In ancient and modern China and abroad, there are many people who can become emperors, but only those who have the most outstanding merits can be called "emperors" by the world. However, emperors are generally hereditary, and if you want to go from a cloth to the position of emperor, you can only go in a chaotic world, and Napoleon is such a special case. Napoleon not only went from being a bullied little soldier to a "big brother" who ruled Europe, but also said a classic saying: China is a sleeping lion, and when this sleeping lion wakes up, the world will tremble for it.
However, don't look at Napoleon so invincible, you know, he was not long after becoming emperor, he finally lost to the Seventh Anti-French League in 1814. After being forced to abdicate, Napoleon was exiled by the British to the island of St. Helena, where Napoleon would spend the rest of his life. William Pete Armestad, a British diplomat and the soul of the coordinated resistance to Napoleon's army, although he and Napoleon belonged to the opposing camp, he had great respect for Napoleon and would consult him when he encountered problems he did not understand.
In 1816, Amistad was assigned an envoy to China, intending to negotiate with the Qing court on trade between China and Britain. Along the way, Amistad thought very thoroughly, and he wanted to ask the Qing court to abolish the public system and open more commercial ports for free trade. In order to avoid being intercepted in the middle, he did not dare to make more stops in Guangzhou, but continued to take a boat to Tianjin. On August 13, Shangshu Sulen of the Ministry of Works personally greeted Amistad, but after the two sides communicated the general information, they disagreed on etiquette.
Su Leng'e stressed that three kneeling and nine prostrations are The sacred rituals of China and cannot be changed separately. However, Amistad claimed that this was an insult, and although the Emperor had already instructed him to go to China to follow the customs and act cheaply, he was bent on going his own way, believing that this was a deliberate attempt to make things difficult. As a result, the matter reached the ears of the Jiaqing Emperor, who felt that Amistide was a man of great contempt and had no holy eyes, so he canceled the meeting and expelled Amistad and his party from the capital, leaving them to go back and forth.
On the way back to China, Amistad had already thought about it, and he planned to persuade the Emperor to conquer China by force, only in this way could he wash away the "shame" he had suffered. However, Amestes thought about it and went to St. Helena first, where he intended to talk to Napoleon about it and listen to him by the way. In the process of narration, Amistad's words are full of disdain, he believes that although China is huge, it is at best a "mud-footed giant" and is not afraid at all.
Napoleon, however, took the opposite view, and he had previously analyzed the situation in China in detail when he burned the flames of war throughout Europe, whether it was territory, population, resources or culture, China was incomparable to Britain. Thus Napoleon said to Amistad: China is a sleeping lion, and when this sleeping lion wakes up, the world will tremble. But in fact, this sentence is incomplete, and after this sentence, there is actually another sentence: don't disturb him, let him sleep all the time.
From this point of view, although Napoleon is on an isolated island, he still has a thorough analysis of the situation in China, and he has long seen the cadres and backwardness of the Qing court's external strengths, and in the long run, this male lion may really be able to sleep. But fortunately, when China, the "lion", stood up, the previous situation has long ceased to exist, and no country dares to despise China, and China will become more and more prosperous and strong in the near future.