Make France Great Again

Early morning on June 8, 1849.

An envelope from Rome "crossed the sea" into the territory of France, and then via Marseille, Lyon, "by" the train to the military office of the Elysee Palace.

Pesini, who had received a letter from Rome early in the morning, hurried to the door of Jerome Bonaparte's bedroom. Now that the door was opened, Pesini hesitated for a moment, but the sound of Jerome Bonaparte still rang. Bar's door.

As Pesini knocked on the door louder and louder, Jerome Bonaparte in the bedroom finally opened his sleepy eyes and asked Pesini lazily, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, there is a letter from Rome!" Pesini said calmly outside the door.

"Rome?" Jérôme Bonaparte muttered to himself in a half-dreaming state, and then woke up. After patting his cheeks lightly, he put on the clothes he had prepared the night before and opened the door. He stretched out his hand and said eagerly to Pessini, "It's the letter!"

"Here! Your Majesty!" Pesini respectfully handed over a letter from Rome to Jerome Bonaparte.

The bland brown-yellow envelope was marked with the words "Initiated by the President" in French, and the lower right corner of the envelope was signed "Reigno de Saint-Jean-Gérière, Commander-in-Chief of the Roman Expeditionary Force".

Jerome Bonaparte quickly tore open the envelope, the white letter "lying" quietly in the envelope, took out the letter and placed the empty envelope on the walnut bedside table, while he sat beside the bed to check the contents of the letter.

Opening the folded letter, Jerome Bonaparte was able to see the whole letter in its entirety.

The contents of the envelope are as follows:

"Dear Mr. President, under your wise decision and leadership! Our troops fought steadily and completely conquered the city of Rome on the night of June 3.

In this battle, we annihilated more than 40,000 people in the Roman Republic (exaggerated) and captured more than 5,000 diehards!

The members of the puppet government headed by Mazzini have also been captured by our army. The only regret is that we did not capture Garibaldi, the military commander of the puppet government. This cunning guy escaped our pursuit at a loss.

Fighting each other We fought the best fight since the Empire, and it's all thanks to..."

The next words are all a lot of compliments, such as: "Without the president's wise decision, we will not be able to defeat Rome!"

Jerome Bonaparte, who had read the letter from beginning to end, folded the letter and placed it on the bed. He could be sure that this letter could never have been written by General Reynolds himself. Nine times out of ten, it was Edgar Ney. Letter from this knife-catcher in place of General Reño.

However, Jérôme Bonaparte is not disgusted by this kind of flattery.

"Your Majesty, over in Rome..." Persini, who was standing beside Jerome Bonaparte, asked cautiously.

"Huh? Didn't you see it?" Jerome Bonaparte looked at Pessini in confusion.

Pesini shook his head and replied unswervingly: "This letter was written to you by Rome, how dare your subordinates dare to do it for you!"

"Then take a look too!" Jerome Bonaparte handed the stationery on the bed to Persini.

Pesini took the letter with both hands respectfully and read it at a glance.

After about two minutes, Pesini refolded the letter and placed it on the bedside, with a happy expression on his face: "Your Majesty, Rome is victorious!"

"That's right! Rome has won!" Jerome Bonaparte breathed a sigh of relief, nodding with a smile on his face.

Reigno personally ordered to go to Rome to "suppress the rebellion". It can be said that Reigno represents the will and prestige of Jerome Bonaparte.

Once Reno made a mistake in Rome, it would inevitably lead to the reduction of Jerome Bonaparte's prestige.

Especially in the more than ten days after May 17th, Jerome Bonaparte often remembered that the first attack on General Oudinot in history ended in failure, and he hoped that General Reno would prevent the failure and go straight to Huanglong.

After receiving the letter, Jerome Bonaparte let go of his dangling heart.

Next, he should think about how to turn this war into his own advantage.

"Persini!" Jerome Bonaparte conveyed an order to Persini: "Rush to the residences of Prime Minister Odilon Barrow and Minister Liulier as soon as possible and call them both!"

"Yes!" Pesini responded, turning to leave.

Before Persini could step out of the bedroom, Jerome Bonaparte's voice came from behind Persini again: "Wait a minute!"

Pessini turned around again, staring at Jerome Bonaparte in confusion.

"How do you feel about setting up a telegraph line to Rome?" Jerome Bonaparte asked Pessini, raising his head.

"That's the best!" Pessini replied immediately: "This saves a lot of time!"

"Not only Rome, but the Near East also needs to set up a telegraph line! Well, you can also call the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce along the way! The work of setting up the telegraph has always been the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce!" Bonaparte waved his hand.

