Make France Great Again

Chapter 161 The Stories of Saint-Denis District

"Adjutant Conrobert, after you arrive at General Renault's residence, please tell him that I will meet him at the Elysee Palace at 8 o'clock tonight. Let General Renault come in from the back so as not to let him Some people who can't sit still have caught us. And when you leave, don't ride a horse. Riding a horse is easy to attract other people's attention!"

Jerome Bonaparte told Canrobert one by one.

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Conrobert responded decisively: "I will pass on your words to General Renio!"

Receiving Canrobert's response, Gérôme Bonaparte waved at Canrobel and said, "Go! Go early and come back early!"

"Yes!" Conrobert straightened his body and saluted Jerome Bonaparte, and Jerome Bonaparte also responded with a serious face.

Canrobert, who had left from the Elysee Palace, did not go to the temporary residence of General Reinho immediately, but returned to his rented mansion alone.

Adjutant Canrobert, who had changed into casual clothes again in the mansion and went out, walked for a long distance alone before waving for a carriage.

The carriage took Adjutant Conrobert all the way to the Saint-Denis district.

After the carriage entered the Saint-Denis area, the entire area quickly changed its appearance. The neat streets that existed in the Saint-Germain area became uneven. Stones and messy garbage can be seen everywhere in the narrow streets, and the buildings on both sides of the road are also the same. It looks shabby and in disrepair. There are still traces of barricades between the row upon row of dilapidated buildings. The stalls on the street and newsboys coming and going even once blocked the not-so-plenty streets. Wearing a gray Liberty hat, wearing a slightly worn-out carmagnola suit, trousers, and dragging a pair of thick wooden clogs, the proles became the main theme of the Saint-Denis district.

If the Saint-Germain district represents the best side of Paris, the Saint-Denis district undoubtedly represents the most authentic and also the darkest side of Paris.

While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

Since the third estate of the Great Revolution went hand in hand to part ways, the workers in Paris have never really survived as "human beings" for a day. They live in a single room with more than a dozen people, or live in a dark, humid cave like a goblin. Where there is an outbreak, what's more, the only place where I sleep is to share time with other people.

The proletarian creates wealth, and his value is constantly squeezed until the bourgeois squeezes their value completely dry,

Those bourgeois will throw them away like sugar cane that has been squeezed for sugar cane juice.

After the Great Revolution, the Parisian proletarians have been resisting and fighting, and every resistance will be suppressed most ruthlessly in Paris.

Even former allies (republicans) will raise their butcher knives at them after seizing power.

If Jerome Bonaparte were here, he would definitely feel the difficulties of the Parisian workers, and then shed two crocodile tears, and then thought about bringing the Parisian workers and factories to the suburbs.

The translation is: Take grandpa's kindness and see that the poor do not suffer.

Of course, Conrobel obviously does not have this kind of psychological burden. He has seen too many similar things in Algiers. Like heaven.

Everything is in comparison.

The carriage walked slowly through the streets of Saint-Germain, and soon came to the temporary residence of General Reinho.

Adjutant Canrobert, who opened the door, handed a Napoleon silver coin to the coachman because he couldn't find the change. The coachman who also couldn't find the change could only look at Adjutant Canrobert in embarrassment.

"Take the rest of the money as your tip!" the generous Adjutant Conrobel said generously.

So the coachman hurriedly thanked Adjutant Canrobert, and then asked Adjutant Canrobert if he needed to return, and he could wait here for Canrobert's return.

"No need!" Adjutant Conrobert shook his head and declined the coachman's kindness, and entered the building where General Regno was hidden alone.

Stepping up the dusty steps, Adjutant Conrobert finally came to the fourth floor, and a red nanmu wooden door blocked Adjutant Conrobert in front of him.

Adjutant Canrobert knocked lightly on the door.

"Who?" General Renio's slightly sad voice came from inside the door.

"I'm Conrobert!" Conrobert moved to the crack of the door and whispered to General Reinho inside: "I'm here to see you by order of the President!"

General Renio in the room got up and opened the door quickly after hearing the President's adjutant.

Conrobert and Reinho met, and this was the first meeting between the two.

Prior to this, General Renault had only learned from letters that the president had an adjutant named Conrobert.

The two looked at each other, Adjutant Canrobert stretched out his hand and said to General Renault, "Welcome back to General Paris!"

General Renault shook Canrobert's hand and nodded.

Next, Adjutant Conrobert told General Renault everything that Jerome Bonaparte had told him.

