Make France Great Again

After everyone entered the castle, the castle was filled with a variety of meals, and the high-end banquet inside also started in the form of a buffet.

Jérôme Bonaparte raised his glass and poured champagne to drink with all the guests present, and then came to toast in front of the ambassadors of the Kingdom of Britain, the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and the Kingdom of Sardinia in turn.

In addition to the Kingdom of Britain treating Jerome Bonaparte as an equal, the ambassadors of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of Sardinia were particularly humble, as if they were obedient to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Send my regards to Prime Minister Cavour!" Jérôme Bonaparte said, clinking glasses with the Sardinian ambassador.

"I will definitely convey your news to His Excellency the Prime Minister!" The ambassador of the Kingdom of Sardinia responded to Jerome Bonaparte with a half-bow.

"Yes!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and said to the Sardinian ambassador.

Throughout the banquet, except for the ambassador of the Russian Empire, Jerome Bonaparte clinked glasses with almost everyone at the banquet.

The banquet lasted for nearly three hours before it ended, and the ambassadors and generals took the train back to Paris one after another.

Only Jerome Bonaparte and Rifat Pasha were left in the castle. Jerome Bonaparte stretched out his hand to invite Rifat Pasha to sit down: "Please sit down!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Rifat Pasha showed a flattered expression on his face, and then sat next to Jerome Bonaparte. .

"Mr. Rifat, why did you come all the way from Ottoman?" After seeing Rifat Pasha sit down completely, Jerome Bonaparte pretended to be confused and asked Rifat. Pasha.

"Your Majesty, the reason why I traveled thousands of miles from the Ottoman Empire to Paris is to seek help from Paris!" Rifat Pasha said to Jerome Bonaparte sincerely.

"Seeking help from France?" Jérôme Bonaparte pretended to be surprised, shrugged his shoulders and said to Rifat Pasha: "We in France are a peace-loving country, and we are not willing to stir up disputes for no reason! "

"If even Paris cannot uphold justice for a weak European country, then no country in the world will believe that Europe is at peace!" Rifat Pasha said to Jerome Bonaparte without hesitation The alarmist said: "Once the Russian Empire breaks out of the shackles of the Black Sea, the entire Mediterranean will become Russia's territory!"

Faced with the Russian threat theory from Rifat Pasha, Jérôme Bonaparte showed a rare "dignity". After thinking for a long time, he said again: "It seems that the Russian Empire cannot be left alone!"

"That's right! The Russian Empire is the destroyer of the entire European order. The Ottoman Empire asks the French Empire to join hands with it to resist the Russian Empire!" Rifat Pasha replied sincerely.

"As an individual, I support your view!" Jérôme Bonaparte first raised his voice and then declined, saying with a tangled attitude: "But as a monarch of a country, I must consider the interests of all the French people."

"Your Majesty, maintaining peace and stability in the Mediterranean is safeguarding the interests of France!"

Rifat Pasha understood that Jérôme Bonaparte's previous series of meaningless nonsense was all for the purpose of seeking benefits from the Ottoman Empire behind him.

Although the war in the Ottoman Empire was fought at the instigation of the French Empire, the Ottoman Empire itself had reached a point where it could no longer fight without fighting. It was appropriate to turn an internal conflict into a foreign war and use the war to eliminate some resistance forces. An operation that the ruling class must consider.

"Mr. Rifat, my subjects do not understand the so-called peace of the Mediterranean! They only know who can lead them to gain benefits, and they are willing to help whoever wins." Jérôme Bonaparte said calmly. Fat Pasha said: "If France joins the war, it will inevitably cause a certain degree of human and property losses. Who should bear these losses, and how can I appease those who trust me and entrust the army to me? people.

Once the war reaches a stalemate, the cost per day will be astronomical. You will never let me take a pile of French foreign debt and announce to the outside world that I have obtained enough debt for each of you! "

Rifat's method of deflecting conflicts did not achieve substantial results. Jérôme Bonaparte still insists that he must give certain benefits.

"Merciful Emperor, our Ottoman Empire will never forget that you and your country gave us selfless support and help when we were in danger!" Rifat Pasha respectfully said to Jerome Bonaparte: "The Ottoman Empire is not a country that is ungrateful and we will do our best to repay the French Empire."

No matter how many scheming and calculations the emperor in front of him secretly hides, no matter what, he is now the only existence that the Ottoman Empire can rely on, even if naked "hegemonism" has appeared in the mouth of Jerome Bonaparte. Despite his words, Rifat Pasha was still grateful for the help of the French Empire.