Pessini turned and left Jerome Bonaparte's bedroom.

Jerome Bonaparte got up and re-stuffed the letter in the outer envelope and put it in his pocket.

After washing up under the service of the housekeeper and the maid, after eating a "simple" breakfast worth 500 francs, he returned to the study alone to wait for the "guests" to arrive.

At 9:10 am, Pessini returned to the Elysee Palace to inform Jerome Bonaparte of two ministers and a prime minister.

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Odilon Barrow and Minister Liulière will be here soon! Minister Biffy himself is inspecting the village near Paris, and it is estimated that he will be back in the afternoon!"

"It seems that the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce is quite competent!" Jerome Bonaparte joked half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Your Majesty, I once heard that Minister Biffy owns a large piece of land in the Seine!" Pessini responded to Jerome Bonaparte.

My dear, the feeling is to use the convenience of the job to go to inspect the land!

Jerome Bonaparte was a bit dumbfounded. The ministers under him didn't look like serious bureaucrats at all, but rather like businessmen with a lot of money.

This is very capitalistic! yes, i can...

"Has Minister Biffy illegally expropriated land!" Jerome Bonaparte asked casually.

After a moment of silence, Pessini said, "Your Majesty, do you need me to call someone from the police department to check!"

"No need for now!" Jerome Bonaparte rejected Pessini's suggestion: "We must first find out Biff's attitude! If he is unwilling to cooperate with us, we will carry out the next step."

"Yes!" Pesini responded to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Your Excellency!" Odilon Barrow's voice came from outside the door. Jerome Bonaparte gestured to Persini with his eyes, and Persini quickly moved away from Jerome Bonaparte and sat on the sofa beside him.

"Come in!" Jerome Bonaparte responded, rushing out the door.

Odilon Barrow entered the study, followed by Minister Liueli.

"Mr. Prime Minister, Mister Minister, please take a seat!" Jerome Bonaparte invited Barrow to sit down with Liulier.

Pessini quickly got up to give up their seats to Barrow and Liuelli, then smiled and nodded and left the study.

Jerome Bonaparte got up and came to Barrow and Liuelli and said to them: "I have received a letter from Rome that General Reigno and Major Edgar Ney have led the army to occupy Rome. !"

Odilon Barro and Liuelli showed varying degrees of surprise. They did not expect the Roman Republic to be so vulnerable, and it took them less than half a month to defeat them.

"It's all thanks to your leadership, President!" Liuelli immediately boasted to Jerome Bonaparte.

A trace of displeasure flashed in Odilon Barrow's eyes. Obviously he was the one who promoted him to this position, but he didn't feel grateful and wanted to be a joke.

Barrow, who was "happy to work with" Jerome Bonaparte at the moment, nodded and seemed to agree with Liuelli's words.

Jerome Bonaparte waved his hand humbly and said, "This is all looking at the joint efforts of Mr. Prime Minister and his colleagues from the Party of Order. I just follow the trend!"

Odilon Barrow was satisfied with the modesty of Jérôme Bonaparte.

A president who is modest but does not interfere too much with the running of his cabinet is undoubtedly the favorite of any power-hungry prime minister.

[PS: From Barrow’s point of view, Jerome Bonaparte, who occasionally interferes with the army in a wild way, can’t be regarded as interfering in the operation of the cabinet at all! In the Constitution of the Second Republic, the Prime Minister did not have the power to command the army. The War Department was a stealth department for Barrow. 】

"Mr. Barrow, what should we do next? Those guys in the council will never let this big news go unnoticed! They are very likely to use this as a weapon to attack us. That guy Ludru Roland is eager to We made a mistake!" said Jerome Bonaparte, feigned apprehension.

"Please don't worry!" Odilon Barrow said confidently~www.readwn.com~ He obviously had already figured out a strategy to deal with it: "Those guys in the Mountain Party won't be happy for long, when they launch a campaign against us again At the time of the attack, when they were expelled from Parliament, General Changarnier was ready!"

Changarnier, Changarnier again! What a haunted guy!

Jerome Bonaparte silently cursed the dying Changarnier to see God earlier.

The curse is the curse, but Jerome Bonaparte still had a gratified smile on his face and said: "It would be great if General Changarnier was willing to take action!"

"Our plan is to..."

Odilon Barrow was discussing incessantly, but Liuelli, who was sitting beside Barrow, looked a little sullen. As the Minister of War, he and the members of the Party of Order did not know Barrow's conspiracy just like the president.

Even Changarnier, who was supposed to be a subordinate, had no respect for his titular boss. What was the meaning of this Minister of War?