AHC Napoleon goes to Qing China

Find a way too get Napoleon to go to China


Extra Points if you can get him a position in the Qing military
 
Napoleon never goes to military school. Instead he has a religious experience early on in his life and enrolls in a seminary. Eventually he becomes a member of the Jesuit order and is sent to China as part of the Canton mission.

Alternate idea: The Austrians decide that keeping Napoleon II (you never specified which Napoleon) as far from Europe as possible is better than leaving him in Europe where he could be a symbol for revolutionaries. When the Opium War sends shockwaves throughout Chinese society, the butterflies of the timeline make the Qing more open to western influence, including an officer exchange. Seeing a way to get rid of the Eaglet, the Austrians send him to China where he attempts to help reform the Chinese military.
 
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Napoleon never goes to military school. Instead he has a religious experience early on in his life and enrolls in a seminary. Eventually he becomes a member of the Jesuit order and is sent to China as part of the Canton mission.

Alternate idea: The Austrians decide that keeping Napoleon II (you never specified which Napoleon) as far from Europe as possible is better than leaving him in Europe where he could be a symbol for revolutionaries. When the Opium War sends shockwaves throughout Chinese society, the butterflies of the timeline make the Qing more open to western influence, including an officer exchange. Seeing a way to get rid of the Eaglet, the Austrians send him to China where he attempts to help reform the Chinese military.


But is there a way to get Napoleon Bonaparte to Qing China, and reform the Qing military? And maybe do abit of conquest.

WAit.......BUDDHIST NAPOLEON someone make a timeline out of this please.
 

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AVIGNON, 1816

DAVOUT:
It is over, your Majesty. Waterloo fell, Paris fell, and now the enemy approaches from the north. We can do nothing but surrender to the vile Coalition. All is lost, and we must keep what we've still got. An escape to the south would be a fruitless endeavour.​

NAPOLÉON:
Oh, indeed France is fallen!

But I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

I am surrounded by worthless generals who spent years at the military academy just to learn how to hold a knife and a fork. By illiterate peasants that know not stock from bayonet. I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get!

My officers have put every conceivable obstacle in my way.

...What a betrayal by the French people!
DAVOUT:
My Emperor, I cannot allow you to slander the men who have bled for you like this! Please, let us make terms.
NAPOLÉON:
You have failed me as well, Davout! First in Russia, now in France!

The damned continent of Europe is of mere antiquarian interest! The future lay East, in Asia, just as Alexander said!
DE GROUCHY:
East? Your Majesty, have you already forgotten the disaster in St. Petersburg?
DAVOUT:
My Emperor, the Austrians besiege Lunéville, which has likely already fallen.

There is no "East" of France, no path to "Asia"!
NAPOLÉON:
I speak not of Russia.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force.

Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. I cannot found an empire on love. What I can do is found one on knowledge and wisdom. I am to be a new Confucius!

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
DAVOUT:
So you do recognize that we shall make peace? Excellent! Emperor, I--​

NAPOLÉON:
Peace?

The battle was lost for civilization, and civilization will inevitably take its revenge.

There are two systems, the past and the future. The present is only a painful transition. Which must triumph? The future, will it not? Yes indeed, the future! That is, intelligence, industry, and peace. The past was brute force, privilege, and ignorance. Each of our victories was a triumph for the ideas of the Revolution.

Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets. Today is not yet that day.

One revolution remains, my friends. That of Han against Manchu!

For Europe is fallen to perfidious Albion... but Cathay? China is a sleeping giant. When she wakes, my comrades, she will move the world.
DE GROUCHY:
Your Majesty, you are mad.​

NAPOLÉON:
Gendarme! We must ride to the port of Marseilles at once!​
 
AVIGNON, 1816

DAVOUT:
It is over, your Majesty. Waterloo fell, Paris fell, and now the enemy approaches from the north. We can do nothing but surrender to the vile Coalition. All is lost, and we must keep what we've still got. An escape to the south would be a fruitless endeavour.​

NAPOLÉON:
Oh, indeed France is fallen!

But I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

I am surrounded by worthless generals who spent years at the military academy just to learn how to hold a knife and a fork. By illiterate peasants that know not stock from bayonet. I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get!

My officers have put every conceivable obstacle in my way.

...What a betrayal by the French people!
DAVOUT:
My Emperor, I cannot allow you to slander the men who have bled for you like this! Please, let us make terms.
NAPOLÉON:
You have failed me as well, Davout! First in Russia, now in France!

The damned continent of Europe is of mere antiquarian interest! The future lay East, in Asia, just as Alexander said!
DE GROUCHY:
East? Your Majesty, have you already forgotten the disaster in St. Petersburg?
DAVOUT:
My Emperor, the Austrians besiege Lunéville, which has likely already fallen.

There is no "East" of France, no path to "Asia"!
NAPOLÉON:
I speak not of Russia.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force.

Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. I cannot found an empire on love. What I can do is found one on knowledge and wisdom. I am to be a new Confucius!

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
DAVOUT:
So you do recognize that we shall make peace? Excellent! Emperor, I--​

NAPOLÉON:
Peace?

The battle was lost for civilization, and civilization will inevitably take its revenge.

There are two systems, the past and the future. The present is only a painful transition. Which must triumph? The future, will it not? Yes indeed, the future! That is, intelligence, industry, and peace. The past was brute force, privilege, and ignorance. Each of our victories was a triumph for the ideas of the Revolution.

Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets. Today is not yet that day.

One revolution remains, my friends. That of Han against Manchu!

For Europe is fallen to perfidious Albion... but Cathay? China is a sleeping giant. When she wakes, my comrades, she will move the world.
DE GROUCHY:
Your Majesty, you are mad.​

NAPOLÉON:
Gendarme! We must ride to the port of Marseilles at once!​


Nice!!! A good timeline could be written out of this. There are two paths I see to a Napoleon goes to China scenario.

1 Napoleon goes to China before his eventual defeat

2 Napoleon goes to China in his childhood instead, and if we can let the paint fly on the canvas, Napoleon could become a high general in the Qing military, and goes on a huge conquest, from Turkestan to Vietnam, too Taiwan, anywhere really (maybe becomes Buddhist)


I mean, now that I think of it, you can get Napoleon too go too many places for a

Napoleon goes to (blank)

He could go to Japan (Napoleon becomes Shogunate, with military campaigns, and becomes a Samurai, and Shinto Buddhist)

Napoleon goes to Persia

Napoleon goes to Ottoman Empire

Napoleon goes to Ethiopia

Napoleon goes to Zulus (maybe)

Napoleon goes to Australia (Maybe starts a revolution their)

Napoleon goes too America

Napoleon goes to New Zealand

Napoleon goes to India

Napoleon goes to Siam

The possibilities are endless.
 
It is possible, should Napoleon himself chose to visit China itself at one point. Or he is exiled to China, instead of Saint Helena. It'll be interesting on what he'll do in the Far East. If the Qing recognize his talents, they'll recruit him in the Imperial Court and helped them modernize the country, especially the military.
 
It is possible, should Napoleon himself chose to visit China itself at one point. Or he is exiled to China, instead of Saint Helena. It'll be interesting on what he'll do in the Far East. If the Qing recognize his talents, they'll recruit him in the Imperial Court and helped them modernize the country, especially the military.

I was also thinking he would move to China at a young age, and instead modernizes the Qing military, and Navy, and goes on a huge amount of conquests.
 
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