What are three ways in which Edmund Dantes has become the Count of Monte Cristo in the novel The Count of Monte Cristo?

Three ways in which Edmund Dantès is enabled to become the Count of Monte Cristo develop from the following:

1. 
   Edmund Dantès is arrested because of the treachery of his fiancée's cousin and his envious shipmate. They plan against Dantès by writing a letter that implicates Dantès as being part of a conspiracy to reinstate Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor. Additionally, Edmund Dantès is sabotaged by Monsieur de Villefort, the proceur de roi [Royal Prosecutor], whose father is a Bonapartist because the letter that Dantès was to deliver from Elba (where Bonaparte has been exiled) is addressed to the senior de Villefort.


2. 
   Dantès is put into prison at the Chateau d'If. This incarceration leads to his encounter with the Abbé Faria, a prisoner there. Faria was placed there for the opposite reason: He was a Loyalist when Bonaparte became emperor. So, ironically, the two men are imprisoned for opposing political positions. The abbé has tried to dig out of the prison, but miscalculates and, instead, digs through to Dantès's cell. Nevertheless, he is thrilled to be with another man and teach Dantès all he knows. As they work together to tunnel out of the prison, the priest teaches the uneducated Edmond mathematics, history, languages, and etiquette. While they work, the abbé also helps Dantès deduce what were the motives of the treacherous men who implicated him, but he regrets having done so when he realizes that Dantès lives for revenge after his discovery. 
   Unfortunately, the old abbé grows weak and dies in the fourteenth year of Dantès's imprisonment. Before he dies, he tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure that is buried on the isle of Monte Cristo. After the ailing abbé dies, the turnkeys enclose him in a heavy sack that they sew closed. They leave the cell and plan to hurl the dead man into the sea the next morning. Edmund goes through his passageway to the abbé's cell and switches places with him, sewing himself into the sack. The next morning, he is tossed into the sea. Long accustomed to swimming and holding his breath, he cuts through the stitches he made and swims up to the surface. From there, he swims to an inlet in the bay with which he is familiar because of his experiences on the sea.


3. 
   A ship picks him up. The sailors recognize him as a prisoner, but Edmund tells them he knows smugglers sail around the area they are in, so they decide to ask him to join them. Later, by a stroke of luck, the smugglers sail near the island of Monte Carlo and land there. While the men are exploring, Dantès feigns an injury to his leg; he persuades the others to go on and then pick him up on their way back from a smuggling rendezvous. In the meantime, Dantès discovers the cave in which the treasure is hidden. It is a massive chest with three compartments containing a vast wealth of jewels. Edmund stuffs his pockets and conceals his booty from the smugglers when they return; aboard ship, he listens as they boast of what they have stolen. Dantès gets off at a town called Leghorn where he sells his jewels to a dealer.
   It is with this new wealth that Edmund Dantès transforms himself into several characters. After he retrieves the chest, Dantès later buys himself a title and begins his deliberate and elaborate plan to avenge himself against his enemies as the Count of Monte Cristo.