Napoleon taught you to be the boss of the world
Napoleon was a great man who brought modern civilization to all mankind, and everyone often focuses on the military aspect of Napoleon, but in fact he was also a great statesman, and political greatness may exceed military talent.
Militarily, he is already the god of war, and politics is even more than military.
Napoleon fought a lot of wars, and first of all, it is necessary to understand why he fought.
In the past, most of Europe was a feudal kingdom, and at that time, the war was still at the level of the ruler's ambition and land grabbing, which was essentially no different from the monkey king and the wolf king grabbing territory. Later, the great Enlightenment was born in France, which advocated equality for all, democracy and freedom, and then the revolution broke out, overthrowing the rule of the king and establishing a republic.
The French Enlightenment has epoch-making significance in human history, "The Theory of Social Contract", "On the Spirit of Law", "The Theory of People's Sovereignty", etc., have brought human thought and civilization into a new era, it is no exaggeration to say that without the French Enlightenment, there would be no modern civilization, and the equality of the French Ideological Enlightenment is the equality of all people in the world.
The king's desire to grab territory for himself and the internal struggle are still in the animal stage of man. It was only in the French Revolution, when wars were fought for the equality of all, that wars were meaningful, and that mankind truly entered modern civilization. Modern civilized people are also ahead of animal people in intelligence, and fighting depends on wisdom, so before Napoleon's command, the French army was already very powerful, and it made a lot of trouble at home, but it was still able to fight other countries abroad. At that time, the French army was already quite powerful, and with the blessing of Napoleon's genius, it suddenly became even more powerful.
When Napoleon came to power, he stabilized the interior and began to fight outward. He was not there to expand the territory, but to export the ideas of enlightenment. It is necessary to overthrow the rule of other kings of Europe and implement the ideal of equality for all. So he had another nickname: the Emperor of the Revolution.
At that time, Europe was full of kingdoms, all kings, what could they do?So they constantly united to fight Napoleon.
People often talk about blacks and Muslims in France, and say that if Napoleon knew about it, he would be angry, which is too funny, and it started with Napoleon to treat blacks as people and Muslims as equals. France and Napoleon were equal for all, including blacks and Muslims. Traditionally, such countries as Britain and Germany, they believed that it was an honorable thing to fight a war, and only noble people were qualified to participate. Blacks are lowly and cannot go to war. France believed in the equality of all people, and since the time of Napoleon, there have been more and more blacks in the French army.
Alexandre Dumas's father was of mixed black descent, and he became the commander of the legion under Napoleon.
Britain and Germany looked down on France's approach: fighting such a glorious thing as a war, you let blacks participate?The French believed that everyone was entitled to war, and that blacks and Muslims were willing to serve France. France believes in cultural identity, and the first generation of blacks and Muslims who came in did have an impact on law and order, and they recognized that. They feel that after they come in, the second and third generations will accept French values after French cultural education, and they will become real French, and problems such as law and order can be easily solved.
From the Enlightenment and the Napoleonic Wars, the continuous export of French culture and military force gradually destroyed the feudal system in Europe. European countries either become republics, or the king surrenders power and the monarchy becomes a constitutional monarchy. Then there will be the rapid development of human beings. In the past, Europe was a feudal monarchy, starting from the Enlightenment and the Napoleonic Wars, the ideas of freedom, democracy, and equality spread outward from France, destroying one kingdom after another in Europe, but it has not yet reached Russia.
Moreover, Napoleon is also the father of modern Germany, Germany was composed of hundreds of small city-states at that time, after Napoleon fought over, they formed a federation, coupled with ideological enlightenment, and gradually formed modern Germany.
Some people always want to be the boss of the world, and being the boss is not a problem, the question is what can you bring to the world?
Napoleon went abroad to export equality, freedom and democracy, the Crusades were to export religion, and Stalin could export socialism if he occupied a lot of territory. War is a continuation of politics, and you have to export something if you fight outside. It is meaningless to simply conquer and expand the territory and fall behind 800 years earlier.
And now democracy, freedom, equality, science, the rule of law, etc., are all ideas exported by others, if you want to be the boss, then you have to come up with something more advanced, do you have it?
Don't forget, the communism, socialism, capitalism, market economy, and materialism you are using now are all ideas exported by others, do you have a better one?Can you throw it?
Be the boss, let the people of the world get up early and move bricks with you, don't sing or dance, have no life, no soul, no health, no happiness, the fastest in the world to move bricks, useless. Such a boss is meaningless, no one will recognize it, and he can't be the boss at all, the second and third can't be the boss, and the more he does, the more he will be at the bottom.
Only if he can sweep away the old forces and old ideas, bring new ideas, and let everyone live a good life, such a boss is valuable.