The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 320 I have the second volume of "The Great Book of Prophecy"! (Please subscribe and vote)
"Hello, Mr. Li, can we dance?"

When the waltz in Buckingham Palace sounded again, a beautiful mature woman with bold clothes, graceful curves, exposed shoulders, arms, a large part of her back and half of her chest suddenly walked up to Li Hongzhang, stretched out a jade hand, and invited him to dance with her in stiff Chinese.

Li Hongzhang was at a loss for words. Isn't this dress too thin? Isn't she afraid of catching a cold in the winter? And isn't her breast too plump? Half of her breasts are exposed and half are covered. Isn't this openly seducing men in the palace? What does she do? Isn't she an official prostitute in England? She looks pretty good and can relieve sexual desire! I wonder how much it costs for one session?

Li Hongzhang has not eaten meat for a long time since he came all the way across the ocean!

The Queen of England saw Li Hongzhang in a daze and said to him with a smile: "Li, the Princess of France!"

"Princess of France!"

Li Hongzhang's eyes almost popped out of his head. He thought she was a courtesan, but she turned out to be a princess! And a princess of the powerful France! Fortunately, he didn't tell her about that, otherwise it would have caused an international dispute!

"Mr. Li, let's dance!"

Princess Mathilde certainly didn't know that she was almost mistaken for a prostitute by the Chinese official in front of her, and she was still enthusiastically inviting Li Hongzhang to dance with her!

Li Hongzhang really wanted to dance with her. Her figure was much better than the Queen's, so fine that it could make water come out of her. Her face was also pretty. Although it was also a round face, it was much better than the Queen's chubby face!
But he still didn't quite understand the rules here in England. Wasn't he here to dance with the Queen? It wouldn't be against the law to change people in the middle of the dance, right?
Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked at the Queen. Victoria smiled and nodded, then she handed her chubby hand to Prince Albert beside her.

Seeing that the queen was dancing with someone else, Li Hongzhang felt relieved. With a smile on his face, he held Mathilde's hand and kissed it politely. Then he stood up and took Mathilde's hand to the dance floor.

"Princess."

After dancing a few circles on the dance floor with the graceful French princess in his arms, Li Hongzhang began to chat with her.

"Please call me Mathilde."

Princess Mathilde said in rather stiff Chinese.

"Matilde, can you speak Chinese?" Li Hongzhang also asked in Chinese.

"I only know a little bit," Mathilde said with a smile, "I just learned it."

"Then what other language do you speak?" Li Hongzhang asked again.

Mathilde smiled and said, "French, English, Russian, Italian, German."

"Then let's use English."

Li Hongzhang thought that his English should be better than the other party's Chinese: "Please speak slower so that I can listen carefully."

"Okay," Mathilde thought for a moment, then moved her plump body closer to Li Hongzhang and spoke in stiff Chinese, "Do you know about the devil, angels, and the Great Book of Prophecy?"

It turned out that Mathilde came to London to inquire about the situation of the "Great Prophecy".

Queen Victoria owned the glorious and prosperous British Empire, and she had been the British Crown Princess since she was a child. She became the Queen of England without any effort, so she was full of confidence in herself and the future of the empire.

But Mathilde paid too much to revive the Bonaparte family, but in the end she did not become the Queen of France, and only got a princess of the French Empire. She was a little unwilling. Moreover, she and Napoleon III both understood that the foundation of the Second French Empire was not solid.

The reason why the French supported Napoleon III as emperor was that they wanted to relive the old dream of Napoleon's empire dominating Europe. If Napoleon III could not make France great again, his throne would soon "expire".
The current situation in Europe and in France itself is completely different from when Napoleon I was crowned.

The population controlled by the French Empire at that time was comparable to that of Tsarist Russia - there were about 30 million people in mainland France, and including the territories that were incorporated into France after the Revolution until the heyday of the Napoleonic Empire, the population of France was close to 35 million.

