The train carrying Hua Huang and the Hua Guo delegation was speeding on the railway, making a clanging sound, and Hua Huang loved to listen to the sound of the old train's wheels and rails colliding."
Your Majesty, Piedmont is ahead."
Princess Katrina Kaaf pointed out the window.Hua Huang looked at a chimney, emitting black smoke.Although this is a picture of the destruction of the environment, but it still makes the emperor envious, in this era, there is no problem with the destruction of the force, and the chimney represents the industrialization process of the people.Purely from the point of view of scale, Italy alone in Piedmont surpasses Beizhong, and China's heavy industry, Beizhong accounts for six or seven tenths."
This kingdom of Italy is no worse than the Austro-Hungarian Empire."
Xuan Yuewu also said enviously."
We will surpass theirs one day, I hope within five years," Hua Huang looked at Xuan Yuewu and a group of Hua Guo's accompanying engineers.Piedmont is a large region in northwestern Italy.It is surrounded on three sides by the Alpine mountains, including the Visso, the origin of the Po River, and the Rosa Mountains.It is bordered by France, Switzerland, and the Italian regions of Lombardy, Liguria, Emilia Romagna and Valle d'Aosta.The Piedmontese lowlands are an area of abundant agricultural abundance, with wheat, rice, maize and grapes.The district is also the main industrial center of Italy.Piedmont is a geographically rich region, with crescent-shaped mountains surrounding Piedmont from the north, west and south, forming its natural boundaries.Piedmont has three blocks: the outer mountains, the transitional hills and the plains of the upper Po River.Such geographical differences have resulted in quite different economies, societies and cultures.The agricultural revolution in Europe in the 18th century exacerbated this divide.In the outermost mountainous areas, agriculture gives way to animal husbandry, which is also sparsely populated and plays a small role.To the east of the Piedmont region, the plain blocks of Novara and Alexandria are geographically similar to those of Lombardy, further east, with flat terrain, fertile land and an active commercial network.As a result, it became the fastest growing area of capitalist large estates in Europe, a trend greatly exacerbated by the introduction of rice in 18th century when Italy was the main rice producer in Europe and the introduction of maize.The introduction of high-yielding crops has not improved the situation of local farmers, who, on the contrary, are now more destitute.Thus, the most striking picture in this region is the lively city and the dead countryside, the shrewd bourgeoisie and the dull peasantry.The people here are more docile, negative, and submissive.The lower hilly valleys of the periphery were slower to develop commercial and agrarian capitalism due to their undulating and poor soils.Here, traditional yeoman farmers and tenants still occupy an important position, the main crops are wheat and grapes, there are many feudal remnants, and capitalism is not fully developed.Therefore, there are self-respecting peasants and nobles who are not willing to fall, who are more courageous and aggressive, and energetic.In the 18th century they rebelled against the administrations of the kingdom, in the revolutionary times they rebelled against the French invading armies or liberators, and in the era of the War of Unification they formed the most active backbone.For example, the difference between the two may be analogous to the geographical features of the Yangtze River Delta and Hunan, Jiangxi, which have nothing to do with Sword Art Online, and the role they have played in modern Chinese history.Piedmont, which combines these two very different characteristics, has the potential to become a unified base for Italy.The Savoy dynasty was not a brilliant actor on the European stage in the early modern period, and played the role of the passage of France into Italy, and the script was nothing more than two: pro-French and then blamed for France, anti-French and then beaten by France, but the clever diplomacy of the Savoy royal family allowed this small country to succeed in the battle between France and the Habsburg Empire.François I had a long occupation and attempted to annex Piedmont, but the defeat of France in 1559 prevented him from succeeding.In the Thirty Years' War, Savoy sided with France against the Habsburg Empire, but due to the death of Duke Amadeus and the underage of his heir, Emanuele, the government of the country was once controlled by the French princess Christina, which also triggered the civil war in Savoy, and the Spanish-backed Prince Thomas faction rebelled against the French-backed Princess Regency, and the civil war finally ended in reconciliation in 1642, but Savoy continued to stand by the French side until the end of the Spanish-French War in 1659.At the beginning of the 18th century, Louis XIV followed the War of the League of Augsburg and criticized the Spanish succession to the whole of Europe, which ended in the defeat of France.The outcome of the war had far-reaching implications for Italy's future: the Spanish-controlled islands of Milan, Naples, and Sardinia were transferred to the Austrian Habsburgs, and the Savoy dynasty, although they played the role of a fish belly in the war that had befriended the French at first and was later abused by the French, but also won Sicily and won the title of kingdom.Thereafter, as a result of the War of the Quadruple Alliance, the House of Savoy was forced to exchange Sicily for Austrian Sardinia, which became the Kingdom of SardiniaCoincidentally, the titles of Sardinia and Prussia were re-established in 1700 and 1701, respectively.The Kingdom of Sardinia took part in the War of the Austrian Succession, in which it sided with France, and in 1747 the Sardinian army defeated the French army, ensuring the peace and security of the Kingdom of Sardinia, or northern Italy, for the next half century.The storm of the French Revolution swept across the continent, in 1792 the French Republic held referendums in Savoy and Nice, and the royal family of Savoy joined the anti-French coalition, in 1796, Napoleon defeated the Kingdom of Sardinia in less than a month, Sardinia surrendered and signed a humiliating treaty, and in 1798 the French army entered the city of Turin to force the king to flee to Sardinia.After that, France annexed Piedmont and completely redrew the map of northern Italy several times.During the Napoleonic Wars for more than a decade, the