionary France's domination of Italy left another legacy: the myth of the popular movement.

The popular movements in 1830, 1848 and 1860 were too radical and dangerous as a nationalist resource and could easily fall into the manipulation of radical democrats. The memory of the popular movement was necessary to connect the Italian state with the Italians. Therefore, the story of the peasant uprising in Piedmont and Naples against the French invaders was widely praised. Although the people who revolted that year had no common language with the bourgeoisie who ruled Italy in the 19th century, their battles were populist and conservative enough.

As Napoleon III tried to protect the Pope and prevent Italy from achieving complete unification, history and reality overlapped at this moment, and the image of France as the enemy of Italian unification was constructed: Napoleon III, Napoleon I, the Republic, Louis XV, Louis XIV, Richelieu, François I, and Charles VIII, and repeated invasions from France hindered Italian unification.

The Savoy royal family, who went into exile to Sardinia during the French Revolutionary War, seemed to be related to the fate of the Italian nation.
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