"China is a sleeping lion", Napoleon actually has the second half of this sentence, to the point
China is a sleeping lion, this sentence is not unfamiliar to everyone, especially in various film and television dramas, we have read, in the late Qing Government period, although China was poor and weak at that time, so that the Western powers flocked to it, but I have to say that there are still some people who soberly realize that China is different from other colonies occupied by the West, he is a sovereign and complete country, with its own independent personality and thoughts, sooner or later it will bloom.
This sentence is the famous eighteenth century military scientist, the emperor Napoleon said, Napoleon in his heyday, almost the whole of Europe turned the world upside down, if it were not for the tragic failure of the expedition to Russia, there would be no subsequent fate, as the most outstanding king in the history of the world, at that time he did not see the powerful country in the East, but he could have a precise evaluation of him, can not help but say that this is a very strange thing.
In fact, when Napoleon reigned, China was during the Jiaqing period, and the Qing Dynasty in this period was the time of its heyday, although the Qianlong era had just passed, Jiaqing itself was a moderate monarch, but the contradictions in all aspects were not so obvious, at least on the surface, China was still a powerful country, but Napoleon had predicted that China was already a sleeping lion.
Although Napoleon did not come to China, he could hear others say, especially the British had already sent envoys to communicate with the Qing Dynasty during the Qianlong period, but the Qing Empire was still too arrogant at that time, and rejected the other party's good intentions. When the famous British envoy Margani left China, he asserted that China was already a ship about to sink. There was only an empty shelf left that could fall down with a gentle push.
But after Napoleon learned of this matter, he first expressed his rebuttal, in fact, behind this sentence, there is a deeper meaning of Napoleon, that is, although China is a sleeping lion, if it attacks him at this time, it will inevitably wake him up. So let him continue to sleep.
In fact, there are many meanings contained in this statement, although Napoleon has never been to China, but he knows that there is an unparalleled powerful country in the East, although it is very decayed, but it is still very difficult to fight it, only when it sleeps to a certain extent, it will be able to take advantage of it, in fact, as Napoleon predicted, in just 100 years, the Qing Dynasty has decayed into shape, and China has also been humiliated for nearly a hundred years, and finally rejuvenated in pain.