royal family of Savoy was soy sauce, and the bourgeoisie of the plains accepted and even welcomed the new order brought by France.However, the people of the Piedmontese hills actively mobilized against the French and led the way for the Russian-Austrian army, which broke the hearts of the French during their 15 years of rule in Piedmont.The conservative policy and even incompetence of the royal family of Savoy before the French Revolution ensured the loyalty of the people to the royal family to a certain extentThe Kingdom of Sardinia did not adopt the "enlightened autocracy" that was popular at the time, so the radicals did not form a climate, and it was not centralized enough, so the hatred of the people for the aristocracy could hardly be transformed into hatred of the monarchy, in a sense, it was the French who completed those annoying processes in Piedmont: the centralization of administration, the introduction of the civil code, the spread of Enlightenment ideas, the abolition of feudalism, and laid the foundations for the industrialization of Piedmont in the 19th century.Finally, at the Vienna Peace Conference, the Kingdom of Sardinia also reaped the spoils of Genoa.Then came the period of Italian unification, in which France played a role that Italians loved and hated.On the one hand, France is the land of revolution and nationalism, and the nationalists, charcoal-burners, admired this unparalleled revolutionary nation and wanted to achieve the unity of Italy according to her principles, moderate liberals such as Cavour, who were wary of the dangers of France: universal suffrage and socialism, and leaned towards the British system; On the other hand, both royal and imperial France sought to prevent the emergence of a unified power in Italy and to defend the existence of the Papal States.Eventually, the Kingdom of Sardinia achieved the unification of Italy with the help of Napoleon III, a strange descendant of the revolution, but the patriots of Italy would not forgive the crimes committed against Italy by the imperial France until the collapse of the French Empire in 1870, when Garibaldi's volunteer army rushed to the Franco-Prussian battlefield to lend a helping hand to the reborn French Republic.Venice was first built on the tidal flats by refugees during the collapse of Western Rome, and later attached to the Byzantine Empire, as can be seen from the architecture on the island of Venice.In Age of Empires 2, played before the rebirth of the Chinese Emperor, the Venetians have always been a Byzantine culture.In the early days, Byzantium controlled the trade between the East and the West, and the Venetians were also workers of the empire, and although they later gained independence, the Venetians were still proud to serve the empire.The Venetian navy was also the Byzantine Empire's assistant to the Mediterranean.With the rise of the Arabs and Turks and the Crusader expeditions, the Byzantine state lost its power, and Venice and other merchant republics began to establish trading posts on the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts, so that control of trade was transferred from the Byzantine Empire to Venice and other commercial republics.After the end of the Middle Ages, Venice came to its own golden age, but with the war of the League of Cambrai and the opening of new shipping routes, the Mediterranean trade zone was no longer the main area of the European trade circle, and finally in the Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars, Venice was dissolved from parliament, and the territory was divided between Austria and France, and later with the unification of Italy by the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Austro-Hungarian-controlled region of Venesia also revolted, and Austria-Hungary finally accepted the conditions for the return of this part to Italy.After the fall of Western Rome, Western Rome was occupied by barbarians, such as the Goths, Lombards, Vandals, Franks, Germans, etc.Milan is the descendants of the Lombards, who settled down and lost their belligerence.When Belisarius, the famous general of the Eastern Roman Empire, marched into Rome and Ravenna, the Lombards are said to have also not responded to the request of Sassanid Persia, the enemy of Eastern Rome in the east.Savoy, as well as Genoa, was more mixed with Frankish blood.It is also relatively close to Burgundy.Savoy was originally part of the House of Savoy, and after the end of the anti-Napoleonic Vienna system, the Kingdom of Sardinia still owned the territories of Savoy and Nice.The cession to France was intended to allow France to support the opposition between Sardinia Piedmont and Austria-Hungary and to facilitate the unification of Italy.This is thanks to Cavour's diplomacy.Genoa is still Italian.Venice, as a merchant republic alongside Genoa, had even greater popularity, and was first annexed by Austria-Hungary as commerce declined.However, after the First World War, Austria-Hungary was dismembered, and Italy took these territories again.In general, the unification of Italy did not appear as smooth and natural as the unification of other nation-states, such as the gradual centralization of power by the French king after the Hundred Years' War, while the concentration of power in Britain was concentrated in parliament and the bourgeoisie.What provoked the appeal for Italian unification was the strengthening of the control of the regions of Italy by the re-successors of the Habsburg House of Austria, the HRE emperors.So that they have a common enemy.That's why they united.Italy not only belongs to the category of Germany and Austria, but also because of the rebellion against Austria-Hungary to be unified, the Chinese emperor also once again realized history, why is it always dialectical, perhaps, this is to love and kill each other at the same time, or to depend, the weak side, or hope to be able to use the power of the strong side, just hope to be able to obtain an equal status.When the Emperor arrived in Rome, it was not surprising that, as he had been treated in the previous countries, he was not greeted by a decent person.Except in the Kingdom of Romania, which was personally greeted by Carol I at the station, after the arrival of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he had already stayed, and Count Andráhi personally visited, these two times were more polite to the Chinese Emperor, and other countries simply did not regard the Chinese Emperor as a person, and despised the Chinese Emperor, that is, despised the Chinese Emperor.t1706231537: