Chapter 1565 The Treasure of Saint Denis (5)

Napoleoni's words were sometimes very jumpy, and sometimes the people listening to him had no idea what he was talking about.

They were talking about the wedding of the Princess of Naples, and Georgiana asked him who the groom was, but then Napoleoni asked her if she could take his place.

A normal person would think that he was talking about the groom who replaced the princess, Prince Ferdinando of Spain.

Normally marriages of princes and princesses are decided by parents or parliament, and Prince Ferdinando married Maria Antonia of Naples-Sicily, named after her mother's favorite sister Mary.

Named after Antoinette. The Queen of Naples was also an Austrian princess and the sister of Marie Antoinette. When Maria Antonia married Ferdinando, Princess Marie of Spain

Leah Isabel married Maria Antonia's brother, Francesco. Her mother, Maria Carolina, was married to Maria Antonia because her sister Marie Andoinette and her brother-in-law Louis XVI were murdered during the French Revolution.

She was executed, and her anti-French sentiment was extremely high, which affected her son and daughter. You can imagine what kind of turmoil it would cause if such an anti-French princess married into the pro-French Spanish court.

The current Queen of Spain, Maria Luisa, does not like this daughter-in-law and often orders people to go through her personal belongings. This has intensified the hatred between the two. Ferdinando does not feel caught in the middle at all, he is very firm.

Having to support his wife, one can imagine the relationship between the future king of Spain and Napoleon.

The marriage between Naples and Sicily is part of the "tradition". Charcoal is easy to obtain, but the saltpeter and sulfur used to make gunpowder require a lot of trouble. Sulfur is usually found in areas with active volcanoes, such as remote Northern Europe. Some people were mining sulfur in the 14th century.

Supplied to the musketeers of various European kings.

Sicily also has many volcanoes. Since the 17th century, it has replaced Northern Europe and become the main sulfur mine in Europe. Later, high-quality sulfur mines were also discovered in Spain. The sulfur extracted with "fool's gold" can only be used as sulfuric acid. Sicily and Spain

This marriage had a serious impact on France's gunpowder production. Maria Carolina was of course opposed to France's continued expansion, and so was Georgiana, but their starting points were slightly different.

Limited by France's national strength, continued expansion would be detrimental to France. She agreed with the brotherhood's method of using engineering to conquer other countries, which could not only make money but also expand France's influence.

But even if a dam is built, it will be destroyed by blowing it up with explosives. The current hostile relationship between the United States and France is also due to the Spanish. Pierre Dupont came to France not just to sell land. The Spanish navy blocked the Missouri River.

, intercepting American ships in order to blockade the port of Orleans, the United States also prepared to go to war against Spain and its ally France, and Congress had begun to prepare a wartime budget.

Later, Napoleon drove Pierre Dupont out of Paris in anger. Dupont quickly wrote to Jefferson, hoping to invite James Monroe to negotiate. Monroe had already resigned as French minister and became the Virginia Governor.

After receiving a letter from Pierre Dupont, he quickly handed over the work and came to Paris.

In the eyes of pacifists, gunpowder looks like a demon that punishes mankind, but tracing its origin, it is just a by-product of alchemy. The quality of gunpowder produced by the United States is not good, and both the proportion and craftsmanship are better than those produced by France and the United Kingdom.

It was much worse. The shotgun was aimed at mountain rabbits and wild deer. When the trigger was pulled, the animals were not hunted. Instead, the barrel exploded. Moreover, the price was three times more expensive than the European ones. Monroe came to negotiate the contract this time and did not discuss it at all.

Regarding territorial issues, he hoped that France could export equipment for making gunpowder.

Pierre Dupont had three sons. The eldest son, Victor, was responsible for persuading Napoleon to sell machinery through Lavoisier's widow in France. At the same time, he also looked for famous bankers in Paris to borrow funds. The younger son, Ire,

Ney was once a student of Chaptard. He and his other brother Artier were responsible for technology, building factories and drafting business plans. Louis XVI's former finance minister Louis Nieka, Duquesne, and Swiss banker Bige

Mandu was very interested in this plan.

There was no need to search for anything Georgiana had. All her maids knew it. After nearly two years of observation, Napoleoni made his previous remarks and hoped that she would "make more English friends."

Georgiana didn't know what deals the men made privately. She only knew that James Monroe went through Stephen, the British broker who had sold her a threshing machine, hoping to meet Georgiana.

The famous Monroe actually ‘asked to meet’? Georgiana agreed after a silly giggle. Who could daydream as crazy as her?

In order to restrict Napoleon, a man who "smells of gunpowder", the British restricted the export of saltpeter from India, but the French still figured out a way to mix animal urine and feces with mortar to extract calcium nitrate, plus the addition of animal sheds

, the saltpeter dug out of the bacon shed barely met the gunpowder requirements of the French standing army.

The human body itself contains many chemical substances. It is not only used by painters to sketch, but also contains trace elements in other plants and animals. Alchemists will add tulip petals, cow blood and alum to the raw materials in order to improve the quality of life.

Quality of gunpowder.

After the British bombarded Copenhagen, the relationship between Denmark and Britain became very bad. Due to its special geographical reasons, the United States was far away from the war-torn Europe. It could obtain sulfur from Sicily and saltpeter from the United Kingdom. Although they had the materials, they

Without technology, it is impossible to make good gunpowder.

Fertilizer factories can sometimes become gunpowder factories. Even if they are not chemical fertilizers, ordinary human and animal excrement can become the source of gunpowder materials for the "French refining" method.

The power of gunpowder can be increased to such an extent that it destroys everything, including the strength of the barrel, but there is no way to use such an artillery piece.

The range of cannonballs is related to gunpowder. Bonaparte may have misunderstood and thought that Georgiana was conducting experiments in the fourth-floor tower to study how to improve the strength of iron.

He wanted to replace many things, such as the Bourbon royal family. An ordinary coronation ceremony was no longer enough. He needed an imperial-level coronation to overshadow the king's coronation in order to gain the "legitimacy" to rule Europe.

Girls preparing for a wedding hope that their wedding will be perfect, and all details will be involved. They must be perfect to make themselves the most beautiful bride.

Bonaparte didn't care about the "ceremony" and didn't want to spend too much money on the "ceremony". In the past, he asked Portalis to buy the items for the ceremony at the cheapest price.

Georgiana was fooled by the poor widow with two silver coins, but the current difficulty is to get the republicans to accept the recalcitrant priests and returning desperadoes.

Sometimes she wished she hadn't been so curious about the Corsican monster.

You can't control what others think of you, just like a note posted on Georgiana's door: France doesn't need polygamy.

She found that she no longer felt the accusation.

"Whatever." She said numbly after reading the note, and then burned it.

After being expelled from France, she could not return to England. The only place to go was the United States of America. Just like Fox said, don't go too far. Voldemort wanted to kill the baby and Harry couldn't do it. He also used a time turner to go back to Voldemort's birth.

If you kill him while he is young and weak, not only will the children who should be born not be born, but it will also cause other problems.

For example, the person who tried to kill baby Voldemort was indistinguishable from Voldemort himself.

So Georgiana decided to let nature take its course. She was overestimating her abilities by doing something like a mantis blocking the car.
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