Make France Great Again

"Iron ore!" Jérôme Bonaparte smacked his lips and responded to Duke Snassa: "This condition sounds pretty good!"

"Your Majesty, so you agreed!" Duke Snassa asked excitedly.

"Promise?" Jérôme Bonaparte responded to Duke Snassar with a surprised expression: "Duke Snassar, you misunderstood! What I just said is that this condition sounds good, not I want to promise you!

If you just want to pay the price of iron ore in exchange for the French Empire to provide you with security, I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible! "

Jérôme Bonaparte's response was decisive, causing Duke Ssana's joyful heart to suddenly fall into an abyss.

He knew very well that if he wanted to completely capture Finland, he had to rely on the French Empire's army as a backing. Otherwise, even if he captured Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden would have to live in constant fear of the Russian Empire.

"Your Majesty, what do you want?" Duke Ssana asked Jerome Bonaparte through gritted teeth.

"Mr. Duke Snassa, it's not what you want, but what you have!" Jerome Bonaparte replied calmly, "The fact that the Kingdom of Sweden has high-quality iron ore is really important to us in France. Important, but not to the point where we have to protect you against the pressure of the Russian Empire!

Don’t forget, the Kingdom of Britain also has iron ore! We can definitely import from the Kingdom of Britain! "

Today, the French Empire is accelerating into the fast lane of industrialization under the instructions of Jérôme Bonaparte. Several cargo ships carrying iron ore and coal arrived in Paris from London.

Therefore, although he himself hopes to get a large amount of Swedish iron ore, he is not willing to involve the entire France for iron ore.

Unless Snaza is willing to cooperate with him more deeply, such as a customs union.

"Your Majesty, it seems that apart from iron ore, there is nothing of value in our Kingdom of Sweden!" Duke Snassa replied to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Duke Snassar, I'm tired! You can leave!" Jerome Bonaparte responded to Duke Snassar with a cold face.

After speaking, Jerome Bonaparte made a gesture requesting to leave.

Duke Snasart had no choice but to nod and left Jérôme Bonaparte's office.

After a while, Jérôme Bonaparte called Mokar over again, and then gave him an order to invite Foreign Minister Walewski.

Mokar took the order and left, and about half an hour later, Valewski appeared in Jerome Bonaparte's study.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?" Valewski asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"That's right!" Jérôme Bonaparte replied to Valewski: "Just now Duke Snassa came to me and wanted to ask for our help! I told him that he needed to pay some price, who knows this The elm-brained head doesn’t know anything at all! I really don’t know if people who live in Sweden all year round will be blown away by the cold wind..."

Walewski quietly listened to Jérôme Bonaparte's complaints about Duke Snassa, and soon Walewski extracted the key information from Jérôme Bonaparte's remarks.

"Your Majesty, do you want to sign a customs union with the Kingdom of Sweden?" Valewski asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"Yes!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and said to Valewski: "Swedish iron ore and coal are things we are in short supply, so I want to sign a customs union agreement with them. To meet the needs of the domestic market!”

Walewski immediately understood that the reason why Jérôme Bonaparte was willing to sign a customs union with Sweden was simply because he was interested in the market of the Kingdom of Sweden.

After all, apart from iron ore and coal, the Kingdom of Sweden had nothing else that France needed.

The high-added products of the French Empire were indispensable to the Swedish aristocracy and middle class.

Once the Kingdom of Sweden signs a customs union with France, the trade protection barriers established by the Kingdom of Sweden for high-added products (commonly known as: luxury goods industry) will no longer exist.

The products of the French Empire can easily invade the territory of the Kingdom of Sweden and completely defeat the local luxury goods industry of the Kingdom of Sweden.

After all, in history, when Britain and France implemented the free trade treaty, all "fronts" almost completely collapsed, and only the luxury goods industry continued to be exported to Britain.

The luxury goods industry in the Kingdom of Sweden is far behind the Kingdom of Britain, let alone compared with Britain and France!

Once the customs union is concluded, the Kingdom of Sweden will find that the money France pays them for iron ore and coal will soon be back in their hands.

Since ancient times, the world has been dominated by resource-based countries that cannot compete with high value-added countries.