Moreover, France had just experienced the Great Revolution, and there were a large number of citizens willing to sacrifice their lives for the country. At that time, most European countries were under the rule of various feudal dynasties, and the consciousness of the nation-state had not yet emerged. Most of the armies of various countries were court mercenaries, and their fighting enthusiasm was not comparable to that of the French citizen army.

In addition, Napoleon I was indeed the greatest military strategist in Europe at that time, no doubt about it!

But the population of France when Napoleon III took over was already significantly smaller than that of the Russian Empire, and was even smaller than that of the "North German Region". It was comparable to the Austrian Empire, and not much larger than that of the United Kingdom.

Moreover, the concept of nation-state has become popular in Europe. Not only Germany is seeking unification, but even Italy wants to unite.

As for Napoleon III's military talent, it was certainly far inferior to that of his uncle Napoleon I.

Therefore, Napoleon III's empire had to work with the Catholic Church, the largest conservative party in Europe. But the problem was that relying on the power of the church to maintain the empire in Paris, the "old revolutionary area", seemed a bit risky no matter how you looked at it!

So it is not surprising that Napoleon III and Princess Mathilde were interested in mysterious things such as demons, prophets, angels, and prophecies.

However, Napoleon III still had to pretend to be progressive, so it was not convenient for him to personally promote feudal superstition. But Princess Mathilde had no worries, so she could naturally go to England to ask Li Hongzhang about the "Great Prophecy" on behalf of her "bad emperor" cousin.

If this "Great Prophecy" is really accurate, she also wants to ask herself whether she will have the opportunity to become a queen, a queen or even a queen in the future?

The last time Napoleon I was emperor, there were a lot of people in the Bonaparte family who had managed to ascend to the throne!
"I don't know much about demons, angels, prophets, etc." Li Hongzhang said in a mix of Chinese and English while spinning around with a ripe and beautiful princess in his arms. "But I know the Great Book of Prophecy."

Mathilde opened her eyes wide and asked, "How much do you know?"

"I know two!" Li Hongzhang replied.

"Two?" Mathilde was so excited that she almost wanted to stick her soft and sticky "mountains" on Li Hongzhang. "Really two?"

"There are two books!" Li Hongzhang nodded affirmatively, "The first volume and the second volume. The first volume predicts what will happen this year, and the second volume predicts what will happen next year!"

"Oh my God!" Mathilde looked at Li Hongzhang expectantly, "Li, can you show me the second volume?"

"Yes, of course!" Li Hongzhang nodded.

The second volume of "The Great Book of Prophecy" was originally meant for people like Mathilde!

After all, when the first volume of the "Great Book of Prophecies" was sent to Europe, it was already the end of 1853, and most of the prophecies in it had "expired" and had become historical records.

Naturally, the effect of deception was not very good, so Luo Yaoguo gave the second volume of "The Great Prophecy" to Li Hongzhang and Wang Libin, asking them to take it to Europe to gain the trust of those bigwigs who could afford a high price.

If most of the contents in the second volume of "The Great Book of Prophecy" are fulfilled, then the third volume of "The Great Book of Prophecy" or "The Book of Prophets" and the thirty or so books thereafter will become real "Golden Fingers" that can be exchanged for resources and technology.

"That's great!" Mathilde was so excited that she could hardly control herself. She stood on tiptoe and kissed Li Hongzhang on the cheek. Li Hongzhang was a little confused. This woman is too, too, what kind of woman? Does her husband know that she is like this?
"But I don't have the second volume of the Great Prophecy with me." Li Hongzhang quickly explained to the other party, "If you want to see it..."

Seeing that Li Hongzhang was hesitant to speak, Mathilde smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go back to the Brown Hotel with you tonight!"

"Tonight, let's go to Brown's Hotel?" Li Hongzhang nodded, "Okay, okay, let's read together!"

Just reading a book, nothing else.

But Li Hongzhang and Mathilde certainly didn't know that when they agreed to go to Brown Hotel to read books in a room after the dance, Wang Libin, who had been studying the elementary school mathematics textbooks of the Kingdom of Prussia sent by Moore and Friedrich this morning, was meeting a nun from Italy in the coffee shop of Brown Hotel...

(End of this chapter)