There are only naked interest relationships between countries, and all relationships that go against interests will eventually be ended by greater interests.

However, gratitude is gratitude, and the so-called "doing everything possible" report is just a word. The Enqinan Empire will undoubtedly reciprocate the favor of the French Empire, but no matter how the Ottoman Empire reports to France, it will not put its most fundamental interests into consideration. Ceded out.

"Since you and your Sultan have said that they will do their best to repay me, then I hope that the French Empire can obtain the power to spread teachings in the Ottoman province of Tunisia, North Africa, Egypt and the Middle East, as well as some commercial priorities. Right!" Jérôme Bonaparte said as he climbed up on the pole handed over by Rifat Pasha, he said loudly.

Having missionary rights to the Ottoman Empire's territories means that France can smoothly enter and exit the Ottoman Empire's lands in North Africa and the Middle East, and control these areas by infiltrating sand.

The priority rights at the commercial level can allow French capital to penetrate into Tunisia (at this time, Tunisia has been penetrated by British and French capital, Tunisia's largest bond country is still France) and Libya, thereby achieving the role of controlling the North African economy.

As long as the economic lifeline of North Africa is in the hands of the French Empire, then the entire North Africa region is in France's possession.

As for Egypt, Jerome Bonaparte was not prepared to take over that area from the beginning.

Jérôme Bonaparte understood that once he captured Egypt, it would mean that he was challenging Britain's interests in the Mediterranean. Britain would definitely use all its strength to stop him and even threaten war.

Without completely defeating Germany, it would be an unwise choice to rashly become an enemy of Britain.

In the future, Egypt can only be used as a means for Jérôme Bonaparte to manipulate Britain. As long as the British Kingdom does not want to lose Egypt, it must negotiate with France.

Rifat Pasha, just as Jerome Bonaparte expected, after listening to Jerome Bonaparte's conditions, he politely rejected Jerome Bonaparte's suggestion and carried out the Kingdom of Britain. The banner: "My gracious Majesty, I am happy to agree to all the conditions you have proposed, but I am afraid these conditions cannot be recognized by the Kingdom of Britain. The Austrian Empire does not want to see the Kingdom of Britain and the Austrian Empire, both of which are friendly to the Ottoman Empire. countries are hostile to each other.”

The conditions proposed by Jerome Bonaparte were tantamount to dedicating the entire North Africa and the Middle East to French control. Even if the Ottoman Empire had agreed to the conditions proposed by Jerome Bonaparte, the Kingdom of Britain would not promise.

Although the current Ottoman Empire has begun to move closer to France due to the influence of the Russian Empire, the entire Ottoman Empire is still dominated by factions close to the British Kingdom.

After all, the current British Empire is the empire on which the sun never sets across the world. Although the French Empire is powerful in terms of army, in terms of overall strength, it is still far behind the British Empire.

When hugging your thighs, you should naturally hug a thicker and stronger thigh.

"Okay!" After hearing Rifaat Pasha carrying the "big flag" of Britain, Jerome Bonaparte relaxed and said: "These conditions are indeed a bit harsh for the Ottoman Empire!"

Then, Jerome Bonaparte stretched out a finger and said solemnly: "I need your country to agree to a condition!"

"Your Majesty, please speak!" Rifat Pasha responded to Jerome Bonaparte.

"I hope that the Ottoman Empire can provide material assistance for the expeditionary force that is about to go to your country!" Jérôme Bonaparte put forward an extremely simple condition. Find it at Shuyuan www.zhaｏshuyuan.com Rifat Pasha suddenly felt a little surprised.

"Of course! The Ottoman Empire will definitely do its best to protect the French Empire's logistics!" Rifat Pasha confidently said to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Are you sure?" Jérôme Bonaparte glanced at Rifat suspiciously and added: "We are preparing to dispatch 150,000 expeditionary troops to the Ottoman Empire to help the Ottoman Empire! I believe that the British Kingdom will also send out 100,000 expeditionary troops. With an army of tens of thousands, in this case, the number of coalition forces would reach nearly 300,000. Can the Ottoman Empire really afford the logistics of an army of 300,000?

The materials needed by the imperial army in battle are not at the same level as your army... I don't mean anything else here! "

"We..." Rifat Pasha swallowed. He realized that he seemed to have overestimated the endurance of the Ottoman Empire, so he could only bite the bullet and said: "We cannot fully guarantee the logistics of the expeditionary force!"

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