Chapter 222: ,rule

Napoleon was stunned for a moment, then put away his smile and said: "My brother, what do you want to say about this issue?"
"Napoleon," Joseph hesitated, then said, "I want to know, in your goal, will France be a republic or an empire in the future?"
"Joseph, why do you doubt Napoleon." Before Napoleon could speak, Lucien spoke with dissatisfaction.
"Shut up!" Joseph didn't even look at Lucien, but continued to stare at Napoleon. So Lucien calmed down and sat beside him without saying a word.
"What about the empire? What about the republic?" Napoleon originally planned to say "Of course I want to be emperor", but he didn't know what happened, but something like this popped up in his mouth, with something he hated A word of weak smell.
"Hahahaha," Joseph laughed, but his eyes didn't mean to smile at all, "My brother, you have also become a person who always makes'I dare not' follow'I want' Already? But knowing to conceal one's goals is also a mature performance. Moreover, Napoleon, it is rare, you raised a very worthy of discussion, not so dumb question. What do you think is the difference between an empire and a republic? What are their advantages and disadvantages?"
This is a very broad question, but for Napoleon, it is a question that must be answered. Of course, Napoleon, who is full of secondary thoughts, hopes to become emperor. But Napoleon also knew that without Joseph's support, the position of the emperor would not be so easy to sit on. Even if Joseph cannot be supported, at least, Joseph cannot be opposed.
Napoleon knew that his eldest brother was a math monster. The meaning of this math monster did not refer to the XX law of Joseph, but said that when this guy is making judgments, it is like doing a math problem. What rhetoric? , Passion or something, the value here is equal to zero. He only recognizes tangible power and benefits, and he can only rely on these to convince him.
"Let's talk about the benefits of the empire to the family first." Napoleon said, he knew that from this angle, Joseph was the easiest to convince.
"If France becomes an empire and I become an emperor, our family will change from a small noble family to the top royal family in Europe. Some people in our family, such as you, such as Lucien, can become The king of a certain country in Europe, and then our family will continue to prosper... Joseph, do you think it's right?"
Joseph said in a noncommittal way: "So what harm? You don't think that a certain practice has only benefits and no harm, right?"
"Of course there are risks." Napoleon said, "Short-term risks, for example, we have failed on the battlefield. Now everything we have is built on the basis of continuous victory on the battlefield. If we are If we fail on the battlefield, we may be beaten back to our original state. Well, this is the main risk in the short term, but I think that with your internal coordination of production, coupled with my battlefield command, I don’t think this risk How big can it be."
"So what about the long-term risks?" Joseph asked.
"Long-term risk?" Napoleon laughed. "Joseph, in the long run, we are all going to die. This is the biggest long-term risk. Of course, in addition to this, in the long run, there is also the risk of revolution. Joseph , I know what you are worried about. You are nothing more than worried. One day in the future, the French people will be dissatisfied with us, and will even overthrow our family like we overthrew Bourbon, and even like we will Louis XVI-that The weak idiot pushed onto the guillotine, pushing one of our descendants onto the guillotine. But Joseph, even so, from the comparison of costs and benefits, do we really lose? Or in other words, our family Lost?"
"Go on." Joseph said.
"Well, let's take Bourbon as an example. If the Bourbon family hadn't become the royal family of France, would they be in a better position than the royal family of France?" Napoleon asked.
Then, without waiting for others to answer, Napoleon shook his head and said: "If the Bourbons were still the Duke of Bourbon, they would not be able to escape the Revolution. Maybe the Duke of Bourbon and the Duchess of Bourbon would also be pushed to the guillotine, or It is directly hung on the street light pole. Even, because the entire family is in France, in the storm of 1993, the entire Bourbon family was swept away by a single net, and it is possible for no one to die. But Bourbon What happens after the family becomes the royal family? Even today, they can even keep another crown in Spain.
So, Joseph, you see, it is much safer for the family to become the King of France than continue to be the Duke of Bourbon. And if the Bourbon family is not even a duke, not even a nobleman, but just an ordinary poor farmer in France, then there is no need for the storm of 93 years. From 1584 to the present, I don’t know how many times. Famine, plague, war, lack of money to marry a wife, and other things can kill this ordinary civilian family. Joseph, I don’t know if you have ever noticed any existing civilians. If you trace his previous generations, it won’t take long to get involved with the nobles. Their ancestors were probably declining nobles, low-level knights, or their illegitimate children.
Joseph, why is this? Why can you rarely find a family that has been traced to several generations and is all common people? The reason is very simple. Because such a family will not be passed on for so long, and within a few generations, they will cut off their offspring for the reasons I mentioned earlier. The inheritance of a poor family can hardly exceed three generations. The humble status is the greatest danger for a family. Joseph, do you think I am right? "
"Papa papa..." Joseph clapped. But this applause did not please Napoleon, because there was no joy on the face of Joseph who was applauding.
"Napoleon, you think deeply, and you have some truth in what you say." Joseph said, "but have you considered the difference between our family and Bourbon? The Bourbon family can become a royal family because they already have it. Royal blood. However, our family, at least in the range that can be traced back, does not have. Of course, if you trace it back to ancient Rome, or even to Troy, it might be true, but it doesn’t. I made it up for myself. There is nothing difficult for a powerful ancestor. But even so, according to the basic rules of inheritance, the crown will not be our turn. Napoleon, don't rush to refute, listen to me.
Those feudal royal families would never agree with us. Of course, our family now has enough power to crush these so-called rules, thereby setting a new rule for the world. We can completely rely on our own strength to turn ourselves into a royal family, and oppress them, let them bow to us. This is not difficult, especially since the'Zeus Project' has basically succeeded, and the'Hephaestus Project' is also becoming successful now, we can do this easily.
But Napoleon, if we do this, tell me, what rules have we written? Just like what you just said, people who are still alive are almost certain that they will have an ancestor of a nobleman, and even if they go back all the way, they might be able to trace the hero of Greece, the prince of Troy, or even Egypt. Pharaoh. If people in our family can become emperors, then everyone can become emperors. Whether he can become an emperor is only related to power, and has nothing to do with other things. So we wrote a brand new rule, this rule is: ‘Who would rather have a kind? ’Or to put it more clearly: ‘Is the emperor born a noble person? It's just the man with the strongest army in his hand. ’
In this way, our family has become the goal of everyone. On the side of the common people, everyone with talent and ability will covet our crown and throne ambitiously; on the side of the nobility, everyone also hates us deeply~EbookFREE.me~Napoleon, Don't you think how terrible this situation is? In our generation, with me and you, Lucien is an idiot, but he can barely use it. With the three of us, there will probably be no problems, but what about the future? Our rule cannot be as stable as Bourbon.
Moreover, in order to maintain our rule, we must gain more support. And these people want to support us, that can only be for one reason, that is, we bring them benefits. In other words, to ensure our regime, we can only please those people. Napoleon, now you can ask the soldiers and the people to sacrifice for France because they mistakenly thought that France was theirs. But if France becomes an empire, you will no longer be morally appealing to soldiers and people to sacrifice for France. Because France has become yours, not theirs anymore, why should they sacrifice for you? At that time, the entire France, whether it is the army or the people, will become a mercenary. The question of mercenaries, you who are familiar with Roman history, can't be unclear.
Of course, even so, being able to become the new Roman royal family is a good thing for the family that benefits far outweigh the risks. However, only once in thousands of years is the opportunity to write new rules for the entire world by hand-this is almost the opportunity to climb Mount Olympus and become a new god. It has fallen into our hands. Did you use it lightly? "