Dear officials, the boy watched a classic old film "Napoleon in Austerlitz". This film was translated and produced by the above translator. Friends who like old-fashioned translation, this film is worth a look.
The climax of this film naturally lies in the final Battle of the Three Emperors. However, for the boy, there is such a bridge section that makes the boy more touched. The American inventor Fulton, dragging his fat body, smirked and spoke crappy French, using clumsy salesmanship to let out a foul-smelling rainbow fart. Only for Napoleon to be able to fund his own experiments on steamships. Napoleon looked disgusted, but at first he still had the attitude of trying it out to help him study. On the eve of the Battle of England and France, there was simply a look of impatience. Directly put it a stinky scolding. Eventually, Fulton left France in despair and turned to France's enemy, Britain. The hero's lack of genius is evident from this.
From this, the boy thought of another case of a famous man who did not meet in one country and turned to another country. The Hungarian craftsman Urban was good at making firearms. He first went to the Byzantine Empire to market his artillery inventions. Not useful. Enraged, he defected to the enemy Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II was overjoyed and was treated as a guest. Ask for money to give money, and you have to do your best. Ordered to quickly create a world-class weapon. In the end, Urban built the Urban cannon, the most lethal weapon in the world at that time. Eventually, the Thousand Year Empire of Byzantium was finally destroyed by the bombardment of Urban cannons. Since then, Constantinople has become the new capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, and is still the largest city in Turkey.
From this point of view, Napoleon, the revolutionary emperor, was even more short-sighted than the Sultan of Turkey. He actually let go of such a genius and used it for the enemy. This is different from the Qianlong and Jiaqing Emperors, who regarded Western technology as strange and obscene in the same period. However, in fact, the British did not use Fulton. The Anglo-French naval battle was still a wooden boat fighting a wooden boat. There is no case where the British used black technology ironclad ships to hang small French wooden ships. Britain won the Anglo-French Naval Battle, mainly relying on the command of British Yue Fei on the sea like Nelson, and the patriotic sentiment of the crew was high, and they were not afraid of death. It is not correct to say that Fulton does not understand any marketing strategies. He marketed the invention of the steamship to Britain and France, highlighting the armed role of the steamship. However, in fact, the steamship was eventually used for civilian use first, and only later armed for military purposes. Napoleon did not reject Fulton's invention at the beginning, but gave it a certain amount of funding, and when he did not get the desired effect, he was angry and abandoned it.
Constantine XI, the same Byzantine Emperor who rejected Urban, was also a tough man who guarded the door of the kingdom for the Son of Heaven. By no means a faint-hearted monarch, Urban was not used only because the Byzantine Empire was basically a city-state by the Ottoman Empire at that time. The weak Ottoman Empire simply did not have the strength to build weapons of mass destruction like the Urban cannons. Besides, such weapons are made, and they have little effect on defending the city. The Ottoman Empire was anxious to attack the city. And it's not bad for money either. Nature is willing to spend a lot of money, a lot of manpower to do this thing. But the Sultan's thirst for talent was based on the purpose of a rapid siege of the city. If Urban can't meet Sudan's needs in the short term. I'm afraid the ending will be bleak.
Turkey and France. One is a Catholic filial piety, and the other is a Jingluo country dressed in the cloak of Islam. One of the common characteristics of the two countries is that they have a strong sense of utilitarianism. As long as something can be quickly benefited. Both countries will use it quickly and at any cost. But the ultimate side effects of this utilitarianism are also obvious. The Ottoman Empire was not as reluctant to change the law as people thought. On the contrary, it is eager to change, but its changes are all quick and profitable. Eventually, the empire will disintegrate. France is also how fast how to come. The result became usury imperialism. It is inevitable that germany will eventually lose to the down-to-earth industry. And many marketing number online articles are also full of this utilitarianism. There are often articles that if the Qing Dynasty uses the invention of so-and-so inventors, it will be invincible in the world. This kind of utilitarian thinking is really childish.
It is certainly better to take it than to stand still. However, taking it in a hurry is like a drug. If you indulge in this way, you will inevitably suffer endless troubles.