Make France Great Again

"I see!"

Knowing that Jerome Bonaparte still maintained a balanced attitude towards the Russian Empire, Count Clarendon nodded, then stood up and bowed to Jerome Bonaparte and said: "Your Majesty, I will leave first. Got it!"

"Let me see you off!" Jérôme Bonaparte also stood up and said to the Earl of Clarendon.

"No, Your Majesty!" The Earl of Clarendon refused Jerome Bonaparte's farewell and left the Tuileries Palace alone under the leadership of Mokar.

Standing on the window sill, Jerome Bonaparte quietly watched the Earl of Clarendon go away, and whispered in his mouth: "What exactly does the Kingdom of Britain mean?"

…

Time passed in a hurry, and soon it was 12 noon the next day.

At this time, under the scorching sun, the streets of the Quai d'Orsay and both sides of the Pont de la Concorde were filled with crowds of onlookers just like yesterday. People were eagerly waiting for the diplomatic missions from various countries to pass by. Due to the large number of people and the lack of police to maintain order, , the originally spacious street was immediately blocked.

Seeing this, the police chief in charge of this area had to report the situation to his immediate boss, Interior Minister Pesini.

"What!" After hearing the news, Pesini showed a surprised look on his face, and then hurriedly summoned his police and gendarmerie captains, and issued instructions to evacuate the people to ensure that the diplomatic mission arrived on time and smoothly at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The command.

The police chief and gendarmerie captain who received the order did not dare to neglect it for a moment, because it was less than two hours before the mission arrived.

Nearly 1,000 police officers and 300 gendarmes were deployed to the Pont de la Concorde and Quai d'Orsay Street to maintain public order. After more than half an hour of coordination, the coordination was finally completed at 12:50 in the afternoon.

After doing all this, Pesini breathed a sigh of relief, and then went to the Tuileries Palace in person to report the news to Jerome Bonaparte.

"It's not bad!" Jérôme Bonaparte, who was disabled in the study, calmly held the "History of French Civilization" and read it, and replied calmly.

"This is what I should do!" Pesini said humbly to Jerome Bonaparte.

The two chatted for a while again, during which Jérôme Bonaparte asked Pesini if ​​he knew about the situation of Guizot, the former Prime Minister of Orleans.

Pesini shook his head, and then assured Jérôme Bonaparte that he would keep a close eye on Guizot after leaving.

"Surveillance?" Jerome Bonaparte chuckled and continued to flip through the "History of French Civilization" in his hand: "There is no need to monitor him! You just need to ask a question to Mr. Guizot for me!"

"Your Majesty, what do you want to ask?" Pesini said to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Ask Guizot for me if he is willing to hold an official position in the imperial government!" Jerome Bonaparte replied calmly, "If he is willing, I can give him the position of member of the Education Committee. !”

Hearing Jérôme Bonaparte's promise, Pesini showed a hint of surprise on his face.

When Guizot was in the Kingdom of Orleans, he advocated taking the right to education out of the hands of the church.

The Falou law implemented by the current imperial government attributes the right of French citizens to receive education under the influence of the church.

Does Jerome Bonaparte do this to mean that he wants to break with the church?

"Your Majesty, are you planning to take action against the church?" Pesini asked Jerome Bonaparte cautiously.

It was also an old tradition for French kings before the Great Revolution to strike hard at the church after gaining absolute power.

Who allowed the Gallic church to accumulate a lot of wealth in France at that time.

However, after the Great Revolution, the wealth accumulated by the Gallic Church over hundreds of years was directly confiscated.

The current Gallic Church is not as wealthy as the previous Gallic Church. If you hit hard rashly, you will probably not get any money, and you will also make yourself embarrassed.

"Pessini!" Jerome Bonaparte closed the "History of French Civilization" and said to Pesigny: "Do you know the catfish effect?"

Pesini shook his head and looked at Jerome Bonaparte in confusion.

Jérôme Bonaparte immediately told Pesini about the catfish effect.

"Your Majesty, you want Guizot to become that catfish and stir up the entire education system!" Pesini immediately understood what Jérôme Bonaparte meant.

"That's right!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and said to Pesini, "I have to make those guys feel the crisis, otherwise, they will become unwilling to make progress! Our government needs What we want is a more educated population, not illiterate people!”

"I understand!" Pesini nodded and replied to Jérôme Bonaparte.

Subsequently, Jérôme Bonaparte issued an order to expel Pesini.

Shortly after Pesini left, Queen Augusta appeared in Jerome Bonaparte's study.

