Make France Great Again

On the morning of June 8, 1849.

An envelope from Rome "crossed the ocean" and entered France, then passed through Marseilles and Lyon, and "taken" the train to the Military Department of the Elysee Palace.

Pessini, who had received a letter from Rome early in the morning, rushed to the door of Jerome Bonaparte's bedroom. Now, after hesitating to open the door for a moment, Pessini still knocked on the door of Jerome Bonaparte's bedroom. Bar's door.

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

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

"Rome?" Jerome Bonaparte muttered to himself in a half-dream and half-awake state. After waking up, he patted his cheeks lightly, changed into the clothes he had prepared the night before, and opened the door. Stretching out his hand, he said eagerly to Pescini: "It's a letter!"

"Here! Your Majesty!" Pessini respectfully handed over the letter from Rome to Jerome Bonaparte.

On the unremarkable brown-yellow envelope, there is a striking "President's Personal Invitation" written in French, and the signature on the lower right corner of the envelope is "Regnio de Saint-Jean Gerrier, Commander-in-Chief of the Roman Expeditionary Force".

Jerome Bonaparte quickly tore open the envelope, and the white letter paper "lyed" quietly in the envelope. He pulled out the letter paper and placed the empty shell envelope on the walnut wood bedside table, while he sat by the bed to check the contents of the letter paper.

Opening the folded letter paper, Jerome Bonaparte was able to see the whole picture of the letter.

The contents of the envelope are as follows:

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

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

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 and was at a loss.

Fighting each other we fought the best battle since the Empire, all thanks to..."

The following words are all a lot of nasty words of praise, such as: "Without the president's wise decision, we would not be able to defeat Rome!" "The soldiers of the army only want to serve Mr. President" and other words.

Jerome Bonaparte, who had read the letter from beginning to end, refolded the letter paper and put it on the bed. He can be sure that this letter is absolutely impossible to be written by General Renault himself, and it is likely to be Edgar Ney. A letter written by the knifeman on behalf of General Regno.

However, Jerome Bonaparte did not resent such flattery.

"Your Majesty, Rome..." Pessini, who was standing beside Jerome Bonaparte, asked cautiously.

"Huh? Didn't you watch it?" Jerome Bonaparte looked at Persini in confusion.

Pescini shook his head, and replied firmly: "This letter is written to you by Rome, how dare your subordinates do it for you!"

"Then you should take a look too!" Jerome Bonaparte handed the letter paper on the bed to Persini.

Pescini took the letter paper respectfully with both hands, and read the ten lines at a glance.

About two minutes later, Persini refolded the letter and placed it on the bedside, with a joyful expression on his face, he said, "Your Majesty, Rome has won!"

"That's right! Rome has won!" Jerome Bonaparte heaved a sigh of relief, and nodded in response with a smile on his face.

Reinho personally ordered him to go to Rome to "counter the rebellion". It can be said that Reinho represented Jerome Bonaparte's will and prestige.

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

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

After receiving the letter, Jerome Bonaparte let go of a hanging heart.

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

"Pessini!" Jerome Bonaparte conveyed an order to Pessini: "Rush to the residence of Prime Minister Odilon Barrot and Minister Liulier as soon as possible and call them over!"

"Yes!" Pescini responded and turned to leave.

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

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

"What do you think of setting up a telegraph line to Rome?" Jerome Bonaparte raised his head and asked Persini.

"Of course that would be great!" Pescini immediately replied, "This will save a lot of time!"

"Not only Rome, but the Near East also needs to set up a telegraph line! How about this, you can call the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce over by the way! The work of setting up the telegraph has always been in charge of their Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce!" After explaining all the georoma. Bonaparte waved his hand.

Pescini turned and left Jerome Bonaparte's bedroom.

Jerome Bonaparte got up and put the letter back into the outer envelope, and put it in his pocket.

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

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

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Odilon Barro and Minister Liulier will be here in a while! Minister Biffy is currently conducting an investigation in a village near Paris and is expected to come back in the afternoon!"

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

"Your Majesty, I have heard that Minister Biffet owns a large area of ​​land in the Seine!" Pessini responded to Jerome Bonaparte.

Good guy, Feelings went to inspect the land with the convenience of his position!

Jerome Bonaparte was a little dumbfounded. All the ministers under him didn't look like serious bureaucrats at all, but like businessmen who were careful and careful.

This is very much in line with capitalism! yes, i can...

"Minister Bifey has illegally expropriated land!" Jerome Bonaparte asked casually.

After a moment of silence, Pescini said, "Your Majesty, do you need me to ask someone from the police department to check?"

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

"Yes!" Pessini responded to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Your Excellency the President!" Odilon Barrot's voice came from outside the door. Jerome Bonaparte pointed 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 from the door.

Odilon Barro entered the study, followed by Minister Liueli.

"Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Minister, please sit down!" Jerome Bonaparte invited Barrot and Liulier to sit down.

Pescini quickly got up to give up his seat to Barrow and Liueli, then smiled and nodded and left the study.

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

Odilon Baro and Liueli showed varying degrees of surprise. They didn't expect the Roman Republic to be so vulnerable, defeating them in less than half a month.

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

A trace of displeasure flashed in Odilon Barro's eyes. He was obviously the one who promoted him to this position, but he didn't want to be grateful and wanted to be a fool.

Barrot, who is still "cooperating happily" with Jerome Bonaparte, nodded his head, as if agreeing with Liueli's words.

Jerome Bonaparte waved his hands modestly and said: "This is all about the joint efforts of Mr. Prime Minister and his colleagues from the Party of Order. I just follow the trend!"

Jerome Bonaparte's modest attitude satisfied Odilon Barrot.

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

[PS: In Barrot's view, Jerome Bonaparte who occasionally intervenes in the army is not interfering with 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 to Barrow. 】

"Mr. Barrow, what should we do next? Those guys in the parliament will never let this big news go! They are very likely to use this as a weapon to attack us, that guy Ludwig Roland can't wait for it We made a mistake!" Jerome Bonaparte said with feigned concern.

"Please don't worry!" Odilon Barro said confidently, he obviously had already figured out a strategy to deal with it: "Those guys from the Mountain Party will not be happy for long, when they attack us again, they will General Changarnier will be ready when they are expelled from Parliament!"

Changarnier, Changarnier again! What a lingering fellow!

Jerome Bonaparte silently cursed the aging Changarnier to go to God sooner.

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 is willing to take action!"

"Our plan is to..."

Odilon Barrow was discussing eloquently, but Liueli, who was sitting next to Barrow, looked sullen. As the Minister of War, he and a member of the Party of Order were as unaware of Barrow's plot as the President.

Even Changarnier, who was supposed to be a subordinate, didn't have any respect for his nominal boss. What does this minister of war mean.