Make France Great Again

"Act together? No, no, no! Ambassador Richard!" Jerome Bonaparte spread his hands and said to Richard Metternich: "If the French Empire acts together with the Austrian Empire, then the Kingdom of Britain will How to see!

Will they think that our two countries have made some ulterior deal in private, and then join forces to completely annex the Apennine Peninsula! "

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?" Richard Metternich asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"It is best for our two countries to act separately! If necessary, our two countries can also create some confrontation!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Richard Metternich.

"Act separately? Create confrontation!" Although Richard Metternich could understand every French word, when they were put together, he did not understand what Jerome Bonaparte meant.

"What I mean is that the Austrian Empire can attack the Kingdom of Sardinia alone, as long as the Austrian Empire does not aim to annex the Kingdom of Sardinia!" Jerome Bonaparte told Richard Metternich bluntly said.

"Your Majesty, our country has no objection to the Kingdom of Sardinia!" Richard Metternich emphasized specifically.

Neither he nor the entire Austrian Imperial Court had any attitude toward the Kingdom of Sardinia, and there was no option for direct annexation.

The Austrian Empire already has enough territory in the Apennine Peninsula. If it annexes Sardinia, the Austrian Empire may have to face the threat of France.

"That's good!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and said to Richard Metternich, "I will issue orders to Cavour after the Orsini incident is over!

Order him to shut down liberal newspapers. I think Cavour will not agree!

At that time, I will evacuate the minister stationed in Turin!

At that time, your Austrian Empire can order the Kingdom of Sardinia to put down its arms and accept investigation on the grounds of punishing extreme nationalist analysis!

"

"What if the Kingdom of Sardinia is unwilling to put down its arms!" Richard Metternich asked rhetorically.

There was a hint of approval in Jerome Bonaparte's eyes. He knew that the reason why Richard Metternich asked "unnecessarily" was to ask Jerome Bonaparte to guarantee him.

Even if this guarantee is a verbal guarantee.

"At that time, the Austrian Empire can take action against the Kingdom of Sardinia!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Richard Metternich, and then added: "The French Empire will never stop it!

Until the Kingdom of Sardinia agreed to allow the French Empire to provide armed mediation while restricting domestic revolutionaries!

By then, our army will enter the border of Sardinia!

By that time, the Austrian Empire can smoothly withdraw from the Kingdom of Sardinia!

By the way, you'd better bring the Kingdom of Prussia with you!

Even if the Kingdom of Prussia only shouts a few words on the surface! "

After listening to Jerome Bonaparte's strategy, Richard Metternich couldn't help feeling a little afraid of Jerome Bonaparte.

Use the Austrian Empire to weaken the Kingdom of Sardinia, then in turn run to rescue them as a savior.

This would not only prevent the French Empire from suffering the hatred of Sardinia, but also allow France to deepen its control over the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Prussia's role was just an excuse for France to maintain neutrality. As long as the Austrian Empire continued to put pressure on Sardinia, Cavour would inevitably succumb to Jerome Bonaparte's will.

Moreover, this war was also very beneficial to the Austrian Empire.

Not only was the Austrian Empire able to achieve the idea of ​​transferring economic conflicts through war, it was also able to obtain a compensation from Sardinia.

The last time Sardinia paid compensation to the Austrian Empire, it was not implemented because of the Austrian Empire's own reasons.

(At that time, the Austrian Empire was worried that Britain and France might attack them because of the Kingdom of Sardinia, so many compensations were reduced by them.

Now, the Austrian Empire is allied with the French Empire!

They no longer need to worry about such problems! )

This time, they will never be "merciful" to Sardinia like last time.

"Your Majesty, I will convey your suggestion to His Majesty Franz! I believe that Your Majesty will agree with you!" Richard Metternich said to Jerome Bonaparte.

"As long as the French Empire and the Austrian Empire join forces, there will be no opponent in the whole of Europe that we cannot defeat!" Jerome Bonaparte said wildly.

Richard Metternich smiled slightly and did not refute it.

Later, Jerome Bonaparte asked Richard Metternich if he was interested in acting as a "filial son of God" and taking action against the "Papal States" of the Papal States.

[The Papal States is the overall name for the entire papal territory, which is divided into papal states and church states.

The papal states refer to the territory directly led by the pope, and the ecclesiastical states refer to the princely states under the papal state system. 】

After all, the more than 2,000 people from the French Empire stationed in the Papal States are indeed somewhat powerless to defend the huge territory of the Papal States.