After all, Adjutant Conrobert quietly stared at the "great military exploits" general in front of him.

"I understand!" General Renio nodded to express his understanding, and he said solemnly: "Please tell the president, I will definitely arrive on time!"

"En!" Adjutant Conrobert also nodded to express his understanding.

Subsequently, Adjutant Canrobert explained the current political situation in Paris to General Renault.

Since he has been staying in Rome for this period of time, General Regno can only learn about the current situation in Paris through newspapers and letters. These are not as good as Canrobert, who has personally experienced it, explaining to General Regno in detail.

"Thank you! Colonel Conrobert!" After listening to Conrobert's description of the situation in Paris, General Renault sincerely thanked Conrobert. Through his understanding of the political situation in Paris, he already knew the president's purpose.

"I am also serving the president!" Adjutant Conrobert said modestly, and then vaguely stated his needs: "General, I hope that when you are a minister, you can divide the functions of some departments in detail! Departments Intersection of functions with departments will affect the operation of the entire department!"

General Renault certainly understood what Conrobert meant. He wanted to take some functions from the Ministry of War to expand the Office of the Military Secretary.

General Renault can understand Conrobel's behavior.

In fact, during the Roman War, General Reigno and Niel had already discussed the problem of overblown functions of the Ministry of War, and he also agreed to streamline the functions involved in the Ministry of War.

"After I become the Minister of War, I will get rid of some disadvantages!!" General Renio responded.

Conrobert expressed his thanks to General Renault.

Just when Conrobel was about to leave, General Rennho took out a note to understand Conrobel, and the note was from the Bank of Rome.

"This is..." Conrobert looked at General Renio in surprise.

"This is some of the wishes of all our expeditionary forces for the president! Bills from the Bank of Rome can be exchanged at the Bank of France!" General Regno responded to Canrobel.

"Isn't this a little precious for the heart!" Canrobert looked at the bill, and there was a full 600,000 francs on it.

You must know that the annual salary of the president is only 600,000 francs.

General Reinho and the others probably made a lot of money in Rome. As Rome, the gathering place of wealth and art in the entire Apennines, as long as they want to search, they can still find a lot of money.

"Nothing! These were raised by the citizens of Rome spontaneously for the army of the Republic!" General Reinio brazenly described the robbery as a spontaneous donation.

"I see! I'll hand it over to Mr. President!" Conrobert nodded to General Reinho.

"This is yours, adjutant!" General Renault once again took out a bill of 50,000 francs, which was originally the bill he wanted to hand over to Eugene Rouet.

Since Minister Eugene Rouet has not come back, it is not a bad idea to make friends with the people around the president.

"I can't!"

Facing General Renault's bill, Adjutant Canrobert resolutely refused.

He knows that some money can be taken, and some money cannot be taken.

A minister of war mixed with an aide-de-camp in the military secretary hall, any monarch would feel uncomfortable.

Under Conrobert's repeated excuses, General Reinho could only give up.

Canrobert, who had a huge sum of 600,000 francs in his pocket, bid farewell to General Renaud, and called a carriage again to return to his residence.

Putting on his military uniform again, he came to the Elysee Palace to report to Jérôme Bonaparte about General Reigniot and put the 600,000 franc bill on Jerome Bonaparte's desk.

"It seems that General Regno gained a lot in Rome!" Jerome Bonaparte, who roughly understood what General Regno did in Rome, did not mean to blame. In this era, money is the best way to motivate the army. Method.

If Jerome Bonaparte, who aspires to be a bourgeois monarch, does not use money to motivate them to work for him, does he still have to use patriotic enthusiasm to drive them?

"You didn't take his money, did you?" Jerome Bonaparte turned his gaze to Canrobert, and he pursed his lips and asked half jokingly and half seriously.

"No!" Conrobert shuddered, and he hurriedly got up and said like a bell.

"Well! I understand!" Jerome Bonaparte's indifferent response made Canrobert's hair stand on end, and he was a little thankful that he held the bottom line and did not accept General Renault.

"Call Waudrey over here!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Conrobert.

While Pessini was in Le Clézot, Fleury was in the National Guard Staff, and Mokar was in Germany, Vaudrey, who was a mentor and friend of Jerome Bonaparte, served as the Élysée Palace. Responsibilities of the "Steward".

After Vaudrey arrived, Jerome Bonaparte pointed to the 600,000 francs on the table and said to Vaudrey: "You use the money to set up a service center for disabled soldiers to serve disabled soldiers. If the money is not enough If so, you can still find me!"

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