"Your Majesty, what do you want from me?" Queen Augusta asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"I can't come to you if I have nothing to do?" Jérôme Bonaparta took Augusta's hand and replied half-jokingly.

"Of course not!" Queen Augusta shook her head.

Immediately afterwards, Jérôme Bonaparte told Queen Augusta that he wanted to take Augusta and Friedrich on a short outing to the Bois de Boulogne.

"You don't care about the Quay d'Orsay?" Queen Augusta asked Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Just leave it to Valewski and the others!" Jérôme Bonaparte shrugged and replied to Queen Augusta: "You can't count on me for everything! Walewski is a diplomat. The ministers serve me, not me, the emperor, who serves him!"

"Don't you serve Valewski too often?" Queen Augusta teased.

"I'm not afraid that Valewski will make a mistake!" Jerome Bonaparte responded awkwardly.

Queen Augusta was right. Since Jérôme Bonaparte became president, his number of direct interviews with foreign envoys has been equal to that of the foreign minister.

Over time, both domestic and foreign diplomatic departments have known that France’s real Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in the Tuileries Palace, and the Quai d’Orsay is just a “fashion”.

"What? Are you not afraid now?" Queen Augusta teased Jerome Bonaparte again.

"Stop talking about this! Pack up and leave quickly!" Jerome Bonaparte had no choice but to change the subject and replied to Queen Augusta.

…

Just as Jérôme Bonaparte and Queen Augusta were preparing to go on an outing to the Bois de Boulogne, carriages carrying foreign ministers passed by the Pont de la Concorde and then headed west to the diplomatic office at the Quai d'Orsay. The door of the department.

When each minister stepped out of the carriage and entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, the crowd would burst into cheers of "Long live peace, long live Napoleon!"

As the first group of foreign ministers (prime ministers) to arrive at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the foreign ministers (prime ministers) of the seven countries of Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Sweden (Sweden) and Turkey were immediately welcomed by civilian bureaucrats headed by the state secretary as soon as they stepped into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building.

"Ministers, please come with me!" the State Secretary said respectfully to everyone present, and then led the way for the representatives of the seven countries.

Under the guidance of the State Secretary, the representatives of the seven countries quickly arrived at the Ambassador Hall on the first floor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The first thing everyone saw when entering the hall was a large round table made of green velvet. Twelve tables and chairs were placed around the round table.

As eight ministers from the seven countries mainly involved in the Crimean War (Neserroddie and Gorchakov represent the two Russian governments respectively) will discuss issues at the round table, and around the round table there are There are also dozens of chairs placed in the circle, where representatives of some "irrelevant" countries need to sit.

As for why some unrelated countries came to join in the fun, a large part of the reason lies in the Congress of Vienna.

When the Vienna Congress divided the cake, the kings who were expelled by Napoleon came to the Vienna Congress with a try mentality and tried to return to the throne. As a result, their hopes came true.

Most of the kings expelled by Napoleon regained their thrones, and a lucky few (the Kingdom of Sardinia) even annexed some countries (the Republic of Genoa) on the original basis as compensation.

After the Vienna Partition, European countries also became enthusiastic about participating in conferences. Regardless of whether they had some or not, they all liked to go over and participate.

If we can really get some benefits from the partition, that would be great!

Even if there are no benefits, strengthening ties with powerful countries is not a waste of time.

There were scarlet curtains hanging on the wall directly in front of the auditorium and the large round table. After the Secretary of State ordered his men to open the curtains, the portraits of Jerome Bonaparte and Queen Augusta hanging on the wall were revealed. , the two people in the portrait are facing the round table, as if to tell the representatives that their every move cannot escape their sight.

To the left of the portrait is a fireplace, and on the stand next to the fireplace is a marble statue of Emperor Napoleon. For more than forty years, this statue has not been welcomed by any monarch.

Now, thanks to the efforts of Jérôme Bonaparte and the Second Empire, monarchs of various countries have to face up to this statue, because behind the statue there is a powerful French Empire.

"Everyone, please wait a moment!" The State Secretary saluted everyone present again, "Your Excellency, Minister Walewski, will come down from upstairs soon!"

The foreign ministers of the seven countries nodded, and then sat down according to the names on the round table.

After a while, the ambassadors of Denmark, Württemberg, Bavaria, Greece, Hanover, Saxony, Poland (Prince Czartoryski concurrently served), Greece, Naples and other ambassadors arrived one after another. They sat in the audience and waited quietly for the peace meeting. start.

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