If the Austrian Empire could annex the church states like the German princes annexed the German bishoprics, Jerome Bonaparte would definitely give the Austrian Empire a big medal.

However, His Majesty the “Great” Pope will definitely object to this opinion.

As long as the Austrian Empire agrees and the French Empire acquiesces, who cares whether the Pope will object.

Unfortunately, Richard Metternich did not take the bait.

For the current Austrian Empire, expansion is not the primary purpose of the Austrian Empire. Only maintaining the stability of the existing territory of the Austrian Empire is the top priority.

Not to mention, annexing ecclesiastical states might cause further wrath from the pope.

The Austrian Empire had just abolished the tithe a few years ago (it was officially abolished in 1848), and it really didn’t want to make the Pope angry again.

Therefore, Richard Metternich rejected Jerome Bonaparte's "suggestion" and once again emphasized that the existing territory of the Austrian Empire fully met the needs of the Austrian Empire.

Jérôme Bonaparte had no choice but to do the next best thing and ask the Austrian Empire to send an army to station in the ecclesiastical states after the intervention.

Richard Metternich agreed to this condition without hesitation.

After everything was settled, Richard Metternich left the Tuileries Palace.

Jérôme Bonaparte returned to the study and glanced at the grandfather clock placed in the corner.

It was already 11:20, and there were only 40 minutes left before lunch.

Jerome Bonaparte simply left all his work until the afternoon and used this time to read today's newspapers.

So, Jerome Bonaparte called Basilio and ordered him to go to the secretary's office and get all today's domestic and foreign newspapers!

Basilio took the order and left. After a while, he appeared in Jerome Bonaparte's office with a stack of thick newspapers in his arms.

"Your Majesty, these are today's newspapers!" Basilio said to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Jérôme Bonaparte responded to Basilio.

"nothing!"

Basilio left the study and closed the door on Jérôme Bonaparte.

Jérôme Bonaparte stayed alone in his study, quietly reading the newspaper.

The first is the newspapers in Paris. Almost all newspapers reported the news of the assassination of Jerome Bonaparte on the front page.

And every newspaper expressed outrage at the brazen assassination of the emperor by this unknown assassin.

Even the left-wing newspapers expressed mild opposition to the assassination of Jérôme Bonaparte.

This result made Jerome Bonaparte feel a little relieved.

Immediately afterwards, Jerome Bonaparte read the British newspapers again.

However, while flipping through the British newspapers, Jérôme Bonaparte felt something was wrong.

Because in the past, British newspapers had more or less criticized Jerome Bonaparte.

However, this time the newspapers were all "sympathetic" to Jerome Bonaparte.

This made Jerome Bonaparte frown. After carefully reading all the newspapers in Britain, he found that the newspaper the secretary's office gave him this time was different from the newspaper given to him before.

"London Daily Tribune", "Reuters"... none of these top-notch newspapers are available!

Jérôme Bonaparte couldn't help frowning, and he quickly called Basilio and ordered him to call the secretary general Lucien Murat to him.

Basilio tactfully suggested that Jérôme Bonaparte would be better off summoning Lucien Murat after finishing his meal.

"Ask Lucien Murat to come here now!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Basilio with a serious expression.

Seeing this, Basilio had no choice but to obey Jérôme Bonaparte's instructions and went to the secretary's office to call Lucien Murat to him.

"Your Majesty, what do you want from me?" Lucien Murat asked respectfully.

"What's the matter?" Jérôme Bonaparte sneered, then threw out a few newspapers and said to Lucien Murat, "See for yourself the newspapers chosen by your secretary's office!"

Lucien Murat looked at the treasure in his hand and thought to himself: Not good!

"Where is the Daily Tribune?" asked Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Maybe it's due to negligence..." Lucien Murat said tremblingly.

"Negligence?" Jérôme Bonaparte sneered, and then asked: "Who in the secretary's office is responsible for newspaper review!"

Lucien Murat revealed his name, and Jérôme Bonaparte immediately ordered Lucien Murat: "Let him pack his things and get out of here right now!

Liars are not welcome in the secretary's office! "

"Yes!" Lucien Murat had no choice but to respond to Jerome Bonaparte.

After Lucien Murat left, Jerome Bonaparte began to think about a new candidate for the new secretary general.

After all, the position of chief secretary is too important.

It is equivalent to the eyes and ears of Jerome Bonaparte, so it must be someone whom Jerome Bonaparte trusts enough.

And now Lucien Murat can no longer gain the trust of Jerome Bonaparte.