"Your Majesty, I understand!" Walewski nodded and replied to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Okay, let's talk slowly with Duke Snasa!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Valewski.

Valewski got up and left Jérôme Bonaparte's study.

…

A week later, Duke Snasart appeared in front of Jerome Bonaparte again. At this time, his mental outlook and condition were worse than when Jerome Bonaparte met him. A big chunk.

Obviously, this week has not been easy for him!

"Duke Snassar, what's wrong with you?" Jerome Bonaparte asked Duke Snassar hypocritically.

"Your Majesty, it's nothing!" Duke Ssana responded with a reluctant smile, and then said to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, we can completely accept the conditions you asked Valewski to give me. Promise!"

"Then why should we sign a treaty?" Jerome Bonaparte asked Duke Snassa.

"After the meeting!" Duke Snaza replied to Jérôme Bonaparte, "and my father hopes that a secret agreement can be signed between the French Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden!"

"Secret agreement?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Duke Snaza in confusion.

"Yes!" Duke Snasa nodded and said to Jerome Bonaparte, "I can assure you that this agreement only applies to the Russian Empire, and as long as the Russian Empire does not make any move to invade the Kingdom of Sweden This agreement will not be exposed before!"

"Okay! I promise you!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and replied to Duke Snassa.

Later, the Duke of Ssana sent his blessing to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, I hope that the French Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden can unite and help each other in the future!"

"I hope so too!" Jérôme Bonaparte echoed.

…

In the following period, Jerome Bonaparte received further replies from the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal States and Switzerland, and they all expressed their willingness to join Jerome Bonaparte. .The European Monetary Union formed by Bonaparte.

The Austrian Empire still maintained a skeptical attitude towards this so-called European Monetary Union, so they did not choose to join it immediately.

On the contrary, the British Prime Minister Palmerston had some interest in the European Monetary Union formed by Jerome Bonaparte. In order to understand the nature of the monetary union, Palmerston sent Ambassador Coutts to ask Jerome Bonaparte. Monetary union thing.

Jerome Bonaparte frankly told Ambassador Coutts his purpose of forming a monetary union, and also invited the Kingdom of Britain to join the monetary union.

After understanding that the nature of the monetary union was nothing more than a ploy by France to expand its own market (on the surface), Ambassador Kautz obviously lost interest in the monetary union.

After all, Britain is not like France, and its overseas trade is more profitable than France.

Therefore, Britain does not need to strengthen economic exchanges with European countries like France.

This will certainly save him a lot of unnecessary troubles, but it will also make it lose the possibility of uniting Europe.

After World War II, Britain's excessive isolation from the European continent led to its continued decline in its presence and economic status in Europe.

Of course, although Britain has no interest in creating a unified currency in Europe, it is interested in destroying the unification of the European currency.

Under Palmerston's instructions, the Kingdom of Hanover conveyed a subtle message to North Germany not to join the European Monetary Union.

This alienated the Kingdom of Prussia, which had no interest in the monetary union formed by Jérôme Bonaparte, even further.

However, this was good news for Jerome Bonaparte, who had no intention of letting the Kingdom of Prussia enter the currency union.

…

Time passed by in a hurry, and soon it was late March.

There was less than a month left before the Paris Conference. Looking at the calendar hanging on the wall, Jerome Bonaparte was determined to stop all the unimportant work at hand and devote all his efforts to organizing this conference. Go to a meeting.

This is the first large-scale national conference held in Paris since 1815.

Even for the conference in 1815, France only participated in that conference as a loser.

This meeting was held by France as the undoubted winner, and its significance to France was far greater than the meeting in 1815.

Therefore, Jerome Bonaparte must go all out.

Therefore, Jérôme Bonaparte summoned Minister of State Fuld and Minister of Finance Magnet respectively to ask them about their budget for holding such a meeting.

Fuld and Magne told Jérôme Bonaparte that this was the first time for the Second Empire, so they wanted to go as big as possible, so they suggested a quota of 10 million francs.

Jerome Bonaparte agreed to Fuld's suggestion, but he was not prepared to let the finance spend the money.

Fuld and Magnet immediately understood what Jérôme Bonaparte meant.

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